Members of the Brown Medical Student Family Medicine Interest Group as well as many clinical faculty took part in "Tar Wars" the anti-smoking campaign in Providence. Alpert Medical Student, Grayson Armstrong was among the judges for the poster competition. Read more...

A new study in Nature reports that two people with tetraplegia were able to reach for and grasp objects in three-dimensional space using robotic arms that they controlled directly with brain activity. Read more...

In the dissertation that will allow him to receive his Ph.D. at Commencement this year, Brian Reggiannini found a way to advance the state of the art for voice- and speaker-recognition. Read more...

Dr. William Oh, a neonatologist at Women & Infants Hospital and the Warren Alpert Medical School, was one of two physicians inducted into the Legends of Neonatology Hall of Fame this spring. Read more...

The National Institutes of Health has selected a talented pool of 45 medical, dental, and veterinary students, including Alpert medical student Arkady Rasin. Read more...

Brown University evolutionary biologist Henry Astley discovered that, although not bilaterally symmetrical like humans, brittle stars have come up with a mechanism to choose any of its five limbs to direct its movement on the seabed. Read more...

Women & Infants Hospital to receive more than $3.2 million to expand the Transition Home Plus Program, under the leadership of Betty Vohr, MD, medical director of the Neonatal Follow-Up Program, for mothers in Rhode Island who have pre-term babies. Read more...

Brown University has marked the official opening of the Ship Street Square, which sits across from the Warren Alpert Medical School and is the site of a new farmers market operated by Farm Fresh Rhode Island. Read more...

The RI Chapter of the American College of Physicians presents Richard W. Besdine, MD, FACP, with this year’s award, to recognize his outstanding contributions to the field of Internal Medicine. Read more...