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Mellon Foundation Awards $3 Million to Endow Graduate Fellows in the Humanities

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded Brown University $3 million to expand support for graduate education in the humanities. The grant will allow the Graduate School to expand enrollment in the humanities and create new curricular programs.

(Distributed October 3, 2008)

National Children’s Study Expands to Bristol County, Mass.

The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has awarded Brown University a $12-million contract to expand its participation in the National Children’s Study. Brown will partner with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and others to enroll 1,000 families from Bristol County, Mass., in the study and follow them from before birth to age 21 to identify genetic and environmental factors that contribute to health disorders and conditions of childhood and adulthood. The researchers were awarded a $14.1-million contract for work in Providence County in October 2007.

(Distributed October 2, 2008)

"Everything for the front! Everything for victory!” : A 1942 political poster by El Lissitzky is one of 160 posters, cartoons, photomontages, and postcards featured in Views and Re-Views.

September 6 to October 19, 2008

Soviet Political Art at Bell Gallery and John Hay Library

The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Brown University Library present Views and Re-Views: Soviet Political Posters and Cartoons, from Saturday, Sept. 6, to Sunday, Oct. 19, 2008. The exhibition, featuring dozens of posters, cartoons, photomontages, and postcards drawn from a private collection, will be on view at the Bell Gallery and the John Hay Library. An opening reception will be held at both venues on Friday, Sept. 5, from 5:30 to 7 p.m. Both exhibitions and the opening events are free and open to the public. 08-007

(Distributed August 15, 2008)

Taubman Center for Public Policy

Obama’s Lead Slips Among R.I. Voters

A new Brown University survey of registered Rhode Island voters shows Sen. Barack Obama leading Sen. John McCain by 13 percentage points in the U.S. presidential race — down 7 points from last month. The poll was conducted Sept. 15-16, 2008.

(Distributed September 19, 2008)

Brown-Assisted Trial Finds New Colorectal Screening Procedure Is Accurate and Less Invasive

A major clinical trial for colorectal screening finds that more patients stand to benefit from a comprehensive, less invasive method to accurately detect colorectal cancer and precancerous polyps. The Brown Center for Statistical Sciences helped design the trial, then monitored it and conducted the data analysis The results are published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.

(Distributed September 15, 2008)