A NASA space grant is helping students learn about Rhode Island’s infamous history of trash

Jun 5, 2024 | News

View the full story from the Boston Globe. On a field trip supported by the RI NASA Space Grant, Barrington High School students visited the Blackstone River to learn about Rhode Island’s history of pollution. “We want to get students outside the classroom...

Satellite built by Brown students and launched by SpaceX shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk

Apr 18, 2023 | News, News and Awards

Read the full story on Brown News.  PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Common sense suggests that space missions can only happen with multimillion-dollar budgets, materials built to withstand the unforgiving conditions beyond Earth’s atmosphere, and as a result of...

Fashioned from AA batteries: Brown students launch satellite on Elon Musk’s rocket

Apr 18, 2023 | News

View the original story from the Providence Journal.  Brown University students, with a low-cost satellite, are blasting off on a budget. It’s called SBUDNIC, not to be confused with Sputnik, the Soviet satellite that launched in the 1950s. This one is much smaller,...

Planet Earth, The Environment and Our Future

Apr 18, 2023 | News

View the original post on the WaterFire website.  WaterFire Providence presents Planet Earth, The Environment and Our Future at the WaterFire Arts Center (WFAC) an exhibition of art and science looking at the beauty and fragility of our world. This exhibition will be...

Transit of Venus

Apr 18, 2023 | News, News and Awards

November 29, 2012 The Transit of Venus event at the Museum of Natural History – Roger Willaims Park in Providence, was a huge success.  Over 200 families, patrons, and invited guests participated in the historic event. The Museum had the transit streaming live from...

The Standford-Brown iGEM team: the Transite of Sythetic Astrobiology

Apr 18, 2023 | News, News and Awards

November 28, 2012 Astrobiology revolves around three central questions: “Where do we come from?”, “Where are we going?”, and “Are we alone?” The Stanford-Brown iGEM team explored synthetic biology’s untapped potential to address these questions. To approach the second...