Insight from the inside of federal funding agencies

More than 100 Brown researchers attend a recent campus workshop to help them get inside the heads of program officers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The session, offered by the Office of Community and Government Relations and the Office of the Vice President for Research, aimed to give Brown researchers an added edge when preparing and targeting proposals for the government's leading funder of bio-medical research.

Brown physicists and collaborators open a new window on nature

A recent announcement from the DZero Collaboration at Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory has created a major stir in the particle physics community, which includes a number of Brown physicists.

Learning to love a challenge

Students and faculty at Brown's Center for Advanced Materials Research and Division of Engineering help one hundred girls and their parents discover "Why should I care about science?"

PTSC receives two major grants

Two major grants are heading to the Population Studies and Training Center to support its research and training activities.

Awards, Honors, Appointments

Books written by Brown faculty members Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg and Ralph E. Rodriguez have won honors from the Modern Language Association of America.

The Sharper Image

Distorted video of a suspect. Comically blurry images of a car. That's all detectives in Henrico County, Virginia, have to go on in their effort to solve a murder case. They wondered: Could computer vision researcher Michael Black help crack the case? Black and students in "Topics in Computer Vision" rose to the challenge.

A New Home for the Life Sciences

When the new Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences opens on Meeting Street, its five stories of laboratory and learning space will be devoted to the study of how life works. Read what some of the faculty who will be working in Frank Hall have to say about where the biological sciences are taking us.

Policies Move Brown Toward Energy Efficiency

The University is exploring long-term strategies for obtaining energy from more stable and cleaner sources and for reducing Brown's energy requirements.

Lights! Camera! Interview!

Broadcast media now have quick and easy access to the expertise and informed critical commentary of Brown University faculty via the University's new remote broadcast interview facility. The studio, managed by the Office of Media Relations, uses satellite technology, fiber optics, and a remote-controlled camera to connect broadcaster to faculty member via a third-party provider based in Boston.

Study Takes International Perspective on How Disabled Children Affect Families

Sociologist Dennis Hogan is now leading an interdisciplinary team of researchers from the Population Studies and Training Center in an innovative international pilot study to research the various impacts special-needs children have on their families.