Brown Engineering

First engineering program in the Ivy League; Organized without traditional departments or boundaries; Emphasizes interdisciplinary connections.

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

We invite the Brown community and our friends around the world to join together in observing a moment of silence to mark six months since the shooting that occurred on our campus on December 13, 2025.

We acknowledge the void left by the two members of the Brown family we lost, and the pain that our entire community has carried since that day. We recognize our community’s grief and its resilience, and the continued healing that is part of our shared experience.

We are ever true.

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Last weekend, @BrownUNeuro, @CarneyInstitute & @brownengin hosted a Celebration honoring Professor John Donoghue! The event brought together Brown trailblazers in BCI and neurotechnology to celebrate the legacy of a true neuroscience pioneer. https://t.co/khR8btb7xa

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

The 2026 Hazeltine Innovation Awards have been announced -- early-stage projects intended to spur innovative research, STEM education and/or discoveries with new equipment were chosen as the ones with greatest potential to attract future external funding. https://t.co/Rm2qkbiBeQ

[Rice University News @RiceUNews]

Rice and Baylor College of Medicine are joining the @BrainGateTeam consortium to develop brain-controlled robotic assistive devices that could help people with tetraplegia eat and drink independently. #BCI #Neurotech

Find out more: https://t.co/sCsrQNHOjF

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Congratulations to senior Ya Meng (Moe) Zhang for winning a @TauBetaPi Fellowship to pursue graduate work in electrical engineering. https://t.co/78bWEKc2kc

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Congratulations to Horacio Espinosa '89 Sc.M., '90 Sc.M., '92 Ph.D., who will be honored with the 2026 Horace Mann Medal. This is the highest honor from the @BrownGradSchool for alumni who have made significant contributions in their field.

[Brown Grad School @BrownGradSchool]

Engineering the Future Across Every Scale: Horacio D. Espinosa '92 PhD is the '26 Horace Mann Medalist. As the Northwestern Walter P. Murphy Professor, he uses AI & nanomechanics to revolutionize medicine and material science. https://t.co/B5SyD4KCd0
@brownengin @NorthwesternEng

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

The findings are the result of a multi-year collaboration between researchers from Brown’s Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine and a team from @NIST in Maryland.

[Brown University @BrownUniversity]

Measuring cell “squishiness” just got a major upgrade.

A new approach from Brown University can analyze hundreds of cells per second — offering a faster, more reliable way to study diseases like cancer and sickle cell.

https://t.co/V1hRraLNpK

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Today, the School of Engineering and the Office of the Provost co-hosted a special joint seminar featuring Jason Cong, Director of UCLA’s Center for Domain-Specific Computing. His presentation, titled “Efficient General Intelligence - When Novel Models Meet Customized Silicons.”

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Erica Schwartz ’94 (biomedical engineering) MD ’98 has been nominated for Director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. An alumna of Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education, she previously served as deputy surgeon general from 2019 to 2021.

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Assistant Professor @PeipeiZhou_EECS has been awarded a Faculty Early Development (CAREER) grant from the @NSF. She joins a group of 20 @brownengin faculty who have earned CAREER grants. https://t.co/QT6c1zPyGN

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Fluids Ph.D. candidate Jack-William Barotta won the 2026 @ApsDsoft Emerging Soft Matter Excellence Award for his research on wave-mediated capillary assembly on a fluid interface. https://t.co/ae1HfGw3tT

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Congratulations to our Sorensen Family Dean of Engineering, @TejalADesai, for being elected as a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science @aaas https://t.co/LGa27sVgys

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

A smart hydrogel that releases antibiotics only in the presence of harmful bacteria aims to reduce antibiotic exposure and combat antimicrobial resistance. @ShuklaLab researchers are working toward further advancement of the tech. https://t.co/DvS5sEJApY

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Implantable device research from the @BrainGateTeam clinical trial enables communication through rapid typing for a patient with ALS and a patient with a spinal cord injury. https://t.co/19OVZlSvEf

[WPRI 12 @wpri12]

A new study from Brown University showed how electrical stimulation could restore a person’s ability to move their limbs after spinal cord injury. https://t.co/XGYvLMCShj

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

New results from a Borton Lab clinical trial show progress in restoring two-way communication across a damaged site of the spinal cord. https://t.co/bREc5PoYp6

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Brown Quantum Initiative 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 Brown Physics and Engineering. https://t.co/w4vouRBb6Q

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

John Donoghue, founder of the @BrainGateTeam has been awarded the @QEPrize! The Queen Elizabeth Prize for Engineering was given in recognition of his pioneering work on #BCI. https://t.co/B9TSn4zFCe

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Researchers from the @ianywonglab 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.
https://t.co/7AjH4jiUwL

[Brown Engineering @brownengin]

Prof of the Practice and @BrownEship 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 @FulbrightPrgrm. https://t.co/v90tASx5vA