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At Brown
Spring Break Soccer Camp, Soccer Academy
Looking for something your children can do during Spring Break? If they
enjoy soccer, they might enjoy taking part in Brown Soccer programs called
Spring Break Soccer Camp or Bruno United Soccer Academy.
Spring Break Soccer Camp is for
children ages 5-15. It runs April 14th through April 18th, 9 a.m.
until noon. The cost of the camp is $125. Contact Scott Wiercinski
for more information, or visit the Web site..
On April 11, Brown Soccer coaching staff begin to offer weekly training
sessions at Bruno United Soccer Academy, which meets Friday nights April 11th
through May 30th from 8-9. Space is limited. The cost is $125.
Contact Scott Cannon at 863-2910, or send e-mail
with any questions you may have, or visit the Web site.
Bookstore’s Saturday hours change
The Brown Bookstore has new Saturday hours. The store is
now open Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Monday through Friday hours remain
the same (9 a.m. to 6 p.m.), as do Sunday hours (11 a.m. to 5 p.m.).
Awards and Honors
Engineering Professor Jingming
Xu is the recipient of funding from the
Department of Defense’s Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative
(MURI) program for his work with DARPA on direct nanoscale conversion of
biomolecular signal. Xu is one of just 17 selected to receive the research
funding such grants.
MURI is designed to address large
multidisciplinary topic areas representing exceptional opportunities for future
Department of Defense applications and technology options. The awards provide
long-term support for research, graduate students and laboratory
instrumentation development that supports specific science and engineering
research themes vital to national defense.
Elaine Bearer, M.D., associate professor of pathology, received the
Distinguished Marine Neurosciences Lectureship from the National Institute of
Environmental Health Sciences’ Marine and Freshwater Biomedical Science
Center and Neurosciences Program at Rosensteil School of Marine and Atmospheric Science and the University
of Miami.
The award is given each year to
someone whose research exemplifies the use of marine animal model systems to
answer fundamental questions in the neurosciences. Bearer’s discoveries
over the past 10 years on the fundamental molecular basis of axoplasmic
transport using the squid giant axion as model together with recently recognized
relevance of these studies to human diseases, including the herpes virus
infections and Alzheimer’s disease, was the basis of Bearer’s
selection.
Three Brown men's basketball
players – senior guard Earl Hunt,
senior forward Alai Nuualiitia and
sophomore guard Jason Forte –
have earned First Team All-Ivy honors on the 49th Annual All-Ivy men's
basketball team. It marks the first time that a team other than Penn or
Princeton has garnered three first team All-Ivy honorees. In addition, it's the
first time since 1967-1968 that two teams have accounted for the entire All-Ivy
first team.
The trio helped Brown to a
second-place finish in the Ivy League standings with a 12-2 league mark,
setting a new school record for Ivy wins in a season. Brown's 17-11 overall
mark matched the school record for victories for the second straight season.
The Annenberg Institute for School
Reform recently received a $900,000 grant from
the Carnegie Corporation of New York to begin a second phase of work toward
urban school district redesign in the United States. Last fall, the Annenberg
Task Force on City School Districts released a portfolio of tools and resources
for urban school district reform in the first phase of the project. Now the
task force plans to develop partnerships with states, districts and related
organizations to create "smart districts" in several communities. The
"smart district" will involve a wider spectrum of community members,
organizations and agencies than is typically the case, according to Warren
Simmons, executive director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Rhode
Island is one of two states with an agreement to implement a district redesign,
he said.
Brown in the News
From
the New York Times of March 23: For an article headlined “A movement, yes, but no
counterculture,” reporter John Leland included comments from Paul Buhle,
a lecturer in American civilization and history at Brown, and founder of the
New Left Journal of Radical America.
“In a fundamental way the latest
antiwar movement is unlike its socially seismic 1960s predecessor,”
Leland wrote. “But as protesters came
together across the country last week, with a few radical contingents
disrupting cities or destroying property, so far there has been little sense
that they also shared a common desire to remake the country's values and
institutions.”
“‘It's
been amazingly diverse,’” Buhle told the reporter.
“‘Typically, the radicalizing experience in America is that a group
of people wake up and say, “Everything I've been told is a lie.”
And so you have a movement for change in values about race, sexuality, peace
and art, all coming together in periods of stress. So far, we've seen very
little of that. The only thing that unites people is fear of the consequences
of war.’”
From the Boston Globe of March
10: An article headlined “Harvard
benefactor in furor abroad” takes a look at donations received by
colleges and universities from people or organizations who later come under
scrutiny for involvement in alleged or actual scandals. The most recent at
Harvard involves Greek billionaire Socrates Kokkalis, who has given millions of
dollars to the Kennedy School of Government and now is under investigation in
Greece “for betraying his country to communist spies.”
Prof. Darrell West, director of Brown’s A. Alfred Taubman Center for
Public Policy and American Institutions, remarked upon Brown’s actions
after the center’s namesake was jailed for his role in a price-fixing
scheme. The center “decided not to return Taubman's money or rename the
center, since Taubman had given the last of his $3.2 million donation in 1994,
just before he began colluding with rival auction house Christie's to set
commission prices,” the Globe reported.
“‘Where universities have a moral responsibility
is not having any strings attached that would compromise their
mission,’” West said. “‘But having a name on a building
for someone who has done something bad isn't necessarily bad, if those funds
are put to good purposes that help students and help the broader
community.’
“And it's nothing to be embarrassed about, West added.
“‘If anything, there is an ironic type of justice
there,’ he said. ‘Some of the old tycoons like Rockefeller and
Carnegie weren't exactly saints, but their money has done tremendous things
over the last century.’”
From the Providence Journal of
March 16: Reporter Channing Gray profiles Paula
Vogel, professor of creative writing, and
her work in the Brown-Trinity Theater Consortium in an article headlined
“Paula Vogel, Act II.”
The program uses the talents of Trinity's
acting and directing students to stage the work of her budding
playwrights,” Gray writes.
“Vogel
has worked for almost two decades to create this sort of comfortable home base,
where she can teach, write and see her own work brought to life on a local
stage. Trinity has dibs on her next three plays.”
The article
briefly discusses Vogel’s relocation to Los Angeles for several years to
work as a screenwriter. “But Vogel missed teaching, missed being there
for the next crop of American playwrights,” Gray reported.
“‘I'm more thrilled and
hooked on these people than I am with my own work,’” she says.
Brown faculty are often quoted in the media. For
regular online updates, go to Brown in the News.
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