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R.I. Survey: Obama Leads McCain by 20 Percent

Sen. Barack Obama leads Sen. John McCain by 20 percentage points in the U.S. presidential race, according to a new Brown University survey of registered Rhode Island voters. The survey also found that nearly 80 percent of respondents believe both the nation and the state are heading on the wrong track. The poll was conducted August 18-20, 2008.

(Distributed August 26, 2008)

Glenn C. Loury: Loury, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor of the Social Sciences and professor of economics at Brown University, will deliver the Opening Convocation address, titled “Is He ‘One of Us’? Reflections on Identity and Authenticity.”

245th Opening Convocation

Glenn Loury to Address New Students on Sept. 3

Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons will officially open the 245th academic year at Opening Convocation, Wednesday, Sept. 3, 2008. Glenn Loury, distinguished economist and social critic, will deliver the keynote address to the 2,186 undergraduate, graduate, and medical students beginning their studies at Brown. The ceremony begins at noon on The College Green.

(Distributed August 20, 2008)

John E. Fogarty: During more than two decades of service in Congress, Rhode Island's John E. Fogarty was a strong voice for the National Institutes of Health and for progress in global health and well-being. Fogarty was first elected in 1940.

Global Health

Sen. Reed, Mayor Cicilline to Help Brown Celebrate Fogarty Center’s 40th

Sen. Jack Reed, Providence Mayor David Cicilline, and Roger Glass, M.D., director of the Fogarty International Center of the National Institutes of Health, will visit Brown Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2008. They will mark the Fogarty Center's 40th anniversary and announce a new Fogarty research award for Brown. Reed, Cicilline, Glass, and officials from Brown will be available at noon Tuesday, Sept. 2, in Maddock Alumni Center. 08-008

(Distributed August 15, 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)

No Child Left Behind

Confidence in Public Schools and NCLB is Declining, Survey Finds

Public confidence in America’s public schools and the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) declined in 2008 according to findings from a new survey co-authored by Martin West, assistant professor of education at Brown University. The research also shows that most respondents believe Democrats are most likely to fix the nation's education problems. 08-006

(Distributed August 12, 2008)

Economist Yona Rubenstein: The apparent closing of the wage gap between men and women may be a “statistical illusion,” creating the impression that pay scales have become more equitable.

Women, Work, and Wage

Changes in Work Force, not Pay, Narrowing the Gender Wage Gap

Are working women treated more fairly in today’s labor market than they were 30 years ago? Absolutely not, according to groundbreaking new research by Brown University economist Yona Rubinstein and Casey Mulligan of the University of Chicago. Disputing decades of economic literature, the economists show that the apparent narrowing of the wage gap between working men and women is actually due to the type of women who are now working — not how much they’re being paid. The findings are published in The Quarterly Journal of Economics. 08-005

(Distributed August 12, 2008)

Water-Rich Terrain: This three-dimensional image of a trough in the Nili Fossae region of Mars shows phyllosilcates (in magenta and blue hues) concentrated on the slopes of mesas and along canyon walls. The abundance of phyllosilcates show that water played a sizable role in changing the minerals of a variety of terrains in Mars's early history.

Brown Papers Reveal Widespread, Hardworking Water on Ancient Mars

Papers by Brown University scientists show that water on ancient Mars was pervasive and was working hard, changing the minerals below ground and on the surface. The paper in Nature by planetary geologist John Mustard lends the first in-depth look at the various terrains in which water-bearing minerals were present. A companion paper in Nature Geoscience by graduate student Bethany Ehlmann shows a clay-rich delta that may store past life. 07-180

(Distributed July 16, 2008)

Port Huron Project 1: Until the Last Gun Is Silent : A September 2006 performance of a 1968 Coretta Scott King speech in CentralPark was the first in a series of reenactments of protest speechesfrom the New Left movements of the 1960s and ’70s.

The Port Huron Project

Artist Restages Radical Protest Speeches of the 1960s and ’70s

Public art and activism collide this summer, as Brown University artist Mark Tribe stages reenactments of Vietnam-era protest speeches on the sites where they were originally delivered roughly four decades ago. The speeches, part of a national public art initiative called The Port Huron Project, will be held in Los Angeles, Oakland, and New York City. 08-004

(Distributed July 11, 2008)

Brown in the News

Hometown hero, gymnast and student 8/23/2008 | Boston Globe

Family matters to convening Democrats 8/25/2008 | Guardian UK

Brown students volunteer for candidates 8/23/2008 | Providence Journal

Blazing a trail for Obama 8/23/2008 | Washington Post

Rhode Island voters support Obama 8/27/2008 | Providence Journal

Dark matter 8/27/2008 | MSNBC

Learning in the digital age 8/27/2008 | Business Week

Ranking the colleges 8/21/2008 | U.S. News and World Report

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