PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 28 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2021: In December 2020, Japan's Hayabusa2 spacecraft swung by Earth to drop off a cache of rock samples taken from a near-Earth asteroid called Ryugu. Asteroids like Ryugu are thought to represent the ancient building blocks of the solar system, and scientists have been eager to get a closer look at the returned samples. Last week, the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency shipped one more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 29 (TNSGra) -- Brown University issued the following news release: The MacArthur Foundation has named Jesse Shapiro, a professor of economics at Brown University, one of 25 MacArthur Fellows from across the nation for 2021. The fellowship's financial award of $625,000 over five years will advance his efforts to confront complex social issues through his research. Shapiro, an applied microeconomist who joined the Brown faculty in 2015, has become expert at assemb more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 29 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * The newly discovered structures provide game-changing evidence that the imperial power of Teotihuacan exerted considerable influence on Tikal, an ancient Maya capital, as part of a campaign of conquest. * * * Scientists have been excavating the ruins of Tikal, an ancient Maya city in modern-day Guatemala, since the 1950s -- and thanks to those many decades spent documenting details of eve more PR

OAKLAND, California, Sept. 28 -- California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued the following news release on Sept. 27, 2021: California Attorney General Rob Bonta today highlighted four recently filed amicus briefs in support of city, county, and state efforts to hold the major fossil fuel producing companies accountable for their contributions to the climate crisis. In Honolulu v. Sunoco, BP v. Baltimore, Rhode Island v. Shell, and Minnesota v. American Petroleum Institute, the governments alle more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Sept. 30 (TNSGra) -- Brown University issued the following news release on Sept. 29, 2021: Five years after an $11.5 million federal grant launched the COBRE Center for Computational Biology of Human Disease at Brown University, the National Institutes of Health has awarded $10.8M in new funds to Brown to build on the center's early success. The center -- a federal Center of Biomedical Research Excellence funded by the NIH's National Institute of General Medical Scien more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Sept. 30 (TNSGra) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Researchers at the University of Rhode Island and Penn State University have been awarded a four-year, $1.5 million grant through the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to study the effects of sea level rise and how it may exacerbate the impact of extreme weather. The project will draw on expertise from researchers at URI's Graduate School of Oceanography, its College of the Envir more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Oct. 2 (TNSGra) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A University of Rhode Island doctoral student has been awarded a national grant to examine more effective treatments for alcohol use disorder among underserved populations. This disparity in the care certain groups receive for alcohol use disorder is the topic of a study by a fourth-year Ph.D. student in clinical psychology. Silvi Goldstein has been awarded a Ruth L. Kirschstein Predoctoral Ind more PR