Zhou earns CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation Through the early-career grant, Peipei Zhou will advance the scalable, verifiable co-design of heterogeneous reconfigurable computing systems, enabling domain experts to efficiently build next-generat...

Assistant Professor Peipei Zhou has been awarded a Faculty Early Development (CAREER) grant from the National Science Foundation. She joins a group of 20 @brownengineering.bsky.social faculty who have earned CAREER grants. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-04...

Barotta wins ESME award for research quality and presentation

Fluids Ph.D. candidate @jackwilliamb.bsky.social won the 2026 @apsdsoft.bsky.social Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award for his research on wave-mediated capillary assembly on a fluid interface. @fluiddanamics.bsky.social engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

Brown engineering dean elected AAAS Fellow The world’s largest multidisciplinary scientific society has honored Tejal Desai for contributions to the field of biomedical engineering.

Congratulations to our Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, @tejaladesai.bsky.social, for being elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas.org www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

Smart wound dressing delivers antibiotics on-demand, accelerating healing and reducing resistance To help in the fight against antibiotic overuse and resistance, researchers have developed a new wound dressing material that releases antibiotic nanoparticles only when harmful bacteria are present.

A smart hydrogel that releases antibiotics only in the presence of harmful bacteria aims to reduce antibiotic exposure and combat antimicrobial resistance. Shukla Lab researchers are working toward further advancement of the tech for potential future commercialization. www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

Brain computer interface enables rapid communication for two people with paralysis Implantable device research from the BrainGate clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury.

Implantable device research from the BrainGate clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury. www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

Community Focus: Recovering from spinal cord injuries A new study from Brown University showed how electrical stimulation could restore a person’s ability to move their limbs after a spinal cord injury.

A new study from Brown University showed how electrical stimulation could restore a person’s ability to move their limbs after spinal cord injury.

Study: Electrical stimulation can restore ability to move limbs, receive sensory feedback after spinal cord injury In new results from a clinical trial, researchers show that electrical stimulation of the spinal cord can restore the muscle control and sensory feedback required for coordinated walking movements.

New results from a Borton Lab clinical trial show progress in restoring two-way communication across a damaged site of the spinal cord. www.brown.edu/news/2026-03...

Engineering’s Chowdhary, Pankaj and Hochberg take podium finishes at 2026 MIT iQuHack

Brown Quantum Initiative teams took two first prizes and one third prize in challenges at the 2026 MIT iQuHack. This marks the third year in a row for BQI podium finishes. BQI is co-sponsored by @brownphysics.bsky.social and @brownengineering.bsky.social. engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-02...

Brown University professor John Donoghue wins Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering Donoghue was awarded the prize, considered among the most prestigious honors in engineering, for pioneering work in developing brain-computer interfaces, which enable the restoration of voluntary comm...

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...

The shape of things to come: How spheroid geometry guides multicellular orbiting and invasion In research that could shed light on the growth and formation of complex tissue architectures, Brown University engineers show how cells orbit and reconfigure their surroundings to venture outward fro...

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...

Warshay Receives Fulbright Specialist Award to Nepal at The British College

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...

Bessa named to NASEM planning committee on AI and Materials

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...

Office of Naval Research awards Brown Engineering $5.4M for materials under extreme environments study

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...

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...

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...

Toussaint named SPIE Diversity Outreach Award winner

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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Pennell wins pair of Best Papers from ES&T in 2024

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...

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 ...

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...

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.

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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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

Engineering honor society, Tau Beta Pi, inducts 32 new members

Congratulations to our newest undergraduates inducted into Tau Beta Pi, the engineering honor society! 🎉engineering.brown.edu/news/2025-11-24/2025-tbp...

Zhou awarded 10-Year Most Influential Paper at ICCAD 2025

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...

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.

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...

Qi elected 2026 MRS Fellow

Congratulations to Professor Yue Qi - who has been elected a 2026 Fellow of the Materials Research Society. engineering.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.

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...

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...

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...

DePinho ’26, Maheshwari ’26 place at AIChE conference poster competition

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...

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.

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...

Guduru named 2026 B.J. Lazan awardee

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...

Kim chosen Rising Star in Mechanical Engineering

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...

Interview: Danny Warshay on Teaching Real-World Entrepreneurship YouTube video by Learn the Technology with Brandon Krakowsky

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...