It is with heavy hearts that we share that Russell Hopson, NMR Supervisor and well-respected member of the Brown Chemistry staff succumbed to glioblastoma in July 2025.
Speaking before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, Brown University chemist and physicist Brenda Rubenstein called America’s universities “incubators that grow the future quantum workforce.”
Three Brown University undergraduates and two recent alumni were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Truman, Gates Cambridge and Ellison scholars.
Professor Moungi Bawendi, Lester Wolfe Professor of Chemistry, MIT, co-laureate of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, will deliver the 2025 John Howard Appleton lecture "Quantum Dots: From Curiosity to Technological Impact" on Thursday, April 3, 2025.