PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 14 -- Brown University issued the following news release: During the 2019-20 academic year, Brown faculty members working in a range of academic disciplines, from American studies to emergency medicine to mathematics, earned prominent recognition from national and international organizations for their distinguished research, teaching and service. Among such distinctions earned in recent months are the following: Eli Adashi, professor of medical science, was elect more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 14 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Brown University's Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics (ICERM), one of just six federally funded math institutes in the U.S., has been awarded $23.7 million in renewed funding from the National Science Foundation (NSF). The grant, which is the largest NSF award in Brown's history, will support ICERM's cutting-edge research and education programming for the next five years.  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, July 14 -- Brown University issued the following news release: A new study reveals how climate change has enabled a voracious crab species to dramatically alter salt marsh ecosystems across the southeastern U.S. The study, published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that soils beneath salt marshes from South Carolina to Florida have been softened by higher sea levels and increased tidal inundation. That softening has allowed the burrowing crab more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 14 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The University of Rhode Island's Feinstein College of Education and Professional Studies announces the appointment of Dr. Christopher Hunter to associate dean, effective July 7. Hunter currently serves as associate professor of civil and environmental engineering in the URI's College of Engineering. In this role, Hunter will administer academic, faculty and diversity affairs for the College. These dut more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 15 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The U.S. Office of Naval Research has awarded Navatek LLC of Rhode Island a $3.8 million contract to develop autonomous systems to combat threats to cyber-physical systems (CPSs), bringing with it the University of Rhode Island's College of Engineering as its partner in the project. CPSs include marine vessels, unmanned vehicles, water treatment plants, power grids and smart buildings. The marriage of c more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 14 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Faculty at the University of Rhode Island have purchased two state-of-the-art scientific instruments valued at $2.8 million for engineering and oceanographic research. Funding for the equipment was primarily provided by the National Science Foundation. The funding has allowed Chemical Engineering Professor Arijit Bose and several colleagues to purchase a $2.3 million scanning-transmission electron micr more PR

LARAMIE, Wyoming, July 14 -- The University of Wyoming issued the following news release: Rural voters in the American West have a strong commitment to environmental protections and conservation, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of Wyoming, Duke University and the University of Rhode Island. This finding holds true even when protections may negatively impact economic growth, although voters expressed serious reservations about governmental oversight. The study ana more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, July 16 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The Ventilator Project, which has worked with governments, hospitals, manufactures and institutions such as the University of Rhode Island to address the need for ventilators in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, is preparing to donate 442 ventilator kits to aid patients in Nigeria, Indonesia, Haiti and Nicaragua. But they need the help of donors. The Ventilator Project has started a crowdfunding campa more PR

MONTPELIER, Vermont, July 15 -- Gov. Phil Scott, R-Vermont, issued the following news release on July 14: Governor Phil Scott announced that Vermont has joined 15 states and the District of Columbia in signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to accelerate electrification of the medium- and heavy- duty bus and truck market. The agreement calls for 100% of all new medium- and heavy-duty vehicle sales to be zero emission vehicles by 2050. States signing the MOU are California, Connecticut, Co more PR