PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 21 (TNSPer) -- Brown University issued the following news: A Brown University alumna and current trustee on the Brown Corporation will serve as co-chair of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology in the incoming administration of U.S. President Joseph Biden. Maria Zuber, who earned her Ph.D. in geophysics from Brown in 1986, will lead the council with Frances Arnold, a chemical engineering professor at the California Institute of Technology. more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 (TNSAwa) -- Brown University issued the following news: The National Academy of Sciences has named Michael J. Frank, a professor of cognitive, linguistic and psychological sciences at Brown University, one of two recipients from across the nation of the 2021 Troland Research Award. Every year, the academy presents two Troland Awards in the amount of $75,000 each "to recognize unusual achievement by early-career researchers and to further empirical research wit more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 (TNSRep) -- Brown University issued the following news: Molly Cook didn't know exactly what would come of her Summer 2020 research assistantship -- but she certainly never expected it would make national headlines. Cook, a junior concentrating in economics and applied mathematics at Brown University, spent the warmer months of 2020 working virtually with Dartmouth College economist Bruce Sacerdote and Dartmouth undergraduate Ranjan Sehgal on a timely research  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: Metallurgists have all kinds of ways to make a chunk of metal harder. They can bend it, twist it, run it between two rollers or pound it with a hammer. These methods work by breaking up the metal's grain structure -- the microscopic crystalline domains that form a bulk piece of metal. Smaller grains make for harder metals. Now, a group of Brown University researchers has found a way to customize metallic  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news: When sheets of two-dimensional nanomaterials like graphene are stacked on top of each other, tiny gaps form between the sheets that have a wide variety of potential uses. In research published in the journal Nature Communications, a team of Brown University researchers has found a way to orient those gaps, called nanochannels, in a way that makes them more useful for filtering water and other liquids of na more PR

ORONO, Maine, Jan. 23 (TNSGra) -- The University of Maine issued the following news release: A team of researchers, aquaculture production specialists and educators in Maine, Rhode Island and New Hampshire will be working to help transform the sea urchin fishery by supporting green sea urchin aquaculture efforts in New England. The team -- which includes Steve Eddy and Luz Kogson at the University of Maine, Dana Morse with Maine Sea Grant, project lead Coleen Suckling at the University of Rhod more PR

DENTON, Texas, Jan. 23 -- The University of North Texas issued the following news release: A University of North Texas professor and former doctoral student teamed up to study the welfare of health care workers during the pandemic and the correlation between caring for COVID-19 patients and provider levels of exhaustion. G. Brint Ryan College of Business Associate Professor Danielle Cooper and former UNT doctoral student Kathryn Ostermeier, now working at Bryant University in Smithfield, Rhode more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 (TNSRes) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Bandages are great for covering wounds, but they would be much more useful if they could also detect infections. By embedding nanosensors in the fibers of a bandage, University of Rhode Island Assistant Professor Daniel Roxbury and former URI graduate student Mohammad Moein Safaee have created a continuous, noninvasive way to detect and monitor an infection in a wound. "Single-walled carbon n more PR