The Scikit-HEP Project

The Scikit-HEP project is a community-driven and community-oriented effort with the aim of providing Particle Physics at large with a Python scientific toolset containing core and common tools. The project builds on five pillars that embrace the major topics involved in a physicist's analysis work: datasets, data aggregations, modelling, simulation and visualisation. The vision is to build a user and developer community engaging collaboration across experiments, to emulate scikit-learn's unified interface with Astropy's embrace of third-party packages, and to improve discoverability of relevant tools.Comment: 6 pages, 2 figures, Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computing in High Energy and Nuclear Physics (CHEP 2018), 9-13 July 201

RWU Scientists, Alumni Publish Report Exposing Impossible Test Results Claiming to Detect Fish Caught by Cyanide Poisoning

PLOS ONE publishes whistle blower report that debunks a method credited as the answer to a serious problem in the marine aquarium trade

Effects of a Witnessing History on the Female Ability to Negotiate Romantic Relationships: A Retrospective Analysis

Research suggests that witnessing domestic violence (DV) in childhood may have long-term negative effects as a person enters adulthood. This exposure may hinder the ability for adults to build healthy romantic relationships. In an effort to better understand how a witnessing history affects adult romantic relationships, this study focused on the retrospective stories of women who were in recent domestically violent relationships and who also reveal witnessing DV as children. Participant’s narratives were analyzed for themes relating to their witnessing history, such as type of violence witnessed, frequency of violence witnessed, and whether or not participants felt their witnessing history has affected their ability to negotiate romantic relationships

Mobile Course Registration Now Available to Roger Williams Students

Information Technology expands myRWU app to include course registration by smartphone

Roger Williams University Partners with Google and Labster to Launch Virtual Reality Science Labs

Standing inside a private room in the University Library last week, Joshua Abston performed a biology lab assignment on cellular respiration, but it was actually taking place inside a virtual reality lab

Bonding Across Cultures

Seventh annual Global Fest celebrates cultural diversity across campus

RWU Engineering Expert Partners with PowerDocks to Design Off-Grid Clean-Energy Power Stations for Autonomous Robots

Assistant Professor of Engineering Charles Thangaraj will lead collaborative project funded by an Innovation Voucher from the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation

Means to Her Dreams

ILA scholar Bre’Anna Metts-Nixon ’13 encourages students to pursue higher education in spite of life’s challenges

Mary Yukari Waters. The laws of evening. Scribner, 2003

Mary Yukari Waters is an American Japanese-Irish author who, in her collection of stories The Laws of Evening, writes about Japanese culture, usually women’s experiences adapting to their lives in this culture. Many of the stories reflect the changes in culture that occurred during and after World War II. An overarching theme is that of the invasion of American culture in Japanese society as a result of the American occupation and America’s formulation of Japanese government and political structure at the conclusion of World War II