Brown University School of Engineering
The official Bluesky of the Brown University School of Engineering. First engineering program in the Ivy League; Organized without traditional departments or boundaries; Emphasizes interdisciplinary connections.
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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. 🎉 engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-01...
- 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 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....
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- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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...
- 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-...
- 👏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...
- 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...
- You are not imagining it, and Professor of Engineering Roberto Zenit can explain why. www.huffpost.com/entry/diet-c...
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- 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...
- “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...
- Several members of the @risenate.bsky.social and @rihouseofreps.bsky.social were on campus today to witness the ways @brownengineering.bsky.social builds local community partnerships, applies real-world technology, and drives innovation throughout the state.
- Proud to be the School of Engineering at Brown, where our students, faculty and alumni are consistently lauded for career outcome prep and success, for entrepreneurship ventures, as Fulbright Scholars, and as highly-cited researchers and distinguished scholars. www.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- A full-scale renovation of Prince Lab, transforming it into a dynamic and central campus hub for project-based learning, cutting-edge research and engineering innovation, will be launched by Brown University, with a generous gift from the Lassonde Family Foundation. www.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- Each year during RI Startup Week, Brown University early ventures in engineering, medicine, science and technology are featured in showcases, networking events, workshops and discussions. www.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- A new paper on the swimming resiliency of shrimp from the @mmwilhelmus.bsky.social lab shows the potential for crustacean-inspired underwater vehicles. The work was led by Postdoc Adrian Herrera-Amaya and Senior Research Associate Nils Tack. journals.aps.org/prfluids/abs...
- Design engineering's Louise Manfredi, Rich Morales, Dan Harris and Ian Gonsher were awarded a grant from the National Science Foundation, through the Research in the Formation of Engineers program. Read more: engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- Brown researchers have found new details on how and where flexible electronics form destructive cracks, and they have the potential fix. www.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- Brown has unveiled a new Health Innovation Technology Sandbox, a model for digital health technology prototyping and validation. The sandbox will bring together expertise in engineering, design, and health to promote digital health tech development and testing. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- See Brown Biomedical Engineering Program Director and Lecturer Marissa Gray's latest publication on BME master's programs. A leader of scholarly work in this area, Gray frequently leads master's sessions at the Biomedical Engineering Society's annual meeting. peer.asee.org/biomedical-e...
- A new review from Prof. Eric Chason has been published by JOM. It describes important behavior trends observed in residual stresses in thin films and offers a comprehensive equation to explain how the behavior is related to underlying stress-generating mechanisms. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
- New findings from the lab of Pedro Felzenszwalb show that their algorithm could harness camera motion to produce images with far higher resolution than would be possible without motion. www.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- Brown's @mmwilhelmus.bsky.social Wilhelmus Lab was part of BlueTIDE 2025 last week. The event connects innovators, U.S. Navy, government (including @reed.senate.gov), and industry leaders to showcase dual-use technologies and accelerate their transition into real-world applications.
- Excited to welcome six new engineering faculty, @leokoz8.bsky.social, Feng Lin, Mehdi Saligane, Isabella Stupois, Trisha Tian and Joy Zeng, to College Hill for the fall semester! 👏 www.brown.edu/news/2025-09...
- Professor of the Practice Rich Morales named co-director of the joint @risd1877.bsky.social and Brown University Engineering Master of Arts in Design Engineering program. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-08...
- The new state-of-the-art facility will bring together faculty, researchers and students with complementary expertise in biology, medicine, engineering and computational science. www.brown.edu/news/2025-08...
- Think all engineering test labs look the same? Ph.D. student Maddy Federle takes her study of fluid mechanics to new heights and weight(lessnesses). www.brown.edu/news/2025-08...
- A biotech development collaboration between Brown's @ianywonglab.bsky.social and KAIST's Shin Lab is one of 17 projects chosen for the Boston Korea Project. Read more: engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-08...
- The Institute of Biology, Engineering, and Medicine’s Anti-Cancer Immunoengineering Collaborative is working toward therapeutic cancer treatments that leverage the immune system, in collaboration with the Legorreta Cancer Center. @ianywonglab.bsky.social Read more! ibeam.brown.edu/news/2025-07...
- 13 student-led ventures, including 5 from SoE students and alumni, are developing ideas with impact at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship this summer. Our eyes are on Chop Chop, EndoSwim, Flosense, Nuru Bio and Sensia. www.brown.edu/news/2025-07...
- @brownengineering.bsky.social Professor Sherief Reda's research cited, as part of @cnn.com's coverage of the complexity in determining partisan bias in AI: www.cnn.com/2025/07/24/t...
- Profs Benjamin Kimia, Arto Nurmikko, and Kimani Toussaint, along with Asst Professors @mmwilhelmus.bsky.social and Lucas Caretta have been awarded Hazeltine Innovation Awards for projects with potential to attract external funding and create broadbased impact. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-07...
- Reposted by Brown University School of EngineeringCongratulations to alum Dhananjay Bhaskar PhD 2021, now Assistant Professor of Biomedical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin - Madison! Jay fearlessly dove into topological data analysis and computational modeling of living systems in the lab, with lots of amazing work since. Best of luck!
- Congratulations to Shayaan Chaudhary '26 on receiving Optica's Bonenfant Travel Scholarship to study in Berlin this fall. Chaudhary will explore the cutting edge of optics and quantum computing at Humboldt University through Brown's Semester Internship Program. engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-07...
