Brown University School of Engineering

Brown University professor John Donoghue wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Donoghue was awarded the prize, considered among the most prestigious honors in engineering, for pioneering work in developing brain-computer interfaces, which enable the restoration of voluntary comm...

John Donoghue, founder of the BrainGateTeam at Brown University, has been awarded a 2026 #QEPrize. The @qeprize.bsky.social was given in recognition of Donoghue's pioneering work on #BCI. www.brown.edu/news/2026-02...

The shape of things to come: How spheroid geometry guides multicellular orbiting and invasion In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers show how cells orbit and reconfigure their surroundings to venture outward fro...

Researchers from the @ianywonglab.bsky.social are working toward understanding the dynamics of how tissues develop, as well as how cancer cells break free of tumors to spread around the body, by unpacking how cells interact with each other and their surroundings. www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

Warshay Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Nepal at The British College

Professor of the Practice and Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship Executive Director Danny Warshay spent winter break in Nepal, leading a workshop grounded in his See Solve Scale framework, backed by a specialist award from the Fulbright Program. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

Bessa named to NASEM planning committee on AI and Materials

Associate Professor Miguel Bessa has been selected to a planning committee for the @nationalacademies.org on AI and materials. "Frontiers of Metastable Materials Development Using Artificial Intelligence" is being organized for the fall. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

Office of Naval Research awards Brown Engineering $5.4M for materials under extreme environments study

Associate Professor Vikas Srivastava is the PI of a new study that will focus on the undersea operational challenges of sea hulls, UUVs, and submarines in extreme environments, to aid the mission readiness of Navy systems. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

Episode 24: Substrate cracking compromises integrity of flexible electronic devices - MRS Bulletin Materials News Podcast In this podcast episode, MRS Bulletin’s Laura Leay interviews Nitin Padture, who is the Otis E. Randall University Professor and the founding Director of the Initiative for Sustainable Energy at Brown...

Listen🎧to this quick @materials-mrs.bsky.social podcast with Professor Nitin Padture on his recent research published in npj Flexible Electronics: www.buzzsprout.com/244633/episo...

Toussaint named SPIE Diversity Outreach Award winner

Congratulations to Professor Kimani Toussaint, named the @spie.org Diversity Outreach award winner for his work promoting diversity in the education, training and participation of people in optics and photonics. 🎉

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Pennell wins pair of Best Papers from ES&T in 2024

Professor Kurt Pennell co-authored two papers published in 2024 that were cited more than 80 times and earned Critical Review and Viewpoint honors from @pubs.acs.org's Environmental Science & Technology Best Papers. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

New strategy addresses persistent problem in next-generation solid-state batteries Brown University engineers showed that applying a temperature gradient across a solid-state electrolyte blocks destructive dendrite growth, offering a practical solution to a major barrier in battery ...

Researchers from Brian Sheldon's lab may have discovered a practical solution for the dendrite problem in solid-state batteries. www.brown.edu/news/2026-01...

Dual-receptor targeting of type I dendritic cells with DNA-scaffolded nanoparticles enhances STING-licensed antitumor immunity Programmable DNA-scaffolded nanoparticles orchestrate dual-receptor cDC1 targeting and STING activation for cancer immunotherapy.

New paper from the lab of @tejaladesai.bsky.social, led by postdoc Deblin Jana, now out in @science.org.
The work presents a modular NP platform integrating programmable surface architecture with immunoengineering for targeted STING activation in dendritic cells.
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Meet IBES Voss Fellow Piete Gatesi ’27! Using heat and chemical treatments, Gatesi aims to engineer solid state batteries, a promising, more sustainable alternative to lithium ion batteries 🔋 Brown University School of Engineering

Learn more: https://ibes.brown.edu/news/2025-12-08/piete-gatesi

Engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, inducts 32 new members

Congratulations to our newest undergraduates inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society! 🎉https://engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11-24/2025-tbpi-induction

Zhou awarded 10-Year Most Influential Paper at ICCAD 2025

Assistant Professor Peipei Zhou was honored with the 2025 Most Influential Paper Award, an award from IEEE/ @acm.org for the most influential paper in computer-aided design over 10 years since the original publication. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Research provides new design specs for burgeoning sodium-ion batteries A study provides new guidance for designing sodium-ion batteries, which are emerging as a less expensive and more environmentally friendly complement to lithium-based batteries.

Engineering Postdoc Lincoln Mtemeri and Professor Yue Qi, were able to predict the sodium pore filling voltage in hard carbon from density functional theory calculations. Their paper was published in EES Batteries as a "Recent HOT Article." Read more: www.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Qi elected 2026 MRS Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Yue Qi - who has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the Materials Research Society. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Art exhibitions at Brown University honor and interpret historic campus elm tree A current solo show and an in-development group exhibition invite the Brown community and the public to create new meaning out of the wood from an American elm that previously flourished on campus.

Technical Specialist and Maker in Residence at the Brown Design Workshop Eiden Spilker is showing 15 sculptural works as part of his Brown Arts Institute solo exhibition "Between Past and Future" on display at the Granoff Center through Dec. 12. www.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Alumni Spotlight: Kognitiv Edge Master’s in Technology Leadership alumni venture Kognitiv Edge creates software engineered to unlock the full potential of human capital for military special operations and other high-risk training en...

US Marine Corps Raider veteran Tyler Van Hook leverages his military knowledge and Brown University School of Professional Studies capstone into a business venture focused to help military special ops and other high-risk training environments. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-09...

DePinho ’26, Maheshwari ’26 place at AIChE conference poster competition

Congratulations to Tej Maheshwari '26, Jimmy Lee '27, and Joseph DePinho '26, who represented Brown Engineering at the 2025 American Institute of Chemical Engineers undergraduate poster competition. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11...

Brown University and Panasonic Energy launch joint development to advance next-gen lithium-ion battery materials through diagnostics analysis Accelerating materials innovation for higher durability and higher power cells.

Associate Professor Feng Lin and Panasonic have partnered to advance analytical methods pinpointing how materials degrade during battery charge and discharge cycles, to help accelerate the development of next-generation battery materials. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Guduru named 2026 B.J. Lazan awardee

Professor Pradeep Guduru will be given the 2026 B.J. Lazan Award at the annual Society for Experimental Mechanics conference in June, joining an impressive list of individuals who have made outstanding technical contributions to experimental mechanics. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Kim chosen Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering

Postdoc Jiwon Kim from the @ianywonglab.bsky.social was named one of 30 female Rising Stars in MechE, and invited to a workshop to develop career skills, connect with a cohort of peers, and engage with mentors in anticipation of future careers in academia. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

YouTube video by Learn the Technology with Brandon Krakowsky Interview: Danny Warshay on Teaching Real-World Entrepreneurship

Danny Warshay, Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship, talks about Brown's top-rated course, "The Entrepreneurial Process", and its innovative approach to teaching problem-first entrepreneurship. Listen here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0r84...

How The RI Life Science Hub and Brown Engineering Collaborate - The Angel Nest The Rhode Island Life Science Hub is accelerating innovation. In this episode of The Angel Nest, we talk with Dr. Tejal Desai, engineering dean at Brown University about how Brown and The Rhode Island...

Listen to Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering on the most recent Angel Nest podcast, talking Brown Engineering and its part in the Rhode Island life sciences ecosystem. theangelnest.com/2025/10/how-...

Engineering faculty rank among top two percent of world’s scientists

👏Congrats to our 28+ faculty members included among the world's top 2% of researchers in 2025.👏
The Stanford/Elsevier list highlights the most widely cited researchers across a broad range of scientific fields and draws from a variety of citation metrics. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Georges Belfort and Steven Cramer Awarded NAE's 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize for Innovation in Engineering and Technology Education Awarded for advancing the state of the art in downstream bioprocessing and educating generations.

Steven Cramer '78 and RPI colleague Georges Belfort received the 2025 Bernard M. Gordon Prize from the @theNAEng yesterday. The prize's intent is to recognize new modalities and experiments in education that develop effective engineering leaders. www.nae.edu/331046/Georg...

Qi receives Ross Coffin Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society

Professor Yue Qi received a Purdy Award from the American Ceramic Society on her team's behalf, for the most valuable technical contribution to ceramic literature published two years prior. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

So THAT'S Why Diet Coke Tastes Superior At McDonald's “Bottled Diet Coke is like watching fireworks on TV. McDonald’s Diet Coke is the live show.”

You are not imagining it, and Professor of Engineering Roberto Zenit can explain why. www.huffpost.com/entry/diet-c...

A flyer of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering's workshop titled "A Collective Call to Action: The Importance of Advocacy and Avenues for Engagement in Biomedical Engineering" on Friday, October 10, 2025 from 8:30-10:00 AM PT at the 2025 Biomedical Engineering Society Annual Meeting. Speakers include Drs. Dawn Beraud (AIMBE), Tejal Desai (Brown University), Tyrone Porter (University of Texas at Austin), and Raj Rao (University of Arkansas).

AIMBE is hosting a session titled "A Collective Call to Action: The Importance of Advocacy and Avenues for Engagement in BME" at the BMES Annual Meeting on October 10.

Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE Fellows for this important conversation on advocacy 👇

New research center will work toward better, more reliable computer simulations The center will unite mathematicians, engineers and computer scientists at Brown, NYU and Georgia Tech to tackle longstanding problems in how simulations handle extreme physical events.

A Brown Univ team that includes Prof. Yuri Bazilevs will lead a new research center aimed at improving computer simulations of fluid flows, blast dynamics and design optimization processes. CIGMO is a collaboration among researchers from Brown, NYU, and Ga Tech. www.brown.edu/news/2025-10...

Brown Engineering hosts AmeriMech Symposium on Mechanics of Materials in Extreme Environments The critical need for materials that can operate reliably and predictably in extreme conditions, particularly in defense, energy, aerospace, and biomedical applications, was the topic that brought tog...

“This symposium presented a unique opportunity to gather researchers in the same room for three days of focused discussions,” said Prof. Vikas Srivastava. “Such meetings will spark new collaborative efforts, with Brown researchers playing a central role.” engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-09...