PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 25 -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - As coronavirus spreads to multiple countries, Katherine Mason, an assistant professor of anthropology at Brown, detailed lessons learned from the outbreak of SARS and cautioned against public panic. * * * In 2001, fresh from college, Katherine Mason seized upon an opportunity to teach English in China. Then, mere miles away from her home and workplace, a deadly virus struck: severe acute respirat more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Engineers looking to nature for inspiration have long assumed that layered structures like those found in mollusk shells enhance a material's toughness, but a study shows that's not always the case. * * * Nacre -- the iridescent part of mollusk shells -- is a poster child for biologically inspired design. Despite being made of brittle chalk, the intricately layered microstruc more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 25 -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Dr. Josiah Rich, an addiction specialist and Brown professor, contributed to a report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on how to integrate care for the intertwined epidemics of opioid use and infectious disease. * * * Drug overdoses involving opioids kill tens of thousands of people each year in the U.S., but that's only part of the harm that the opioid epidemic has  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - A new study from Brown researchers finds that rewards improve performance on a visual perceptual task only if participants sleep after training. * * * Past studies have found that rewarding participants during a visual perceptual task leads to performance gains. However, new research suggests that these performance gains occur only if participants follow up the task with slee more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 [TNSmedicalresearch] -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - A study analyzing the first 1,000 patients from the Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment found that girls receive autism diagnoses an average of 1.5 years later than boys, and people with autism often have co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions. * * * A new study analyzing the first 1,000 participants in the Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Res more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * - Americans' feelings toward members of the other political party have worsened over time faster than those of residents of European and other prominent democracies, concluded a study co-authored by Brown economist Jesse Shapiro. * * * Political polarization among Americans has grown rapidly in the last 40 years -- more than in Canada, the United Kingdom, Australia or Germany -- a phenomenon possib more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 [TNSgrants] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - Grants will enhance the technological and teaching capabilities of multiple URI programs * * * The Champlin Foundation has awarded $565,402 to the University of Rhode Island for highly advanced technologies that will enhance hands-on learning for hundreds of students in a variety of disciplines. The Champlin Foundation, which is one of the oldest philanthropic organizations in Rh more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Rhode Island, Jan. 23 -- KVH Industries issued the following news release on Jan. 22: * * * - KVH Link builds on KVH's experience in providing crew wellbeing and operations content using its patented IP-MobileCast delivery technology * * * KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI), announced that it has launched KVH Link, a new digital content service that addresses two pressing needs in commercial maritime: News and entertainment content to improve crew wellbeing and operations data  more PR

MIDDLETOWN, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 -- KVH Industries issued the following news release on Jan. 21: * * * - Next-Generation sensors are intended for a fighter jet program * * * KVH Industries, Inc., (Nasdaq: KVHI), is pleased to announce that Lockheed Martin has selected KVH to develop and deliver the next-generation multi-axis fiber optic gyro (FOG) sensor for the IRST21 sensor system, which Boeing and the U.S. Navy are integrating into the F/A-18 E/F combat aircraft. KVH was chosen after a  more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 -- Gov. Gina Raimondo, D-Rhode Island, issued the following news release on Jan. 21: Governor Gina M. Raimondo announced that the state has been awarded a three-year, $27 million federal grant to support statewide children's development and education initiatives. The funding - running from 2020 through 2022 - is part of the Administration for Children and Families' Preschool Development Grant Birth through Five (PDG B-5) program. Three million of the total $27  more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Jan. 24 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - URI hosts fourth annual Rhode Island Food System Summit * * * According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, temperatures in Rhode Island have increased by more than 3 degrees Fahrenheit since the beginning of the 20th century. Since 1930, the sea level at Newport has risen by more than 9 inches - faster than the global average. With these realities as a backdrop, the Unive more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Jan. 22 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: Respected historian and researcher Francoise Hamlin will be the keynote speaker for the University of Rhode Island's Martin Luther King Jr. Unity Luncheon Wednesday, Feb. 5. The luncheon will start at noon at the Multicultural Student Services Center, Hardge Forum, 74 Lower College Road, on the Kingston Campus. Hamlin is the author of Crossroads at Clarksdale: The Black Freedom Struggle in the Mississ more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, Jan. 24 [TNSbiologyresearch] -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * - She co-edits special issue of journal Biological Invasions * * * A special issue of the journal Biological Invasions, co-edited by University of Rhode Island ecologist Laura Meyerson and University of Tennessee biologist Daniel Simberloff, provides a pathway to strengthening national policies and implementing strategies for addressing a growing threat to national security more PR