Brown University School of Engineering
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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...
Bessa named to NASEM planning committee on AI and Materials
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January 13, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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...
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...
Office of Naval Research awards Brown Engineering $5.4M for materials under extreme environments study
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January 12, 2026 at 1:56 PM
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...
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...
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...
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January 9, 2026 at 4:28 PM
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...
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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Toussaint named SPIE Diversity Outreach Award winner
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January 9, 2026 at 1:58 PM
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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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...
Pennell wins pair of Best Papers from ES&T in 2024
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January 8, 2026 at 6:51 PM
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...
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...
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 ...
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January 7, 2026 at 4:18 PM
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...
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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The work presents a modular NP platform integrating programmable surface architecture with immunoengineering for targeted STING activation in dendritic cells.
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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.
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January 6, 2026 at 4:31 PM
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.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
The work presents a modular NP platform integrating programmable surface architecture with immunoengineering for targeted STING activation in dendritic cells.
www.science.org/doi/full/10....
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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
Learn more: https://ibes.brown.edu/news/2025-12-08/piete-gatesi
December 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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
Learn more: https://ibes.brown.edu/news/2025-12-08/piete-gatesi
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
Engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, inducts 32 new members
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November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
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
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...
Zhou awarded 10-Year Most Influential Paper at ICCAD 2025
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November 21, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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...
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...
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.
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November 20, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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...
Congratulations to Professor Yue Qi - who has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the Materials Research Society. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
Qi elected 2026 MRS Fellow
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November 18, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Congratulations to Professor Yue Qi - who has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the Materials Research Society. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11...
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...
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.
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November 14, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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...
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...
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...
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November 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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...
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...
DePinho ’26, Maheshwari ’26 place at AIChE conference poster competition
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November 6, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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...
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...
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.
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October 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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...
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...
Guduru named 2026 B.J. Lazan awardee
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October 29, 2025 at 3:49 PM
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...
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...
Kim chosen Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering
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October 27, 2025 at 8:15 PM
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...
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...
Interview: Danny Warshay on Teaching Real-World Entrepreneurship
YouTube video by Learn the Technology with Brandon Krakowsky
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October 8, 2025 at 1:02 PM
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...
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-...
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...
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October 7, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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-...
👏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...
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...
Engineering faculty rank among top two percent of world’s scientists
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October 7, 2025 at 1:18 PM
👏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...
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...
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...
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.
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October 6, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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...
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...
Qi receives Ross Coffin Purdy Award from American Ceramic Society
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October 2, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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...
You are not imagining it, and Professor of Engineering Roberto Zenit can explain why. www.huffpost.com/entry/diet-c...
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.”
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October 2, 2025 at 12:08 PM
You are not imagining it, and Professor of Engineering Roberto Zenit can explain why. www.huffpost.com/entry/diet-c...
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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 👇
Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE Fellows for this important conversation on advocacy 👇
September 26, 2025 at 3:48 PM
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 👇
Join @dawnberaud.bsky.social, @jasoncmarvin.bsky.social, and our AIMBE Fellows for this important conversation on advocacy 👇