The idea of connecting computers directly to our brains is moving from fantasy to reality, and some of the richest and most powerful men are pouring money into the space, chasing a vision that the technology could one day upend healthcare — and everyday life as we know it.

Six Brown University students have received graduate awards for the 2022/2023 academic year from the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science. The Graduate Awards in Brain Science recognize early-career scientists who have made outstanding research progress and demonstrate strong potential for successful lifelong scientific careers. Recipients receive stipend and tuition support for a full year.

Daphna Buchsbaum is an Assistant Professor of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences at Brown University. She directs the Computational Cognitive Development Lab and its sister lab, the Brown Dog Lab.

Yu-Wen Alvin Huang is the GLF Translational Assistant Professor of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, joining the faculty of Brown Biology and Medicine in July, 2019.

Two researchers affiliated with the Carney Institute for Brain Science are among five members of the Brown University faculty who have been elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the world’s largest general scientific society.

After two years of remote attendance, Carney Institute staff, students, postdocs, and affiliated faculty traveled to San Diego for the 2022 Society for Neuroscience meeting. Colleagues connected face to face, shared ideas and research, presented groundbreaking work, attended plenaries and discussions, and picked-up swag at the conference hall.

Dr. Roche credits the NIH-Brown GPP partnership with seeding important inter-institute interactions at NIH, and she emphasizes that working collaboratively with co-directors and the Office of Intramural Training and Education (OITE) has been essential for the partnership’s success.

Jonghwan Lee is an Assistant Professor of Engineering and an Assistant Professor of Brain Science. He leads a research group leelab.ai at the intersection of medical photonics, neural engineering, and artificial intelligence.

An honorary society and policy organization founded in 1780, the Academy elects exceptionally accomplished individuals and engages them in advancing the public good. Lipscombe signed the Book of Members at an Induction Ceremony that celebrated recently elected artists, scholars, scientists, and leaders in the public, nonprofit, and private sectors.

Brown University's School of Engineering invites applications from rising and established leaders in neuroengineering for a tenure-track/tenured position at the Assistant or Associate Professor level.

Congratulations to Ahmed Abdelfattah!

Brown University's Office of the Vice President for Research has awarded $1 million in seed funds to support 21 research projects led by Brown researchers, including seven brain science-related projects.

Brown University scientist Oriel FeldmanHall has recently received three early-career awards from prestigious neuroscience and psychological professional societies for her contributions to science.

From the school to the workplace, whether someone achieves their goals is determined by the mental effort they invest in their tasks. A study by Brown University scientists examined what motivates people to work harder on specific tasks and in certain situations.

Halfway through John Stein’s lecture on the anatomy of the human brain hundreds of students in Brown’s largest lecture hall, the Salomon Center, began bobbing their heads up and down. Stein was in the middle of explaining the symptoms of bacterial meningitis, a deadly dangerous infection of brain tissue. It turns out that a simple bobbing of the head can test for an inflamed dura mater, a key symptom of brain infection.

Through an innovation awards program, the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science will provide $898,000 in seed funding for new high-impact research in computation, Alzheimer’s disease and other areas of brain science.

A collaborative team of researchers, working across fields of study, has found a new way to control the conversation between any two cells by using a novel technology that replaces normal chemical brain communication with optical pulses.