PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 26 -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Professors Kavita Ramanan and Dr. Jack Wands earned recognition for their distinguished contributions to science by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world's largest general scientific body. * * * Brown University professors Kavita Ramanan and Dr. Jack Wands have been elected by their peers as fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), th more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 25 -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Seny Kamara, an associate professor of computer science, told a U.S. House Financial Services Committee Task Force that there is more that companies could be doing to keep sensitive financial data safe. * * * In Washington to offer expert testimony before a U.S. House of Representatives task force, a Brown University computer scientist described under-utilized cryptography solutions that could bo more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 27 [TNSmedicalresearch-New England Journal of Medicine] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Dr. Adam Levine, an emergency physician and leader of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, played a key role on a clinical trial evaluating promising new treatments for Ebola virus disease. * * * Over the last decade, a series of Ebola outbreaks have affected significant numbers of patients, often fatally, and particularly in s more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 27 [TNSscientificresearch-Astrophysical Journal] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Researchers using the Murchison Widefield Array radio telescope have taken a new and significant step toward detecting a signal from the period in cosmic history when the first stars lit up the universe. * * * Around 12 billion years ago, the universe emerged from a great cosmic dark age as the first stars and galaxies lit up. With a new analysis of d more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 27 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - On a recent expedition, URI engineering researchers tested new equipment * * * Despite great technological advances in ocean exploration over the last 30 years, the world's most delicate deep-sea species largely remain a mystery. There has been little development in instruments that can be used to identify and safely collect fragile undersea species. That's about to change. Brennan Phillips more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Nov. 26 [TNSsociologyresearch-Drug and Alcohol Dependence journal] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - Manuscript by psychology department research team to run in national journal 'Drug and Alcohol Dependence' * * * American Indian adolescents are more likely to misuse heroin and other opioids, and are five times more likely to die from the misuse than non-American Indians, necessitating new forms of interventions to help prevent opioi more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Nov. 27 [TNSenvironmentresearch-Nature Climate Change journal] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Computer models focused on current and potential policy decisions could help shed light on the future of migration caused by sea level rise, concluded a team of scholars that included Brown demographer Elizabeth Fussell. * * * A new modeling approach can help researchers, policymakers and the public better understand how policy decisions will more PR