PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 5 -- Brown University issued the following news release: NASA has given the green light to build a small satellite that will investigate surprising evidence of water on the surface of the Moon. The spacecraft, called Trailblazer, could launch as early as 2023. Carle Pieters, a professor emerita in Brown University's Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, will serve as a co-investigator on the mission. Bethany Ehlmann, a professor at the Califo more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 5 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: A new study of airflow patterns inside a car's passenger cabin offers some suggestions for potentially reducing the risk of COVID-19 transmission while sharing rides with others. The study, by a team of Brown University researchers, used computer models to simulate the airflow inside a compact car with various combinations of windows open or closed. The simulations showed that opening windows -- th more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 1 (TNSAwa) -- Brown University issued the following news release: Juliet Hooker, a professor of political science at Brown University, will deliver a virtual Presidential Faculty Award lecture on Monday, Dec. 7. Her presentation, "Between Fact and Affect: Ida B. Wells and Harriet Jacobs on Black Loss," will address the ways in which two Black woman thinkers made visible and grieved the losses suffered by Black communities in two different historical eras -- and it more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 2 -- The Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued the following news: Commissioner Angelica Infante-Green announced that the Rhode Island Department of Education (RIDE) has launched a one-of-a-kind statewide educational access portal, EnrollRI, made possible by funding from the Dell Foundation and federal grant support. Aligned with the Department's recent efforts to create new, innovative opportunities for students to continue learning more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 4 (TNSJou) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: An international research team that included three scientists from the University of Rhode Island's Graduate School of Oceanography has discovered single-celled microorganisms in a location where they didn't expect to find them. "Water boils on the (Earth's) surface at 100 degrees Celsius, and we found organisms living in sediments at 120 degrees Celsius," said URI Professor of Oceanography Art more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Dec. 2 (TNSPer) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Cecilia Elena Rouse, a member of the University of Rhode Island Board of Trustees and dean of the Princeton School of Public and International Affairs, is the presumptive nominee for chair of President-elect Joe Biden's Council of Economic Advisers. If confirmed by the U.S. Senate, she will be the first African American and just the fourth woman to lead the council in the 74 years of its existen more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Dec. 3 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release: As the U.S. moves toward the highly anticipated approval of the first COVID-19 vaccines, residents of nursing homes and other long-term care facilities are likely to join health care workers as groups who will be among the earliest vaccine recipients in most states. This week, the National Institute on Aging awarded a grant to a team of researchers based at Brown University to design a monitoring s more PR