Latest News

Ritambhara Singh, a member of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology at Brown University, will be a tenured Associate Professor on July 1, 2025. Her research lab develops machine learning methods with the goals of data integration and model interpretation for biological and biomedical applications.

Polymath data scientist Hilarie Sit, Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow, just got an acceptance to CHI 2025 to present a paper entitled “Access InContext: Futuring Accessible Prototyping Tools and Methods.” And here are the reviews!

We’re excited to announce that Candace has just published a new paper: “The Equivariant Degree and an Enriched Count of Rational Cubics.” Dr. Bethea is a part of StemJazz’s 2024 Provost Cohort as well as a National Science Foundation postdoctoral researcher in the mathematics department.

We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Michelle Rose Dawson, Associate Professor in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry, and Dr. Kimani Toussaint, Professor of Science and Senior Associate Dean for Research and Strategic Initiatives in the School of Engineering, have recently had their collaborative paper published.

We’re THRILLED to announce that under the leadership of Alan Bidart and Miles Miller-Dickson, a 5-member Brown team took away FIRST PRIZE at MIT’s Interdisciplinary Quantum Information Science and Engineering (iQuISE) Competition (https://www.

Tats Daniel, a Physics PhD candidate working with Professor Stephon Alexander in the physics department, has been awarded a prestigious postdoctoral fellowship from McGill’s Trottier Space Institute. He will be working primarily with Robert Brandenberger, and the fellowship is for 3 years, starting this coming September.

Dr. Benjamin McDonald, an Assistant Professor of Chemistry, has been working with a research group focused on the development of polymeric materials with programmable reactivity to address challenges around human health and sustainability.

Brenda Rubenstein, Associate Professor of Chemistry and Physics and Graduate Trainer in Biology, will become the new Data Science Institute (DSI) director on July 1, 2025. The Data Science Institute was kicked off in earnest by Sohini Ramachandran and is now going to be led by Brenda, both long-standing members of the StemJazz community!

Tayla von Ash, assistant professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences has been awarded the NIH R01 grant, which totals $3.5M over five years Read more about this amazing story here!

We’re pleased to announce that Dr. Andrea Bryant, a 2024 postdoctoral fellow in the department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, has just released a new paper titled “Long Period Seismology on Titan in the Presence of a Methane Clathrate Lid.