Seventy-four innovative early-career engineers have been chosen to participate in the Grainger Foundation Frontiers of Engineering 2026 Symposium, a signature activity of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE).

Revolution Wind began delivering electricity to the New England grid on March 13. The new energy source from the 704-megawatt offshore wind farm, located about 15 miles off the Rhode Island coast.

Brown’s second annual Climate Career Fair will take place on Thursday, March 5, 2026, from 11:00 AM–2:00 PM in Alumnae Hall (Alumnae Auditorium), 194 Meeting Street, Providence, RI. The fair offers students the opportunity to connect with employers hiring for climate-related jobs and internships, and to engage with alumni for guidance on navigating climate career pathways.

2026 APS president outlines his career, his goals for the year, and where he finds optimism in challenging times.

Executive Director of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and Professor of the Practice of Engineering Danny Warshay was the recipient of a Fulbright Specialist Program award, from the U.S. Department of State and the Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board.

This March, Brown will launch its first-ever Climate Week—a campus-wide celebration of ideas, innovation, and action for a sustainable future. It is an open invitation for students, faculty, alumni, and community members to come together to explore how research, policy, and practice intersect to drive meaningful climate solutions.

Brown University’s School of Engineering (SoE) invites applications from candidates for a Professor of the Practice position at the Associate or Full level in the area of Sustainable Energy.

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 technology.

Nitin Padture, the Otis E. Randall University Professor of Engineering at Brown, has received a Humboldt Research Award.

Research by Brown University engineers sheds new light on how sodium behaves inside these batteries, providing new design specifications for anode materials that maximize stability and energy density for sodium-ion batteries.

Brown University’s Joan Wernig Sorensen Professor of Engineering Yue Qi has been elected to the class of 2026 Fellows by the Materials Research Society (MRS). She joins Nitin Padture (2023) and Subra Suresh (2008) as Brown faculty members who are Fellows of the MRS. She joins Nitin Padture (2023) and Subra Suresh (2008) as Brown faculty members who are Fellows of the MRS.

The 5 Sigma Physicist honor recognizes APS members who demonstrated substantial, impactful advocacy actions with APS Government Affairs.