Funeral services for Professor Goldstein will be held at 2:00 PM on Wednesday, January 2, 2013 at the Temple Beth-El, 70 Orchard Avenue in Providence. Read More….
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Services for Leon Goldstein, PhD
Wednesday, January 2nd, 2013The importance of attentive listening
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012Seth S. Horowitz, an auditory neuroscientist at Brown University, says “The difference between the sense of hearing and the skill of listening is attention”. Read more…
Tips to avoid holiday overeating
Wednesday, December 12th, 2012Mary Flynn, a clinical associate professor of medicine, offers these tips. Read more…
Exploring value of dance therapy for Parkinson’s patients
Monday, November 12th, 2012A recent lecture offered by the Creative Medicine Series, founded by Dr. Jay Baruch, Asst. Prof. of Emergency Medicine, focused on the power of dance as a therapeutic tool for individuals diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. Read more …
Brown University faculty unanimously approves new School of Public Health
Monday, November 12th, 2012The unanimous faculty vote on Nov. 6 marks “the last of the campus approval steps” in the 12-year effort to establish the school of public health. Read more …
Dr. Coustan named president elect of AGOS
Monday, November 12th, 2012Donald Coustan, MD, director of the Diabetes in Pregnancy Program at Women & Infants Hospital of RI and a professor of obstetrics and gynecology at The Warren Alpert Medical School, has been named president-elect of the American Gynecological and Obstetrics Society. Read more …
Are ‘hookups’ replacing romantic relationships on college campuses?
Friday, November 9th, 2012A new study suggests college students are not hooking up as frequently as one might think. “It’s not the most common way, and it is often exploratory,” said Robyn L. Fielder, M.S., an intern at The Warren Alpert Medical School. Read More…
Dean Wing to step down in June
Monday, November 5th, 2012Dr. Edward J. Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences, will step down as dean at the end of the current academic year. Read more…
Questions With: John Donoghue
Monday, November 5th, 2012Providence Business News asked John P. Donoghue, the director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, and the principal investigator of BrainGate, to share his insights into why Providence has become the go-to place for neuroscience. Read more…
New metric to track prosthetic arm progress
Monday, November 5th, 2012A new measure of how well an adult amputee is able to perform everyday tasks with a prosthetic arm will help physical and occupational therapists, prosthetists, and doctors assess the patients progress. Read more.