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The STEMJazz community is proud to highlight Dr. Erika Walker, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology and Director of Brown’s Community Noise Lab, who was recently featured on WPRI’s Community Focus (Fri, Sept.

The STEMJazz community is excited to celebrate Dr. Beatrice Steinert, Postdoctoral Research Associate in Molecular Biology, Cell Biology, and Biochemistry at Brown University, on two major milestones. First, she has released a preprint of her doctoral thesis, “Lineage domains and cytoskeletal cables organize a cellular square grid in a crustacean,” marking a significant step forward in her research journey.

The STEMJazz community is pleased to spotlight Dr. Kenya S. Andrews, a Provost’s STEM Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University, on the publication of her new article “Moving from Fairness to Justice: Intentional Algorithmic Solutions Through an Intersectional Lens” in the September-October 2025 issue of ACM Interactions.

The StemJazz community is happy to celebrate recent faculty promotions at Brown University. Professor Emilia Huerta-Sanchez has been promoted to Full Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology and now serves as Director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology.

Our community is proud to celebrate Associate Professor Ritambhara Singh (Data Science and Computer Science, CCMB) on receiving an NSF CAREER award. Her project advances graph-based methods to integrate heterogeneous health data—medical records, neuroimaging, and genetics—to build more predictive and explainable tools that support individualized treatment.

A new TEDx talk titled “The Power to Try” has been released, authored by Assistant Professor Malik Boykin. Dedicated to the speaker’s late father, the talk honors his pioneering scholarship and enduring influence.

Congratulations to Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for her recent publication in the Science Journal. The paper titled ‘The MUC19 gene: An evolutionary history of recurrent introgression and natural selection’ is available online in this link.

Congratulations to Associate Professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine Ian Wong on his most recent publication in Nature Cell Biology! Here is the paper link and name: Vimentin intermediate filaments as structural and mechanical coordinators of mesenchymal cells.

Recent Research Matters Series speaker Silverio Johnson has now successfully defended his thesis, “Swimming Kinematics of Enterobacter sp. SM3.” Below is his abstract: Enterobacter sp. SM3, is a recently-isolated species of gut bacteria that proficiently spreads over nutritional substrates—-a motility pattern called swarming.

STEMJazz alums Lynae Brayboy, Kiara Lee and Kathryn Thomson just published a new paper. In one of the very first STEMJazz talks, Lynae laid out her study of granulosa cells and their role(s) in human fertility.