PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 9 (TNSOps) -- Brown University issued the following news release: The Cullen Education and Research Fund has awarded the inaugural CERF Medical Engineering Prize for ALS Research to the members of BrainGate+SoftRobotics, a research team based at Brown University, Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital. The team is creating a series of technologies intended to improve arm and hand function for people with muscle weakness and paralysis, including peop more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 12 (TNSPol) -- Brown University issued the following news release: If the bright, sprawling mural dedicated to Rhode Island's queer and trans communities isn't the first thing to make a visitor to Open Door Health in Providence feel at home, they are sure to feel welcome the second they step inside the clinic's Central Street building. "It's our goal to provide a warm embrace from the beginning," said Dr. Amy Nunn, a professor of medicine and behavioral and socia more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 9 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * A study led by Brown University researchers found significant racial and ethnic disparities in patient care experience among enrollees of Medicaid managed care plans. * * * To ensure equity in Medicaid managed care health coverage, there is a need for accurate, recent data on how plans perform for members of different racial and ethnic groups. When Brown University researchers analyzed data more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 8 (TNSJou) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Skyrmions, tiny magnetic anomalies that arise in two-dimensional materials, can be used to generate true random numbers useful in cryptography and probabilistic computing. * * * Whether for use in cybersecurity, gaming or scientific simulation, the world needs true random numbers, but generating them is harder than one might think. But a group of Brown University physicists has developed a  more PR

WORCESTER, Massachusetts, Feb. 10 (TNSRes) -- Clark University issued the following news: * * * Clark alumna heads effort to build climate resilience and improve water quality * * * Fifty years ago, thousands of volunteers descended on the Blackstone River, removing tons of trash from banks of the waterway that stretches from Massachusetts to Rhode Island in what became the largest single-day regional environmental clean-up in American history. The program, dubbed Zap the Blackstone or Oper more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 12 -- The Rhode Island Department of Elementary and Secondary Education issued the following news: With COVID-19 case and hospitalization data continuing to improve, Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) today announced plans to lift the statewide school mask mandate on March 4, allowing decisions about masking to be made by local school districts at that time. Additionally, the Governor and RIDOH announced that the Executive Order o more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 10 (TNSRes) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * Created by Maori artist Lisa Reihana, the video installation "In Pursuit of Venus [infected]" adds nuance and Indigenous perspective to the first encounters between South Pacific islanders and European seafarers. * * * A 70-foot-long animated installation on view at Brown University's David Winton Bell Gallery is asking new questions about how 18th-century European exploration of the Pacif more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Feb. 10 -- Gov. Daniel J. McKee, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Feb. 9, 2022: With COVID-19 case and hospitalization data continuing to improve, Governor Dan McKee and the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH) today announced plans to lift the statewide school mask mandate on March 4, allowing decisions about masking to be made by local school districts at that time. Additionally, the Governor and RIDOH announced that the Executive Order on in more PR