PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 6 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release on April 5, 2023: * * * The newly launched Initiative for Sustainable Energy will serve as a campus hub for driving technological advances in sustainable energy and preparing the next-generation of leaders in net-zero-carbon energy solutions. * * * A new initiative at Brown University will convene researchers from multiple fields of study with the goal of developing solutions in three areas of su  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 8 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release on April 7, 2023: * * * The prestigious fellowship will fund a year of research and writing time for Bonnie Honig's new book, which aims to reclaim the term 'performativity' and acknowledge the power of words to transform societies. * * * Bonnie Honig, a professor of modern culture and media and political science at Brown University, has been awarded a fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Me  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 7 (TNSjou) -- Brown University issued the following news release on April 6, 2023: * * * A Brown-led research team used a computer simulation to show that compared to usual care, four dementia-care interventions saved up to $13,000 in costs, reduced nursing home admissions and improved quality of life. * * * While new drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease tend to receive the most public attention, many well-researched ways to care for people with dementia don't i  more

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 6 (TNSres) -- Brown University issued the following news release: * * * International Space Station experiments co-led by Peter Lee, a Brown scholar, cardiothoracic surgeon and longtime space researcher, will help inform understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease. * * * When Dr. Peter Lee leaves his Brown University lab and looks up into the night sky, he can sometimes catch a glimpse of his own research project. A practicing cardiothoracic surgeon  more

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, April 7 (TNSres) -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: * * * Professor Thais Sao-Joao aims to improve quality of life for fishermen, possibly increasing fish landing and impacting the blue economy * * * Commercial fishermen are the most at-risk blue economy workers, constantly exposed to hazardous working conditions, strenuous labor, long hours in variable weather conditions, and poor sleep and nutritional patterns. Poor health has important imp  more