Research Seed Funds are intended to support activities necessary to advance competitive research proposals, such as performing preliminary work and facilitating collaboration.

Brown School of Engineering recent graduates Jennifer Bui ’20, Jon Nelson ’20 and Thomas Usherwood ’22 were each awarded a three-year National Science Foundation fellowship in the Graduate Research Fellowship Program (NSF GRFP). Additionally, Lizzie Kimmel ’21 was chosen as an honorable mention candidate for the fellowship.

Through an innovation awards program, the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science will provide $564,000 in seed funding for new high-impact research in computation, visual science, Parkinson’s disease and Alzheimer’s disease.

Cel Welch, a Brown biomedical engineering Ph.D. candidate, has been named to the American Chemical Society’s Chemical Abstract Service (CAS) Future Leaders program.

New technique is cost-effective, more accurate than previous methods of drug detection.

Forty-four Brown researchers, including 11 from the School of Engineering, are receiving University research awards through 21 Research Seed grants, totaling $1.4M.

The work by a research team made up largely of Brown graduate and undergraduate students addresses a critical biomedical need and has the potential to be widely adapted by clinicians to monitor antidepressants in patients.

The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative (CZI) was founded in 2015 to help solve some of society’s toughest challenges — from eradicating disease and improving education, to addressing the needs of our local communities.

Warmest welcome to our newest BME master’s students!

In an important step toward a medical technology that could help restore independence of people with paralysis, researchers find the investigational BrainGate neural interface system has low rates of associated adverse events.

Researchers from Brown and MIT suggest how scientists can circumvent the need for massive data sets to forecast extreme events with the combination of an advanced machine learning system and sequential sampling techniques.

George Karniadakis, Charles Pitts Robinson and John Palmer Barstow Professor of Applied Mathematics and Engineering at Brown University, has been named to the 2022 Highly Cited Researchers List by Clarivate Analytics.

The current dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will take on the role of Brown’s chief academic officer, effective July 1, 2023.

The Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society, inducted 21 new members at Brown University in a ceremony held Friday, Dec. 9. Thirteen juniors were inducted along with eight seniors.

The discovery of electrical signals in the brain associated with OCD could enable an emerging type of adaptive deep brain stimulation therapy as an improved treatment.

Brown University researchers have developed a new technology for evaluating the structural integrity of metal structures, such as pipelines, to prevent catastrophic failure.

Brown undergraduate develops tissue dissociation device.

With the help of an advanced machine learning technique, researchers from Brown University suggest strategies for improving the performance of epidemiological models used to predict the course of pandemics.

Forbes Magazine unveiled its 30 under 30 Class of 2023 yesterday, recognizing young leaders that are turning to entrepreneurship to solve the world’s biggest problems.

In its fourth year, Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact is advancing the commercialization of Brown research and supporting the creation of new products aimed at saving and improving lives.

Jonathan Calvert, a postdoctoral researcher working with Associate Professor David Borton in the Brown University School of Engineering has been named a DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) 2022 Riser.

Kiara Lee, a doctoral student in biomedical engineering, was recently published in ACS Analytical Chemistry for her research on a new testing method of dried blood spots (DBSs).

Jonghwan Lee is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and an Assistant Professor of Brain Science. He leads a research group leelab.ai at the intersection of medical photonics, neural engineering, and artificial intelligence.

Brown engineering’s Riley Renee Flores ’22.5 was honored with a best research presentation award at the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers’ national convention held last week in Charlotte, N.C.