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Adept Materials was this year’s Startup of the Year!

Adept is preparing to launch its first consumer product, a premium interior paint and primer system, Lilypad, that incorporates their proprietary moisture control technology.

Learn more ➡️ www.adeptmaterials.com

Brown Technology Innovation’s Inventor of the Year is Professor of Engineering and Physics Arto Nurmikko!

The award is presented to the faculty member who has had the most engagement with BTI and has seen the most patenting success during the past fiscal year.

The Huang Lab took home the Innovation of the Year award for their novel therapeutic approach targeting BIN1 to modulate secretory autophagy in Alzheimer's Disease!

Learn more about the Huang Lab ➡️ huanglabbrown.org

Brown researchers bring bold ideas to life at Innovation@Brown Showcase During Rhode Island Startup Week, faculty and student entrepreneurs pitched new technologies and connected with investors, partners and industry experts to turn cutting-edge research into real-world s...

It was standing room only at the inaugural Innovation@Brown Pitch Competition!

Five Brown-born startups distilled years of research into persuasive, five-minute product proposals before a panel of venture capitalists and packed audience.

Brown and Brookhaven partnership accelerates Northeast research Academic and national lab powerhouse positions the region as a leading hub for scientific innovation.

Brown and Brookhaven partnership accelerates Northeast research

The third annual Innovation@Brown Showcase was hosted last Thursday, Sept. 25 by Brown Technology Innovations and the Brown Division of Research!

Investors, academic researchers, entrepreneurs and regional leaders converged on Brown’s campus to celebrate local innovation.

A featured event of the Innovation@Brown Showcase-
a panel led by Brown Associate Professor Ellie Pavlick and Co-Founder and Managing Partner of TMV Soraya Darabi!

What are the questions to be answered in applying generative AI to mental health?

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A can't-miss part of the Innovation@Brown Showcase, Brown University professor Mark Blyth and Bob Safian, Host of the Rapid Response podcast, will discuss the importance of innovation ecosystems and the role of higher education.

Learn more ➡️ bti.brown.edu/innovationbr...

The 2025 Innovation@Brown Showcase is this Thursday!

It's not too late to register. Learn more about this must-see event and sign up today ⤵️
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Rhode Island Startup Week to spotlight Brown faculty and student ventures Held from Sept. 18 to 26, the annual celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation will feature bold ideas and breakthrough technologies from Brown researchers and inventors.

Held from Sept. 18 to 26, the annual celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation will feature bold ideas and breakthrough technologies from Brown researchers and inventors.

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New this year, six ventures will take part in the Innovation@Brown Pitch Competition before the main event of the Innovation@Brown Showcase. The winner will receive a $1,000 prize courtesy of Slater Technology Fund.

Learn more and register ➡️ bit.ly/3K4HAOi

Shaky cameras can make for sharper shots, new research shows A new imaging technique turns motion blur into an advantage, using a jiggling camera and a clever algorithm to create super-resolution images sharper than would be possible with a steady camera.

It doesn’t take an expert photographer to know that the steadier the camera, the sharper the shot — but that conventional wisdom isn’t always true, according to new research at Brown.
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Applications for the seventh annual Richard Macksey National Undergraduate Humanities Research Symposium are now open!

Learn more and apply ➡️ bit.ly/3JXsLgm

Pilot grants are now available through CHAIRS-C at Brown. The goal of this pilot program is to support preliminary studies that investigate significant and innovative research questions

Learn more at a virtual workshop on Oct. 16 ➡️ bit.ly/41GlOqb

CHAIRS-C Accelerating Science Colloquium: Climate, Health, and Aging Frameworks and Collaborations Center on Heat, Health, and Aging Innovation and Research Solutions for Communities (CHAIRS-C) is pleased to announce our Fall 2025 Accelerating Sc...

CHAIRS-C is hosting a colloquium that will review several frameworks relevant to research on climate exposures and older adult health.

The event will take place Sept. 24 from 3-4 p.m.

RSVP and learn more ➡️ bit.ly/4pglEzT

Inside Brown University's Bold Bet on Regenerative Medicine - The Angel Nest At Brown University they’re working on something called the extracellular matrix – a way to help the body promote tissue healing and regeneration with minimal negative impact and without debilitating ...

Members of Brown Technology Innovations were featured on The Angel Nest podcast with Innovation@Brown Showcase alum XM Therapeutics!

The episode gave a compelling look at how universities are driving the next wave of medical innovation.

Listen now ➡️ bit.ly/4mVXA3P

High honours for three frontier scientists Surabhi Ranganathan, Professor of International Law at the University of Cambridge, receives the Max Planck-Humboldt Research Award 2025, endowed with 1.5 million euros. The expert in international an...

Prerna Singh, Mahatma Gandhi Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs and an Associate Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences, has been awarded a Max Planck-Humboldt Medal.

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We need your help selecting the Innovation of the Year!

The 2025 Innovation@Brown Showcase will be held Sept. 25. In addition to Innovation of the Year, awards will be presented recognizing an Inventor of the Year and Startup of the Year.

Vote now ➡️ bit.ly/4n2B493

Topping-off ceremony at Brown celebrates future laboratories for integrated life sciences research On schedule for completion in 2027, Danoff Laboratories will convene scientists to solve complex health and medical challenges and spur economic growth in Providence’s Jewelry District.

Brown University marked a major milestone in the construction of the William A. and Ami Kuan Danoff Life Sciences Laboratories with a topping-off ceremony in Providence’s Jewelry District on Wednesday, Aug. 20.

Will AI be able to replace humans in the realm of legal decision making in the future?

Katelyn Williams, part of Brown’s Leadership Alliance this summer, explored this question in her project at the 2025 Summer Research Symposium.

Despite efforts to equalize school funding by prioritizing under-resourced districts, the achievement gap between high and low-income students in the United States has grown by 40% since 1970.

Iman Hirani examines this in her project at the 2025 Summer Research Symposium.

A chordoma is a rare, malignant tumor that arises in the spine. They exhibit profound resistance to chemotherapy and radiation. Calcium alginate hydrogels may offer a promising alternative.

Andrew Fogarty discusses this in his project at the 2025 Summer Research Symposium.

$1.3 million grant to Brown to expand research on the role of blood-brain barrier in decision making Researchers from Brown’s Carney Institute will investigate how the blood-brain barrier is involved in transmitting information to the brain, informing potential treatments for brain diseases and disor...

A $1.3 million grant from the W.M. Keck Foundation to Brown University will fund research on how brain blood vessels relay real-time signals across the blood-brain barrier directly to the brain.

Brown University researchers discover how people gossip without getting caught Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science spill the tea about the complicated mental computations that allow people to gossip successfully.

How do people gossip without getting caught?

Researchers at Brown University’s Carney Institute spill the tea about the complicated mental computations that allow people to gossip successfully.

New opioid testing techniques could lead to better therapies Brown University engineers partnered with public health experts to create new diagnostic techniques that could help to deliver better, patient-centered care to adults and newborns alike.

Brown University researchers, in collaboration with public health experts, have developed new opioid testing techniques to improve care for adults with opioid use disorder and infants with neonatal abstinence syndrome.

Brown researchers focus on expanding access to pediatric OCD treatment they helped pioneer Psychiatry scholars who helped create the gold-standard treatment for pediatric OCD are developing more innovative and accessible delivery methods.

Brown researchers, who helped create the gold-standard treatment for pediatric OCD, are developing new, innovative treatments and expanding access to care for the mental health condition.

YouTube video by Brown University Research Eva Erickson: Ph.D. Candidate and Survivor 48 Runner-Up

Don't miss the extended version of our conversation with Eva! Available now on YouTube!

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From working towards a Ph.D. to finishing as the runner-up on Season 48 of “Survivor” — what can’t Eva Erickson do?

Erickson gave a look inside her research, while also drawing parallels between her experience on “Survivor” and her work at Brown.

At Brown's ninth annual Celebration of Research, 33 researchers were recognized for making a significant impact globally by advancing knowledge through their contributions, achievements, and discoveries.

We recently sat down with Ph.D. candidate and Survivor 48 contestant Eva Erickson to talk about her research at Brown.

Make sure to watch Eva in the Survivor finale on CBS this Wednesday at 8/7c and check back here soon for our conversation with her!