Brown University Engineering

Congratulations to The Tau Beta Pi Association scholarship winners, Jimmy Lee, Ntsika Mtwa and Eliza Tabachnik!

Lee, Mtwa and Tabachnik awarded National Tau Beta Pi organization scholarships Brown seniors Jimmy Lee, Ntsika Mtwa, and Eliza Tabachnik have been awarded a scholarship from Tau Beta Pi for their final undergraduate year. The engineering honor society announced the selection of 256 engineering students throughout the country and awarded funds based on the competitive criteria....

ICYMI: Ph.D. candidate (biomedical engineering) Gavin Lu, of Assistant Professor Michelle Dawson's Lab, presented at the 2026 Research Matters forum last May. Hear Gavin's 5-minute talk on his research which focuses on therapy-resistant giant cancer cells, studying their physical structure and metabolic activities to identify novel treatment options and improve the treatment landscape of ovarian cancer.

Gavin Lu: Attacking Titan Cells in Therapy-Resistant Cancer Gavin Lu, a PhD candidate in Biomedical Engineering, explains how r...

Congrats to all our undergraduate engineers who presented at the 2026 Summer Research Symposium. Read more at the 🔗 in bio.

Engineering alumna Erica Schwartz '94, MD'98 has been confirmed by the Senate as director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Schwartz, a retired Navy rear admiral, is a former deputy surgeon general with extensive experience overseeing the U.S. Coast Guard's healthcare system. (📷Official Portrait, 2019)

Day 1 of the 2026 Summer Research Symposium presentations featured our engineers in the life sciences. Tomorrow, physical and social sciences will take the floor, with even more engineering projects to be shared.

Professor Daniel Mittleman, an expert in wireless power delivery, is part of a large grant for a new Rice University center dedicated to advancing secure sensing, imaging and communications, primarily investigating the expansion of capabilities for extremely large-scale antenna arrays.

Brown’s Mittleman shares in $15M center for next-generation sensing and communications Daniel Mittleman Brown University Professor Daniel Mittleman is one of a group of top researchers from universities and national laboratories across the country who have been selected by the U.S. Army Research Office to establish a five-year research center dedicated to advancing secure sensing, ima...

Read and watch what mechanical engineering concentrator Skye Rosario has been doing this summer at the RI Museum of Natural History and Planetarium.

Skye Rosario: Inspiring others to shoot for the Moon Driven to inspire future space enthusiasts, Brown University student Skye Rosario is designing and installing a new lunar science exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium this summer.

Congratulations to Professor Linda Abriola on being selected as the recipient of the International Society for Porous Media (InterPore) Time Capsule Award 2026. https://engineering.brown.edu/news/2026-07-27/2026-interpore-time-capsule-award

Congratulations to Professor Robert Hurt - elected into the newest class of Fellows of the American Carbon Society.

Hurt elected Fellow of American Carbon Society The Brown Engineering professor was elected for his sustained contribution in the field of science or technology of carbon materials.