The Selection Committee for Brown’s Postdoctoral Excellence Awards is pleased to announce this year’s awardees. Each Postdoctoral Excellence Award recognizes a current postdoctoral research associate, postdoctoral fellow, or postdoctoral research fellow, whose leadership and depth of involvement will leave a significant impact on their scientific field, students, and/or the Brown community.
The Division of Biology and Medicine has announced the pilot of the Dean's Postdoctoral Diversity Fellowship in Biology and Medicine. The goal is to recruit talented postdocs from groups underrepresented in biomedicine to the five departments that comprise the Program in Biology and the Brown Center for Biomedical Informatics.
A poster conference during National Public Health Week offered Brown public health students the opportunity to discuss the significance of their research to the community — and to their own educational experience.
Through DEEPS STEP, Brown postdocs, undergraduate and graduate students develop and teach a science curriculum, complete with engaging, hands-on activities, to elementary students in the Providence Public School District.
Dr. Megan Ranney, a longtime emergency physician and Brown faculty member, is leading both national and Rhode Island-based efforts to address firearm injury based on research and facts.
One year after the University’s diversity and inclusion action plan committed to doubling the number of faculty from historically underrepresented groups, two initiatives are already attracting both early-career and experienced scholars to Brown.