Physical Sciences Professor James Head, and the department of Geological Sciences, play a significant role in the exploration of Mars. At the Center for Computation and Visualization, several parallel computers and a virtual reality visualization facility are fostering scientific investigation in a variety of fields, and facilitating the creation of multimedia and electronic music experiments. | Humanities At the Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Brown students participate annually in Brown-sponsored excavations in the Mediterranean region. Professor Michael Satlow in the Program for Judaic Studies is teaming up with Brown’s Scholarly Technology Group on the “Inscriptions from the Land of Israel” project to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) from the Land of Israel. | Life Sciences Researchers in the department of Neuroscience are pioneering a device that may one day make it possible for paralyzed people to move their limbs again. In the fight to cure cancer, researchers at Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital have shed new light on the activation of a protein that is key to the development of cancers. | Social Sciences At Brown’s world-renowned Watson Institute, researchers are collaborating on projects relating to global networks and the international AIDS crisis. Faculty in the Population Studies and Training Center research a wide variety of our world’s most essential questions, from the effects of economic development on demographic change to child disability and the family. |
