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Under the Tongue: African Writers Converge at Brown
The International Writers Project at Brown University presents Under the Tongue: A Festival of Literature from Africa, on April 15 and 16, 2008. This series of readings and discussions will feature award-winning African novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria), Nuruddin Farah (Somalia), and Chenjerai Hove (Zimbabwe); poet Jack Mapanje (Malawi); and playwrights Pierre Mumbere Mujomba (Congo) and Charles Mulekwa (Uganda). All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   07-133    04/14/2008   Beebe
Brown Students Hold Environmental Sustainability Conference
Students at Brown University have organized a two-day conference to promote environmental sustainability. The conference brings together a wide range of environmental leaders, including Ira Magaziner, chairman of the Clinton Global Initiative; U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse; Gov. Donald Carcieri; and Adam Werbach, global CEO of Saatchi & Saatchi.
News Release   07-132    04/14/2008   Kidwell
Brown Chemists Find Platinum Nanocube Improves Fuel Cell Operation
Brown University chemists for the first time have consistently created uniform platinum nanocubes, a breakthrough that could make hydrogen fuel cells cheaper and more efficient.
News Release   07-131    04/10/2008   Lewis
Fast Food? Brown Students Make and Race Edible Cars
Brown University engineering students have organized the campus’s first Edible Car Competition, in which teams build and race vehicles made out of food – with materials ranging from bagels to butternut squash.
News Release   07-127    04/08/2008   Lewis
Two Brown Faculty Receive 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships
Brown faculty members Deborah Cohen and Forrest Gander have received Guggenheim Fellowships for 2008. They are among 190 scholars and artists selected from more than 2,800 applicants for this honor.
News Release   07-128    04/08/2008   Beebe
Mellon Foundation Grant to Fund Dissertation Workshops
The Brown University Graduate School has received a $571,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to continue a program that supports graduate students during the writing of their dissertations.
News Release   07-126    04/07/2008   Beebe
Latin American Independence Celebrated at Brown
Writer Carlos Fuentes and former heads of state from Chile and Spain join dozens of historians, literary scholars, and writers from Europe and the Americas at Brown University April 9-12, 2008 for a conference to celebrate the bicentenary of Latin American independence.
News Release   07-123    04/03/2008   Beebe
International Study Awards for Undergraduates Announced
Eight international study awards, which go to 14 Brown undergraduates, have been announced by the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of International Affairs. This marks the first year that the Office of International Affairs has funded the program.
News Release   07-122    04/02/2008   Beebe
Edward Wing Named Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has announced the appointment of Edward J. Wing, M.D., as dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University. Wing begins his new position July 1, 2008.
News Release   07-120    03/31/2008   Chapman
Brown Hosts Regional Bioengineering Conference
Brown University for the first time hosts the 34th Annual Northeast Bioengineering Conference on April 4-6, 2008. The gathering includes talks on the latest advances in bioengineering research and nanotechnology, such as the “printing” of human organs from ink jets and a new, injectable method for relieving lower back pain.
News Release   07-121    03/31/2008   Lewis
New Research Provides Genetic Clue to Parkinson's Disease
Researchers at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and at Rhode Island Hospital have discovered a gene that appears to be directly linked to the development of Parkinson’s disease in people with a family history of the disease. The gene is one of only a handful linked to Parkinson’s and one of just two genes known to be a common contributor to this degenerative disease, which has no known cause or cure.
News Release   07-118    03/20/2008   Lawton
Beirut Bombings, 9/11 Inspire Artist Walid Raad
Lebanese artist Walid Raad juxtaposes video and still images, truth and fiction in his solo show at Brown University’s Bell Gallery. Raad, who focuses on the history of Beirut bombings and the post-9/11 political landscape, will give a presentation at the show’s opening on April 9, 2008.
News Release   07-119    03/19/2008   Beebe
Pain Receptor in Brain May Be Linked to Learning and Memory
For the first time, a Brown University research team has linked pain receptors found throughout the nervous system to learning and memory in the brain. The findings, published in Neuron, point up new drug targets for memory loss or epileptic seizures.
News Release   07-117    03/13/2008   Lawton
Report: Stagnant NIH Budgets May Derail Promising Researchers
Brown University and six other academic research institutions today released a report that concludes that five years of flat funding for the National Institutes of Health puts a generation of science at risk. The report, released at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., also warns about the consequences of continued lack of action on the nation’s biomedical budget.
News Release   07-116    03/11/2008   Lawton
Houston Receives NEH Grant for Guatemala Dig
Brown University archaeologist Stephen Houston has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the virtually untouched ruins of El Zotz, an ancient Maya kingdom in Guatemala.
News Release   07-115    03/10/2008   Beebe
Brown University and the University of Cape Town Partner To Promote Business Capacity in Africa
Brown and the University of Cape Town have entered into a five-year partnership that will improve and deliver business education to entrepreneurs in Africa, particularly to women. The partnership is part of a larger international initiative led by Goldman Sachs to increase the number of underserved women receiving a business and management education.
News Release   07-112    03/05/2008   Kidwell
U.S. High School Students Take Their Concerns to State Capitols
High school students in seven states will bring their opinions on global issues from the classroom to the statehouse, directly to elected officials and civic leaders. These statehouse visits are part of the 10th annual Capitol Forum on America’s Future, an initiative of the Choices Program at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.
News Release   07-111    03/04/2008   Beebe
Brown Mathematicians Prove New Way To Build a Better Estimate
Brown University applied mathematicians have found a new way to sift through mountains of data and draw reliable inferences from it – a Holy Grail in science and technology. Their pioneering work, the development of a new class of statistical estimators, could lead to better methods for analyzing the large data sets that are increasingly common in fields from biology to business. Results are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   07-109    02/28/2008   Lawton
Brown to Test Emergency Warning Siren System
Brown University will test its new emergency warning siren system on Thursday Feb. 28, 2008, between noon and 1 p.m. Three transmitters located on top of University buildings will be activated, resulting in a loud warning sound and voice messages. The system is intended to alert the community in the event of a life-threatening emergency. The sirens will be tested twice a year to ensure the system remains operational and to keep community members familiar with the alarm tone.
News Release   07-107    02/25/2008   Kidwell
Corporation Endorses Phase II of Plan for Academic Enrichment
The Corporation of Brown University has endorsed a set of “Phase II” recommendations that extend the University’s strategic Plan for Academic Enrichment. The Corporation also approved the proposed budget for fiscal 2009, set tuition and fees, and formally accepted a number of significant gifts.
News Release   07-104    02/23/2008   Chapman
Brown Announces New, Expanded Financial Aid Policy
The Corporation of Brown University has approved a new financial aid policy that eliminates loans for students whose family incomes are less than $100,000, reduces loans for all students who receive financial aid and no longer requires a parental contribution from most families with incomes of up to $60,000.
News Release   07-105    02/23/2008   Chapman
Brown Approves Budget and Sets Tuition; Endowment Draw Grows
Brown’s undergraduate tuition and fees for 2008-09 will rise 3.9 percent to $47,740. The Corporation has also authorized a higher endowment payout for fiscal 2009 to sustain momentum for the University’s continuing investments in academic enrichment.
News Release   07-106    02/23/2008   Chapman
Pembroke Center Exhibition Celebrates Women's History Month
The Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women is celebrating Women’s History Month 2008 with an exhibit highlighting the historical achievements of Brown and Rhode Island women. Disturbances: An Exhibit of Select Materials from the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archives is on view at the John Hay Library from Friday, March 14, through Wednesday, April 9, 2008. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-095    02/19/2008   Baum
Poet Michael Harper Awarded Frost Medal for Lifetime Achievement
Michael S. Harper, University Professor and professor of English at Brown, will be awarded the prestigious 2008 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America for lifetime achievement in American poetry.
News Release   07-099    02/12/2008   Baum
Brown Organizes Conference on Green Technology Opportunities
Brown University’s Forum for Enterprise is the host of a conference to showcase the latest in “green” technology at the Rhode Island Convention Center on Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008. The conference brings together the region’s top business leaders to address cutting edge topics in this emerging field, from environmentally friendly building to “green ventures” in business.
News Release   07-100    02/12/2008   Kidwell
Clinton Holds Slim Lead Over Obama for R.I. Presidential Primary
Researchers at Brown University have found, in a statewide survey of 739 registered Rhode Island voters conducted Feb. 9-10, 2008, that Sen. Hillary Clinton holds a slim lead over Sen. Barack Obama among likely voters in the Rhode Island Democratic primary. The survey also gauges public opinion of national and state leaders, finds opposition to raising the state’s general income or sales taxes and finds support for two-year time limits on welfare.
News Release   07-097    02/11/2008   Baum
Brown at AAAS: Science and Religion to Science and Resilience
Brown University faculty will present at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the largest scientific gathering in the world, on topics ranging from global health to global warming. AAAS attracts thousands of researchers, policy-makers and journalists. AAAS will be held in Boston Feb. 14-18, 2008.
News Release   07-091    02/11/2008   Lawton
Schwartz/Silver Architects to Design Robert Campus Center
The Boston-based firm Schwartz/Silver Architects has been selected to design Brown’s new Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center in Faunce House. The center will reinvigorate the building, which opened in 1904, with new areas for students to gather, study, eat, and socialize, and will include improved office and meeting spaces. The project is currently scheduled for completion in 2010.
News Release   07-094    02/07/2008   Baum
Exhibition Marks 400th Anniversary of Champlain in the New World
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University presents the first of a series of international exhibitions celebrating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec by Samuel de Champlain. On view in Providence through Thursday, Feb. 28, 2008, Hostile Intimacy: A Century and a Half of Conflict between New France and New England will also travel to Boston and Quebec this year. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-092    02/07/2008   Baum
John Bolton and Richard Holbrooke to Discuss U.S. Role in the U.N.
Former U.S. ambassadors to the United Nations Richard Holbrooke and John Bolton will discuss the role of the United States within the United Nations on Thursday, Feb. 21, 2008, at 3 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. The event is part of the Janus Forum Lecture Series, sponsored by Brown’s Political Theory Project. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-089    02/04/2008   Baum
Brown Joins Alliance to Increase Robotics Education and Research
Brown University has joined the Advancing Robotics Technology for Societal Impact (ARTSI) Alliance supported by the National Science Foundation, in an effort to boost the number of African-American students pursuing computer science and robotics.
News Release   07-087    01/30/2008   Lawton
Brown Mathematician David Mumford Wins Prestigious Wolf Prize
David Mumford, a pioneering Brown University mathematician, has won the 2008 Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics, one of the world’s top science prizes.
News Release   07-088    01/30/2008   Lawton
Brown University Commits to Carbon Reduction
Brown University has announced an aggressive plan to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions. The initiative is part of a broader plan to lessen the environmental impact of the University’s physical plant and promote environmental awareness on campus.
News Release   07-085    01/24/2008   Kidwell
Health Insurance Co-Payments Deter Mammography Use
A new Brown University study shows that even small health insurance co-payments have a big effect on mammography rates. Rates for receiving these critical breast cancer screening exams were 8 percent lower in plans requiring co-payments compared with plans with full health insurance coverage. Researchers at Brown’s Alpert Medical School and Harvard Medical School publish their results in the New England Journal of Medicine.
News Release   07-082    01/23/2008   Lawton
Sheldon Whitehouse to Deliver Speech on Global Climate Change
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) will address the issue of global climate change in a speech to the Brown University community on Monday, Jan. 28, 2008, at noon. The speech will serve as a launch for the University’s participation in Focus the Nation, a national event organized to create a dialogue on global warming solutions.
News Release   07-083    01/22/2008   Kidwell
University Statement on Subpoena from N.Y. Attorney General
Brown University has confirmed that it is among the institutions that have been served with subpoenas by the attorney general of New York, inquiring about programs of international study.
News Release   07-084    01/22/2008   de Ramel
Angela Davis to Deliver Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture
Social activist and educator Angela Davis will deliver Brown University’s 12th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2008, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. Her talk, titled “Recognizing Racism in the Era ofNeo-Liberalism,” is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-081    01/16/2008   Baum
Brown Planetary Geologists Lend Expertise to Mercury Mission
When NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft makes its historic flyby of Mercury on Monday, Jan. 14, 2008, Brown University students, led by planetary geologist James Head, will be part of the action. At mission headquarters and at Brown, these planetary experts will help analyze images from Mercury, the smallest and densest planet in the solar system. Head leads the MESSENGER mission’s geology group, overseeing analysis of Mercury’s volcanic features and dating rocks on the planet’s cratered surface.
News Release   07-080    01/11/2008   Lawton
Voter I.D. Requirements Reduce Political Participation, Study Finds
A new report released by Brown University shows that requiring voters to present identification at the polls leads to lower levels of political participation. The research also suggests that voter I.D. policies discourage legal immigrants from becoming citizens. The authors conclude that voter I.D. requirements have a significant political impact – particularly on the Hispanic vote.
News Release   07-078    01/07/2008   Baum
Brown Named Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training
The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University has been designated a Center of Excellence in Geriatric Medicine and Training by the John A. Hartford Foundation. The designation is accompanied by a major new grant for Rhode Island Hospital. The Hartford Centers of Excellence program is a $38-million initiative to help medical schools train geriatrics faculty, which are in critically short supply. By training teachers, the foundation aims to better prepare medical students to care for the growing “silver tsunami” of older Americans.
News Release   07-077    12/19/2007   Lawton
Brown Researchers Create First-Ever HIV Rapid Test Video
Researchers at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University have created a first-ever educational video on rapid HIV testing. The video – available for free online – is aimed at increasing testing rates and slowing the spread of HIV/AIDS, one of the deadliest epidemics in recorded history.
News Release   07-076    12/12/2007   Lawton
Anthropologist Awarded Fulbright to Study Masculinity in Mexico
Matthew Gutmann, associate professor of anthropology, was awarded a 2007-08 Fulbright fellowship to document and analyze perceptions and opinions in the southern Mexican state of Oaxaca regarding democracy, the armed forces, and masculinity. The program also brings three international scholars to Brown this year: Alfredo Edmundo Huespe of Argentina, Nam Gyun Kim of Korea, and Qing Liu of China.
News Release   07-075    12/07/2007   Baum
Treasures on Display in From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown
From A.A. to Zouave: Collections at Brown, an exhibition featuring more than 150 materials from Brown University’s libraries, museums, and galleries, is on view from Tuesday, Dec. 11, 2007, through Friday, May 30, 2008, in the Annmary Brown Memorial, 21 Brown St. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-074    12/06/2007   Baum
Early Voters Hold Most Power in Primaries, Say Brown Economists
As voters in Iowa and New Hampshire prepare to head to the polls for the 2008 presidential primary season, new research by two Brown University economists shows just how much power these early voters hold. In a National Bureau of Economic Research working paper, Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff demonstrate that early voters have up to 20 times the influence of voters in later states when it comes to candidate selection.
News Release   07-073    12/05/2007   Baum
Eli Adashi to Step Down as Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences
Eli Y. Adashi, dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University, has announced his intention to step down at the end of the current academic year. Following a possible sabbatic leave, Adashi may return to full time teaching and research.
News Release   07-071    12/05/2007   Chapman
Museum Loan Network Finds New Home at Brown University
The Museum Loan Network, an innovative program facilitating collection sharing among museums and promoting interdisciplinary collaboration with communities, will relocate to Brown University after 12 years at MIT. At Brown, the network will be based at the John Nicholas Brown Center’s Public Humanities Program, where it will continue its work fostering partnerships among cultural organizations and launch new programs to connect museums with the next generation of museum professionals.
News Release   07-069    12/04/2007   Baum
Seed Funding Supports Brown's Internationalization Effort
Six seed fund grants totaling $85,000 have been awarded to Brown faculty to support diverse and unique international collaborations. This seed funding furthers the University’s effort to stimulate research and education on a global scale. It is the first funding of this kind at Brown.
News Release   07-072    12/04/2007   Kidwell
AIDS Activist and Former U.N. Official To Speak at Symposium
International AIDS activist Stephen Lewis will take part in a World AIDS Day symposium at Brown University on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2007, from 1 to 4 p.m. in Room 117 in Starr Auditorium at MacMillan Hall. The public event is free, but space is limited.
News Release   07-070    11/29/2007   Lawton
Cooper Pairs Found in Insulators as Well as in Superconductors
Fifty years ago, three physicists unveiled the BCS (Bardeen, Cooper, Schrieffer) theory of superconductivity, which explained how currents of electrons can flow perpetually if they join in pairs. Those physicists, including Leon Cooper at Brown University, won a Nobel Prize for their work. Now Brown physicists have shown something surprising: the formation of Cooper pairs can not only help electric current to flow but it can also block that current. Their research appears in Science.
News Release   07-067    11/22/2007   Lawton
Brown To Create Most Comprehensive Long-Term Care Database
The National Institute on Aging has awarded members of Brown University’s Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research a major grant to create the first national database that will allow researchers to study the impact of state policies and market forces on the quality of long-term care. The award comes at a time of increasing demand for the services of nursing homes and other long-term care providers. By 2020, an estimated 12 million U.S. elderly will need some form of long-term care.
News Release   07-066    11/15/2007   Lawton
Optic Flow: A Step in The Right Direction
The way objects appear to stream by us as we move through the world is a phenomenon called optic flow. Think of the street signs and storefronts that sail across the car windshield as we drive. That’s optic flow in action. Brown University cognitive scientists have now shown, in research to be featured on the cover of Current Biology, that optic flow plays a critical role in continuously recalibrating our steps as we walk.
News Release   07-065    11/15/2007   Lawton
Brown University Contributes $50,000 to R.I. WWII Memorial
Brown University has announced a contribution of $50,000 to support the Rhode Island World War II Memorial. The memorial is to be dedicated Veterans Day, Sunday Nov.11, 2007.
News Release   07-064    11/10/2007   de Ramel
Two Brown Scientists Receive Top White House Awards
Two Brown professors have garnered the highest honors given by the U.S. government to scientists and engineers beginning their independent careers. Odest Chadwicke (Chad) Jenkins, assistant professor of computer science, and Pradeep Guduru, assistant professor of engineering, received Presidential Early Career Awards for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) during a ceremony at the White House.
News Release   07-063    11/09/2007   Kidwell
Brown Biologists Assemble Fly mtDNA for Landmark Genome Project
As part of a major new international genome sequencing project, Brown biologists assembled the complete mitochondrial DNA sequences of seven different species of fruit fly. Their work, published in Nature, provides scientists with an exciting new tool to understand the genetic differences within a species as well as the evolutionary relationships among different species.
News Release   07-062    11/07/2007   Lawton
First-Ever Study: Lack of Critical Lubricant Causes Wear in Joints
For the first time, researchers have linked increased friction with early wear in the joints of animals. Work led by Brown University physician and engineer Gregory Jay, M.D., shows mice that do not produce the protein lubricin begin to show wear in their joints less than two weeks after birth. This finding not only points up the protective power of lubricin but also suggests that it could be used to prevent joint wear after an injury.
News Release   07-061    11/05/2007   Lawton
Rhode Island Hospital/Brown Researchers Land Major NIH Grant
The National Center for Research Resources has awarded a five-year, $11.1-million grant to Rhode Island Hospital to establish the Center of Biomedical Research Excellence for Skeletal Health and Repair and create a multidisciplinary team of scientists with the hospital’s academic partner, The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
News Release   07-058    10/29/2007   Lawton
Pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar to Perform, Lead Master Class at Brown
Renowned Palestinian-Israeli pianist Saleem Abboud Ashkar will visit Brown University Nov. 9-11, 2007. In addition to presenting a piano recital and offering a workshop for Brown students, Abboud Ashkar will participate in a panel discussion focusing on the role of the humanities in bridging cultural differences on an international level.
News Release   07-059    10/29/2007   Baum
Three Brown Faculty Elected to World's Largest Scientific Society
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected three Brown University professors – Mary Carskadon, Stephen McGarvey and Carle Pieters – fellows for their significant contributions to the life and physical sciences.
News Release   07-057    10/25/2007   Lawton
Brown Ranked as Top School for Producing Fulbright Students
Brown ranks number three in the nation among colleges and universities producing the highest number of Fulbright students. Twenty-five undergraduate and graduate students were named Fulbright Fellows in 2007-2008, also giving Brown the top-ranked rate in the Ivy League.
News Release   07-056    10/24/2007   Baum
Brown Corporation Meets, Approves New Projects
The Corporation of Brown University has appointed David Kennedy as the University’s first vice president for international affairs. Brown’s governing body also reviewed University leadership reports, faculty hiring, international education, and the state of undergraduate education. The Corporation formally accepted gifts, approved professorships, and received the first allocation to The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence.
News Release   07-052    10/13/2007   de Ramel
David Kennedy Named Vice President for International Affairs
At its regular October meeting, the Corporation of Brown University approved the appointment of David Kennedy, a 1976 graduate of Brown and currently the Manley O. Hudson Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, as vice president for international affairs. Kennedy will lead the University’s ongoing efforts to expand and enhance its international programs and institutional relationships. He will begin his duties at Brown in January 2008.
News Release   07-053    10/13/2007   de Ramel
Diller Scofidio + Renfro to Design New Creative Arts Center
The Corporation of Brown University selected the internationally renowned architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro to design the new Creative Arts Center. The proposed 35,000 square foot building, housing a recital hall, multimedia lab, and recording studio, is slated for completion in 2010.
News Release   07-054    10/13/2007   Baum
Providence Residents Favor Living Wage, Higher Minimum Wage
A new survey conducted by the Taubman Center for Public Policy finds that Providence residents favor a “living wage” and an increase in the minimum wage. The survey was undertaken in conjunction with the eighth annual Thomas J. Anton/Frederick Lippitt Urban Affairs Conference on “The Living Wage,” scheduled for Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2007, at Brown.
News Release   07-050    10/12/2007   Baum
Professor-at-Large Richard Holbrooke to Discuss 'The World Crisis'
Brown University Professor-at-Large Richard C. Holbrooke ’62 will deliver a lecture titled “The World Crisis” on Monday, Oct. 15, 2007, at 4:30 p.m. in Salomon Center for Teaching. He will sign copies of his new book, To End a War, beginning at 3:45 p.m. in the lobby. The event is part of The Directors Lectures Series on Contemporary International Affairs sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies.
News Release   07-049    10/11/2007   Baum
Brown Commits Additional Resources to Help Environment
The Sidney E. Frank Foundation has made a gift of $200,000 to support environmental initiatives underway at Brown University. The gift, combined with an allocation of $150,000 from the Office of the President, will be used for a proactive community outreach and awareness program that was recommended by the Energy and Environmental Advisory Committee (EEAC).
News Release   07-048    10/09/2007   de Ramel
Four Brown Faculty Inducted as AAAS Fellows
Engineers Alan Needleman and Arto Nurmikko, physicist J. Michael Kosterlitz, and ecologist Jerry M. Melillo have been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinction of excellence in science, scholarship, business, public affairs and the arts. Needleman, Nurmikko and Kosterlitz are professors at Brown; Melillo is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory who holds a joint appointment at Brown through the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
News Release   07-047    10/06/2007   de Ramel
Brown University and Women & Infants Announce National Study
The National Institute of Child Health and Human Development has awarded Brown University a $14.1 million contract to join the National Children’s Study, a landmark research project aimed at improving children’s health. Brown will partner with Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island and others to enroll 1,000 Providence County children in the study and follow them from before birth until age 21 to examine the effects of environmental influences on their health and well-being.
News Release   07-046    10/04/2007   Lawton
Brown Researchers Make Major Signal Transduction Discovery
How cells sense and respond to chemical messages – a process known as signal transduction – is a fundamental force in biology, controlling key processes such as cell growth and immune response. Now researchers from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital report a significant discovery in the field of signal transduction that could provide a new target for drugs that fight cancer, HIV and diseases. Results are published in Cell.
News Release   07-045    10/04/2007   Lawton
Presidents Cardoso and Lagos Headline 'Year of Focus on Latin America'
Brown University Professors-at-Large Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, and Ricardo Lagos, former president of Chile, will deliver the inaugural Lecture on Globalization and Inequality, sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies, on Wednesday, Oct. 3, 2007. The event is a focal point in a year of University lectures, exhibitions, events, and film series with a focus on Latin American issues.
News Release   07-042    09/28/2007   Baum
Brown Bat Flight Team Wins NSF/Science Visualization Award
A multidisciplinary team of Brown faculty and students has won a first-place award in the International Science and Technology Visualization Challenge sponsored by the National Science Foundation and Science, the journal published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Their winning entry, on the balletic flight of bats, appears in Science.
News Release   07-044    09/27/2007   Lawton
Brown, Princeton to Enhance Partnership with Dillard University
At the 2007 Clinton Global Initiative annual meeting in New York City, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons announced that Brown and Princeton University would extend and enhance their post-Katrina partnership with Dillard University in New Orleans.
News Release   07-043    09/27/2007   Nickel
23 Faculty Appointed to Endowed and Named Professorships
Brown University has appointed 23 current faculty members to endowed and named professorships, including three new Royce Professors in Teaching Excellence. The appointments are part the University’s ongoing commitment to recruit and retain the highest-caliber faculty for Brown, a key goal under the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   07-041    09/25/2007   Baum
The Garibaldi Panorama: Brown to Digitize 19th-Century Relic
Brown University Library and the Department of Italian Studies are collaborating to bring one of the finest surviving examples of panoramic art, the Garibaldi Panorama, back to the public eye. Measuring 273 feet long, the double-sided watercolor is one of the longest paintings in the world and all of it will soon be available online to scholars and students.
News Release   07-038    09/24/2007   Baum
Study: Children of Immigrants Form Ethnic Identity at Early Age
Brown University researchers have published the one of the first longitudinal studies demonstrating that children of first-generation immigrants develop their ethnic identity at an earlier age than previous research has shown. Additionally, a child’s positive sense of ethnic identity is associated with the desire to socialize with children of various racial and ethnic backgrounds. The research is published in The International Journal of Behavioral Development.
News Release   07-039    09/24/2007   Baum
Extraterrestrial Impact Likely Source of Sudden Ice Age Extinctions
What killed the wooly mammoths? An international team of scientists, including Peter Schultz of Brown University, suggests that a comet or meteorite exploded over the planet roughly 12,900 years ago, causing the abrupt climate changes that led to the extinction of the wooly mammoth and other giant prehistoric beasts. Their theory is published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   07-040    09/24/2007   Lawton
Key to Longer Life (in Flies) Lies in Just 14 Brain Cells
Fruit flies live significantly longer when the activity of the protein p53 is reduced in just 14 insulin-producing cells in their brains, new Brown University research shows. The results put scientists one step closer to understanding caloric restriction, a biochemical process proven to slow aging. Results appear in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   07-037    09/20/2007   Lawton
Brown Scientists Take the Petri Dish to New Dimensions
Brown University biomedical engineers have created a new method for growing cells in three dimensions rather than the traditional two. This 3-D Petri dish allows cells to self-assemble, creating cell clusters that can be transplanted in the body or used to test drugs in the lab. This simple new technique is part of a growing body of research that shows that 3-D culture techniques can create cells that behave more like cells in the body.
News Release   07-035    09/19/2007   Lawton
Bone-Growing Nanomaterial Shows Promise for Orthopaedic Implants
Bone-forming cells grow faster and produce more calcium on anodized titanium covered in carbon nanotubes compared with plain anodized titanium and the non-anodized version currently used in orthopaedic implants, new Brown University research shows. The work, published in Nanotechnology, uncovers a new material that can be used to make more successful implants. The research also shows tantalizing promise for an all-new device: a “smart” implant that can sense and report on bone growth.
News Release   07-033    09/17/2007   Lawton
Brown and RISD Presidents To Formalize Dual Degree Program
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) President Roger Mandle will sign a memorandum of understanding, formalizing the Brown-RISD dual degree program. The ceremony, including remarks from each president, begins at 12:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 21, 2007, in the University Club, 219 Benefit St. in Providence.
News Release   07-034    09/14/2007   Baum
Blacks Likelier Than Whites To Live in Poor-Quality Nursing Homes
New research led by Vincent Mor at Brown University shows that blacks are more likely than whites to live in poor-quality nursing homes in cities across the United States. The research, published in the September/October issue of Health Affairs, is the first to document the relationship between racial segregation and quality disparities in U.S. nursing homes.
News Release   07-030    09/11/2007   Lawton
Brown Launches First-of-its-Kind Program in Barcelona
The Consortium for Advanced Studies in Barcelona, a collaborative initiative involving Brown, University of Chicago, Northwestern, Cornell, Harvard and Princeton, begins its inaugural year September 2007. As the first fully integrated higher education program in Barcelona, students will enroll directly in regular university classes at three distinguished Spanish universities.
News Release   07-029    09/06/2007   Baum
Recent Works by Walter Feldman on Display at Rockefeller Library
Celebrating the accomplishments of artist, scholar, and teacher Walter Feldman, Brown University’s John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library will host a special exhibition of Feldman’s work, including paintings, collages, sculptures and books. Recent Works by Walter Feldman runs from Saturday, Sept. 8, through Friday, Oct. 5, 2007. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-028    09/05/2007   Baum
Arnold Weinstein to Address Incoming Students on September 5
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons will officially open the 2007-08 academic year at Opening Convocation, Wednesday, Sept. 5, 2007. Arnold Weinstein, distinguished author and professor of comparative literature, will deliver this year’s keynote address to the 2,105 students beginning undergraduate, graduate, and medical studies at Brown. The ceremony begins at noon on The College Green.
News Release   07-027    09/04/2007   Baum
Black Legislators More Active Than White Counterparts, Study Finds
Analyzing racial differences among legislators participating in select House committees in the 107th Congress (2001-2002), Brown University political scientist Katrina Gamble found that black representatives participate at a higher rate than their white counterparts on both black interest and nonracial bills. The findings are published in the current issue of Legislative Studies Quarterly.
News Release   07-025    08/30/2007   Baum
Brown Study Finds Link Between Depression and Household Mold
A groundbreaking public health study, led by Brown University epidemiologist Edmond Shenassa, has found a connection between damp, moldy homes and depression. Results are published in the American Journal of Public Health.
News Release   07-023    08/29/2007   Lawton
Mammoth 3-D Martian Images Featured in Innovative Exhibit
Giant images of Mars – viewed through 3-D glasses – take center stage in a new exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium. The exhibition runs from Sept. 12 to Oct. 28, 2007, and is sponsored by the Brown/NASA Planetary Data Center and the NASA Rhode Island Space Grant Consortium, both based at Brown University. The exhibit will be the only U.S. museum showing of these riveting Red Planet images. Grab your glasses!
News Release   07-022    08/28/2007   Lawton
Brown Faculty and Grad Student Honored with ACLS Fellowships
Four members of the Brown University faculty and one graduate student have been awarded fellowships by the American Council of Learned Societies, a nonprofit organization advancing studies in the humanities and social sciences. Their projects range from an analysis of the cinematic close-up to an examination of the spatial transformation of post-apartheid South Africa.
News Release   07-024    08/28/2007   Baum
Brown Scientist John P. Donoghue Wins Major Neuroscience Award
John P. Donoghue, director of the Brain Science Program at Brown University, will receive the 2007 K.J. Zülch Prize for pioneering BrainGate, the mind-to-movement device that allows people with paralysis to control assistive devices using thoughts alone. The Gertrud Reemtsma Foundation – a science foundation administered by the Max Planck Society – bestows the Zülch Prize, Germany’s highest honor for basic neurological research.
News Release   07-021    08/20/2007   Lawton
With a Brown I.D., Ride RIPTA for Free
Soon, current faculty, students and staff at Brown will be able to swipe their University-issued identity cards and ride RIPTA for free, anytime, anywhere in the state. The new U-PASS program goes into effect Sept. 1, 2007. Brown University hopes to benefit employees and the community by reducing energy consumption, traffic and parking congestion on College Hill and statewide.
News Release   07-020    08/20/2007   de Ramel
President Simmons' remarks at reading of the Washington Letter
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons delivered the keynote address at the 60th Annual Reading of the George Washington Letter at the nation’s oldest synagogue, Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., on Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, at 1 p.m. The full text of the President’s address follows here.
News Release   07-018t    08/19/2007   de Ramel
Department of Public Safety Seeks National Reaccreditation
A team of assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. (CALEA) will arrive on campus Aug. 18, 2007, to examine all aspects of the Department of Public Safety’s (DPS) policies, procedures, management, operations and support services. Brown’s DPS is the only accredited Rhode Island campus police department and was the first Ivy League police service to receive this honor. A public hearing is scheduled for Aug. 20.
News Release   07-019    08/16/2007   de Ramel
Brown CS Professor Named One of World's Top Innovators
Anna Lysyanskaya assistant professor of computer science at Brown University, has been named to Technology Review’s Prestigious TR35 List of Young Innovators. The TR35 for 2007 will be honored at Technology Review’s Emerging Technologies Conference at MIT.
News Release   07-017    08/15/2007   de Ramel
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons to Speak at Touro Synagogue
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons will deliver the keynote address at the 60th Annual Reading of the George Washington Letter at the nation’s oldest synagogue, Touro Synagogue in Newport, R.I., Sunday, Aug. 19, 2007, at 1 p.m.
News Release   07-018    08/15/2007   de Ramel
Yumi Kori Creates Architectural Installation "Jukai" for Bell Gallery
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University presents Jukai, a site-specific architectural environment by Japanese artist Yumi Kori, from Saturday, Sept. 8, through Sunday, Oct. 21, 2007. Concurrently, Selections from the Permanent Collection will be on view in the List Art Center Lobby. The exhibitions and an opening reception on Friday, Sept. 7, 2007, are free and open to the public.
News Release   07-016    08/10/2007   Baum
Next-Generation Neurotechnology Possible With NIH Grant
Brown University, with research partners at Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Inc. and the Cleveland Functional Electrical Stimulation Center, will develop new brain implants that record or stimulate neural activity – and help improve the lives of people with paralysis, epilepsy and other central nervous system injuries and disorders. The work is made possible with a $6.5-million grant from the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.
News Release   07-015    08/02/2007   Lawton
Researchers Learn Why Immune System Watch Dogs Start to Howl
A class of proteins known as toll-like receptors are the guard dogs of the immune system, sniffing out bacteria or viruses then rousing the rest of the immune system for attack. Because of their ability to activate the body’s defenses, toll-like receptors are a darling of drug developers. New research led by Brown University immunologist Wen-Ming Chu, M.D., identifies what protein alerts toll-like receptor 9, one of the most powerful guard dogs in the pack.
News Release   07-014    08/02/2007   Lawton
Delaware and Michigan Are Best States for American e-Government
Brown University’s eighth annual analysis of U.S. e-government finds Delaware and Michigan leading all states in effective governmental use of Web-based technology. ‘USA.gov’ and the Department of Agriculture lead federal offices.
News Release   07-010    07/24/2007   Baum
South Korea Continues to Lead World in Global e-Government
Brown University’s seventh annual analysis of international e-government finds that many nations are improving services and providing information for users. The United States ranks fourth, behind South Korea, Singapore, and Taiwan.
News Release   07-011    07/24/2007   Baum
On the Move: Historic House Relocates to Make Way for The Walk
Brown University’s Peter Green House, currently located at 142 Angell St., will be moved in one piece beginning Tuesday, July 31, and land in its new home, 79 Brown St., by Friday, Aug. 3, 2007. The relocation marks the University’s first step in implementing “The Walk” project, a series of linked green spaces and walkways that will provide a connection between the University’s historic main campus and the Pembroke Campus.
News Release   07-012    07/24/2007   Baum
Brown and RISD Announce Dual Degree Program
Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) announce the establishment of a dual-degree program, a five-year program that offers students the opportunity to be awarded a Bachelor of Arts (A.B.) from Brown and a Bachelor of Fine Arts (B.F.A.) degree from RISD. The program will enable students to explore the integration of a wide range of disciplines by combining the rigorous degree requirements of both institutions.
News Release   07-013    07/24/2007   Baum
Donors and Dollars Set New Fund-Raising Records in FY 2007
Brown University announced a series of fund-raising results that set new records in numerous categories. Contributions to the Brown Annual Fund, Brown University Sports Foundation, and Brown Medical School Annual Fund, all reached historic highs. The Campaign for Academic Enrichment exceeded the $1-billion mark as it climbs within reach of the $1.4-billion goal, the largest in Brown’s history.
News Release   07-009    07/23/2007   Baum
Exhibition Commemorates 400th Anniversary of Jamestown, Va.
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University commemorates the 400th anniversary of the first permanent English settlement in North America – Jamestown, Va. – with the new exhibition Jamestown Matters. It will be on display through September 2007 and is free and open to the public.
News Release   07-008    07/18/2007   Baum
Cutaneous T-Cell Lymphoma On The Rise, VA/Brown Research Shows
A rare skin cancer is becoming increasingly common in the United States, according to new research from the Providence VA Medical Center and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The overall incidence of the cancer, known as cutaneous T-cell lymphoma, is higher among blacks and increases substantially with age. It was also more common among men than women. Results appear in Archives of Dermatology.
News Release   07-006    07/16/2007   Lawton
Plasmonics: On a Wire or in a Fiber, a Wave is a Wave
Around the world, students learn about the wave nature of light through the interference patterns of “Young’s double-slit experiment,” first performed more than 200 years ago and still considered among the most beautiful physics experiments. Using an analogous experiment, researchers at Brown and Stanford have shown that a simple analytical model can describe the wave nature of surface plasmon polaritons. Their work suggests that plasmonic devices cannot easily circumvent the limitations of electromagnetic waves.
News Release   07-005    07/13/2007   Downs
Brown and Paris VI Launch Collaborative Degree Programs in Math
Following on a long history of informal collaboration and exchange, the math departments at Brown University and the Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI) are launching a formal academic affiliation. The new collaborative program will immerse graduate students in a different scientific culture as they travel from their home institution to complete three semesters of their graduate work at the host institution. Both institutions will be recognized on students’ diplomas.
News Release   07-004    07/12/2007   Downs
Iraq War Veteran To Present New Powered Ankle-Foot Prosthesis
The first prosthetic to provide propulsion for walking will be demonstrated by an Iraq War veteran and amputee at a media event to be held at 9:30 a.m. Monday, July, 23, 2007, at the Providence VA Medical Center. The prototype ankle-foot was created under a collaborative research initiative that includes the Providence VA Medical Center, Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
News Release   07-003    07/10/2007   Lawton
What's In Your Microcapsule? Tattoo Ink -- and More
Brown University and Freedom-2, a New York City company developing inks to make safe, durable but removable tattoos, have reached a licensing agreement that gives Freedom-2 the rights to use the microencapsulation process perfected in the laboratory of Edith Mathiowitz for the purposes of making tattoo ink. But Mathiowitz’s technique for coating particles in polymers has plenty of uses outside the tattoo parlor.
News Release   07-002    07/09/2007   Lawton
Brown Creates Commission to Commemorate History of R.I. Slavery
A 10-member Commission to Commemorate the History of Slavery in Rhode Island established by Brown University in cooperation with the City of Providence and State of Rhode Island, is charged with developing ideas for how best to acknowledge the University and community’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade.
News Release   07-001    07/01/2007   Baum
Summer Institute to Study Accountability, Reform in Urban Schools
Teams of teachers and administrators from the Chicago, Cleveland, Milwaukee and Providence school systems will gather at Brown University this summer to learn how to effectively use classroom data and test scores to guide instructional policy and student achievement. Brown’s Urban Education Policy Program will host the weeklong inaugural Institute on Data-Driven Decision Making in Urban School Systems.
News Release   06-183    06/29/2007   Baum
One in 10 Hospice Patients Referred "Too Late," Study Shows
A new study led by Brown University researchers shows that one out of every 10 families said their dying loved ones were referred “too late” for hospice services, resulting in unmet needs such as unrelieved pain. Results appear in the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management.
News Release   06-182    06/28/2007   Lawton
Brown University Library Acquires Collection of David E. Pingree
The Brown University Library has acquired the library of the late David E. Pingree, an internationally renowned scholar of the history of mathematics. The collection, consisting of more than 22,000 materials, is a remarkable resource for the study of mathematics in the ancient world, in particular India, and the relationship of Eastern mathematics to the development of mathematics and related disciplines in the West.
News Release   06-180    06/26/2007   Baum
New Nano-Method May Help Compress Computer Memory
A team of chemists at Brown University has devised a simple way to control both the size and the composition of iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires. Nanorods with uniform shape and magnetic alignment are one key to the next generation of high-density information storage.
News Release   06-179    06/22/2007   Downs
Shifting Weather Patterns Drove Miocene Grassland Expansion
An 11-million year sediment record from the Arabian Sea provides evidence that changing weather patterns – rather than declining carbon dioxide levels – drove grassland expansion in the tropics and subtropics over the last 10 million years. Brown University geologists based their findings on variations in carbon and hydrogen isotope ratios from specific leaf wax compounds.
News Release   06-178    06/13/2007   Downs
Study Shows Pre-Op Hematocrit Affects Post-Op Outcomes
Elderly men with even slightly abnormal red blood cell counts have a higher risk of dying or having a serious cardiac event after major surgery, according to a new study conducted by researchers at the Providence Veterans Affairs Medical Center and The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. Results are published in JAMA.
News Release   06-177    06/12/2007   Lawton
Highway System Drives City Population Declines, Says Brown Economist
Examining the phenomenon of suburbanization in America, Brown University economist Nathaniel Baum-Snow shows the extent to which the construction of new highways contributed to population declines in cities. He estimates that each new highway passing through a city reduces its population by about 18 percent, making the national road network a major impetus for suburbanization and sprawl of U.S. cities. His findings are published in the Quarterly Journal of Economics.
News Release   06-176    06/11/2007   Baum
Researchers Catch Motion of a Single Electron on Video
Using pulses of high-intensity sound, two Brown University physicists have succeeded in making a movie showing the motion of a single electron. Humphrey Maris, a physics professor at Brown University, and Wei Guo, a Brown doctoral student, were able to film the electron as it moved through a container of superfluid helium.
News Release   06-174    06/05/2007   Downs
Study: Directly Observed HIV Therapy For Children Is Promising
The first study in the developing world of directly observed antiretroviral therapy for HIV-infected children shows this form of treatment is an inexpensive, effective way to ensure that children take life-saving medications. Researchers at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, together with Maryknoll, the international Catholic charity, conducted the study. Results are published in the June issue of the American Journal of Public Health.
News Release   06-175    05/31/2007   Lawton
Chancellor Stephen Robert Receives Faculty's Highest Honor
During Brown University’s Commencement exercises Sunday, May 27, 2007, outgoing Chancellor Stephen Robert, a member of the Brown Class of 1962, received the Brown faculty’s highest honor, the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal.
News Release   06-173    05/27/2007   Baum
Graduate School Has Grant to Improve Doctoral Completion Rates
Brown University’s Graduate School is among 22 universities selected to participate in the Ph.D. Completion Project, a national initiative to increase completion rates in doctoral programs. The program is administered by the Council of Graduate Schools, with support from Pfizer Inc. and the Ford Foundation.
News Release   06-168    05/25/2007   Baum
Brown To Confer 2,194 Degrees Sunday, May 27, 2007
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, presiding at the University’s 239th Commencement exercises Sunday, May 27, 2007, will confer 2,194 degrees, from bachelor’s to honorary doctorates.
News Release   06-172    05/25/2007   de Ramel
Celebrating Success: Fundraising, Facilities, Faculty
The Corporation of Brown University celebrates a milestone for Boldly Brown: The Campaign for Academic Enrichment; elects new trustees; votes to initiate planning and design for a new swimming and diving facility; establishes new research centers in science and international economics; establishes new professorships; improves the faculty sabbatical policy; and accepts more than $18 million in gifts, among other actions.
News Release   06-171    05/25/2007   de Ramel
Emily Underwood and Justin Fabrikant To Deliver Senior Orations
Emily Underwood of Coloma, Calif., and Justin Fabrikant of Santa Cruz, Calif., will deliver senior orations to their classmates on Sunday, May 27, 2007, at 12:50 p.m. on The College Green. Underwood’s address is titled “Holding Ground” and Fabrikant’s is titled “The Evolution of the Brown Student.”
News Release   06-169    05/23/2007   de Ramel
The Promise and Policy Implications of Personalized Medicine
Personalized medicine, which uses individual genetic information to prevent, diagnose or treat disease, will be the topic of a June 4, 2007, conference sponsored by the Division of Biology and Medicine at Brown University, Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy (D-RI), and Lifespan. The conference will feature a keynote address by genomics pioneer Francis S. Collins.
News Release   06-164    05/21/2007   Lawton
Former Chilean President Lagos Appointed Professor-at-Large
Ricardo Lagos Escobar, former President of Chile, has been appointed as professor-at-large at Brown University. His new position begins July 1, 2007.
News Release   06-162    05/18/2007   Baum
Brown Graduate School to Confer Degrees and Awards on May 27
Brown University’s Graduate School Commencement Ceremony will be held at 10:30 a.m. Sunday, May 27, 2007, on Lincoln Field. Timothy Messitt, a doctoral candidate in molecular biology, cell biology, and biochemistry, will deliver the student address, titled “Forging Frontiers.”
News Release   06-163    05/18/2007   Baum
Bell Gallery Presents "Natured Anew: reflections of the natural world"
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present Natured Anew: reflections of the natural world from Saturday, June 9, though Sunday, July 8, 2007, featuring five artists who produce works that are inspired by or comment on nature. The exhibition and an opening reception on Friday, June 8, are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-161    05/17/2007   Baum
Brown Library Launches Digital Archive of Military Collection
Thousands of prints, watercolors, and drawings from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection are now available online from the Brown University Library. The newly launched digital archive is part of an ambitious, multiyear endeavor that will digitize 15,000 individual works in the collection. The Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection is the foremost American collection devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering, and one of the world’s largest devoted to the study of military and naval uniforms.
News Release   06-160    05/16/2007   Baum
Medical School Pioneer Stanley Aronson To Address M.D. Graduates
Stanley M. Aronson, M.D., founding dean of Brown’s medical school, will address the 33rd graduating class of The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University on Sunday, May 27, 2007, in the First Unitarian Church. Surena Namdari, a candidate for the M.D. degree, will deliver the student address. Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Eli Y. Adashi, M.D., will preside.
News Release   06-159    05/16/2007   Lawton
Growing Nerve Cells in 3-D Dramatically Affects Gene Expression
Nerve cells grown in three-dimensional environments deploy hundreds of different genes compared with cells grown in standard two-dimensional petri dishes, according to a new Brown University study. The research, spearheaded by bioengineer Diane Hoffman-Kim, adds to a growing body of evidence that lab culture techniques dramatically affect the way these cells behave.
News Release   06-156    05/15/2007   Lawton
Student-Designed MP3 Visualizer Wins Grant and Green Light

Three Brown University students are winners of a grant of up to $30,000 from mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, and Cisco Systems for their creation of a new MP3 visualizer. As one of five student groups across the country named to mtvU’s “Digital Incubator” development team, they will be offered a national platform to pioneer the next generation of digital applications and content.

News Release   06-158    05/15/2007   Baum
Commencement Forums: A "Featured Events" Special Edition
Commencement Forums are academic colloquia by faculty, alumni, students and distinguished guests. All forums will be held on Saturday, May 26, 2007, and are free and open to the public. Seating is limited. For more information, see brown.edu/web/commencement/2007/info/forums.
News Release   06-157    05/14/2007   Baum
Simple Equations Track Listeria Trails
A simple and robust mathematical description of the movement of Listeria monocytogenes yields insights into the mechanisms that drive this pathogenic bacterium. Vivek Shenoy, associate professor of engineering at Brown University, and Julie Theriot, associate professor at Stanford University, published the equations in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   06-155    05/11/2007   Downs
Howard Foundation Names Twelve 2007-08 Fellows
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University, has announced 12 fellowships for the 2007-08 academic year. The recipients, representing the fields of visual arts, media studies, and the history of art and architecture, will each receive grants of $25,000.
News Release   06-154    05/09/2007   Baum
Overview of Brown University's 239th Commencement, May 27
Chief Marshal Richard Canfield Barker, a 1957 alumnus, will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Sunday, May 27, 2007, in one of the nation’s largest and most colorful academic pageants. The procession and academic exercises will cap a three-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend on the Brown campus. Brown University’s 239th Commencement will follow a relatively new plan for the second time in its history. Due in part to the large sizes of recent classes, graduates will assemble on the grounds of the First Baptist Church in America, rather than inside.
News Release   06-153    05/08/2007   de Ramel
Brown, Texas Instruments Bring Graphing Calculators to Hope High
A new educational partnership between Hope High School, Brown University, and Texas Instruments is bringing a fresh perspective to the study of lines, shapes, formulas, and trajectories that makes up high school algebra. The collaboration, which will provide access to graphing calculators for every ninth-grade algebra student at Hope High School, aims to improve student engagement and achievement in math.
News Release   06-152    05/08/2007   Downs
David Gottlieb Elected to National Academy of Sciences
The National Academy of Sciences has elected David Gottlieb, professor of applied mathematics at Brown University, to become a member of the society of distinguished scholars. Election to the Academy is considered one of the highest honors that can be accorded a scientist or engineer. Gottlieb’s research focus is numerical analysis and methods of finding more accurate solutions for partial differential equations, with applications in aerodynamics and meteorology.
News Release   06-151    05/04/2007   Downs
Four Brown Faculty Elected to Fellowship in AAAS
Engineers Alan Needleman and Arto Nurmikko, physicist J. Michael Kosterlitz, and ecologist Jerry M. Melillo have been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinction of excellence in science, scholarship, business, public affairs and the arts. Needleman, Nurmikko and Kosterlitz are professors at Brown; Melillo is a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory who holds a joint appointment at Brown through the Brown-MBL Graduate Program in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
News Release   06-150    05/02/2007   Downs
Liquid CO2 Drives Rapid Thrust of Diamond-Bearing Structures
In the May 3 issue of Nature, James Head, a Brown University professor of geology and Lionel Wilson, a professor of volcanology at the University of Lancaster, propose an integrated and dramatic mechanism for the formation of kimberlites, the enigmatic structures bearing most of the world’s diamonds. Their theory explains many puzzling features of the formations and also suggests that the location of kimberlites is not related to near-surface geology.
News Release   06-148    05/02/2007   Downs
Bracero History Project Receives Grant To Establish Online Archive
The Bracero History Project, led in part by Brown University’s Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, has received a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The funds will support the development of a collaborative, bilingual, online archive documenting the Bracero Program, which brought millions of Mexican guest workers to the United States between 1942 and 1964. The Bracero History Archive will be the largest, most comprehensive clearinghouse of its kind.
News Release   06-149    05/01/2007   Baum
Morphine Makes Lasting -- and Surprising -- Change in the Brain
Morphine stops the synapse-strengthening process in the brain known as long-term potentiation at inhibitory synapses, according to new research conducted by Brown University brain scientist Julie Kauer. In Nature, Kauer explains this startlingly persistent effect, which could contribute to addiction and may provide a target for treatments of opioid addiction. The research also supports a provocative theory of addiction as a disease of learning and memory.
News Release   06-144    04/25/2007   Lawton
Brown University to Confer Nine Honorary Degrees May 27
Brown will confer nine honorary degrees at Commencement: Stanley Aronson, M.D., founding dean of Brown’s medical school; sportscaster Chris Berman ’77; actress Kate Burton ’79; blues legend B.B. King; Nobel laureate Craig Mello ’82; human rights activist Samantha Power; and three university presidents who are leading their schools through Hurricane Katrina recovery: Scott Cowen of Tulane, Norman Francis of Xavier, and Marvalene Hughes of Dillard.
News Release   06-142    04/25/2007   Baum
Brown To Hold Symposium, Host Exhibition on HIV and Women
In photographs, speeches and scientific talks, the global impact of the AIDS pandemic on women will be explored in a weekend of events held at Brown University May 4-6, 2007. Speakers, including Pauline Muchina, senior women and AIDS advocacy officer with UNAIDS, will discuss prevention barriers and strategies. Events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-146    04/25/2007   Lawton
Craig C. Mello '82 Will Deliver Baccalaureate Address on May 26
Nobel Prize-winning biochemical researcher Craig Mello will deliver the baccalaureate address to Brown University’s graduating seniors on Saturday, May 26, 2007, at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in America. Mello, a 1982 Brown graduate, shared the 2006 Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine for the discovery of RNA interference, a powerful mechanism for controlling the expression of genetic information.
News Release   06-145    04/24/2007   Downs
Modernist Journals Project Has Grant to Digitize Rare Magazines
The Modernist Journals Project, a joint effort by Brown University and the University of Tulsa, has been awarded a $332,823 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand its digital archive of rare periodicals.
News Release   06-143    04/19/2007   Baum
An Announcement for Earth Day, 2007
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons announced today that the University will consider and, to the extent possible following campus and Corporation discussion, will enact provisions of a report by the Energy and Environmental Advisory Committee. Among the committee’s recommendations is a 30-percent reduction in greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels at the University’s central heat plant by fiscal year 2008. The full text of the President’s announcement follows here.
News Release   06-140    04/18/2007   de Ramel
A Message About Community Safety and Security
Senior administrators at Brown University distributed a campuswide e-mail today, describing the University’s policies and preparedness for emergency situations. The text of that message follows here.
News Release   06-141    04/18/2007   de Ramel
Biologists Prove Critical Step in Membrane Fusion
Brown University biologists have, for the first time, observed a critical step in membrane fusion, the process that allows for fertilization, viral infection and nerve cell communication. The research, reported in Developmental Cell, sheds new light on this essential biological process.
News Release   06-138    04/17/2007   Lawton
Brown Playwrights Premiere Work at New Plays Festival Part Two
New productions by two M.F.A. candidate playwrights will be featured in part two of the 25th annual New Plays Festival, presented by the Brown University Literary Arts Program and the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium. The festival runs from Thursday, April 19, through Sunday, April 22, 2007, at the Pell Chafee Performance Center. All performances are free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
News Release   06-139    04/17/2007   Baum
Brown's Athletic Program Receives Certification from NCAA
The National College Athletic Association (NCAA) announced today that Brown University has successfully completed the certification process required of all Division I institutions.
News Release   06-136    04/12/2007   Downs
Journalist David Maraniss to Discuss "The Mythology of Sport"
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author David Maraniss will deliver the seventh annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture at Brown University on Tuesday, April 24, 2007. His talk, titled “The Mythology of Sport,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   06-133    04/09/2007   Baum
Nanotextured Implant Materials: Blending in, Not Fighting Back

Texture turns out to be nearly as important as chemistry when designing materials for use in the human body. In two related experiments Brown University engineers Thomas Webster and Karen Haberstroh found that cells responded differently to materials with identical chemistry but different surface textures. On both titanium and polymer materials, nanoscale surface textures yielded a more natural, accepting response, while microscale patterns typical of engineered materials spurred a rejection response.

News Release   06-134    04/09/2007   Downs
New England Journal of Medicine Chief to Lecture in Providence
Jeffrey M. Drazen, M.D., editor-in-chief of the New England Journal of Medicine, will deliver lectures at Rhode Island Hospital and at Brown University on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Alpha Omega Alpha, the medical student honor society, are sponsoring the talks, which are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-135    04/09/2007   Lawton
E-Activism: Analysis of Black Bloggers in the Blogosphere
In the first scholarly research examining the role of black bloggers, Brown University’s Antoinette Pole found that bloggers of color are using this burgeoning medium to encourage political participation and activism. She also found that black bloggers do not feel discriminated against or excluded by other bloggers. Her findings appear in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society.
News Release   06-130    04/05/2007   Baum
Slick and Springy: Brown Research Reveals Protein's Role in Joints
Experiments led by Brown University physician and engineer Gregory Jay, M.D., show a new role that the protein lubricin plays in synovial fluid – the slimy stuff jammed in joints. Lubricin, the team found, not only reduces friction but also boosts resiliency in joints. Results of the research, appearing on-line in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, may lead to new treatments for arthritis.
News Release   06-131    04/05/2007   Lawton
Five Brown Faculty Members Receive 2007 Guggenheim Fellowships
Five members of the Brown faculty have received Guggenheim Fellowships for 2007. They are among 189 scholars and artists selected from more almost 2,800 applicants for this honor.
News Release   06-132    04/05/2007   Baum
Michael Pickett Named VP for Computing and Information Services
Michael Pickett, a 24-year veteran of computing and information technology at Duke University, has been named vice president for computing and information services and chief information officer at Brown University. Pickett will begin his work July 1, 2007.
News Release   06-127    04/03/2007   de Ramel
Brown Hosts Stars and Students for 2007 Ivy Film Festival
Student filmmakers and film industry professionals will come together for the 2007 Ivy Film Festival at Brown University April 11-15, 2007. The festival will showcase 36 student films and include advance screenings of four feature films. Director Doug Liman and writer Simon Kinberg will give the keynote address Saturday, April 14. All events are open to the public.
News Release   06-128    04/03/2007   Baum
El Salvadoran Vice President de Escobar to Speak at Brown
Ana Vilma Albanez de Escobar, the first female vice president of the Republic of El Salvador, will deliver a lecture at Brown University on Tuesday, April 10, 2007. Her address, titled “El Salvador: A Country of Opportunities,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   06-124    04/02/2007   Baum
Harvey Pekar Headlines Opening of "The SDS Comic Show"
Graphic depictions of the true-life stories of radical 1960s student activists will be on display at Brown University as the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization presents The SDS Comic Show exhibition from Friday, April 13, through Friday, June 1, 2007. Author Harvey Pekar will deliver a keynote lecture preceding the opening reception. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-126    04/02/2007   Baum
Nation's High School Students Take Their Message to State Capitols
By the end of the current school year, high school students in eight states will have visited their state capitols to present their opinions on global issues directly to elected officials and civic leaders. These state house visits are part of the ninth annual Capitol Forum on America’s Future, an initiative of the Choices Program at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies.
News Release   06-123    03/30/2007   de Ramel
MRI Detects Most Missed Opposite Breast Cancers in Women
When added to a medical workup after a breast cancer diagnosis, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans can significantly improve the chances of detecting cancer in the opposite breast, according to clinical trial results reported in the New England Journal of Medicine. The American College of Radiology Imaging Network, whose biostatistics center is based at Brown University, conducted the study, funded by The National Cancer Institute.
News Release   06-120    03/28/2007   Lawton
Venezuelan Ambassador Alvarez Herrera to Speak at Brown
Bernardo Alvarez Herrera, Venezuela’s ambassador to the United States, will visit Brown University to deliver a lecture on U.S.–Venezuelan diplomatic relations. His lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 4, 2007, at 7 p.m. in MacMillan Hall, Room 117. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   06-121    03/27/2007   Baum
$1M Grant Establishes College Advising Corps in Rhode Island
A $1-million grant from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation will establish the College Advising Corps, a partnership among Brown University, Rhode Island public schools, and community organizations as part of a nationwide initiative aimed at increasing college enrollment and graduation among low-income high school and community college students. Through this program, the University’s Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service will recruit and train current students and recent college graduates to work as advisers in the schools.
News Release   06-118    03/21/2007   de Ramel
Robert A.M. Stern to Design Jonathan Nelson Fitness Center
Plans are underway for the construction of Brown University’s new Jonathan Nelson Fitness Center. A $45-million project, the 65,000-square-foot center will be designed by Robert A.M. Stern Architects and will transform the University’s fitness and recreation offerings. The center is slated to open in 2010.
News Release   06-119    03/16/2007   Baum
Chromium 6: A Killer Compound With An Improbable Trigger
Chromium 6, the cancer-causing compound that sparked the legal crusade by Erin Brockovich, can be toxic in tiny doses. Brown University scientists have uncovered the unlikely culprit: vitamin C. In new research, the Brown team shows that when vitamin C reacts with even low doses of chromium 6 inside human cells, it creates high levels of cancer-causing DNA damage and mutations.
News Release   06-115    03/12/2007   Lawton
Former Brazil President Cardoso to Discuss Brazil's Evolving Role
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, the former Brazilian president and Brown professor-at-large, will give a lecture titled “Brazil: A Latin American Nation?” at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, 2007, in MacMillan Hall’s Starr Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public.
News Release   06-116    03/12/2007   de Ramel
NSF Grant Expands Brown Collaboration with Providence School
Brown University has received $3 million from the National Science Foundation to help enrich science programs in Providence schools. The grant will support fellowships for physics, geology and engineering graduate students to lead after-school activities in six area high schools and classroom activities in three elementary schools. The hands-on, inquiry-based lessons will supplement the existing curriculum.
News Release   06-114    03/07/2007   Downs
Brown Scientists Explain Inception of Perception In The Brain
All of human sensation – sight, sound, taste – begins in the brain when information moves from the thalamus to the neocortex. In Nature Neuroscience, Brown University researchers explain how cortical cells get activated during this critical transfer. The findings shed light on the inner workings of the cortex, the biggest part of the brain, and may help explain some forms of irregular electrical brain activity such as epileptic seizures.
News Release   06-112    03/04/2007   Lawton
Statement on the Death of Warren Alpert
Warren Alpert, the businessman and philanthropist whose support of biomedical education and research is enabling Brown to realize its ambitious plans for its medical school, died Saturday morning, March 3, 2007. Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons issued the following statement regarding Mr. Alpert’s passing.
News Release   06-113    03/04/2007   Chapman
"Pulp Uncovered" Festival Explores Controversial Roots of Pop Icons
Brown University’s Public Humanities Program hosts Pulp Uncovered, a community festival celebrating the impact and legacy of pulp fiction magazines, from Thursday, March 15, through Sunday, March 18, 2007. The festival includes a film series, guest speakers, an exhibition at the John Nicholas Brown Center, and other community events. All events are open to the public.
News Release   06-111    03/02/2007   Baum
Novelist Jamaica Kincaid to Deliver Convocation Address
Celebrated author Jamaica Kincaid will deliver the keynote address at Brown University’s Caribbean Heritage Week Convocation Monday, March 5, 2007, at 6 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. A pre-convocation reception and book signing will be held at the Third World Center beginning at 5 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-110    03/01/2007   Baum
Corporation Approves 6.4% Budget Increase, Sets Tuition and Fees
The Corporation of Brown University has approved a fiscal year 2008 consolidated budget of $704.8 million, an 6.4-percent increase over FY07. Total undergraduate fees will rise 5.0 percent to $45,948, including a 5-percent rise in tuition to $35,584. The undergraduate financial aid budget will increase 10 percent over the University’s projected actual financial aid expenditures in the current year.
News Release   06-101    02/24/2007   de Ramel
Thomas J. Tisch Named 20th Chancellor of Brown University
The Corporation of Brown University named Thomas J. Tisch as the next chancellor of the University. Tisch will lead a team of Corporation officers that includes Jerome Vascellaro, newly elected vice chancellor; Wendy Strothman, who continues as secretary; and Matthew Mallow, who continues as treasurer. The team members will begin their terms July 1, 2007. The Corporation is the governing body of Brown University.
News Release   06-102    02/24/2007   Downs
Corporation Elects New Chancellor, Approves Response to Slavery and Justice, Sets Tuition and Budget , Creates Social Choice Fund, Accepts Gifts
The Corporation of Brown University has appointed a new chancellor, endorsed President Ruth J. Simmons’ response to the Committee on Slavery and Justice, and set tuition and budget for fiscal year 2008. The governing body of the University also discussed the future of The Warren Alpert Medical School, and the Division of Biology and Medicine. The Corporation established a new option for donors – the Social Choice Fund – and reported major progress in its Boldly Brown: Campaign for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   06-103    02/24/2007   de Ramel
Rhodes Gift Establishes Center for International Economics
A $10-million gift from Brown alumnus and trustee emeritus William R. Rhodes will fund a new professorship and Center for International Economics to expand the University’s teaching and research in international trade and finance.
News Release   06-106    02/24/2007   Baum
Brown Announces Commitments to Providence Public Schools
Brown University is making a multimillion-dollar commitment to improving public education in the Providence area. Plans for a $10-million endowment, fellowships in urban education, and other measures were announced today by Brown President Ruth J. Simmons as part of the University’s response to the Slavery and Justice Report.
News Release   06-107    02/24/2007   Chapman
Brown Libraries Host Four Exhibitions on Slavery in the Americas
Four exhibitions currently on display at three Brown University Libraries offer the community a chance to view some of the original documents, journals, cargo invoices, newspaper advertisements and engravings cited in the Report of the Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The exhibitions, which document the history of African slavery and its impact on the Western Hemisphere, are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-108    02/24/2007   Baum
Neuroscientists Explain Inner Workings of Critical Pain Pathway
Morphine and other opioids are among the most potent painkillers around. For the first time, Brown University neuroscientists explain why these drugs work so well on calcium channels in the pain pathway in new research in Nature Neuroscience. The findings not only break ground in basic science, they may aid in the effort to develop safer pain-relieving drugs.
News Release   06-099    02/15/2007   Baum
Events and Exhibit to Celebrate 70 Years of College Radio at Brown
From the dorm-room experiment that started it all, to the 1960s FM revolution, to the students behind the stations today – Brown is celebrating 70 years of college radio. The exhibit From Gaspipes to Websites: Radio at Brown 1936-2006 will be on display at the John Hay Library Feb. 21 through March 9, 2007. An opening reception featuring the launch of an audio documentary is planned for Sunday, Feb. 25, 2007, along with a panel discussion titled “The Importance of College Radio.” All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-100    02/15/2007   Baum
"Smart" Prosthetics Will Restore Independence To People With Disabilities
Neurotechnology has restored hearing to the deaf and someday will help the blind to see and the paralyzed to move again. In a Feb. 15, 2007, press briefing at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in San Francisco, Brown University neuroscientist John Donoghue explains how brain-computer interfaces are propelling these major leaps in rehabilitative medicine.
News Release   06-097    02/15/2007   Lawton
Migration Played Key Role in HIV Spread in South Africa
South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection. New research, led by Brown University professor Mark Lurie, shows that the movement of workers between urban and rural areas played a key role in the spread of the epidemic. Results are published in AIDS.
News Release   06-095    02/13/2007   Lawton
Brown University to Close Smith Swim Center
Brown University has closed Smith Swim Center as a precaution until the building’s original architect completes his analysis its roof system.
News Release   06-098    02/13/2007   Baum
Bank Supervision May Actually Drive Corruption, Says Economist
Traditional approaches to bank supervision may not be in the best interest of society, according to new research by a Brown University economist. In the first empirical assessment of the impact of international banking policies, Ross Levine, professor of economics, found that for most countries, regulations such as Basel II could actually hurt bank development and lead to greater corruption. The results are published in the Journal of Monetary Economics.
News Release   06-094    02/12/2007   Baum
Brown University Appoints Richard Holbrooke as Professor-at-Large
Richard C. Holbrooke, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Accords ending the war in Bosnia, has accepted a five-year appointment as professor-at-large at Brown University.
News Release   06-090    02/07/2007   Baum
Brown Cancer Biologists Identify Major Player in Cell Growth
The transcription factor GABP – a member of a family of crucial gene-regulating proteins – is required to jump-start the process of cell division, according to research from The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital. The work, published in Nature Cell Biology, uncovers a new way to control cell growth and points up potential targets for cancer treatments.
News Release   06-093    02/06/2007   Lawton
Bones in Motion: Brown Scientists To Create New 3-D X-ray System
It’s straight out of Superman – the power to peer through flesh and watch bones move in three dimensions. That’s the X-ray imaging system Brown University scientists are making – and with it, a new class of medical and scientific imaging. The W.M. Keck Foundation is supporting the groundbreaking project.
News Release   06-091    02/01/2007   Lawton
Brown Playwrights Premiere Work in 25th Annual New Plays Festival
New productions by three M.F.A. candidate playwrights will be featured in the 25th annual New Plays Festival, presented by the Brown University Literary Arts Program and the Brown/Trinity Repertory Consortium. The festival runs from Wednesday, Feb. 7, through Sunday, Feb. 11, 2007, in the McCormack Family Theatre. All performances are free and seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
News Release   06-089    01/31/2007   Baum
Brown University Names Medical School To Honor Warren Alpert
Brown University has named its medical school in honor of businessman, entrepreneur and philanthropist Warren Alpert, in recognition of a $100-million gift from The Warren Alpert Foundation. The gift will fund a range of investments in medical education at the University.
News Release   06-088    01/29/2007   Lawton
Brown Team Finds Crucial Protein Role in Deadly Prion Spread
Brown University biologists have made another major advance toward understanding the deadly work of prions, the culprits behind fatal brain diseases such as mad cow and their human counterparts. In new work published online in PLoS Biology, researchers show that the protein Hsp104 must be present and active for prions to multiply and cause disease.
News Release   06-084    01/23/2007   Lawton
Cornel West to Discuss the Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.
Cornel West, among the nation’s most provocative public intellectuals, will deliver Brown University’s 11th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Friday, Feb. 2, 2007, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. His talk, titled “The Life and Legacy of Martin Luther King Jr.,” is free and open to the public.
News Release   06-085    01/23/2007   Baum
Sex, Love, and Rockets: The Comix World of Los Bros Hernandez
The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization presents the story and work of two of the most widely acclaimed artists in the history of American comics –Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez. Sex, Love, and Rockets: The Comix World of Los Bros Hernandez will be on display from Feb. 5 through March 2, 2007. Jaime Hernandez will visit Brown to discuss his work at the opening reception. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-083    01/22/2007   Baum
Bats in Flight Reveal Unexpected Aerodynamics
Brown University engineers and biologists have joined forces to record the fine details of wing and body movement in bat flight – together with the patterns of air movement that generate lift. Similar measurements have been made in insects and some birds, but this is the first such data for bats, which are highly flexible and maneuverable flyers and a potential model for engineered micro air vehicles.
News Release   06-082    01/18/2007   Downs
Brown to Host Photojournalism Record of Life and Death in Darfur
Giant images of the escalating crisis in Sudan will be on display at Brown University as the traveling photojournalism exhibition Darfur/Darfur comes to Providence Jan. 26-27, 2007. Speakers at the opening forum include Mia Farrow, UNICEF’s goodwill ambassador; Frank Caprio, general treasurer of Rhode Island; Susannah Sirkin, deputy director of Physicians for Human Rights; and Eric Reeves, Sudan expert and researcher. The exhibition and forum are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-081    01/17/2007   Baum
One Size Does Not Fit All: A Strategy for Counterterrorism Policy
Hamas. Al-Qaeda. Lashkar-e-Taiba. Though bound by their Islamic identities, not all terrorist groups have the same agendas. The United States must improve its counterterrorism efforts by differentiating between the goals of ethnic and religious terrorist groups, according to global security analyst Justine A. Rosenthal, a visiting fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Her analysis is published in the journal The National Interest.
News Release   06-080    01/12/2007   Baum
Women Writers Project Wins NEH Grant for Digital Scholarship
The Brown University Women Writers Project has been awarded a $250,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to support its work of bringing early women’s writing out of the archives and into the electronic age.
News Release   06-078    01/10/2007   Baum
Bell Gallery to Present Multimedia Show: "Faculty Exhibition 2007"
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a multimedia showcase of artwork by members of the Brown faculty from Saturday, Jan, 27, through Sunday, March 4, 2007. Faculty Exhibition 2007 includes works in a wide range of media, from drawings and sculpture to computer animation and interactive web projects. A reception for the artists will be held Friday, Feb. 2, at 5:30 p.m. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-079    01/10/2007   Baum
University To Reopen Smith Swim Center
Brown University will reopen Smith Swim Center on Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007, after repairs to the building’s roof system.
News Release   06-077    01/09/2007   Baum
Brown To Support High School Science Education with NIH Grant
Rhode Island’s high school biology teachers will get intensive training in cutting-edge topics in genetics and neuroscience through a new professional development program created at Brown University. Brown’s program is funded though a new $636,131 grant from the National Center for Research Resources, a part of the National Institutes of Health.
News Release   06-076    01/04/2007   Lawton
Quesenberry To Lead Cancer Programs at Brown and Hospitals
Peter Quesenberry, M.D., has been appointed director of hematology and oncology at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital and the Paul Calabresi Professor in Oncology and Professor of Medicine at Brown Medical School.
News Release   06-075    01/03/2007   Lawton
European Union Outpaces United States on Chemical Safety
New stricter European environmental policies may force even U.S.-based electronics makers to change their ways, say policy analysts at Brown University and Boston University. Stacy D. VanDeveer, a visiting fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, and Henrik Selin, an assistant professor of international relations at Boston University, analyzed the controversial new policies in the December issue of the journal Environment.
News Release   06-074    01/02/2007   Downs
Genomic Variation Easier To Identify With UCSD/Brown Software
Computer scientists at the University of California–San Diego and Brown University have created a software system that more accurately detects “microinversions,” mutations that consist of tiny sequences of reversed DNA. The software gives biologists a powerful new tool to study genomic variation between and within species. The system is explained in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   06-073    12/22/2006   Lawton
Brown University Orchestra to Perform Concert Series in China
Seventy-one student musicians, eight concerts, six cities, 14 days – those numbers sum up the Brown University Orchestra’s China Tour 2006. The Brown ensemble will be the second American college orchestra to present a concert series in China. Its journey begins Sunday, Dec. 24, 2006.
News Release   06-072    12/22/2006   Baum
University Closes Smith Swim Center
As a precautionary measure, Brown University has closed its Smith Swim Center until structural engineers can evaluate the building’s roof and make recommendations for repairs. The engineers’s analysis and recommendations are expected in early January.
News Release   06-071    12/20/2006   Baum
Shoulder Ligament a Linchpin in the Evolution of Flight
Brown University and Harvard University scientists created a 3D model of a gliding pigeon, put alligators on a treadmill, and examined rare Chinese fossils to better understand the evolution of flight. They learned how modern birds balance an array of forces, from the pull of muscles to the pull of gravity, at the shoulder joint. They discovered that this "force balance system" changed over time so that a single ligament acts as a linchpin in today's fliers. Results are published online in Nature.
News Release   06-070    12/17/2006   Lawton
Sen. Lincoln Chafee Appointed Visiting Fellow at Brown University
U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee (R-R.I.) has accepted an appointment as distinguished visiting fellow at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies. Chafee will begin the fellowship in January 2007, serving initially for the spring semester.
News Release   06-068    12/15/2006   Baum
Brown Awarded $2 Million to Expand Entrepreneurship Programs
Entrepreneurship education is about to get a boost at Brown. The University has been awarded a $2-million grant from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation to broaden entrepreneurship education, scholarship and activity across campus. The award is part of the Kauffman Campuses Initiative, which is providing a total of $35 million to colleges and universities across the country.
News Release   06-069    12/15/2006   Baum
Nursing Home or Hospital: State Policy Has Big Impact on Elderly
In a groundbreaking national study, Brown University researchers have traced the connections between state nursing home policies and resident hospitalizations rates. The team found that state policies unwittingly create financial incentives for nursing homes to hospitalize their frail elderly residents, even though hospital stays can be disorienting or dangerous. Results are published in Health Services Research.
News Release   06-067    12/13/2006   Lawton
Less Help at Home: Female Support for New Moms on the Decline
How is motherhood different than it was a century ago? In the past, live-in grandmothers, relatives, and other women were frequently available to assist with childcare. But times have changed. New research by Brown University sociologist Susan E. Short shows that today’s mothers with young children are getting substantially less help around the house. Even when other women are living in the household, they aren’t necessarily on hand to help with the kids. This research appears in Demography.
News Release   06-066    12/11/2006   Baum
Brown Scientists Map Structure of DNA-Doctoring Protein Complex
Mobile DNA, which inserts foreign genes into target cells, is a powerful force in the march of evolution and the spread of disease. Working with the lambda virus and E. coli bacteria, Brown University biologists have solved the structure of a six-protein complex critical to performing this gene-grafting surgery. The technique they developed could be used to reveal the structure of other critical protein complexes, landing the work on the cover of Molecular Cell.
News Release   06-064    12/06/2006   Lawton
Brown and OTS will jointly manage new ILTER network secretariat
Ecological disturbance drives many pressing global concerns but is often measured at the local scale. A newly established secretariat for the International Long Term Ecological Research (ILTER) network will support long-term multiscale ecological data collection and analysis. The secretariat will be managed jointly by Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies and the Organization for Tropical Studies (OTS) in San José, Costa Rica.
News Release   06-062    12/04/2006   Downs
With Fruit Fly Sex, Researchers Find Mind-Body Connection
The fruit fly gene “doublesex” is responsible for ensuring that male flies look male and females look female. New Brown University research led by biologist Michael McKeown shows that doublesex not only helps shape bodies but also shapes behavior, acting with together with the gene “fruitless” to guide flies’ courtship routines and responses. The finding, published in Nature Genetics, shows that sexual development in flies – and, perhaps, in humans – is a more complicated proposition than previously thought.
News Release   06-063    11/30/2006   Lawton
Brown to Host Daniel Barenboim, West-Eastern Divan Orchestra
World-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the young musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will visit Brown University from Thursday, Dec. 14, through Saturday, Dec. 16, 2006, for a series of conversations and workshops leading to a concert at VMA Arts and Cultural Center Saturday afternoon. All events are open to the public. A ticket is required for the concert, free of charge.
News Release   06-060    11/27/2006   Baum
Economics and Epidemics: Speakers Address Global HIV Efforts
Jeffrey Sachs, director of the United Nations Millennium Project, will take part in a Worlds AIDS Day symposium at Brown University on Saturday, Dec. 2, 2006, from 1 to 4 p.m. at Smith-Buonanno Hall, located on the Pembroke campus. The public event is free, but space is limited.
News Release   06-061    11/27/2006   Lawton
Listening in on the birth pangs of Earth's crust
Geologist Donald Forsyth and students from Brown University on a routine ocean-floor mapping cruise jumped into action when they realized that many of the seafloor seismometers they were supposed to collect had been buried by a recent lava flow. Data from the remaining instruments yielded the first detailed record of seismic vibrations leading up to a seafloor spreading event, published this week in the journal Science.
News Release   06-058    11/23/2006   Downs
AAAS Names Miller Fellow for Science Education and Advocacy
The American Association for the Advancement of Science has elected Kenneth R. Miller, a Brown University professor of biology, a fellow for his leadership role in defending evolution and how it is taught in public schools as well as for his efforts to educate and encourage science teachers across the United States.
News Release   06-056    11/23/2006   Lawton
Statement on Suspension of the Reformed University Fellowship
The Brown University Office of the Chaplain and Religious Life and the Office of the Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services have offered to work with the Reformed University Fellowship so that it may regain its status as an affiliated religious group.

Michael Chapman, vice president for public affairs and University relations, issued the following statement for the University.
News Release   06-059    11/22/2006   Chapman
Brown University Senior Selected as 2007 Rhodes Scholar
Keriann Backus, a member of Brown University’s Class of 2007, has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. Backus will head to the University of Oxford next fall to pursue a doctorate in chemical biology.
News Release   06-057    11/20/2006   de Ramel
Brown Symposium Highlights Next Wave in Biology and Business
Biotech entrepreneur J. Craig Venter will speak at the 37th Annual Computer Science Department Industrial Partners Program Symposium held Dec. 6-8, 2006, at Brown University. The symposium, titled “The Genome and the Computational Sciences: The New Paradigms,” brings together experts from academia, business and government to discuss the biological challenges posed by genome sequencing and how those challenges can be met with computational techniques.
News Release   06-055    11/20/2006   Lawton
Speak, Memory: Research Challenges Theory of Memory Storage
During sleep, freshly minted memories move from the hippocampus, part of the “old” brain, to the neocortex, or “new” brain, for long-term storage. This has been the reigning theory for decades. Brown University research provides the strongest proof yet of this interaction between the old and new brains – and offers surprising evidence that challenges critical details of this theory of learning and memory. Results appear in Nature Neuroscience.
News Release   06-054    11/14/2006   Lawton
Sea Urchin Genome Is a Biology Boon and a Computational Feat
Now that the entire DNA map of the sea urchin is complete, it’s clear that these spiny sea creatures are even closer genetic cousins to humans than suspected. Brown University professors Gary Wessel and Sorin Istrail helped reveal the secrets of the urchin – from its powerful immune system to its formidable gene regulatory network – by identifying individual genes and creating the first high-resolution map of genes activated in its embryo. The work appears on the cover of Science.
News Release   06-052    11/09/2006   Lawton
Brown Issues Report to National Commission for Long-Term Care
Brown University’s Vincent Mor and Edward Alan Miller have issued a report for the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care outlining six key areas of concern as “the long-term care system in the United States is threatening to collapse under the massive weight of the aging Baby Boom generation.” The commission, co-chaired by former Sen. Bob Kerry and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, was established in 2004 to evaluate the country’s quality of long-term care and to make recommendations about national efforts for sustainable improvement.
News Release   06-049    11/06/2006   Baum
Pamuk, Rushdie, Featured at International Writers Project Festival
The International Writers Project at Brown University presents Strange Times, My Dear: A Freedom-to-Write Literary Festival, from Tuesday, Nov. 14, through Friday, Nov. 17, 2006. This series of readings and discussions, focused on freedom of expression, will feature internationally acclaimed authors, including Salman Rushdie, Iranian novelists Shahrnush Parsipur and Shahryar Mandanipour, and Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature. The festival is free and open to the public, but tickets are required for certain events.
News Release   06-050    11/01/2006   Baum
Brown to Host Community Forum on Slavery and Justice Report
Exactly two weeks after the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice released its report, Brown University will host a forum for the campus community and general public. The first forum will be held Wednesday, Nov. 1, 2006, from 4 to 6 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   06-044    10/30/2006   Baum
Brown to Host Historic Conference on Archaeology of Jerusalem
Brown University will host an historic conference titled “The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of Archeological Research” Nov. 12-14, 2006. Organized by Katharina Galor, the event will be the first time Israeli and Palestinian scholars have come together in an academic exchange and discussion of their archaeological research. All sessions are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-047    10/30/2006   Baum
Modeling the formation of blood clots
New computing tools have allowed Peter Richardson, professor of engineering and physiology at Brown University, to test ideas about blood flow and clotting that he first proposed more than 30 years ago. His collaboration with mathematics colleagues Igor Pivkin and George Karniadakis resulted in a model that integrates fluid dynamics with platelet biochemistry and could provide new insights into the treatment and prevention of strokes and heart attacks.
News Release   06-048    10/30/2006   Downs
Global Security Matrix Launched as Tool to Assess Threats
Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies launched the Global Security Matrix, a web-based analytical and educational tool that visually represents threats to security. The Matrix maps security threats and vulnerabilities around the world and includes interactive features. The Global Security Matrix can be accessed at http://www.globalsecuritymatrix.org.
News Release   06-046    10/26/2006   Lynch
James Tilton Named Brown University's Director of Financial Aid
James Tilton, currently director of performance, improvement, and procedures at the U.S. Department of Education, has been named Brown University’s new director of financial aid. Tilton will begin his duties at Brown Dec. 4, 2006.
News Release   06-045    10/25/2006   Baum
When is a supersolid not quite so super?
Brown University physicist Humphrey Maris and colleagues Satoshi Sasaki and Sebastien Balibar of the l’Ecole Normale Supérieure have narrowed the field of possible explanations for the weird behavior of supersolid helium. Their simple but extremely revealing experiment suggests that movement along grain boundaries is a more plausible explanation than Bose-Einstein condensates.
News Release   06-034    10/24/2006   Downs
Brown Agrees to Purchase Seven Buildings in Jewelry District
Brown University signed an agreement yesterday to purchase seven buildings and other properties in Providence’s Jewelry District. The purchase, one of the largest in University history, is a step forward in the University’s efforts to plan for strategic growth beyond College Hill.
News Release   06-043    10/24/2006   Baum
Racial Disparities Universal in Medicare Health Plans, Study Finds
Blacks do not achieve the same health outcomes as whites in managed care plans under Medicare, the nation’s largest health insurance program, according to a study conducted by Brown Medical School and Harvard Medical School researchers. Published in JAMA, the analysis surprisingly shows that significant racial disparities persist within Medicare plans – even high-performing ones – based on outcomes related to control of diabetes, cholesterol and blood pressure.
News Release   06-039    10/24/2006   Lawton
Amy Cutler Exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present the first traveling museum exhibition of artist Amy Cutler’s work from Saturday, Nov. 4, 2006 through Friday, Dec. 22, 2006. Cutler’s highly detailed paintings have drawn associations with fables and fairy tales, dreams and surrealism, and folk art. An opening reception and gallery talk are planned. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-042    10/23/2006   Baum
Researchers Find "ZIP Code" Spurs Cargo Transport in Neurons
Getting molecular cargo from the cell body to the synapse of nerve cells is crucial for learning and memory, even for survival of the cell itself. New research conducted at Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., shows that a single peptide can load and direct this biological material. This peptide “ZIP Code” comes from amyloid precursor protein, the principal player in the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
News Release   06-041    10/23/2006   Lawton
Humanities Weekend Focuses on Work, Legacy of Sigmund Freud
International scholars, musicians and students will gather at Brown University to celebrate the second annual Fall Humanities Weekend, sponsored by the Cogut Center for the Humanities, Oct. 26-28, 2006. This year’s event will focus on the work of the father of psychoanalysis Sigmund Freud and his impact on the humanities. All of the symposia, performances and screenings are free and open to the public.
News Release   06-038    10/18/2006   Baum
Brown Releases Report of the Committee on Slavery and Justice
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has released the report of the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The report, commissioned by Simmons in 2003, outlines the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the transatlantic slave trade and makes recommendations about the ways that the University might fully and accurately acknowledge that past and move forward. The full report and related materials are available on the University’s Web site at www.brown.edu/slaveryjustice.
News Release   06-037    10/18/2006   de Ramel
Brown Students Excavate Site Around First Baptist Church
Providence’s First Baptist Church is the oldest Baptist church in America – but how was the area and its grounds used before The Meeting House was built in 1775? A group of Brown University students enrolled in Anthropology 160 is investigating that question while learning archaeological techniques, as they excavate the property surrounding this historical site.
News Release   06-036    10/11/2006   Baum
Sen. Barack Obama to Deliver Licht Lecture on Public Affairs
Barack Obama, the Democratic junior senator from Illinois, will visit Brown University on Thursday, Oct. 12, 2006, to deliver the Gov. Frank Licht Lecture. “An Evening with Barack Obama,” sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, begins at 9 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. It is free and open to the public. Seating is on a first-come, first-served basis.
News Release   06-033    10/10/2006   Baum
Brown Faculty Inducted to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Geologist James W. Head III, playwright Paula Vogel, and poet Rosmarie Waldrop have been inducted as fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinction of excellence in science, scholarship, business, public affairs and the arts. Head and Vogel are professors at Brown; Waldrop is a visiting scholar.
News Release   06-031    10/07/2006   Baum
Corporation Endorses Stronger International Role for the University
The Corporation of Brown University has endorsed a proposal to increase financial aid resources available to international students, part of an emerging strategic plan to enhance the University’s role in international higher education.
News Release   06-032    10/07/2006   Nickel
Brown Dedicates Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences
Brown University today dedicates the Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences, a research center named for the University’s largest donor and, at $95 million and 169,000 square feet, the largest construction project in University history. M.I.T. President Susan Hockfield delivers the keynote address at the dedication, beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Howard Terrace on the Pembroke campus.
News Release   06-030    10/06/2006   Lawton
"Lines of Sight" Installation to Debut at New Life Sciences Building
Artist Diane Samuels’ two-story multilayered glass installation, Lines of Sight, adorns the elevated glass pedestrian bridge connecting sections of the new Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences. It is the first work commissioned under Brown University’s Percent-for-Art program, which designates a percentage of construction budgets for public art displays. An opening reception is planned for Oct. 5, 2006.
News Release   06-029    09/27/2006   Baum
Environmental Artist to Install Sapling Sculpture on Front Campus
“Whimsical,” “fanciful,” and “hobbit-like” have been used to describe world-renowned artist Patrick Dougherty’s installation work. Commissioned by the Public Art Committee at Brown University, Dougherty will spend three weeks on campus in October creating an organic structure on the Front Campus, fashioned from locally harvested saplings. Volunteers are invited to participate.
News Release   06-028    09/26/2006   Baum
Brown University to Dedicate Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences
MIT President Susan Hockfield will deliver the keynote address as Brown University dedicates the new Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences. Events begin at 9 a.m., Friday, Oct. 6, 2006, with the formal dedication ceremony beginning at 5:30 p.m.Brown University to Dedicate Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences
News Release   06-027    09/25/2006   Lawton
Brown University Advancing Women in Science, Engineering
After making significant gains in recruiting women scientists and engineers, Brown University has won a major award from the National Science Foundation to ensure that these women succeed.
News Release   06-025    09/19/2006   Lawton
Paramecia Adapt Their Swimming to Changing Gravitational Force
Using a high-powered electromagnet, Brown University physicists Karine Guevorkian and James Valles have created a topsy-turvy world for the single-celled paramecium. They have managed to increase, eliminate and even reverse the effects of gravity on the tiny protozoan, changing its swimming behavior and indirectly measuring its swimming force.
News Release   06-024    09/18/2006   Downs
Oldest Writing in the New World Discovered in Veracruz, Mexico
A stone block discovered in the Olmec heartland of Veracruz, Mexico, contains the oldest writing in the New World, says an international team of archaeologists, including Stephen D. Houston of Brown University. The team determined that the block dates to the early first millennium B.C.E. – at least 400 years earlier than scholars previously thought writing existed in the Western hemisphere. The findings are published in Science.
News Release   06-021    09/14/2006   Baum
Brown Receives $26.5-Million Gift for University Scholarships
The Frederic N. Schwartz Trust has given $26.5 million to Brown University on behalf of the late Eleanor H. Schwartz, a member of the Pembroke College Class of 1929, and the late Frederic N. Schwartz. The gift will endow University scholarships for women.
News Release   06-023    09/14/2006   Baum
Brown Engineers Build a Better Battery -- With Plastic
It’s thin, light, flexible – and plastic. Brown University engineers Hyun-Kon Song and Tayhas Palmore have created a prototype polymer-based battery that packs more power than a standard alkaline battery and more storage capacity than a double-layered capacitor. Their work, published in Advanced Materials, will be of interest to the energy, defense and aerospace industries, which are looking at more efficient ways to deliver electricity.
News Release   06-022    09/13/2006   Lawton
Brown Team Creates Uncanny Cell Replicas for Treatment, Research
Is that Schwann cell real – or replica? A Brown University biomedical engineer had a tough time telling apart genuine cells from fakes after casting plastic reproductions of these nervous system support cells out of silicon. The rubbery replicas, described in the journal Langmuir, could be used for all sorts of cell types in laboratory research or medical treatments for repairing nerve damage.
News Release   06-020    09/12/2006   Lawton
Methamphetamine Use Restricts Fetal Growth, Study Finds
Results from the first large-scale, prospective study of prenatal methamphetamine use show that newborns exposed to the drug are more than three times as likely to be born underweight. Appearing in Pediatrics, the findings mirror those from studies of prenatal cocaine use, says Barry Lester, a professor and researcher at Brown Medical School and Women & Infants Hospital.
News Release   06-015    09/05/2006   Lawton
Death of a Parasite: Stripped, Surrounded, Consumed
For the first time, a group of researchers has shown that a parasite can be eliminated through autophagy, a recycling process that normally occurs inside cells. The team, led by George Yap of Brown University, shows that the immune system destroys and disposes of the parasite Toxoplasma gondii by stripping it naked then gobbling it up.
News Release   06-014    08/28/2006   Lawton
Brown's Remote T.V. Interview Studio Is Up and Running
Broadcast media now have quick and easy access to the expertise and informed critical commentary of Brown University faculty. The University has installed a remote broadcast interview facility that can connect faculty experts quickly with broadcast reporters and anchors anywhere in the world. Brown’s Office of Media Relations operates the facility.
News Release   06-012    08/23/2006   de Ramel
Katherine Bergeron to Address Incoming Students September 5
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons will officially open the 2006-07 academic year at Opening Convocation, Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2006. Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will deliver this year’s keynote address to the 2,061 students beginning undergraduate, graduate, and medical studies at Brown. The ceremony begins at noon on The College Green.
News Release   06-013    08/22/2006   Baum
Ten Artists Present Installations at Bell Gallery and List Art Center
The David Winton Bell Gallery and Brown University’s Department of Visual Art present in TRANSIT: from OBJECT to SITE, from Saturday, Sept. 9, through Sunday, Oct. 22, 2006, at Brown University. The collaborative exhibition features a series of installations displayed throughout List Art Center, transforming the modernist architecture of Philip Johnson’s 1971 building into a lively space of diverse multimedia and site-based projects.
News Release   06-011    08/21/2006   Baum
Research Reveals Inner Workings of Immune System 'Thermostat'
The immune system runs hot, sending out inflammatory infection-fighting proteins, then cools down by releasing anti-inflammatory soothers. A Brown University-led research team explains how this “thermostat” works in the Journal of Immunology.
News Release   06-010    08/16/2006   Lawton
The Shape of Life: Research Sheds Light on How Cells Take Shape
Brown University physicists have identified a surprising force in pattern formation – physical force. Results of their work shed important light on how life takes shape inside cells and are published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   06-008    08/03/2006   Lawton
Texas and New Jersey Are Best States for American e-Government
In their seventh annual study, researchers at Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy ranked Texas and New Jersey as the two states with the best online government services. On the federal level, FirstGov.com, a Web portal, was rated best, followed by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Housing and Urban Development.
News Release   06-006    08/01/2006   Goldstein
South Korea Climbs To Top Rank in Global e-Government
Brown University’s Taubman Center for Public Policy has completed its sixth annual analysis of online government services offered by 198 nations around the world. The researchers find that many nations are improving services and providing information for users. The United States ranks fourth, behind South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore.
News Release   06-007    08/01/2006   Goldstein
Campus Compact Students Contribute $5.6B in Community Service
Volunteer hours add up. According to an annual study by Campus Compact, students at the coalition's nearly 1,000 member schools contributed an estimated $5.6 billion worth of service to their communities. Based at Brown University, Campus Compact is a national organization dedicated to fulfilling the civic purposes of higher education.
News Release   06-005    07/24/2006   Goldstein
Controlling Movement Through Thought Alone
For the first time, a team led by Brown University researchers is publishing detailed clinical trial results that show a tiny new brain sensor allowed a quadriplegic to open a prosthetic hand, control a robotic limb and move a computer cursor – using thoughts alone. The work, featured on the cover of Nature, offers important insights into the human brain and how to tap its power to improve the lives of people with spinal cord injury and other severe motor impairments.
News Release   06-002    07/12/2006   Lawton
Stallings Named Director of Watson Institute for International Studies
Barbara Stallings, an international political economist and senior member of the Watson Institute research faculty since 2002, has been appointed the new director of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Stallings will begin her new duties immediately.
News Release   06-004    07/12/2006   de Ramel
Brown Engineers Use DNA to Direct Nanowire Assembly and Growth
A small but growing number of engineers are using nature’s engineer – DNA – to create nanomaterials that can be used in everything from medical devices to computer circuits. A team from Brown University and Boston College is the first to use DNA to direct construction and growth of complex nanowires. Their work appears in Nanotechnology.
News Release   06-003    07/10/2006   Lawton
Problem: Implant Infection. Solution: Nanotech Surfaces
For the first time, engineers have created surfaces for orthopaedic implants that reduce the presence of bacteria. The research, led by Brown University engineer Thomas Webster, may lead to a new class of artificial joints. That is a big market: More than 750,000 Americans undergo knee, hip or shoulder replacement surgery each year.
News Release   06-001    07/06/2006   Lawton
How Cooperation Can Evolve in a Cheater's World
Whether you’re a free-loading virus or a meat-stealing monkey, selfishness pays. So how could cooperators survive in a cheater’s world? Thomas Flatt, a postdoctoral research associate at Brown, was part of a group that created a theoretical model that neatly solves this dilemma, which has stumped evolutionary biologists and social scientists for decades. The trick: Keep the altruists in small groups, away from the swindling horde, where they multiply and migrate.
News Release   05-145    06/29/2006   Lawton
Brown, Oak Ridge Team Up for Materials Science Research
Brown University and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have established a formal affiliation to support research and teaching with an emphasis in materials science, an area of strength at both institutions.
News Release   05-144    06/27/2006   Lawton
Community Involvement Program Joins Brown's Annenberg Institute
The Community Involvement Program will be incorporated into the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University, enhancing the Institute’s efforts to strengthen the success and vitality of urban schools. The grass-roots school reform program was formerly housed at the Steinhardt School of Education at New York University.
News Release   05-142    06/13/2006   Goldstein
Katherine Bergeron Named Dean of the College at Brown University
Katherine Bergeron, professor and chair of the Department of Music at Brown University, has been named dean of the College. Bergeron succeeds Paul Armstrong, who has served since October 2000.
News Release   05-141    06/12/2006   Goldstein
Corporation Names Life Sciences Building, Establishes Professorships
The Corporation of Brown University has voted to name the new $95-million dollar Life Sciences Building after one of the University’s honored benefactors, Sidney E. Frank. The fellows and trustees also approved establishment of four new professorships, voted to expand the size of the Brown Medical School student body, and acted to divest from eight additional companies currently conducting business in Sudan.
News Release   05-140    06/05/2006   Goldstein
Corporation of Brown University Elects Five Trustees
The Corporation of Brown University elected five trustees at its regular spring meeting Friday, May 26, 2006. They will be formally engaged at the next Corporation meeting in October 2006.
News Release   05-139    06/05/2006   Goldstein
Climate History Rewritten: Arctic Ice an Early Arrival
Arctic ice formed about 45 million years ago – roughly 14 million years ahead of previous predictions – according to new research published in Nature. An international team of scientists, including Brown geologist Steven Clemens, says this startling evidence shows that glaciers formed in tandem at Earth’s poles, providing important insights into global climate change.
News Release   05-136    05/31/2006   Lawton
Brown to Commemorate 225th Anniversary of the March to Yorktown
This summer marks the 225th anniversary of the march to Yorktown, Va., where French and American forces won a decisive victory over British troops, thus bringing an end to the major battles of the American Revolutionary War. The Brown University campus, which was an encampment site for French soldiers in June 1781, will commemorate the anniversary on Saturday, June 17, 2006, with a symposium organized by the John Carter Brown Library and a procession from The College Green to the Rhode Island State House.
News Release   05-137    05/30/2006   Goldstein
Advisory: Brown to confer 2,245 degrees at 238th Commencement
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will preside at the University’s 238th Commencement exercises Sunday, May 28, 2006, during which 2,245 degrees will be conferred.
News Release   05-133    05/27/2006   de Ramel
Algae's Protein "Tails" Create Motion -- and Aid Munching
Flagella, the wee whips that set some microorganisms in motion, also help colonies of green algae take in additional nutrients. This finding, made by a team of scientists from University of Arizona and Brown University, may help explain how some organisms make the evolutionary leap to multicellularity.
News Release   05-134    05/26/2006   Lawton
Brown and Affiliated Hospitals Name Zink Emergency Medicine Chief
Brian J. Zink, M.D., is chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Brown Medical School and emergency medicine physician-in-chief at Rhode Island Hospital and The Miriam Hospital.
News Release   05-135    05/26/2006   Lawton
Pomp and Thermodynamics: Brown Graduates First Teacher-Engineer
The Brown University Class of 2006 will include its first teacher-engineer, who graduates this month with a bachelor’s degree in engineering – and a certificate to teach physics in grades seven to 12. This one-of-a-kind teacher preparation program aims to train students to teach physics in an engaging, hands-on style. The program will also address a national shortage of physics teachers.
News Release   05-132    05/23/2006   Lawton
Juliet V. Garcia Will Deliver Baccalaureate Address on May 27, 2006
University of Texas–Brownsville President Juliet V. García will deliver the baccalaureate address to Brown University’s graduating seniors on Saturday, May 27, 2006, at 3 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   05-130    05/22/2006   de Ramel
Paul Volcker To Deliver Ogden Lecture: "Is the U.N. Up to Its Job?"
Economist and former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker, will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Relations on Saturday, May 27, 2006, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. His address titled “Is the U.N. Up to Its Job?” is part of the annual Commencement Forums, offered during Brown University’s Commencement Weekend. The public is welcome.
News Release   05-131    05/22/2006   Goldstein
Annual Commencement Forum Will Honor Sen. Claiborne Pell
Brown University has established an annual Commencement Forum to honor Sen. Claiborne Pell’s 36 years of distinguished service to the United States Senate. The inaugural Pell Forum, on Saturday, May 27, 2006, will be a panel discussion covering areas of particular interest to the Senator during his political career – higher education, the arts, and foreign relations.
News Release   05-129    05/17/2006   Goldstein
Bell Gallery Displays Retrospective of Friedrich St.Florian's Career
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a retrospective of Friedrich St.Florian’s work, opening Friday, May 26, and running through Sunday, July 2, 2006. The exhibition honors the architect at the time of his retirement from teaching and on the occasion of being awarded an honorary degree during Brown University’s 238th Commencement.
News Release   05-128    05/12/2006   Goldstein
David I. Kertzer Named Provost of Brown University
David I. Kertzer, professor and chair of the Department of Anthropology at Brown University, has been named the University’s 10th provost. Kertzer succeeds Robert J. Zimmer, who will leave the University July 1 to become president of the University of Chicago. Brown President Ruth J. Simmons informed the campus community of Kertzer’s appointment by e-mail.
News Release   05-125    05/08/2006   de Ramel
Clyde L. Briant Appointed Vice President for Research
Clyde L. Briant, dean of engineering and the Otis E. Randall University Professor at Brown, has been appointed vice president for research, effective July 1, 2006. Briant succeeds Andries van Dam, the inaugural vice president.
News Release   05-126    05/08/2006   de Ramel
"Believing Africa" Is Haffenreffer Museum's Second On-Campus Exhibition
Brown University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology will open its second on-campus exhibition, Believing Africa, on Saturday, May 27, 2006, in its satellite gallery at Manning Hall. The exhibition, focusing on the diversity of African spiritual beliefs, was co-curated by Brown graduate and undergraduate students.
News Release   05-117    05/03/2006   Goldstein
Brown University and RISD Honor Colleagues in Awards Ceremony
Members of the Brown and RISD communities recognized faculty and student colleagues for their outstanding commitments to teaching and mentoring at Awards Ceremony 2006.
News Release   05-124    05/03/2006   Goldstein
Fussy Babies and Postpartum Depression Linked, Study Finds
Researchers from Brown Medical School and the Rhode Island Department of Health have found a strong association between mothers with symptoms of postpartum depression and those with colicky infants. The study, the first to show such a link using population-based data, will be presented May 2 at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ 2006 Annual Meeting.
News Release   05-114    05/02/2006   Lawton
Successful Treatment of Alcoholism Found in The Doctor's Office
Attention from doctors, nurses and other health professionals, combined with either the drug naltrexone or specialized counseling, is the most effective way to treat alcohol dependence, according to results of the largest clinical trial ever conducted on drug and therapy interventions for alcoholism. Researchers at Brown Medical School ran the largest clinical site for the trial at Roger Williams Medical Center. Results appear in JAMA.
News Release   05-115    05/02/2006   Lawton
Faculty To Present Highest Honor to Sen. Claiborne Pell
During Brown University Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 28, 2006, former U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell, Rhode Island’s longest serving senator, will be presented with the University faculty’s highest honor, the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal.
News Release   05-121    05/02/2006   Goldstein
Provost Robert Zimmer To Speak at Graduate School Convocation
Outgoing Provost Robert J. Zimmer will deliver an address at Brown University’s Graduate School Commencement on Sunday, May 29, 2006, on Lincoln Field. Shankar K. Prasad, a doctoral candidate in political science, will present the student address, titled “A Diverse Community of One: Lessons Learned and Experiences Shared.”
News Release   05-122    05/02/2006   Goldstein
Social Pioneer Geoffrey Canada To Address Medical School Graduates
Geoffrey Canada, acclaimed advocate for inner-city children, will address the 32nd Brown Medical School graduating class Sunday, May 28, 2006, in the First Unitarian Church. Colin Harrington, M.D., a clinical associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, will deliver the faculty address, and Daniel Vázquez, a candidate for the M.D. degree, will deliver the student address. Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Eli Y. Adashi, M.D., will preside.
News Release   05-123    05/02/2006   Lawton
Brown University will confer eight honorary degrees on May 28
Brown University will confer eight honorary degrees during Commencement exercises Sunday, May 28, upon children’s advocate Geoffrey Canada; Juliet V. García, president of the University of Texas at Brownsville; business executive Martin J. Granoff; mental health advocate Kay Redfield Jamison; Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, finance minister of Nigeria; Rhode Island architect Friedrich St. Florian; HIV specialist Suniti Solomon; and economist Paul A. Volcker.
News Release   05-116    05/02/2006   Sweeney
Hurricane Katrina Reshaped Political Map of New Orleans, Report Says
As the Big Easy heads into a mayoral runoff this month between incumbent Ray Nagin and Louisiana Lieutenant Governor Mitch Landreiu, the city may elect a white mayor for the first time in nearly 30 years. A report released by Brown University sociologist John Logan says Hurricane Katrina has reshaped the political map of New Orleans. He found the voice of black neighborhoods has been diminished – a result, he says, that should have been foreseen.
News Release   05-118    05/01/2006   Goldstein
Brown University to Hold 238th Commencement on Sunday, May 28
Chief Marshal L. Roger Hale will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Sunday, May 28, 2006, in one of the nation’s largest and most colorful academic pageants. The procession and academic exercises will cap a three-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend on the Brown campus. Brown University’s 238th Commencement will follow a new plan, for the first time in the history of the University. Due in part to the large size of the Class of 2006, graduates will assemble in front of the First Baptist Church in America, rather than inside.
News Release   05-119    05/01/2006   de Ramel
Women's Sports Pioneers to Attend Inaugural Colloquium at Brown
Well-known sports figures Julie Foudy, Mary Carillo and Donna de Varona will take part in Brown University’s inaugural Sports in Society Colloquium, “Changing the Landscape of Women’s Athletics,” on Friday, May 5, 2006. The night before the Colloquium, there will be special screening of Dare to Dream: The Story of the U.S. Women’s Soccer Team. Both events are open to the public.
News Release   05-120    05/01/2006   Goldstein
Two Brown Faculty, One Visiting Scholar Elected Fellows of AAAS
Geologist James W. Head III, playwright Paula Vogel, and poet Rosmarie Waldrop have been elected fellows of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a distinction of excellence in science, scholarship, business, public affairs and the arts. Head and Vogel are professors at Brown; Rosmarie Waldrop is a visiting scholar.
News Release   05-113    04/25/2006   de Ramel
Digital Media Project Wins Grant and Greenlight from mtvU and Cisco
Four Brown seniors are being awarded the first Digital Incubator award from mtvU, MTV’s 24-hour college network, and Cisco Systems. As part of the initiative, 10 student groups across the country will be funded with a total of $250,000 in grant money and offered a national platform to pioneer the broadband content of tomorrow.
News Release   05-111    04/21/2006   Goldstein
A Young Mars Most Likely to Support Life, New Mineral History Shows
An international team of scientists, including Brown University geologist John Mustard, has created the most comprehensive mineral record of Mars to date. Using data from the European Space Agency’s Mars Express mission, the record shows three distinct geological eras on the Red Planet, with the earliest marked by the presence of water. Results are published in Science.
News Release   05-109    04/20/2006   Lawton
"Dead Zone" Summer Killed Billions of Ocean State Mussels
A “dead zone” that formed in 2001 in Narragansett Bay left a lethal legacy, Brown University research shows. In a study of nine mussel reefs, published in Ecology, researchers report that oxygen-depleted water killed one reef and nearly wiped out the rest. A year later, only one of the nine reefs was recovering. The result was a sharp reduction in the reefs’ ability to filter phytoplankton, a process that helps control “dead zone” formation.
News Release   05-108    04/11/2006   Lawton
60 Minutes Correspondent Ed Bradley to Receive Welles Hangen Award
60 Minutes and CBS News Correspondent Ed Bradley will be presented with Brown University’s Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism on Friday, April 21, 2006, at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall. The award honors the memory of Welles Hangen ’49, a foreign correspondent and broadcast journalist, killed in 1970 while covering the war in Vietnam. Note: Because of schedule conficts, the award ceremony has been postponed to the fall semester. See update: 05-107p.
News Release   05-107    04/10/2006   Goldstein
Brown University Geologists Create 5-Million-Year Climate Record
Brown University geologists have created the longest continuous record of ocean surface temperatures, dating back 5 million years. The record shows slow, steady cooling in the eastern equatorial Pacific, a finding that challenges the notion that the Ice Ages alone sparked a global cooling trend. Results are published in Science.
News Release   05-106    04/06/2006   Lawton
Children's Defense Fund Founder Marian Wright Edelman to Speak
Award-winning author and children’s advocate Marian Wright Edelman will address the Brown community in the sixth annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, April 11, 2006. Her speech, “Stand Up for Children Now, ” will be held at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The event is free and open to the public.
News Release   05-105    04/03/2006   Goldstein
Friction-Reduction Recipe: Add Two Atoms and Lots of Heat
Get molecules moving, atom bumping against atom, and friction is bound to follow. Or does it? Surprising Brown University and University of Southern California research shows that under certain conditions in liquids, molecular motion destroys – rather than creates – friction. The work, published in Science, may rewrite the rulebook for chemical reactions.
News Release   05-101    03/30/2006   Lawton
Brown University To Host 2006 Ivy Film Festival April 5-9
Student filmmakers and film industry professionals will come together for the 2006 Ivy Film Festival at Brown University April 5-9, 2006. The festival will showcase 36 student films and include advance screenings of eight feature films. Michael Showalter, a 1992 Brown graduate, writer and director of The Baxter, will give the keynote address on Friday, April 7. All events are open to the public.
News Release   05-104    03/29/2006   Goldstein
Teens and Sleep Poll a Wake-Up Call, Pediatric Sleep Experts Say
New poll data from the National Sleep Foundation shows that only one in five teen-agers gets a full night’s sleep, negatively affecting school performance, driving and mood. Researchers at Brown Medical School and affiliates Bradley Hospital and Hasbro Children’s Hospital are national experts in pediatric sleep and call the results a “wake-up call” for parents.
News Release   05-100    03/28/2006   Lawton
Two Brown Undergraduates Awarded Goldwater Scholarships
Two Brown University juniors, Kartik Pattabiraman and Brenda Rubenstein, have been selected as Barry M. Goldwater Scholars for the 2006-2007 academic year. The scholarship program is designed to encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering.
News Release   05-098    03/21/2006   Goldstein
Brown Corporation Puts Six Companies Off-Limits for Investment
The Advisory and Executive Committee of the Brown Corporation has designated six companies for exclusion from University investment because of the support they provide for the repressive regime in Sudan. The A&E’s specific action today (March 17, 2006) follows the full Corporation’s decision last month to divest from companies that facilitate Sudanese oppression in Darfur.
News Release   05-096    03/17/2006   Nickel
Brown, Microsoft To Announce Pen-Based Computing Alliance
Brown University and Microsoft Research will hold a joint press conference at 1 p.m. Monday, March 20, 2006, at the Watson Center for Information Technology to announce the first academic research program in the nation dedicated to pen-centric computing innovation.
News Release   05-095a    03/16/2006   Lawton
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton To Deliver Inaugural Lecture
Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton will visit Brown University to deliver the inaugural lecture of the Doherty-Granoff Forum on Women Leaders on Saturday, April 8, 2006. Her address begins at 7:45 p.m. in Meehan Auditorium. Tickets will be available to holders of active Brown IDs beginning Friday, March 17. The Office of Media Relations will issue press credentials for reporters covering the event.
News Release   05-094    03/15/2006   Goldstein
Federal Science Chief to Speak on Basic Research Funding
Raymond L. Orbach, director of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy, will visit Brown University on Friday, March 10, 2006, to see science demonstrations and discuss federal funding for basic research. Gov. Donald L. Carcieri will accompany Orbach during his visit.
News Release   05-090    03/09/2006   Lawton
Provost Robert J. Zimmer To Become University of Chicago President
The Board of Trustees of the University of Chicago has received a recommendation from its Presidential Search Committee that Robert J. Zimmer, currently provost of Brown University, be elected the University of Chicago’s next president. Chicago’s Board will act on the recommendation at a special meeting Friday, March 10, 2006. President Simmons’ message to Brown’s faculty, staff and students, sent Thursday morning, March 9, follows here.
News Release   05-091    03/09/2006   Nickel
Brown Hosts Conference on Closing School Readiness Gaps
Early childhood leaders will meet at Brown University on March 8 to discuss how to best prepare minority children for success at school. The conference, co-sponsored by Brown’s Center for Human Development and Rhode Island KIDS COUNT, will feature remarks by Columbia University professor Jeanne Brooks-Gunn and Providence Schools Superintendent Donnie Evans.
News Release   05-088    03/02/2006   Lawton
New Class of Compounds Promise Better Drugs, Clean Energy
Brown University chemists have created a new class of compounds that promise to produce prescription drugs more cheaply as well as to provide models for hydrogen storage – a key feature for clean energy production and use. The work has landed in top journals, including a cover of Chemical Communications this month, and has prompted two patent filings.
News Release   05-087    02/28/2006   Lawton
Featured Events at Brown University through March 13
Featured Events is a listing of University lectures, performances and exhibitions of interest to the general public. Unless otherwise indicated, all events are open to the public without charge. For additional information, contact the Featured Events editor at (401) 863-2478 or visit www.brown.edu/news.
News Release   05-086    02/27/2006   Goldstein
Corporation Approves 8.2% FY07 Budget Increase, Sets Tuition and Fees
The Corporation of Brown University has approved a fiscal year 2007 consolidated budget of $664.1 million, an 8.2-percent increase over FY06. Total undergraduate fees will rise 4.7 percent to $43,754, including a 5-percent rise in tuition to $33,888.
News Release   05-083    02/25/2006   Nickel
Brown Votes to Divest from Sudan in Response to Genocide
Brown University's governing board voted to divest the University from companies supporting and facilitating the Sudanese government in its continuing sponsorship of genocidal actions and human rights violations in Darfur.
News Release   05-084    02/25/2006   Goldstein
Corporation Accepts Gifts, Approves Appointments
Funding from Brown graduates Artemis A.W. Joukowsky and Martha Sharp Joukowsky was accepted by the Corporation at its meeting today, allowing the University to immediately establish the Joukowsky Family Professorship in Archaeology within The Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World. The Corporation also accepted a number of significant anonymous gifts to a wide range of disciplines – from history to the creative arts – and made new staff appointments.
News Release   05-085    02/25/2006   de Ramel
One Nation Indivisible? Experts to Discuss Persistence of Class in America
Some of the nation’s leading voices on class issues in America will gather at Brown University on March 6 and 7, 2006, for the 26th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference, titled “One Nation Indivisible? The Persistence of Class in American Culture.” Author and The New York Times columnist David Brooks will deliver the keynote address, the Michael P. Metcalf–Howard R. Swearer Memorial Lecture. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   05-082    02/21/2006   Goldstein
Brown Community Invited to Planning Meeting
Brown University will present a review of its Institutional Master Plan, including the University’s role in the Thayer Street Improvement District, to all members of the Brown Community on Wednesday, March 1, 2006. The meeting will be held at Brown Hillel, the Glenn and Darcy Weiner Hillel Center for Jewish Life, from 5 to 7 p.m.
News Release   05-081    02/21/2006   deRamel
Sen. Reed To Give Ogden Lecture: President Bush and The Long War
U.S. Sen. Jack Reed (D-R.I.) will visit Brown University to deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture on International Affairs on Friday, March 3, 2006. His address, “President Bush and the Long War: Are Slogans Enough?” begins at 6 p.m. in the List Arts Center, 64 College St. It is free and open to the public. Reed will be available for press interviews.
News Release   05-076    02/15/2006   Goldstein
A Surprising Pair of Proteins Help Make Healthy Eggs
Biologists at Brown University and the University of California–Berkeley have discovered that two proteins team up to turn on an assortment of ovarian genes critical to the production of healthy eggs. This finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, sheds important light on the biochemical processes underpinning fertility.
News Release   05-075    02/15/2006   Lawton
A Fresh Spin in Quantum Physics: The 'Spin Triple' Supercurrent
For the first time, scientists have created a “spin triplet” supercurrent through a ferromagnet over a long distance. Achieved with a magnet developed at Brown University and the University of Alabama, the feat upends long-standing theories of quantum physics – and may be a boon to the budding field of “spintronics,” where the spin of electrons, along with their charge, is harnessed to power computer chips and circuits. Results are published in Nature.
News Release   05-078    02/15/2006   Lawton
Landmark Study of Bipolar Disorder in Children, Teens Released
Compared with adults, children and teen-agers with bipolar disorder struggle with longer-lasting and more rapidly changing symptoms. This is the initial finding of the largest, most comprehensive study of young people with bipolar disorder, conducted by researchers at Brown Medical School, the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. Results of the study are published in the Archives of General Psychiatry.
News Release   05-074    02/14/2006   Lawton
Survey: Chafee Narrowly Leads Opponents; Brown Leads Whitehouse
A statewide survey of 785 Rhode Island voters, conducted Feb. 4-6, 2006, finds Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a close race with his likely Democratic challengers and Gov. Donald Carcieri with an 11-point lead over Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty. A majority of Rhode Island voters say they are unprepared for a major hurricane. Questions and Answers are included.
News Release   05-073    02/08/2006   Nickel
Aging Cells, Aging Body: Fresh Evidence for a Connection
When cells age and stop dividing, how much do they contribute to whole-body aging? Brown University research strengthens the case for a strong connection by providing evidence that non-dividing or “replicatively senescent” cells can be found in large numbers in old animals. The research, led by John Sedivy, is the first to quantify the presence of these cells in any species. Results are published by Science.
News Release   05-071    02/02/2006   Lawton
Brown University Library Collections Annex To Open Officially
The Library Collections Annex at Brown University will officially open on Feb. 3, 2006, with a ribbon-cutting ceremony by President Ruth Simmons. Planning for the high-density storage facility has been in the works for more than a decade and is one outcome of Brown’s billion-dollar Plan for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   05-070    01/30/2006   Goldstein
Intercollegiate Athletics at Brown Undergoes Routine Review by NCAA
Brown University has undertaken a comprehensive study of its intercollegiate athletics program as required every 10 years by the NCAA. President Ruth J. Simmons has appointed a steering committee whose members will collect and review data, gain broad campus input, and produce a report for the NCAA. Brown received a status of certified, without conditions, after its last review in 1997.
News Release   05-069    01/27/2006   Sweeney
Brown Creates First In-Depth Demographic Analysis of Katrina's Impact
The images were accurate: The Gulf Coast’s poor, black residents were hit hardest by Hurricane Katrina, according to findings by a Brown University sociologist. Professor John Logan’s new research is the first of its kind from the disaster zone and raises provocative questions about the future population of New Orleans.
News Release   05-068    01/25/2006   Goldstein
Brown's ArtsLiteracy Project Receives White House Award
The ArtsLiteracy Project, based in the Education Department at Brown University, was nationally recognized at the White House Jan. 25, 2006. The program received the 2005 Coming Up Taller Award, which recognizes outstanding community arts and humanities programs that celebrate the creativity of America’s youth.
News Release   05-067    01/25/2006   Goldstein
President of United Negro College Fund to Give 10th MLK Jr. Lecture
Michael L. Lomax, president and CEO of the United Negro College Fund, will deliver Brown University’s 10th annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Monday, Feb. 6, 2006, at 5:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture, titled “Coming of Age With King,” is free and open to the public.
News Release   05-064    01/23/2006   Goldstein
HIV Prevention Hope: Yogurt Bugs That Make Antiviral Drugs
A research team lead by Bharat Ramratnam, a Brown Medical School professor, has genetically modified bacteria found in yogurt so that the bugs produce a protein proven to block HIV infection in monkeys. The results offer hope for a microbicide that can prevent the spread of HIV, which now affects about 40 million people.
News Release   05-066    01/23/2006   Lawton
Brown, R.I. Department of Health Team up for Public Health Training
From bird flu to bioterrorism, epidemiology to environmental health, Rhode Island health leaders this year can learn about topics critical to improving public health, through a new training program planned by Brown Medical School and the Rhode Island Department of Health.
News Release   05-063    01/12/2006   Lawton
Noguchi Sculpture To Be Removed From The College Green
Internationally acclaimed artist Isamu Noguchi’s 10-foot sculpture To Tallness will be removed from The College Green on Thursday, Jan. 12, 2006. The work has been on loan from the Isamu Noguchi Foundation for the last three years as part of the Art on Campus Program, established by Brown University’s Public Art Committee.
News Release   05-060    01/11/2006   Goldstein
Brown Approves Arming Campus Police Officers, Effective Immediately
In December 2003, Brown University announced that it would arm its campus police officers and directed the Department of Public Safety to begin the necessary testing, training, policy development and other preparations. In a letter e-mailed to all Brown faculty, staff and students today (Jan. 11, 2006), Brown President Ruth J. Simmons announced that preparations were complete and that the University’s licensed campus police officers would be armed, effective immediately. The text of President Simmons’s letter follows here.
News Release   05-061    01/11/2006   Nickel
Edward L. Widmer Named New Director of John Carter Brown Library
Edward L. Widmer has been appointed director and librarian of the John Carter Brown Library, marking the library’s first change in leadership in 23 years. Prior to this, Widmer served as inaugural director of the C.V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience and associate professor of history at Washington College in Chestertown, Md. He will begin his new post July 1, 2006.
News Release   05-062    01/10/2006   Goldstein
Bell Gallery To Show Work of Joseph Beuys from New England Collections
Another View of Joseph Beuys: Multiples from New England Collections brings together more than 100 works by “one of the most significant figures in contemporary art” at Brown University’s David Winton Bell Gallery. The exhibition, coinciding with the 20th anniversary of the German artist’s death, runs Saturday, Jan. 28, through March 8, 2005. An opening reception will be held Friday, Jan. 27.
News Release   05-058    01/06/2006   Goldstein
Not So Different After All: Mysterious Eye Cells Adapt To Light
Unlike their cousins, rods and cones, newly discovered retinal cells don’t aid sight in a traditional sense. Instead, they constrict the eye’s pupil and set the body’s circadian clock. But new research from Brown University – where the photoreceptors were discovered by David Berson and colleagues – shows that these cells are sensitive to lighting conditions in a manner similar to rods and cones. Results appear in Neuron.
News Release   05-059    01/04/2006   Lawton
$1.1M of Sidney Frank Gift Will Fund 'Recovery Semester' Scholarships
With the endorsement of philanthropist Sidney E. Frank, Brown University will use $1.1 million of Frank’s $5-million hurricane relief gift to establish “recovery semester” scholarships next semester at Dillard University and Xavier University of Louisiana, both in New Orleans, and Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss. The scholarships will help students resume or continue their studies and will help provide the schools with sufficient numbers of students to begin the return to normal operations.
News Release   05-056    12/21/2005   Nickel
Brown Sends Avian Flu Advisory as Holiday Travel Season Begins
As students, faculty and staff prepare for holiday travel, senior administrators at Brown University sent an e-mail advisory to the campus community, offering health information and providing a list of information resources about avian flu. The text of that message follows here.
News Release   05-057    12/21/2005   Nickel
What Can Change In The Brain? Electrical Synapses, Research Shows
Plasticity – the brain’s ability to change based on experience and its own activity – is a key to critical functions such as making memories. Brown University scientists are the first to show that neural activity causes long-lasting changes in electrical synapses in the brains of mammals. Results are published in Science.
News Release   05-055    12/15/2005   Lawton
Study Evaluates Criminal Justice Handling of R.I. Statutory Rape Cases
A study of all statutory rape cases brought before Rhode Island Superior Court from 1985 through 2002 finds evidence of significant leniency. The study, conducted at Brown’s Taubman Center for Public Policy by Ross Cheit, Laura Braslow and Veena Srinivasa, makes recommendations to improve the performance of the criminal justice system in cases of statutory rape.
News Release   05-053    12/08/2005   Nickel
Katrina: From Disaster to Renewal
Brown University will host a colloquium, “Katrina: From Disaster to Renewal,” on Saturday, Dec. 3, 2005, from 12:30 p.m. – 6 p.m. in Sayles Hall. The event is free and open to the public, featuring a conversation with Brown President Ruth J. Simmons and Marvalene Hughes, president of Dillard University; a reading by Brenda Osbey, poet laureate of Louisiana; and panel discussions from Rhode Islanders who were among the first to respond to the catastrophe on the Gulf Coast.
News Release   05-051    11/30/2005   DeRamel
Brown Community Invited to Review of Institutional Master Plan
Brown will present a review of its Institutional Master Plan, including parking and traffic concerns, to all members of the Brown community, Tuesday December 13, 2005, in the Vartan Gregorian Lounge, from 5 to 7 p.m.
News Release   05-052    11/30/2005   Montgomery
Brown University Releases Economic and Cultural Impact Report
A new independent report released today by Brown University, concludes that Brown directly or indirectly accounted for more than 7,500 Rhode Island jobs and $753 million in statewide economic output in 2005. The report, prepared by Appleseed Inc. of New York City, cites new opportunities for partnerships in building a knowledge-based economy for Rhode Island.
News Release   05-050    11/22/2005   Chapman
The Impossible Is Possible: Laser Light from Silicon
Silicon has made its way into everything from computers to cameras. But a silicon laser? Physically impossible – until now. A Brown University research team led by Jimmy Xu has engineered the first directly pumped silicon laser by changing the structure of the silicon crystal through a novel nanoscale technique. Results appear in an advanced online publication of Nature Materials.
News Release   05-049    11/21/2005   Lawton
Decrease Cancer-Suppressing Protein Activity, Increase Life Span
Too much production of the p53 protein shortens life span. Not enough can cause cancer. New research, headed up by Brown University biologist Stephen Helfand, shows that the health benefits of this protective protein can be harnessed – and longer life can be achieved – when its activity is decreased in the neurons of fruit flies. These findings, published in Current Biology, offer the first evidence that p53 can play a positive role in aging.
News Release   05-047    11/21/2005   Lawton
Todd Andrews named Vice President for Alumni Relations
Todd G. Andrews, currently director of corporate communications for the CVS Corporation, has been named vice president for alumni relations at Brown University. Andrews, a 1983 graduate of Brown, will begin his duties Nov. 22, 2005.
News Release   05-048    11/18/2005   DeRamel
Less Sleep, More Struggles for Elementary and Middle School Students
Elementary and middle school students have more learning and attention problems when they sleep eight hours or less at night, according to Brown Medical School and Bradley Hospital researchers. Their study – the first to ask teachers to report on sleep restriction effects – points up the importance of sleep when assessing the causes of, and treatments for, learning difficulties in children. Study results appear in the December issue of the journal SLEEP.
News Release   05-046    11/10/2005   Lawton
NSF Grant Supports Materials Research Science and Engineering Center
The National Science Foundation has awarded Brown University $9.4 million to continue the work of the Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, a project aimed at creating new or more reliable materials for industries such electronics and aerospace. The center also provides materials science education and training to public school students and teachers as well as undergraduates.
News Release   05-044    11/10/2005   Lawton
Brown University Scientists Testing Toxicity of Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials can be found in everything from cosmetics to concrete to car bumpers. But are these atomic-scale tubes, fibers, spheres, crystals and films safe? A multidisciplinary team of scientists at Brown University is testing nanomaterial toxicity with funding from the National Science Foundation.
News Release   05-045    11/10/2005   Lawton
Humanities Take Center Stage at Brown During Nov. 4-7 Celebration
Architects, scholars and performers blazing new trails in interactive media will gather at Brown University to celebrate Fall Humanities Weekend Nov. 4-7, sponsored by the University’s new Cogut Center for the Humanities. Many of the symposia, performances and workshops are open to the public without charge.
News Release   05-042    10/26/2005   Sweeney
National Experts To Discuss Science of Child Development
Three of the nation’s leading experts on public policy and preschool children will discuss the science of early childhood development Monday, Oct. 17, 2005, at the 2005 Lipsitt-Duchin Lectures in Child Behavior and Development. The presentations will be offered from 4 to 6 p.m. in MacMillan Hall at Brown University.
News Release   05-035    10/13/2005   Lawton
NIH Grants $11 Million to Brown University for Cancer Research
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Brown University a five-year, $11-million Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant. The funding will allow researchers to explore how healthy cells become cancerous – knowledge critical to finding cures for the second leading cause of death in the United States.
News Release   05-033    10/06/2005   Lawton
Professor's Film about Women Painters of Naya Premieres Oct. 5
Brown University Anthropology Professor Lina Fruzzetti’s award-winning documentary, Singing Pictures: Women Painters of Naya, will premiere on campus on Wednesday, Oct. 5, 2005, at 7 p.m. in 120 List Art Center. Fruzzetti and the three artists featured in the film will be in attendance. The screening is part of a week’s worth of opportunities to meet the artists, view their works and hear their songs.
News Release   05-034    10/03/2005   Sweeney
Committee To Begin Year with Workshop on Legacies of U.S. Slavery
Brown University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice will offer a workshop and a speaker series as its on-campus program for the fall semester. The committee was charged to investigate the University’s historical relationship to slavery and the slave trade and to organize public events about the historical, legal, political, and moral questions that this history raises. The committee is due to issue its report at the end of the year.
News Release   05-032    09/27/2005   Nickel
Brown Licenses Internet ID Verification Technology to Startup Firm
Brown University has licensed a portfolio of Internet security technology to a group of entrepreneurs that has established IAM Technology Inc. The technology, developed by Brown Computer Science Professor Roberto Tamassia and associates, provides a rapid way to validate identity on Internet domains. Brown will retain an equity stake in IAM Technology.
News Release   05-031    09/20/2005   Nickel
Nozaki Named Associate Dean of the College, Director of Swearer Center
Roger Nozaki, executive director of the General Electric Foundation, has been named an associate dean of the College and director of the Howard R. Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University. Nozaki, who earned a Master of Arts in Teaching at Brown in 1989, will begin his duties Nov. 1, 2005.
News Release   05-030    09/19/2005   Sweeney
Breast Cancer Screening Trial Shows Digital Mammogram Benefits
Results of one of the largest breast cancer screening trials show that digital mammography detects significantly more cancers than film mammography in younger women and in women with dense breasts. The American College of Radiology Imaging Network (ACRIN) conducted the trial in conjunction with the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown Medical School. The New England Journal of Medicine reports the results.
News Release   05-029    09/16/2005   Lawton
Indian Foreign Minister Will Present Major Public Address Sept. 23
K. Natwar Singh, India’s minister of external affairs, will deliver “The Argument for India,” his only major public address while in the United States, at Brown University on Friday, Sept. 23, at 2:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall, located on The College Green. The lecture is open to the public without charge. [News Release   05-027    09/15/2005   Sweeney
Survey: Chafee Leads Laffey, Whitehouse Leads Brown for Senate Nominations
A statewide survey of 449 Rhode Island voters conducted Sept. 10-11, 2005, finds that U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee leads Cranston Mayor Stephen Laffey in the campaign for the Republican senatorial nomination, while former Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse is ahead of Secretary of State Matt Brown for the Democratic nomination. Only 25 percent of R.I. voters believe President Bush is doing an excellent or good job.
News Release   05-026    09/13/2005   Nickel
Biologist Kenneth Miller Addresses Brown's 242nd Opening Convocation
Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology at Brown University, delivered the keynote address at the University’s 242nd Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005. The text of that address is also available.
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Podcast   TEST    09/09/2005   TEST
Utah and Maine Lead All States in Online Government Services
Brown University’s sixth annual review of digital government in the 50 states and major federal agencies ranks Utah and Maine as leading states and the White House and State Department at the top among federal sites.
News Release   05-023    09/08/2005   Nickel
MELT Data Sheds New and Surprising Light on Birth of Oceanic Plates
In the first joint interpretation of data from the landmark MELT study, a team of scientists including Donald Forsyth of Brown University has found unexpected changes in the patterns of seismic velocity and electrical conductivity near the East Pacific Rise, changes due to dehydration and cooling. Results are published in Nature.
News Release   05-020    09/08/2005   Lawton
Brown and Cyberkinetics Sign Collaborative Research Agreement
Brown University and Cyberkinetics Neurotechnology Systems Inc. have signed a research and licensing agreement under which eligible neuroscience researchers at Brown will have access to human clinical data gathered during testing of the BrainGate™ Neural Interface System.
News Release   05-012    09/08/2005   Nickel
Bell Gallery Presents the Photography of Kerry Stuart Coppin
Kerry Stuart Coppin’s images of the trans-Atlantic black experience will be on display at the Bell Gallery through October. Coppin, who joined the Brown faculty this fall, has gathered images since 1990 for the exhibit Kerry Stuart Coppin: Materia Oscura/Dark Matter.
News Release   05-017    09/07/2005   Nickel
JAMA Study: Long Hours Equal to Alcohol in Impairing Young Doctors
After long hours on call, medical residents’ performance on attention tests and on a driving simulator was comparable to, or worse than, their performance after consuming moderate amounts of alcohol, according to a study conducted by experts at Brown Medical School and the University of Michigan. Results of the first-ever research are published in JAMA.
News Release   05-018    09/06/2005   Lawton
Sidney Frank Provides $5M To Support Brown's Hurricane Relief Effort
Sidney E. Frank, a 1942 alumnus of Brown University, is providing $5 million in support of the University’s efforts to provide relief for students and faculty at colleges and universities that were damaged by Hurricane Katrina.
News Release   05-021    09/06/2005   Nickel
NASA's Deep Impact Team Releases First Snapshot of Comet Tempel 1
Comet Tempel 1, source of NASA’s July 4 fireworks, is coated in a powdery layer of dust and bears evidence of other celestial collisions, according to first results from the Deep Impact mission published in Science and presented at the Division for Planetary Sciences meeting. Peter Schultz, professor of geological sciences at Brown University, was a co-investigator on the mission team.
News Release   05-022    09/06/2005   Lawton
After Hurricane Katrina: "We are fortunate to be in a position to help"
In an e-mail message to the campus community, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons outlined steps the University is taking in response to the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina. The text of the President’s message follows here.
News Release   05-016    09/02/2005   Nickel
Students in Brown residence halls to have free access to Napster
Students who live in University residence halls will have free access to digital music through Napster. Brown worked closely with Campus Action Network, an industry group, to arrange the one-year pilot project.
News Release   05-014    09/01/2005   Nickel
Biologist Kenneth Miller To Deliver 2005 Opening Convocation Address
Professor of Biology Kenneth R. Miller, known nationally for his support of evolution and the scientific method and for his opposition to creationism or intelligent design in public school science curricula, will deliver the keynote address at Brown University’s 242nd Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 6, 2005. The ceremony, in which Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will officially open the 2005-06 academic year, begins at noon on The College Green.
News Release   05-013    09/01/2005   Nickel
Brown To Purchase 121 South Main, Former Old Stone Bank Building
Brown University has agreed to purchase 121 South Main Street, the former Old Stone Square. The building, at the foot of College Hill and convenient to University units in the Jewelry District, has 11 floors of commercial space. The University will manage the facility as a fully taxable commercial property and will honor all leases for the foreseeable future.
News Release   05-010    08/12/2005   Nickel
Mesa CC, Brown receive NSF Advanced Technology Education Grant
Supported by a three-year, $600,000 grant from the National Science Foundation, Mesa Community College (Mesa, Ariz.) and Brown University (Providence, R.I.) will develop pioneering curriculum modules for teaching digital visual literacy. As international culture and commerce become increasingly reliant on visual communications, visual literacy is becoming an essential skill for college graduates. Andries van Dam is co-principal investigator.
News Release   05-009    08/05/2005   Nickel
Researchers Reveal Secret of Key Protein in Brain and Heart Function
Brown University researchers have solved the structure of a critical piece of SAP97, a protein used to keep hearts beating and brains learning. Results, reported by Dale Mierke in The Journal of Biological Chemistry, put science a step closer to understanding how this protein aids in brain and heart function.
News Release   05-006    07/29/2005   Lawton
Brown Grad Student's Seismic Study Shakes Up Plate Tectonics
In a surprising study in Nature, a team led by a Brown University graduate student shows that a sharp boundary exists between the Earth’s hard outermost shell and a more pliable layer beneath, a difference in geological strength underpinning plate tectonic theory. The findings are strong evidence that temperature alone can’t account for differences between the regions, which allow plate tectonics to occur.
News Release   05-005    07/28/2005   Lawton
James Miller Named Dean of Admission at Brown University
James S. Miller, currently dean of admissions and financial aid at Bowdoin College, has been named dean of admission at Brown University, succeeding Michael Goldberger. Miller will begin his duties at Brown Aug. 29, 2005.
News Release   05-002    07/14/2005   Nickel
$1.16-Million Grant Establishes Postdoctoral Program in the Humanities
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has given a five-year, $1.16-million grant to Brown University to establish postdoctoral fellowships in the humanities. In addition to offering professional development to recent Ph.D.s, the program will help establish ties between departments and the University's new Cogut Humanities Center, enrich the curriculum, and promote multidisciplinary research initiatives.
News Release   05-001    07/05/2005   Sweeney
When It Comes To Cell Entry, Being Average Has Its Advantages
Mid-sized viruses, nanotubes and other bioparticles are more likely to get through receptors, or cellular gates, than smaller or bigger versions. L.B. Freund, professor of engineering at Brown University, and colleagues at the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research have published a model showing an optimal size for cell entry – an idea that can be exploited in drug design – in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   04-149    06/21/2005   Lawton
Corporation of Brown University Elects Nine Trustees
The Corporation of Brown University elected nine trustees at its regular spring meeting Friday, May 27, 2005: Richard A. Friedman, Frederic B. Garonzik, James B. Garvin, Cathy Frank Halstead, Karen M. Levy, Carmen Garcia Rodriguez, Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar, Charles M. Rosenthal, and William H. Twaddell. The Corporation also accepted major gifts, established three endowed positions and formally approved and adopted the University’s revised policy on intellectual property.
News Release   04-146    06/15/2005   Nickel
Overly Tired Teen? Sleepiness May Signal Serious Health Problem
In a major new report in Pediatrics, doctors who care for young adults are warned that computer games and caffeine may not be the only sources of teen sleep deprivation. Sleep apnea, depression and other medical disorders could be to blame, according to the report by Richard Millman, M.D., and other researchers at Brown University. The report has been endorsed by the American Academy of Pediatrics.
News Release   04-145    06/06/2005   Lawton
Help Us Find Your Next School Superintendent
A 20-member search committee, chaired by Brown President Ruth J. Simmons, will help find the next superintendent of Providence schools. The committee is asking Providence residents for their best thinking, either through an online questionnaire or at two community forums.
Op-Ed   04-139    05/31/2005   Simmons
Ogden Lecture: “Human Rights and Women’s Rights in Afghanistan”
Dr. Sima Samar, chair of the Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission, delivered a Ste-phen A. Ogden Jr. ‘60 Memorial Lecture on International Relations Saturday, May 28, 2005, in Sayles Hall on the Brown University Campus. The lecture was part of the 35th annual Commencement Forums, offered during the University’s 237th Commencement. The text of Samar’s address follows here.
News Release   04-143    05/28/2005   Samar
Brown to confer 2,094 degrees at 237th Commencement May 29, 2005
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will preside at the University’s 237th Commencement exercises Sunday, May 29, 2005, during which 2,094 degrees will be conferred.
News Release   04-141    05/27/2005   Nickel
Sage Morgan-Hubbard and Joshua Wilson To Deliver Senior Orations
Sage Xaxua Morgan-Hubbard of Hyattsville, Md., and Joshua Isaiah Wilson of Haleyville, Ala., will deliver senior orations to their classmates on Sunday, May 29, at 12:20 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in America. Morgan-Hubbard’s address is titled “Story and Voice: Passing on Brown’s Legacy,” and Wilson’s address is titled “Dreams, Diversity and Dixie.”
News Release   04-140    05/26/2005   Montgomery
Exhibition Celebrates Launch of Library’s Public Online Image Database
Imagining America/Imaging America, an exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University, features an eclectic sampling of images newly available to the public through the Archive of Early American Images, the library’s online database of images found in books printed between 1493 and about 1825.
News Release   04-138    05/24/2005   Sweeney
Rebecca Barnes Named Director of Strategic Growth at Brown University
Rebecca G. Barnes has been named director of strategic growth at Brown University. She will begin her duties in mid-June, overseeing and coordinating the University’s potential expansion beyond its College Hill campus.
News Release   04-131    05/16/2005   Nickel
Harriette Hemmasi Will Join Brown University as University Librarian
Harriette Hemmasi, executive associate dean of libraries at Indiana University–Bloomington, will become the Joukowsky Family University Librarian at Brown University. Hemmasi will oversee the six libraries in the University library system and will provide leadership in supporting the University’s Plan for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   04-133    05/16/2005   Sweeney
Sheila Bonde to become dean of the Graduate School in July
Sheila Bonde, an internationally renowned scholar in medieval French art and architecture and a member of the Brown University faculty for more than 20 years, will become dean of the Brown Graduate School, succeeding Karen Newman. She will begin her duties in July.
News Release   04-134    05/16/2005   Nickel
International Group To Create Clinical Trial Registry Guidelines
On May 23, Brown University professor Kay Dickersin will join a group of international health policy experts in Portland, Ore., to create a blueprint for a global clinical trials registry. Controversy over the effects of antidepressants in children has sparked a move toward registration of drug trials, which could help ensure that research results are complete, accurate and publicly available.
News Release   04-0137    05/16/2005   Lawton
Anti-Tobacco Advocate To Address 2005 Medical School Graduates
Dileep Bal, M.D., former American Cancer Society president and chief of California’s leading-edge tobacco control program, will address the 30th Brown Medical School graduating class Sunday, May 29, 2005, in the First Unitarian Church. Joseph Diaz, M.D., assistant professor of medicine, will deliver the faculty address, and Robert Gray, a candidate for the M.D. degree, will deliver the student address. Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Eli Adashi, M.D., will preside at his first Brown Medical School Commencement.
News Release   04-132    05/12/2005   Lawton
Actress Phylicia Rashad Will Deliver Baccalaureate Address on May 28
Award-winning actress Phylicia Rashad will deliver the baccalaureate address to Brown University’s graduating seniors on Saturday, May 28, 2005, at 3:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   04-128    05/11/2005   Sweeney
Oskar Eustis Will Speak at Graduate School Convocation May 29
Oskar Eustis, chair of the Brown University/Trinity Repertory Consortium, will deliver “In and of the World,” the Graduate School Commencement address, at 11:15 a.m. Sunday, May 29, 2005, on Lincoln Field. Luk Chong Yeung, a doctoral candidate in physics, will present the student address titled “Our Miracle Year.”
News Release   04-127    05/09/2005   Sweeney
Brown University To Hold 237th Commencement on Sunday, May 29
Brown University’s 237th Commencement will follow a new schedule, with academic exercises taking place on Sunday rather than Monday of Memorial Day Weekend. Chief Marshal Artemis Joukowsky will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Sunday, May 29, 2005, in one of the nation’s largest and most colorful academic pageants. The procession and academic exercises will cap a three-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend on the Brown campus.
News Release   04-124    05/06/2005   Nickel
Researchers Develop Promising New Gene Network Analysis Method
Mapping the interactions between thousands of genes is critical to understanding human development and disease. Leon Cooper and John Sedivy led a research team from Brown University with colleagues at Università di Bologna and Tel Aviv University to develop a sensitive, reliable tool for analyzing these connections, based on an innovative experiment using a notorious cancer protein. The result: potential treatment targets.
News Release   04-125    05/06/2005   Lawton
Pierre Mujomba: A Writer in Exile
Pierre Mujomba, Brown's second International Writers Project Fellow, is a writer in exile. "In the Congo, writing is never one's first activity," says the Congolese playwright. "There are no publishers and you won't be published, so most people don't have the courage to write."
   050605e    05/06/2005   Curtis
Brown University Will Confer 10 Honorary Degrees on May 29
Brown University will confer 10 honorary degrees during Commencement exercises Sunday, May 29, 2005. Candidates for honorary degrees include artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude, writer David Eggers, philanthropist Sidney E. Frank ’42, astrochemist Wesley Huntress ’64, geneticist Mary-Claire King, actress Phylicia Rashad, financier William Rhodes ’57, human rights activist Sima Samar, and the Rev. Philip Smith, president of Providence College.
News Release   04-126    05/03/2005   Sweeney
Brown Wins Major Award to Improve Environment, Protect R.I. Health
Brown University has won a four-year, $11.5-million grant from the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences to help scientists create new ways of cleaning up hazardous waste and identify health threats posed by asbestos and other toxicants. The research award, one of Brown’s biggest in five years, will address Rhode Island’s long history of environmental contamination. (See also background documents on research projects.)
News Release   04-118    04/25/2005   Lawton
Bill Clinton To Sign Copies of "My Life" at Brown Bookstore April 29
As part of his visit to the Brown University campus, former President William J. Clinton will sign copies of his autobiography, My Life, on Friday, April 29, 2005, from 10:30 a.m. until 12:30 p.m. at the Brown Bookstore, on Thayer Street north of Angell Street.
News Release   04-119    04/25/2005   Nickel
Howard Foundation Names Twelve 2005-06 Fellows
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has announced recipients of 12 fellowships for the 2005-06 academic year. The 12 were awarded in literary criticism, film criticism and translation in English. Next year’s fellowships will be awarded in anthropology, sociology and political science. Brown University administers the fellowships on behalf of the Howard Foundation.
News Release   04-120    04/25/2005   Nickel
Brown Summer High School Runs from July 5 through 29
Brown Summer High School, which runs from July 5-29 this year, offers students entering grades 9 through 12 the opportunity to explore a variety of topics. The program costs $100. Enrollment space is limited, and some financial aid is available.
News Release   04-121    04/25/2005   Sweeney
"Works from the Cave II" Immerses Guests into World of Virtual Reality
An interdisciplinary exhibition presented by the David Winton Bell Gallery, the Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments program, and the Brown Literary Arts program enables guests to stroll through a variety of virtual realities created by students at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design. The exhibition, Works from the Cave II, runs on two weekends: April 30 and May 1, and May 7 and 8. Reservations are required.
News Release   04-117    04/19/2005   Sweeney
President Clinton To Deliver Policy Address at Brown University April 29
Tickets to President William J. Clinton’s address, “Embracing Our Common Humanity: Security and Prosperity in the 21st Century,” at 1:30 p.m. Friday, April 29, 2005, in Meehan Auditorium, will be available to holders of active Brown IDs beginning Monday, April 25. The Brown News Service will issue press credentials for reporters who intend to cover Clinton’s address.
News Release   04-116    04/18/2005   Nickel
Simmons To Host Leadership Alliance Forum on Diversity in Higher Ed
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons will lead a 90-minute briefing and host a Leadership Alliance Presidential Forum Tuesday afternoon, April 19, 2005, at the National Academy of Sciences in Washington, D.C. During forum sessions after the briefing, college and university presidents will resume structured discussions about diversity trends and challenges in higher education.
News Release   04-114    04/14/2005   Nickel
Brown and Public Health Officials To Test Medical Emergency System
On Friday, April 22, 2005, between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m., Brown University, together with state and city health officials, will conduct an exercise to test the community’s ability to provide emergency medical information, screenings and treatment to large numbers of people. The exercise will take place inside the Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center at the athletic complex, Hope Street at Lloyd Avenue.
News Release   04-113    04/11/2005   Nickel
Brown To Host 2005 Ivy Film Festival and Student Film Competition
Brown University will host the 2005 Ivy Film Festival, featuring entries from student filmmakers throughout the United States and Europe, April 15-17, 2005. Writer/director John Hamburg – maker of such popular films as Meet the Parents and its recent sequel, Meet the Fockers – will give the festival’s keynote address Saturday, April 17, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The public is welcome.
News Release   04-111    04/06/2005   Curtis
Brown To Present Africana Film Festival at Cable Car Cinema
Brown University will present its second Africana Film festival – featuring 15 films from a dozen countries and an international group of filmmakers, writers and critics – Wednesday through Sunday, April 13-17, 2005, at Cable Car Cinema.
News Release   04-112    04/06/2005   Curtis
Max Cleland To Deliver Barnes Lecture at Brown Medical School
Max Cleland, former U.S. senator and decorated Vietnam veteran, will visit Brown University Tuesday, April 5, to deliver the sixth annual Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture in Public Health. Cleland will be available for press interviews.
News Release   04-109    03/31/2005   Lawton
Robert Creeley: A major artist in the landscape of American poetry
Faculty colleagues Forrest Gander and C.D. Wright notified students in the Literary Arts Program today of the death of poet Robert Creeley. Creeley had joined the Brown faculty in 2003 as a Distinguished Professor of English.
News Release   04-107    03/30/2005   Nickel
Global Team Member Comments on Landmark Ecosystem Report
Brown University’s Osvaldo Sala, a leading authority on biodiversity and global change, says that the new Millennium Ecosystem Assessment report points up the need for policies that reduce demands on the earth’s resources.
News Release   04-108    03/30/2005   Lawton
Brown Presents "Queer Window: The LGBTQ Film and Video Festival"
Brown University will present Queer Window: The LGBTQ Film and Video Festival April 7 to 10, 2005, at Cable Car Cinema. Headlining the festival will be Brown alumnus Rodney Evans ’93, who will introduce and discuss his film Brother to Brother on Sunday, April 10, at 7:30 p.m.
News Release   04-106    03/29/2005   Curtis
Experts To Discuss ‘Democracy in Middle East: Is It Possible?’
Scholars, journalists and international experts will gather at Brown University April 3 and 4, 2005, for the 25th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference titled “Democracy in the Middle East: Is It Possible?” The keynote address, a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture, will be delivered by Saad Eddin Ibrahim, former Egyptian political prisoner and advocate for democracy and human rights. All sessions are open to the public without charge.
News Release   04-104    03/28/2005   Nickel
Sea Skate Experiment Sheds Light on Human Cell Transport
An experiment using the red blood cells of skates – the flat, boneless fish of the sea – has netted a critical finding about how human cells work. Brown University scientist Leon Goldstein and University of Chicago researcher Mark Musch discovered how cellular “gates” are activated to disgorge excess water. The pair believes that the molecular mechanisms that trigger this “release valve” are common to many cells and may provide clues for diabetes and cancer treatment.
News Release   04-105    03/28/2005   Lawton
Luce Scholarship Will Send Mirra Levitt, Class of 2003, to Asia for Year
Mirra Levitt is one of 15 young Americans to receive the Luce Scholarship, an award that will give her the opportunity to live and work in Asia for a year. It is the second time in as many years that a Brown graduate has been selected to receive the prestigious award.
News Release   04-103    03/24/2005   Sweeney
Brown Names Michael Goldberger Athletic Director
Michael Goldberger, currently Brown University’s director of admission, will become the University’s new athletic director on July 1, 2005.
News Release   04-100    03/23/2005   Nickel
Brown To Host 11th Performance Studies International Conference
Brown University will host Becoming Uncomfortable, the 11th annual Performance Studies international (PSi) conference, March 30 to April 3, 2005. In addition to a full schedule of conference activities for registrants, there will be a wide array of theater, dance and other arts performances in various city venues for the public.
News Release   04-101    03/23/2005   Curtis
A Statement to the Campus Community on the Death of Anthony Abanto
Staff from the Office of Student Life, the Chaplains Office, and Psychological Services will be available to members of the Brown University community following the death of Anthony Abanto.
News Release   04-102    03/23/2005   Nickel
Mark Porter Named Chief of Police and Director of Public Safety
Mark J. Porter, currently director of public safety at the University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth, will become Brown University’s chief of police and director of the Department of Public Safety. Porter will begin his duties in April 2005.
News Release   04-098    03/18/2005   Nickel
Fire and Ice: Mars Images Reveal Recent Volcanic and Glacial Activity
Mars isn’t as sleepy as scientists suspected. An international research team, which includes Brown University planetary geologist James Head, has found evidence of recent glacial movement and volcanic eruptions in 3-D images from the Mars Express mission. The team’s latest work, laid out in three Nature papers, also includes evidence of a frozen sea close to the equator. These and other Mars Express findings are stoking debate about the possibility of life on the Red Planet.
News Release   04-097    03/16/2005   Lawton
Brown To Hold Slavery and Justice Conference on “Historical Injustices”
The Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice will host a major academic conference, “Historical Injustices: Restitution and Reconciliation in International Perspective,” Friday, March 18, through Sunday, March 20, 2005. The conference sessions, all free and open to the public, will be held in Smith-Buonanno Hall.
News Release   04-099    03/16/2005   Curtis
The voices of Providence artists: A new oral history exhibition
The John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization is hosting its first exhibition in its new Carriage House Gallery through April 22, 2005. Intimacy and Isolation in Providence: An Installation is a collection of oral histories gathered by students from the city’s artists and institution builders. An opening reception is planned for Thursday, March 10, 2005, from 7 to 9 p.m.
News Release   04-095    03/09/2005   Curtis
Corporation Approves FY06 Budget, Sets 2005-06 Tuition and Fees
At its regular winter meeting Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005, the Corporation of Brown University approved a consolidated budget of $608.4 million for the 2005-06 fiscal year, an 8.2-percent increase. Total undergraduate charges (tuition and fees) will come to $41,770, an increase of 4.9 percent.
News Release   04-091    02/26/2005   Nickel
Corporation Establishes Cogut Humanities Center
The Corporation of Brown University has formally accepted a gift from Craig and Deborah Cogut that will renovate and expand Pembroke Hall to create a permanent campus home for the new Cogut Humanities Center.
News Release   04-092    02/26/2005   Nickel
University will build 24-hour Friedman Study Center in Sciences Library
A gift from Brown graduates Susan P. and Richard A. Friedman, accepted by the Corporation at its meeting today, will allow the University to move forward with plans to create a 24-hour student study center in the first three levels of the Sciences Library.
News Release   04-093    02/26/2005   Nickel
$20M Gift Will Support Center for Computational Molecular Biology
The Corporation of Brown University has formally accepted a gift that will provide five new pro-fessorships for the Center for Computational Molecular Biology. The Corporation also established new named professorships and accepted other gifts in support of the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   04-094    02/26/2005   Nickel
New Initiative Studies Commerce Through a Liberal Arts Lens
Prompted by a growing interest among Brown faculty and students in the study of commerce, commercial behavior, organization and management, and technology and entrepreneurship, the University has launched a multi-departmental initiative in Commerce, Organizations, and Entrepreneurship.
   022005b    02/20/2005   Sweeney
Faculty Scholars: Pursuing Knowledge with Passion
A Rhode Island couple will realize their vision of changing people's lives - one mouse click at a time - when a new online philanthropy site created by a handful of Brown students goes live this spring.
   022005c    02/20/2005   Curtis
How Public Humanities Works: The Freedom Now! Web Site
The Freedom Now!, a web site about the Brown-Tougaloo collaboration, puts ideas about public humanities into practice.
   022005g    02/20/2005   Nickel
Online Philanthropy: From the Clink of a Coin to the Click of a Mouse
A Rhode Island couple will realize their vision of changing people's lives - one mouse click at a time - when a new online philanthropy site created by a handful of Brown students goes live this spring.
   022005d    02/20/2005   Sweeney
Life on Mars? New Data Reveal Places to Search
Data freshly gathered by the Mars Express mission and analyzed by a team of scientists, including Brown University professor John Mustard, offer new insight into the mineral composition of Mars. New research, published online by the journal Science, points out promising places to search for evidence of past life.
News Release   04-089    02/18/2005   Lawton
JCB Library Presents Exhibition on Native American Origins
The John Carter Brown Library is presenting a new exhibition, Whence Came the Indians? Early European Theories on Native American Origins, through May 1, 2005. The exhibition, prepared by Richard Ring and Dennis Landis, features writings, publications and maps primarily from the 16th and 17th centuries. It is free and open to the public.
News Release   04-086    02/11/2005   Curtis
Brown To Present Eighth Annual Providence French Film Festival
Brown University will present its eighth annual Providence French Film Festival Feb. 24 through March 6, 2005, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. Among the 17 movies to be screened this year are Notre Musique, the latest film from Jean-Luc Godard, and a Saturday matinee of The Frog’s Prophecy, which will be free for children under 12.
News Release   04-087    02/11/2005   Curtis
Freedom Now! Archives of Brown-Tougaloo Exchange Are on the Web
Students at Brown University and Tougaloo College, working with faculty, archivists and information technology specialists on both campuses, have produced a Web-based archive of the Mississippi Freedom Movement and the Brown-Tougaloo Cooperative Exchange.
News Release   04-083    02/10/2005   Nickel
President Clinton To Deliver Policy Address at Brown University April 29
Former President Bill Clinton will visit the Brown University campus Friday, April 29, 2005, to deliver a policy address.
News Release   04-084    02/09/2005   Nickel
Brown To Bring Urban Bush Women to PPAC and Black Rep
Brown University will present a performance by the award-winning dance company Urban Bush Women Saturday, Feb. 26, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. at the Providence Performing Arts Center. The troupe will also present a “Hair Party” Friday, Feb. 25, at 6:30 p.m. at the Providence Black Repertory Theatre Company. The public is welcome; tickets are required for both events.
News Release   04-085    02/09/2005   Curtis
Brown Alumni Association presents Career Week 2005
The Brown Alumni Association will present Career Week 2005 for University students Wednesday, Feb. 9, through Saturday, Feb. 12, 2005. More than 100 alumni will take part in career panels and networking sessions throughout the four-day program. Members of the media are welcome to attend.
News Release   04-082    02/07/2005   Curtis
Brown offers public events to celebrate Black History Month
Brown University is presenting a series of events, titled What is Black? Addressing Our Divisions, Embracing Our Identities, Unifying Our People, now through March 1, 2005, in observance of Black History Month. All events are open to the public; admission is free, except where a charge is noted.
News Release   04-081    02/04/2005   Curtis
Intermetallic Mystery Solved With Atomic Resolution Microscope
Intermetallics could be the key to faster jets and more efficient car engines. But these heat-resistant, lightweight compounds have stumped scientists for decades. Why do so many break so easily? A team from Brown University, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and UES Inc. used the world’s most powerful electron microscope to see, for the first time, atomic details that may provide the answer for the most common class of intermetallics. Their results – which could open the door for new materials for commercial use – are published in the current issue of Science.
News Release   04-080    02/03/2005   Lawton
Creative Arts Council, Hillel to host Caryl Englander photo exhibition
The Brown University Creative Arts Council is joining with the Hillel Project Gallery at the Glenn and Darcy Weiner Center to present Acts of Charity, Deeds of Kindness, an exhibition of photographs by Caryl Englander, Feb. 3 through March 7, 2005. Englander will give a gallery talk on Thursday, Feb. 3 at 5 p.m. at the center; her lecture will be followed by an opening reception at 6 p.m.
News Release   04-079    02/02/2005   Curtis
‘Freedom Now!’ is a rich Web archive of the U.S. struggle for civil rights
Students at Brown University and Tougaloo College have developed a Web-based archive of the Mississippi Civil Rights Movement and the four-decade cooperative exchange between their schools. The “Freedom Now!” project – and the exchange it represents – provides historical documents to help visitors understand and remember a complex history and to see the freedom struggle as ongoing.
News Release   04-077    02/01/2005   Nickel
The need for humanitarian relief in Southeast Asia remains urgent
At the start of the spring semester, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons urged students, faculty and staff to continue their support for humanitarian relief efforts in Southeast Asia. Brown’s first day of classes was Wednesday, Jan. 26, 2005, one month after the tsunami struck.
News Release   04-075    01/26/2005   Nickel
Brown Scientists Uncover Inner Workings of Rare Eye Cells
Three years ago, Brown University researchers discovered new retinal cells in the eye – indeed a parallel visual system. Now, in a report in Nature, David Berson and his team explain how these exotic cells use melanopsin to harness light energy so that they can do their chief job: setting the body’s master circadian clock.
News Release   04-076    01/26/2005   Lawton
Brown and NIH Create Joint Neuroscience Graduate Program
The National Institutes of Health has selected Brown University as the first U.S. university to join its Graduate Partnerships Program in the field of neuroscience.
News Release   04-071    01/14/2005   Lawton
Surprising Study Reveals How Cancer-Causing Protein Activates
In a study published in the current issue of Science, Brown Medical School and Rhode Island Hospital researchers show that STAT3, a cause of breast and prostate cancers, is turned on inside cells in not one, but two ways. Drug makers can use the findings to try to inhibit this deadly oncoprotein more effectively.
News Release   04-072    01/13/2005   Lawton
Scents and Emotions Linked by Learning, Brown Study Shows
Are we born to love the smell of our mother's skin or do we learn to? A Brown University team has shown that emotional association with scents comes through experience, not genes. The results, published in the International Journal of Comparative Psychology, bolster an increasingly accepted olfaction theory and could be a boon to companies that use scents in marketing.
News Release   04-069    01/05/2005   Lawton
Electrical Synapses Help the Brain's Master Clock Tick
Many nerve cells in the suprachiasmatic nucleus, the brain's master circadian clock, communicate by electrical synapses, according to Brown University research published in the current issue of Nature Neuroscience. The team also found that, in rats and mice, electrical synapses synchronize this critical clock, which helps regulate the daily cycles of sleeping and waking.
News Release   04-065    12/14/2004   Lawton
Families Inform Roadmap To Improve Care for Dying in Nursing Homes
End-of-life care in nursing homes often results in unnecessary suffering due mainly to a lack of staff time, training and communication, according to a new AARP study conducted at Brown Medical School. The report lists 15 recommendations to improve care, including more staffing, increased physician presence, additional training and better reimbursement rates.
News Release   04-064    12/13/2004   Lawton
VA Funds Leading-Edge Limb-Loss Research in Providence
The Department of Veteran's Affairs has awarded $7.2 million to the Providence VA Medical Center to establish a broad-based research program to restore natural function to amputees. The chief goal is to create "biohybrid" limbs that meld human tissue with a prosthesis controlled by an amputee's own muscles and brain signals. The Providence VA Medical Center is working with Brown University and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology to improve the lives of amputees, particularly Iraq war veterans. (A fact sheet on individual research projects is attached.)
News Release   04-061    12/08/2004   Lawton
Chancellor's Gift Will Support Graduate School Fellowships, Recruitment
Stephen Robert, chancellor and a 1962 graduate of Brown University, has given $500,000 to establish The Chancellor Stephen Robert Fellowship. The fellowship, which includes the highest annual stipend awarded by the Brown Graduate School, will be given to three doctoral candidates in its inaugural academic year, 2005-06.
News Release   04-062    12/06/2004   Nickel
Free Radicals and Fertilization: Study Reveals Egg Protection Secret
Sea urchin eggs, a common model for human fertility research, create a protein shield just minutes after fertilization. In Developmental Cell, Brown University biologists reveal their discovery of an enzyme that generates hydrogen peroxide, a free radical critical to this protective process. The finding illuminates a survival mechanism shared across species.
News Release   04-063    12/06/2004   Lawton
Nursing Homes Register 41 Percent Drop in Residents' Pain
Pain management for nursing home residents can dramatically improve using a comprehensive, collaborative improvement process – one that quickly changes how staff assess and treat pain. This is the conclusion of a new study conducted by researchers at Brown Medical School and Quality Partners of Rhode Island and published in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.
News Release   04-060    12/03/2004   Lawton
Brown Names Eli Y. Adashi Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences
Dr. Eli Y. Adashi, currently chair of the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the University of Utah Health Sciences Center, has been named dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University. He will begin his work at Brown Jan. 18, 2005.
News Release   04-058    12/01/2004   Nickel
Brown Lecture Board To Host the Rev. Jesse Jackson
The Brown University Lecture Board will welcome the Rev. Jesse Jackson, civil rights activist and former presidential candidate, Wednesday, Dec. 8, 2004, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Jackson will speak on "The Future of the Democratic Party." Admission requires a Brown ID, but a limited number of seats will be reserved for the press.
News Release   04-059    12/01/2004   Curtis
Antipsychotic Drugs Stop Fatal Viral Infection in Brain Cells
Scientists from Brown University and Case Western Reserve University have discovered a way to prevent brain cells from becoming infected by the JC virus, a common bug that can cause progressive multifocal leukoencephalopathy, or PML, a fatal nervous system disorder that strikes AIDS patients and others with suppressed immune systems. Their work, published in Science, reveals a surprising cellular defender: antipsychotic drugs.
News Release   04-055    11/18/2004   Lawton
Bogues, Bonde and Fischer Named Inaugural Royce Family Professors
Brown University has appointed Barrymore Bogues, professor of Africana studies; Sheila Bonde, professor of the history of art and architecture; and Karen Fischer, professor of geological sciences, as the inaugural Royce Family Professors of Teaching Excellence. They will serve three-year terms, through June 30, 2007.
News Release   04-054    11/15/2004   Nickel
Eighteen Brown Faculty Members Appointed to Named Professorships
Brown celebrates the appointment of 18 faculty to named chairs and welcomes 16 senior scholars to the faculty ranks. Faculty honored with named chairs include David M. Berson, Barrymore A. Bogues, Sheila Bonde, Stuart Burrows, Alfred E. Buxton, Thalia Field, Karen Fischer, Aaron Friedman, Timothy Harris, Jennifer Hughes, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Rene Nuenlist, Daniel J. Smith, David Sobel, Richard Stratt, Hui Wang, John Edgar Wideman, and George Yap.
News Release   04-053    11/10/2004   Nickel
Alexander Calder's Tripes begins a two-year visit at Brown
The Public Art Committee has arranged to bring Tripes, a sculpture by American artist Alexander Calder, to the Brown campus for public exhibit during the next two years. The sculpture will be installed near Carrie Tower on the University's Front Green Friday, Nov. 5, 2004, weather permitting.
News Release   04-048    11/02/2004   Curtis
Brown to host international Holocaust conference Nov. 4-7, 2004
Brown University will host the eighth biennial Lessons and Legacies international conference on the Holocaust, "From Generation to Generation," Nov. 4-7, 2004, at the Providence Marriott Hotel and on the Brown campus. The media is welcome to attend conference sessions.
News Release   04-050    11/02/2004   Curtis
Large-Scale Forces Shape Local Ocean Life, Global Study Shows
In an epic research project spanning 14 years and seven continents, a research team based at Brown University has photographed and cataloged nearly 3,000 species of sponges, corals and other shallow water ocean invertebrates from Antarctica to Australia. The key finding: Large-scale forces play a pivotal role in local species diversity. Results are published in the current online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   04-043    10/20/2004   Lawton
Katherine Farley Elected to Board of Trustees of the Brown Corporation
Katherine G. Farley, senior managing director at Tishman Speyer Properties, was elected by the Corporation of Brown University to a six-year term as a trustee. Farley and five other new trustees were formally engaged as members of the Board of Trustees during the Corporation's regular fall meeting Saturday, Oct. 16, 2004.
News Release   04-036    10/16/2004   Nickel
Brown establishes Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World
Brown University has established a new Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World that will unite and expand a number of excellent programs in ancient studies and further establish Brown's reputation as a national leader in the field. The Brown Corporation also selected the site for a new campus fitness center and accepted a number of significant gifts.
News Release   04-042    10/16/2004   Nickel
John Carter Brown Library hosts 19th-century book collecting exhibition
The John Carter Brown Library is presenting a new exhibition, "A Matter of Taste: Discrimination in 19th-Century Book Collecting," now through Jan. 5, 2005, in the library on The College Green. The exhibition is free and open to the public.
News Release   04-040    10/15/2004   Curtis
Bernstein and Hopmann awarded Fulbright Scholar grants
P. Terrance Hopmann, professor of political science, and Susan Bernstein, associate professor of comparative literature, have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for the 2004-05 academic year. The program will also bring two visiting scholars to Brown this year: Talal Wehbe of Lebanon and Luis Nuno Valdez Faria Rodrigues of Portugal.
News Release   04-038    10/14/2004   Curtis
Herschel Grossman, the Merton P. Stoltz Professor in the Social Sciences
Herschel Grossman, professor of economics at Brown University, died suddenly Oct. 9, 2004, while attending an academic conference in France. A memorial service will be held at 3 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, at Brown Hillel, 80 Brown St. (corner of Brown and Angell). A reception will follow. Editors: A photograph is available through the News Service.
News Release   04-041    10/14/2004   Nickel
Pilot Study of Mind-to-Movement Device Shows Early Promise
A 25-year-old quadriplegic is switching on lights, changing television channels and reading e-mail using only his mind, thanks to a neuroprosthetic device developed using Brown University research. These initial clinical trial results will be presented today at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation in Phoenix.
News Release   04-035    10/08/2004   Lawton
New Model Shows Calcium Control Is Key for Synapse Homeostasis
When memories are made and learning occurs, the connections between brain cells change. Scientists know that an influx of calcium is critical to this process. A theoretical model developed by a Brown University research team led by Luk Chong Yeung shows that cells’ ability to fine-tune this calcium flow not only sparks changes in synapses but also allows cells to maintain a working state of equilibrium.
News Release   04-034    10/07/2004   Lawton
Brown Announces Selection Committee, Begins Athletic Director Search
An 11-member selection committee will begin work this week on a national search for Brown University's next athletics director.
News Release   04-039    10/03/2004   Humm
Poet C.D. Wright named 2004 MacArthur Fellow
C.D. Wright, poet and professor of English at Brown University, has been named a MacArthur Fellow for 2004 by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Wright will receive $500,000 in "no strings attached support during the next five years.
News Release   04-032    09/28/2004   Curtis
Spreading the gospel of locally-grown
It started with the apples, crisp Cortlands and Macs from a Massachusetts orchard. Then came the local peaches and peppers, basil and squash. Then the farmer's market arrived on Wriston Quad. Now, there is Roots & Shoots at the Ratty. Want to know about Brown's sustainable food efforts? Recent graduate Louella Hill's got the dirt.
GSJ Story   29GSJ02b    09/24/2004   Lawton
Brown Research Reveals Key Insight into Memory-Making
Brain cells in the hippocampus make new long-term memories using a synapse-strengthening process called long-term potentiation, or LTP. In the current issue of Science, Brown University and Duke University Medical Center researchers shed new light on this critical brain function, describing where AMPA receptors are stored and how they are activated during LTP.
News Release   04-026    09/23/2004   Lawton
James Garvin and Wen-Hsiung Li to speak, receive alumni awards
Chief NASA scientist James B. Garvin and Balzan Award-winning mathematician Wen-Hsiung Li, both Brown alumni, will be honored by the Brown Alumni Association and the Brown Graduate School with their most prestigious awards Saturday, Oct. 2, 2004. Garvin and Li will each give public lectures that day at 2:45 p.m. -- Garvin in the Salomon Center for Teaching and Li in the List Art Center auditorium.
News Release   04-029    09/23/2004   Curtis
Tennessee, Maine Lead States; Social Security Leads Federal Agencies
A study of digital government in the 50 states and major federal agencies ranks Tennessee and Maine first and second among the states and FirstGov (the U.S. portal) and the Social Security Administration first and second among federal sites. The rankings are based on data gathered by researchers at Brown University during summer 2004. Tables for states and federal agencies are included.
News Release   04-027    09/20/2004   Nickel
Brown Ecologist Garners Major National Science Foundation Grant
Johanna Schmitt, professor of biology at Brown University, has won a $5-million National Science Foundation award for an international research project to understand how a common weed performs a complex task - turning cues of seasonal change into well-timed reproduction. Results may help predict how crops and wild plants will respond to ongoing climate change.
News Release   04-025    09/17/2004   Lawton
Brown Receives $100-Million Gift for Undergraduate Scholarships
Businessman Sidney E. Frank has given $100 million to Brown University to establish the Sidney E. Frank Endowed Scholarship Fund. The gift is the largest in the history of the University. (See also the text of President Simmons's announcement.)
News Release   04-023    09/15/2004   Nickel
Features or Creatures: Visual Expertise Taps Same Neural Networks
Is there a special area in the human brain that only processes faces? No, according to Brown University research. When study subjects learned to identify computer-generated figures and then saw both human faces and the figures, scientists found they used the same neural mechanisms. The study appears in the current online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   04-024    09/14/2004   Lawton
Thomas W. Berry Named Chair of the Brown Annual Fund
Thomas W. Berry, Brown Class of 1969, has been named chair of the Brown Annual Fund. The Brown Annual Fund, which has enjoyed record-setting growth in the last three years, is an important source of support for the University's Plan for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   04-022    09/13/2004   Nickel
Brown Receives $20M in Gifts To Establish Campus Fitness Center
Lead gifts from three Brown alumni will allow the University to establish a campus fitness center. Brown President Ruth J. Simmons announced the gifts and the new center during her remarks at the University's 241st Opening Convocation on Tuesday.
News Release   04-015    09/08/2004   Nickel
Brown Faculty Begins 2004-05 Academic Year at 628, Largest Roster Ever
For the second consecutive year, the Brown University faculty will begin the academic year at its largest size ever. Fifty-two new members will join the roster of regular faculty, which now stands at 628. Twenty-two of those new faculty have been hired into positions that have been newly created as part of a multiyear planned expansion of the University's regular faculty. (See photos and notes on new faculty in Arts and Humanities, Social Sciences, Physical Sciences and Life Sciences.)
News Release   04-016    09/07/2004   Nickel
Groundbreaking Grant To Boost Rhode Island Health Care Access
Brown University has received a federal grant to establish Rhode Island's first Area Health Education Center. This statewide partnership will give the Ocean State's neediest residents more and better medical care through student recruitment and training as well as education for doctors, nurses and other health professionals. The grant award represents an unprecedented collaboration between educators, physicians, advocates and politicians to improve care for the underserved.
News Release   04-017    09/07/2004   Lawton
Anthropologist Kay Warren To Address New Students Sept. 7
Political anthropologist and Latin Americanist Kay Warren will deliver the Opening Convocation address Tuesday, Sept. 7, 2004, at noon on The College Green. Brown welcomes 1,434 first-year students, 420 graduate students, 77 medical students, 112 transfer students and eight Resumed Undergraduate Education students to the 241st academic year.

The text of Warren's address is now available online.
News Release   04-011    08/26/2004   Cole
Malaria drug blocks brain conduits, a boon for neuroscience research
A common treatment for malaria shuts down two kinds of connexins, protein "tunnels" that transfer information between nerve cells, according to research conducted at Brown University and Albert Einstein College of Medicine. Published in this week's online early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the finding will help scientists plumb the secrets of connexins – crucial electrical conduits found in the brain, heart and other organs.
News Release   04-009    08/06/2004   Lawton
Two enzymes key to calorie-burning, Brown research shows
A Brown-led research team has discovered a pair of universal switches in the brain that tell the body to stop eating and start burning calories. Tripped by leptin, these essential enzymes activate other chemical messengers that send metabolism-boosting signals from the brain to the body. The discovery, highlighted in the current issue of The Journal of Clinical Investigation, can be used to create new treatments for obesity, one of the nation's most pressing health problems.
News Release   04-008    08/02/2004   Lawton
Brown names Neil D. Steinberg as vice president for development
Neil D. Steinberg, chairman and CEO of Fleet Bank--Rhode Island, has been named vice president for development and campaign director at Brown University. As the University's chief development officer, Steinberg will direct the University's next comprehensive campaign, which will support the University's Plan for Academic Enrichment. He will begin his work at Brown on Aug. 23, 2004.
News Release   04-007    07/30/2004   Nickel
Brown and Harvard team identifies potential target for obesity drugs
A quick and potent peptide produced in the base of the brain is the key to revving up metabolism – helping people burn calories and lose weight, researchers at Brown and Harvard medical schools have discovered. Published in the online early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences the week of July 26, the research identifies a new target for drug makers hunting for an obesity pill.
News Release   04-005    07/26/2004   Lawton
Med School team takes part in milestone study on fetal surgery
Brown Medical School faculty members Francois Luks, a pediatric surgeon, and Stephen Carr, a maternal-fetal medicine specialist, were the sole US participants in a groundbreaking international research trial aimed at testing the benefit of fetal surgery for a disease or defect.
GSJ Story   28GSJ21c    07/23/2004   Lawton
Researchers discover the first compounds that slow aging across species
Three colleagues with a common interest in the biology of aging have determined that the compound resveratrol, an antioxidant found in red wine, can slow the aging process in yeast, fruit flies and nematodes. The three – David Sinclair of Harvard, Marc Tatar of Brown, and Stephen Helfand of the University of Connecticut – report their findings in the July 15, 2004, issue of Nature.
News Release   04-002    07/15/2004   Lawton
Brown's political scientists study the issues and process of Election 2004
Brown University's political scientists are studying the issues, the media, the money and the political process at the state and national levels during this election year. Faculty experts are available for interview on a wide variety of topics and research areas.
News Release   04-003    07/15/2004   Cole
NLRB decision says graduate students are not statutory employees
The National Labor Relations Board has upheld Brown University's argument on appeal that graduate teaching assistants are students -- not statutory employees -- and are therefore not an appropriate unit for collective bargaining. The NLRB reversed a November 2001 decision by its regional director to order an election and dismissed the original petition filed by the United Auto Workers Union.
News Release   04-004    07/15/2004   Nickel
Interest in breast cancer, household pollutants draws two into research collaboration
Phil Brown and Rachel Morello-Frosch will work to pinpoint the chemicals in homes in regions with a higher-than-average incidence of breast cancer, determine where the chemicals come from, and how they can be reduced.
GSJ Story   28GSJ20a    07/09/2004   Cole
Donkey mural coming down from library
The photoraphic mural that has been on the side of the Science Library will be removed a bit early to protect it from potential hurricane damage. The reaction to the mural far exceed Brown officials' expectations.
GSJ Story   28GSJ20c    07/09/2004   Curtis
Through Pembroke Center, Turkish scholar probed deeper into honor crimes
As a postdoctoral fellow at Brown's Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women, Dicle Kogacioglu had the opportunity to further her exploration of the issue of honor crimes - the murder of a woman by members of her family who do not approve of her sexual behavior.
GSJ Story   28GSJ20f    07/09/2004   Sweeney
Hepatitis B transmission high in Rhode Island prisons, study shows
In the first study to gauge the risks of contracting HIV and hepatitis in Rhode Island prisons, Brown University researchers found that a significant number of men get the hepatitis B virus behind bars Ð a finding that led the team to call for prison-wide vaccinations. Results are published in the current edition of the American Journal of Public Health.
News Release   04-001    07/02/2004   Lawton
Study: Chance to retake the high-stakes high school exit exams is critical
Researchers at Brown and Harvard universities say that the opportunity for high school students to retake high-stakes exit exams will likely impact both the size and diversity of the group that will eventually pass and obtain a high school diploma. These and related findings are in the August 2004 issue of Economics and Education Review.
News Release   03-157    06/29/2004   Cole
Paola Pivi's donkey mural will leave the Sciences Library July 15
The exhibition of artist Paola Pivi's untitled mural of a donkey riding in a rowboat, currently displayed on the exterior face of the Sciences Library at Brown University, will conclude July 15, 2004. Concerned for the painting's safety, the University decided to remove it prior to the late-summer hurricane season.
News Release   03-158    06/29/2004   Curtis
Aaron L. Friedman, M.D., named chief and chair of pediatrics
Aaron L. Friedman, M.D., is pediatrician-in-chief at Hasbro Children's Hospital and the Sylvia Kay Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at Brown Medical School.
News Release   03-159    06/29/2004   Lawton
Research on biology of aging puts Brown on map
High-profile papers by Marc Tatar and John Sedivy on the biology of aging help raise awareness of Brown's excellence in the field.
GSJ Story   28GSJ19a    06/25/2004   Lawton
AIDS conference in Bangkok will draw on Brown researchers' international focus
Ten Brown faculty members will present research and learn new ways to fight the pandemic, and new international guidelines for antiretroviral treatment, written in part by Charles Carpenter, a physician and professor of medicine, will be released.
GSJ Story   28GSJ19b    06/25/2004   Lawton
Book cover fit for a lab draws truth and beauty from Cooper's lab
This winter, Leon Cooper phoned Richard Fishman and said: "Let's make something elegant." The fruit of that phone call is a pulsing, painterly computer-generated collage used on the latest book by Cooper and colleagues. The image is testament to the connection between science and art - and the bond between two of Brown's best-known faculty members.
GSJ Story   28GSJ19e    06/25/2004   Lawton
JCB presents exhibition on Haitian Revolution
The John Carter Brown Library is presenting a new exhibition, titled Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804, from mid-May through Sept. 15. The exhibition features pamphlets, maps and prints that illustrate the story narrated by participants and observers of the revolution.
GSJ Story   28GSJ19h    06/25/2004   Curtis
Brown University faculty bring HIV and AIDS expertise to Bangkok
Brown physicians and researchers have established an international reputation for tracking, treating, detecting and preventing HIV, one of the world's most devastating diseases. Ten Brown faculty members will travel to Bangkok to share their research at the largest-ever meeting on the pandemic, July 11-16, 2004.
News Release   03-155    06/24/2004   Lawton
Brown receives major collection of 20th-century literary works
Brown University alumnus Mel B. Yoken has donated his collection of writings by hundreds of late-20th-century American, French, English and Quebecois authors and public figures. Comprising more than 25,000 books, letters, notes and personal papers, the collection is housed in the John Hay Library.
News Release   03-156    06/23/2004   Cole
More African-Americans get poor nursing home care, study finds
In the first comprehensive, national study to investigate race, income and nursing home quality, Brown University researchers found that African-Americans are four times as likely as whites to live in poorly-funded, understaffed nursing homes. The study appears in the current issue of the health policy journal "Milbank Quarterly."
News Release   03-154    06/21/2004   Lawton
Corporation accepts gift, approves planning for new academic building
A $20-million gift from New York businessman Sidney Frank -- the largest single gift for a building ever made to Brown University -- will allow Brown to proceed with planning and construction of a new academic building and a large, landscaped urban green space on Angell Street. At its meeting May 29, 2004, the Brown Corporation accepted the gift and authorized planning for the project to proceed.
News Release   03-150    06/14/2004   Nickel
Ricky A. Gresh named director of student activities at Brown
Ricky A. Gresh, currently assistant dean/assistant director of student life programs at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will begin his duties as director of student activities at Brown University in July. He succeeds David Inman.
News Release   03-152    06/14/2004   Sweeney
Transit of Venus can be viewed at Ladd Observatory, Barus and Holley
The transit of Venus across the face of the sun can be safely viewed at Brown University's Ladd Observatory (weather permitting) and in the lobby of the Barus and Holley Building. Brown astronomers are available to provide information about safe viewing, as well as the significance of this rare astronomical event.
News Release   03-151    06/04/2004   Sweeney
Corporation elects five members to six-year terms on Board of Trustees
The Corporation of Brown University has elected five new members to its Board of Trustees: Thomas W. Berry, of Chatham, N.J.; James J. Burke Jr., of New York City; Alison Ressler, of Los Angeles; Charles M. Royce, of Greenwich, Conn.; and Marta Tienda, of Princeton, N.J.
News Release   03-146    06/03/2004   Nickel
Insulin plays central role in aging, Brown scientists discover
The life expectancy of fruit flies increases an average of 50 percent when signals within cells of fat tissue are blocked or altered, new Brown University research shows. Published in the current issue of Nature, results of the study suggest that reduced levels of insulin in one tissue regulates insulin throughout the body to slow aging -- a finding that brings science one step closer to cracking the longevity code.
News Release   03-149    06/02/2004   Lawton
John Carter Brown Library presents exhibition, conference on Haiti
The John Carter Brown Library is presenting a new exhibition, "The Haitian Revolution, 1789-1804," through September 2004, and an international conference, "The Haitian Revolution: Viewed 200 Years After," June 17-20, 2004.
News Release   03-145    05/31/2004   Curtis
Chapman named vice president for public affairs and University relations
Michael E. Chapman, currently director of communications and public affairs at New York University Medical Center, has been appointed vice president for public affairs and University relations at Brown University. Chapman begins his duties in Providence July 1, 2004.
News Release   03-147    05/29/2004   Nickel
Brown to confer 2,104 degrees at 236th Commencement May 31, 2004
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will preside at the University's 236th Commencement exercises Monday, May 31, 2004, during which 2,104 degrees will be conferred.
News Release   03-148    05/29/2004   Nickel
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GSJ Story   28GSJ18a    05/28/2004   Sweeney
Mapping the curriculum: online project helps visualize interdisciplinary relationships
The CRISTALS project (for Context-Rich Interactive Student Teaching and Learning System) is an attempt to find better ways to visualize and explore the full sweep of Brown's curriculum in new ways.
GSJ Story   28GSJ18d    05/28/2004   Freelance
DeGroot's research places her at forefront of push for HIV vaccine
AIDS is the leading cause of death in the world, already killing 25 million people. From the Bronx to Bangladesh, 42 million people are living with HIV and AIDS. The statistics are stunning. But Brown researcher Anne De Groot says they haven't prompted sufficient outrage - or action - to slow this global assassin.
GSJ Story   28GSJ18e    05/28/2004   Lawton
Elmo lives on: Once-mighty elm inspires student artists
Elmo, the tree outside of the Watson Institute that succumbed to Dutch elm disease, is living on through The Elm Tree Project, a collaborative effort between Brown and Rhode Island School of Design that will encompass a series of courses, exhibitions, performances and events - all inspired by Brown's elm and by the larger issues of nature, ecology and the environment.
GSJ Story   28GSJ18g    05/28/2004   Curtis
Brown faculty will grow by more than three dozen
The 2004-05 academic year will bring continued change to the Brown faculty, improving diversity, increasing the size of the faculty, and supporting the University's initiatives in new multidisciplinary centers. As of May 27, according to preliminary information from the Office of the Dean of the Faculty, 40 candidates had accepted faculty appointments.
GSJ Story   28GSJ18h    05/28/2004   Nickel
Brown junior has role in creating city's security plan
By identifying shelter and inoculation sites for Providence residents in case of an emergency, Brown junior Kerry Meath has helped the City of Providence create a Homeland Security plan.
GSJ Story   28GSJ18j    05/28/2004   Cole
Jonathan Doris, M.D., ÔScrubs' advisor, to address M.D. graduating class
Jonathan Doris, M.D., former resident in internal medicine at Brown and current technical consultant to the NBC sitcom "Scrubs," will address the medical graduating class at 8:45 a.m. Monday, May 31, 2004, in the First Unitarian Church. George Goslow Jr., professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, will deliver the faculty address, and Kerri Nottage, a candidate for the M.D. degree, will deliver the student address.
News Release   03-138    05/20/2004   Nickel
Cell division can be halted in multiple ways, with implications for cancer
Brown University researchers have found that at least two molecular mechanisms trigger senescence, a cellular process associated with aging and a key to understanding cancer and age-related illnesses. Their research is reported in the current edition of the journal Molecular Cell.
News Release   03-141    05/20/2004   Lawton
FleetBoston program rewards Med School alumni for social responsibility
FleetBoston has accepted nine Brown University Medical School alumni into its Community Fellows Program, an education loan repayment program for civic-minded physicians.
News Release   03-142    05/20/2004   Lawton
Without words, bullfrogs communicate through stutters in their croaks
Short gaps in the croaks of a bullfrog's normal call likely convey messages, according to a new Brown study. Researchers recorded 2,536 calls of bullfrogs in natural choruses and found the stutter has a communication function and does not simply represent fatigue.
News Release   03-143    05/20/2004   Cole
Summit will explore technology transfer between academia, industry
Leaders from industrial research laboratories, academia and the government will gather at Brown University on Monday, May 24, to address the future of corporate research and the role of universities. This summit, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Department of Computer Science's Industrial Partners Program.
News Release   03-140    05/18/2004   Sweeney
Scents will not rouse us from slumber, says new Brown University study
Smells do not wake people, according to Brown University researchers who studied responses to the scents peppermint and pyridine -- a common byproduct of fire. The findings indicate a significant alteration of perceptual processing as a function of sleep.
News Release   03-139    05/17/2004   Cole
Economist Rajiv Vohra named dean of the faculty at Brown University
Rajiv Vohra, professor of economics and former department chair, has been appointed dean of the faculty at Brown University. He will begin his duties July 1, 2004, succeeding Mary L. Fennell.
News Release   03-136    05/14/2004   Nickel
Brown's once-mighty "Elmo" is preserved in artists' projects
"Elmo," the majestic American elm tree that once defined the Thayer Street entrance to the Watson Institute, succumbed last year to an advanced case of Dutch elm disease and was taken down to prevent the disease from spreading. Now, in an innovative exercise in recycling and preservation, wood from the tree is providing inspiration for The Elm Tree Project and a series of courses at Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design.
News Release   03-137    05/14/2004   Curtis
Wildlife Fund's Fuller to speak at Graduate School Commencement
Kathryn S. Fuller, president and CEO of the World Wildlife Fund, will speak at the Brown Graduate School Commencement ceremonies Monday, May 31, 2004. Advanced degree graduates will also hear an address by Miguel Moniz, a member of the graduating class. The ceremonies will begin at 9:15 a.m. on Lincoln Field.
News Release   03-135    05/12/2004   Howell
Fifteen Brown students receive fellowships for public service projects
Fifteen Brown undergraduates who have demonstrated a strong commitment to community service have been awarded C.V. Starr Fellowships to pursue service projects. They will receive up to $4,000 each to fund their work.
News Release   03-134    05/11/2004   Cole
Brown selects two seniors to deliver Commencement orations
Russell Baruffi of Vineland, N.J., and Marian Thorpe of Spokane, Wash., will deliver senior orations during Brown's 236th Commencement, Monday, May 31, 2004, at 10:30 a.m. in the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   03-133    05/10/2004   Montgomery
Four professors in national spotlight for their teaching, research
Four Brown professors have been honored by national organizations this spring for their work: Amy Greenwald of computer science and Ian Dell'Antonio of physics received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers; Thomas Banchoff of mathematics is a recipient of the Distinguished Teaching Scholar Award; Elliot Colla of comparative literature has been selected by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to receive a New Directions Fellowship.
GSJ Story   28GSJ17    05/07/2004   Cole
Free and open to the public: 20 forums scheduled for Saturday, May 29
Twenty Commencement Forums -- among the most popular and accessible elements of Brown University's Commencement/Reunion Weekend -- will be offered all day Saturday, May 29, on the Brown campus. Distinguished guests of the University will discuss topics from ancient Rome to the exploration of Mars, from Einstein's biggest blunder to the latest issues in computer science. All forums are open to the public without charge.
News Release   03-132    05/06/2004   Curtis
Seventeen Brown students named to Royce Fellowships
Seventeen undergraduates at Brown University have been appointed to Royce Fellowships for the 2004-05 academic year. The award provides financial support for a project of the student's choosing and lifetime membership in the Society of Royce Fellows.
News Release   03-125    05/05/2004   Nickel
Six op-ed voices on "The Changing Face of Immigration"
"Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration," a recent public affairs conference at Brown University, focused on immigration in the United States after Sept. 11, 2001. At the University's invitation, several conference speakers prepared op-ed pieces on immigration issues. These are available through the Brown News Service.
News Release   03-127    05/05/2004   Howell
Who does the housework affects whether couples have a second child
In dual-earner couples, the probability of having a second child varies substantially according to the division of housework, says a new Brown University study in Population Development and Review. Researchers studied 265 dual-earner married couples in the United States.
News Release   03-130    05/05/2004   Cole
Brown University will confer nine honorary degrees on May 31
Brown University will confer nine honorary degrees during Commencement exercises Monday, May 31, 2004. The recipients are Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil; philanthropist Malcolm G. Chace; Shirin Ebadi, winner of the Nobel Peace Prize; Paul Farmer, M.D.; playwright Suzan-Lori Parks; journalist Jane Pauley; Brown University Chancellor Stephen Robert; Judith Rodin, president of the University of Pennsylvania; and cartoonist Garry Trudeau.
News Release   03-126    05/04/2004   Sweeney
Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi to deliver baccalaureate address
Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi will address graduating seniors at Brown's baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 30, 2004, at 1:30 p.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America. Seating is limited to graduating seniors; the service will be simulcast to The College Green.
News Release   03-128    05/04/2004   Cole
Overview: Brown University to hold 236th Commencement Monday, May 31
More than 6,000 people will march down College Hill on Memorial Day, May 31, 2004, in one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The procession and academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend on the Brown campus.
News Release   03-131    05/04/2004   Nickel
Data from deep underground experiment narrows sights on dark matter
Richard Gaitskell, assistant professor of physics at Brown University and head of Brown's particle astrophysics group, is a leading member of a U.S. research collaboration that is trying to directly detect particle "ark matter." The collaboration's detectors, cooled to less than one-tenth of a degree above absolute zero, operate half a mile beneath the earth's surface in an historic iron mine in Northern Minnesota.
News Release   03-129    05/03/2004   Nickel
Bilingual Brown students act as medical interpreters at RI Hospital
For the past seven years, bilingual Brown students have volunteered in the adult and pediatric emergency rooms of Rhode Island Hospital providing translation at such critical moments.
GSJ Story   28GSJ16c    04/30/2004   Cole
Public Notice: Health Services accreditation
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations will conduct an accreditation survey of Brown University Health Services on Monday, May 24 and Tuesday, May 25, 2004.
GSJ Story   28GSJ16d    04/30/2004   Freelance
Team Brown helps renovate Providence club, school
Sixty members of the Brown community spent a recent Saturday refurbishing the Fox Point Boys/Girls Club and the Alfred Lima Sr. Elementary School in Providence as part of the national volunteer program Rebuilding Together, formerly known as Christmas in April.
GSJ Story   28GSJ16e    04/30/2004   Montgomery
Slavery and justice: We seek to discover the meaning of our past
Brown University's Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice will investigate and discuss an uncomfortable piece of the University's -- and our nation's -- history. The Committee's work is not about whether or how reparations should be paid, writes Brown President Ruth J. Simmons. Rather, it will do the difficult work of scholarship, debate and civil discourse, demonstrating how difficult, uncomfortable and valuable this process can be.
News Release   03-103    04/26/2004   Nickel
Brown music ensembles to perform with Grammy winner Joe Lovano
The Brown University Music Department will present the 2004 Sara and Robert A. Reichley Concert -- Viva Jazz! -- featuring the Brown Jazz Band on Friday, May 7, 2004, at 8 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. The program will also feature the Jazz Band and the Brown Wind Symphony performing with Grammy winning musician Joe Lovano and vocalist Judi Silvano. The concert is free and open to the public.
News Release   03-123    04/26/2004   Curtis
Op-Ed: Immigration and labor force participation: Have times changed?
Nationwide, manufacturing jobs, once the mainstay of the middle income, have been shrinking. In 1969 more than 34 percent of working Rhode Islanders were employed in manufacturing. Today that number is 12 percent; low-income service jobs have increasingly replaced manufacturing jobs. If today's immigrants are to become the grandparents of tomorrow's professionals, education and language skills will be a major key, writes Jean Burritt Robertson. Robertson presented her ideas at the 2004 Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration."
News Release   03-115    04/23/2004   Howell
Op-Ed: Let us leave no immigrant child behind!
Given that educating English language learners requires an investment in special programming -- in a time when resources are shrinking -- programs and services specifically designed for students who are learning English may suffer the deepest cuts. While investments in educating English language learners have a current cost, that cost is small when compared to the future cost of failing to do so, writes Virginia M.C. da Mota. Da Mota presented her ideas at the 2004 Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration."
News Release   03-116    04/23/2004   Howell
Op-Ed: Safety through immigration control
No matter the weapon or delivery system -- hijacked airliners, shipping containers, suitcase nukes, anthrax spores -- terrorists are needed to carry out the attacks, and those terrorists have to enter and operate in the United States. In a very real sense, the primary weapons of our enemies are not the inanimate objects at all, but rather the terrorists themselves. Thus keeping the terrorists out or apprehending them after they get in is indispensable to victory, writes Mark Krikorian. Krikorian presented his ideas at the 2004 Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration."
News Release   03-117    04/23/2004   Howell
Op-Ed: In defense of Tom ÔThumb' Ridge
History says that everyone coming here is a foreigner until proven otherwise. The U.S. immigration authorities have a long, flourishing tradition, beginning in the early 19th century, of treating every would-be immigrant like a criminal. Immigration personnel at Ellis Island changed names that sounded too "foreign" to sound more Amurrican, writes Andrei Codrescu. Codrescu presented his ideas at the 2004 Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration."
News Release   03-118    04/23/2004   Howell
Op-Ed: America must not close the door to refugees
Immigrants and refugees and their advocates are as shaken by terrorism as the rest of us and want to ensure that terrorists are not given a free pass to enter America. We must enforce and strengthen existing laws and institute new procedures aimed at terrorists and criminals. But we must not let refugees become collateral damage in the process, writes Lavinia Limon. Limon presented her ideas at the 2004 Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration."
News Release   03-119    04/23/2004   Howell
Op-Ed: Immigrant stories
America still offers immigrant writers a shelter -- a place and a space to write -- and even the occasional rewards of the literary marketplace. For an immigrant writer, the welcoming anonymity of American life is both liberating and stifling, exhilarating and disheartening. America still promises, and gives, much of herself to immigrant writers. But once translated and published, immigrant stories start American lives of their own, write David Shrayer-Petrov and Maxim D. Shrayer. Shrayer-Petrov and Shrayer presented their ideas at the 2004 Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration."
News Release   03-120    04/23/2004   Howell
Hepatitis B vaccination for inmates would protect health of communities
Ninety-three percent of Rhode Island inmates studied said they would agree to receive the hepatitis B vaccine in prison if it were offered, according to new Brown University research. Although vaccination has been available for two decades, 1.2 million Americans have chronic hepatitis B, and the disease continues to spread. Few prison systems offer the vaccine to inmates.
News Release   03-122    04/23/2004   Cole
Howard Foundation announces 12 fellowships for 2004-05 academic year
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has announced 12 creative-writing fellowships of $20,000 each for the 2004-05 academic year. Brown University, which administers the Howard Foundation for the foundation's Board of Administration, also announced that the 2005-06 fellowships will be given in the area of literary criticism.
News Release   03-113    04/21/2004   Nickel
Bilingual Brown students act as medical interpreters at a local hospital
More than 30 Brown students volunteer as medical interpreters at Rhode Island Hospital where Spanish-speaking patients are most common among those seeking help. Interpreters are increasingly important to meet the needs of a changing population, say doctors. Although required by law, interpretation services are not always available in health care settings.
News Release   03-114    04/21/2004   Cole
Brown to host AIDS exhibition, documentary and three-day symposium
Now through June 2004, Brown will host a multifaceted project titled "Pandemic: Facing AIDS." Brown is the first U.S. university to host the international exhibition, "Pandemic: Imaging AIDS," which will be on display at Brown's Watson Institute through June 12. The University will also present "Provoking Hope: A Brown University HIV/AIDS Symposium" April 23-25, 2004, in Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall. All events in this project are free and open to the public.
News Release   03-109    04/14/2004   Curtis
Ted Turner to be honored for lifetime achievement in entrepreneurship
Philanthropist and cable news pioneer Ted Turner will be honored May 1, 2004, at 5 p.m. at the conclusion of a two-day Entrepreneurial Extravaganza that invites aspiring entrepreneurs from East Coast colleges and universities to compete for cash. The event is a joint collaboration by Brown University and Bryant College.
News Release   03-112    04/13/2004   Cole
Sportscaster Chris Berman to give Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture
ESPN anchor and sportscaster Chris Berman, a member of the Brown class of 1977, will give the fourth annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Thursday, April 15, 2004, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. Berman will speak on "Sports: America's Last Melting Pot." Following the lecture, Berman will conduct an ESPN-style interview with special guest Bill Belichick, head coach of the World Champion New England Patriots. This event is free and open to the public.
News Release   03-111    04/12/2004   Curtis
Adrien Brody, Wes Craven to speak at third annual Ivy Film Festival
Brown University will host the third annual Ivy Film Festival April 8-11, 2004. The festival will feature student film entries from the United States and abroad, as well as lectures and panel discussions with Academy Award-winning actor Adrien Brody, directors Wes Craven and Brett Ratner, and others. The festival is open to the public; tickets are required for all events.
News Release   03-104    04/08/2004   Curtis
Meissner to open 24th Brown/Providence Journal conference April 25
U.S. immigration policy expert Doris Meissner will deliver the Michael P. Metcalf-Howard R. Swearer Memorial Lecture to open the 24th annual Brown University/-Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference. The conference, "Homeland Insecurity: The Changing Face of Immigration," runs April 25 through April 28, 2004. Meissner will give her address, titled "Immigration and Security: A Post-9/11 Report Card," on Sunday, April 25, at 5 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.
News Release   03-105    04/07/2004   Howell
Brown announces investments in biological sciences, new hospital agreements
As part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, the Corporation of Brown University has approved proposals that will bring significant new investments to the Division of Biology and Medicine. New laboratories and an expanded faculty are already under way in the basic biological sciences. The University is committed to expanding its Program in Public Health and providing it a new home. The Medical School and its hospital partners will be working under new agreements.
News Release   03-106    04/05/2004   Nickel
Brown's Department of Public Safety to begin reaccreditation process
As part of the national reaccreditation process for Brown University's Department of Public Safety to be conducted this summer, the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will conduct a special public meeting at 7 p.m. Monday, April 26, in MacMillan Hall, Room 117. Community members may also submit written comments. DPS received its initial accreditation in July 1998, and was reaccredited in July 2001.
News Release   03-121    04/03/2004   Nickel
Public Art Committee will bring Paola Pivi mural to Brown
Brown's Public Art Committee is bringing a 33-by-40-foot photographic mural by Italian artist Paola Pivi to campus. The untitled work, on loan to Brown, will be installed on the western exterior of Brown's Sciences Library on Thayer Street.
News Release   03-102    04/01/2004   Curtis
Brown to host Cochrane Collaboration Meeting on health care April 1-2
Brown University will host the United States Cochrane Collaboration Meeting, titled "Building the Foundation: Creating Greater Awareness and Use of Evidence-based Health Care," April 1 and 2, 2004, in MacMillan Hall, 167 Thayer St.
News Release   03-100    03/30/2004   Curtis
LaVigne ready to wrangle volunteers for Rebuilding Together
Brown volunteers will hoist paintbrushes, hammers and shovels to refurbish the Fox Point Boys and Girls Club on April 24
GSJ Story   28GSJ13c    03/26/2004   Cole
Brown faculty, staff, students to refurbish Fox Point Club April 24
As Rebuilding Together, formerly called Christmas in April, marks its 10th anniversary rehabilitating homes and community buildings throughout the state, volunteers from Brown University will pitch in to refurbish one of the largest Boys and Girls Clubs in the city. The project is sponsored by Brown.
News Release   03-097    03/25/2004   Cole
Presidential election campaign platforms impact the stock market
Each fluctuation in public opinion about candidates George W. Bush and Al Gore during the 2000 presidential election led to corresponding changes in equity prices of firms aligned with the two candidates, according to a new study by a Brown University economist Brian G. Knight. Bushs ultimate victory in the election resulted in a $100-billion shift in value from Gore-favored to Bush-favored firms.
News Release   03-093    03/22/2004   Cole
Brown and RISD to present joint exhibit of Buonanno Rome collection
Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design will jointly present "The Theater That Was Rome: 16th-18th Century Views and Maps," a simultaneous exhibition of objects from the collection of Vincent J. Buonanno, April 9 through July 11, 2004, at the RISD Museum of Art and Brown's John Hay Library. In conjunction with the exhibit, Brown will host a symposium, titled "Rome in Print," on Saturday, April 24, 2004, at the List Art Center.
News Release   03-095    03/22/2004   Curtis
President Simmons to welcome Donald C. Eversley back to Providence
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will host a reception to welcome Brown alumnus Donald C. Eversley back to Providence as president of the Providence Economic Development Partnership. Gov. Donald L. Carcieri and Mayor David N. Cicilline will also attend. The reception, by invitation only, begins at 5:30 p.m. in the John Carter Brown Library.
News Release   03-092    03/16/2004   Nickel
Brown, URI secure federal grant to stimulate life sciences research in RI
Brown University and the University of Rhode Island have teamed up to secure a major federal grant through the National Science Foundation (NSF) that will stimulate life science research at the state's 11 institutions of higher education promoting life science-based economic development in Rhode Island.
GSJ Story   28GSJ12b    03/12/2004   Freelance
A look at Faculty Scholars for 2003-04
Each year, faculty are asked to nominate students for the Faculty Scholars Program, which was created by faculty in 1982 to provide scholarship and fellowship aid to undergraduate or graduate students, particularly those who have demonstrated academic excellence. Seven Brown students have been named Faculty Scholars for 2003-04. Here is a brief look at each.
GSJ Story   28GSJ12d    03/12/2004   Cole
Joukowsky's work on exhibit at American Museum of Natural History
Seldom is there a major exhibit of an archaeologist's work in his or her lifetime, but Brown's Professor Martha Sharp Joukowsky is now among the few who have been so honored. Since 1993, Joukowsky has led a team of Brown archaeologists and students in excavating the Great Temple of Petra. Now their work is on display in "Petra: Lost City of Stone," a special traveling exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City through July 6.
GSJ Story   28GSJ12e    03/12/2004   Curtis
Brown to host 2004 Responsible Leadership Forum March 11 to 13
Brown University will host the 2004 Responsible Leadership Forum, titled "Leadership in a Changing World," March 11 through 13, 2004. The conference will open with a keynote lecture on Thursday, March 11, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. All events are open to the public.
News Release   03-088    03/09/2004   Curtis
Archaeologists' work on exhibit at American Museum of Natural History
The work of a team of Brown archaeologists led by Martha Sharp Joukowsky, director of the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, is being displayed in "Petra: Lost City of Stone," a traveling exhibition at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City through July 6, 2004. On Sunday, March 14, 2004, at the museum, Joukowsky will present a slide-illustrated lecture on her work at the Great Temple of Petra.
News Release   03-087    03/05/2004   Curtis
John Carter Brown Library hosts exhibit on college foundings
The John Carter Brown Library is hosting a new exhibition, "The Establishment Of Colleges In The English Colonies," through May 1, 2004. The collection features documents relating to the founding of Harvard University, the College of William and Mary, Yale University, Princeton University, the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Brown University and Dartmouth College.
News Release   03-090    03/05/2004   Curtis
Chinese democracy activist Wang Youcai to arrive in Providence tonight
Chinese democracy activist Wang Youcai, one of the leaders of the 1989 student demonstrations in Tiananmen Square will arrive in Providence, R.I., tonight (Thursday, March 4, 2004). Wang, who was first imprisoned in 1998, was given medical parole earlier today. Wang's stay in the United States will be sponsored by Chinese dissident Xu Wenli, visiting senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute.
News Release   03-086    03/04/2004   Howell
Royce Professorships will recognize teaching excellence of Brown faculty
A $5.5-million gift from Brown alumnus and trustee emeritus Charles M. Royce, will fund six professorships to honor Brown faculty for excellence in teaching. Royce's gift was one of seven major gifts presented to and accepted by the Brown Corporation at its regular winter meeting Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004.
News Release   03-085    03/02/2004   Nickel
Corporation approves historic 15-year Plan for Academic Enrichment
The Plan for Academic Enrichment, approved by the Brown Corporation at its regular meeting Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004, outlines more than a decade of investments in Brown's faculty, academic programs, core academic facilities, environment for student living, and the physical campus -- a program that could transform the University.
News Release   03-082    02/28/2004   Nickel
Wideman, Houston, Bowen among new faculty appointments at Brown
At its winter meeting Saturday, Feb. 28, 2004, the Brown Corporation appointed three senior scholars to the University faculty: author John Edgar Wideman, anthropologist Stephen Houston, and neurobiologist Wayne Bowen. The new appointments and the appointments of several current faculty to named professorships are part of a continuing strategic effort to expand and better support the Brown faculty.
News Release   03-083    02/28/2004   Howell
Corporation sets tuition and fees, approves budget for 2004-05
Overall charges for undergraduates at Brown University will rise to $39,808 for the 2004-05 academic year, an increase of 4.9 percent. That figure includes tuition of $30,672, an increase of 5 percent.
News Release   03-084    02/28/2004   Nickel
First students join Brown/MBL graduate program
In the past year, both April Shiflett and Justin Widener have followed Steven Hajduk, their doctoral advisor from the University of Alabama at Birmingham, to the MBL in Woods Hole, where Hajduk is now director of the center's Global Infectious Diseases program. When Brown created an institutional affiliation with the MBL last July to foster cutting-edge research in biology, biomedicine and environmental sciences, the students saw a golden opportunity Ð and this semester they officially transferred to the Brown-MBL graduate program in pathobiology
GSJ Story   28GSJ11a    02/27/2004   Curtis
MBL scientist brings his interest in genomics to Brown
Giardia lamblia is a protozoa that can cause severe cases of diarrhea known as giardiasis. To Mitchell L. Sogin, director of the Bay Paul Center at the Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL) in Woods Hole, Giardia is also a link to the past, providing insights into the evolution of life on earth. His lab works to sequence the entire Giardia lamblia genome. This data will be made available for medical use, as well as for the evolutionary research that fascinates Sogin. Thanks to the MBL partnership with Brown, he also looks forward to assisting with joint courses about genomics Ð the study of an organism's entire DNA sequence Ð and molecular evolution.
GSJ Story   28GSJ11b    02/27/2004   Freelance
Political scientist explores dearth of female candidates
Well-qualified women are less likely than their male counterparts to consider running for public office because women do not perceive themselves as qualified and do not receive as much encouragement as men, according to a new study by political scientists at Brown University and Union College.
GSJ Story   28GSJ11d    02/27/2004   Cole
New online employment system goes live Feb. 29
Brown University's Human Resources Department is introducing a new online employment system designed to make the employment process more efficient and accessible for job seekers and hiring managers.
GSJ Story   28GSJ11f    02/27/2004   Freelance
Burton and Pereira headline Boyer's ÔEllis Island' concert at VMA
Immigration is an experience shared by nearly all American families at some point in their history, and for many, Ellis Island plays a central role in that experience. On March 6 the Brown University Orchestra will celebrate the immigrant journey when it moves from College Hill to downtown Providence to perform Peter Boyer's multimedia composition "Ellis Island: The Dream of America" at Veterans Memorial Auditorium Arts and Cultural Center.
GSJ Story   28GSJ11h    02/27/2004   Curtis
Brown Chorus to perform Bach's Passion According to St. John March 5
The Brown University Chorus will perform Bach's "Passion According to St. John" on Friday, March 5, 2004, at 8 p.m. at Central Congregational Church, 296 Angell St. Proceeds from the performance will support the choir's concert tour of Russia and Finland in June.
News Release   03-077    02/20/2004   Curtis
Former ambassador to Afghanistan Robert P. Finn to speak March 1
The Brown University Student Lecture Board will present Robert P. Finn, former U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, on Monday, March 1, 2004, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Finn will speak on "Afghanistan: Moving Toward Elections."
News Release   03-079    02/20/2004   Curtis
Brown Orchestra, Kate Burton to perform Peter Boyer's "Ellis Island"
The Brown University Orchestra, conducted by Paul Phillips, will perform "Ellis Island: The Dream of America," composer Peter Boyer's multimedia concert celebration of immigration, on Saturday, March 6, 2004, at the VMA Arts and Cultural Center. Noted actress Kate Burton, a member of the Brown Class of 1979, and violinist Juliana Pereira '04, a three-time Concerto Competition winner, will be among the featured performers.
News Release   03-075    02/16/2004   Curtis
Brown University and Black Coaches Association to honor Fritz Pollard
Brown University and the Black Coaches Association will co-sponsor an annual Fritz Pollard Award, to be presented to the college or professional coach chosen by the BCA as coach of the year. The award honors Frederick Douglass “Fritz” Pollard of Brown’s Class of 1919, the first African American to play in a Rose Bowl Game (for Brown, in 1916), first to quarterback an NFL team, and first to coach in the NFL. (See also background on Fritz Pollard.)
News Release   03-078    02/16/2004   Nickel
Hillel Center to be dedicated Feb. 26
The Brown community is invited to share in the celebration when the newly renovated Glenn and Darcy Weiner Hillel Center is dedicated Feb. 26.
GSJ Story   28GSJ10c    02/13/2004   Curtis
Center for Environmental Studies recognized for its long-lasting impact
Brown's Center for Environmental Studies was one of 12 programs across the country highlighted recently for using service activities to achieve civic outcomes, and for bestowing a lasting legacy on the participants of those activities. The CES was one of just two university programs featured.
GSJ Story   28GSJ09b    01/30/2004   Ferguson
Master's program in public policy will begin in September 2005
Brown will offer an interdisciplinary Master's Program in Public Policy, with degrees in public policy (MPP) and public affairs (MPA), beginning in September 2005. The Taubman Center for Public Policy will administer the program, which was approved by the Board of Fellows in December 2003.
GSJ Story   28GSJ09f    01/30/2004   Sweeney
SAC seeks input from staff about decision-making at Brown
At a meeting with President Simmons on Nov. 7, 2003, members of the Staff Advisory Committee (SAC) discussed progress on its examination of issues relating to staff participation in decision-making at Brown. A staff participation subcommittee has been established in response to Simmons' challenge to SAC to find ways to get staff more involved in key decision-making processes Ð decisions that will shape the direction of the University.
GSJ Story   28GSJ09h    01/30/2004   Freelance
Largest multistate study finds end-of-life care still Ôwoefully inadequate'
In a national study on end-of-life care, Brown researchers found that the physical and emotional needs of the dying continue to be unmet, particularly for those who die in institutions. According to the study, Americans who die in nursing homes and hospitals often receive inadequate pain control, too little emotional support, a lack of respect from staff, and poor communication with physicians.
GSJ Story   28GSJ09i    01/30/2004   Ferguson
New online calendar of events debuts on Brown Web site
The University has a new online calendar of events located at http://calendar.brown.edu. The new service, updated regularly and searchable by date, event category or keyword, makes information about lectures, concerts, athletic contests, club meetings, exhibitions and other events available throughout campus and to the extended Brown community of alumni, parents, campus neighbors and friends.
GSJ Story   28GSJ09k    01/30/2004   Sweeney
Diploma or not, high school students who learn more will earn more
Even in an economy that has moved from an industrial to a technologically advanced base, basic skills matter. High school dropouts who scored higher on a standardized test earned more when they entered the labor market than high school dropouts with lower scores, according to a new Brown University study.
News Release   03-072    01/21/2004   Cole
New online calendar of events debuts on Brown Web site
The University's new online calendar of events calendar.brown.edu offers a variety of user-friendly features and enables members of the Brown community to post events directly into the calendar database.
News Release   03-072    01/21/2004   Sweeney
New online calendar of events debuts on Brown Web site
The University's new online calendar of events -- at calendar.brown.edu -- offers a variety of user-friendly features and enables members of the Brown community to post events directly into the calendar database.
News Release   03-073    01/21/2004   Sweeney
Graduate School celebrates centennial, honors EPA research chief
On Tuesday, Feb. 10, the Brown University Graduate School will conclude its centennial celebration with the inaugural presentation of the Horace Mann Distinguished Graduate Alumni Award. Joel Scheraga, director of global change research at the Environmental Protection Agency, will receive the award and deliver the Horace Mann lecture, titled "Political Climate: The Role of Science in the Making of Climate Change Policy." The event is free and open to the public.
News Release   03-071    01/16/2004   Howell
Largest multistate study finds end-of-life care still "woefully inadequate"
In a national study on end-of-life care in the United States, Brown University researchers find the physical and emotional needs of the dying continue to be unmet, particularly for those who die in institutions. With baby boomers about to reach retirement age, the need for reform becomes increasingly urgent, according to Joan Teno, lead author of a paper to be published Jan. 7, 2004 in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
News Release   03-066    01/06/2004   Ferguson
Brown planetary geologists play major role in space exploration
During the last several decades, geological scientists from Brown University have played significant roles in space science, participating in the design and implementation of voyages to Mars, the Earth's moon, Venus, Jupiter and its moons, and asteroids.
News Release   03-067    01/06/2004   Howell
New scholarships to benefit Brown students from Reading, Mass., area
An anonymous donor has provided scholarship funds in honor of Newell H. Morton, a 1932 Brown graduate and civic leader in Reading, Mass. Morton was instrumental in encouraging and helping young people from Reading -- including the donor -- set their sights on a college education and succeed.
News Release   03-064    01/05/2004   Nickel
Roy Lichtenstein's "Brushstrokes" begins two-year visit to Brown campus
"Brushstrokes," a 30-foot sculpture by renowned artist Roy Lichtenstein, will be on public exhibition behind MacMillan Hall for the next two years as part of a loan program sponsored by Brown's Public Art Committee.
News Release   03-065    12/22/2003   Curtis
Julie Nguyen Brown elected trustee of Brown University
The Corporation of Brown University has elected Julie Nguyen Brown to a six-year term as a University trustee. Brown, the parent of two Brown undergraduate students, will serve through June 30, 2009.
News Release   03-061    12/16/2003   Nickel
Brown receives grant to expand use of hospice in nursing homes
A one-year project funded with a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and headed by Brown University Assistant Professor Susan Miller will identify and examine nursing homes where use of hospice is widespread. The project will culminate in a "best practices" publication intended to help nursing homes and hospices collaborate more easily.
News Release   03-062    12/12/2003   Ferguson
Brown University to move ahead with plans to arm its police officers
Brown University has decided to move forward with plans to equip its campus police officers with firearms. The decision will allow the University's Department of Public Safety to undertake officer training and policy development initiatives that could lead to the issuance of firearms to campus police officers.
News Release   03-059    12/01/2003   Nickel
Study finds that fungus farming by snails causes marsh grasses to wither
A new study led by a Brown University biologist reveals that a species of marine snail uses a unique method of agriculture. According to the study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the snail cultivates the growth of fungus, its preferred food, on live marsh grass, leading to a fungal infestation that suppresses marsh grass production. Fungal farming was previously thought to occur only in terrestrial insects.
News Release   03-060    12/01/2003   Howell
Events will observe 50th anniversary of Brown v. Board of Education
Brown University will present "The Promise and the Legacy: Fifty Years After Brown v. Board of Education," a year-long symposium examining the impact of the landmark 1954 Supreme Court decision. The symposium will open Dec. 3, 2003, with a panel discussion at 6:45 p.m. and a keynote address by Professor Charles Ogletree of the Harvard Law School at 8 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This event is free and open to the public.
News Release   03-058    11/26/2003   Curtis
Brown Lecture Board to host filmmaker Spike Lee
The Brown University Lecture Board will host filmmaker Spike Lee, who will speak about his work Monday, Dec. 1, 2003, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. Tickets are available only to persons with a Brown ID, but a limited number of seats will be reserved for the media.
News Release   03-057    11/25/2003   Curtis
Behind the scenes of the MBL
Most of the work at the MBL falls under two large umbrellas - biomedicine and environmental science. The formal alliance between Brown and the MBL - announced this past summer - pushes the potential for interdisciplinary collaborative work even further.
GSJ Story   28GSJ08e    11/21/2003   Ferguson
Steve Hajduk's mentoring messengers
Stephen Hajduk, a researcher at the Marine Biological Laboratory, has found a kindred spirit in the chromosomes of African Trypanosomes, single-celled parasites which use a mentoring process to fix typo-like errors in messenger molecules. Hajduk, who will be a guest lecturer in two Brown courses next semester, directs the Molecular Pathogenesis and Molecular Infectious Disease Program and is an active mentor to his students, firmly engaged in their development as researchers.
GSJ Story   28GSJ08f    11/21/2003   Whitney
Nurmikko at helm of project to develop advanced materials for energy program
A group of research scientists from Brown and Yale, led by Arto Nurmikko, professor of engineering and physics, recently received $900,000 from the Department of Energy to develop advanced materials for energy-efficient lighting applications.
GSJ Story   28GSJ08i    11/21/2003   Howell
On the horizon for research at Brown
Vice President for Research Andries van Dam talks about the direction of Brown's research efforts.
GSJ Story   28GSJ08l    11/21/2003   Nickel
De Groot makes Esquire's "Genius Edition"
Of the 38 men and women listed in Esquire magazine's "Genius Issue," two have ties to Brown: Assistant Professor Anne De Groot is recognized for her pioneering efforts to develop a vaccine for AIDS; Bobby Jindal '92, who narrowly missed becoming Louisiana's governor earlier this month, was presented as "the new face of southern politics."
GSJ Story   28GSJ08o    11/21/2003   Ferguson
Welfare recipients will not seek help if it is too far away, study says
The closer a welfare recipient resides to mental health and substance abuse providers, the more likely the person is to seek those services, according to a new Brown University study. Receiving such help can improve a person's chances of holding a job and leaving welfare.
News Release   03-054    11/19/2003   Cole
"What's Killing Our Kids?" Experts discuss behavior that ends young lives
Experts will explore the behaviors killing this country's youth -- including suicide, substance abuse, self-mutilation and bullying -- Nov. 21 and 22, 2003, in Starr Auditorium of MacMillan Hall at Brown University. The national symposium titled "What's Killing Our Kids?" is free and open to the public.
News Release   03-055    11/14/2003   Cole
Sen. Reed, Mayor Cicilline to help celebrate start of new Brown labs
Brown University will host a reception and news conference to celebrate the start of work on two new life sciences research facilities. Sen. Jack Reed, Mayor David Cicilline and others will join University officials Monday, Nov. 17, at the Doran-Speidel Building, 70 Ship St. The building is being retrofitted as a laboratory facility, to open in fall 2004.
News Release   03-053    11/12/2003   Nickel
Herpes research uncovers possible clue to Alzheimer's disease
Investigating the transport mechanisms of the herpes simplex virus, researchers at Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., discovered, for the first time, a physical connection between the herpes virus and amyloid precursor protein (APP). A byproduct of APP -- beta-amyloid -- is a major component of the amyloid plaques that are found consistently in the brains of persons with Alzheimer's disease.
News Release   03-050    11/07/2003   Ferguson
Brown and RISD team up to offer Performance Art Series
Brown University and Rhode Island School of Design have teamed up to offer the first annual RISD-Brown Performance Art Series through April 2004. The collaborative presentations -- all free and open to the public -- will include separate performances by playwright/actor Eric Bogosian and performance artist Julia Mandle on Nov. 13, 2003.
News Release   03-052    11/07/2003   Curtis
Brown, RISD partner to offer art performance series
Audiences will be hiking College Hill on Nov. 13 when playwright/actor Eric Bogosian and performance artist Julia Mandle appear in separate venues as part of the first RISD-Brown Performance Art Series.
GSJ Story   28GSJ07d    11/07/2003   Curtis
Ready, set, scream!
Brown student athletes have been known to strike fear in the hearts of their formidable opponents on occasion, but this Halloween they turned those fear-provoking tactics elsewhere. The Brown students volunteered their time and talents to decorate, disguise, spook and haunt their way into the hearts of hundreds of young goblins and ghouls at the Fox Point Boys/Girls Club in Providence during the club's annual "Halloween Fun Night."
GSJ Story   28GSJ07f    11/07/2003   Montgomery
New phase transition diagram confirms nobelist's theory, reveals new superconductor behavior
A team of scientists from Brown University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a new understanding of the phase transition in type-II superconductors. The development, reported in a recent issue of Physical Review Letters, confirms the work of a Nobel Prize-winning physics theorist and reveals behavior long thought to exist in these materials.
GSJ Story   28GSJ07h    11/07/2003   Howell
Parsipur, Soyinka headline "Freedom to Write"
"Freedom to Write" is a two-day series of readings and panel discussions celebrating Brown's International Writers Project.
GSJ Story   28GSJ07j    11/07/2003   Curtis
Brown computer science course seeks city teachers' ideas for software
"The Educational Software Seminar," a unique undergraduate course taught at Brown University for the last decade, produces software for use in elementary, secondary and post-secondary classrooms. Providence teachers are invited to submit proposals for software that would be developed by undergraduates during spring semester 2004 for use in the teachers' classrooms.
News Release   03-051    11/04/2003   Sweeney
Children are less likely to be delinquent if supervised after school
Children who are supervised after school are less likely to get into trouble than those who are home alone, according to a Brown University study forthcoming in the "Journal of Public Economics" and currently available online. Among the study's conclusions: Childcare programs that accommodate school-age children are important for society.
News Release   03-049    10/31/2003   Cole
New phase transition map confirms Nobel laureate's 50-year-old theory
A team of researchers from Brown University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed a new phase diagram for type-II superconductors. The research, reported in a recent issue of "Physical Review Letters," confirms the seminal theory of type-II superconductors predicted by one of the winners of this year's Nobel Prize in physics, and unravels behavior long suspected to exist in these materials.
News Release   03-048    10/30/2003   Howell
International Writers Project hosts "Freedom to Write" Nov. 7-8
Brown will celebrate its new International Writers Project with a two-day event titled "Freedom to Write," on Friday and Saturday, Nov. 7 and 8, 2003, in Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall. This series of readings and panel discussions will feature Iranian novelist Shahrnush Parsipur, the University's first International Writing Fellow, along with Nigerian Nobel Prize Laureate Wole Soyinka, poet Kamau Brathwaite and others. The events are open to the public without charge.
News Release   03-047    10/28/2003   Curtis
John Carter Brown Library hosts exhibition of new acquisitions
The John Carter Brown Library is presenting "In JCB: Acquisition Highlights of the 21st Century," an exhibition featuring some of the most recent additions to the library's unique collection, through Jan. 31, 2004. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
News Release   03-046    10/27/2003   Curtis
New system called Banner will enable students to register online
Brown has signed a contract to purchase an online student information system developed and sold by SCT, an educational technology firm.
GSJ Story   28GSJ05d    10/17/2003   Sweeney
University to offer wellness programs, insurance discounts
Brown employees will soon have an array of new - and free - health programs available to them, along with discounts on mortgage and insurance rates.
GSJ Story   28GSJ05f    10/17/2003   Curtis
Brown and Tulsa to work jointly on Modernist Journals Project
Faculty at Brown University and the University of Tulsa will join forces to work on the Modernist Journals Project. That project, which originated at Brown, seeks to produce digital editions of important modernist journals and to make its work available to scholars on the Web. Faculty at both institutions already have similar but complementary scholarly projects underway.
News Release   03-044    10/15/2003   Nickel
Bell Gallery to present work by Korean artist Do-Ho Suh
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a new exhibition of works by contemporary Korean artist Do-Ho Suh from Nov. 8 through Dec. 21, 2003, in conjunction with Brown's Korean centennial celebration. An opening reception and lecture by the artist are scheduled for Friday, Nov. 7, at 5:30 p.m. in the List Art Center Auditorium.
News Release   03-042    10/14/2003   Curtis
Corporation adopts Strategic Framework for Physical Planning
The Corporation of Brown University has accepted a sweeping report and adopted its set of principles to guide the University's growth for the next half century. The "Strategic Framework for Physical Planning" offers three key recommendations: Develop a circulation infrastructure to unify and enhance the campus; consolidate the core; and move beyond College Hill.
News Release   03-039    10/11/2003   Sweeney
Brown Corporation introduced to leadership for next capital campaign
As part of a strategic discussion of the University's future, members of the Brown Corporation were introduced to three co-chairs and two honorary co-chairs of the University's next comprehensive campaign. That campaign will provide crucial support for the long-range Initiatives for Academic Enrichment.
News Release   03-040    10/11/2003   Nickel
Brown to design and build, buy and retrofit two new research facilities
At its Saturday, Oct. 11, meeting, the Corporation of Brown University received a report from its Facilities and Design Committee which included an approved design for a new $95-million Life Sciences Building and information on the purchase of a building at 70 Ship St. in the Jewelry District of Providence, which the University will retrofit for use as a biomedical research laboratory. Taken together, the two facilities will increase the University's life sciences research space by 75 percent.
News Release   03-041    10/11/2003   Nickel
John Hay Library presents Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football
Brown's John Hay Library will host a new exhibition, titled "Celebrating 125 Years of Brown Football," beginning Oct. 10 and continuing through Nov. 7, 2003. The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, is offered in conjunction with a season-long commemoration of the 1878 founding of Brown's football program.
News Release   03-035    10/03/2003   Curtis
Grant funds workshops for graduate students writing dissertations
Brown University has received a $224,936 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to establish a program that will support graduate students during the intense and often isolating dissertation-writing experience.
News Release   03-036    10/03/2003   Cole
Graduate School size could be boon to multidisciplinary research
Brown's graduate department got its start a century ago. Though the department expanded and in 1927 became the Graduate School, it has remained small. That characteristic now proves beneficial in fostering interdisciplinary work and independent thinking across departmental lines
GSJ Story   28GSJ04b    10/03/2003   Cole
Russian librarians to meet with Brown counterparts
Five Russian library managers will spend Oct. 5-12 examining the role of libraries in American communities with Brown counterparts.
GSJ Story   28GSJ05e    10/03/2003   Sweeney
Brown/Trinity Consortium "running on all cylinders"
Just a year after it began, the Brown/Trinity Theater Consortium is already "running on all cylinders." "We succeeded immediately out of the gate in establishing ourselves as one of the most attractive programs in the country," said Oskar Eustis. "We can tell by the number of applications, the yield and the quality of the students we're attracting.
GSJ Story   28GSJ05f    10/03/2003   Curtis
Brown to provide East Side substation for Providence Police
Brown University will renovate approximately 1,500 square feet of commercial space on Brook Street and make it available free of charge to the Providence Police Department for use as an East Side substation.
News Release   03-031    10/01/2003   Nickel
Russian librarians to meet with Brown counterparts Oct. 5-12
Five Russian library managers will spend Oct. 5-12 with counterparts from Brown University to examine the role of libraries in American communities. Their visit is sponsored by the Open World Program.
News Release   03-034    10/01/2003   Sweeney
Tobacco, investing and social responsibility
The University's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investing, which has recommended that Brown exclude tobacco manufacturers from the University's investment portfolio, is sponsoring a lecture series on socially responsible investing.
GSJ Story   28GSJ03b    09/26/2003   Sweeney
Disability access problems plague city government Web sites
Most Web sites maintained by the governments of America's 70 largest cities fail standard tests for access by users with vision and hearing impairments, according to a new study by researchers at Brown University. Most urban government Web sites are also written at a higher reading level than the average urban American user has achieved.
News Release   03-030    09/22/2003   Nickel
Hitch a ride with safeRIDE
Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design have collaborated to provide shuttle service to faculty, staff and students through a program called safeRIDE.
GSJ Story   28GSJ02a    09/19/2003   Cole
Brown team among first to report on Cambodia's AIDS epidemic
A Brown medical student and four of her professors recently published some of the first clinical details about the AIDS epidemic in Cambodia.
GSJ Story   28GSJ02c    09/19/2003   Turner
Bears celebrate 125 years of football tradition
Brown football schedules season-long celebration of its 125-year history
GSJ Story   28GSJ02e    09/19/2003   Montgomery
Readability is a problem for state and federal government Web sites
The fourth annual "e-government" survey, conducted at Brown University, finds that most state and federal government Web sites are written at too high a grade level for average American users. About one-third of sites examined satisfied recognized standards for accessibility by users with vision or hearing impairment. Tables ranking state and federal Web sites are included.
News Release   03-025    09/15/2003   Nickel
Mikhail Gorbachev to receive honorary degree and give Ogden Lecture
Former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev will give a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture on International Affairs, titled "Democracy's Impact on Globalization," on Monday, Sept. 29, 2003, at noon on Lincoln Field on the Brown University campus. Gorbachev will also receive an honorary Doctor of Laws Degree from the University.
News Release   03-026    09/15/2003   Curtis
Brown to offer two-day conference on global corporate governance
Corporate leaders, elected officials and management scholars will meet at Brown University Sept. 19 and 20, 2003, for a conference on corporate governance in the 21st century. The Friday evening keynote panel, featuring many of the conference presenters, is open to the public without charge. It begins at 6:30 p.m. in C.V. Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall, Thayer and George streets.
News Release   03-027    09/15/2003   Nickel
Farmers market on Brown campus to feature locally grown produce
Eight area farmers will sell their fresh produce at a farmers market sponsored by Brown University Food Services. The farmers market, which will be held Wednesday, Sept. 17, from 11 a.m. until 3 p.m. at the Sharpe Refectory on the Brown campus, is part of University Food Service's Community Harvest Program.
News Release   03-024    09/11/2003   Sweeney
Concerts, master class to celebrate centennial of Hutchings-Votey organ
Brown will celebrate the 100th birthday of its Hutchings-Votey organ in a concert featuring University Organist Mark Steinbach and the Brown University Chorus on Friday, Sept. 19, 2003, at 8 p.m. in Sayles Hall. The centennial observance will continue on Sunday, Sept. 21, when noted British organist David Briggs will give a recital at 3 p.m. and a master class at 5 p.m. in Sayles Hall. All three events are free and open to the public.
News Release   03-022    09/09/2003   Curtis
Brown to donate physics equipment to local high schools
Brown University's Department of Physics will support local science classrooms by inviting area high school teachers to select from a stock of surplus laboratory equipment Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003, at 1:30 p.m. in Room 145 of the Barus and Holley Building. The University has donated surplus laboratory equipment to Providence schools for more than a decade.
News Release   03-023    09/09/2003   Howell
Independent Review Committee to resume public meetings Sept. 9
The fourth public interview session conducted by the Independent Review Committee will begin at 1 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 9, 2003, in the main lounge of the Gregorian Quadrangle, 101 Thayer St. on the Brown University campus.
News Release   03-020    09/08/2003   Nickel
Brown University revises its non-academic discipline system
Brown University's newly revised system for non-academic discipline, which is in effect beginning with the 2003-04 academic year, provides additional options for disposition of cases. It is based on a new statement of principles that applies to all members of the University community -- faculty and staff as well as students.
News Release   03-021    09/08/2003   Nickel
My favorite Martian
Brown student spends month at Red Planet simulation site
GSJ Story   28GSJ01b    09/05/2003   Cambra
Brown's faculty to begin academic year 2003-04 at largest size ever
Following an unusually successful year of recruiting, the Brown University faculty will begin the 2003-04 academic year at its largest size ever -- 601 regular faculty members. (See also brief profiles of new faculty in 03-015a (humanities), 03-015b (social sciences) 03-015d (physical sciences) and 03-015c. (life sciences.)
News Release   03-015    09/02/2003   Nickel
Most R.I. quasi-public agencies do not comply with public access laws
A study of the 23 Rhode Island quasi-public agencies that were included in the governor's budget for fiscal year 2004 shows that more than one-third submitted incomplete minutes of their meetings during 2002 to the secretary of state and more than one-quarter submitted no minutes at all. The study, conducted by the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University, also found that no agency submitted all of its minutes within the statutory deadline.
News Release   03-016    09/02/2003   Nickel
Bell Gallery to present Faculty Exhibition 2003
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present its tri-annual exhibition of works of art by members of the Brown faculty beginning Sept. 6 and continuing through Oct. 26, 2003. An opening reception for the artists is set for Friday, Sept. 5, at 5:30 p.m.; several of the artists will also discuss their work on Thursday, Oct. 17, from 5 to 7 p.m. All three events are free and open to the public.
News Release   03-014    08/28/2003   Nickel
Cultural historian Carolyn Dean to address new students Sept. 2
Carolyn Dean, professor of history, will deliver the Opening Convocation address to incoming students Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2003, at noon on The College Green. Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will declare the 240th academic year -- her third as Brown's 18th president -- officially open. [Note: Opening Convocation took place in OMAC because of rain. See 03-013a]
News Release   03-013    08/27/2003   Cole
Brown moves to protect its network servers, e-mail and Internet access
Brown University is sending more than 50 members of its computing staff into dormitories in an effort to protect the University's network servers and maintain an acceptable level of service.
News Release   03-012    08/26/2003   Nickel
Independent Review Committee schedules third day of interviews
The third public session of the Independent Review Committee will begin at 9:30 a.m. Thursday, Aug. 21, in Room 120 of List Art Center, 64 College St. on the Brown University campus.
News Release   03-010    08/20/2003   Nickel
Independent Review Committee questions elected officials, State Police
The Independent Review Committee will resume its public hearings at 10 a.m. Wednesday, Aug. 20, in Room 120 of List Art Center, 64 College St. on the Brown campus.
News Release   03-009    08/19/2003   Nickel
Independent Review Committee sets hearings for Aug. 19-21
The Independent Review Committee established by Gov. Donald L. Carcieri to review the incident at the Narragansett Smoke Shop and events that led up to it has scheduled a series of public meetings on the matter on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 19, 20 and 21, 2003, in the auditorium of Brown University's List Art Center, 64 College St., Providence, R.I.
News Release   03-006    08/15/2003   Curtis
Smoke Shop: Statement by the Independent Review Committee
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, who chairs the Independent Review Committee established by R.I. Gov. Donald L. Carcieri to review the incident at the Narragansett Smoke Shop, issued the following statement on Thursday, Aug. 14, 2003.
News Release   03-005    08/14/2003   Nickel
Fennell to step down as dean of faculty, will serve through 2003-04
Mary L. Fennell, dean of the faculty at Brown University, has announced plans to return to regular faculty life at the end of the 2003-04 academic year, as professor of sociology and community health.
News Release   03-004    08/07/2003   Nickel
Annual Fund posts record year, exceeds goal by $700,000
The Brown Annual Fund grew by 15 percent over the previous year, reaching $19.7 million and exceeding the goal of $19 million.
GSJ Story   27GSJ32a    07/25/2003   Freelance
At Brown
Brown EEP participants; awards and honors; more
GSJ Story   27GSJ32b    07/25/2003   Sweeney
Center Stage
Brown students take to stage with Duende Arts
GSJ Story   27GSJ32d    07/25/2003   Curtis
Brown awards scholarships to two Providence public high grads
Jannella Sanbour of Classical High School and Sobondo Josiah of Central High School were recently named City of Providence Scholars for the Brown University Class of 2007. They will receive financial support from an endowment earmarked for students from local public schools.
News Release   03-003    07/18/2003   Cole
A look at total compensation packages for faculty, staff
Although a struggling economy has prompted layoff programs and salary cuts at many colleges and universities across the country, Brown finds itself in a much better position than many institutions. In fiscal year 2003-04, the University will provide raises to more than 90 percent of all employees.
GSJ Story   27GSJ31b    07/11/2003   Sweeney
Financial factors play part in nursing homes' use of feeding tubes
Money may be at the root of the common practice of inserting feeding tubes into nursing home residents with end-stage dementia, even though the treatment neither delays death nor improve quality of life in the patients. That was one of several chilling findings of a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association. Four of the five authors of the study are based in Brown's Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research.
GSJ Story   27GSJ31e    07/11/2003   Turner
Brown and MBL create an alliance for teaching and research
Brown University and the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., today established a formal institutional affiliation that will support the joint programs of education and research in biology, biomedicine and environmental sciences.
News Release   03-001    07/07/2003   Turner
Brown University to hold 12th annual college fair Thursday, July 10
Brown University's Pre-College Summer Program will present its 12th annual college fair Thursday, July 10, 2003, from 1 to 3:30 p.m. Free and open to the public, the event is the largest summer college fair in New England and draws more than 100 colleges and 1,000 aspiring college students to campus each year.
News Release   02-158    06/27/2003   Howell
Finicky snails provide new clues to evolution of coastal ecosystems
The work of a Brown postdoctoral research associate lead him to advocate for conservation of intact communities, not just certain species.
GSJ Story   27GSJ30c    06/20/2003   Turner
Marisa Quinn named assistant to the President at Brown University
Marisa A. Quinn, currently director of community and government relations, will become assistant to the President at Brown University on Aug. 1, 2003.
News Release   02-155    06/19/2003   Nickel
Corporation of Brown University elects eight new trustees
At its Commencement Weekend meeting May 24, 2003, the Corporation of Brown Uni-versity elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees: Alain J.P. Belda; Cornelia Dean; Galen V. Henderson, M.D.; Bobby Jindal; Samuel M. Mencoff; Kenneth J. O'Keefe; Eileen M. Rudden; and Laurinda Hope Spear.
News Release   02-146    06/11/2003   Sweeney
Allen named associate provost and director of institutional diversity
Brenda A. Allen, currently assistant to the president and director of institutional diversity at Smith College, has been named to the newly created position of associate provost and director of institutional diversity at Brown University.
News Release   02-151    06/10/2003   Nickel
New agreement nurtures and sustains Brown's relationship with city
On Thursday, June 5, 2003, Mayor David Cicilline and the presidents of Brown University, Johnson & Wales University, Providence College and Rhode Island School of Design announced an unprecedented financial agreement which will provide the City of Providence nearly $50 million in voluntary contributions over 20 years. The agreement includes a 15-year process whereby colleges can convert commercial properties to tax-exempt educational uses by making declining annual contributions based on the property tax. The text of President Ruth J. Simmons' announcement to the campus community follows here.
News Release   02-148    06/07/2003   Nickel
Brown Corporation approves budget, adopts new governance plan
At its regular meeting May 24, 2003, the Corporation of Brown University approved a $512-million operating budget, authorized issuance of tax-exempt bonds, authorized several major campus planning initiatives, and adopted a proposal for restructuring the Corporation's own governance procedures.
News Release   02-149    06/06/2003   Nickel
Slavs and the West on exhibit at JCB Library through Sept. 15
The John Carter Brown Library will observe the 300th anniversary of the founding of St. Petersburg with a new exhibition, "Slavs and the West, 1500-1815." The exhibit, which is free and open to the public, will be on display through Sept. 15, 2003.
News Release   02-150    06/06/2003   Curtis
Nicotine changes newborn behavior similar to heroin and crack
For the first time, researchers report that nicotine exposure in the womb produces behavioral changes in babies similar to those found in newborns of women who use crack cocaine or heroin during pregnancy. The study by Brown Medical School researchers appears in the June issue of Pediatrics.
News Release   02-143    06/02/2003   Turner
Brown, Providence, merchants announce plans for improvements
Brown University has joined with the City of Providence and property owners and merchants along Thayer Street to improve conditions in the area by establishing the Thayer Street Improvement District.
News Release   02-145    05/29/2003   Sweeney
Brown to confer 2,123 degrees at 235th Commencement May 26, 2003
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons will confer 2,123 degrees during the University's 235th Commencement Monday, May 26, 2003. (News advisory with degree counts by category.)
News Release   02-144    05/23/2003   Nickel
Brown awards research seed funds to four faculty groups
Brown University has provided four teams of faculty members a total of $356,000 in seed money to explore new lines of research and attract greater external funding for large-scale projects and centers.
News Release   02-141    05/22/2003   Turner
Brown to defer action on arming campus police officers
Citing the proposed reorganization of the Providence Police Department, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons announced that the University will defer action on arming its campus police officers. Simmons notified the campus community of that decision by e-mail Tuesday. (Text of the e-mail is linked.)
News Release   02-142    05/21/2003   Nickel
The first David J. Zucconi Fellowship for International Study awarded
Emma K. Kuby, of Cincinnati, Ohio, has received the first David J. Zucconi '55 Fellowship for International Study. After graduating from Brown in May, she will use the fellowship to spend a year in France and England studying feminist movements and the increased representation of women in government.
News Release   02-117    05/19/2003   Cole
Brown University will confer seven honorary degrees on May 26
Brown University will confer seven honorary degrees during Commencement exercises Monday, May 26, 2003. The recipients are actress Laura Linney; RISD President Roger Mandle; former U.S. Sen. Sam Nunn; Lowery Stokes Sims of the Studio Museum in Harlem; genetic researcher Joan Argetsinger Steitz; Brian Urquhart, former undersecretary-general of the U.N.; and Chinese dissident Xu Wenli.
News Release   02-138    05/15/2003   Sweeney
A message about SARS and Commencement/Reunion Weekend
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has sent the following message about SARS to faculty, students, staff and other members of the University community, including people who may be concerned about travel to campus for the 2003 Commencement-Reunion Weekend, May 23-26, 2003.
News Release   02-140    05/14/2003   Nickel
Xu Wenli to deliver baccalaureate address May 25
Xu Wenli, who spent 16 years in Chinese prison for his pro-democracy activities, will address graduating seniors at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 25, 2003, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America. He will speak about "My Journey to Brown: A Personal Odyssey."
News Release   02-136    05/13/2003   Sweeney
John Carter Brown Library Medal awarded to Jose Amor y Vazquez
Jose Amor y Vasquez, professor emeritus of Hispanic studies, has received the John Carter Brown Library medal for his service as an advisor, author, editor, translator and long-time supporter of the library. The medal was presented during a ceremony on Friday, May 9, 2003, at the library.
News Release   02-133    05/09/2003   Curtis
Seth Berkley, M.D., to speak at Medical School Convocation
Seth Berkley, M.D., founder and president of the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative, will speak at the Brown Medical School Commencement Convocation Monday, May 26, 2003, in the First Unitarian Church of Providence. Medical graduates will also hear talks by Angela Anderson, M.D., associate professor of pediatrics, and Giridhar Mallya, a member of the graduating class. The convocation will begin at 8:45 a.m.
News Release   02-134    05/09/2003   Turner
Graduate School will begin centennial celebration at Commencement
The Brown University Graduate School will begin the celebration of its centennial during the University's 235th Commencement, Friday, May 23, to Monday, May 26, 2003. Brown's original "Graduate Department"was established in 1903.
News Release   02-135    05/09/2003   Howell
New sensor bares faults in smallest possible, most advanced circuits
Scientists at Brown University have created a magnetic-sensing microscope that allows them to watch electricity flow through the world's tiniest components. They are using the device to find defects in integrated circuits and micromachinery. The design opens the door to wider application of magnetic-sensing technology for imaging electrical current flow. The microscope is described in the May 12, 2003, issue of Applied Physics Letters.
News Release   02-125    05/07/2003   Turner
14 Brown students receive Starr Fellowships for public service projects
Fourteen Brown undergraduates who have demonstrated a strong commitment to public and community service have been awarded C.V. Starr Fellowships to pursue such projects. They will receive up to $4,000 each to fund their work.
News Release   02-129    05/05/2003   Cole
Former Brazilian president, Linney and Colson headline forums
Brown will present its 33rd annual Commencement Forums throughout the day on Saturday, May 24, 2003. The 18 sessions, all free and open to the public, will feature leaders in the fields of science and medicine, the arts, international affairs and entertainment.
News Release   02-131    05/05/2003   Curtis
Upholding Brown tradition, two seniors will address graduating class
Martha Lackritz of San Antonio, Texas, and Onyekachukwu Iloabachie of Queens, N.Y., will deliver orations during Brown's 235th Commencement, Monday, May 26, 2003, at 10:30 a.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   02-132    05/05/2003   Curtis
Sleep loss and driving do not mix for medical residents, study finds
In a driving simulation, fatigued pediatric residents performed equally or worse than they did when moderately intoxicated, according to a pilot study presented at the 2003 Pediatric Academic Societies' meeting by Brown Medical School researchers.
News Release   02-100    05/03/2003   Turner
Residents often feel unprepared to break bad news to kids and parents
Medical residents have not had enough education or experience in sharing bad news with younger patients and their families, suggests a new study by researchers at Brown Medical School and Dartmouth Medical School. Their research appears in the May-June issue of Ambulatory Pediatrics.
News Release   02-124    05/03/2003   Turner
Brown University to hold 235th Commencement Monday, May 26
More than 6,000 people will march down College Hill on Monday, May 26, 2003, in one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The procession and academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend on the Brown campus.
News Release   02-130    05/02/2003   Nickel
Brunonians involved in nightclub fire investigation
Forensic Archeology Recovery, a new group of Brown faculty, graduate students and others, got its start in the wake of the World Trade Center attack. The volunteers were called in to assist in the investigation of the deadly fire at The Station nightclub in West Warwick.
GSJ Story   27GSJ26b    05/02/2003   Sweeney
Research fails to support link between high self-esteem, positive behavior
Many of the positive outcomes attributed to high self-esteem are not substantiated by research, according to Brown psychologist Joachim I. Krueger. Krueger and faculty from three other universities formed that conclusion after reviewing more than two decades of objective research studies on self-esteem at the invitation of the American Psychological Society. Their report appears in this month's issue of Psychological Science in the Public Interest, a supplement to Psychological Science.
GSJ Story   27GSJ26e    05/02/2003   Cole
Demand for wood may lead to forest growth, not decline, study says
Increased demand for forest products was a cause of increased forest cover in India during the last three decades, according to a joint study by researchers at Brown and Harvard University in the May 2003 Quarterly Journal of Economics. The finding contradicts the idea that economic development inevitably leads to deforestation.
News Release   02-127    05/01/2003   Cole
Brown University Library names William Williams Award recipients
The Brown University Library will honor three individuals for their support by presenting them with the William Williams Award on May 24, 2003, at 9 a.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching; two other Williams Awards will be presented posthumously. The ceremony immediately precedes a Commencement Forum on the legacy of Abraham Lincoln. The ceremony and the forum are open to the public.
News Release   02-128    05/01/2003   Curtis
Newport Art Museum hosts JCB Library exhibit on maritime history
The Newport Art Museum is hosting a new exhibit of books, maps and manuscripts from the holdings of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University. Those materials -- all related to maritime history -- are on display as "The Boundless Deep ...: The European Conquest of the Oceans 1450 to 1840," through July 27, 2003.
News Release   02-122    04/29/2003   Howell
Brown University Library plays key role in "Rhode Island Treasures"
The Brown University Library is lending a variety of historically significant items from its collection for display in "Rhode Island Treasures," a Smithsonian exhibition tracing more than 350 years of Rhode Island history. The exhibit will open May 10 and continue through June 15, 2003, at the Rhode Island Convention Center.
News Release   02-123    04/29/2003   Curtis
Brown brings "Annie Junior" to Providence Schools
In the culmination of a collaboration among Brown, Trinity Repertory Company and the New York-based Broadway Junior program, students from Asa Messer, Robert L. Bailey IV and Charles Fortes schools in Providence and the Gordon School in East Providence will each perform "Annie Junior," a one-hour version of the award-winning Broadway musical "Annie," on May 3 at Trinity Rep.
GSJ Story   27GSJ25b    04/25/2003   Curtis
Brown University is monitoring one possible case of SARS
Brown University administrators and public health officials are monitoring a possible case of SARS involving a faculty member who recently traveled to Toronto. All members of the campus community are being notified about that case and are receiving information about SARS.
News Release   02-120    04/24/2003   Nickel
Brown receives two-year, $750,000 grant for advancing innovation
The Atlantic Philanthropies has awarded Brown University a two-year, $750,000 grant in support of academic innovation -- particularly pedagogical and curricular initiatives -- and to recognize President Ruth J. Simmons' distinguished campus leadership.
News Release   02-113    04/23/2003   Nickel
Fifteen Brown undergraduates named Royce Fellows for 2003-04
Fifteen undergraduates at Brown University have been appointed to Royce Fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year. The award provides financial support for a project of the student's choosing and lifetime membership in the Society of Royce Fellows.
News Release   02-118    04/23/2003   Nickel
Sportswriter Frank Deford to speak on "Hype and Hypocrisy" April 30
Award-winning journalist, author and sports commentator Frank Deford will speak on "Sports: The Hype and Hypocrisy" Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Deford's lecture, which is free and open to the public, is sponsored by the Brown Lecture Board.
News Release   02-119    04/23/2003   Curtis
Howard Foundation announces 13 fellowship recipients for 2003-04
The Board of Administration of the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation has announced recipients of fellowships for the 2003-04 academic year, all of them in history, history of science, or political science. Fellowships for the 2004-2005 academic year will be awarded in the field of creative writing. The Howard Foundation is administered by Brown University.
News Release   02-115    04/17/2003   Nickel
Former Illinois Gov. George Ryan to speak April 15 on death penalty
The Brown University Lecture Board will welcome former governor of Illinois George Ryan and Lawrence Marshall, the legal director for the Center on Wrongful Convictions, on Tuesday, April 15, 2003, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The pair will speak on the death penalty.
News Release   02-112    04/14/2003   Curtis
"New ethnic studies" looks at interactions, relationships
CSREA alumni have established themselves in institutions of higher ed across the nation. They recently gathered at Brown to share.
GSJ Story   27GSJ24a    04/11/2003   Howell
Master plan offers suggestions for the campus decades down the road
How might the Brown campus grow and change over the next several decades to accommodate its ambitious strategic and academic goals? That question was posed to the architectural firm of Kliment & Halsband, which was hired to develop a master plan for campus that would support the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. Architect Frances Halsband led an analysis of existing buildings, land use, open space, campus history and zoning provisions, and arrived at some preliminary findings, which she shared with members of the Brown community during two meetings held April 8.
GSJ Story   27GSJ24b    04/11/2003   Sweeney
Brown begins national search for senior institutional diversity officer
Brown University has established a new position with overall responsibility for all programs of institutional diversity. The new position -- associate provost and director of institutional diversity -- will be part of the president's cabinet and will work closely with the president, provost and other senior officers. President Ruth J. Simmons is chairing the 17-member selection committee.
News Release   02-109    04/10/2003   Nickel
Internet weight loss program effective among adults at risk for diabetes
In a 12-month study of an Internet weight loss program, overweight adults at risk for type 2 diabetes lost enough weight to reduce their chances of getting the disease. Those who received regular e-mail counseling from a therapist experienced the greatest success. The study, led by Deborah F. Tate of the Brown Medical School, is in the April 9, 2003, Journal of the American Medical Association.
News Release   02-105    04/08/2003   Cole
Oscar nominee Todd Haynes to speak at Brown April 11 and 12
Writer/director and Academy Award nominee Todd Haynes, a 1985 graduate of Brown University will speak about his work on Friday, April 11, 2003, at 3 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching and again on Saturday, April 12, 2003, at the Cable Car Cinema, following a 4:15 p.m. screening of his film "Far from Heaven."Both events are free and open to the public.
News Release   02-108    04/08/2003   Curtis
New study documents domestic violence by race, income in R.I.
Although black and Hispanic women comprised 6 percent of Rhode Island's 1990 population, they represented more than 17 percent of victims in police reports documenting domestic violence and sexual assault, according to a Brown University study published in the journal Public Health Reports.
News Release   02-106    04/07/2003   Turner
Acceptance letters go out to Class of 2007
The Admissions Office sent acceptance letters to 2,258 high school seniors inviting them to become members of Brown's Class of 2007.
GSJ Story   27GSJ23a    04/04/2003   Cole
Chancellor Robert announces $500K challenge to Brown Annual Fund
To honor Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, Chancellor Stephen Robert, a member of the Class of 1962, has made a $500,000 challenge gift to the Brown Annual Fund, a gift designed to spur participation.
News Release   02-103    03/31/2003   Nickel
At Brown
Awards and honors, Brown in the news, more
GSJ Story   27GSJ22a    03/28/2003   Sweeney
Medical devices may benefit from Brown fuel cell technology
Two new tiny fuel cells developed at Brown may make long-running medical implants more of a reality. The cells offer features sought by manufacturers hoping to provide long-term power for medical devices such as implants that monitor glucose levels in diabetics. The lead scientist on the project is Tayhas Palmore, associate professor of engineering, biology and medicine.
GSJ Story   27GSJ22b    03/28/2003   Turner
Second Ivy Film Festival to feature Tim Robbins, original films
Critically acclaimed actor and director Tim Robbins will share his cinematic expertise with budding filmmakers when Brown hosts the second annual Ivy Film Festival April 4-6.
GSJ Story   27GSJ22c    03/28/2003   Curtis
New findings about HIV biology and behavior; research conferences
Four recent studies involving Brown AIDS researchers provided new insights into the behavior and biology of HIV infection and treatment; two conferences
GSJ Story   27GSJ22d    03/28/2003   Turner
23 receive Salomon Faculty Research Awards
The Office of the Vice President for Research has announced this year's recipients of Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards. This program was established to support excellence in scholarly work by providing funding for faculty research projects deemed to be of exceptional merit. From 1995-99, the program was funded by the bequest of the late Richard B. Salomon, chancellor of the University. Brown has funded the continuation of the program since 1999.
GSJ Story   27GSJ22e    03/28/2003   Sweeney
Course brings cognition to bear in cutting through advertisements' spin
In her undergraduate course "Language, Truth and Advertising," Julie Sedivy, assistant professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, offers Brown students the tools to decipher the information they see and hear, and reasons they should want to do so.
GSJ Story   27GSJ22f    03/28/2003   Cole
New advance in fuel cell technology may help power medical implants
With designs that hurdle several scientific barriers, two new fuel cells developed at Brown University are models for power sources that may one day energize medical implants or remote sensors. Brown engineers discussed the new cells Thursday March 27, 2003, in New Orleans at the 225th national meeting of the American Chemical Society.
News Release   02-098    03/27/2003   Turner
Barry S. Sternlicht elected trustee of the Brown Corporation
The Corporation of Brown University has elected Barry S. Sternlicht, a 1982 graduate of Brown, to a six-year term as trustee beginning March 1, 2003.
News Release   02-075    03/25/2003   Nickel
NBC's Andrea Mitchell to receive Welles Hangen Award March 30
Andrea Mitchell, chief foreign affairs correspondent for NBC News, will receive Brown's Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism on Sunday, March 30, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. Mitchell will also give the keynote lecture titled "Pax Americana." The public is welcome.
News Release   02-095    03/20/2003   Curtis
High school students travel to state capitols for civic education program
High school students from Connecticut, Illinois, Nebraska, Rhode Island, and Utah, will travel to their state capitols March 21 through April 18 to debate the role of the U.S. in the world, the war with Iraq, and critical international concerns on the environment, immigration, trade, and conflict resolution. The students are participating in the Capitol Forum on America's Future, designed by Brown University's Choices for the 21st Century Education Program.
News Release   02-097    03/20/2003   Cole
Valerie Petit Wilson named executive director of Leadership Alliance
Valerie Petit Wilson, currently deputy director of the Tulane/Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research and clinical associate professor of environmental health sciences at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, has been named executive director of the Leadership Alliance at Brown University. Wilson will begin her work at Brown July 1, 2003.
News Release   02-080    03/19/2003   Nickel
Brown hosts second annual Ivy Film Festival and actor Tim Robbins
Brown will host the second annual Ivy Film Festival April 4-6, 2003. The festival features filmmaking and screenwriting competitions, as well as a keynote lecture by actor/director Tim Robbins and a series of film screenings, lectures and panel discussions. The Robbins lecture is reserved for students, but the remainder of the festival is open to the public.
News Release   02-094    03/19/2003   Curtis
Andrea Mitchell to open 23rd Brown/Providence Journal conference
Acclaimed foreign affairs reporter Andrea Mitchell will deliver the Michael P. Metcalf-Howard R. Swearer Memorial Lecture to open the 23rd annual Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference. The conference, "A Time of Great Consequence: America and the World," runs March 30 through April 4, 2003. Mitchell will give her address, titled "Pax Americana," on Sunday, March 30, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.
News Release   02-092    03/17/2003   Howell
Remarks on the eve of war: Universities have an important role to play
At 9 p.m. Wednesday, March 19, 2003, less than an hour before U.S. armed forces began their attack on Iraq, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons addressed a meeting of students in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The text of her remarks follows here.
News Release   02-093    03/17/2003   Nickel
Brown to host ASEH conference, Pulitzer winner Jared Diamond
Brown University will host the annual meeting of the American Society for Environmental History, titled "Frontiers in Environmental History: Mainstreaming the ÔMarginal,'" March 26-30, 2003, at the Providence Biltmore Hotel. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jared Diamond will open the conference when he speaks Wednesday, March 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.
News Release   02-091    03/14/2003   Curtis
Brown teams with Trinity Rep and local schools for "Annie Junior"
Brown University and Trinity Repertory Company are collaborating to launch a pilot program that will introduce students from four local schools to the theater arts. The students and their teachers will mount productions of "Annie Junior," a product of Music Theatre International's Broadway Junior program. The project is sponsored by Brown's Creative Arts Council.
News Release   02-089    03/13/2003   Curtis
Brown helps Hope High establish much-needed computer laboratory
Brown University's donation of 30 new desktop computers to Hope High School helps establish a new computer lab and bolster the high school's technology resources. Hope principal Nancy Mullen and Brown President Ruth J. Simmons celebrate the formal opening of the lab on March 11, 2003, at 9:30 a.m. at Hope High.
News Release   02-084    03/11/2003   Howell
The success of colleges and universities is crucial to R.I. cities and towns
As part of his budget, presented Wednesday evening, March 5, 2003, Gov. Donald Carcieri proposed that cities and towns be allowed to tax nonprofit private colleges and universities, eliminating a tax-exempt status that dates to the 18th century. Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has issued the following statement in response.
News Release   02-086    03/07/2003   Nickel
Survey finds many hospitals dispense alcohol to patients
Two Brown researchers and colleagues have found that many hospitals prescribe alcohol for medicinal purposes, yet clinical studies find alcohol uneffective for such uses.
GSJ Story   27GSJ20a    03/07/2003   Turner
At Brown
Awards and honors, Brown in the news, more
GSJ Story   27GSJ20b    03/07/2003   Sweeney
New IT security chief keeping tabs on copyright infringement
CIS's new security officer, Connie Sadler, hopes to educate Brown community regarding the legality of downloading copyrighted material
GSJ Story   27GSJ20c    03/07/2003   Montgomery
Athletic trainers help save fan's life
The new automated external defibrillators that were installed recently in Brown athletic facilities come to the rescue at a recent women's basketball game after two Brown trainers notice a fan in trouble.
GSJ Story   27GSJ20d    03/07/2003   Unassigned
Collector of rare books Maury Bromsen to receive President's Medal
The President's Medal, the highest award a Brown University president may bestow, will be presented to Maury A. Bromsen, March 12, 2003, at 5:30 p.m., during a ceremony in the John Carter Brown Library. The award recognizes Bromsen's lifetime dedication to collecting and preserving historic books and manuscripts.
News Release   02-083    03/05/2003   Cole
Scientists, artists and archaeologists collaborate on digital archaeology
A team of Brown University archaeologists, computer scientists, engineers, mathematicians and artists has received a grant of more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation to develop technology for digital restoration and reservation of architecture and artifacts from the Great Temple of ancient Petra and to further develop shape theory.
News Release   02-077    02/28/2003   Curtis
University offers condolences to West Warwick and victims of fire
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons and Brown Chancellor Stephen Robert have extended the University's sympathy and support to the citizens of West Warwick. Simmons has directed that the University's flag be flown at half staff this week in memory of the victims and all those whose lives have been affected by last week's tragic fire.
News Release   02-079    02/28/2003   Nickel
Former president of Brazil to serve as professor-at-large at Brown
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, former president of Brazil, has been appointed to a five-year term as professor-at-large at Brown University. Cardoso's appointment, based in the University's Watson Institute for International Studies, will begin July 1, 2003, and continue through June 30, 2008.
News Release   02-071    02/25/2003   Nickel
Corporation considers plans, strategic direction for University's future
At its winter meeting, Feb. 21-22, 2003, the Brown Corporation reviewed plans for the University's future. The plans and the strategic direction they represent grow out of the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment, approved by the Corporation last year.
News Release   02-072    02/25/2003   Nickel
Brown and seven universities file amicus brief in U-Michigan cases
Brown University joined seven other academically selective universities in filing an amicus curiae brief today supporting the University of Michigan in cases pending before the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief supports the right of colleges and universities to consider race and ethnicity as part of an individualized admission process.
News Release   02-070    02/18/2003   Nickel
Eye movements indicate initial attempts to process what humans hear
Even before a speaker completes a sentence, a listener attempts to interpret what he or she is hearing by searching out visual cues, according to new research at Brown University. Julie Sedivy, assistant professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, will discuss her findings Feb. 17, during the annual American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting in Denver.
News Release   02-063    02/17/2003   Cole
Fly mutation suggests link to human brain disease
The finding of a new genetic mutation that prompts adult fruit flies to develop symptoms similar to Alzheimer's disease may have human implications. Humans have the same gene, say scientists at Brown University and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies.
News Release   02-068    02/17/2003   Turner
John Carter Brown Library hosts "Plants and Publications exhibition"
The John Carter Brown Library is hosting a new exhibition, "Plants and Publications from the New World: 1492-1825," through May 1, 2003, in the library's MacMillan Reading Room. The display features botanical observations made by some of the earliest European travelers to America. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
News Release   02-069    02/17/2003   Curtis
Laura Szalacha evaluates safe schools plan for gay and lesbian students
Laura Szalacha, visiting assistant professor of education at Brown University, wrote her doctoral thesis on the success of the Massachusetts Safe Schools Program for Gay and Lesbian Students. Massachusetts has the only statewide program in the country.
News Release   02-066    02/13/2003   Cole
Brown to present French Film Festival Feb. 20 through March 2
Brown will present its annual French Film Festival Feb. 20 through March 2, 2003, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St., Providence. Eighteen French films will be screened throughout the 11-day festival, which is open to the public.
News Release   02-067    02/13/2003   Curtis
At Brown
Cheit course selected as national model; Brown in the news; awards and honors; more
GSJ Story   27GSJ17a    02/07/2003   Sweeney
Brown researchers pioneer first-principles modeling of microbubble drag reduction
Brown applied mathematicians George Karniadakis and Martin Maxey are creating the first first-principles computational models of microbubbles in action. "Most of the people involved in studying microbubbles, even today, are experimentalists. We're doing the only direct numerical simulations of microbubbles in turbulent flows," says Karniadakis. Their team includes Suchuan Dong, a visiting postdoctoral research associate, and Jin Xu, a graduate student.
GSJ Story   27GSJ17b    02/07/2003   Sweeney
Medical students' ÔFast Food Facts' hopes to take a bite out of heart disease
For most indulgences, moderation is the wisest course. At fast-food outlets, it's vital, say a group of Brown medical students. The 16 first- and second-year students run "Fast Food Facts," a 90-minute program designed to teach young people how to make healthy food choices.
GSJ Story   27GSJ17d    02/07/2003   Turner
Student's memoir, "Breathing for a Living," set for summer publication
Laura Rothenberg, a Brown junior who has cystic fibrosis, has just finished her memoir, "Breathing for a Living," which is to be published this summer. Rothenberg underwent a lung transplant, but her body is rejecting the organ. She has left Brown and returned home to New York, where she is receiving Hospice care.
GSJ Story   27GSJ17e    02/07/2003   Cole
Scholars often complicit in perpetration of mass violence, historian says
New research by Brown University historian Omer Bartov calls into question actions of academics throughout the last century. At various times, scholars legitimized and supported acts of ethnic cleansing, genocide and terrorism, Bartov writes in the current International Social Science Journal.
News Release   02-062    02/05/2003   Cole
PIK: A picture worth a thousand breaths
Supported by a grant from the EPA, a Brown team worked with children with asthma at Hasbro Hospital to develop a novel way to educate them about their disease and its triggers. The children have taken a series of photos portraying their environments.
GSJ Story   27GSJ16a    01/31/2003   Curtis
Montero to become vice chancellor at UCLA
Janina Montero, vice president for campus life and student services, will be leaving Brown at the end of the current academic year to become vice chancellor for student affairs at UCLA
GSJ Story   27GSJ16g    01/31/2003   Nickel
Noguchi sculpture on exhibit on Green
Brown's Public Arts Committee has arranged for the long-term loan of sculptures by distinguished artists, including an imposing work by Isamu Noguchi that's now on display on The College Green.
GSJ Story   27GSJ16i    01/31/2003   Curtis
Montero to become vice chancellor for student affairs at UCLA
Janina Montero, vice president for campus life and student services, will be leaving Brown University at the end of the current academic year to become vice chancellor for student affairs at UCLA.
News Release   02-058    01/28/2003   Nickel
Martin Scorsese to speak, receive creative arts award Jan. 27
Acclaimed filmmaker Martin Scorsese, winner of this year's Golden Globe award for directing, will be honored for his work by Brown University's Creative Arts Council on Monday, Jan. 27, 2003, at 4:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Scorsese will also speak about his work and take questions from the audience in a session moderated by Michael Ovitz.
News Release   02-056    01/24/2003   Curtis
Industry and education joined in new medical clerkship at Brown
The Brown Medical School now offers fourth-year medical students a rotation at one of four Boston-area biotechnology or medical device firms.
News Release   02-057    01/24/2003   Turner
Professor's recovery from near-fatal crash the focus of teaching video
A new video about Brown computer scientist Peter Wegner's recovery from a 1999 bus accident will be used to spark discussion of ethical questions surrounding the treatment of patients with catastrophic injuries. Wegner was given a 5-percent chance of survival.
News Release   02-054    01/23/2003   Cole
Noguchi sculpture, "To Tallness," on exhibition on The College Green
"To Tallness," a 10-foot sculpture by internationally known artist Isamu Noguchi, will be on public exhibition on The College Green for the next three years as part of a loan program sponsored by Brown's Public Art Committee.
News Release   02-055    01/23/2003   Curtis
Chinese dissident Xu Wenli to serve as visiting senior fellow at Brown
Xu Wenli, the Chinese pro-democracy activist whose Christmas Eve medical release from prison allowed him to emigrate to the United States, has been appointed a visiting senior fellow at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
News Release   02-052    01/22/2003   Nickel
Kimberly DelGizzo named director of the Office of Career Services
Kimberly DelGizzo, currently an associate director in the Office of Career Services at Harvard University, has been named director of the Office of Career Services at Brown. She will begin her service in Providence March 3, 2003, succeeding Sheila Curran.
News Release   02-051    01/15/2003   Cole
Pulitzer winner Paula Vogel named to creative writing professorship
Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and professor of English, has been appointed the inaugural Adele Kellenberg Seaver '49 Professor of Creative Writing at Brown University.
News Release   02-049    12/17/2002   Curtis
Rhode Island disability numbers are the highest in New England
Rhode Island ranks 16th nationally in the percentage of civilians classified as disabled, according to an analysis of U.S. census figures by researchers at Brown University. Disability rates vary widely within the state, from 12.7 percent in Narragansett to 30 percent in Central Falls.
News Release   02-048    12/16/2002   Nickel
DHHS designates Brown as national site for Cochrane Collaboration
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services awarded $2.3 million to Brown University for the establishment of the U.S. Cochrane Center. It is part of the Cochrane Collaboration, a global network with centers in 13 countries that promotes evidence-based healthcare.
News Release   02-045    12/12/2002   Cole
Brown renovates 1960s-era dining hall to create an inviting student eatery
Daily student diners increased 74 percent after a renovation to the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall at Brown University, one of two campus dining facilities for students on the meal plan. The $3-million project exchanged dark and dated decor for bright space with a skyroof where the chefs work in view of the students.
News Release   02-044    12/11/2002   Cole
Brownbrokers present a musical ÔAnna Karenina'
The Brownbrokers will bring the classic Tolstoy epic "Anna Karenina" to the stage of Stuart Theatre Dec. 5-8, in a musical adaptation written by Jillian Tucker '04.
GSJ Story   27GSJ14b    12/06/2002   Curtis
New theory explains economic growth in terms of evolutionary biology
It took an evolutionary leap in the human species to help trigger the change from centuries of economic stagnation to a state of sustained economic growth, according to the first theory that integrates evolutionary biology and economics. This research by Brown economist Oded Galor and Omer Moav from the Hebrew University is the lead article in the current Quarterly Journal of Economics.
GSJ Story   27GSJ14c    12/06/2002   Turner
Scholarship organization founder donates papers to Brown library
Dr. Irving A. Fradkin, founder of Citizens'Scholarship Foundation of America, will donate to the Brown University libraries his collection of papers, tapes and other artifacts documenting the founding and growth of the organization. The papers, which will be housed at the John Hay Library, will be donated during a ceremony at Fradkin's home in Fall River, Mass., on Wednesday, Dec. 11, 2002, at noon.
News Release   02-042    12/05/2002   Curtis
New theory explains economic growth in terms of evolutionary biology
The struggle for survival that characterized most of human existence stimulated a process of natural selection that conferred an evolutionary advantage on humans who had a higher genetic predisposition for a careful rearing of the next generation. This evolutionary change permitted the Industrial Revolution to trigger a change from an epoch of stagnation to an age of sustained economic growth, according to the first theory that integrates the fields of evolutionary biology and economic growth. This research by Brown University economist Oded Galor and Omer Moav from the Hebrew University is the lead article in the current Quarterly Journal of Economics.
News Release   02-040    12/02/2002   Turner
ormer Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak to speak Dec. 10
Ehud Barak, former prime minister of Israel, will be the guest of the Brown Lecture Board on Tuesday, Dec. 10, 2002, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   02-041    12/02/2002   Curtis
New hardcover pictorial album captures a year in the life of Brown
"Brown: Images of the University" captures a single academic year at the Ivy League institution, beginning on the morning of Opening Convocation. The 128-page book is available online or at the Brown University Bookstore.
News Release   02-038    11/25/2002   Cole
John Carter Brown Library acquires rare 18th century book on Brazil
The John Carter Brown Library acquired the early 18th-century book "Cultura e opulencia do Brasil por suas drogas e minas" -- one of the rarest and most coveted volumes on colonial Brazil -- at Sothebys auction in London Nov. 14, 2002.
News Release   02-039    11/25/2002   Curtis
Brown-RISD course unites two disciplines, two institutions
Interdisciplinary Scientific Visualization, taught by Brown Professor David Laidlaw and RISD Professor Fritz Drury, pairs artists and programmers. The two universities have named a joint faculty committee to explore further collaboration.
GSJ Story   27GSJ13b    11/22/2002   Unassigned
Brown has hand in landmark HIV protocol
Rhode Island recently became the first state to create guidelines for treating non-healthcare workers exposed accidentally to the HIV virus. Principal author of the guidelines was research fellow Roland Merchant, M.D., of Rhode Island Hospital. Co-authors were professor Kenneth Mayer, M.D., of The Miriam Hospital and Carol Browning of the Rhode Island Department of Health. The voluntary procedures apply to people who come in contact with HIV-infected fluids, such as through sexual activity, sharing needles or by exposure to a needle or other object. The guidelines detail what antiretroviral drugs should be administered and under what circumstances.
GSJ Story   27GSJ13c    11/22/2002   Turner
Fathers want it all, too, anthropologist reports in new book
Brown anthropologist Nicholas Townsend's latest book, "The Package Deal: Marriage, Work and Fatherhood in Men's Lives," describes the conflicting pressures of work and home in the lives of a very familiar portion of the population: the all-American dad.
GSJ Story   27GSJ13e    11/22/2002   Cole
Orchestra travels to McGill for concert, CD recording
The Brown Orchestra and conductor Paul Phillips traveled to Montreal this month to perform and and record with the McGill University Chamber Singers and Opera Chorus in a concert to be broadcast nationally by the Canadian Broadcast Company.
GSJ Story   27GSJ13h    11/22/2002   Curtis
Politics and food in Plymouth colony
Just in time for Thanksgiving, John Carter Brown Library Fellow Michael A. Lacombe is examing the ties between food and political authority in the American colonies.
GSJ Story   27GSJ13i    11/22/2002   Curtis
Brown has its first graduate fellow in electronic writing
Although the average reader may not have seen Talan Memmott's work, it's attracting an impressive amount of attention. Last year he was awarded the trAce/Alt-X New Media Writing Award for his piece "Lexia to Perplexia," and he was one of five finalists for the most prestigious prize yet offered in the field, the Electronic Literature Organization's prize in fiction writing. Memmott is Brown's first graduate fellow in electronic writing.
GSJ Story   27GSJ12c    11/15/2002   Curtis
Don't kill the messenger
To tweak a clichŽ: Instant Messaging doesn't kill language, lack of engagement kills language, writes Brown lecturer Selma Moss-Ward. "I am delighted that Instant Messaging, e-mail and other bells and whistles of computer communication have captivated tomorrow's college students. A rising generation now views writing as a normal and enjoyable aspect of daily life, not merely as assignments to be periodically turned in," she says.
GSJ Story   27GSJ12e    11/15/2002   Cole
WebCT replaces Course Publisher
This semester, Brown introduced WebCT (Web Course Tools), a commercial product aimed at creating an online community in the classroom. Nearly 50 faculty are piloting the product, with plans to offer it to the entire faculty for the spring semester.
GSJ Story   27GSJ12g    11/15/2002   Howell
Wind Symphony to perform Brudner Memorial Concert Nov. 22
The Brown University Wind Symphony, directed by Matthew McGarrell, will present the 16th annual Eric Adam Brudner '84 Memorial Concert on Friday, Nov. 22, 2002, at 8 p.m. in Sayles Hall. The concert, which is free and open to the public, will feature the Brass Venture quintet and the music of guest composer Eric Ewazen of The Juilliard School.
News Release   02-034    11/13/2002   Curtis
Brown University Orchestra to perform broadcast concert in Montreal
The Brown University Orchestra will join the McGill Chamber Singers and Opera Chorus in concert Saturday, Nov. 16, 2002, at McGill University in Montreal. The concert will be broadcast nationally by the Canadian Broadcast Company and recorded by ARSIS Records.
News Release   02-035    11/13/2002   Curtis
Choices program has role in grant to teach foreign policy in high school history
Throughout the next three years, Brown will collaborate with history teachers from nearly 50 secondary schools nationwide on a program aimed at bringing extensive consideration of foreign policy into the core American history curriculum.
GSJ Story   27GSJ11c    11/08/2002   Cole
Athletes kick off 12th year of volunteering at Fox Point School
Cheering fans are nothing new for Brown's athletes, but the cheers the athletes got at the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School at Fox Point may be the sweetest. One, chanted by the students in Mrs. Teixeira's resource class, goes like this: Water polo water polo/You're our team/You stay drug free/And so do we/Heroes, heroes come from Brown/The best school in all the town. The cheering took place Oct. 30 to kick off Brown Athletics'12th year of partnership with the elementary school.
GSJ Story   27GSJ11d    11/08/2002   Montgomery
Report urges policy changes aimed at adolescent drug abusers
A national group of physicians led by a Brown professor has released a report on adolescent substance abuse that urges lawmakers and public health officials to focus attention on strategies for preventing and treating the abuse.
GSJ Story   27GSJ11g    11/08/2002   Cole
Infants use their own name to recognize other words in fluent speech
A Brown University study of 24 six-month-olds found infants recognized nouns and verbs when spoken in connection with their names. It is the youngest age at which the ability for word recognition has been documented.
News Release   02-032    11/07/2002   Cole
"The Green Bird" opens Nov. 7
Brown University Theatre will present Carlo Gozzi's "The Green Bird" Nov. 7-10 and 14-17 in Leeds Theatre. Translated by Albert Bermel and Ted Emery, "The Green Bird" is a comedy about the rites of passage; a fable in which the supernatural, the demonic and the Machiavellian harmoniously intertwine in a land where apples sing and statues speak.
GSJ Story   27GSJ10b    11/01/2002   Curtis
Conference scholars to consider mysteries of Qumran Nov. 17-19
Brown's Center for Old World Archaeology and Art will host "Qumran: The Site of the Dead Sea Scrolls" on Nov. 17-19, 2002. This is the first international conference on the Qumran, and it will bring together some of the world's leading archaeological scholars to consider the many unanswered questions about the settlement.
News Release   02-031    10/29/2002   Curtis
Inquiring Minds: Col. Verrecchia on campus safety initiatives
Last spring, the University hired The Bratton Group, an international security consulting firm, to gather information about campus safety and to make recommendations for improvements. The group made a number of recommendations. The George Street Journal recently asked Col. Paul Verrecchia, head of Brown's Department of Public Safety, about them.
GSJ Story   27GSJ09e    10/25/2002   Sweeney
Visiting scholars to consider mysteries of Qumran
Brown's Center for Old World Archaeology and Art will host a major conference next month when archaeologist Katharina Galor gathers her international colleagues to discuss the mysteries of Qumran Ð the site where the Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered a half-century ago.
GSJ Story   27GSJ09g    10/25/2002   Curtis
Campaign for Brown Medical School exceeds $70-million goal
The Campaign for Brown Medical School raised $73.2 million to support professorships, scholarships, library resources, a proposed Life Sciences Building and other key elements of its mission of teaching, research, community service and patient care.
News Release   02-029    10/24/2002   Turner
Middle Eastern students bear witness to conflict
Brown students who grew up in Palestine, Israel, Jordan and Syria are working with Brown graduate student Michael Burch to help educate high school seniors at Rocky Hill School about life in the Mideast and issues that have cost the lives of some of their friends.
GSJ Story   27GSJ08d    10/18/2002   Cole
Teens who witness domestic violence are more likely to engage in risky sex
Witnessing violence between parents has the same detrimental effect on teen-age girls as being a victim of abuse themselves, according to a new study by Brown sociologists: The teen-agers are more likely to engage in risky sex.
GSJ Story   27GSJ08f    10/18/2002   Cole
Peers appear to be a big factor in teen-age smoking
A study by five Brown investigators shows that teens with at least two friends who smoke are six times more likely to become regular cigarette users compared to those whose circle of friends does not include smokers.
GSJ Story   27GSJ08g    10/18/2002   Turner
Teens who witness or experience violence at home take risks with sex
Teen-age girls are three times more likely to engage in risky sexual behavior if they live in a family afflicted by physical violence -- whether they are victims of abuse or witness it between parents, according to a new study by Brown sociologists.
News Release   02-025    10/16/2002   Cole
Van Dam aims for impact: top faculty grad students, research awards, visibility
Andries van Dam, the Thomas J. Watson Jr. University Professor of Technology and Education and professor of computer science at Brown and the new vice president for research, discusses the process that led to his taking the job, and the vision he has for research at Brown.
GSJ Story   27GSJ07a    10/11/2002   Nickel
Sponsored funding rises 13 percent to $115 million
For the fifth year in a row, external funding rose significantly. When the books closed last June 30, grants awarded to campus faculty had topped $115 million, up 13 percent over the previous fiscal year and $49 million more than the $66 million in external funding received in fiscal year 1997-98. The majority of outside grants to Brown support research in the sciences, social sciences, and medicine.
GSJ Story   27GSJ07b    10/11/2002   Turner
Negotiations: the price for private funding
Brown pays a price for financial support from private foundations and nonprofit agencies. In the last few years, such funds have arrived packaged in restrictive terms and conditions on patents, inventions and other intellectual property.
GSJ Story   27GSJ07c    10/11/2002   Turner
The sleepyheads of summer
One of the more intensive investigational enterprises at Brown is the Sleep Research Lab's academic-research summer apprenticeship. This three-month program unites Brown students with others from universities around the world to receive instruction in human sleep and circadian rhythms and learn firsthand the techniques of behavioral sciences research.
GSJ Story   27GSJ07d    10/11/2002   Turner
Where are they now? Cedric Jennings '99
After graduating from Brown nearly four years ago, Cedric Jennings, featured in the best-selling book "Hope in the Unseen," spent two years working in the private sector before returning to school. He also speaks around the country about his odyssey from a Washington, D.C., ghetto to Brown.
GSJ Story   27GSJ07i    10/11/2002   Cole
Former U.S. ambassador to Nigeria receives top alumni award
The Brown Alumni Association presented its highest honor, the William Rogers Award, to William H. Twaddell '63, U.S. ambassador to Nigeria from 1997 to 2001, during the 19th annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony Saturday, Sept. 28, 2002.
News Release   02-023    10/04/2002   Curtis
Road scholars
For the students of Brown's Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) racecar design team, a journey that begins each September ends, if only temporarily, in May at the annual FSAE design competition in Pontiac, Mich. This past May, Brown's FSAE team finished 10th among an international field of more than 130 collegiate teams, ahead of formidable engineering schools Rochester Institute of Technology, North Carolina State University, and University of Illinois Ð Urbana-Champaign.
GSJ Story   27GSJ06c    10/04/2002   Howell
When colleges compete, public loses, survey finds
As colleges and universities compete for students, funding and prestige, higher education's ability to live up to its commitment to the public has begun to erode. The findings are reported in a study sponsored by the Brown-based Futures Project: Policy for Higher Education in a Changing World and conducted by Public Agenda, a nonprofit public opinion and research organization.
GSJ Story   27GSJ06e    10/04/2002   Unassigned
Brown takes first steps toward integrating data systems
The University has embarked upon a selection of an enterprise system that has the potential to affect Brown's business practices in the coming decade. Oracle, Peoplesoft and SCT/Banner will demonstrate enterprise systems beginning Oct. 28.
GSJ Story   27GSJ06f    10/04/2002   Sweeney
Taiwan, South Korea, Canada outpace United States in online services
Brown University's second annual study of online services offered by the 198 nations of the world shows that Taiwan, South Korea and Canada have surpassed the United States, last year's leader. The study analyzed nearly 1,200 governmental Web sites throughout the world. The full report is online.
News Release   02-022    09/30/2002   Nickel
Simmons briefs staff about long-term planning
In a noontime forum attended by hundreds of staff members, President Simmons outlined a variety of steps her administration is taking to ensure Brown's position among the top research institutions in the coming decade. Her remarks included information about campus expansion, safety, and diversity.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05a    09/27/2002   Sweeney
Putting down roots: Immigrants tend to settle within existing segregated areas
Immigrants arriving in the nation's cities are not changing the existing, somewhat segregated, neighborhoods in which people of different races and ethnicities reside, according to a new study by Brown sociologists.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05c    09/27/2002   Cole
Researchers discover substance in brain that acts like chemical that gives chilies fire
An international group of researchers led by a Brown graduate student recently identified a substance in the brain similar in structure and function to the active ingredient in hot chili peppers. Although they do not yet know exactly what drives the body's production of the compound, researchers think its release in tissues would likely cause burning pain, much like the sensation caused by the chemical capsaicin in chili peppers.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05e    09/27/2002   Cole
Contagion and controversy
A new exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library and a newly published essay by Stanley Aronson, M.D., examine the history of smallpox in America Ð and the pain and controversy it generated.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05g    09/27/2002   Curtis
From classroom to stage: Making it real
As Brown Theatre gets ready to present Chekhov's "The Seagull," Professor Lowry Marshall teaches a new crop of young actors the basic skills they must bring to the stage.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05h    09/27/2002   Curtis
Climate theory for Earth also describes changes on Mars
Orbit affects climate on Mars in a similar way that it does on Earth, suggesting that a climate change theory for Earth can also be applied to Mars, and possibly to other Earth-like planets. Brown geoscientist Jack Mustard and two colleagues are reporting these findings in the Sept. 26 issue of Nature.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05i    09/27/2002   Turner
Diagnostic imaging at center of lung screening trial
A host of Brown faculty and staff are involved in a new national trial to evaluate the effectiveness of using diagnostic imaging to prevent lung cancer deaths. The researchers helped assemble the study, and they will help conduct it.
GSJ Story   27GSJ05j    09/27/2002   Turner
Climate model for Earth also describes changes on Mars
A climate change theory for Earth can be applied to Mars and possibly to other Earth-like planets, report a Brown geoscientist and two colleagues in the Sept. 26 issue of Nature.
News Release   02-019    09/25/2002   Turner
City government Web sites improve but rely more heavily on user fees
Brown University's second annual analysis of government agency Web sites in America's 70 largest cities shows that cities have made dramatic improvements over last year. De-spite improvements in online services, however, cities are relying to a greater extent on revenue-generating Web user fees and premium services.
News Release   02-018    09/23/2002   Nickel
Where are they now: Jonathan Mooney '00
A few months after Jonathan Mooney collected his Brown diploma in 2000, he purchased a bus ticket to tour the country and talk to people. Mooney's book with classmate David Cole, "Learning Outside the Lines," had just been published. The book chronicled the friends' experiences as learning-disabled students. Now Mooney, 25, travels around the world speaking to students with disabilities about celebrating their differences, and students in medical school about caring for patients with disabilities.
GSJ Story   27GSJ04a    09/20/2002   Cole
Faces of Brown: Emil Fioravanti
"Making the community safe." "Working in partnership with the community." Capt. Emil Fioravanti uses such phrases repeatedly in describing his objectives as the new second-in-command of Brown's Department of Public Safety. Hired this past August, Fioravanti will be heavily involved in implementing the recommendations made by the Bratton Group.
GSJ Story   27GSJ04c    09/20/2002   Sweeney
Researchers use interferon to peer into reactions that control immune responses
Scientists at Brown and at the NIH have produced greater insight into the complex physical interactions that control the immune responses to infections. Their study may lead to more judicious design of therapeutic cytokines, which act to regulate immune responses. Some cytokines are used to treat cancer, multiple sclerosis, viral infections and other illnesses.
GSJ Story   27GSJ04e    09/20/2002   Turner
John Carter Brown Library hosts exhibition on history of smallpox
The John Carter Brown Library will host the exhibition "Smallpox in the Americas, 1492 to 1815: Contagion and Controversy" through Jan. 15, 2003. The collection of books, pamphlets and broadsides has been developed in conjunction with the publication of an essay on the history of smallpox by Stanley Aronson, M.D., dean of medicine emeritus, and Lucile Newman, professor emerita of community health.
News Release   02-017    09/17/2002   Curtis
Governments improve Web security but offer more restricted areas
The third annual survey of state and federal "e-governments" conducted at Brown University shows that government Web sites have improved their security and privacy provisions over last year. However, there has been a proliferation of Internet services and Web sites that offer access only to registered users or in some cases only to users who pay fees. Top e-government states this year include Tennessee, New Jersey, California, Connecticut and Pennsylvania.
News Release   02-016    09/16/2002   Nickel
Andries van Dam named vice president for research
Andries van Dam, a computer graphics pioneer and member of the Brown faculty since 1965, has been appointed the University's first vice president for research. He will begin his work Oct. 1, 2002.
News Release   02-013    09/03/2002   Nickel
Karen Newman named dean of the Brown University Graduate School
Karen Newman, University Professor and professor of comparative literature and English, has been named dean of Brown University's Graduate School, effective Oct. 1, 2002.
News Release   02-014    09/03/2002   Sweeney
Voters favor York over Whitehouse and Pires, Brown over Inman
A survey of 437 likely Rhode Island Democratic primary voters conducted Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2002, finds voters favor Myrth York over Sheldon Whitehouse and Antonio Pires in the race for governor. In the race for secretary of state, voters favor Matt Brown over incumbent Ed Inman, with more than half the voters undecided.
News Release   02-015    09/03/2002   Nickel
University will observe first anniversary of Sept. 11 attacks
The Brown University community will observe Sept. 11 with a variety of events commemorating the victims of last year's terrorist attacks and reflecting upon the lessons learned in the intervening months.
News Release   02-012    08/30/2002   Curtis
First-years choose among nearly two dozen new seminars just for them
Brown introduces a slate of small seminars for freshmen to give incoming students an immediate opportunity for an intimate learning experience and to avoid the danger that they will be swallowed up by large courses. The seminars are part of President Simmons' Initiatives for Academic Enrichment.
GSJ Story   27GSJ01a    08/30/2002   Cole
The advising partnership: Grant enables enhancements to advising system for first- and second-year students
Funds from a five-year $250,000 grant presented to Brown last year to examine and support the advising system have been directed at efforts surounding students' first two years at the University. The grant has made possible new written materials, a revamped Web site about advising, training and orientation sessions for all groups involved, and a new advising coordinator.
GSJ Story   27GSJ01b    08/30/2002   Cole
Med students travel to Caribbean on an AIDS/HIVeducation mission
With a mixed bag of talks, skits and small group chats, eight medical students and one newly fledged physician from Brown recently carried out a 12-day HIV/AIDS education mission to high school and college students across the Caribbean nation of St. Vincent and the Grenadines.
GSJ Story   27GSJ01c    08/30/2002   Turner
Schneider to help launch performance studies program
New faculty member Assistant Professor Rebecca Schneider brings her expertise in performance studies and feminist theater to Brown's graduate and undergraduate students this fall.
GSJ Story   27GSJ01j    08/30/2002   Curtis
Seven-year project will explore the biology of osteoarthritis
Brown researchers recently launched a seven-year project to help uncover the biological markers that predict who will develop the most common form of arthritis.
GSJ Story   27GSJ01k    08/30/2002   Turner
Fourth-quarter surge helps annual fund set records
A total of 22,665 donors raised more than $17 million for the Brown Annual Fund (BAF) this past fiscal year. Notable, too, was the surge of fourth-quarter giving. While the stock market experienced its worst turmoil in years, the BAF raised $8 million between April and June, $3.3 million in June alone.
GSJ Story   27GSJ01l    08/30/2002   Sweeney
Computer science pioneer Andries van Dam to deliver address Sept. 3
Andries van Dam, co-founder of Brown's Department of Computer Science, will deliver the Opening Convocation address Tuesday, Sept. 3, 2002, at 11 a.m. on The College Green. President Ruth J. Simmons will declare the 239th academic year officially open.
News Release   02-010    08/22/2002   Cole
Parenthood is an increasingly isolated job, Brown sociologists say
As the 20th century progressed, parents shouldered the care and financial burdens of raising children with less and less help, say Brown sociologists. Frances K. Goldscheider and colleagues analyzed census data from 1880 to 1990 and presented their findings at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association.
News Release   02-007    08/19/2002   Cole
Huidekoper named executive VP for finance and administration
Elizabeth Huidekoper, currently vice president for finance at Harvard, has been named executive vice president for finance and administration at Brown University. She will begin her service at Brown Oct. 15, succeeding Donald J. Reaves.
News Release   02-008    08/19/2002   Nickel
Without blue crabs, southern salt marshes wash away, study finds
Over-harvesting of blue crabs may be triggering the colossal die-off of salt marshes across the southeastern United States, suggests a new study by two Brown University biologists who report their findings in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   02-005    08/05/2002   Turner
Hormone boon goes bust
Women across the country were shocked earlier this summer when a national long-term study on hormone replacement therapy revealed the treatment -- long believed to help aging women maintain good health -- actually increases their risk for several life-threatening diseases. The findings are bittersweet for the women participating in the Brown-led arm of the Women's Health Initiative.
GSJ Story   26GSJ32c    08/02/2002   Curtis
JCB Library hosts 'Errand into the Wilderness'
A new exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library recaptures in print the New England experience, body and spirit during the region's formative period. 'Errand into the Wilderness: The Early English Colonization of New England, 1602-1753' is on display in the library's MacMillan Reading Room through Aug. 31.
GSJ Story   26GSJ32d    08/02/2002   Curtis
It's now or never for greenhouse gas reductions, study's authors say
Begin to reduce greenhouse gas emissions soon or it might be too late to avoid dangerous climate change, say a Brown author and his Princeton colleague in a policy forum in the June 14 issue of Science. Their scientific analysis responds to calls for well-defined long-term objectives in dealing with climate change.
GSJ Story   26GSJ32f    08/02/2002   Turner
$5.3-million grant to disseminate best treatments for eyes and vision
Brown University researchers have received a seven-year $5.3-million contract from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to systematically review data on the best treatments in the field of eyes and vision and to make that information accessible to practitioners and the public.
GSJ Story   26GSJ32g    08/02/2002   Turner
Summer theater returns with "Carousel"
After a year's hiatus, Brown Summer Theatre is back with a concert performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel" July 11-13, 18-20 and 25-27 in Leeds Theatre.
GSJ Story   26GSJ31d    07/12/2002   Curtis
Faces of Brown: Fatiima Areia of UFS
Faces of Brown: Fatima Areia of University Food Services
GSJ Story   26GSJ31g    07/12/2002   Curtis
Researchers fill a vital role on NIH study sections
The NIH lacks the staff to review grant applications. Instead, it invites researchers -- including many Brown faculty members -- to serve on study sections to determine the fate of an application.
GSJ Story   26GSJ31i    07/12/2002   Cole
Finding the cellular machine behind blood clotting
Three Brown scientists have described a critical blood-clotting role for a seven-protein complex found in animal and plant cells. Understanding this dynamic of cell biology could lead to better treatments for abnormal clotting, which is the chief cause of stroke.
GSJ Story   26GSJ31j    07/12/2002   Turner
R.I. high school students invited to explore "Culture and Mass Media"
Rhode Island high school students may enroll at a reduced rate in "Culture and Mass Media," a course offered through Brown University's Office of Summer Studies. The course, created by political scientist Darrell West and taught by Katherine Stewart, meets weekdays from July 22 through August 2.
News Release   02-001    07/01/2002   Sweeney
Cloning expert Lanza to speak at Brown July 15
On Monday, July 15, 2002, at 7 p.m. Robert Lanza, M.D., a member of the scientific team that reported cloning the world's first human embryo, will deliver the lecture "Stem Cell Research, Cloning and the Future of Medicine."He will speak in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green at Brown University. His presentation will be free and open to the public.
News Release   02-002    07/01/2002   Turner
Feeding tubes may not help in severe dementia, yet use varies widely
Use of feeding tubes in nursing home patients with severe dementia is more than 10 times higher in some states than others despite evidence that it may not delay death or improve quality of life, according to a study by Brown University researchers in the June 26, 2002, issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
News Release   01-155    06/25/2002   Turner
Staff Development Day is Aug. 8
Staff Development Day, the University's unique opportunity for staff to share the breadth and wealth of knowledge within the entire Brown community, returns this year on Thursday, Aug. 8. The event offers more than 50 seminars ranging from professional growth to personal development. Many stem from the off-hours pursuits of members of the Brown community. Here is a look at some of the presenters and their interests.
GSJ Story   26GSJ30d    06/21/2002   staff
Team to build compact warning system for anthrax, other bioagents
A Brown-led team of investigators has received $8.4 million from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to build a small laser-based bioagent warning system for use in buildings or homes or for troops to carry in their backpacks in the field.
News Release   01-156    06/19/2002   Turner
J. Carter Brown's years of service enriched campus life at the University
J. Carter Brown, a former trustee of the University and board member of the John Carter Brown Library and the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Study of American Civilization, died Monday at age 67.
News Release   01-157    06/18/2002   Nickel
New faculty members learn the ropes from colleagues at orientation
Dealing with the academic characteristics that make Brown unique were among the topics of an orientation attended by 37 new faculty members. The orientation was sponsored by the Office of the Dean of the Faculty and organized by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
GSJ Story   27GSJ02b    06/09/2002   Cole
Faces of Brown: Gail Medbury of Rental Facilities
Faces of Brown: Gail Medbury of Rental office
GSJ Story   27GSJ02e    06/09/2002   Turner
Brown Corporation elects new trustees, hears report on campus safety
The Corporation of Brown University, Brown' governing body, elected two new trustees at its Commencement Weekend meeting May 25, 2002. The Corporation also heard a presentation on campus safety by William Bratton and approved a $460.7-million budget for fiscal year 2003.
News Release   01-151    06/04/2002   Nickel
$5.3-million grant to disseminate best treatments for eyes and vision
Brown University researchers have received a seven-year, $5.3-million contract from the National Eye Institute of the National Institutes of Health to systematically review data on the best treatments in the field of eyes and vision and to make that information accessible to practitioners and the public.
News Release   01-152    06/04/2002   Turner
Protein complex found to regulate first step in human blood clotting
Using human blood, Brown University scientists show that a complex of seven proteins is required for platelets to form the shape-changing filaments that begin a blood clot. Understanding this dynamic could lead to better treatments for abnormal clotting, which is the chief cause of stroke. The study appears in the June 15 issue of "Blood."
News Release   01-150    05/31/2002   Turner
2009 graduate from Brown with "gift of learning" at their sides
Brown awarded a total of 2,009 degrees during Commencement ceremonies held on Monday, May 27. Of those, 1,506 were undergraduate degrees, 280 were master's degrees, 75 were doctors of medicine, and 148 were doctors of philosophy. Commencement weekend offered a variety of speakers, from those who presented Commencement Forums May 25 to students addressing their classmates Memorial Day. Here are excerpts from many of those presentations.
GSJ Story   26GSJ29c    05/31/2002   
Biomedical engineering will offer graduate program
The Board of Fellows of the Brown Corporation approved a graduate program in biomedical engineering. Recently, President Simmons approved a Center for Biomedical Engineering. In addition, six seniors are the first to graduate with degrees in the new undergraduate biomedical engineering program.
GSJ Story   26GSJ29e    05/31/2002   Turner
Researching school reform strategies
Brown's Advanced Studies Fellowship Program recently selected 10 scholars to research federal and national strategies of school reform in the United States. The postdoctoral fellows will receive funds for a nine-month leave to pursue their research, and they will participate in a three-year program of seminars, mentoring and group discussions at Brown.
GSJ Story   26GSJ29k    05/31/2002   Cole
John Carter Brown Library to host "Errand into the Wilderness"
The John Carter Brown Library will host a new exhibition, Errand into the Wilderness: The Early English Colonization of New England, 1602-1753, through Aug. 31, 2002, in its MacMillan Reading Room.
News Release   01-148    05/29/2002   Curtis
Students worry about nuclear proliferation, support international cooperation
High school students are concerned about the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons; about damage to the global environment; and that more Americans will die at the hands of terrorists, according to a Brown University survey of 2,225 high school students. The survey of students involved with the University-sponsored Capitol Forum Program provides insight into what the next generation of voters believe is cause for concern on an international scale.
News Release   01-146    05/28/2002   Bramson
Besdine named interim dean of medicine and biological sciences
Richard W. Besdine, M.D., the David S. Greer Professor of Geriatric Medicine, has been named interim dean of medicine and biological sciences at Brown University. Besdine will begin his new duties July 1, 2002.
News Release   01-147    05/28/2002   Nickel
A conversation with Provost-designate Zimmer
Robert Zimmer discusses the work that awaits him when he begins his new postion as Brown's provost.
GSJ Story   26GSJ28b    05/24/2002   Sweeney
Faces of Brown: Debbie Lister
Faces of Brown: Debbie Lister works on more than 5,000 events each year for Facilities Management. Commencement-Reunion Weekend is her biggest task.
GSJ Story   26GSJ28g    05/24/2002   Bramson
For a decade, Brown's Title IX news has followed Amy Cohen '92
This year marks the 30th anniversary of Title IX, the law that prohibits gender discrimination at educational institutions, and a decade since a group of Brown athletes turned to the justice system to uphold the statute they believed the University had violated. Cohen, now a public school teacher in New York City, is returning for her 10-year reunion. She reflects on the lawsuit that carries her name.
GSJ Story   26GSJ28l    05/24/2002   Cole
South Pacific ridge bears Brown's name
As with other scientific discoveries, if you're the first to discover or map a volcanic ridge, you get to name it. That's how the Brown Ridge in the South Pacific recently acquired its name. Last winter, researchers affiliated with Brown were the first to map the approximately 200-kilometer-long ridge that they've since named after the University.
GSJ Story   26GSJ28m    05/24/2002   Bramson
Political turmoil postpones environmental exchange program
Deborah Lapidus '05 and Bekah Rottenberg '03 both planned to conduct research this summer in Nepal with a Nepalese scholar who spent this past semester at Brown in the Watson Institute's International Scholars of the Environment Program. However, due to internal conflict in Nepal just weeks before they were set to travel, the undergraduates' trips are being postponed until next summer.
GSJ Story   26GSJ28o    05/24/2002   Bramson
Department of Modern Culture and Media establishes Ph.D. program
The Brown University Board of Fellows has approved the establishment of a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) program in Modern Culture and Media. Applications will be accepted next year for the 2003-2004 academic year.
News Release   01-144    05/23/2002   Curtis
Brown will award eight honorary degrees at Commencement May 27
Brown University presented eight honorary degrees during Commencement ceremonies today, Monday, May 27. The recipients were John Birkelund, Raymond G. Chambers, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Paul LeClerc, Emily Arnold McCully, Jessye Norman, Sadako Ogata and William Warner.
News Release   01-143    05/22/2002   Sweeney
Terror aftermath tough on psychiatric patients, study shows
Findings from a post-Sept. 11, 2001, study by Brown University researchers support the idea that psychiatric patients are at increased risk for experiencing distressing symptoms following national terrorist attacks. The results will be presented May 20, 2002, during the annual meeting of the American Psychiatric Association in Philadelphia.
News Release   01-138    05/20/2002   Turner
Howard Foundation awards 12 fellowships for 2002-2003
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University, has named 12 recipients of $20,000 fellowships for the 2002-2003 academic year in the areas of music, musicology, playwriting and theater arts.
News Release   01-140    05/14/2002   
Marian Wright Edelman to speak at Medical School Convocation
Marian Wright Edelman, founder and president of the Children's Defense Fund, will speak at the Brown Medical School Commencement Convocation Monday, May 27, in the First Unitarian Church of Providence. Medical graduates will also hear talks by James McIlwain, M.D., the Fox Professor of Ophthalmology and Visual Science, and Robert Wolf, a member of the graduating class. The convocation will begin at 8:45 a.m.
News Release   01-141    05/14/2002   Turner
Ruth Bader Ginsburg to deliver baccalaureate address May 26
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will address graduating seniors at Brown's baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 26, 2002, at 1:30 p.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   01-142    05/14/2002   Bramson
Newsman Howard Fineman, Sopranos writers headline forums
Brown will present its 32nd annual Commencement Forums on Saturday, May 25, 2002, from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. The 17 sessions, all free and open to the public, will feature leaders in the fields of international affairs, science, medicine, arts and entertainment.
News Release   01-139    05/13/2002   Curtis
Brown University to hold 234th Commencement Monday, May 27, 2002
Chief Marshal William Rogers '52 will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Monday, May 27, 2002, in one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The procession and academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend on the Brown campus.
News Release   01-136    05/10/2002   Nickel
Upholding Brown tradition, two seniors will address graduating class
Maithili Parekh of Bombay, India, and Edward Smith of Washington, D.C., will deliver orations during Brown's 234th Commencement, Monday, May 27, 2002, at 10:15 a.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   01-135    05/07/2002   Cole
Computing plan begins with network upgrades this summer
As early as this fall, the Brown community will see changes in its computing environment. ACUP members heard about some of the changes from Ellen Waite-Franzen, vice president of Computing and Information Services. She outlined a plan that will begin to address many of Brown's urgent computing needs, particularly those that support the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment.
GSJ Story   26GSJ27b    05/03/2002   Sweeney
Marsh reflects on decade at help of Medical School
After nearly 10 years as Brown's chief medical education officer, Donald J. Marsh, M.D., will begin a year-long sabbatical July 1 after which he will retire as dean of medicine and biological sciences emeritus.
GSJ Story   26GSJ27d    05/03/2002   Turner
Gift endows artist-in-residence program
Thanks to a $1-million gift from an alumna, Brown's arts departments will have the means to bring distinguished visiting artists to campus beginning in September.
GSJ Story   26GSJ27h    05/03/2002   Curtis
Lawton Wehle Fitt '74 endows an artists-in-residence program
Lawton Wehle Fitt '74 has given $1 million to Brown University to establish and endow an artists-in-residence program. The endowment will help bring distinguished artists in the fields of creative writing, dance, digital media, film, fine art, music, theater and visual arts to the University each semester.
News Release   01-131    05/02/2002   Curtis
Donald J. Reaves named VP and CFO at University of Chicago
Donald Reaves, Brown's CFO and executive vice president for finance and administration, will leave the University this summer to become vice president and CFO at the University of Chicago.
News Release   01-134    05/02/2002   Nickel
Interactive workshops, games and quizzes to promote Mars exploration
A Mars outreach day at Brown University seeks to generate interest in the exploration of Mars. The May 4 event in Smith-Buonanno Hall is open to the public without charge.
News Release   01-130    04/29/2002   Bramson
Marsh to step down as dean of medicine and biological sciences
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has announced that Donald J. Marsh, M.D., will step down as dean of medicine and biological sciences. Marsh will begin a year-long sabbatical July 1, after which he will retire as dean emeritus, effective July 1, 2003.
News Release   01-127    04/26/2002   Turner
Ronald Vanden Dorpel named senior vice president for advancement
Ronald D. Vanden Dorpel, a Brown alumnus who is currently vice president for university development at Northwestern University, has been named senior vice president for advancement at Brown University. Vanden Dorpel will begin his work at Brown in August.
News Release   01-128    04/26/2002   Nickel
Tennis team wins its first Ivy championship
The Brown men's tennis team dismissed Harvard 4-3 in a fight to the end as the two squads struggled to hold on to their undefeated Ivy League records. The April 21 win gave the Bears their first-ever Ivy League tennis title and snagged their first NCAA invite in the process.
GSJ Story   26GSJ26b    04/26/2002   Montgomery
GM gives Brown patent to new technology
Associate professor of engineering Gregory Crawford is poised to lead a research team seeking to develop ways to produce more cost-effective screen displays. The research team hopes to improve display technology developed by General Motors and Delphi, which have donated their patents for multi-color display technology to Brown.
GSJ Story   26GSJ26c    04/26/2002   Bramson
Indoor wheelchair safety
People in wheelchairs who live in homes that are not adapted for handicapped fall more often, according to Brown researchers.
GSJ Story   26GSJ26f    04/26/2002   Turner
Girls focus on interactive projects; parents get practical school advice
The "Empowering Your Future"conference at Brown University on Saturday, April 27, provides hands-on science and engineering experience for middle-school girls and their parents and teachers. The event is open to the media.
News Release   01-125    04/24/2002   Bramson
Trombonist George Masso and Brown Jazz Band to perform April 27
Trombonist and Rhode Island native George Masso will perform with the Brown Jazz Band in the 15th annual Eric Adam Brudner '84 Memorial Concert Saturday, April 27, 2002, at 8 p.m. in the Richard and Edna Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   01-123    04/23/2002   Curtis
Parental contributions to education boost students' ability to spend
Every dollar parents contributed toward law school expenses increased their offspring's lifetime consumption by $1.76, says an economist at Brown University.
News Release   01-120    04/19/2002   Cole
Two Brown faculty members receive Wriston Fellowships
Assistant Professor of Modern Culture and Media Wendy Hui Kyong Chun and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature Elliott Colla have been awarded Wriston Fellowships, one of the highest awards Brown bestows upon its teaching faculty.
News Release   01-121    04/19/2002   Curtis
Conference to examine relationship between Portugal and Africa
International scholars, authors, artists and diplomats will convene at Brown University April 25-28, 2002, for a literary symposium, ambassadors roundtable, social sciences conference, art exhibition and film series all devoted to the historical and contemporary relationship between Portugal and Africa.
News Release   01-122    04/19/2002   Bramson
Medical researcher mentors high school teacher
Theodore Johnson of Feinstein High School worked in the labs of Brown's Sharon Rounds for eight weeks last summer through Frontiers in Physiology, a program of the American Physiological Society (APS). This program provides fellowships to help teachers delve into laboratory science.
GSJ Story   26GSJ25c    04/19/2002   Turner
WTC work was emotional for psychologists specializing in disaster
Visiting professors Vitali Skriptchenko and Anahit Azarian, who are affiliated with Brown's Center for the Study of Human Development, spent 11 days in New York City interviewing victims of the World Trade Center attack. They recently talked about their psychological observations as part of the center's colloquium series.
GSJ Story   26GSJ25d    04/19/2002   Cole
Hillel pitches in to help East Side neighbor in need of bone marrow donor
When Brown Hillel members learned that neighbor Eileen Rosenberg-Black needed help finding a bone marrow donor, the University's Jewish community was eager to get involved.
GSJ Story   26GSJ25f    04/19/2002   Bramson
Athletic program rated among nation's top 20
US News and World Report has ranked Brown's sports programs among the top 20 in the nation.
GSJ Story   26GSJ25g    04/19/2002   
Evelyn Hu-DeHart named director of Center for Race and Ethnicity
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, currently professor and chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies at the University of ColoradoÐBoulder, has been named professor of history and director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America at Brown University. Hu-DeHart will begin her duties July 1, 2002.
News Release   01-115    04/12/2002   Nickel
Would cloning necessarily undermine human potential and sense of self?
In the April 12 issue of Science, Brown University philosopher Dan W. Brock argues human cloning should not undermine our sense of self. Although genetically identical, clones would not have the same traits, character, decisions and life history.
News Release   01-116    04/11/2002   Cole
Jarat Chopra available for interviews Friday, April 12, at 11 a.m.
Jarat Chopra, assistant professor (research) at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies, will recount his recent experiences during the siege of Ramallah and make himself available for interviews at 11 a.m. Friday, April 12, 2002, in Maddock Alumni Center on the Brown campus.
News Release   01-117    04/11/2002   Nickel
Jarat Chopra, now in Jerusalem, will speak with press at 4:15 p.m.
Jarat Chopra, a Brown University assistant professor (research) who was among international observers trapped in Ramallah by Israeli forces, has made his way to Jerusalem. Chopra will be available by phone to reporters at 4:15 p.m. today (Monday, April 8) in the Watson Institute for International Studies on the Brown campus.
News Release   01-114    04/08/2002   Nickel
Applications available for Brown Summer High School
Brown Summer High School, which runs July 8-26 this year, offers students entering grades 9 through 12 the opportunity to work in small groups, participate in discussions, conduct laboratory experiments, and engage in numerous hands-on activities in the areas of social studies, biology, and English. The cost is $100; a limited amount of financial aid is available.
News Release   01-113    04/05/2002   Sweeney
Acceptance letters mailed to 2,433 Class of '06 hopefuls
A new early decision admissions policy caused a sharp decline in the number of early applications to Brown, and the overall admit rate is up slightly.
GSJ Story   26GSJ23a    04/05/2002   Cole
Educational Diversity and Excellence at Brown April 12-13
Educational Diversity and Excellence at Brown is the topic of a retreat April 12-13 sponsored by President Simmons.
GSJ Story   26GSJ23b    04/05/2002   Sweeney
At Brown for April 5
At Brown for April 5: Library Users Survey; awards and honors
GSJ Story   26GSJ23f    04/05/2002   
Cokie Roberts to deliver second annual Casey Shearer Lecture April 11
ABC News chief congressional analyst Cokie Roberts, co-anchor of "This Week With Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts," will give the second annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture on Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture series honors the memory of Casey Shearer '00, who died just days before he was to graduate from Brown.
News Release   01-111    04/01/2002   Curtis
Facilities worker takes shot at five-figure prize
Brown employee wins $7,777 in half-court shootout at Celtics game
GSJ Story   26GSJ22a    03/29/2002   Montgomery
Undergrads had hand in Gates Foundation ÔEarly College' initiative
Nancy Hoffman leaving Brown to work on Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation's Early College Initiative. Six Brown undergraduates enrolled in Hoffman's course on education reform helped develop the five-year multimillion-dollar nationwide plan.
GSJ Story   26GSJ22b    03/29/2002   Cole
Staff react favorably to new tuition aid benefit
Beginning July 1, Brown's tuition aid program will provide equal dollar benefits, up to $10,000 per eligible dependent, to all benefits-eligible faculty and staff.
GSJ Story   26GSJ22c    03/29/2002   Cole
New resource will make online information more accessible to disabled
During Disability Awareness Day, organizers will announce a service that makes the Brown Web site more accessible for people with disabilities. Betsie, as the service is known, will be up and running on Brown's Web site by April 10. It transforms Web pages so their information is easier to access.
GSJ Story   26GSJ22e    03/29/2002   Bramson
Grant to chemist funds his work in breast cancer detection
Brown chemist Gerry Diebold has been awarded a four-year grant of nearly $1.9 million from the U.S. Army to investigate better ways to detect breast cancer.
GSJ Story   26GSJ22f    03/29/2002   Bramson
Students with disabilities hope April 10 event will promote change
Brown students who hope to enlighten their peers, their professors and administrators about what they and others with disabilities face at Brown sponsor Disability Awareness Day April 10.
GSJ Story   26GSJ22g    03/29/2002   Bramson
Life at Brown for wheelchair-bound fraught with difficulty
Life as a Brown student as seen from the wheelchair of Sarah Volante '05
GSJ Story   26GSJ22h    03/29/2002   
Exchange program with South Africa benefits cross-cultural research
The exchange program that brought Sandile Gxilishe, an associate professor of linguistics at the University of Cape Town, to Brown is the type of collaboration that provides a step closer to the creation of a "global map" of how children acquire the ability to communicate through words.
GSJ Story   26GSJ22j    03/29/2002   Cole
Third-graders better equipped to handle stress if early to bed, study says
Measuring the hormone cortisol, blood pressure and perceptions of events, researchers at Brown University found that third-grade girls who went to bed before 9 p.m. showed more adaptive responses to stress than those who stayed up later. The study included 138 girls in New York City.
News Release   01-109    03/28/2002   Cole
Israeli and Palestinian leaders to discuss possibilities for ending conflict
Yasser Abed Rabbo, the Palestinian minister of culture and information, and Yossi Beilin, the former Israeli minister of justice, have embarked on a new peace initiative that includes joint publications and a speaking tour in the United States. They will finish their U.S. speaking tour with a panel discussion at Brown University on April 11.
News Release   01-107    03/27/2002   Bramson
Bioterrorism specialist Margaret Hamburg to speak at Brown April 11
On Thursday, April 11, 2002, at 4 p.m. Margaret A. Hamburg, M.D., will deliver a lecture titled "Bioterrorism: Ready or Not," in Sayles Hall, located on The College Green at Brown University. Her presentation, the third annual Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lectureship in Public Health, will be free and open to the public.
News Release   01-108    03/27/2002   Turner
Starr Foundation donates $15 million to Brown for financial aid
A Starr Foundation gift of $15 million will endow undergraduate scholarships at Brown University. The gift is the largest ever received by Brown in support of financial aid.
News Release   01-104    03/26/2002   Sweeney
Tom Wolfe to open 22nd annual Brown/Providence Journal conference
Author Tom Wolfe will headline "The City: No Limits," the 22nd annual Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, April 14-19, 2002. He will deliver the keynote address, titled "Cities of Ambition," on Sunday, April 14, at 4 p.m. in the Richard and Edna Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   01-105    03/26/2002   Curtis
Med students to receive residency placements at Match Day ceremony
Fourth-year Brown medical students will receive their residency placements at noon Thursday, March 21, 2002. Media are welcome to attend this event. For more information, call Scott Turner, 863-2476.
News Release   01-102    03/20/2002   Turner
University hires security consultants
The University has hired consultants to help develop strategies to make Brown a safer and more secure campus, a senior administrator told an audience of about 50 at a recent staff forum on campus safety. The Bratton Group begins its work the week of March 11.
GSJ Story   26GSJ21a    03/15/2002   Bramson
Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
Researchers at Brown University show that signals from the brain which normally control hand movement can be decoded and used as the sole input to control a computer cursor. Their report appears in the March 14 issue of Nature.
GSJ Story   26GSJ21b    03/15/2002   Turner
Researchers demonstrate direct, real-time brain control of cursor
Researchers at Brown University show that signals from the brain which normally control hand movement can be decoded and used as the sole input to control a computer cursor. Their report appears in the March 14 issue of Nature.
News Release   01-098    03/13/2002   Turner
Brown commissions Bratton Group to lead campus security study
Brown University has commissioned a team of security consultants from the Bratton Group to study campus safety and security and to make recommendations for improve-ments. The work will begin March 11, with the final report due by the end of May.
News Release   01-097    03/11/2002   Nickel
The City: No Limits
"The City: No Limits" is the theme for this year's Brown University-Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference April 14-19. Keynote speaker is Tom Wolfe on April 14.
GSJ Story   26GSJ20e    03/08/2002   
Antidepressant drug trials turn away many depressed patients
Studies establishing the effectiveness of antidepressants are based on highly selective samples of depressed patients. New research by Brown psychiatrists found as many as 85 percent of depressed patients treated in an outpatient setting would be excluded from the typical study to determine whether an antidepressant works.
GSJ Story   26GSJ20h    03/08/2002   Cole
Archives - whether RI's or Brown's - are repositories for pieces of history
A recent collaboration between Rhode Island's secretary of state Ð a Civil War buff Ð and Brown highlights the richness of archival materials that are available to the public.
GSJ Story   26GSJ20k    03/08/2002   Bramson
Study details costs of providing care inconsistent with patient wishes
A new study shows how frequently seriously ill people who crave comfort receive more aggressive care instead. The study also details the costs and survival rates associated with this contrary care. It will appear in the Journal of the American Geriatric Society and was led by Brown Medical School researchers.
News Release   01-094    03/04/2002   Turner
High school students get civics lesson, share views with policymakers
Students from Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, Rhode Island and Utah will debate the U.S. foreign policy role in their state capitols through a program sponsored by Brown University's Choices for the 21st Century Program. After weeks of study and debate, the students will share their views on the environment, international conflict resolution, trade and the global economy, and immigration with their elected officials.
News Release   01-095    03/04/2002   Bramson
Antidepressant drug trials turn away most of the depressed population
Studies establishing the effectiveness of antidepressants are based on highly selective samples of depressed patients. New research by Brown University psychiatrists found as many as 85 percent of depressed patients treated in an outpatient setting would be ex-cluded from the typical study to determine whether an antidepressant works.
News Release   01-091    03/01/2002   Cole
Proposal includes measures to reward, retain staff, president tells forum
University staff will play a crucial role in bringing Brown's Proposal for Academic Enrichment to a successful conclusion, President Simmons told a packed audience in Alumnae Hall Feb. 26. She outlines some of the steps the plan takes to reward and retain staff.
GSJ Story   26GSJ19a    03/01/2002   Curtis
Faces of Brown: James Stewart and Mark Sands
Faces of Brown: Mark Sands of UPS and James Stewart of Fed Ex
GSJ Story   26GSJ19d    03/01/2002   Montgomery
Last Word: Should Brown arm its officers?
Should Brown arm its police officers? Two Brown students offer their opinions. Anne Barylick believes Brown officers should not be denied their tools. Dmitri Seals urges a broad discussion that includes a greater portion of the Providence community.
GSJ Story   26GSJ19e    03/01/2002   
Summary of Initiatives for Academic Enrichment
The Corporation of Brown University received and discussed a set of Initiatives for Academic Enrichment at its regular meeting Feb. 22-23, 2002. A summary of the document presented to the Corporation is reprinted in the March 1 edition of the George Street Journal.
GSJ Story   26GSJ19f    03/01/2002   
Salman Rushdie to speak at Brown University February 27
The Brown University Student Lecture Board will present "A Conversation with Salman Rushdie" Wednesday, Feb. 27, 2002, at 8 p.m. in Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St. Seating is limited. Some seating has been reserved for press who make arrangements in advance.
News Release   01-093    02/25/2002   Curtis
Brown Corporation endorses Proposal for Academic Enrichment
The Corporation of Brown University has endorsed the multiyear Initiatives for Academic Enrichment under which Brown will institute need-blind undergraduate admission, expand its faculty by as many as 100 additional faculty members, improve support for graduate students and make substantial new investments in libraries, information technology and academic space. Increases to the University's annual budget will reach $36 million by fiscal year 2005.
News Release   01-090    02/23/2002   Nickel
Corporation approves 4.6-percent increase in total charges for 2002-03
Overall charges for undergraduates at Brown University will rise 4.6 percent to $36,356 for the 2002-03 academic year. That figure includes a 4.8-percent increase in tuition (to $27,856).
News Release   01-092    02/23/2002   Nickel
Six Brown professors present at AAAS annual meeting
The annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) draws approximately 4,000 attendees and 1,000 journalists. This year, six Brown professors -- James Anderson, Sheila Blumstein, Dan Brock, Xinsheng Sean Ling, Marc Tatar and Greg Tucker -- will be making presentations.
GSJ Story   26GSJ18b    02/22/2002   Staff
Universitiy reexamines issue of arming campus police
President Simmons is considering arming Brown's police force in the wake of a rash of robberies that have affected every segment of the campus community.
GSJ Story   26GSJ18c    02/22/2002   Cole
Artist-in-training had key roll in eye cell breakthrough
Although she trained to be an artist, Felice Dunn changed plans when she took a vision course taught by Professor James McIlwain. The function of vision interests Dunn, an art and neuroscience concentrator who played an important roll in the Brown-based research that led to the discovery of a new kind of eye cell.
GSJ Story   26GSJ18e    02/22/2002   Turner
Weekend celebration engages alumni, students in foreign policy issues
"America in the World: A Conversation with Foreign Policy Experts and Scholars" drew about 50 alumni, scholars and past employees as well as 50 students, community members and others.The gathering celebrated the 21st anniversary of the creation of Brown's Center for Foreign Policy Development. The center and the Institute for International Studies, in which the center was housed, were renamed in the early 1990s as the Watson Institute for International Studies.
GSJ Story   26GSJ18i    02/22/2002   Bramson
Brown, RISD, police and East Side neighbors to discuss security issues
Brown University will host a community meeting to discuss issues of crime and public safety at 7 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 21, 2002, in MacMillan Hall, Thayer and George streets.
News Release   01-089    02/19/2002   
Superconductor discovery could lead to more efficient electricity
New research has shown that type-II superconductors really superconduct - they transmit electricity without dissipating energy. Xinsheng Sean Ling, assistant professor of physics at Brown University, will discuss his team's research, which answered a longstanding question in physics. Engineers can use this latest discovery to seek ways to distribute electricity more efficiently.
News Release   01-083    02/15/2002   Bramson
Brown to make six-month status reports to the city about parking plans
Brown University is conducting detailed traffic studies and user group surveys and is gathering estimates for construction and operating costs of a new parking structure. In this statement, Laura Freid, executive vice president for University relations and public affairs, discusses the University's planning process.
News Release   01-087    02/15/2002   Nickel
Brown researchers find new photoreceptor and visual system in the eye
Rods and cones are not the only photoreceptors in our eyes. Reporting in theFebruary 8 issue of "Science," researchers at Brown University describe a third photoreceptor and a parallel visual system. The newly discovered cells turn light energy directly into brain signals. The signals govern the body's 24-hour clock.
News Release   01-080    02/07/2002   Turner
Robert J. Zimmer named ninth provost of Brown University
Robert J. Zimmer, vice president for research and for Argonne National Laboratory at the University of Chicago, has been named ninth provost of Brown University. Zimmer will begin his service at Brown July 15, 2002.
News Release   01-081    02/04/2002   Nickel
Soros, Luce awards go to two seniors
Two Brown seniors recently learned that they are the recipients of awards from two prestigious programs. Elena Lesley received a Luce Scholarship to live and work in Asia; Mikhail Shapiro received a Paul and Daisy Soros Fellowship for New Americans to continue his studies.
GSJ Story   28GSJ14a    02/04/2002   Cole
At Brown
At Brown for Feb. 1: STG faculty grants, research notes
GSJ Story   26GSJ16b    02/01/2002   
Faces of Brown: Daniel Nuey of Police and Security
Faces of Brown: Daniel Nuey of Police and Security
GSJ Story   26GSJ16e    02/01/2002   Montgomery
Capt. Rick Ziccardi retires as second-in-command at Police and Security
Capt. Rick Ziccardi, a resident of Freetown, Mass., retires Jan. 31 from his position as second-in-command of Brown's Department of Police and Security Services.
News Release   01-078    01/25/2002   Bramson
Sayles Hall portraits leave for the holidays
Three dozen of the University's famous portraits will rest in storage while Sayles Hall is closed for renovations during the winter. The two large portraits above the stage at the front of the hall Ð those of Francis Wayland and Nicholas Brown Ð will be cleaned and restored. All should return by Commencement.
GSJ Story   26GSJ15e    01/25/2002   Nickel
Brown team builds support for Mars missions
Five Brown students are in the running to help NASA build "customer engagement" for its Mars exploration program. The Brown team is one of four finalists.
GSJ Story   26GSJ15g    01/25/2002   Ferguson
Hospice enhances nursing home care
Although nursing homes have been slow to offer hospice care to their terminal residents, Brown gerontologists say the program clearly benefits those patients.
GSJ Story   26GSJ15j    01/25/2002   Ferguson
Media mammogram bias
Medical experts disagree about the value of mammography for women under 50, but newspaper coverage tends to exaggerate its potential benefits, according to a recent Brown study.
GSJ Story   26GSJ15k    01/25/2002   Turner
Medical School joins statewide biomedical research network
A $6-million NIH grant will help Brown and five other Rhode Island colleges and universities collaborate on biomedical research.
GSJ Story   26GSJ15n    01/25/2002   Turner
Career Week dinner to serve etiquette lessons for job-seeking seniors
Cornish game hen, wild greens with cherry tomatoes, brownie royale and tips on dining etiquette are on the menu for a three-course mock interview dinner at 6:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 25, in the Brown University Faculty Club. The dinner is part of Career Week 2002, Jan. 22-26, which features more than 100 alumni speakers.
News Release   01-076    01/17/2002   Cole
Brown unites offices of development, alumni, international advancement
Brown University will bring its development, alumni relations and international outreach efforts together under the direction of a senior vice president for University advancement. A national search is under way for this newly created position.
News Release   01-072    01/14/2002   Nickel
Corporation of Brown University elects Donald C. Hood as a fellow
Donald C. Hood, a professor of psychology at Columbia University and a Ph.D. graduate of Brown University, will serve on Brown's Board of Fellows through June 2012.
News Release   01-073    01/11/2002   Nickel
Brown appeals NLRB decision on graduate students/UAW election
Brown University is seeking a reconsideration of a Nov. 16 decision by the regional director of the National Labor Relations Board which directed that certain graduate students could vote for or against representation by the United Auto Workers union. The election was held Dec. 6-7, but the ballots have been impounded and will not be counted until the appeal process is concluded.
News Release   01-069    12/14/2001   Nickel
Brown University senior wins Marshall Scholarship
Brown senior Rachel Pepper will use her Marshall Scholarship to pursue her interest in math and physics at the University of Cambridge. Pepper is one of 40 American students named this year as recipients of this prestigious award.
News Release   01-068    12/13/2001   Ferguson
Microsoft gives Brown students, faculty free access to most products
In selecting Brown University as a site for its Microsoft Developer Network Academic Alliance, Microsoft Corp. will give all students, faculty and staff access to a comprehensive package of programs -- products that are especially useful to those in the school's computer science and engineering departments.
News Release   01-065    12/07/2001   Ferguson
Inquiring Minds: Calvin Goldscheider on the Middle East
Calvin Goldscheider, Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies and professor of sociology at Brown, spoke with George Street Journal writer Kate Bramson recently about his latest book, "Cultures in Conflict: The Arab-Israeli Conflict," which was released at the end of October.
GSJ Story   26GSJ14g    12/07/2001   Bramson
Jack Wands, M.D., appointed first Greenberg-Joukowsky Professor
Jack Wands, M.D., will hold the Jeffrey and Kimberly Greenberg -Artemis and Martha Joukowsky Professorship in Gastroenterology at Brown Medical School. Two $1.25 million gifts endowed the professorship.
News Release   01-064    12/05/2001   Turner
Waite-Franzen named VP for Computing and Information Services
Ellen J. Waite-Franzen, currently vice president for information services at the University of Richmond, has been named vice president for computing and information services at Brown University. Waite-Franzen will begin her duties at Brown Feb. 1, 2002.
News Release   01-063    12/03/2001   Nickel
Brown honors Charles Margiotta
Brown has established the Lt. Charles Margiotta Memorial Scholarship Fund to honor a New York City firefighter and 1976 alumnus who died in the World Trade Center attack.
GSJ Story   26GSJ13b    11/30/2001   Curtis
Teaching hospitals teach elected officials
Project Medical Education, conducted at Brown's seven affiliated hospitals, helped elected officials learn about medical education, its benefits, funding and the role of government support.
GSJ Story   26GSJ13c    11/30/2001   Turner
R.I. nursing homes improve under Brown-led project
A 15-month project on pain assessment and management, led by the Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and Rhode Island Quality Partners (RIQP), has enabled nursing home residents to enjoy life more and, in some case, use less medication.
GSJ Story   26GSJ13j    11/30/2001   Turner
UAW petition to be put to a vote
About 500 Brown graduate students will vote Dec. 6-7 on whether the United Auto Workers will become their representative in collective bargaining with the University.
GSJ Story   26GSJ13ll    11/30/2001   Nickel
Oliver Stone to speak and participate in student film festival Dec. 1
Noted writer and director Oliver Stone will be the guest of the Brown Lecture Board and the first Ivy Film Festival on Saturday, Dec. 1, 2001, when he will give a lecture at noon in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Stone will also participate in festival workshops.
News Release   01-062    11/28/2001   Curtis
Brown honors fallen firefighter with scholarship, Hall of Fame induction
Brown parent and trustee Martin Granoff and his wife Perry, of Saddle River, N.J., have given $1.4 million to the University to establish the Lt. Charles Margiotta Memorial Scholarship Fund. Margiotta, a member of the Brown Class of 1979, was among the firefighters who perished Sept. 11 in the World Trade Center. He was posthumously inducted into Brown's Hall of Fame along with all other members of the Ivy League champion football team of 1976.
News Release   01-058    11/27/2001   Curtis
Public meeting to gather comments on Brown's Life Sciences Building
In accordance the National Historic Preservation Act, the Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission will host a public meeting to discuss Brown University's Life Sciences Building project. The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, 2001, in the Saunders Inn Conference Room, 101 Thayer St.
News Release   01-059    11/27/2001   Nickel
Providence public schools are beneficiaries of Brown's EPA settlement
As part of a consent agreement and final order announced by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Brown University will spend $285,596 on a Supplemental Environmental Project much of which will directly benefit Providence public high schools. The SEP will include microscaled chemistry labs in four high schools, a computerized chemical management system for Providence public high schools, and summer workshops for high school chemistry teachers. Brown will also pay $79,858 in penalties levied by the EPA.
News Release   01-061    11/27/2001   Nickel
Students and neighbors harvest garden of bounty
Brown's Urban Environmental Laboratory offers city gardeners a chance to get their hands dirty.
GSJ Story   26GSJ12c    11/16/2001   Ferguson
Gulf War veterans get treatment, if not answers
The nature and cause of Gulf War Syndrome remain a mystery, but the veterans' experience in that conflict holds lessons for todays medical and miltary leaders, says Phil Brown.
GSJ Story   26GSJ12d    11/16/2001   Ferguson
Quilt to honor ÔFallen but not Forgotten'
Student leaders from The Multi-Faith Council will coordinate the creation of a memorial quilt to honor the six Brown alumn and other friends of the Brown community who perished in the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11.
GSJ Story   26GSJ12h    11/16/2001   Bramson
Page Turners: Recommended reading from colleagues at Brown
Recommended reading from Reda Bensmaia, professor of French studies; Kate James, Web editor, the Brown University News Service; and Anne Diffily, editor at large, Public Affairs and University Relations
GSJ Story   26GSJ12j    11/16/2001   DeCesare
Drug-therapy combination helps alcoholics in treatment
People in alcoholism treatment benefit from medication and coping skills training, according to a new Brown-led study published in "Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research."
News Release   01-053    11/14/2001   Turner
Medical School to brief Rep. Kennedy about bioterrorism Nov. 12
On Monday, Nov. 12, the Brown Medical School will host a roundtable of experts to brief Rep. Patrick J. Kennedy on bioterrorism preparedness in Rhode Island. The briefing is by invitation only, but all participants will be available to speak with reporters afterward, at approximately 10:30 a.m. The briefing will take place in the main conference room, Saunders Inn, 101 Thayer St., on the Brown campus.
News Release   01-054    11/09/2001   Turner
Estrup outlines graduate support plan
On Monday, Oct. 30, Peder Estrup, dean of the Graduate School and research, appeared before ACUP to present comparative data and outline a plan for investing in graduate student support at Brown.
GSJ Story   26GSJ11e    11/09/2001   Nickel
Brown is one of four campuses in Microsoft Developer Network
Under a new arrangement with Microsoft Corp., Brown students, faculty and staff will have free access to vitutally all of the Microsoft product line.
GSJ Story   26GSJ11g    11/09/2001   Ferguson
Brown and Vernadsky: Science is an international thing
Planetary geologists at Brown and in Russia have collaborated across some difficult historical and political terrain, and they're still at it.
GSJ Story   26GSJ11h    11/09/2001   Ferguson
Richard R. Spies named executive VP for planning, senior advisor
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has announced the appointment of Richard R. Spies as executive vice president for planning. Spies, who will begin his duties at Brown on Jan. 15, 2002, will also serve as the president's senior advisor.
News Release   01-051    11/06/2001   Nickel
Forum airs concerns regarding disciplinary system
Committee exploring how Brown's non-academic disciplinary procedures work holds community forum. The committee's report is due to be presented to president in January.
GSJ Story   26GSJ10d    11/02/2001   Bramson
Inquiring Minds: Jeffrey Singer on the Nobel Prize in medicine
Inquiring Minds: Jeffrey Singer, whose research here at Brown stems from the work done by latest winners of Nobel Prize in medicine, comments on the winners' research.
GSJ Story   26GSJ10e    11/02/2001   Turner
Ivy Film Festival debuts Dec. 1
The Brown Film Society seeks contributions to the Ivy Film Festival, which will be held on Brown campus Dec. 1. Winners will have their works posted at ifilm.com.
GSJ Story   26GSJ10f    11/02/2001   Curtis
Brown lays groundwork for collaboration with boys' school in Saudi Arabia
Brown partnership with King Faisal School in Saudi Arabia and with the IESE, Education Department at Brown, Summer Studies
GSJ Story   26GSJ10h    11/02/2001   Bramson
Brown University seeks 10 scholars to study national education projects
A new postdoctoral studies program at Brown University will provide 10 scholars with nine-month research leaves to examine issues around the theme "The Nation and Its Schools: Federal and National Strategies for School Reform."
News Release   01-050    10/30/2001   Bramson
Hourglass Cafe: late-night java with a shot of social issues concerning hunger
Brown Oxfam opens a coffee bar in Bear's Lair called The Hourglass Cafe. Proceeds will benefot Oxfam America
GSJ Story   26GSJ09b    10/26/2001   Bramson
Alcohol use often overlooked as drug that prompts risky behavior
Alcohol is a forgotten drug that leads to unsafe sex among injection drug users, according a new Brown-led study.
GSJ Story   26GSJ09d    10/26/2001   Turner
Endowment copes with market's ups and downs
Brown's conservative investment strategy works well when the market is volatile. As of September, the endowment was $1.36 billion
GSJ Story   26GSJ09f    10/26/2001   Bramson
At Brown
At Brown: facilities management move; obituary; on the road
GSJ Story   26GSJ09i    10/26/2001   
Brown Medical School to hold white coat ceremony Oct. 27
First-year students in the Brown Medical School will receive white coats during a campus ceremony at 5 p.m. Saturday, Oct 27, 2001. Media are welcome to attend the event at Alumnae Hall, 194 Meeting St., between Brown and Thayer streets.
News Release   01-049    10/24/2001   Turner
Christopher Reeve to give Parents Weekend keynote lecture
Actor, director and activist Christopher Reeve will deliver the keynote address during this year's Parents Weekend on Friday, Oct. 26, 2001, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Because of space limitations, the event will be open only to Brown students and their parents. Limited space will be available to press by prior arrangement with the News Service.
News Release   01-047    10/23/2001   Curtis
Brown computer scientists win five awards for information technology
With projects that will break new ground in everything from virtual reality to robotic devices for the severely disabled, computer scientists from Brown University recently won five of the competitive National Science Foundation awards for information technology research.
News Release   01-048    10/23/2001   Ferguson
President Simmons to chair selection committee for next provost
A nine-member committee chaired by President Ruth J. Simmons will select the next provost of Brown University. Applications and nominations for provost, the University's second-ranking administrative officer, should be received no later than Nov. 15, 2001.
News Release   01-045    10/22/2001   Nickel
John Carter Brown Library to host 18th-century architectural exhibit
The John Carter Brown Library is hosting a new public exhibition, Architectural Pattern Books in 18th Century America, an illustration of the influence of European styles on colonial construction now through Dec. 1 and again Dec. 16, 2001, to Feb. 15, 2002.
News Release   01-044    10/19/2001   Curtis
At Brown
At Brown: Inauguration by the numbers; information regarding CIS vice president post; Vince Hunt award; Glicksman award
GSJ Story   26GSJ08b    10/19/2001   
Trio collaborates on modeling brain cell behavior
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: trio collaborates on modeling brain cell behavior.
GSJ Story   26GSJ08c    10/19/2001   Ferguson
Charniak and others push into new areas of speech recognition
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Charniak and others push into new areas of speech recognition.
GSJ Story   26GSJ08d    10/19/2001   Ferguson
Van Dam project hopes to marry 3-D graphics with interactive medical books
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Van Dam project hopes to marry 3-D graphics with interactive electronic books that one day may train surgeons using virtual reality.
GSJ Story   26GSJ08f    10/19/2001   Ferguson
Brown counters national trend in funding for physical sciences
Research issue: Brown counters national trend in funding for physical sciences
GSJ Story   26GSJ08k    10/19/2001   Kerlin
Brown research grants exceed $100 million for first time
Research issue: Brown research grants exceed $100 million for first time
GSJ Story   26GSJ08l    10/19/2001   Turner
No stem cells used by Brown researchers are derived from human embryos
Research issue: No stem cells used by Brown researchers are derived from human embryos
GSJ Story   26GSJ08n    10/19/2001   Turner
Upfal project explores dynamic behavior of networks
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Upfal project explores dynamic behavior of networks.
GSJ Story   26GSJ08p    10/19/2001   Ferguson
Van Hentenryck in the hunt for algorithm that takes uncertainty into account
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Van Hentenryck in the hunt for algorithm that takes uncertainty into account.
GSJ Story   26GSJ08q    10/19/2001   Ferguson
Global survey shows U.S.A. takes the lead in online government
The United States was one of only three nations to score higher than 50 percent in a new study of Internet use by governments worldwide. The survey of 196 nations was con-ducted for the World Markets Research Centre of London by the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University.
News Release   01-038    10/18/2001   Nickel
Corporation unanimously supports goals outlined by President Simmons
In her first full meeting with the University's governing body since being sworn in July 3, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons received enthusiastic and unanimous support for her goals of strengthening the University's academic mission.
News Release   01-043    10/17/2001   Nickel
Alcohol, the Ôforgotten drug,' leads to unsafe sex among drug users
New findings link alcohol use and risky sex among injection drug users. The results appear in a Brown-led study published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research.
News Release   01-042    10/15/2001   Turner
Founder of U.S. hospice organizations receives top alumni award
The Brown Alumni Association presented its highest honor, the William Rogers Award, to Zachary Morfogen '50, the founding chairman emeritus of the National Hospice Foundation and the National Hospice Organization, during the 18th annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony Friday, Oct. 12, 2001.
News Release   01-039    10/12/2001   Curtis
Six alumni, victims of terrorists, to be honored in inaugural events
Six Brown alumni who perished in New York City, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon will be remembered and honored during inaugural events this weekend.
News Release   01-041    10/12/2001   Curtis
At Brown
At Brown for Oct. 12: flu shots, new faculty
GSJ Story   26GSJ07b    10/12/2001   
Retired school teacher travels from Ga. to witness Simmons' inauguration
Mignon Lewis has no connection to Brown and has only passed through Rhode Island once Ñ on her way to another destination. But the 72-year-old Georgian will be on campus to see the inauguration of Ruth Simmons as the University's 18th president.
GSJ Story   26GSJ07c    10/12/2001   Cole
Study finds disparities across state in enforcing drunk driving laws
In Rhode Island, second-offense drunk drivers are accurately charged only 60 percent of the time, according to a study recently released by the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. Violators often receive lighter penalties than the law prescribes. The study recommends improvements to data collection and data access across jurisdictions.
News Release   01-037    10/11/2001   Bramson
$1.2M grant will help train Hispanics in education to be teachers
The federal government has awarded $1.2 million to the Education Alliance at Brown University to help train Hispanics in education as English Language Learner teachers.
News Release   01-040    10/11/2001   Bramson
Daily Weighing and Quick Action Keeps Pounds Off, Study Shows
Most successful dieters regain the weight they lost. But new research shows that a daily weigh-in – and quick adjustments to diet and exercise – can significantly help dieters maintain weight loss. The clinical trial, conducted by researchers at The Miriam Hospital and Brown Medical School, reports results of the first program designed specifically for weight loss maintenance. The study appears in the New England Journal of Medicine.
News Release   06-035    10/11/2001   Lawton
Jessye Norman forced to cancel her appearance
Because of international travel difficulties, soprano Jessye Norman has been forced to cancel her appearance at Brown University on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001. The Brown University Orchestra will perform the concert, which will feature an appearance by the Tougaloo College Concert Choir, at 5 p.m. in Meehan Auditorium.
News Release   01-035    10/08/2001   Nickel
At Brown for Oct. 5, 2001
At Brown: Open Enrollment memo, bookmark contest, more
GSJ Story   26GSJ 06j    10/05/2001   Sweeney
Governor's task force puts Brown's Arts/Literacy Project in state spotlight
Governor's task force puts Brown's Arts/Literacy Project in state spotlight. Almond created the task force in March 1999 to determine how the arts can significantly impact the state's educational agenda. The task force's recommendations includes projects such as the Arts/Literacy Project. With information about the may Brown-affiliated projects aimed at K-12 education in state and nation
GSJ Story   26GSJ06c    10/05/2001   Bramson
Project hopes to raise managers' awareness about informal recognition of staff
Angel Hilliard is working on a presentation for Brown managers to illuminate how informal rewards (not just the annual Brown Says Thank You and Years of Service awards) motivate staff
GSJ Story   26GSJ06g    10/05/2001   Bramson
Medical residency: an exercise in sleep deprivation
To meet educational and clinical obligations, most of the nation's 100,000 medical interns and residents work between 60 and 130 hours a week. Some now question the method. Brown Medical School and students hope to play a role in exploring the issue of sleep deprivation.
GSJ Story   26GSJ06h    10/05/2001   Turner
Brown to celebrate inauguration of President Ruth Simmons Oct. 14
The inauguration of Ruth J. Simmons as 18th president of Brown University will take place on The College Green at 2 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001. The three-day inaugural celebration will include theater performances, concerts, faculty forums and other events.
News Release   01-036    10/04/2001   Nickel
Visionary thinkers to discuss the evolution and role of universities
In "The University As We Do Not Know It," moderator Frank Newman will engage former college and university presidents Johnnetta Cole, Vartan Gregorian, J. Jorge Klor de Alva and Frank Rhodes in an Inaugural Weekend discussion about the future of higher education. Jasmine Waddell, a 1999 Brown graduate who was a Truman Scholar, Rhodes Scholar and student body president, will provide a student and young alumni perspective.
News Release   01-036s    10/04/2001   Bramson
Faculty to present Voyages of Discovery forums Oct. 12-13
In celebration of the inauguration of Brown's 18th president, Ruth J. Simmons, the faculty will offer "Voyages of Discovery," a series of 20 public forums on a wide variety of topics, to be presented Oct. 12 and 13, 2001.
News Release   01-036v    10/04/2001   Curtis
Brown prepares to build new Life Sciences Building
The U.S. Post Office now located at 201 Meeting St. will move to 306 Thayer St. during the weekend of Oct. 6-8, 2001. Demolition of the former site will make way for construction of Brown University's new Life Sciences Building. Brown owns both buildings.
News Release   01-034    10/02/2001   Turner
Graduate School dean reflects on union issues
In May, the UAW petitioned the NLRB for exclusive right to represent certain teaching assistants and other graduate students at Brown. This summer, 28 Brown faculty and administrators provided testimony before the NLRB in Boston. Attorneys from Brown and the UAW will file final arguments in the case by Sept. 25. A talk with Peder Estrup, dean of the Graduate School and research
GSJ Story   26GSJ04e    09/21/2001   Nickel
High school curriculum promotes dialogue about recent terrorist attacks
Brown University's Choices for the 21st Century Education Project has created curricular materials to help high school teachers discuss policy direction in the aftermath of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks. The material is available free of charge on the Web.
News Release   01-026    09/20/2001   Bramson
Study finds urban Ôe-government' sites need to put more services online
An analysis of Web sites maintained by the 70 largest U.S. cities indicates that urban governments need to invest more time and effort in Ôe-government.' The study by researchers at Brown University placed San Diego, Albuquerque, Seattle, Washington, Salt Lake City, Virginia Beach and Kansas City among the leaders, but only one city scored higher than 50 on the 100-point scale researchers used for evaluations.
News Release   01-021    09/17/2001   Nickel
Shaken Brunonians react to Sept. 11 attacks on NYC, Pentagon
As horrific attacks in New York City and Washington, D.C., unfolded Sept. 11, members of the Brown community met in groups large and small, seeking information and struggling to cope with grief and disbelief.
GSJ Story   26GSJ03a    09/14/2001   Sweeney
At Brown for Sept. 14
At Brown for Sept. 14: awards and honors, off the shelf
GSJ Story   26GSJ03j    09/14/2001   
World Trade Center: Text of President Simmons' remarks to campus gathering
At 7 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 11, 2001, Brown President Ruth J. Simmons addressed brief remarks to faculty, students and staff who had assembled in The Salomon Center for Teaching. More than 1,200 members of the campus community attended, hundreds listening to an overflow broadcast on The College Green and in nearby classrooms. The text of President Simmons' remarks follows.
News Release   01-019    09/11/2001   Nickel
Study finds improvement in state and federal Ôe-government' Web sites
The second annual "e-government" survey, conducted by researchers at Brown University's Taubman Center, finds significant improvement in state and federal Web sites. Analysis indicates that Indiana, Michigan, Texas, Tennessee and Washington have the top-ranking online services among the 50 states and that the Food and Drug Administration, Department of Agriculture, Federal Communications Commission, Department of Housing and Urban Development, and Internal Revenue Service rank most highly among federal agencies.
News Release   01-017    09/10/2001   Nickel
Brown contacts DEM about high arsenic levels in College Green soil
Brown University has filed a report with the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management describing levels of arsenic that exceed state limits in soil samples from The College Green. As the University works with the DEM to decide what remedial efforts may be appropriate, a geochemical consultant hired by Brown has reported that these concentrations of arsenic do not pose a health risk to the campus community, and that typical activities on the Green may continue.
News Release   01-018    09/10/2001   Nickel
Collector's cherished Americana headed to Brown a century ago
Sudden death prompted construction of John Carter Brown Library on what is now central campus, according to Robert Emlen, who related library history on Staff Development Day
GSJ Story   26GSJ01c    08/31/2001   Cole
Simmons: "Every intellect is important"
In her Staff Development Day address July 31, President Simmons encouraged Brown to become a "community of leaders." During an Aug. 28 interview with the George Street Journal, Simmons elaborated upon that theme, and discussed her upcoming inauguration Oct. 14. Here are excerpts from that conversation.
GSJ Story   26GSJ01f    08/31/2001   Sweeney
At Brown for Aug. 31
At Brown: new appointments at Hillel, Swearer Center; a familiar face in Food Services dies; awards and honors; Brown community members on the road
GSJ Story   26GSJ01g    08/31/2001   
Climate, not CO2, may drive make-up of plant communities
Rising carbon dioxide levels tied to global warming may not directly determine the composition of plant communities. Localized climate shifts appear to play a larger role, according to a Brown-led research team's report in this week's Science.
News Release   01-016    08/29/2001   Turner
President Simmons to welcome and address 1,381 freshmen students
Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will officially open the new academic year and welcome the Class of 2005 during the 238th Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 4, 2001, at 11 a.m. on The College Green. Presiding at her first Opening Convocation as Brown's 18th president, Simmons also will deliver the keynote address.
News Release   01-014    08/28/2001   Curtis
Census study finds significant differences between Providence and state
Compared to statewide statistics, residents of Providence are more likely to be younger, live in rental housing, reside in single-parent families and be of mixed race, according to a study of census figures conducted by researchers at the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. Their report also finds significant variations in median age and living conditions for whites, African-Americans, Asian-Americans, and Hispanics.
News Release   01-013    08/27/2001   Nickel
Brown scientists identify Tagish Lake meteorite's origin in space
The well-preserved Tagish Lake meteorite has been identified as coming from a D-type asteroid, confirming that it contains the oldest raw materials among asteroids in the solar system. The study in the journal Science online by Brown geologists Takahiro Hiroi and Carle Pieters and a colleague from NASA shows that the meteorite fell from the mid-to-far end of the asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
News Release   01-011    08/23/2001   Kerlin
Summer collaboration with zoo, city schools introduces ABCs of teaching to MATs
About 70 local students entering grades 2-6 learned about biodiversity from Brown MAT students this past July in a collaborative program with Wheeler and Community Prep schools and Roger Williams Park Zoo.
GSJ Story   25GSJ31a    08/09/2001   Cole
Increasing numbers of high-school teens attend Brown summer programs
An increasing number of high-school teens attended Brown summer programs this summmer. They took either seven-week credit courses, boosting enrollment 64 percent compared to last summer, or more intensive noncredit mini courses, increasing enrollment 72 percent over last year.
GSJ Story   25GSJ31c    08/09/2001   Cole
Hospice cuts hospital stays for nursing home residents
Elderly nursing home residents who receive hospice care through Medicare are less likely to be hospitalized in their last days of life compared to peers who do not receive such care or reside in facilities where it is not present, say a trio of Brown researchers.
GSJ Story   25GSJ31d    08/09/2001   Turner
Study explores drug treatment for teens' depression
A Brown-led study has produced some good news for the treatment of depression in teens. The largest clinical trial, treating major depression in adolescents with antidepressants, suggests that paroxetine, sold under the brand name Paxil, may be successful.
GSJ Story   25GSJ31e    08/09/2001   Turner
Diet and exercise cut type 2 diabetes risk drastically, study finds
A lifestyle intervention of diet and exercise helped people at high risk for type 2 diabetes lower their chances of developing the disease by 58 percent. Rena Wing, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, designed the intervention.
News Release   01-009    08/08/2001   Turner
Kathryn Spoehr to conclude service as provost, executive vice president
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons announces that Kathryn T. Spoehr will resign as the University's executive vice president and provost effective Aug. 31, 2001. Spoehr will return to her teaching and research after taking sabbatical leave.
News Release   01-008    08/02/2001   Sweeney
Evidence of icy region and recent climate change observed on Mars
Evidence of water ice has been detected on Mars in a location that indicates the planet's climate has changed relatively recently Ð during the last 100,000 years, according to Brown University geologist John Mustard. The data was collected using NASA's Mars Orbiter Camera.
News Release   01-006    07/26/2001   Kerlin
Diane Balestri named VP for Computing and Information Services
Diane Pelkus Balestri, currently vice president at Vassar College, has been named vice president for computing and information services at Brown University. She will begin her work at Brown in January 2002.
News Release   01-005    07/25/2001   Nickel
Paxil treats major depression in adolescents, study finds
Paxil is a safe and effective treatment for major depression in adolescents, suggests a Brown-led study in the current "Journal of the Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry." No antidepressant is currently labeled for use in teens.
News Release   01-003    07/23/2001   Turner
Hospice care in nursing homes can reduce end-of-life hospital stays
The presence of hospice care in a nursing home cuts cumbersome and costly hospital stays for elderly residents in the last days of life, says a new Brown study in the "American Journal of Medicine."
News Release   01-004    07/23/2001   Turner
Medical mission brings students to Ghana
Brown Chapter of the Student National Medical Association held HIV-prevention workshops for high schools, churches in Ghana
GSJ Story   25GSJ20a    07/20/2001   Turner
Medical mission brings students to Ghana
Brown Chapter of the Student National Medical Association held HIV-prevention workshops for high schools, churches in Ghana
GSJ Story   25GSJ30a    07/20/2001   Turner
Donate a book during Staff Development Day
SAC is sponsoring a Bring a Book to Brown as a public service project during Staff Development Day
GSJ Story   25GSJ30b    07/20/2001   SAC
R.I. welfare caseloads drop, are concentrated in four geographic areas
Researchers at Brown University used state welfare caseload data from the Rhode Island Department of Human Services along with population figures from the U.S. Census to study welfare trends and implications for cities and towns. Among the conclusions: Welfare caseloads are down since the implementation of state welfare reform in 1997, and cases are concentrated in Providence, Pawtucket, Central Falls and Woonsocket.
News Release   01-002    07/17/2001   Sweeney
Statewide job listing service offered to nonprofit, public employers
Brown University's Swearer Center for Public Service and Rhode Island Campus Compact have developed a Rhode Island Community Jobs List service designed to link nonprofit and public interest employers with prospective employees.
News Release   01-001    07/09/2001   Curtis
Margaret A. Jablonski named dean for campus life at Brown University
Margaret A. Jablonski, interim associate vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of Connecticut-Storrs, has been appointed dean for campus life at Brown University.
News Release   00-157    06/29/2001   Nickel
People say they are unique but don't seem to believe it, study finds
A study of 152 Brown University students found the way in which students viewed themselves greatly affected how they viewed others in their social group. However, when asked directly whether they were "typical," most responded no.
News Release   00-156    06/27/2001   Cole
First long-range look at the effects of weight-loss on type 2 diabetes
Rena Wing, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown University, is co-directing a new 12-year, $180-million nationwide study of how weight loss affects people with type 2 diabetes. Wing is also directing a study site at The Miriam Hospital in Providence, where she is based.
News Release   00-154    06/25/2001   Turner
Brown alum returns to campus after 65-year hiatus
You know a graduate has been away from Brown when he passes the Sharpe Refectory and asks, "That's new, isn't it?" So inquired Louis Leonard, who returned last month for his first class reunionÐ65 years after graduating in 1936.
GSJ Story   25GSJ28c    06/22/2001   Turner
Brown announces new Department of Africana Studies
Brown University's Afro-American Studies Program has been upgraded to department status and will be renamed the Department of Africana Studies, effective July 1. The name change reflects an already broad focus on research and teaching about the African diaspora.
News Release   00-155    06/15/2001   Kerlin
Damage to global environment is a top concern, young people say
Damage to the global environment was among top international concerns cited by 50 percent of 3,000 high school students surveyed in six states by the Choices for the 21st Century Education Project at Brown University.
News Release   00-150    06/11/2001   Kerlin
New material's odd traits to help improve computer memory
Scientists from Brown University and other labs have created a new type of material known as a half-metallic ferromagnet, which may lead to improvements in computer memory. Brown physicist Gang Xiao, with help from IBM, developed the single crystal films of the new material.
News Release   00-151    06/11/2001   Kerlin
Op-Ed: Liberians' fear of being denied refuge is a real one
No one Ð not the Liberians or any other immigrant or refugee group Ð should have to worry about returning to a country where they would fear for their lives, writes recent Brown graduate Melissa Bowman.
News Release   00-147    06/04/2001   Kerlin
Disagreement Ð not harmony Ð is key to business success, study says
In money-making organizations, respectful disagreement among colleagues Ð not close friendships Ð is the ideal, according to a new study by Brown sociologist Brooke Harrington. Harrington's study appeared in the May issue of Research in the Sociology of Organizations
News Release   00-148    06/04/2001   Cole
Brown, Trinity Rep form consortium for graduate study in theater arts
Brown University and Trinity Repertory Company have formed a consortium to offer new master's and doctoral programs in theater arts. The new consortium, approved by the Brown faculty and Trinity Rep's board of trustees earlier this month, was approved by the Brown Corporation Saturday, May 26. Discussions are underway to include Rhode Island College and the Rhode Island School of Design as future consortium partners.
News Release   00-145    05/31/2001   Nickel
University urges grad students to preserve collegial mentoring relationship
In a recent letter e-mailed to faculty and graduate students, Provost Kathryn Spoehr and Dean of the Graduate School Peder Estrup discussed a petition filed by the United Auto Workers before the National Labor Relations Board in Boston. The UAW is asking the NLRB for the exclusive right to represent teaching assistants at Brown.
News Release   00-149    05/31/2001   Nickel
Brown Corporation elects eight new trustees to its 42-member board
At its Commencement Weekend meeting May 26, 2001, the Corporation of Brown University elected eight new members to its Board of Trustees: Craig M. Cogut, Paul R. Dupee, Jeffrey W. Greenberg, Bernicestine McLeod Bailey, John Seely Brown, Kenneth R. Fitzsimmons Jr., Laura Geller, and Javette Pickney Laremont.
News Release   00-141    05/28/2001   Cole
Faculty presents highest honor to Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein
During Commencement ceremonies May 28, Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein, the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, received the highest honor Brown's faculty can bestow -- the Rosenberger Medal -- as well as an honorary Doctor of Science degree and an endowed undergraduate scholarship fund named in her honor. A portrait of Blumstein, which will hang in Sayles Hall, was unveiled Friday evening, May 25.
News Release   00-144    05/28/2001   Sweeney
Public gives R.I. State Police high marks on professionalism and service
A survey of 372 people who received a traffic citation, filed an accident report or contacted the State Police to report an incident or offense during calendar 2000 finds high public ratings of the professionalism, courtesy, fairness and service delivery of the Rhode Island State Police. The survey was conducted May 5-9, 2001, by researchers at Brown University.
News Release   00-137    05/23/2001   Cole
John Carter Brown Library hosts new maritime history exhibit
The John Carter Brown Library is hosting a new exhibit, titled "The European Conquest of the Oceans, 1450 to 1830: A Selection of Original Sources on Maritime History from the John Carter Brown Library," now through Sept. 15, 2001.
News Release   00-139    05/23/2001   Curtis
Access and press credentials for Brown's 233rd Commencement
Editors: More than 20,000 people will visit the Brown campus for four days of reunion and activities and the University's 233rd Commencement. To assist with crowd control and to ensure media access to any areas that are open to press, the Brown News Service will provide credentials for reporters, photographers and other media personnel.
News Release   00-140    05/23/2001   Nickel
Brown will award nine honorary degrees at Commencement May 28
Honorary degree recipients at Brown University's 233rd Commencement will be former Secretary of State Madeleine Korbel Albright; Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations; Professor Sheila E. Blumstein, interim president of Brown University; mathematician and physicist Demetrios Christodoulou; Oskar Eustis, artistic director of Trinity Repertory Company; Margaret H. Marshall, chief justice of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; visual scientist Lorrin A. Riggs; author Philip Roth; and Lawrence M. Small '63, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution.
News Release   00-135    05/21/2001   Sweeney
Harold Cohen, a lifelong learner
Harold Cohen says it's never too late to start. He married at age 40. At a time when some people become grandparents, he became a father. In 1987, Cohen entered Brown as a 71-year-old student resuming an undergraduate education. He graduates this Memorial Day at age 84.
GSJ Story   25GSJ27c    05/21/2001   Turner
Syringe prescriptions may help prevent HIV spread
Syringe prescriptions written by physicians are a feasible way to increase the access of injection drug users to sterile syringes for HIV prevention, according to a Brown-led pilot study.
GSJ Story   25GSJ27m    05/21/2001   Turner
Student's sleuthing on Internet improved cardiac study's follow-up
Arthur Pete Morello, a Brown senior, used the Internet to track down nearly every single medical research participant for a follow-up study.
GSJ Story   25GSJ27o    05/21/2001   Cole
Brown Summer Theater on hiatus
Brown Summer Theatre on hiatus this year
GSJ Story   25GSJ27q    05/21/2001   Curtis
Brown's graduating Class of 2001 offers some noteworthy stories
Brown's Class of 2001 includes an 84-year-old who will graduate after 14 years, two students who are leading nonprofit organizations, and a student who started an art program for local hospitalized adults. More than 1,300 seniors are expected to graduate May 28.
News Release   00-129    05/17/2001   Cole
Partners in Health founder Paul Farmer to speak at medical Commencement
Medical anthropologist Dr. Paul Farmer will speak at the Brown Medical School Commencement Convocation Monday, May 28, in the First Unitarian Church of Providence. Eighty-one students will graduate. The medical graduates will also hear addresses from Edward Feller, M.D., of the Brown Medical School faculty, and Derrick Hamilton, a member of the graduating class. The two-hour convocation will begin at 8:45 a.m.
News Release   00-134    05/11/2001   Turner
Laura Linney, Barry Scheck to headline Commencement Forums
Brown's 31st annual Commencement Forums, to be offered from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 26, 2001, will feature presentations by leaders in the fields of science, technology, law and entertainment. Eighteen forums will be offered.
News Release   00-132    05/10/2001   Curtis
Brown University to hold 233rd Commencement Monday, May 28
Chief Marshal Paul Nadler '51 will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Monday, May 28, 2001, in one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The Commencement procession academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement/Reunion Weekend at Brown.
News Release   00-130    05/07/2001   Nickel
Upholding a Brown tradition, two seniors will address graduating class
Ana Escrogima of New York City and Joshua Levine of North Hollywood, Calif., will deliver orations during Brown's 233rd Commencement Monday, May 28, 2001, at 10:15 a.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   00-131    05/07/2001   Cole
Cub Camp for Brown employees' children opens June 25
Cub Camp for Brown employees' children opens June 25
GSJ Story   25GSJ26b    05/04/2001   Sweeney
ÔJust in time teaching' taking place in Brown classrooms
"Just in time teaching" is a method that combines materials on the Web witl a lively classroom environment. One Brown professor who uses the method in a physics course gives the method high marks
GSJ Story   25GSJ26c    05/04/2001   Kerlin
Faces of Brown: Cynthia Schwartz, Office of University Events
Faces of Brown: Cynthia Schwartz, Office of University Events
GSJ Story   25GSJ26g    05/04/2001   Cole
Twenty-six undergraduates receive Royce Fellowships for research
Twenty-six Brown University undergraduates have been awarded Royce Fellowships to advance their research and public service projects locally, nationally and internationally. They will also receive lifetime membership in the Society of Royce Fellows.
News Release   00-128    05/03/2001   Curtis
NPR's Ira Glass to speak on ÔA New Kind of Radio' May 6
Ira Glass '82, host and producer of NPR's "This American Life" and a 1982 graduate of Brown, will speak on "Lies, Sissies and Fiascoes: Notes on Making a New Kind of Radio" at 8 p.m. Sunday, May 6, 2001, in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. The public and media are welcome, but seating is limited.
News Release   00-127    05/02/2001   Curtis
Accreditation team will evaluate Brown's Police and Security Services
A team from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies Inc. will visit the Brown campus beginning Saturday, May 5, as part of a program to retain accreditation. Members of the Brown community and the public are invited to offer comments at a public session on Monday, May 7, at 7 p.m. in Salomon Center.
News Release   00-126    05/01/2001   Sweeney
Ear drops may reduce need for antibiotics to treat ear infections
Selected use of eardrops may prevent overprescription of antibiotics for childhood ear infections while satisfying the desire of parents to treat the illness, says a new study by Brown Medical School researchers. They will present the findings April 30 at the 2001 Pediatric Academic Societies Meeting.
News Release   00-105    04/30/2001   Turner
Eight Brown employees receive President's Achievement Awards
Eight Brown employees are the recipients of the 2001 President's Achievement Awards, which recognize exceptional innovation, initiative and service. The awards were presented April 30 by Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein.
News Release   00-123    04/30/2001   Sweeney
Howard Foundation names 13 fellowship recipients for 2001-02
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University, has announced 13 fellowships of $20,000 each for the 2001-2002 academic year in the areas of painting, sculpture and art history. For 2002-03, the Foundation will provide fellowships in music, musicology, playwriting and theater arts.
News Release   00-125    04/30/2001   Nickel
Brownbrokers' ÔEmma' takes spotlight on national stage
Brownbrokers' "Emma" wins national competition, will be webcast from Kennedy Center
GSJ Story   25GSJ25a    04/27/2001   Curtis
Javanese puppet master performs with gamelan ensemble
Javanese shadow puppet performance with Brown's gamelin ensemble
GSJ Story   25GSJ25b    04/27/2001   Curtis
Study finds holes dug in dry-sand beach can collapse and suffocate
Digging holes in dry sand, a frequent activity for children during a day at the beach, carries a risk of sudden death and other dangers, says a Brown University medical student whose study appears in the current Journal of the American Medical Association.
GSJ Story   25GSJ25c    04/27/2001   Turner
Office of Campus Life begins study of Campus Climate Assessment
The Office of Campus Life and Student Services at Brown University has received results of a campuswide assessment it commissioned early this year. That study, prepared by Mcguire Associates Inc. of Boston, gathered information and opinions from 45 percent of undergraduates, 31 percent of graduate students and 39 percent of medical students via the Web during February.
News Release   00-121    04/25/2001   Nickel
Study finds persistent and severe pain among nursing home residents
The first national look at pain among the frailest nursing home residents uncovers "woefully inadequate pain management," say its Brown Medical School authors. Their study appears in the April 25 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
News Release   00-118    04/24/2001   Turner
Three faculty members win 2001 Guggenheim Fellowships
Three associate professors on the Brown faculty -- Maggie Bickford, Amy Remensnyder and Joan L. Richards -- have received Guggenheim Fellowships for 2001. They are among 183 scholars and artists selected from more than 2,700 applicants for this honor.
News Release   00-120    04/20/2001   Curtis
Demographers are eager to tap Census 2000 data
With the release of Census 2000 data, Brown researchers in a variety of disciplines Ñ from economics to sociology Ñ are thinking about how they will tap the new information.
GSJ Story   25GSJ24a    04/20/2001   Cole
Inquiring Minds: James Patterson on legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
Inquiring Minds: James Patterson on legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
GSJ Story   25GSJ24b    04/20/2001   Curtis
Crew teams' Lenten generosity helps parish outreach project in Haiti
During Lent, Frank Almeida places a box at the Brown Boathouse to collect change that heads to Haiti through Ss. Peter and Paul Cathedral. This year, members of the crew teams placed more than $175 into the box. Sheila Walsh and Luke Cunningham, captains of crew teams, will present the box to the priest at the cathedral on Palm Sunday.
GSJ Story   25GSJ24g    04/20/2001   Rose
Study finds holes dug in dry-sand beach can collapse and suffocate
Digging holes in dry sand, a frequent activity for children during a day at the beach, carries a risk of sudden death and other dangers, says a Brown University medical student whose study appears in the current Journal of the American Medical Association.
News Release   00-119    04/18/2001   Turner
Ellen O'Connor named vice president for finance at Brown University
Ellen M. O'Connor, an executive with more than 20 years experience in health care, economic development and state and municipal governments, has been named vice president for finance at Brown University. She will succeed Vice President and University Controller Judith Michalenka, who retires June 30.
News Release   00-113    04/13/2001   Nickel
Brown Arts/Literacy Project uses Shakespeare to turn students on to reading
Brown's Arts/Literacy Project isn't about turning high school students into actors; it's about getting them to read
GSJ Story   25GSJ23c    04/13/2001   Curtis
Women who have sex with other women need to know HIV and STD risks
In their survey of 504 lesbians and bisexual women, Brown researchers Kate Morrow and Jenifer Allsworth found that the majority engaged in multiple episodes of unprotected sex monthly, yet few thought they were at risk for HIV or other STD infections
GSJ Story   25GSJ23g    04/13/2001   Turner
Researchers find evidence of aging system that may promote long life
A Brown-based research team says an important aging function takes place in the brain, and it plays a powerful role in the rest of the body. Their study appears in the current Science
GSJ Story   25GSJ23h    04/13/2001   Turner
Applications available for Brown Summer High School July 2-27
Brown Summer High School, which runs July 2-27 this year, offers students entering grades 9 through 12 the opportunity to build critical-thinking, reading, writing and problem-solving skills. The cost is $100; a limited amount of financial aid is available.
News Release   00-115    04/10/2001   Sweeney
Health alert for students who visited Acapulco during spring break
Brown University's Office of Health Services has issued a health alert for students who visited Acapulco during spring break. An easily treated fungal infection has been identified in the air conditioning ducts of a hotel there.
News Release   00-114    04/09/2001   Nickel
CBS anchor Dan Rather to receive journalism award April 16
CBS News anchor Dan Rather will be presented with Brown University's Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism on Monday, April 16, 2001, at 11 a.m. in Sayles Hall on The College Green. This award honors the memory of Welles Hangen '49, a journalist captured and executed by Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge guerillas in Cambodia.
News Release   00-112    04/06/2001   Curtis
Researchers find evidence of aging system that may promote long life
A Brown-based research team says an important aging function takes place in the brain, and it plays a powerful role in the rest of the body. Their study appears in the current Science.
News Release   00-108    04/05/2001   Turner
Bell Gallery to join in Dion's New England Digs Project April 3 to 6
The David Winton Bell Gallery will work with artist Mark Dion on his New England Digs Project, beginning with an April 2-6, 2001, dig of the Seekonk River near Brown's Marston Boat House. The project will culminate in an exhibition at the Bell Gallery next year.
News Release   00-110    03/29/2001   Curtis
Brown issues statement on campus security in response to mail threat
Following a Brown student's receipt of threatening mail, the University reminded students of security services, especially those that will be available throughout spring break. Interim President Sheila Blumstein reinforced the University's opposition to all forms of racism and intolerance.
News Release   00-106    03/23/2001   Sweeney
Overall, construction workers welcome warm-weather wear
As the temperature begins to rise, construction workers on campus will shed the layers of clothing they've worn all winter for protection against the frigid air of their outdoor workplace. Through rain, snow and biting cold, as many as 140 people worked outside each winter day on two building projects: the Watson Institute for International Studies at the corner of Thayer and Charlesfield streets, and English department expansion on the corner of Brown and Angell streets.
GSJ Story   25GSJ21a    03/23/2001   Cole
Senior creates nonprofit to assist cancer victims
Emily Spivack, Brown senior, has created and is trying to expand a non-profit corp. that provides personal shoppers for breast cancer survivors
GSJ Story   25GSJ21b    03/23/2001   Rose
Making editorial decisions about controversial content
Balancing a community's sensitivities against the constitutional right to free speech is a tricky feat, one that often makes decisions about whether and how to run controversial material difficult even for veteran editors and journalists. In the wake of protests over the Brown Daily Herald's May 13 publication of a paid advertisement, several journalists weighed in on the process of making the tough decisions.
GSJ Story   25GSJ21d    03/23/2001   Curtis
Blumstein asks faculty to support those offended by ad
At the faculty meeting held March 20, Interim President Blumstein reaffirms the University's defining values of free speech and expression. She also called upon the Brown community to support those who were offended by an advertisement published March 13 in the Brown Daily Herald. She issued a statement afterward reiterating these points.
GSJ Story   25GSJ21e    03/23/2001   Sweeney
Publishing is a sideline at John Carter Brown Library
There will be a new book on the shelves next month at the John Carter Brown (JCB) Library. While that's certainly not an unusual event for any library, it's one that's been eagerly anticipated at this library, where Director Norman Fiering and his staff expect to take delivery on Barbara B. McCorkle's "New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513 to 1800: An Illustrated Carto-Bibliography."
GSJ Story   25GSJ21h    03/23/2001   Curtis
Dean of the College to host faculty forum on civil discourse, free press
Paul Armstrong, dean of the College at Brown, will host a faculty forum to discuss a current campus controversy involving freedom of the press and community values. The forum, at 7 tonight (Wednesday, March 21) will be held in Alumnae Hall on the Pembroke Campus. Only persons with a valid Brown ID will be admitted; the forum is closed to all press.
News Release   00-104    03/21/2001   Nickel
General Motors to fund $3-million materials lab at Brown
Brown University engineers will conduct research in lightweight materials funded with $3 million from General Motors. The collaborative lab at Brown will develop computer models of how materials behave, culminating in the prediction of mechanical properties of finished parts in vehicles.
News Release   00-107    03/21/2001   Kerlin
A call for support, debate and dialogue to resolve disagreements
At the March faculty meeting, Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein reaffirmed the University's defining values of free speech and expression. She also called upon the Brown community to support those who were offended by the March 13 publication of an ad in the Brown Daily Herald, and to move forward with discussion, debate and dialogue.
News Release   00-103    03/20/2001   Nickel
University urges discussion, dialogue in resolving free-speech issues
An advertisement published recently in the Brown Daily Herald led to conflict and has sparked debate about freedom of speech on college campuses. The University plans to facilitate discussion of these issues and urges student groups on all sides to use dialogue and debate in resolving their disagreements.
News Release   00-102    03/17/2001   Nickel
Medical students to receive residency placements at Match Day ceremony
Fourth-year Brown medical students will receive their residency placements at noon Thursday, March 22, 2001. Media are welcome to attend this event. For more information, call Scott Turner, 863-2476.
News Release   00-099    03/16/2001   Turner
For taking weight off, logging on works
The Internet appears to be a good way to deliver structured behavioral weight loss programs, according to a Brown study Ñ the first to examine the use of information technology to aid weight loss
GSJ Story   25GSJ20a    03/16/2001   Cole
Celebration of Community will be held April 10
Celebration of Community at Brown April 10th. Speaker is Dr. Mildred Garcia, Associate Provost of Arizona State University West. She will speak at a noon and 4 p.m. Prez Office will give out her book in advance to inform eight campus wide discussion groups for staff concerning affirmative action, diversity. Faculty/staff will facilitate these groups.
GSJ Story   25GSJ20b    03/16/2001   EEO
Exchange student discovers community theater
Hidetake Miyamoto, an exchange student at Brown for the year, is in the current play at Perishable Theater, "Exchange at Cafe Mimosa." He comes from Keio University in Tokyo, Japan. He plays the Asian man who doesn't speak English.
GSJ Story   25GSJ20e    03/16/2001   Curtis
Dieting study finds Internet effective in producing initial weight loss
The Internet appears to be a viable method for delivery of structured behavioral weight loss programs, says Deborah F. Tate of the Brown Medical School. Tate's study in the March 7, 2001, Journal of the American Medical Association is the first to examine the use of in-formation technology to aid weight loss.
News Release   00-093    03/06/2001   Cole
University sets inauguration of Ruth Simmons for October 14, 2001
Ruth J. Simmons will be inaugurated as the 18th president of Brown University on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001, at 2 p.m.
News Release   00-091    02/27/2001   Nickel
John Medesky to headline 14th Brudner Memorial Concert March 3
Organist John Medesky of Medesky, Martin and Wood will perform with the Brown Jazz Band when the Music Department presents its 14th annual Eric Adam Brudner '84 Memorial Concert on Saturday, March 3, 2001, at 8 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   00-092    02/27/2001   Curtis
Brown adopts an Ôearly decision' admission policy for early applicants
After discussions with the Brown Corporation Saturday (Saturday, Feb. 24, 2001), Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein announced her decision to change the University's non-binding "early action" admission option. Beginning with the Class of 2006, students who apply for early admission must agree to make a binding decision on Brown's offer of admission.
News Release   00-088    02/24/2001   Nickel
Brown Corporation approves 3.6 percent increase in total charges
The Corporation of Brown University has approved an overall increase in undergraduate charges of 3.6 percent for the 2001-02 academic year, bringing the cost of a year at Brown to $34,750. That figure includes a 3.8-percent increase in tuition, to $26,568.
News Release   00-089    02/24/2001   Nickel
Brown University issues an interim report on financial aid issues
Based upon their recent deliberations, the Corporation of Brown University and the University's senior administration have decided that strategies for achieving both need-blind admission and competitive graduate student support should be considered, formulated and acted upon in tandem.
News Release   00-090    02/24/2001   Nickel
Brown faculty, high school teachers team up to find new ways to teach classics
Brown faculty members work with high school teachers to help them reinvigorate the way they teach classic literature in an IESE workshop titled "Stuck with the Canon?"
GSJ Story   25GSJ18b    02/23/2001   Cole
Brown's black history: Rhett Jones and Karen McLauren-Chesson on the 1970s
What it was like to be a black student at Brown during 1970s. Interviews with Rhett Jones and Karen McLauren-Chesson
GSJ Story   25GSJ18f    02/23/2001   Curtis
Teen-agers take seats at state capitols in Ôlaboratory for democracy'
High school students from Connecticut, Illinois, Massachusetts, Nebraska, North Carolina and Rhode Island will debate environment, immigration, trade and other U.S. foreign policy issues at their state capitols. The students are studying and debating these issues in classrooms as part of the Capitol Forum on America's Future sponsored by Brown University.
News Release   00-086    02/22/2001   Kerlin
Researchers to develop brain monitoring system for Mars exploration
Brown researchers received a three-year, $638,000 grant from the National Space Biomedical Research Institute to develop a system to monitor astronauts' cognitive abilities, decision-making and language comprehension during prolonged space missions.
News Release   00-083    02/20/2001   Cole
Public Affairs Conference to end with children's concert, events
The 21st annual Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, "The Dignity of Children," will devote its final day Ð Saturday, March 10 Ð to children's activities, including a performance of "Peter and the Wolf."
News Release   00-084    02/20/2001   Curtis
Brown to present French Film Festival Feb. 21 through March 3
Brown will present its annual French Film Festival Feb. 21 through March 3, 2002, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St., Providence. Seventeen French films will be screened throughout the 11-day festival, which is open to the public.
News Release   01-088    02/18/2001   Curtis
Lowry to headline 21st annual Brown/Providence Journal conference
The 21st annual Brown University/Providence Journal conference, "The Dignity of Children," will be presented March 4-10, 2001. Award-winning children's author Lois Lowry '58 ("The Giver") will deliver the keynote address for the conference on Sunday, March 4, at 4 p.m. in the Richard and Edna Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   00-081    02/14/2001   Curtis
Providence residents say public schools are moving in right direction
Providence residents give public schools mixed marks but approve their general direction, according to a survey conducted Feb. 3-6, 2001, at Brown University. Sixty-one percent of residents rate Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr.'s job performance excellent or good. Survey participants cite crime, ethics and corruption, violence and education as the most impor-tant problems facing the city.
News Release   00-080    02/13/2001   Nickel
Brown to present French Film Festival Feb. 22 through March 4
Brown will offer its annual French Film Festival Feb. 22 through March 4, 2001, at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. in Providence. More than 20 French language films and four roundtable discussions will be presented during the festival, which is open to the public.
News Release   00-079    02/09/2001   Curtis
Responding to disaster in India
A Brown student for many years has collected donations that help many in India. Her efforts now focus on quake survivors there, and her efforts may grow through campus participation
GSJ Story   25GSJ17a    02/09/2001   Kerlin
Brown's Black History: Beatrice Minkins Ô36
Brown's Black History: Beatrice Minkins '36: 'Papa thought that education is the one thing no one could take from you'
GSJ Story   25GSJ17c    02/09/2001   Cole
Brown's black history: Augustus White III '57
Brown's Black History: Interview with Augustus White III '57: ÔThere was lots of give and take between individual students. People had friendships, but there was no institutional identity'
GSJ Story   25GSJ17d    02/09/2001   Nickel
Brown, high school collaborate on redesign project
Brown students and a recent Brown graduate are helping to give Hope High School teens a voice in the public school's redesign plans by assisting in the instruction of a new course.
GSJ Story   25GSJ17g    02/09/2001   Cole
Brown receives exceptional collection of skin disease teaching slides
Brown received some of the best microscope slides in existence for the teaching and evaluation of skin diseases. They are contained in a set of 2,000 original glass slides collected and catalogued painstakingly by two dermatologists over seven decades.
GSJ Story   25GSJ17i    02/09/2001   Turner
Someone to watch over them
A team of Brown researchers and colleagues at the Miriam Hospital reach out to help HIV-infected patients stick to their daily medical treatment. Their efforts are made possible through the National Institute on Drug Abuse to expand a program called directly observed therapy.
GSJ Story   25GSJ16b    02/02/2001   Turner
Brown University celebrates annual Years of Service Awards
Sixteen Brown employees will receive special honors for their 25 years of service to the University at a campus ceremony Feb. 14: Manuel Medeiros; Susan Danforth; Patricia Alves; Karen Hyman; Thomas Wunderlich; Richard Patenaude; Sandra Kunz; Genevieve Pari; Nicholas Golato; Gisela Belton; Karen Chapman; Donna Corcoran; Maria D'Onofrio; Debra Nelson; Maureen Byrne; and Donna Hustler.
News Release   00-075    02/01/2001   Sweeney
Boning up on the issues at the Legislative Policy Institute
The state's newly elected legislators met at Brown for a daylong session Dec. 15 to attend discussions led by faculty members and veteran legislators, about major issues facing the state and country.
GSJ Story   25GSJ15c    01/26/2001   Cole
An inheritance of more than money
Lessons of compassion taught by his grandmother lead Brown senior to use $20,000 she left him to found an organization to help the Lakota in South Dakota
GSJ Story   25GSJ15i    01/26/2001   Cole
Winner named in Brown/Providence Journal photography contest
Patricia Harrington of Naperville, Ill., has been named the winner in the photography contest sponsored by Brown University and The Providence Journal. Her photo best illustrated "The Dignity of Children," the theme of the 21st annual Brown University / Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference, scheduled for March 4-10, 2001.
News Release   00-072    01/25/2001   Curtis
Brown-led team observes melting in a superconductor
Researchers from Brown University and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are the first to directly observe the melting of a vortex lattice in a superconductor. Their discovery provides a model for the study of melting, a physical phenomenon that has eluded generations of physicists.
News Release   00-071    01/23/2001   Kerlin
People prefer to know when a stressful event is about to occur
Sixty percent of participants in a study led by Brown researchers expressed a preference for knowing when an anxiety-provoking event was about to occur Ð findings which provide insight into the management of panic disorder.
News Release   00-069    01/16/2001   Cole
Jane E. Smith to give Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Jan. 29
Jane E. Smith, president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc., will speak on "Interchangeable Experiences: Building America in a New Century" on Monday, Jan. 29, 2001 at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This is Brown's sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, and it is free and open to the public.
News Release   00-068    01/12/2001   Curtis
John Carter Brown Library to host early New England map exhibition
The John Carter Brown Library will host an exhibition spotlighting historic maps of New England to coincide with its publication of a new reference book, "New England in Early Printed Maps, 1513-1800: An Illustrated Carto-Bibliography."
News Release   00-066    01/05/2001   Curtis
RI computer ownership doubles since 1994 but trails New England, U.S
Researchers at Brown University used census data to study patterns of computer and Internet usage. Among the conclusions: Rhode Island lags behind New England and the nation in computer usage. The study also showed wide variations in computer ownership by income, education, sex, age and race.
News Release   00-064    01/04/2001   Nickel
University responds to EPA report
EPA will be issuing a report about Brown campus, detailing violations and/or fines for same. EPA says it is encouraged by Brown's responsiveness in addressing the problems
GSJ Story   25GSJ14d    12/08/2000   Nickel
Brown and Providence Journal to sponsor photography contest
The Providence Journal and Brown University are sponsoring a contest to find a photo to illustrate "The Dignity of Children," the theme of this year's Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference. The winner will receive a $500 cash award. All entries must be postmarked by Dec. 13, 2000.
News Release   00-061    12/07/2000   Curtis
Brown University addresses compliance issues raised in EPA report
Brown University is addressing charges made in a report released today by the New England Region of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The EPA's report, based on an inspection conducted in May 1999, charges Brown with 15 violations of environmental law.
News Release   00-057    12/01/2000   Nickel
Researcher presents findings at national AIDS symposium
Brown faculty member Susan Cu-Uvin presents paper at AIDS conference sponsored by Brown, held at Tufts
GSJ Story   25GSJ13a    12/01/2000   Turner
Scholars hail long-awaited atlas of the classical world
Brown professors have a personal connection to a long-awaited atlas of the classical world
GSJ Story   25GSJ13f    12/01/2000   Curtis
Faculty Forum discusses online courses
Faculty attending Nov. 14 forum on distance learning air their concerns about online courses and Brown's pilot project with Global Education Network
GSJ Story   25GSJ13g    12/01/2000   Kerlin
Ralph Nader to speak about democracy and big business Dec. 3
Former Green Party presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be the guest of the Brown Lecture Board at 8 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 3, 2000, when he will discuss Democracy, Big Business and the American Duopoly in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   00-060    11/30/2000   Curtis
Scholar's book about the Azores to be launched in New Bedford
Top minds in the field of Portuguese studies will discuss a new bibliography by Brown doctoral candidate Miguel Moniz at 6 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2000, in New Bedford. Moniz' work facilitates future study of the Azores.
News Release   00-058    11/28/2000   Cole
Brown-led study to examine consequences of Harvard Pilgrim closing
A one-year project led by Brown researchers will survey 1,200 patients and 500 physicians to document the health care consequences of the bankruptcy and closure of Harvard-Pilgrim Health Care of New England, the Rhode Island subsidiary of Boston-based Harvard Pilgrim Health Care.
News Release   00-055    11/27/2000   Turner
The Rev. Al Sharpton to speak about blacks and the political process
Rev. Al Sharpton will be the guest of the Brown Lecture Board when he discusses Black Participation in the Political Process on Wednesday, Nov. 29, 2000, at 8:15 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   00-056    11/27/2000   Curtis
Panel of political scientists to discuss long-term impact of Florida vote
A five-member panel of Brown political scientists will discuss the Florida recount during a forum at noon Monday, Nov. 20, 2000, in Wilson Hall, Room 102. The public is wel-come, and a microphone will be set up for audience questions.
News Release   00-052    11/17/2000   Cole
Reaction from the Brown community to the Simmons selection
Campus reaction to appointment of Ruth J. Simmons as Brown's 18th president
GSJ Story   25GSJ12d    11/17/2000   staff
Smith community reflects on ÔSimmons years'
Simmons appointment as the 18th president of Brown stunned some students at Smith, where she had served since 1995. Smith faculty members were aware that Simmons would be an attractive candidate for any of the three Ivy League universities - Brown, Harvard and Princeton - searching for a president.
GSJ Story   25GSJ12e    11/17/2000   Cole
Search for Simmons was Ôexhausting' and Ôexhaustive'
It was an "exhausting and exhaustive" search that led to the Nov. 9 election of the 18th president of Brown. But that work paid off. In the selection of Ruth J. Simmons, "we're convinced we've found the right person," said Professor Mari Jo Buhle, who chaired the Campus Advisory Committee.
GSJ Story   25GSJ12f    11/17/2000   Curtis
St. Luke's Trombone Quartet, Wind Symphony to perform Nov. 17
The acclaimed St. Luke's Trombone Quartet will join the Brown University Wind Symphony and conductor Matthew McGarrell in presenting a free public concert on Friday, Nov. 17, 2000, at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall.
News Release   00-050    11/10/2000   Curtis
University orchestra teams with Bill Harley for children's concert
Nationally known children's entertainer Bill Harley will join the Brown University Orchestra and director Paul Phillips in presenting a children's concert, "You're in Treble," on Sunday, Nov. 19 at 2 p.m. in Sayles Hall.
News Release   00-051    11/10/2000   Curtis
Brown considers a change to early-decision admissions
Brown may move from early action to early decision. Director of Admissions Michael Goldberger comments about the issues surrounding the discussion
GSJ Story   25GSJ11a    11/10/2000   Nickel
Four-year migration studies project ends in PSTC conference
Conference at Brown about migration is culmination of four-year research and training effort in PSTC
GSJ Story   25GSJ11g    11/10/2000   Cole
NIH grant for MCB space in new Life Sciences Building
Brown was one of about 45 institutions nationwide to receive funds from the National Institutes of Health Research Facilities Improvement Program. The $2-million grant to Brown will pay for a portion of the construction costs of the space to be occupied in the new building by the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry (MCB).
GSJ Story   25GSJ11h    11/10/2000   Turner
Ruth J. Simmons named 18th president of Brown University
Ruth J. Simmons, currently president of Smith College, has been named 18th president of Brown University. Her appointment was approved unanimously by the Corporation of Brown University during a special session at 1 p.m. today (Thursday, Nov. 9, 2000). Simmons will begin her duties July 1, 2001.
News Release   00-049    11/09/2000   Nickel
Brown unveils David S. Greer, M.D., Professorship in Geriatric Medicine
Richard W. Besdine, M.D., will hold the David S. Greer, M.D., Professorship in Geriatric Medicine. Besdine directs the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research. Greer is dean of medicine emeritus. More than $1.5 million in gifts to the Brown Medical School and The Miriam Hospital endowed the professorship.
News Release   00-048    11/07/2000   Turner
Brown-led center receives grant to create lightwave superchip
Researchers in a seven-university consortium led by Brown University will try to add light waves to the microchips used in personal computers, eventually creating a superchip that could replace the electronic microchip. The creation of a superchip would enable faster personal computers and connections to the Internet. The project is funded by a four-year, $5.5-million DARPA grant.
News Release   00-047    11/03/2000   Kerlin
Building a staff to build Brown's endowment
Brown's endowment grew by 22.3 percent last year. The $237-million increase brought the endowment to a record level of $1.44 billion on June 30. The hiring of Cynthia E. Frost, Brown's new vice president and chief investment officer, is the first step in creating an Investments Office focused on the endowment long-term.
GSJ Story   25GSJ10a    11/03/2000   Cole
One of Brown's true gems bids goodbye
When Pearl Woolf began working at Brown on St. Patrick's Day 1965, Barnaby Keeney was president and tuition and fees totaled $2,770 a year. The Rock had just opened; the Sci Li was yet to be built. Woolf, an assistant director in Facilities Management, retired from Brown on Oct. 31.
GSJ Story   25GSJ10f    11/03/2000   Sweeney
Study indicates certain rules underlie calling behavior of bullfrogs
Calling by male bullfrogs may be elicited by calls of distant neighbors or even inhibited by calls of neighbors close by, say researchers at Brown and the University of Rhode Island.
News Release   00-046    11/02/2000   Turner
Study finds problems with access to public information in R.I. courts
Student researchers at Brown's Taubman Center for Public Policy have found problems with access to public information at Rhode Island courts. While seeking information about expungement of felony convictions, sealed records and municipal settlements, researchers encountered inconsistent record keeping, missing files and faulty implementation of open records laws. They also found a set of felony convictions that had been improperly expunged.
News Release   00-039    10/30/2000   Nickel
School of Medicine changes its name to Brown Medical School
School of Medicine changes its name to Brown Medical School
GSJ Story   25GSJ09b    10/27/2000   Turner
Getting from Ôeureka!' to the marketplace
How do Brown faculty members' discoveries get from "eureka!" to the people who need it? They work with the Brown University Research Foundation, a nonprofit corporation formed to hold and license patents and work with companies that could take inventions to market.
GSJ Story   25GSJ09c    10/27/2000   Kerlin
Sponsored research funding reaches record level in FY 2000
In fiscal year 2000, which ended June 30, the University received a record high of $92.7 million for sponsored research. That's close to $12 million more than Brown garnered during the previous fiscal year, continuing a multiyear trend of steady funding increases.
GSJ Story   25GSJ09e    10/27/2000   Turner
Paul Armstrong named dean of the College at Brown University
Paul B. Armstrong, currently dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SUNYÐStony Brook, has been named dean of the College at Brown University.
News Release   00-038    10/24/2000   Nickel
Becoming advocates for themselves can be disabled students' biggest challenge
In college, the responsibility of getting accommodations for a learning disability or handicap is on the student, unlike the K-12 years when parents often are the primary advocate for ensuring their LD child's needs are met. A look at how some Brown students fare.
GSJ Story   25GSJ08c    10/20/2000   Cole
Festival of Contemporary Music offers audiences first crack at new compositions
Music lovers will have a unique opportunity to hear the world premieres of some exciting works by students, faculty, alumni and professional composers when the first Brown Festival of Contemporary Music opens. Between Oct. 26 and 28, the festival - the first ever organized and run solely by students - will offer four public concerts and master classes with two professional composers.
GSJ Story   25GSJ08d    10/20/2000   Curtis
Care to contribute to the public discourse?
How can Brown contribute to the public discourse? One forum for sharing ideas and perspectives is the opinion and editorial pages of the nation's daily newspapers. Brown's Op-Ed Service provides a way for the thoughtful arguments of faculty, staff and students to reach those pages.
GSJ Story   25GSJ08g    10/20/2000   Kerlin
Study describes brain changes during learning
Brown neuroscientists who taught rats a new skill found that not only had the animals' behavior changed but so had their brains. The research appears in the current Science.
News Release   00-036    10/19/2000   Turner
Brown researchers use wildcards to develop better way to sequence DNA
Brown computer science professors Franco Preparata and Eliezer Upfal are working on a method to sequence DNA that would be faster and more efficient than the current technique. They are attempting to improve on an alternative method known as sequencing by hybridization by inserting gaps that act as wildcards in DNA probes.
News Release   00-037    10/18/2000   Kerlin
Brown Festival of Contemporary Music debuts Oct. 26-28
Original musical works by students, alumni, faculty and professional composers will be premired during the first Brown Festival of Contemporary Music Thursday, Oct. 26, through Sat., Oct. 28, 2000. Composers Julian Wachner and Thomas Goss will also con-duct master classes.
News Release   00-034    10/16/2000   Curtis
Alzheimer patients sought for drug and memory-training program
Brown researchers have begun testing the efficacy of a combined medication and memory-training program for Alzheimer's patients.
GSJ Story   25GSJ07a    10/13/2000   Turner
Blumstein seeks campus response to working paper on diversity
President Blumstein is taking the first steps toward creating Brown's vision for diversity by calling for reactions to a working paper she drafted in response to recommendations made last May by the Visiting Committee on Diversity. During the Oct. 3 faculty meeting, Blumstein discussed portions of the working paper, which she said she hopes "will be the impetus for campuswide discussion" about diversity.
GSJ Story   25GSJ07b    10/13/2000   Sweeney
Five receive University's first President's Leadership Awards
Five members of the Brown community are the recipients of the first President's Leadership Award.
GSJ Story   25GSJ07c    10/13/2000   T&D
Low-cost access to high-speed communications comes to campus through OSHEAN
A non-profit consortium called OSHEAN works to increase Rhode Island's access to high-speed networking has taken a page from discount stores: buy in bulk at wholesale prices, pass the savings to the members. Brown is a founding member of the consortium.
GSJ Story   25GSJ07d    10/13/2000   Sweeney
Students organize in effort to raise awareness about gun violence
As part of a national campaign to raise awareness about gun violence and gun safety, several Brown students have founded the Brown Campus Alliance to End Gun Violence.
GSJ Story   25GSJ07e    10/13/2000   flance
it's play time: 60 audition for a role in "Emma"
Auditions for "Emma," this year's Brownbrokers musical
GSJ Story   25GSJ07f    10/13/2000   Curtis
De Groot lab in the hunt for HIV, TB vaccines
Kara Chew '01 works at the smallest of scales on the largest of human problems. She is one of several undergraduates, graduate students, postdoctoral fellows and others who conduct research under the leadership of Anne De Groot, M.D., director of Brown's TB/HIV Research Lab
GSJ Story   25GSJ07g    10/13/2000   Turner
Avocation evolves into a second career
Donna Leveillee works in the Library, helping researchers locate and use electronic sources of demographic, historical and sociological data. But Leveillee has another career Ð as a nautical anthropologist. She obtained a doctorate from Brown because of her interest in diving and through a fortunate partnership with the anthropology department.
GSJ Story   25GSJ06c    10/06/2000   Rose
New program hopes to keep 'border babies' in arms of their parents
In Rhode Island, babies born to mothers who used drugs while pregnant fall into state custody and frequently languish in hospitals before bouncing around in foster care, a fact that may change under a new program led by Brown faculty member Barry Lester. The $1.5-million plan aims to speed the process of getting those infants out of the hospital and into permanent care, ideally to their own mothers who have been treated for drug abuse.
GSJ Story   25GSJ06g    10/06/2000   Cole
NSF awards $7 million to materials and engineering center
The National Science Foundation has awarded $7 million to Brown to continue its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
GSJ Story   25GSJ06h    10/06/2000   Kerlin
Auto design team races for the finish
Brown's Formula SAE team placed sixth in the competition in May, which takes place in the immense parking lot of the Pontiac Silverdome in Michigan. A team of 20 returning students and 15 first-years will try to win a second trophy in the competition just eight months away.
GSJ Story   25GSJ05d    09/29/2000   Kerlin
Brown locks in oil prices for winter
Brown has locked in the price it pays for heating oil, which may bode well for Brown's budget if oil prices soar this winter.
GSJ Story   25GSJ05g    09/29/2000   Sweeney
The mane event
The newest addition to the Providence Police Department's Mounted Command is "Bruno," a 5-year-old dark bay Percheron draft cross purchased for the department by Brown University.
GSJ Story   25GSJ05i    09/29/2000   staff
Five-year, $11-million NIH grant will support Brown genetics research
Brown University has received a five-year, $11-million grant through the National Insti-tutes of Health COBRE program. The NIH grant will support new studies in genetics, ranging from research into cancer and inflammation to an examination of the genetic basis of certain human dementias.
News Release   00-029    09/28/2000   Turner
NSF awards Brown $7 million for materials and engineering center
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center at Brown University has been awarded $7 million by the National Science Foundation. Current research at Brown explores the mechanics of materials used in electronic devices and the mechanics of materials with complex microstructures.
News Release   00-030    09/27/2000   Kerlin
John Hay Library to open new William S. Burroughs exhibit Oct. 10
The work of the controversial and influential Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs will be on exhibit at Brown University's John Hay Library Oct. 10 through Dec. 29, 2000. Robert Jackson, an authority on Burroughs' work, will speak on the writer's legacy Oct. 21.
News Release   00-027    09/22/2000   Curtis
Zo‘ Baird and Jonathan Sallet to discuss closing the digital divide
One-time U.S. attorney general nominee Zo‘ Baird and former MCI WorldCom executive Jonathan Sallet '74 will lead a Brown Policy Forum titled Closing the Digital Divide at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 28, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   00-028    09/22/2000   Curtis
Don Wolfe on the changing nature of computing at Brown
Since his arrival at Brown 15 years ago, Don Wolfe, vice president of computing and information services, has seen an evolution of computing on campus. The George Street Journal's Mark Nickel recently had an opportunity to discuss those changes with Wolfe, who will be retiring from Brown at the end of the academic year.
GSJ Story   25GSJ04a    09/22/2000   Nickel
Females appear to perform better on math tests if men aren't in group
In a recent Brown study, women performed as much as 12 percent better on math problems when tested in a setting without men.
GSJ Story   25GSJ04b    09/22/2000   Cole
Lessons you can't get from books
Jill Edwardson '01 spent her junior year studying in Zimbabwe. "I was a white woman based in the black African experience," she says. "I gained more from talking to men and women about their experiences than all the scholarly research I had done at Brown."
GSJ Story   25GSJ04e    09/22/2000   f'lance
Brown team looks for new ways to examine scientific data
A team of researchers led by Brown computer scientist David H. Laidlaw will use expertise from art and perceptual psychology to develop new ways to look at scientific data from magnetic resonance imaging, computational blood flow and geographic remote sensing from satellites.
News Release   00-025    09/21/2000   Kerlin
Brown computer scientists receive grant to speed Internet use
A team of researchers led by Brown computer scientist Stanley Zdonik will search for a way to make using the Internet faster with a $3.2-million grant from the National Science Foundation. The research will focus on creating user profiles that would lead to the quick supply of customized information.
News Release   00-026    09/21/2000   Kerlin
Professors developing better way to map DNA
Brown computer science professors Franco Preparata (left) and Eliezer Upfal (right) believe they have found a faster and more efficient way to sequence DNA by improving on an alternate method known as sequencing by hybridization.
GSJ Story   25GSJ03a    09/15/2000   Kerlin
International internship offered through German Studies
Nathanael Thompson, computer science major, spent his summer working as an intern for Bosch, an international firm specializing in automotive and communications technologies, at its world headquarters in Stuttgart, Germany. Thompson took the plum assignment as the first Brown student to participate in an new internship program offered by the Department of German Studies in conjunction with MIT.
GSJ Story   25GSJ03c    09/15/2000   Curtis
Faces of Brown: Spencer Haddow, Police and Security
FACES OF BROWN: Officer Spencer Haddow of Police and Security
GSJ Story   25GSJ03h    09/15/2000   P&S
Robert Reich to speak at investment conference Sept. 21
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich will deliver the keynote address Thursday, Sept. 21, to kick off a two-day conference on socially responsible investing. The conference is sponsored by Brown's Values Initiative.
News Release   00-024    09/14/2000   Curtis
Women do better in math when tested without men, study says
A study of 164 Brown University undergraduates in 1998 and 1999 found women performed as well as men when they took math tests with other women, but did not perform as well when tested with men.
News Release   00-023    09/12/2000   Cole
R.I. offers nation a view of the future for higher quality end-of-life care
A Brown-led survey of 204 bereaved family members finds a need for better pain management, care planning, communication and pastoral counseling in R.I. nursing homes. Researchers have determined that Rhode Island ranks sixth in the nation in the proportion of residents dying in nursing homes.
News Release   00-019    09/11/2000   Turner
Web site study finds Ôe-government' far short of potential
Professor Darrell M. West, director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown Uni-versity, will discuss his study of 1,813 state and federal "e-government" Web sites during a news conference at 1:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 15, 2000, in the National Press Club.
News Release   00-021    09/11/2000   Nickel
Researchers find evidence of folds on Europa
Researchers at The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) and Brown University may have solved a 20-year-old geological mystery surrounding Jupiter's icy moon Europa.
GSJ Story   25GSJ02f    09/08/2000   JHU
New faculty group explores field of science studies
A new faculty committee has been created to strengthen the field of science studies at Brown. Its charge is to promote interdisciplinary research and teaching at the intersections of science, technology and society.
GSJ Story   25GSJ02g    09/08/2000   Turner
Research notes from annual sociological association meeting
Research findings presented by Brown faculty and students at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
GSJ Story   25GSJ02i    09/08/2000   
Web efforts, other initiatives hope to engage student voters in this fall's election
The Web plays a role in Brown's efforts to encourage students to vote in November election.
GSJ Story   25GSJ02m    09/08/2000   Cole
John Carter Brown Library to host exhibit on colonial Brazil
The history of Colonial Brazil, illustrated through a selection of significant printed works from the John Carter Brown Library's collection, will be on display Sept.11 through Dec. 15, 2000.
News Release   00-020    09/06/2000   Curtis
Task force seeks student feedback on its report on student life
The Campus Life Task Force plans to seek feedback this fall from students, faculty, and staff on its report on improving the quality of life at Brown and integrating it with the academic environment.
GSJ Story   25GSJ01b    09/01/2000   Kerlin
Ivy League football ruling motivates team
Interview with senior tri-captain Drew Inser about the effect the Ivy League ruling prohibiting Brown from defending its football championshop, had on the Brown football team. Inser transferred to Brown when BU ended its football program.
GSJ Story   25GSJ01f    09/01/2000   Cole
Dance team heads to West Africa
Michelle Bach-Coulibaly is traveling with four Brown students, two alumni and several other educators to a village in Mali, where they are studying dance, drumming, culture and history, and participating in the traditional ceremonies of the people from surrounding villages. (GSJ of Sept. 1, 2000)
GSJ Story   25GSJ01h    09/01/2000   Curtis
Probing the mysteries of the brain using nanotechnology
Using electronic structures so tiny they would be 500 times smaller than the width of a human hair, six Brown professors hope to employ nanotechnology to explore the function of the human brain. Their research is financed by a $4.25-million grant from the U.S. Defense Department.
GSJ Story   25GSJ01i    09/01/2000   Kerlin
Brown engineering and neuroscience group wins grant for brain study
Six Brown scientists plan to explore the function of the human brain using tiny electronics -- nanotechnology -- with a $4.25-million grant from the U.S. Defense Department.
News Release   00-018    08/24/2000   Kerlin
Brown summer program trains teachers in world affairs curriculum
Nine teachers from across the country participated in Brown University's Choices for the 21st Century Teaching Fellows Program, a summer institute that provides training in a curriculum designed to engage secondary school students in debate on international public policy issues.
News Release   00-015    08/18/2000   Kerlin
Campus Life Task Force recommends changes to residential system
A report issued by the Campus Life Task Force recommends that Brown University reconfigure its current residential system to create a system of residential clusters. Two pilot clusters, designed to enhance student-faculty interaction and support a sense of community and continuity, could be ready for the fall of 2001.
News Release   00-005    08/16/2000   Nickel
Brown faculty offers perspectives on the 2000 presidential race
Brown faculty are available to offer perspectives on many issues in the 2000 presidential campaign: the role of television advertising, the influence of special interest groups, the history of American public opinion, and the perspectives of minority groups and young people.
News Release   00-012    08/14/2000   Cole
The Ivy League decision: some questions and answers about Brown football
On Tuesday, August 1, 2000, the Council of Ivy Group Presidents announced its final disposition of a case involving violations of Ivy League athletics rules on the part of Brown University. The final disposition increased the severity of Ivy- and NCAA-approved measures announced earlier and made Brown ineligible to defend its Ivy League Championship in the 2000 season. The following questions and answers address issues in the case.
News Release   00-010    08/09/2000   Nickel
Walter C. Hunter named vice president for administration at Brown
Walter C. Hunter, a labor and employment law partner at Edwards & Angell, has been appointed vice president for administration at Brown. His responsibilities will include human resources, equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, police and security, facilities management, the Brown Bookstore, graphic services, stores operations, construction, real estate and rental properties, and labor relations.
News Release   00-007    08/02/2000   Sweeney
Cynthia E. Frost named vice president and chief investment officer
Cynthia E. Frost, a vice president and portfolio strategist for Duke Management Company, has joined Brown University as vice president and chief investment officer.
News Release   00-008    08/02/2000   Sweeney
Brown physicist proposes that electron may be split in two
Brown professor of physics and engineering Humphrey Maris proposes that it is possible to split the electron. A paper describing the theory appears in the Aug. 1 Journal of Low Temperature Physics. Maris presented his research at the International Conference on Quantum Fluids and Solids, held in June at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
News Release   00-009    08/01/2000   Kerlin
University statement on Susan Klein vs. Brown University
Laura Freid, executive vice president of public affairs and university relations for Brown University, issued the following statement regarding the July 21 decision in Susan Klein vs. Brown University.
News Release   00-006    07/21/2000   Sweeney
Performers to present evening of West African dance and music
Students from Brown's summer session will be joined by a West African drumming troupe for a July 18th performance of West African dance, music and storytelling at Brown's Ashamu Dance Studio.
News Release   00-004    07/14/2000   Curtis
Study finds caregivers often postpone seeking treatment for themselves
A nationwide study of HIV-positive patients led by Michael D. Stein of Brown University found 14 percent of women and 8 percent of men delayed their own medical treatment because they were caring for others.
News Release   00-003    07/10/2000   Cole
Madagascar research blossoms into international UTRA
A summer research opportunity in Madagascar leads to a multi-departmental international group UTRA for six Brown undergraduates.
GSJ Story   24GSJ29e    07/07/2000   Rose
Scientists record movement of herpes simplex virus in nerve cell
A team of scientists led by Elaine Bearer of Brown University is the first to observe and record the movement of the herpes simplex virus within a living a nerve cell. The research was performed at Brown and at the Marine Biological Laboratory at Woods Hole, Mass., using squid taken from local waters.
News Release   00-001    07/03/2000   Kerlin
Brown University officials present master plan update to community
In conjunction with a five-year review of current operations and growth, University and city officials hosted a community meeting to review Brown's proposed Master Plan 2000 with area residents.
News Release   00-002    06/29/2000   Curtis
New master's of public health program integrates public health, health care
Brown's new Master's of Public Health program is designed to prepare professionals who are at home in both the public health and health services arenas. The program has strong ties to the Rhode Island Department of Health, which has helped define the character of the training, the types of internship exposures that students will have, and its mission. The MPH program is administered through the Department of Community Health.
GSJ Story   24GSJ28a    06/23/2000   Turner
Summer Theatre producer to take his final bow
John Lucas -- hailed as a teacher, designer, mentor and friend -- will retire in September after 31 years in Brown's theater department and as longtime producer of Brown Summer Theatre.
GSJ Story   24GSJ28b    06/23/2000   Curtis
Study examines Brown's impact on city, state
Visitors to the University spend upward of $3 million a year on lodging, meals, entertainment and other services, according to a new independent study detailing Brown's wide-ranging impact on the local economy. The study is titled "Partners for the 21st Century: Brown University's Economic Contributions to Providence and Rhode Island"
GSJ Story   24GSJ27d    06/09/2000   Cole
Gravestone studies shed light on life and times of the deceased
Brown's Rob Emlin is keynote speaker at national conference on gravestone studies being held in Providence this June.
GSJ Story   24GSJ27e    06/09/2000   Curtis
Last Word: Decriminalize the possession of syringes
Josiah Rich of Brown writes that Rhode Island must decriminalizing the sale and possession of syringes if it hopes to halt the spread of HIV/AIDS, hepatitis B and hepatitis C. In Rhode Island, the majority of these infections are caused by the reuse of contaminated syringes.
GSJ Story   24GSJ27j    06/09/2000   Rich
High school students are worried about environment, weapons
High school students who participated in a civic education program developed at Brown say their top international concerns are damage to the global environment and the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons
News Release   99-137    06/06/2000   Kerlin
Brown School of Medicine begins $70-million campaign
The Brown University School of Medicine's $70-million campaign, entitled "Building the Bridge," is designed to build upon the uniqueness of one of the nation's youngest medical schools.
News Release   99-135    06/01/2000   Turner
Corporation of Brown University elects four new trustees
At its May meeting, the Corporation of Brown University elected four new trustees to six-year terms. Richard Barker, Robin Lenhardt, Jonathan Nelson and Daniel O'Connell will serve as members of the University's governing body through 2006.
News Release   99-136    06/01/2000   Nickel
Brown to host brain researchers from around the world
Twenty-four of the world's leading neuroscientists will gather at Brown June 1-3, 2000, to present the latest findings in brain development and function. The meeting is open to media.
News Release   99-134    05/31/2000   Turner
Brown will present 10 honorary degrees at Commencement May 29
Honorary degrees will be presented to Xerox scientist John Seely Brown, author and chef Julia Child, geneticist Francis S. Collins, violin teacher Dorothy DeLay, Providence artist Barnaby Evans, the Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez, abstract artist Brice Marden, author David McCullough, Israeli scholar Alice Shalvi and Louis Sullivan, former secretary of Health and Human Services and now president of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
GSJ Story   24GSJ26g    05/26/2000   Sweeney
Graduating senior finds the brain is where the heart is
Member of graduating class entered Brown to study premed but fell in love with neuroscience. His research with lab of Mark Bear resulted in paper published in scientific journal.
GSJ Story   24GSJ26i    05/26/2000   Turner
Brown will award 10 honorary degrees at Commencement May 29
Honorary degree recipients at Brown University's 232nd Commencement include Xerox scientist John Seely Brown, author and chef Julia Child, geneticist Francis S. Collins, violin teacher Dorothy DeLay, Providence artist Barnaby Evans, the Rev. Gustavo Gutierrez, abstract artist Brice Marden, author David McCullough, Israeli scholar Alice Shalvi and Louis Sullivan, president of the Morehouse School of Medicine.
News Release   99-130    05/24/2000   Sweeney
New study describes Brown's economic impact in Rhode Island
An independent study has measured Brown's economic impact on the R.I. economy at nearly $400 million in 1998 -- 1.4 percent of the gross state product. The study was released during a University ceremony Tuesday, May 23, 2000.
News Release   99-128    05/23/2000   Cole
Brown University to hold 232nd Commencement Monday, May 29
Chief Marshal Lacy Herrmann '50 will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Monday, May 29, in one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The Commencement procession and 232nd academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement-Reunion Weekend at Brown.
News Release   99-124    05/19/2000   Nickel
Memory mechanism found at nerve cell connections in the brain
In today's Science, researchers from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and Brown University describe machinery at the synapse for the synthesis of new proteins that de-press synaptic strength. Synaptic weakening is thought to be a key process in memory creation and storage.
News Release   99-123    05/18/2000   Turner
Gutierrez, father of liberation theology, to give baccalaureate address
Gustavo Gutierrez, best known for his work, "A Theology of Liberation," and his support for the poor in Latin America, will deliver an address to graduating seniors at Brown's baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 28, 2000, at 1:30 p.m. in the First Baptist Meeting House, simulcast to The College Green.
News Release   99-126    05/18/2000   Kerlin
WorldCom, Brown announce grants to 20 underserved U.S. communities
WorldCom and Brown University have awarded grants to 20 community-campus partnerships in support of educational technology programs for youth in underserved communities. The $5-million Making a Civic Investment grant program will benefit thousands of K-12 schoolchildren nationwide during the next five years.
News Release   99-119    05/16/2000   Nickel
Khrushchev and Paterno headline 30th annual Commencement Forums
Brown's 30th annual Commencement Forums will spotlight lessons in leadership from the arenas of international politics, science and technology to the world of art, the newsroom and the football field.
News Release   99-125    05/16/2000   Curtis
Surgeon general to discuss nation's health agenda at Commencement
Dr. David Satcher will speak at the Brown University School of Medicine Commencement Convocation Monday, May 29, at 8:45 a.m. in the First Unitarian Church. Eighty-one students will graduate.
News Release   99-121    05/15/2000   Cole
Twenty-four undergraduates receive fellowships for research, public service
Twenty-four Brown University undergraduates will receive Royce Fellowships, which will enable them to advance their research and public service projects locally, nationally and internationally.
News Release   99-117    05/10/2000   Curtis
Two seniors chosen to deliver parting words to Class of 2000
Eirene Donohue of Barrington, R.I., and Joseph Edmonds Jr. of Baltimore, Md., will deliver speeches during Brown's 232nd Commencement, Monday, May 29, 2000, at 10:15 a.m. in the First Baptist Meeting House.
News Release   99-116    05/02/2000   Cole
After 18 years of serving campus, Rabbi Flam is ready for change
Rabbi Alan Flam is leaving Brown and Hillel after 18 years of service.
GSJ Story   24GSJ24c    04/28/2000   Curtis
Researchers use GIS software to map studies of Rhode Island, Jordan, Venus
Geographic information systems link data to a place, and most importantly, answers questions that researchers ask of it. The software, which is widely used by government and industry, is now available for use by anyone at Brown.
GSJ Story   24GSJ24e    04/28/2000   Kerlin
Brown concludes inquiry, files report with Ivy League, NCAA
Brown University has concluded its inquiry into alleged violations in athletic recruiting and has filed its final report with the Ivy League and the NCAA. The report lists several violations and outlines a wide range of penalties and remedies which the University will undertake pending NCAA approval.
News Release   99-111    04/27/2000   Nickel
Professor Mary L. Fennell named dean of the faculty
Mary L. Fennell, professor of sociology and community health, has been named dean of the faculty at Brown University. Fennell will begin her duties June 1, succeeding Kathryn T. Spoehr, who was appointed executive vice president and provost in November 1999.
News Release   99-114    04/26/2000   Nickel
Howard Foundation announces 11 recipients of 2000-01 fellowships
The George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University, has announced 11 recipients of $20,000 fellowships for the 2000-01 academic year. This year, the fellowships were awarded in anthropology, philosophy and sociology. Next year, the Foundation will award fellowships in painting, sculpture and art history.
News Release   99-112    04/20/2000   Nickel
Applications available for Brown Summer High School, July 5-28
Brown Summer High School is a month-long program of provocative, question-based learning that offers students entering grades 9 through 12 the opportunity to build critical thinking, reading, writing and problem-solving skills. Partly funded by the Brown University Education Department, the program includes 50 educators working in teams to instruct 300 students.
News Release   99-109    04/17/2000   Sweeney
Locked-in oil prices, dual fuel system help campus cope with latest hikes
How did Brown cope with the season's rise in heating oil prices? The impact was minimal, because Brown locked in the price it paid last year. In addition, Brown can switch betweel oil-fueled burners or natural gas-fueled burners to take advantage of the cheapest fuel. (GSJ of April 14, 2000)
GSJ Story   24GSJ22b    04/14/2000   Cole
Faculty asked to explore possibilities of distance learning
In the near future, Brown faculty members will need to determine what role they and the University will play in the rapidly expanding world of distance learning, a topic that was discussed at the April 4 faculty meeting.
GSJ Story   24GSJ22c    04/14/2000   Sweeney
Habitat chapter helps family build a future
Brown chapter of Habitat for Humanity is working with other campus chapters to build a house on Pembroke Street.
GSJ Story   24GSJ22d    04/14/2000   Rose
Two studies examine role hostility plays in health
Hostility may be hazardous to your health, judging from the results of two recent studies conducted by Brown-affiliated investigators. One study suggests that hostility contributes to heart disease. Another indicates that a hostile personality increases a person's susceptibility to depression.
GSJ Story   24GSJ22e    04/14/2000   Turner
Brown will maintain its membership in FLA and WRC
Brown University will continue its membership in the FLA (Fair Labor Association) and the WRC (Worker Rights Consortium) and will remain productively engaged in issues related to sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry.
News Release   99-108    04/11/2000   Nickel
ACUP hears proposal for improved graduate student financial aid
An annual commitment of $4 million would enable Brown to offer each graduate student in a Ph.D. program five years of financial support, according to a report presented on March 13 to members of the Advisory Committee on University Planning. (In the April 7 paper edition of the GSJ, this article is combined with coverage of ACUP's April 3 meeting about need-blind admissions policies.)
GSJ Story   24GSJ21f    04/07/2000   Sweeney
Putting psychotropic drugs and preschoolers in perspective
Henrietta Leonard, M.D., a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist, is a professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Brown University School of Medicine. Leonard has talked and written extensively on scientific and ethical issues in prescribing medications for preschoolers and other children.
News Release   99-104    04/03/2000   Turner
More than 50 colleges will be represented at College Fair July 14
The Ninth Annual Brown University Summer College Fair will be held Friday, July 14, in Sayles Hall. Representatives of more than 50 colleges and universities will be on hand to talk with high school students and their parents from 1:30 until 4:30 p.m.
News Release   99-103    03/29/2000   Sweeney
Campus Advisory Committee on Presidential Selection announced
Brown Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein has announced the membership of the Campus Advisory Committee on the Presidential Selection. That committee, composed of faculty, students and staff, will assist the Brown Corporation in its selection of the University's 18th president.
News Release   99-100    03/28/2000   Nickel
Middle East scholars participate in Israeli-Palestinian workshop
Scholars from Israeli and Palestinian backgrounds will take part in a workshop April 7 and 8 that will examine the relations between the two sides since the Oslo accord. The workshop, "Oslo and Beyond: Israeli-Palestinian Relations in a New Era," is sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown.
News Release   99-097    03/21/2000   Kerlin
Grad students give high marks to academic experience; health care issues a concern
The University's graduate students rate as "very good" their academic experience at Brown, and rate their student life experience as "good." But there is room for improvement in a number of areas, according to the results of a survey conducted by the Office of Institutional Research.
GSJ Story   24GSJ20a    03/17/2000   Sweeney
Faculty unanimously approve expression of thanks to chancellor
Chancellor Stephen Robert has pledged a $5-million gift to the University and, in the course of three weeks, has secured verbal commitments from other friends of Brown that total $30 million. The announcement, made by President Sheila Blumstein at the March 7 faculty meeting, was met with prolonged applause and a unanimous vote of appreciation for Robert's efforts.
GSJ Story   24GSJ20b    03/17/2000   Sweeney
Faculty explore other cultures through Fulbright grants
The adventure of international travel and the opportunity to teach - and be taught by - students and educators of another culture are the benefits of receiving a Fulbright scholar grant, say Brown recipients of the grants.
GSJ Story   24GSJ20c    03/17/2000   Kerlin
From Tiananmen Square to Providence, in poetry
Dissident poet Xue Di came to Brown in 1989 after the Tienanmen Square uprising in China. He has remained since then through the University's Freedom to Write program.
GSJ Story   24GSJ19a    03/10/2000   Kerlin
Venezuelan ambassador to speak at opening of Bolivar collection
The Venezuelan ambassador to the United States will give an address March 12 to celebrate the unveiling of a collection of manuscripts and memorabilia pertaining to Latin American independence leader Simon Bolivar. The new Bromsen-Bolivar Room at the John Carter Brown Library holds the largest collection of Bolivar manuscripts, engravings, and paintings outside of Latin America.
News Release   99-091    03/08/2000   Kerlin
Brown and Providence Journal present symposium on health care crisis
Brown University, the Brown University School of Medicine and the Providence Journal will convene a day-long symposium on the current health care crisis Friday, March 24, 2000, at 8:30 a.m. in Sayles Hall, located on The College Green.
News Release   99-092    03/08/2000   Nickel
Medical school to hold white coat and Match Day ceremonies
Brown medical students will receive white coats, symbolic of their entry into the medical profession, during ceremonies at 3 p.m. Saturday, March 11. At noon on Thursday, March 16, fourth-year medical students will receive their residency placements. Both events are open to the press.
News Release   99-093    03/08/2000   Turner
Letter to Brown students from President Blumstein regarding assault on campus
Letter from President Blumstein to Brown students regarding assault that occurred on campus
GSJ Story   24GSJ18e    03/03/2000   Blumstein
Faces of Brown: Drew Yerich, executive chef, Faculty Club
Faces of Brown: Drew Yerich, the chief chef at Faculty Club.
GSJ Story   24GSJ18f    03/03/2000   Poole
Corporation sponsors forums to solicit ideas on qualities for next president
Corporation members sponsor three forums Feb. 24 to solicit Brown community suggestions regarding qualities sought in Brown's next president.
GSJ Story   24GSJ18g    03/03/2000   Kerlin
Brown team receives DOD grant aimed at speeding up electrons
Three Brown professors of engineering and physics and researchers from three other institutions receive $4-million grant from the Department of Defense to conduct research into the action of atomic-level materials that may someday make using the Internet faster
GSJ Story   24GSJ18h    03/03/2000   Kerlin
Defense Department awards $4-million grant to Brown research center
The Defense Department has awarded a $4-million grant to researchers from Brown, who will collaborate with scientists from three other universities. The researchers in engineer-ing, physics, and materials science will explore the action of atomic-level materials that may someday make using the Internet faster.
News Release   99-090    03/02/2000   Kerlin
Brown separates two students charged in Monday morning assault
Brown University officials have separated two of three students involved in a violent incident in a residence hall Monday morning. The students will not be allowed on campus, but arrangements will be made to allow them to continue their coursework until the University's disciplinary process is complete.
News Release   99-087    02/27/2000   Nickel
Brown Corporation approves 3.9-percent increase in student charges
At its winter meeting, the Corporation of Brown University approved a 3.9-percent increase in undergraduate charges for the 2000-01 academic year, to $33,530. That figure includes a 4-percent increase in tuition, to $25,600.
News Release   99-084    02/26/2000   Nickel
Chancellor announces membership of Presidential Selection Committee
Brown University Chancellor Stephen Robert has announced the membership of the Presidential Selection Committee, which will identify and hire the University's 18th president. That committee, composed of trustees and fellows, will be assisted by a 13-member Campus Advisory Committee of students, faculty and staff, to be appointed during March.
News Release   99-085    02/26/2000   Nickel
Brown University celebrates annual Years of Service Awards
Twenty-three Brown employees will receive special honors for their 25 years of service to the University at a campus ceremony Feb. 23
News Release   99-079    02/23/2000   Sweeney
New RI coalition unveils campaign to improve end-of-life care
A three-year, $380,000 grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation will fund a new Rhode Island partnership that will conduct education campaigns statewide to improve the caliber of end-of-life care. The partnership will be based at the Brown University Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research.
News Release   99-081    02/22/2000   Turner
Students will go to state capitols for lively debates on U.S. policy
High school students from Illinois, Nebraska, Connecticut and Rhode Island will visit their state capitols this spring to debate environment, immigration, trade and other U.S. foreign policy issues. The students are studying and debating these issues in classrooms as part of the Capitol Forum on America's Future sponsored by Brown University.
News Release   99-082    02/21/2000   Kerlin
Brown Jazz Band to perform with trombonist Carl Fontana Feb. 26
Renowned trombonist Carl Fontana and the Joe Coccia Trombone Choir will join the Brown University Jazz Band for the 13th annual Eric Adam Brudner '84 Memorial Concert at 8 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 26, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   99-080    02/17/2000   Nickel
Gee resigns Brown presidency for Vanderbilt post
Gee resigns from Brown presidency; at special faculty meeting called hours after the announcement, Provost Spoehr and Chancellor Robert outline the steps the Corporation will take and answer faculty questions.
GSJ Story   24GSJ16a    02/11/2000   Sweeney
Abraham Lincoln, George Washington and their special ties to Brown
Brown has historic ties to Presidents Lincoln and Washington through special collections and historic visits.
GSJ Story   24GSJ16c    02/11/2000   Poole
Researchers surprised by rate of sleep disorders among youngsters
Sleep disturbances may be more common among school-aged children than previously recognized, according to a Brown study of children in kindergarten through fourth grades.
GSJ Story   24GSJ16d    02/11/2000   Turner
Study finds host of sleep-related problems among school-age kids
A higher-than-expected percentage of children may have sleep disorders, suggests a new study by Judith Owens, M.D., and other Brown University researchers. The findings are reported in the February 2000 issue of Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics
News Release   99-073    02/11/2000   Turner
Brown Corporation names Sheila Blumstein as interim president
Sheila E. Blumstein, a former dean of the College and former interim provost, has been named interim president of Brown University. Blumstein will begin serving immediately and will continue until Brown's 18th president is sworn in.
News Release   99-078    02/09/2000   Nickel
President Gee resigns, will become chancellor of Vanderbilt University
E. Gordon Gee, 17th president of Brown University, has resigned as president and accepted an appointment as chancellor of Vanderbilt University. He will leave Brown April 15, 2000, and begin his work at Vanderbilt August 1.
News Release   99-077    02/07/2000   Nickel
New President's Achievement Award replaces Brown Says Thank You! award
The President's Achievement Award, which replaces the Brown Says Thank You! awards, will be presented May 12.
GSJ Story   24GSJ15g    02/04/2000   
Study helps parents of children with asthma to quit smoking
For smokers who don't know that their habit worsens a child's asthma, a team of Brown researchers will compare two stop-smoking programs.
GSJ Story   24GSJ15i    02/04/2000   Turner
Brown to offer French Film Festival at Cable Car Cinema Feb. 10-20
The Department of French Studies at Brown University will present a Festival of French Film, Feb. 10 through 20, 2000. All films, in French with English subtitles, will be screened at the Cable Car Cinema, 204 South Main St. in Providence.
News Release   99-075    02/04/2000   Nickel
Halberstam will open annual Brown/Journal Public Affairs Conference
The 20th annual Brown University/Providence JournalPublic Affairs Conference, "Sport: Is It Only a Game?", opens Sunday, Feb. 27, 2000, with a 4 p.m. keynote address by David Halberstam. The conference, which runs through Friday, March 3, features Lombardi biographer David Maraniss and sports commentators Frank Deford, Chris Berman and Dick Schaap.
News Release   99-076    02/04/2000   Sweeney
CBS News president to discuss broadcast journalism with President Gee
Andrew Heyward, president of CBS News, will visit the Brown campus Thursday evening, February 17, 2000, for a "Conversation on College Hill" with Brown President E. Gordon Gee. Gee and Heyward will discuss issues in contemporary broadcast journalism and will respond to questions from the floor, beginning at 6:30 p.m. in Starr Auditorium (Room 117, MacMillan Hall).
News Release   99-074    02/01/2000   Nickel
Montero's mission: enhancing the quality of campus life for students
Interview with Janina Montero. She comes to Brown to oversee campus life and student life. She will lead a task force that will examine campus life, and will report the task force recommendations to Gee in April
GSJ Story   24GSJ14a    01/28/2000   Kerlin
How Brown learned to stop worrying and love the millennium
Brown's Y2K rollover went off with nary a hitch. Quotes from Ann Oribello praising teamwork of varied departments
GSJ Story   24GSJ14b    01/28/2000   Nickel
Engineering professor discovers Y-shaped nanotubes
Brown engineering and physics Professor Jingming Xu has created the Y-junction carbon nanotube, a collection of carbon atoms that could change the course of electronics and computers and someday the repair of the human body.
GSJ Story   24GSJ14d    01/28/2000   Kerlin
Competing in hot market puts pressure on staff salaries, ACUP told
The region's hot labor market may be good news for job seekers, but it poses a challenge for Brown, Roberta Gordon, director of Human Resources, told the Advisory Committee on University Planning at its Dec. 6 meeting.
GSJ Story   24GSJ14e    01/28/2000   Sweeney
Faces of BrownL Sgt. Kevin Pepere
Faces of Brown: Sgt. Kevin Pepere, campus police officer
GSJ Story   24GSJ14h    01/28/2000   Lopes
R.I. girls to get hands-on science experience at Brown University
About 50 girls will participate in science demonstrations during a Discovery Day at Brown University Jan. 29, 2000, sponsored by the University and the Girl Scouts of Rhode Island.
News Release   99-071    01/19/2000   Kerlin
Brown to celebrate Ôtopping out' of Barus and Holley addition Jan. 11
Officials from Brown University and the George B. H. Macomber Co. will celebrate the topping out of a new addition to the Barus and Holley Building at 2 o'clock Tuesday afternoon, Jan. 11, 2000.
News Release   99-069    01/07/2000   Nickel
William Julius Wilson will deliver MLK Jr. Lecture Jan. 26
Sociologist William Julius Wilson will discuss "The Bridge over the Racial Divide" when he delivers Brown University's fifth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 26, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The public is invited.
News Release   99-067    01/04/2000   Sweeney
Dissident poet Xue Di receives grant to continue work at Brown
Xue Di, a dissident Chinese poet who came to Brown University in 1989 shortly after the violence in Tiananmen Square, has received a two-year $40,000 grant from the Joukowsky Foundation. The grant will support him as he completes work on a new book of poetry.
News Release   99-062    12/28/1999   Sweeney
Alcoholics Anonymous founder's archives acquired by Brown
Letters, notes and writings of Alcoholics Anonymous co-founder Dr. Robert H. Smith have been acquired by Brown University and will be made available to researchers interested in the origins of 12-step recovery programs. Among the items are Smith's "Big Book" and the coffee pot he used to help himself and others stay sober. Dr. David Lewis, director of Brown's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, arranged the acquisition.
News Release   99-063    12/28/1999   Kerlin
Brown geologist finds evidence supporting ancient ocean on Mars
James Head, a Brown University planetary geologist, is the lead investigator on a team of scientists that has found evidence supporting the presence of an ancient ocean on Mars. The team received topographical data from the unmanned Mars Global Surveyor that they say is consistent with a former ocean. Editors: Color images are available through the News Service.
News Release   99-060    12/09/1999   Kerlin
Brown delivers holiday gifts: a book for every child at Flynn School
On Friday, Dec. 10, members of Brown University's Class of 2000 will present nearly 700 books to pupils at the E. W. Flynn Arts and Technology Academy in Providence and will read aloud in 12 of the classrooms. The senior class public service project is an extension of one begun by the Brown Alumni Association that distributes 2,000 new books to area schoolchildren every year.
News Release   99-061    12/08/1999   Sweeney
Visiting Committee on Diversity returns to campus in January
The Visiting Committee on Diversity will be on campus in January to assess Brown's progress on this issue. This is a Q&A with Augustus White, M.D, who is chairing the committee. With sidebar on the committee members and mission.
GSJ Story   24GSJ13a    12/03/1999   Nickel
Faces of Brown: Carleia Lighty, parking office assistant
Faces of Brown -- Carleia Lighty, parking office assistant
GSJ Story   24GSJ13d    12/03/1999   Lopes
Go to the head of the class
Older adults leave their established careers to come to Brown to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching
GSJ Story   24GSJ13e    12/03/1999   Cole
Student director takes 'Artistic License' in latest Brownbrokers production
Behind the scenes of "Artistic License," the latest Brownbrokers production, and interview with director Christopher Hayes
GSJ Story   24GSJ13g    12/03/1999   Hare
Raiola named vice president for alumni relations at Brown University
Lisa J. Raiola, currently director of the medical ethics program and director of strategic planning for southern New England at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, has been named vice president for alumni relations at Brown University. Raiola is a 1984 graduate of Brown (A.B., magna cum laude, biomedical ethics).
News Release   99-059    12/02/1999   Nickel
ER counseling on alcohol helps teens stop drinking/reckless behavior
Teens counseled in the emergency room have fewer subsequent drinking and driving incidents, alcohol-related injuries and other alcohol-related problems than teens who received standard ER care, according to a new Brown study in the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology.
News Release   99-058    12/01/1999   Turner
Strobe Talbott, deputy secretary of state, to speak on Kosovo Dec. 2
Strobe Talbott, U.S. deputy secretary of state, will speak about Kosovo on Thursday, Dec. 2 at 4:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green at Brown University. His visit is sponsored by the Watson Institute for International Studies.
News Release   99-056    11/24/1999   Kerlin
Brown's Service of Lessons and Carols to benefit Amos House
Brown University's annual Service of Lessons and Carols will take place at 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 5, in Sayles Hall. The service will feature sacred hymns and readings and will benefit Amos House, Rhode Island's largest soup kitchen.
News Release   99-057    11/24/1999   Hare
New York Times health reporter Jane Brody at Brown Dec. 8
Jane Brody, health columnist and science writer for "The New York Times," will bring her insights to Brown when she delivers the Rothman Forum, "Taking Charge of Your Health," Wednesday, Dec. 8, at 7 p.m. in Sayles Hall.
News Release   99-053    11/23/1999   Kerlin
Latest Brownbrokers production features action-packed drama
The Brown University Brownbrokers present the 64th annual original student musical "Artistic License" Thursday through Monday, Dec. 2-6, 1999, in the Stuart Theatre of the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts. An action-packed drama, "Artistic License" is set in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art.
News Release   99-054    11/23/1999   Hare
In wake of crash, Brown community offered helping hands, listening ears
A look at Brown community involvement with the family members who survived the EgyptAir crash off of Nantucket. Some students were involved through Red Cross; a few Arabic-speaking students volunteered; Psych Dept. offered its services.
GSJ Story   24GSJ12a    11/19/1999   Cole
Students on call for Red Cross emergencies
Many Brown students are on-call as volunteers for the Red Cross of Rhode Island.
GSJ Story   24GSJ12b    11/19/1999   Cole
More prospective students applying early for admission
Applications for early action at Brown are up, possibly due to change in policy.
GSJ Story   24GSJ12c    11/19/1999   Kerlin
FACES of BROWN: Margaret Marisi
Faces of Brown: Margaret Marisi
GSJ Story   24GSJ12d    11/19/1999   Castillo
Technology project helped teachers, students take 'Walk Along Wickenden'
Interviews with Brown faculty, young pupils and their teachers who have been involved in using technology to learn about cultural differences. These projects, now on the web, incorporate interdisciplinary learning and technology. IESE project, once called CHAP, is now called ATTLaS.
GSJ Story   24GSJ12i    11/19/1999   Sweeney
Taking the good news about addiction treatment to the streets
The Brown-based Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy, an advocacy group for a public health approach to addiction treatment, received $1.35 million in grants to build coalitions with community groups and specialists in addiction medicine and primary care.
News Release   99-052    11/18/1999   Turner
Free forum at Brown will explore fate of Medicare
Stuart Altman, an expert on Medicare reform, will discuss "Medicare in the Millennium: Politics, Policy and Patient Care" at 6 p.m. Thursday, Dec. 2, 1999, in Room 117 of MacMillan Hall, at George and Thayer streets on the Brown University campus. The event is free and open to the public.
News Release   99-051    11/15/1999   Turner
Gee urges Brown to redefine in loco parentis
In a Presidential Seminar discussion titled "Students Living at Brown: Motivations and Obligations beyond the Classroom," President Gee asks the Brown community to redefine, and perhaps embrace, a new concept of in loco parentis.
GSJ Story   24GSJ11a    11/12/1999   Sweeney
University Hall in gingerbread? Piece of cake!
Daniel Tortorella, a baker at University Food Services, is making a gingerbread model of University Hall for a fundraiser at Moses Brown.
GSJ Story   24GSJ11b    11/12/1999   DeCesare
Increasingly, Brown students are studying abroad
During the past academic year, 478 Brown undergraduates studied abroad through the Office of International Programs.
GSJ Story   24GSJ11d    11/12/1999   Cole
Off Hours: Peter Mello, computer coordinator, contrabass player
Off Hours with Peter Mello, a computer coordinator who plays the contrabass with the Brown Wind Symphony.
GSJ Story   24GSJ11e    11/12/1999   Hare
Finding that teachable moment to counsel smokers
Brown researchers receive a grant to pursue teachable moments in the emergency room with patients who arrive w/ heart problems who also smoke.
GSJ Story   24GSJ11g    11/12/1999   Turner
Table for two (thousand) - guest chef program
John O'Shea, executive chef at University Food Services, is starting a Visiting Chefs Program for students on meal plan. Periodically, John will have a renown chef in the industry come to Brown to prepare a meal for the entire student population. The first is John Conte of Raphael Bar Risto
GSJ Story   24GSJ10b    11/05/1999   Cole
A lifelong learner: Harold Cohen
Interview with Harold Cohen, perhaps Brown's oldest student. Cohen, taking one course every semester, will graduate in 2001 with a degree in history. He will be 85.
GSJ Story   24GSJ10e    11/05/1999   Turner
Wind Symphony concert to feature guest tuba player
Gary Buttery, tubist, will perform with the Brown University Wind Symphony Friday, Nov. 19, at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall. The concert will feature a mix of contemporary and 16th century compositions.
News Release   99-049    11/04/1999   Hare
Cerebral cortex cells may pulse electrical rhythm through the brain
Brown University researchers have shown that some nerve cells in the cerebral cortex use electrical connections to communicate. Scientists had thought nerve cells in the cerebral cortex communicated only through connections that use chemical signals. The new findings appear in the Nov. 4 issue of Nature.
News Release   99-048    11/03/1999   Turner
Kathryn Spoehr named executive vice president and provost
Kathryn T. Spoehr, currently dean of the faculty and interim provost at Brown University, has been named executive vice president and provost, succeeding William S. Simmons.
News Release   99-047    11/02/1999   Nickel
Bottom line for sponsored research grew $14 million in past fiscal year
Research issue: In past year, Brown research funding has experienced a $14 million increase, $10 million of which comes from DHHS/NIH.
GSJ Story   24GSJ09a    10/29/1999   Kerlin
Education Alliance garners multigrant support
A look at the Education Alliance, which received multigrant support totaling almost $11 million, the most external funding at Brown outside of the Division of Biology and Medicine
GSJ Story   24GSJ09b    10/29/1999   Turner
ÔPassion Play' to premire at the Leeds Theatre Nov. 11
Passion Play, a new work by Sarah Ruhl of Brown's Creative Writing Program, will receive its premire in Leeds Theatre of the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts, with performances Nov. 11-21, 1999. The play takes a provocative look at the offstage lives of actors who are cast in a play about the crucifixion of Christ
News Release   99-046    10/29/1999   Hare
Conference to examine impact of virtual reality on international affairs
VIRTUALY2K, a three-day conference sponsored by the Watson Institute, will bring more than a dozen economists, military officers, computer scientists, filmmakers, journalists and foreign affairs specialists to Brown Nov. 5-7, 1999. They will seek to understand the current and future impact of digitized and networked technologies on world affairs.
News Release   99-043    10/26/1999   Nickel
JCB Library marks the 200th anniversary of Washington's death
"Washington: The Man, the Facts, the Myth," an exhibition honoring the 200th anniversary of George Washington's death, is on display in the John Carter Brown Library through Jan. 15, 2000. The exhibition's 66 artifacts provide first-hand accounts of one of the most accomplished men of the 18th century.
News Release   99-042    10/25/1999   Hare
Sen. John Chafee was an American hero and a Rhode Island legend
Brown University President E. Gordon Gee today praised the late Sen. John Chafee as an American hero, Rhode Island legend and member of the Brown family, whose exemplary public life featured a "consistently measured approach to finding a solid middle ground on the most contentious of issues."
News Release   99-044    10/25/1999   Nickel
New multigeneration study at Brown to explain nicotine dependence
Researchers at Brown University will lead a new $11.9 million project, funded by the National Cancer Institute, that will study three generations of families to determine why people smoke.
News Release   99-041    10/22/1999   Turner
Music Festival celebrates Viking exploration of North
In honor of the 1000th anniversary of Viking exploration of North America, the Brown University Department of Music will host the "Voyages Festival" Nov. 4-6, 1999. The festival will showcase the premire of seven new compositions and a lecture by Olafur Ragnar Grimson, the president of Iceland.
News Release   99-038    10/19/1999   Hare
Brown to remain in Fair Labor Alliance, join Worker Rights Consortium
President E. Gordon Gee announced today that Brown University will maintain its membership in the Fair Labor Association and will become a founding member of a new student-led alternative group, the Worker Rights Consortium. Both FLA and WRC work to end sweatshop exploitation of apparel industry workers and to assure consumers that the items they buy have been manufactured under conditions that respect worker rights.
News Release   99-037    10/18/1999   Nickel
Brown receives $2.8-million math grant from NSF
Brown's math and applied math departments will be strengthened with a grant of $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
GSJ Story   24GSJ07b    10/15/1999   Kerlin
Faces of Brown: Sue Thibault
Faces of Brown: Sue Thibault
GSJ Story   24GSJ07d    10/15/1999   Castillo
Brown Orchestra to open season with music by Russian composers
The Brown University Orchestra will open its 1999-2000 season performing the works of Russian composers Rachmaninoff and Borodin. Concerts are planned for 8 p.m. Friday-Saturday, Oct. 22-23, in Sayles Hall.
News Release   99-032    10/12/1999   Hare
Brain releases marijuana-like substance in response to pain, study finds
Brown University researchers recently documented the release of the naturally produced cannabinoid, anandamide, in response to pain in anesthetized animal models.
News Release   99-031    10/11/1999   Cole
Should Brown's Web include ads?
Panel seeks campus reaction Brown is considering what policy to set regarding advertising on its web pages. What will be allowed? At what level? What are the problems that advertising on web raises?
GSJ Story   24GSJ06a    10/08/1999   Cole
Gamelan - Gateway to Javanese culture
Brown has acquired a spectacular set of musical instruments from Indonesia called a gamelan, an orchestra of tuned bronze gongs and metallophones. It takes up an entire classroom, and the be! autifully carved wooden cases, painted crimson and gold, make it visually as well as aurally stunning. Students will be able to learn how to play it for credit.
GSJ Story   24GSJ06b    10/08/1999   Hare
Brain Science Program to be unveiled with faculty research presentations
David Mahoney, one of the world's foremost champions of brain research, will receive an honorary degree from Brown University on Oct. 8, during a ceremony that will feature research presentations by faculty from the University's new Brain Science Program.
News Release   99-026    10/04/1999   Turner
Survey: Undergrads `very satisfied' with overall experiences, less so with sense of community
Results of the Cycles Survey conducted by the Registrar's Office/Office of Institutional Research last May. Students report high levels of satisfaction with their overall experience and academic experience at Brown. Level of satisfaction with sense of community on campus is low, as are satisfaction with food services, advising, dorms
GSJ Story   24GSJ05a    10/01/1999   Sweeney
Will Y2K computer problems bug you?
Interview with Anne Oribello re: Brown's Y2K work. She has some concerns re: lab equipment. To coincide with the one-hour Y2K training sessions on contingency planning being offered to academic and administrative departments.
GSJ Story   24GSJ05b    10/01/1999   Kerlin
Brain science leader to receive honorary degree
Champions of brain research David Mahoney will receive an honorary degree at 4 p.m. Friday, Oct. 8, in Starr Auditorium in a ceremony that will also unveil Brown's new Brain Science Program.
GSJ Story   24GSJ05d    10/01/1999   Turner
Brown has new director of EEO/AA
Brown has a new director of EEO/AA -- Henry Johnson Jr.
GSJ Story   24GSJ05e    10/01/1999   Sweeney
Brown/Fox Point Day Care has openings for children of Brown community
Brown/Fox Point Child Care Center offers spaces for Sept. 2000
GSJ Story   24GSJ05f    10/01/1999   Sweeney
Johnson named director of Equal Employment, Affirmative Action
Henry V. Johnson has begun his duties as Brown's new director of Equal Employment Opportunity and Affirmative Action. He held a similar title at Lifespan, the non-profit hospital network.
News Release   99-028    10/01/1999   Kerlin
Concert to showcase traditional music from the Emerald Isle
The Brown Music Department will feature Joe McKenna, Irish bag piper, and other traditional Irish musicians in concert on Saturday, Oct. 9, at 8 p.m. in Grant Recital Hall.
News Release   99-027    09/30/1999   Hare
New machine may provide answers about leading cause of blindness
A Brown University psychologist has developed an easy-to-use device that measures levels of macular pigment in the human eye. Macular pigmentation correlates with macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in the world. One of the primary goals of the macular pigmentation research will be to determine the exact cause-and-effect relationship between the pigment and disease.
News Release   99-025    09/29/1999   Cole
Television at bedtime is associated with sleep difficulties in children
A television in the bedroom is the most powerful predictor of overall sleep disturbances in school-aged children, according to a new study by Dr. Judith Owens, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Brown University School of Medicine.
News Release   99-023    09/27/1999   Cole
The evening snooze? Not for kids who watch TV at bedtime
Children who watch television just before bedtime have more sleep problems, according to Brown researcher
GSJ Story   24GSJ04c    09/24/1999   Cole
Faces of Brown: Sgt. Ronald Levy
Faces of Brown -- Sgt. Ronald Levy
GSJ Story   24GSJ04d    09/24/1999   Castillo
$5-million plan will enhance learning in underserved communities
Under a five-year, $5-million program funded by MCI WorldCom and administered by Brown University, schools and community groups nationwide may apply for grants of $25,000 to $40,000 in support of education technology projects for schoolchildren and their parents in underserved communities.
News Release   99-022    09/21/1999   Nickel
Gee outlines plans for new $80-million Life Sciences Building
First faculty meeting of the academic year: $80 million to be borrowed to build the Life Sciences Building, a science/research center; series of faculty seminars slated to introduce faculty to new Brown way of doing things by setting priorities and funding only those, borrowing money for campus improvements, etc.
GSJ Story   24GSJ03a    09/17/1999   Cole
Convocation speaker Lewis urges alternative alcohol, drug policy for campuses
Coverage of opening convocation. Guest speaker is David Lewis, professor, speaking on "This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain at Brown."
GSJ Story   24GSJ03b    09/17/1999   Kerlin
FACES of BROWN: Frank Sears, parking manager
Frank Sears, parking manager -- latest in the FACES OF BROWN series.
GSJ Story   24GSJ03c    09/17/1999   Castillo
Oh lighten up! Comedy festival offers antidote to taking ourselves too seriously
Jokes, jugglers, cranks and crackpots will spread a little jocularity during the Brown Comedy Festival. Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, the festival opened Sept. 14 and continues through October.
GSJ Story   24GSJ03d    09/17/1999   Hare
Brown Bookstore celebrates 30th year doing business on Thayer Street
The Brown Bookstore is marking its 30th anniversary on Thayer Street with readings, book signings, a children's story hour, raffles, door prizes and more Oct. 1-5.
News Release   99-019    09/15/1999   Hare
Brown foreign policy discussion program receives $250,000 grant
Brown's Choices for the 21st Century Education Project has received $250,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to expand a program of foreign policy discussion at local libraries.
News Release   99-018    09/13/1999   Kerlin
Fifty years later, George Borts is still teaching economics
George Borts, professor of economics, will begin his 50th year teaching at Brown in academic year 1999-2000. He is the University's longest-serving faculty member.
GSJ Story   24GSJ02b    09/10/1999   Cole
The Graduate School Level of Information (GrSLI) Test
What do you know about graduate education at Brown? Here are some facts provided by Peder Estrup, dean of the graduate school and research.
GSJ Story   24GSJ02c    09/10/1999   Estrup
Study shines new light on ocean species diversity
Three Rhode Island researchers, including one from Brown, have countered the common ecological concept that all biodiversity crests at the equator and declines toward the poles. Their new study found that foraminifera, a one-celled animal that floats in the ocean, was most diverse at middle latitudes in all oceans and in both hemispheres.
GSJ Story   24GSJ02d    09/10/1999   Turner
Theater department to host Brown Comedy Festival through October
Jokes, jugglers, cranks and crackpots will spread a little jocularity during the Brown Comedy Festival. Hosted by the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, the festival will showcase silent clown Avner the Eccentric, a production of the French farce A Flea in Her Ear, theater critic John Lahr of the New Yorker, and others. The festival begins Sept. 14, 1999, and continues through October.
News Release   99-015    09/08/1999   Hare
Institutional barriers discourage part-time work as balance to family life
Lack of policies, threats to partnership status, and stigma are among the barriers to part-time work arrangements in radiology, according to a Brown sociologist. These hurdles mainly affect young women seeking to balance work and family.
News Release   99-016    09/08/1999   Cole
Gordon Gee: Democracy and a new declaration from higher education
"Higher education must shoulder some of the blame for the fact that young adults are increasingly disengaged from the democratic process," say Brown President E. Gordon Gee and University if Pennsylvania President Judith Rodin. "A group of college and university presidents recently recommitted their institutions to playing a vital role in rekindling the national democratic spirit."
News Release   99-066    09/07/1999   Sweeney
Princeton dean named vice president for campus life and student services
Princeton dean Janina Montero has been named Brown's new vice president for campus life and student services. She will begin her duties Jan. 3, 2000.
GSJ Story   24GSJ01a    09/03/1999   Turner
RIPTA trolleys link College Hill to city highlights
Riding the RIPTA trolley, which serves Brown area and connects downtown and the new mall to campus.
GSJ Story   24GSJ01h    09/03/1999   Hare
Opening Convocation will welcome 1,381 students to Class of 2003
Internationally-known addiction expert Dr. David C. Lewis will deliver Brown's Opening Convocation address Sept. 7 at 11 a.m. on The College Green. In case of heavy rain, the ceremony will be held at Meehan Auditorium, 235 Hope St.
News Release   99-013    09/01/1999   Cole
Janina Montero named vice president for campus life, student services
Janina Montero, dean of student life at Princeton University, has been appointed vice president for campus life and student services at Brown University.
News Release   99-011    08/27/1999   Sweeney
Mixed-gender investment clubs perform better than same-sex clubs
Men and women together make more profitable investing decisions than groups of men only or women only, according to a Brown sociologist.
News Release   99-010    08/24/1999   Cole
Teachers trained in world affairs curriculum at Brown summer program
Twelve teachers from across the country participated in Brown University's Choices Teaching Fellows Program, a summer institute that provides training in a curriculum designed to engage high school students in debate on international public policy issues.
News Release   99-008    08/16/1999   Kerlin
Rare Uffizi paintings come to the Bell Gallery at Brown University
"Crafting the Medici: Patrons and Artisans in Florence, 1537-1737" opens for display Sept. 18, 1999, in the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University. The exhibition will host rarely shown painted portraits of the Medici family on loan from the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy. The show continues through Oct. 24.
News Release   99-007    08/12/1999   Hare
John F. Kennedy Jr., Brown University Class of 1983
The Brown University family joins all Americans and people around the world in mourning the untimely loss of John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife, Carolyn, and her sister, Lauren Bessette.
News Release   99-004    07/19/1999   Sweeney
John F. Kennedy Jr., Brown University Class of 1983
Information about John F. Kennedy Jr.'s years at Brown University, September 1979 through May 1983.
News Release   99-003    07/17/1999   Sweeney
Uncovering a clockwork composer
Paul Phillips, director of Brown University Orchestra, is leading the quest to make the name Anthony Burgess as well-known in the music world as it is in the literary world.
GSJ Story   23GSJ31b    07/09/1999   Hare
Brain region used in face recognition is active in new object recognition
Researchers at Brown University and the Yale Medical School used functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to demonstrate that the area of the brain active in face recognition is also involved in recognizing new, non-face objects, according to a study in the June issue of Nature Neuroscience.
News Release   98-154    06/22/1999   Cole
Sergei Khrushchev will take test for U.S. citizenship June 23
After eight years at Brown University, Sergei Khrushchev has decided to seek United States citizenship. He and his wife, Valentina Golenko, will take the exam Wednesday, June 23, in Providence.
News Release   98-155    06/22/1999   Kerlin
Brown University research team finds keys to liver development
In the June 18 issue of Science, Brown University researchers describe the signaling mechanisms that initiate unspecialized embryonic cells to begin liver development. The researchers use the signals to direct immature mouse cells to become liver cells and to begin growing and forming liver tissue.
News Release   98-152    06/17/1999   Turner
Vigorous exercise helps women quit smoking and stay smoke free
A Brown University study in the current Archives of Internal Medicine indicates that smokers have a much easier time kicking the habit and will gain much less weight when they add vigorous exercise to their smoking cessation program.
News Release   98-145    06/13/1999   Turner
Students raced clock to finish well at annual car competition
Brown team finishes 15th out of 100 college/university teams at the annual Society of Automotive Engineers competition. It is Brown's best placement in the four years it has entered. The team beat several top engineering schools.
GSJ Story   23GSJ29b    06/11/1999   Cole
Brown geologist among 20 who create first three-dimensional map of Mars
Brown geologist Jim Head among the scientists who compile first complete 3-D map of Mars.
GSJ Story   23GSJ29g    06/11/1999   Kerlin
Researchers find protein abnormality associated with Alzheimer's disease
Brown researchers sasy that a protein widespread in the nervous system is also found in plaques and other brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's disease.
GSJ Story   23GSJ29h    06/11/1999   Turner
High school students cite weapons, environment as top world concerns
After studying international relations in a civic education program developed at Brown, high school students say their top international concerns are the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons and damage to the global environment.
News Release   98-148    06/09/1999   Kerlin
Search Committee submits names of two finalists to school board
Diana Lam, most recently superintendent of the San Antonio Independent School District, and June Rimmer, currently assistant superintendent of curriculum and instruction for Indianapolis Public Schools, are the two finalists in Providence's search for a new superintendent of schools. Brown President E. Gordon Gee, chair of the search committee, submitted their names to the Providence School Board today.
News Release   98-149    06/08/1999   Nickel
Brown names two City of Providence Scholars for the Class of 2003
Kate Gubata of Classical High School and Samuel Snead of Mount Pleasant High School have been named City of Providence Scholars for the Class of 2003. They will receive financial support throughout their undergraduate education at Brown.
News Release   98-146    06/04/1999   Cole
Brown Corporation elects two new fellows and nine new trustees
At its Commencement Weekend meeting May 29, 1999, the Corporation of Brown University elected Elizabeth Z. Chace and David E. McKinney to its Board of Fellows and elected nine new members to its Board of Trustees: Ralph J. Begleiter, Martin Granoff, Robin Neustein, Frank Newman, O. Rogeriee Thompson, Chelsey C. Remington, Charles M. Rosenthal, Robert E. Turner, and Jerome C. Vascellaro.
News Release   98-144    06/03/1999   Nickel
Haffenreffer collections will move to Brown's main campus in Providence
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, which was to move from its current campus in Bristol, R.I., to the Old Stone Bank Building in Providence, will move instead to a new museum planned for Brown University's main campus. Brown is considering new public and educational uses for the Old Stone Bank Building, which it acquired in 1995.
News Release   98-143    06/01/1999   Nickel
Pediatric emergency rooms a place to identify adult abuse victims
In a recent study by Brown University researchers, more than half of 157 women who sought emergency care for children aged 3 or younger were themselves victims of domestic abuse. The findings underscore the importance of intervention in that setting.
News Release   98-140    05/27/1999   Cole
Brown to integrate formal study of values into curriculum, campus life
Beginning in the 1999-2000 academic year, Brown University will develop a focused inquiry into human values designed to enrich the freshman experience, the College curriculum, departmental scholarship, graduate fellowships and the University's public lecture program. President Gee will introduce a panel discussion about the Robert Values Initiative at 2:15 p.m. Saturday, May 29, 1999, in Sayles Hall.
News Release   98-141    05/27/1999   Nickel
Baccalaureate, graduate and medical students honor special faculty
Four Brown professors will receive special awards from graduating students at this year's Commencement: two for work with undergraduates; one for support of graduate students; and a doctor for service to medical students. Four graduate students will receive honors for outstanding doctoral dissertations and four for teaching excellence.
News Release   98-142    05/27/1999   Turner
Brown will present 10 honorary degrees at Commencement May 31
At Commencement Monday, May 31, Brown University will present honorary degrees to Brian Dickinson, James Freedman, John Glenn, John Hume, Ruth Kirschstein, Queen Noor of Jordan, Romano Prodi, William Raspberry, Steven Spielberg and Julia Taft.
News Release   98-136    05/26/1999   Sweeney
University to honor its first African-American Ph.D. recipient with portrait
In recognition of his service to Brown University, higher education and the nation, the Brown Corporation will honor Samuel Nabrit, the University's first African-American Ph.D. recipient, by unveiling his portrait Friday evening, May 28, in Sayles Hall.
News Release   98-139    05/25/1999   Hare
Walter Massey, president of Morehouse College, to speak May 29
Walter Massey, president of Morehouse College, will present a Commencement Forum at Brown University on Saturday, May 29, at 3:30 p.m. Massey's presentation will mark the groundbreaking for new undergraduate engineering laboratories.
News Release   98-137    05/19/1999   Turner
Brown University to hold 231st Commencement Monday, May 31, 1999
Chief Marshal Stephen Weil '49 will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Monday, May 31, in one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The Commencement procession and 231st academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement-Reunion Weekend at Brown.
News Release   98-132    05/17/1999   Nickel
Northern Ireland's peace broker John Hume to give baccalaureate address
Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume and two student orators are among the scheduled speakers during Brown's 231st Commencement Weekend, May 28-31.
News Release   98-133    05/17/1999   Cole
John Glenn, Queen Noor, Europe's President Prodi give Ogden Lectures
Brown University's Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture series on global issues brings Sen. John Glenn, Queen Noor of Jordan and European Commission President Romano Prodi to Providence on Commencement Weekend, May 29-30. The Ogden Lectures are free and open to the public.
News Release   98-134    05/17/1999   Kerlin
Dance Legacy Institute gets NEA grant to preserve historical choreography
A $40,000 NEA grant will be used by the Brown University American Dance Legacy Institute to document and restore the choreography of a former New York-based arts organization. The money will support a variety of projects, among them collecting oral histories, dance reconstruction and development of a multimedia database.
News Release   98-126    05/14/1999   Hare
Five student teams receive funding and services to start businesses
Business teams led by Daniel Goldstein of New York City and Jessica Nam of Warren, N.J., recently won cash and services to grow their companies from Brown's Entrepreneurship Program. Three other student ventures will receive free marketing and public relations services.
News Release   98-128    05/14/1999   Cole
College fair featuring scores of representatives will be held July 7
A college fair featuring representatives from colleges and universities in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic states will be held on July 7, 1999, from 3 to 6 p.m. in Sayles Hall at Brown University.
News Release   98-129    05/14/1999   Sweeney
ummer High School asks: How will people remember the 20th century?
How will the 20th century be remembered? Students participating in this year's Brown Summer High School program will study history, social studies, science, English, or the arts with this question in mind. The program for area students in grades 9 through 12 will run from June 28 to July 23.
News Release   98-131    05/14/1999   Sweeney
Fossil footprints show foot-movement similarity in dinosaurs and birds
A new study of dinosaur footprints preserved in three dimensions finds similarities and differences between modern-day fowl and ancient theropods. The study's authors still believe birds evolved from dinosaurs. The research appears in Nature and was led by Brown University scientists.
News Release   98-123    05/12/1999   Turner
Groups explore ways to encourage employees to use mass transit
Several initiatives, among them an "Environmental Stewardship" course, may culminate in a program that will encourage more Brown employees to use public transit to get to work.
GSJ Story   23GSJ27a    05/07/1999   Sweeney
Pediatricians play key role in getting parents to read to their kids
Three new Brown studies point to the crucial role pediatricians can play in getting parents to read aloud to their children.
GSJ Story   23GSJ27c    05/07/1999   Turner
25 undergraduates receive Royce Fellowships for research, public service
Twenty-five Brown University undergraduates will receive Royce Fellowships, which will enable them to advance their research and public service projects locally, nationally and internationally.
News Release   98-124    05/07/1999   Sweeney
Thirteen Brown Says Thank You! awards presented at special breakfast
Thirteen members of Brown University's support staff received Brown Says Thank You! awards for the innovation, initiative, service and personal commitment they demonstrate in their work. The awards were presented at the University's annual staff appreciation breakfast May 4.
News Release   98-122    05/05/1999   Sweeney
Brown University and IBM to unveil new computer visualization center
On May 26, 1999, officials from Brown University and IBM will unveil an $8-million Center for Advanced Scientific Computing and Visualization. The center will be dedicated during a 2 p.m. ceremony in MacMillan Hall.
News Release   98-119    05/03/1999   Cole
Doctor-prescribed reading is good Rx for low-income families, studies say
It's a simple prescription: take home a book, read to your children, enjoy. Reading books to children is powerful medicine for low-income families, say three new Brown studies.
News Release   98-120    05/03/1999   Turner
Computer science symposium offers talks by slate of industry leaders
Leading computer scientists will headline a symposium titled "The Computer, The Academy and the World" at Brown University May 27-28, 1999. The event marks the 60th birthday of Andries van Dam, Brown professor and computer science pioneer.
News Release   98-121    05/03/1999   Cole
Study finds most R.I. municipalities do not comply with open records laws
Requests for arrest reports and municipal financial settlements were denied or ignored in most Rhode Island municipalities, according to a Brown University study. The second study of access to public records and meetings, conducted by Brown students, provides data on compliance by police departments, municipal clerks and tax assessors, and school committees. (See also news advisory 114a.)
News Release   98-114    04/28/1999   Kerlin
Peter Jennings to receive award for superior achievement in journalism
ABC News anchor Peter Jennings will receive the University's Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism on Tuesday, May 4, in Sayles Hall. Presented for lifetime achievement, the award honors the memory of Welles Hangen, a journalist and 1949 graduate of Brown, who was captured and executed by Viet Cong and Khmer Rouge guerrillas during the Vietnam War.
News Release   98-118    04/27/1999   Hare
Wind and Jazz groups to play Updike poems and Ellington suites
A joint concert by Brown's Wind Symphony and Jazz Band at 8 p.m. Friday, April 30, will feature Duke Ellington Suites and poems by John Updike.
News Release   98-117    04/26/1999   Hare
New phone prefix Ð 867 Ð coming to campus beginning July 31
Beginning July 31, Brown will have an additional telephone exchange Ð 867. This will require dialing a five-digit number when calling from campus phone to campus phone. The new exchange will be assigned to the student block of phone numbers. The change is announced by the Communications Office.
GSJ Story   23GSJ26a    04/23/1999   Sweeney
Six principles to guide Brown's participation in national monitoring effort
Brown University has announced six principles that will govern its participation in the FLA (Fair Labor Association), a national effort to eliminate sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry. President E. Gordon Gee also announced a six-member advisory committee that will monitor issues related to Brown's Code of Conduct for licensees.
News Release   98-115    04/21/1999   Nickel
Duke Ellington centennial film to premire at Brown April 26
Brown University will join the 100th birthday celebration of jazz composer and band leader Duke Ellington with the premire of Swingin' With Duke: Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra With Wynton Marsalis. The screening is planned for Monday, April 26, at 7:30 p.m. in the Starr Auditorium of MacMillan Hall.
News Release   98-110    04/14/1999   Hare
PONG '99 art and technology festival to feature DJ Spooky, EBN, others
PONG '99, Brown University's fifth annual art and technology festival, will host hip-hop mix master DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid and the multimedia performance group EBN in concert April 23. The festival also will feature several leading-edge performance, installation and multimedia artists on April 25.
News Release   98-111    04/14/1999   Hare
Busta Rhymes headlines Browns Spring Weekend April 22
Hip-hop superstar Busta Rhymes will kick off Brown's annual Spring Weekend on April 22 with concert in Meehan Auditorium. Performing April 24 on The College Green as part of the Spring Weekend Extravaganza will be DJ Maseo of De La Soul, singer/songwriter Vic Chesnutt, and bands Black Star and Wilco.
News Release   98-112    04/14/1999   Hare
Dedication of Gregorian Quadrangle scheduled for Monday, April 12
News Advisory: Brown University will formally dedicate its newest residential quadrangle in honor of President Emeritus Vartan Gregorian at 4 p.m. Monday, April 12. President and Mrs. Gregorian will return to Providence for the event.
News Release   98-109a    04/09/1999   Nickel
National initiative targets civic disengagement among college students
Campus Compact, a national organization of college and university presidents dedicated to higher education's civic mission, has received a $3-million grant from The Pew Charitable Trusts to address a national trend toward civic disengagement, which is reflected on the nation's campuses. Campus Compact also has formally established itself as part of Brown University.
News Release   98-087    04/08/1999   Nickel
The art of Maggie Poor to be showcased at Bell Gallery April 17-May 30
The drawings and sculptures of Maggie Poor, a New York artist and 1976 Brown graduate, will be shown in the David Winton Bell Gallery starting Saturday, April 17. The show, which contains more than 40 pieces, will continue through May 30.
News Release   98-107    04/07/1999   Hare
Survey will gauge undergraduates' opinions
The new Office of Institutional Research, run by Registrar Kay Lewis, will be distributing a survey to half of all undergrads to gauge their satisfaction with a wide range of campus offices and services, advising, other campus life issues. Sponsored by Dean of College, Dean of Student Life. Info will be used by Brown for evaluation and planning. (GSJ of April 2, 1999)
GSJ Story   23GSJ23a    04/02/1999   Sweeney
Where do you go when you can't go home?
Where do you go when you can't go home for the holidays. Two administrators at Brown are working on a proposal they hope will match students from afar with host families from faculty and staff during breaks, holidays or long weekends.
GSJ Story   23GSJ23f    04/02/1999   Pipkin
Marisa Quinn named director of federal relations at Brown University
Marisa A. Quinn, currently chief of communications and public information at the Rhode Island Department of Education, will become director of federal relations at Brown University in May.
News Release   98-105    04/01/1999   Nickel
Experimental sound and visual imagery performance set for April 11
Wood, Ink, Water and Winter Buds, an experimental performance work that combines film, recorded sound, improvised choreography and music, will be presented free in Grant Recital Hall at 4 p.m. Sunday, April 11. The piece will feature French composer, musician and dancer Eugenie Kuffler and Brown composer Elaine Bearer.
News Release   98-106    04/01/1999   Hare
Spanish guitar trio to perform at the John Carter Brown Library April 21
The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University will host a benefit recital of Spanish guitar and madolin music featuring the widely acclaimed Chamorro Trio on Wednesday, April 21 at 8 p.m. The concert will showcase the talents of Pedro Chamorro, a virtuoso guitar, mandolin and bandurria (Spanish lute) player.
News Release   98-104    03/30/1999   Hare
Brown to host national introduction of McNamara Vietnam War book
Former Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara and co-authors will visit Brown University April 23, 1999, to introduce their new book, Argument Without End: In Search of Answers to the Vietnam Tragedy. Their presentation, at 4 p.m. in MacMillan Hall, is open to the public without charge and will be followed by a book signing. (The authors will be available to the press at 2:30 p.m.)
News Release   98-100    03/26/1999   Kerlin
Tribute to celebrate John Hawkes, novelist and teacher
A tribute to John Hawkes, an internationally recognized innovative novelist and Brown professor, will take place April 13-14. Family, friends, colleagues and former students will gather at the University to celebrate Hawkes' life and art.
News Release   98-097    03/24/1999   Hare
Powerful magnetic field forces living cells to change
Brown University researchers have found that a strong, steady magnetic field can alter the way cells divide in a developing frog. Their work may end the decades-old debate among scientists over whether a magnetic field can affect an organism. The research was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
News Release   98-098    03/24/1999   Turner
Brown theater to offer premire of sharp Irish drama in April
A sharp new play will have its premire at Brown University April 15-18 and April 22-25 in Leeds Theater. An Irish Play is the story of seven amateur actors who come together to read a new drama by an American writer, during which old rivalries are re-ignited and jealousies come to a head.
News Release   98-101    03/24/1999   Hare
Brown conference to explore the future of online multimedia literature
Technology Platforms for 21st Century Literature (TP21CL), a three-day conference at Brown University April 7-9, 1999, will feature many of world's breakthrough hyperfiction writers and cutting-edge technologists discussing the future of literature on the Internet.
News Release   98-102    03/24/1999   Hare
Writers gather for forum, workshops on "Writing Vietnam"
Nationally recognized writers whose work has explored aspects of the American involvement in Vietnam will gather at Brown University for a six-session conference titled "Writing Vietnam," April 21-23, 1999. Their lectures, readings and discussions are open to the public without charge.
News Release   98-095    03/18/1999   Kerlin
Free program to explore spending R.I.'s $1.4-billion tobacco settlement
The public is invited to a free program about spending Rhode Island's $1.4-billion share of the tobacco settlement. Four speakers will propose ideas and discuss tobacco as a health problem at 4 p.m. Friday, March 19, in Room 202 of the Brown University Bio-Medical Center, 171 Meeting St.
News Release   98-092    03/11/1999   Turner
Students go to state capitols March 26 for lively debates on U.S. policy
On Friday, March 26, high school students in Nebraska and Connecticut will visit their state capitols to debate environmental, trade and other policy issues with elected officials. The students are studying and debating these issues in classrooms as part of the Capitol Forum on America's Future, sponsored by Brown University.
News Release   98-085    03/08/1999   Kerlin
Researchers to conduct virtual design and testing of materials
A Department of Defense grant of $1 million per year for three years will allow Brown researchers to lead a five-university project designed to produce computer-based "virtual" tools for studying advanced materials used in jet engines and launch vehicles.
News Release   98-084    03/05/1999   Turner
Bach Birthday Bash to showcase the Brown University Chorus
The 45 members of the Brown University Chorus will mark the 314th birthday of Johann Sebastian Bach with a concert featuring sacred selections for voice and organ in Sayles Hall Saturday, March 20, at 8 p.m.
News Release   98-081    03/04/1999   Hare
Research and undergrads: Interaction enriches faculty and students
RESEARCH issue: To faculty at Brown, undergraduates represent a fountain of ideas, wonder and fellowship in the research endeavor. A look at how students, faculty and grad students work together in the classroom and the lab.
GSJ Story   23GSJ19b    02/26/1999   Turner
New federally funded research on child disability aims at policy
A new study led by Brown's Population Studies and Training Center, will query Rhode Island families, many with disabled children, to determine whether government surveys on child disability can be improved. The project makes Brown part of the nationwide Family and Child Well-Being Network.
GSJ Story   23GSJ19j    02/26/1999   Lans
Can't remember the face, but the name is familiar
Artist John Hagen paints a new portrait of Stephen Hopkins, Brown's first chancellor, to correct a 19th-century mix-up that produced the wrong face on the man. The new portrait hands in the Corporation Room.
GSJ Story   23GSJ19l    02/26/1999   Hare
Tutu addresses capacity crowd
Religion could be "an abomination or a blessing depending on its quality and the fruit it bore," Desmond Tutu tells the audience attending the opening of the Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference, "Spiritual Life in America: One Nation Under God?"
GSJ Story   23GSJ19m    02/26/1999   Sweeney
Faces of Brown: Merrily Taylor, University librarian
FACES of BROWN: Merrily Taylor, University librarian
GSJ Story   23GSJ19n    02/26/1999   Peters
Doctors often miss abusive head injuries to young children, study says
Research done in Colo. by Carole Jenny, now of Brown, shows that doctors often fail to pinpoint abusive head injuries to young children.
GSJ Story   23GSJ19o    02/26/1999   Turner
Entrepreneurship Program meets student interest in starting businesses
Initiated by two undergraduates, the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program has attracted about 140 students in its first semester.
News Release   98-078    02/25/1999   Lans
Brown Theater to present Chekhov's ÔThree Sisters' March 11-21
The Brown University theater department will stage Anton Chekhov's classic drama Three Sisters in Stuart Theatre of the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts March 11-14 and March 18-21, 1999.
News Release   98-076    02/23/1999   Hare
Brown University-RISD festival to focus on Turkish-German films
A unique film festival focusing on Turkish-German migration will take place Tuesday, March 2, through Sunday, March 7, on and near the campuses of Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design. Culture of Birth, Culture of Migration: Turkish Filmmakers and German Society will offer an insightful glance at the ethos of crossing geographical and cultural boundaries.
News Release   98-075    02/22/1999   Hare
Brown to spend $5 million on undergraduate financial aid improvements
Beginning with the Class of 2003, all students who qualify for Brown University scholarship aid will receive larger grants and smaller loans. On average, students with the greatest need will receive approximately $17,000 in additional grant support during their four years and will graduate with an estimated $7,000 in loan debt. The new policy will cost approximately $5 million when fully implemented.
News Release   98-070    02/20/1999   Nickel
Corporation approves lowest tuition increase in more than 30 years
The Corporation of Brown University has approved a 4.3-percent increase in undergraduate tuition for the 1999-00 academic year, to $24,624. The total annual charge for undergraduate tuition, room, board and fees will be $32,280, a 3.9-percent increase.
News Release   98-074    02/20/1999   Nickel
Legendary saxophonist to share stage with Brown Jazz Band March 6
Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist Dave Liebman will join the Brown University Jazz Band for an evening of finger-snappin', toe-tappin' hot jazz on Saturday, MarchÊ6, 1999, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Liebman has made numerous recordings and has played with jazz greats Miles Davis, Chick Corea and Elvin Jones.
News Release   98-072    02/19/1999   Hare
Current events breathe new life into sociologist's dissertation
A PhD dissertation by Brown sociology student Margaret Lang spots what she considers cluster of autistic children in Leominster, Mass. Recent reports of a similar cluster in New Jersey prompt her efforts to put affected parents in the two communities in touch with one another so that they might consider taking action.
GSJ Story   23GSJ18a    02/12/1999   Lans
In hopes of giving peace a change, Brown students mentor youngsters at two city schools
PEACE - Promoting Equality and Community Everywhere - tries to educate young children about discrimination by using dialogue, peer mentoring, and coalition building. Mentors from the Brown chapter visit second-graders at two elementary schools.
GSJ Story   23GSJ18d    02/12/1999   Stanco
New procedures in place for prioritizing departments' renovation proposals
Striving to improve planning for capital projects and facility renovations, Brown establishes new procedures for soliciting and reviewing proposals.William S. Simmons, executive vice president and provost, described the procedures at the first faculty meeting of the year, held Feb. 2. The procedures take effect immediately.
GSJ Story   23GSJ18e    02/12/1999   Lans
'The Individual, the University and Responsibility within a Free Society' at center of campuswide conversation
"The Individual, the University and Responsibility within a Free Society" will be the center of a President's Seminar series exploring the intersection of liberal education and civil society, focusing primarily on the question of personal and institutional responsibility to Brown and the larger community. Such dialogue is the topic of a book by researcher Stephen Nelson on college and university presidents talking about moral issues and concerns - the principles of right and wrong, the values of the academy, and theresponsibilities of the educated.
GSJ Story   23GSJ17a    02/05/1999   Lans
Redding becomes all-time career scorer in Bear basketball history
Women's basketball player Vita Redding '99 became the all-time career scoring leader in Brown basketball history on Jan. 30 when she scored 16 points against Dartmouth at Pizzitola Center.
GSJ Story   23GSJ17c    02/05/1999   Sports Info
Desmond Tutu to address annual Providence Journal/Brown conference
Archbishop Desmond Tutu will address annual Providence Journal/Brown public affairs conference at 4 p.m. on Sunday, Feb. 21, at the First Baptist Church in America. His lecture launches the week-long conference, "One Nation Under God? Spiritual Life in America"
GSJ Story   23GSJ17d    02/05/1999   Hare
Seeing America, one step at a time
Two recent Brown graduates are walking across the country. Ryan Firestone '97 and Gidon Felsen '98 set out from Florida in September in the hopes of getting to California by August. They are sending newsletters to family and friends by e-mail. This excerpt gives a look at their adventures in eastern Texas.
GSJ Story   23GSJ17e    02/05/1999   Sweeney
Judging a book by its cover leads to performance of Obie-winning play
Brown student Danah Beard '00 spearheaded an effort to produce the acclaimed play "The Vagina Monologues" on Valentine's Day as part of a nationwide V-Day Campus Initiative that aims to stop violence against women. Sponsored by Sarah Doyle Women's Center, Production Workshop.
GSJ Story   23GSJ17f    02/05/1999   Sweeney
Faces of Brown: Paul Ruscito, security officer
Faces of Brown: Paul Ruscito, security officer
GSJ Story   23GSJ17g    02/05/1999   Castillo
Bishop Tutu to open 19th annual Brown/Journal Public Affairs Conference
The 19th annual Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference will open with a keynote address by Archbishop Desmond Tutu at 4 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 21, 1999, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church of America. The week-long conference, Feb. 21-28, also will feature some the nation's most prominent religious thinkers, commentators and writers discussing topics of spirituality.
News Release   98-068    02/05/1999   Hare
Brown gives thumbs-up to proposed Lifespan merger
The proposed merger of Lifespan and Care New England is good news for the School of Medicine, say Brown administrators. Medicare cuts, the loss of funds from private insurers and the need for cost reductions have left hospitals looking for ways to remain competitive. These are among the reasons cited for the planned merger. The new entity would include five of the seven hospitals affiliated with Brown.
GSJ Story   23GSJ16b    01/29/1999   Turner
Education policy seminar will probe achievement and accountability
Education leaders will gather at Brown Feb. 8 to discuss policies on testing student achievement and holding schools accountable for results. They will be on campus for the annual Educational Policy Seminar, which this year is titled "Education Reform: Results Matter." The event is sponsored by the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory.
GSJ Story   23GSJ16e    01/29/1999   Lans
Electronic Campus Watch uses e-mail to alert Brown campus to reported crimes
The electronic crime watch project run by police and security gives Brown community heads up about crimes on campus and gives safety tips. (GSJ of Jan. 29, 1999)
GSJ Story   23GSJ16h    01/29/1999   Sweeney
New antibiotic shown useful in fighting drug-resistant bacteria
Brown researcher Stephen Zinner, M.D., professor of medicine, reports that an experimental antibiotic, moxifloxacin, may have the potential to treat a range of drug-resistant, infectious bacteria that produce serious, even deadly, illnesses. Resistance to penicillin and other antibiotics is increasing worldwide among many bacterial strains.
GSJ Story   23GSJ16i    01/29/1999   Turner
The Marquis de Sade imprisoned at Leeds Theatre Feb. 24-28
The Brown University Theatre Department will present a play that dramatizes the jailing of the Marquis de Sade during the French Revolution. "Quills," an intriguing new play by Doug Wright, will run at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 24, through Sunday, Feb. 28, in Leeds Theatre at the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts.
News Release   98-063    01/28/1999   Hare
Ashamu Studio to showcase Canadian modern dance troupe Feb. 19
The Canadian-based Danny Grossman Dance Company will perform contemporary works at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 19, in the Ashamu Dance Studio at Brown University. Formed more than 20 years ago, the ensemble has garnered critical acclaim throughout North America and Canada for its highly energetic performances.
News Release   98-065    01/28/1999   Hare
Experimental antibiotic promptly kills drug-resistant bacteria in studies
New findings by Dr. Stephen Zinner and colleagues at Brown University suggest that the compound moxifloxacin is a potential treatment against a range of drug-resistant infectious organisms that produce serious, even deadly illnesses.
News Release   98-062    01/27/1999   Turner
Brown University will honor 21 employees for their 25 years of service
Brown University annually honors employees who have served 10, 20 and 25 years at the University. At a special awards luncheon Feb. 5, employees who have worked at Brown for 25 years will receive an engraved Brown University chair in appreciation of their dedication.
News Release   98-064    01/27/1999   Sweeney
NASA grant makes Brown's remote-sensing capabilities available to firms
A NASA initiative to increase the competitiveness of U.S. firms will allow companies to advance their operations by using Brown University's remote sensing expertise without an exchange of funds.
News Release   98-061    01/26/1999   Turner
Education seminar to discuss student testing, school accountability
The Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory (LAB) at Brown University is sponsoring a policy seminar on student testing and school accountability on Feb.Ê8 from 3:30 to 6 p.m. in Sayles Hall. The event is free and open to the public.
News Release   98-059    01/25/1999   Lans
Hyde family establishes intern scholarship in memory of daughter
The Portland, Ore., family of the late Timory Hyde has created a scholarship at Brown University enabling students to accept unpaid or low-paying internships in muusic or the creative arts without having to incur the accompanying financial hardships. Hyde, an imaginative undergraduate who was studying music at Brown, died in April 1997 of injuries suffered in a fall.
News Release   98-060    01/25/1999   Sweeney
Registrar-CIS collaboration yields New BOCA
The Brown Online Course Announcement has been improved. New BOCA, as the Web database is now called, gives students access to up-to-the-minute course information at any time. The Registrar and Computing and Information Services collaborated on the project.
GSJ Story   23GSJ15b    01/22/1999   Sweeney
State House newcomers get up to speed on critical issues
Brown co-sponsors the Rhode Island Legislative Policy Institute for new state legislators and others. They gather for panel sessions on health and education.
GSJ Story   23GSJ15d    01/22/1999   Lans
Faces of Brown: Frank Perna, communications control officer
Faces of Brown: Frank Perna, communications control officer with Police and Security.
GSJ Story   23GSJ15f    01/22/1999   Castillo
Brown announces James R. Rice Endowed Fund for Solid Mechanics
A lead gift by two former graduate students has established the James R. Rice Endowment for Solid Mechanics at Brown University. The fund will support a unique, flexible faculty position and a graduate fellowship in the Division of Engineering.
News Release   98-057    01/12/1999   Nickel
Bell Gallery to show Masami Teraoka retrospective through March 7
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present "Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, the Floating World Comes of Age" from Jan. 23 through March 7, 1999. The retrospective will feature more than 30 paintings produced by the Japanese-American painter during the last 25 years.
News Release   98-058    01/08/1999   Hare
Brown agrees to settlement with Massachusetts in Corrigan contract
Brown University and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts have filed a joint motion for settlement of issues arising from a professional services contract the University had with the John C. Corrigan Mental Health Center in Fall River. Brown will return $300,170 to the Commonwealth.
News Release   98-056    12/29/1998   Nickel
Student presidential hosts to be the University's ambassadors at events
Ten Brown University students, recently chosen as the first presidential hosts, will act as University ambassadors at events sponsored by President E. Gordon Gee, sharing their experiences with visitors.
News Release   98-054    12/15/1998   Lans
Two win Marshall Scholarships to study at universities in Britain
Two Brown University students were among 40 students nationwide to receive Marshall Scholarships for study in Britain next year. Thaddeus Heuer of Holliston, Mass., will study at the University of London, and Meena Seshamani of Warren, N.J., will study at the University of Oxford.
News Release   98-055    12/14/1998   Lans
New center seeks commericial applications for remote sensing technology
Brown is charting new territory in the field of remote sensing by beginning an effort to transfer some of its expertise and technology to the business community through the receipt of a grant from NASA to Jack Mustard and geological sciences.
GSJ Story   23GSJ14b    12/11/1998   Turner
Providence Singers: A choral sea of voices from Brown
More than 30 members of the Brown community are members of the Providence Singers, a community chorus that performs four times a year throughout Rhode Island.
GSJ Story   23GSJ14e    12/11/1998   Genereux
Targan available for interviews on Sunday night's Geminid meteor shower
The Geminid meteor shower predicted for this Sunday evening (Dec. 13, 1998) "may well be worth staying awake for," according to David Targan, director of Brown University's Ladd Observatory. Targan is available for interviews about the Geminids through noon on Friday, Dec. 11.
News Release   98-053    12/10/1998   Turner
Playing in the sand
For 10 weeks each summer, Martha Sharp Joukowsky leads Brown students to Jordan to unearth an ancient city's path. The Brown team's archaeological dig is at the Great Temple in Petra.
GSJ Story   23GSJ13b    12/04/1998   Lans
Star trek: Astronomers, students, Skyscrapers team up to view meteor storm
David Targan, others from Brown and Skyscrapers, an amateur astronomy club in RI, go to New Mexico to view Leonid meteor shower.
GSJ Story   23GSJ13d    12/04/1998   Targan
Rx for waste: Group helps hospitals recycle surplus medical supplies
Medical school students team up to help recycle surplus medical supplies from hospitals to clinics for the poor, charities, doctors overseas. The group calls itself Remedy of Brown University and was created by Dr. Rochelle S. Strenger, who had seen the recycling project done elsewhere.
GSJ Story   23GSJ13e    12/04/1998   Lans
Thinking globally, acting locally at United Nations simulation
High school students from around New England come to campus to participate in a United Nations simulation weekend. The event is sponsored by Brown's Model United Nations club.
GSJ Story   23GSJ13f    12/04/1998   Pipkin
Review board takes a look at Brown's financial aid policies
Review board is taking a look at Brown's financial aid policies. Changes like those made by Ivy peers would help low- and middle-class families and would increase Brown's ability to compete for the best students, says Michael Bartini, director of financial aid.
GSJ Story   23GSJ13g    12/04/1998   Bernstein
Penn State football coach Joe Paterno receives top alumni award
The Brown Alumni Association awarded Penn State football coach Joseph V. Paterno, Class of 1950, the William Rogers Award, its highest honor, at the fifteenth annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony. Fifteen alumni/ae were honored at the ceremony.
News Release   98-051    12/02/1998   Lans
Research symposium on weight loss, alcoholism, obsessive compulsives
Brown University's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior will hold its third annual research symposium Dec. 1 from 1-5:15 p.m. at Butler Hospital. The half-hour presentations are free and open to the public.
News Release   98-050    11/25/1998   Lans
Free forum asks if hospital mergers are good for the public health
The public is invited to attend a free program on hospital consolidations, entitled "Hospital Mergers: Are They Good For The Public Health?" The program will take place Friday, Dec.4, 4-6 p.m., in room 101, Salomon Center for Teaching, College Green, Brown University.
News Release   98-047    11/23/1998   Turner
Slain Russian Duma member was a visiting scholar at Brown University
For nearly five years, Galina Starovoitova was affiliated with Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies. She conducted research and writing on national self-determination and taught a popular international relations seminar series on the recent historical changes in the former Soviet Union.
News Release   98-049    11/23/1998   Sweeney
Scholar offers new look at inner workings of Warren Commission 35 years later
John Nicholas Brown scholar Max Holland takes a new look at the inner workings of the Warren Commission 35 years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
GSJ Story   23GSJ12a    11/20/1998   Lans
Brown Oxfam members, Marble Project featured in national kickoff
Brown members of Oxfam and their Marble Project are featured in Washington, DC, to kick off Oxfam fast.
GSJ Story   23GSJ12c    11/20/1998   Sweeney
Oxfam America features Brown's Marble Project in nation's capital
Four Brown University students representing the campus chapter of Oxfam America and its innovative Marble Project will be featured in the U.S. Capitol as Oxfam America kicks off its 25th annual "Fast for a World Harvest" Thursday, Nov. 19.
News Release   98-046    11/17/1998   Sweeney
Brown separates student charged in radiation case, limits campus access
Brown officials announced today that the University has separated a graduate student from the campus community and has limited his access to the campus. The graduate student was arrested Friday on felony charges involving radioactive contamination of two fellow students.
News Release   98-045    11/16/1998   Nickel
Brown University Graduate student arrested on charges of assault
A Brown University graduate student has been arrested by Providence Police on five felony charges. He is accused of providing two Brown students with radioactively contaminated food. Neither victim suffered a serious health problem. An investigation by Providence and Brown police is ongoing.
News Release   98-044    11/14/1998   Nickel
Brown's M.D.-Ph.D. program: The making of physician-scientists
Students in Brown's eight-year M.D.-Ph.D. program are strongly motivated toward careers in academic medicine, research and biomedical sciences. This package looks at Peter Lee's space shuttle experiment on the effects of microgravity on genetically altered muscle cells; and Sam Poore's research on the evolution of flight that landed him in a National Geographic article on dinosaurs. (GSJ of Nov. 13, 1998)
GSJ Story   23GSJ11a    11/13/1998   Turner
Faces of Brown: Security Officer Sean Greene
Faces of Brown: Security Officer Sean Greene, who often patrols campus by bike (GSJ of Nov. 13, 1998)
GSJ Story   23GSJ11d    11/13/1998   Castillo-Lopes
Playwright Tony Kushner will speak at Brown Nov. 18 at 6:30 p.m.
Playwright Tony Kushner will present a lecture at Brown University Wednesday, Nov. 18, at 6:30 p.m. The lecture, "The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism with a Key to the Scriptures," is part of the President's Lecture Series and is presented in association with the University's Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Trinity Repertory Theatre.
News Release   98-042    11/12/1998   Sweeney
$1.2-million grant will help Southeast Asians become R.I. teachers
A new program at Brown University will increase the number of Southeast Asian teachers in Rhode Island, an underrepresented population in the school systems.
News Release   98-039    11/11/1998   Lans
High school, Brown team up to create oral history of 1968 on Web
Students and teachers from South Kingstown High School and members of Brown's Scholarly Technology Group have created a new Web site that turns oral histories from 31 subjects into a multimedia resource for students, teachers and researchers interested in finding out about history and culture of 1968.
News Release   98-038    11/10/1998   Sweeney
Study provides instruction on emergency removal of football equipment
When treating a football player with a possible spinal cord injury, helmet and shoulder pads should be considered a unit and neither should be removed without the other, says a study by Brown University researchers in the October issue of the Annals of Emergency Medicine.
News Release   98-036    11/02/1998   Lans
Brown-RISD pumpkin-carving contest on Brown's College Green Oct. 30
A pumpkin-carving contest for students of Rhode Island School of Design and Brown University will be held Friday, Oct. 30, 1998, on The College Green at Brown. Judging begins at 7 p.m. Prizes will be awarded at 9 p.m. by Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. Some of the pumpkins will go to Hasbro Children's Hospital. Others will be displayed at WaterFire Oct. 31.
News Release   98-035a    10/28/1998   Sweeney
Steve Reich on campus for lecture, concerts featuring his works Nov. 6-7
Composer Steve Reich will deliver a lecture at 3 p.m. Friday, Nov. 6, 1998. Later that evening, the Dutch Percussion Group will perform Reich's "Music for Pieces of Wood." On Saturday, Nov. 7, the Brown Orchestra will perform with the Dutch Percussion Group. During this concert, which includes a piece by Reich, the composer will deliver remarks to the audience.
News Release   98-032    10/27/1998   Sweeney
West to discuss book, conduct R.I. straw poll at Brown Bookstore Oct. 30
As part of its celebration of a new book by Darrell West, the Brown Bookstore will conduct a straw poll for the R.I. governor and attorney general races. The public can cast votes at the bookstore on Friday, Oct. 30, from 9 a.m. - 6 p.m. The results will be announced following a 7 p.m. talk by the author.
News Release   98-031    10/22/1998   Lans
Summer research fellowship offered to area secondary school teachers
A new six-week research fellowship is available to secondary school teachers in Southeastern New England. It is supported by the John Nicholas Brown Center and Institute for Elementary and Secondary Education at Brown.
News Release   98-030    10/20/1998   Lans
Fredericka Wilson '99: Cookbook editor
Fredericka Wilson of Detroit, Mich., who will graduate from Brown in May 1999,has published a cookbook, "Freddie's Cooking with Family and Friends."
GSJ Story   23GSJ07a    10/16/1998   Sweeney
Endowment takes hedge-fund losses in stride
Bad news from hedge funds, including Everest Capital, in which Brown had an investment, looks different to managers who invest for perpetuity
GSJ Story   23GSJ07i    10/16/1998   Nickel
Lab safety goal: Practice Safe Science
After a laboratory explosion in which no one was seriously injured, the George Street Journal interviewed Steven Morin, Brown's director of risk management
GSJ Story   23GSJ07j    10/16/1998   Nickel
Brown senior cooks up a project to help pay off student loans
Fredericka Wilson of Detroit, Mich., who will graduate from Brown in May 1999, has published a cookbook, "Freddie's Cooking with Family and Friends."
News Release   98-028    10/15/1998   Sweeney
Learning-disabled Brown students mentor elementary-age counterparts
Two Brown students who have learning disabilities have started a mentoring program called Eye-to-Eye, which links students from the Vartan Gregorian Elementary School who have learning disabilities with Brown students who have learning disabilities. The project is facilitated by the Swearer Center.
GSJ Story   23GSJ06a    10/09/1998   Lans
MacMillan improves teaching, lab possibilities for campus
McMillan Hall, the University's new undergraduate sciences building, is formally dedicated Oct. 9. It creates a shared interdisciplinary space at Brown to serve the undergraduate teaching and laboratory needs of chemistry, geological and environmental sciences. A fair number of environmental issues and research questions overlap the three disciplines.
GSJ Story   23GSJ05a    10/02/1998   Turner
Public Affairs and University Relations restructures itself
Laura Freid, executive vice president of Public Affairs and University Relations, talks about the rationale behind her office's recent reorganization. The changes, which eliminate some positions, create others and centralize several administrative functions, aim at meeting challenges of Brown's growing communications needs.
GSJ Story   23GSJ05c    10/02/1998   Sweeney
Learning-disabled Brown students mentor elementary counterparts
On Monday, Oct. 5, 1998, six Brown University students with learning disabilities will begin mentoring six Vartan Gregorian Elementary School students who have similar learning disabilities.
News Release   98-023    09/29/1998   Lans
Brown to open new science building for public tours Saturday, Oct. 10
Brown University will dedicate its new undergraduate science instruction center, the W. Duncan MacMillan '53 Hall, on Friday, Oct. 9, 1998. The public is invited to an open house Saturday morning, Oct. 10, featuring special tours, research presentations and refreshments.
News Release   98-020    09/28/1998   Turner
Study examines Brown Ð Providence school partnerships
Brown graduate Lucia Trimbur's 40-page report examines why partnerships between the University and local public schools succeed or flounder. Trimbur, the first Cianci Urban Scholar, grew up in Cranston and is a member of the Brown Class of 1997.
News Release   98-022    09/28/1998   Lans
Schlesinger hopes to bring to development a holistic view of relationships
Leonard A. Schlesinger, the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, was named senior vice president for development in July. Schlesinger spoke about Brown and his plans for development office.
GSJ Story   23GSJ04a    09/25/1998   Nickel
NIH grant links 41 Brown and Tufts scientists for AIDS research
Scientists involved in AIDS research at Brown University and Tufts University will share a five-year multimillion grant from NIH that allows for collaboration across a broad range of disciplines.
GSJ Story   23GSJ04d    09/25/1998   Lans
Simmons named director of Annenberg Institute for School Reform
Warren Simmons, executive director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, has been named director of the Annenberg Institute for Education Reform, based at Brown University.
News Release   98-019    09/24/1998   Sweeney
Touring exhibit 'Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry' on display at Brown
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present "Hospice: A Photographic Inquiry" Oct. 24 through Dec. 13, 1998. This will be the Northeast's only showing of the exhibit, which tours through 2000.
News Release   98-021    09/23/1998   Lans
Growing number of Brown faculty visit Capitol Hill
Dr. Leonard goes to Washington: A growing number of Brown faculty are visiting Capitol Hill, where an appearance underscores Universitiy research and forges ties with Rhode Island's elected officials, other senators and representatives.
GSJ Story   23GSJ03a    09/18/1998   Turner
Star quality: Brown shows up in the movies and on television
The entertainment business has discovered Brown. Campus architecture -- and even the University's name -- are regularly sought for use in movies and commercials. Brown alumni informally known as the Hollywood "Brown mafia" also are active in the entertainment business.
GSJ Story   23GSJ03b    09/18/1998   Sweeney
Off Hours: Kathryne Jennings: voice instructor, artistic director of opera company
Off Hours: Kathryne Jennings, applied voice instructor, is the new artistic director of Ocean State Lyric Opera. Brown's music department and a number of Brown students and graduates are instrumental in OSLO as well.
GSJ Story   23GSJ03e    09/18/1998   Mahdesian
$1.4-million grant strengthens undergrad biological sciences education
A four-year $1.4-million grant to Brown from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute will support a broad range of education and research programs in the biological sciences, from new courses to new equipment.
News Release   98-017    09/16/1998   Turner
BEARS lend a paw to newcomers
More than 120 faculty and staff participate in the BEARS program (Brown Early Arrival Response System), which helped first-year students and their parents find their way around campus.
GSJ Story   23GSJ02c    09/11/1998   Lans
Faces of Brown: Det. David B. Boucher
Faces of Brown: P&S Detective David Boucher.
GSJ Story   23GSJ02d    09/11/1998   Castillo
Getting an eyeful about young sleepyheads
Dr. Judith Owens and Brown colleagues have received a grant to develop sleep education curriculum for use in medical schools. This will help expose medical students to issues surrounding sleep disorders in children and adolescents.
GSJ Story   23GSJ02f    09/11/1998   Turner
Batting around the speed of a baseball
Two Brown bioengineers are building a machine to measure the speed of a baseball as it comes off of an aluminum bat. NCAA has approved new ball speed standards, which precipitates the research.
GSJ Story   23GSJ02g    09/11/1998   Lans
There's an orientation for every type of newcomer
Getting off on the right foot: Brown has an orientation for every type of newcomer. Here's a look at some of the sessions offered to a variety of constituencies: faculty, staff, grad students, freshmen, international students, Third World Transition Program
GSJ Story   23GSJ01c    09/04/1998   Sweeney
High school students tackle timely topic of charter schools
High school students and their Brown student mentors participate in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP). They design their ideal charter school.
GSJ Story   23GSJ01f    09/04/1998   Lans
Five-year NIH grant links 41 Brown and Tufts scientists for AIDS research
A five-year National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant will support collaboration among 41 AIDS researchers affiliated with Brown University in Providence, R.I., and Tufts University in Boston.
News Release   98-015    09/01/1998   Lans
Brown Community for Learning in Retirement announces 14th season
The Brown Community for Learning in Retirement (BCLIR) will offer nine 12-week seminars in its fall semester. The fall program will begin with a convocation and buffet lunch at noon Thursday, Sept. 15, 1998, in Alumnae Hall. The convocation speaker will be Brown President E. Gordon Gee.
News Release   98-013    08/27/1998   Nickel
Students in Conn., Neb. will discuss foreign policy with elected officials
The Capitol Forum on America's Future prepares high school students for direct discussions on U.S. foreign policy with elected officials and policymakers in their home states. The Forum will be offered in Connecticut and Nebraska this year through the Choices for the 21st Century Education Project of Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
News Release   98-012    08/25/1998   Sweeney
Brown invites Ladd Observatory neighbors for tour and view of night sky
Brown University has invited its East Side neighbors near the Ladd Observatory to a special preview reception, tour and viewing of the night sky Wednesday, Aug. 26, 1998. The Observatory has been fully renovated and its grounds have been redesigned to provide an attractive green space for the neighborhood.
News Release   98-011a    08/24/1998   Nickel
Pulitzer Prize playwright to address 1,433 members of Class of 2002
Paula Vogel, Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and professor of English at Brown University, will be the featured speaker at Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 8, 1998, on The College Green. The ceremony will recognize faculty who have received honors during the past year.
News Release   98-010    08/21/1998   Lans
Bell Gallery to present Korean art from the Won-Kyung Cho Collection
Ninety Korean paintings and porcelains will be on display at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University from Aug. 29 through Oct. 11, 1998, as part of the exhibition titled Symbolism and Simplicity: Korean Art from the Won-Kyung Cho Collection.
News Release   98-009    08/06/1998   Mahdesian
Brown's Police and Security Services receives national accreditation
The Department of Police and Security Services at Brown University has received national accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA). It is the first Ivy League police department and the third police department in Rhode Island to receive accreditation.
News Release   98-008    08/05/1998   Nickel
Brown marks 50th anniversary of Egyptology with year-long celebration
Brown University will celebrate the 50th anniversary of its Department of Egyptology and the 200th anniversary of the study of Egypt with a year-long series of events, beginning in September. The celebration will include illustrated talks, art exhibitions and a costume ball on Halloween.
News Release   98-007    07/30/1998   Mahdesian
Learning through the arts: BSHS becomes testing ground for curriculum
Brown Summer High School program becomes a test case for using the performing arts to teach literacy skills. Providence and Rhode Island teachers are participating in the three-year program. (GSJ of July 24, 1998)
GSJ Story   22GSJ34a    07/24/1998   Mahdesian
Faces of Brown: Zachary Fox, security officer
Faces of Brown: Zachary Fox, security officer (GSJ of July 24, 1998)
GSJ Story   22GSJ34c    07/24/1998   Castillo
B-BOP: Brown's Best Office Practices from the Internal Audit Department
B-BOP: Brown's Best Office Practices from the Internal Audit Department, examines procedures for accounting for equipment and getting computers updated for the year 2000 date change. (GSJ of July 24, 1998)
GSJ Story   22GSJ34f    07/24/1998   Escalera
Brown names two City of Providence Scholars for the Class of 2002
Adeola Oredola of Central High School and Vadim Slavin of Classical High School, were recently named City of Providence Scholars for the Brown Class of 2002. They will receive financial support throughout their four years at the University.
News Release   98-006    07/23/1998   Lans
What makes a good mentor?
LAST WORD: Brown hosted a conference of the Association for Religion and Intellectual Life at which participants discussed mentoring and mentoring communities. Several offered their thoughts about the ingredients that go into the making of a good mentor.
GSJ Story   22GSJ33a    07/10/1998   Mahdesian
Leonard A. Schlesinger named senior vice president for development
Leonard A. Schlesinger, currently the George F. Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, has been appointed senior vice president for development at Brown University. Schlesinger will also serve as professor of sociology with tenure and as professor of public policy.
News Release   98-003    07/09/1998   Nickel
Scientists find solar system's hottest surfaces on Jupiter's moon Io
Hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Io sizzle at the highest recorded surface temperatures of any planetary body in the solar system. Planetary scientists from University of Arizona, Brown University and five other institutions report this finding in the July 3 issue of the weekly journal Science.
News Release   98-001    07/02/1998   Morton
Fall River brothers receive Outstanding Employee Award at Brown
Richard Lopes and Lewis "Roy" Lopes of Fall River, Mass., custodians in the Brown Bookstore, are the recipients of Brown University's first Plant Operations Outstanding Employee Award.
News Release   98-002    07/02/1998   Sweeney
Brown Corporation will begin academic year with new leadership
Incoming Chancellor Stephen Robert, Vice Chancellor Marie Langlois, Treasurer Matthew Mallow, and Secretary Wendy Strothman will lead the Brown Corporation into the new academic year. They and 11 new or re-elected trustees and fellows will begin their duties July 1, 1998. The Corporation is the governing body of Brown University.
News Release   97-150    06/30/1998   Nickel
Faces of Brown: Mark Perry -- crime prevention officer
Faces of Brown: Mark Perry, crime prevention officer, of Police and Security
GSJ Story   22GSJ32c    06/26/1998   Sweeney
One in four elderly cancer patients receives no pain medication
Pain management in nursing homes: One in four elderly cancer patients receives no pain medication, according to research published in the Journal of American Medical Association. Author of study is Giovanni Gambassi, professor in the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research at Brown University and one of the study's authors.
GSJ Story   22GSJ32e    06/26/1998   Turner
Corps of volunteers link R.I. schools to Internet and new ways of learning
In Providence, Brown employees from CIS (the department of Computing and Information Services) work through Tech Corps to wire three schools for connections to the Internet.
GSJ Story   22GSJ32f    06/26/1998   Lans
New Brown professor establishing weight loss and obesity lab
Nationally known weight-loss researcher and behavioral medicine researcher Rena Wing, now affiliated with Brown University and Miriam Hospital, seeks participants in a weight-loss study.
GSJ Story   22GSJ32g    06/26/1998   Turner
Brown faculty to discuss research at World AIDS Conference
Brown University researchers will discuss a variety of research projects at the 12th World AIDS Conference and related events, beginning June 25, 1998, in Geneva. (Six story ideas attached.)
News Release   97-149    06/24/1998   Morton
Brown and plaintiffs seek court's approval of Title IX joint agreement
Brown University and attorneys for plaintiffs in a Title IX athletics discrimination case received the District Court's preliminary approval of a joint agreement that will settle remaining legal issues in the Title IX compliance case.
News Release   97-148    06/23/1998   Nickel
New provost a skilled administrator with 'knack for figuring priorities
An interview with William S. Simmons, who has been selected as the new executive vice president and provost of Brown. Simmons, an anthropologist and administrator at the University of California-Berkeley, said he learned early in his academic career that he had a knack for solving problems and setting priorities.
GSJ Story   22GSJ31c    06/12/1998   Sweeney
Text of Gee inaugural speech, "The Convergence of History and Potential"
Text of Brown University President E. Gordon Gee's inauguration address, speech delivered at his installation. "The Convergence of History and Potential"
GSJ Story   22GSJ31d    06/12/1998   Gee
George Street Journal, Brown Alumni Magazine win gold medals in national competition
George Street Journal (GSJ) and Brown Alumni Magazine (BAM) win gold medals (top awards) in a national competition (CASE) for publications, communications.
GSJ Story   22GSJ31e    06/12/1998   Sweeney
Carol Wooten to retire as head of planning and construction at Brown
Carol Wooten, who has led Brown's physical planning and construction office since 1980, will retire from the University at the end of July.
News Release   97-146    06/12/1998   Nickel
William S. Simmons named executive vice president and provost
William S. Simmons, dean of the Division of Social Sciences at the University of CaliforniaÐBerkeley, has been named executive vice president and provost of Brown University.
News Release   97-143    06/09/1998   Nickel
Chelsea Remington elected head of Brown Annual Fund Committee
Chelsey C. Remington, a 1961 alumna of Brown University, has been elected national chair of the Brown Annual Fund Executive Committee.
News Release   97-142    06/04/1998   Nickel
Michael Bartini named director of Brown's Office of Financial Aid
Michael D. Bartini, director of financial aid services in the College Board's New England Office, has been named director of financial aid at Brown University.
News Release   97-140    05/29/1998   Nickel
Brown hosts benefit for program that wires schools for the Internet
Rhode Island K-12 students will demonstrate projects using the Internet during a fund-raiser for TECH CORPS Rhode Island, a non-profit organization devoted to wiring schools for Internet access. Brown President E. Gordon Gee will host the event on Thursday, May 28, from 6 to 8 p.m. at Brown's Center for Information Technology, corner of Waterman and Thayer streets. A $50 donation is requested.
News Release   97-138    05/26/1998   Lans
Gordon Gee: Brown's history and traditions will shape Ôthe new university'
In his inaugural address, delivered at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, May 23, 1998, Brown University President E. Gordon Gee honored the University's history and academic traditions and cited them as significant factors that would "set the standard for the new university in the new century."
News Release   97-134    05/23/1998   Nickel
Thayer Street dorm renamed in honor of President emeritus Gregorian
The Thayer Street Quadrangle has been renamed the Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle to honor Brown University's 16th president. Also, a portrait of Gregorian, which will hang in Sayles Hall, was unveiled May 22.
News Release   97-135    05/23/1998   Sweeney
Chancellor Joukowsky to become ambassador for Brown
Artemis A. W. Joukowsky, who will step down as Brown University's chancellor June 30, 1998, will become the University's new ambassador, a role created for him by President E. Gordon Gee.
News Release   97-136    05/23/1998   Sweeney
After Commencement, graduates start businesses, write books, travel and study
Brown University graduates go far after graduating. They start businesses in Ireland, travel to Europe, get jobs, go to graduate school, write books
GSJ Story   22GSJ30c    05/22/1998   Lans
Even in their careers, graduates continue to learn on the job
Brown graduates do not enter a job for life once they graduate. Even in their careers, graduates continue the explorations they started here at Brown, says Sheila Curran of Career Planning Services.
GSJ Story   22GSJ30d    05/22/1998   Lans
The signs and symbols of Commencement exercises
A number of signs and symbols of Brown are represented during Commencement, including the University mace; academic gowns and hoods of symbolic colors; the Manning Chair
GSJ Story   22GSJ30f    05/22/1998   Sweeney
Arlene Gorton, retiring after 37 years, reflects on women's athletics
Arlene Gorton, who is retiring from Brown University after 37 years in the Athletics Department, has seen numerous changes in women's athletics during that time.
GSJ Story   22GSJ30g    05/22/1998   Nickel
Doctoral dissertations represent breadth and depth of scholarship
Some 140 doctoral dissertations will be presented for completion of a Ph.D. at Brown. A look at some of the titles gives an idea of the depth and breadth of scholarship.
GSJ Story   22GSJ30h    05/22/1998   Mahdesian
Brown University student's odyssey depicted in A Hope in the Unseen
A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Ron Suskind, chronicles the path of Cedric Jennings from his high school in inner-city Washington, D.C., to Brown University. The book tour will be launched at Brown during a Commencement Forum Saturday, May 23.
News Release   97-130    05/18/1998   Mahdesian
Commencement speakers include students and honored guests
New President E. Gordon Gee, theologian Margaret R. Miles, South African university chancellor Mamphela Ramphele and members of the Class of 1998 are among those who will speak during Brown's 230th Commencement Weekend, May 23-25.
News Release   97-128    05/13/1998   Lans
Task force recommends new models for two student affairs offices
A task force studying the organizational and working relationships of the offices of the Dean of Student Life and the Dean of the College has submitted its report to Interim Provost Sheila E. Blumstein. The task force recommended two models for restructuring the offices in a way that will avoid duplication and help unify the academic and social elements of the student experience at Brown.
News Release   97-122    05/11/1998   Nickel
Brown to award eight honorary degrees at 230th Commencement
At Commencement Monday, May 25, Brown University will present honorary degrees to author Chinua Achebe, composer John Harbison, philanthropist H. Anthony Ittleson, Maphela Ramphele of the University of Cape Town, mathematician Kenneth Ribet, educator Theodore R. Sizer, U.S. District Judge Joseph L. Tauro and Janet Yellen of the Council of Economic Advisers.
News Release   97-125    05/11/1998   Sweeney
Annenberg Institute selects fellows to discuss improving urban education
Thirteen university professors, urban educators and administrators have been selected to serve two-year terms as Senior Fellows for the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, based at Brown University. They will be charged with examining ways to improve urban education by focusing on improved teacher recruitment, training, support and retention.
News Release   97-127    05/11/1998   Lans
ÔHope in the Unseen' follows Cedric Jennings from inner city to College Hill
A new book titled "A Hope in the Unseen" chronicles undergraduate Cedric Jennings' transition from inner-city high school achiever in Washington, D.C., to culture-shocked survivor at Brown University. The book is written by Ron Suskind, a reporter for the Wall Street Journal.
GSJ Story   22GSJ29b    05/08/1998   Mahdesian
100 years of teacher education at Brown University
For more than 100 years, Brown has been producing educators.
GSJ Story   22GSJ29e    05/08/1998   Lans
Brown to hold 230th Commencement Monday, May 25, 1998
Chief Marshal Willard C. Butcher '48 will lead more than 6,000 people down College Hill on Monday, May 25, forming one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The Commencement procession and 230th academic exercises cap a four-day Commencement and Reunion Weekend at Brown. In addition to presiding at his first Brown Commencement, President E. Gordon Gee will deliver an inaugural address on Saturday, May 23, at 11:30 a.m.
News Release   97-121    05/08/1998   Nickel
Forum to discuss public access to public school information
A public forum, co-sponsored by Brown University's Taubman Center and ACCESS/RI, will discuss the rationale and methods for public access to public school information. Five panelists will make brief presentations beginning at 7 p.m. Monday, May 18, 1998, in Room 102 of Wilson Hall, located on the Brown campus.
News Release   97-126a    05/08/1998   Nickel
10 employees receive Browy Says Thank You awards
Ten members of Brown University's support staff received Brown Says Thank You! awards for the innovation, initiative, service and personal commitment they have demonstrated in their work. The awards were presented at the University's annual staff appreciation breakfast May 7.
News Release   97-123    05/07/1998   Sweeney
Can I quote you on that? Brown scientists meet the press
Despite the risks of being misquoted and misunderstood by the media, Brown professors and researchers take the time to communicate the details of their work to reporters.
GSJ Story   22GSJ28a    05/01/1998   Morton
Haitian-American medical student hopes serving in Navy will complement interest in international medicine
Michelle Ferdinand, a Brown student from Haiti, is attending medical school courtesy of the Navy. She also has performed public service in Haiti.
GSJ Story   22GSJ28b    05/01/1998   Mahdesian
26 undergraduates receive Royce fellowships for research, public service
Twenty-six distinguished Brown University undergraduates will receive Royce Fellowships, which will enable them to advance their research and public service projects locally, nationally and internationally. In many cases, the Fellows will work side by side with senior faculty in laboratories and classrooms.
News Release   97-119    05/01/1998   Sweeney
Brown student studies deportations in Portuguese community
Brown University anthropology graduate student Miguel D. Moniz is researching the growing rate of deportation from North America to the Azores Islands. He recently interviewed resident aliens from southern New England who are awaiting deportation, and plans to spend a year in the Azores documenting their experiences once abroad.
News Release   97-120    05/01/1998   Lans
New book attempts to expand definition of the "good mother"
Brown professor Cynthia Garc’a Coll is one of the editors and authors of Mothering Against the Odds, Diverse Voices of Contemporary Mothers. The book challenges the dominant cultural stereotype of the "good mother" by presenting the stories of women who do not conform. It is scheduled for release in early May 1998.
News Release   97-117    04/27/1998   Lans
Building self-esteem at the end of a rope: OLEEP program
Through BOLT's Outdoor Leadership ane Experiential Education Program (OLEEP), Providence high shool pupils and their Brown student mentors learn about success and self-esteem by taking a ropes course in Conn.
GSJ Story   22GSJ27c    04/24/1998   Lans
Head of Brown's investment office to join Hughes Medical Institute
Robert J. Kolyer Jr., associate vice president for investments at Brown, will leave the University June 1 to become a managing director in the investment office of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. Kolyer has directed Brown's investment office since 1988.
News Release   97-116    04/23/1998   Nickel
Survey on life in southern Ethiopia given to government policy-makers
A survey on community and family life in Ethiopia, conducted in part by the Brown University Population Studies and Training Center, is expected to be used as a policy planning tool by the Ethiopian government.
News Release   97-115    04/21/1998   Lans
Brian Hawkins to leave Brown, become president and CEO of EDUCAUSE
Brown Senior Vice President Brian L. Hawkins has been named president and CEO of EDUCAUSE, a new organization formed by the consolidation of Educom and CAUSE, the nation's premier associations for information technology in higher education.
News Release   97-114    04/20/1998   Nickel
Faces of Brown: Campus Police Officer Roland Garant
Faces of Brown: Campus Police Officer Roland Garant
GSJ Story   22GSJ26c    04/17/1998   Sweeney
Howard Foundation at Brown announces 1998-99 grant winners
Eleven writers and poets from colleges and universities throughout the country have received 1998-99 fellowships from the George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, administered by Brown University.
News Release   97-113    04/16/1998   Mahdesian
U.S. and former Soviet officials to seek reasons why the Cold War ended
Reagan-era policy-makers from the former Soviet Union and the United States will gather at Brown University May 8 to 10, 1998, to analyze the end of the Cold War and determine whether there are lessons to be learned for policy-making today.
News Release   97-105    04/15/1998   Nickel
Brown creates Code of Conduct for vendors of Brown-imprinted goods
Brown University will require vendors who are licensed to supply products imprinted with the Brown name or symbols to adhere to a Code of Conduct that respects labor law, worker rights, environmental preservation and a high standard of business ethics. The code was developed by students and administrators as an effort to end sweatshop abuses.
News Release   97-107    04/13/1998   Nickel
Researchers patent technology for voice-activated camera tracking
Brown engineers receive patent for technology that allows voice-actuated camera tracking. The technology has been licensed to Polycom, a maker and marketer of videoconferencing products.
News Release   97-112    04/13/1998   Turner
International graduate students and spouses often struggle to fit into community
International graduate students and their spouses often struggle to fit into the community of Brown and Providence. A broad network offers support and assistance.
GSJ Story   22GSJ25a    04/10/1998   Lans
Transportation talks on fast track: Brown, RIPTA explore ways employees travel to campus
Brown teams up with RIPTA to explore commuting alternatives as ways to alleviate lack of parking, pollution
GSJ Story   22GSJ25b    04/10/1998   Mahdesian
The year 2000 and desktop computing: Make sure software meets compliance
University is making progress toward solving the Year 2000 (Y2K) computing problem. People at Brown who use desktop computers will have to ensure their software meets compliance
GSJ Story   22GSJ25c    04/10/1998   Oribello
Department of Police and Security aims for national accreditation
The Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies will conduct an on-site visit to the Brown campus May 2 to 6. Public comment is sought from the community at a forum May 4; comments also will be accepted by telephone May 5.
News Release   97-109    04/10/1998   Sweeney
Jamaican prime minister to receive honorary degree from Brown
Brown University President E. Gordon Gee will confer an honorary Doctor of Laws degree on the Right Honorable P. J. Patterson, prime minister of Jamaica, at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10, 1998, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Patterson will deliver the keynote address at a regional meeting of Caribbean students.
News Release   97-110    04/10/1998   Mahdesian
Stakeholders' forum will examine public access to police documents
Police, ACLU, legal experts and the public will gather at Brown University at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 8, for an open forum on the police and access to public documents.
News Release   97-106    04/06/1998   Mahdesian
April 6 is National Student-Athlete Day
Brown athletes and their public service projects are celebrated as part of National Student-Athlete Day
GSJ Story   22GSJ24b    04/03/1998   Lans
Faces of Brown: Mary O'Reilly of Special Events
Faces of Brown: Mary O'Reilly of Special Events
GSJ Story   22GSJ24c    04/03/1998   Sweeney
Off Hours: Fred Jackson -- Greenhouse manager, talk show host
Off Hours: Fred Jackson, manager of Brown's greenhouse, hosts a gardening show on radio
GSJ Story   22GSJ23e    03/27/1998   Turner
Honoring the man who sent writing in New Directions
A festival at brown features noted writers paying tribute to editor James Laughlin, the founder of New Directions Press, one of the publishing world's most important independent presses
GSJ Story   22GSJ23f    03/27/1998   Mahdesian
Study reports that R.I. cities, towns fall short in complying with open records laws
In a statewide audit of Rhode Island cities and towns conducted by students at Brown and URI, researchers were given access to nearly 85 percent of the public documents they requested. Police departments failed to comply with open records law more often than did town clerks and school departments
GSJ Story   22GSJ23h    03/27/1998   Nickel
Personal approach works to increase breast cancer screening rates
Women are more likely to start getting regular mammograms if health information is tailored to their personal concerns, according to a Brown University study of nearly 1,400 women in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. The findings may lead to early detection and treatment of breast cancer in more women.
News Release   97-101    03/27/1998   Morton
Jamaica's prime minister to keynote regional Caribbean student forum
The Right Honorable P. J. Patterson, prime minister of Jamaica, will give the keynote address at the Sixth Annual Northeast Regional Caribbean Students Conference, April 10-12 on the Brown campus. Patterson's address will take place at 7 p.m. Friday, April 10, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   97-103    03/25/1998   Mahdesian
Brown staffer will help start the ignition on Express Travel program
Kurt Teichert, coordinator of the Brown Is Green program, will be a featured speaker at a news conference to launch RIPTA's Express Travel program at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday, March 24, on the steps of the Federal Building in downtown Providence. Gov. Lincoln Almond will proclaim the week of March 23 Commute-to-Work Week.
News Release   97-102    03/23/1998   Mahdesian
Annenberg Institute releases first report on public engagement in education
Reasons for Hope, Voices for Change, a new report describing an 18-month study of public engagement in America's public schools, was released today in Washington by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University.
News Release   97-099    03/19/1998   Sweeney
Study: RI cities, towns not fully compliant with records law
Researchers were given access to public documents nearly 85 percent of the time during a recent audit of public records access in Rhode Island cities and towns. The study, conducted by students at Brown University and the University of Rhode Island, provides detailed statistical data on compliance by town clerks, school boards and police departments.
News Release   97-095    03/16/1998   Nickel
Faces of Brown: Calvin Watts, Campus Police Officer
Faces of Brown: Campus Security Office Calvin Watts
GSJ Story   22GSJ22d    03/13/1998   
New Directions Press founder to be honored in three-day festival
The Brown University Program in Creative Writing will host a three-day memorial tribute to James Laughlin, founder and editor of New Directions Press. The New Directions Festival will take place March 31 through April 2 on the Brown campus.
News Release   97-097    03/12/1998   Mahdesian
Self-interest not whole secret of successful economy, economist says
While its ability to draw on self-interest has been among its greatest strengths, capitalism still needs a reserve of other values, says Louis Putterman, Brown University economics professor.
News Release   97-098    03/12/1998   Sweeney
Detailed images from Jovian moon Europa point to slush below surface
Detailed images from the moon Europa point to slush below the surface of Jupiter. Several Brown scientists and graduate students are on the team analyzing the images, presented at a NASA/JPL/Brown news conference
GSJ Story   22GSJ21a    03/06/1998   Morton
Faces of Brown: Michael Jackson, reference librarian
Faces of Brown: Michael Jackson, reference librarian
GSJ Story   22GSJ21b    03/06/1998   Sweeney
Constance Bumgarner Gee: Honored to be Brown's first lady'
In an interview with the GSJ, Constance Bumgarner Gee discusses her unique role within the University and her special partnership with husband Gordon Gee, Brown's president
GSJ Story   22GSJ21c    03/06/1998   Sweeney
Gice 'em the business: Brown's first entrepreneurship forum
Brown alumni who are making a living as entrepreneurs speak to undergraduates about their trials and tribulations.
GSJ Story   22GSJ21e    03/06/1998   Rabbino
Physicians are missing opportunities to counsel patients against smoking
A survey of 3,037 adult cigarette smokers in Rhode Island who had visited physicians within the past year found that half were not advised to quit. Doctors are missing opportunities to provide the smoking interventions, say investigators from the Brown University School of Medicine.
News Release   97-093    03/05/1998   Lans
Exhibition will mark centenary of Spanish-American War
Brown University will present A Splendid Little War, 1898: The Artists' Perspective, an exhibition that opens April 10, and a one-day symposium presented April 11, to commemorate the centenary of the Spanish-American War.
News Release   97-094    03/05/1998   Mahdesian
Bell Gallery to present Kelley collection of African-American art
The Harmon and Harriet Kelley Collection of African American Art will be presented by the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University from April 18 through May 31, 1998. The Kelley collection has been called "one of the finest that has been assembled tracing the history of African-American art."
News Release   97-091    03/02/1998   Mahdesian
Beanie Baby raffle will benefit Rhode Island Community Food Bank
The Brown University Bookstore will hold weekly raffles in March for a chance to win a "Princess" bear Beanie Baby. The Bookstore will donate all proceeds to the Rhode Island Community Food Bank.
News Release   97-092    03/02/1998   Sweeney
Brown, URI researchers to release evaluation of public records access
Students and faculty from Brown University and the University of Rhode Island will release a report evaluating the level and quality of access to public records afforded by Rhode Island cities and towns. The researchers will discuss their work during a news conference at 9:30 a.m. Monday, March 16, 1998, in the Cranston Public Library.
News Release   97-095a    03/02/1998   Nickel
Researchers speak at NIH about new fertility probes
Brown-affiliated researchers speak at the NIH about a new fertility probe that tests the viability of eggs
GSJ Story   22GSJ20c    02/27/1998   Turner
Bobby Jindal '92 is making a name for himself in health-care reform
Having overhauled a health agency in Louisiana, Brown alumnus Bobby Jindal now turns his attention to the national health-care arena and Medicare reform
GSJ Story   22GSJ20d    02/27/1998   Lans
Century of student handbooks reflects changes in life at Brown
Excerpts from a century of rules and regulations found in Brown and Pembroke student handbooks
GSJ Story   22GSJ20g    02/27/1998   Lans
Scientists will present Galileo images suggesting water on Jupiter moon
At an 11 a.m. press briefing Monday, March 2, 1998, scientists from NASA and Brown University will discuss new images of Jupiter's moon Europa taken by the Galileo spacecraft. The images suggest water may exist below Europa's frozen surface.
News Release   97-090    02/27/1998   Turner
Brown to offer meningitis vaccination clinics on campus in March
Brown University will offer meningitis vaccinations to Brown students 22 years of age or younger at vaccination clinics in March. The vaccine will be provided to the University at no cost by the Rhode Island Department of Health.
News Release   97-088    02/26/1998   Nickel
Accreditation team to hold forums March 9 for faculty, staff, students
The NEASC visiting team has scheduled separate faculty, staff and student forums to receive comments about Brown University accreditation.
News Release   97-089    02/26/1998   Sweeney
NCAA certifies Brown's athletics program
NCAA certifies Brown athletics program
GSJ Story   22GSJ19d    02/20/1998   Nickel
Gee forgoes Inaugural Weekend, plans series of academic, community events
Brown President E. Gordon Gee has announced that inaugural ceremonies planned for April 24-25, 1998, will instead be distributed across the year, with the inaugural address now scheduled for Commencement Weekend. A portion of the funds that would have been dedicated to organizing and staging a formal inauguration will be divided equally between the University's libraries and scholarship fund.
News Release   97-085    02/20/1998   Nickel
Jindal, director of national Medicare reform commission, to speak
Bobby Jindal, 26, director of the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, will outline the pressures and issues facing that program in a public lecture Feb. 28 at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The Brown alumnus resigned as head of the Louisiana Department of Health and Hospitals earlier this month to accept the one-year post.
News Release   97-084    02/17/1998   Lans
Brown approves lowest percentage fee increase in more than 30 years
The Brown Corporation has approved an increase of 3.9 percent in total undergraduate fees, the lowest percentage increase since 1967. Tuition will rise 4.5 percent to $23,616; undergraduate fees, including room and board, will total $31,060. Brown's undergraduate financial aid budget, which is indexed to increases in overall fees, will receive $1.6 million in new funding.
News Release   97-082    02/14/1998   Nickel
Outsiders looking in: an overview of Brown
In preparation for Becoming Brown's president, E. Gordon Gee asked a team of educators to provide an independent overview of the University. The trio -- Frank Rhodes, Pat McPherson and Len Schlesinger -- spent time on campus in the fall of 1997 talking with trustees, faculty, staff and students. Gee shared excerpts of the team's final report.
GSJ Story   22GSJ18a    02/13/1998   Sweeney
Study of arts, music may enhance young pupils' math and reading skills
Martin F. Gardiner of Brown University's Center for the Study of Human Development will discuss his work investigating how youngsters who studied the arts and music in their classrooms showed improved math and reading skills. He will speak Tuesday, Feb. 17, 1998, at a 10:30 a.m. news briefing and during a 2:15-4:15 p.m. session titled "Alternate Mechanisms for Motor and Visual Spatial Cognition."
News Release   97-080i    02/12/1998   Sweeney
Queen Elizabeth I will come to life during Women's History Month
During Women's History Month, actress Marilyn Murphy Meardon will bring Queen Elizabeth I to life in three performances drawn from texts written by one of Great Britain's greatest rulers. In Her Own Words: Elizabeth I Onstage and Online is sponsored by Brown University's Women Writers Project and Rhode Island's Office of Library and Information Services.
News Release   97-081    02/12/1998   Sweeney
Brown University athletic program receives certification from NCAA
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced today that Brown University has successfully completed the certification process now required of all Division I institutions.
News Release   97-083    02/12/1998   Humm
Public affairs conference to paint a complex portrait of art in America
The 18th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference, titled The Arts in America: Creativity and Controversy, will take place Feb. 23 through Feb. 27, 1998. It will be presented in partnership with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and in conjunction with an arts conference organized by the Rhode Island State Council on the Arts (RISCA).
News Release   97-071    02/10/1998   Mahdesian
Reorganization of senior administration leads to larger role for provost
Brown University President E. Gordon Gee has announced a reorganization of the senior administration, which streamlines and expands the provost's office and upgrades the position to executive vice president and provost. Mark Schupack, former dean of the Graduate School, has been named to the new position of vice provost for affiliated programs.
News Release   97-078    02/09/1998   Nickel
Professor to outline dynamic history, uncertain future of mathematics
The practice and instruction of mathematics have changed over history, and more changes are in store, according to Brown Professor Joan L. Richards, who will join a discussion of "The Changing Environment of Science" from 3 to 6 p.m. Feb. 14 at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
News Release   97-079i    02/09/1998   Lans
Gee enlists faculty in plans for Brown, urges streamlined administration
At his first faculty meeting, President Gee urges a streamlined administration, calls for faculty participation in shaping Brown's future
GSJ Story   22GSJ17a    02/06/1998   Sweeney
The Bear necessities -- what it takes to be Brown's mascot
The students who don the Brown Bear costume bring life to the University's mascot. But they'll never reveal their faces.
GSJ Story   22GSJ17b    02/06/1998   Lans
Last Word: Can there be one America?
Last Word: Can there be one America? John Eng-Wong, director of Brown's Office of Foreign Student, Faculty and Staff Services, provides his perspective, reflected in a summer trip from Williamsburg to Washington, D.C.
GSJ Story   22GSJ17d    02/06/1998   Eng-Wong
Blumstein appoints task force on academic/non-academic student life
Since 1979, Brown University has had separate dean's offices for the academic and non-academic areas of undergraduate student life. A task force appointed by Interim Provost Sheila Blumstein will review the rationale for that arrangement and consider whether the two-office structure is the optimal way of organizing student affairs.
News Release   97-077    02/06/1998   Nickel
Edward J. Wing named chair of the Department of Medicine
Edward J. Wing, M.D., has been named chairman of the Department of Medicine in the Brown University School of Medicine. Wing comes to Brown after serving as interim chairman of the Department of Medicine and Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine.
News Release   97-076    02/04/1998   Turner
Brown University honors 17 employees for their 25 years of service
Brown University annually honors employees who have served 10, 20 and 25 years at the University. At a special awards luncheon Feb. 3, 1998, employees who have worked at Brown for 25 years received an engraved Brown University chair in appreciation of their dedication.
News Release   97-074    02/03/1998   Sweeney
Changes at Human Resources hope to enhance 'human' aspect of the office
Changes in the human resources department at Brown hope to enhance service aspect of the office. In the wings are a staff advisory panel, a mentor program and greater employee recognition
GSJ Story   22GSJ16a    01/30/1998   Sweeney
Race, diversity get in-depth treatment in four-day seminar
The offices of Training and Development and EEO sponsor a four-day-long diversity seminar for University employees in tribute to Martin Luther King Jr., to support President Clinton's initiative on race, and to "celebrate community" at Brown.
GSJ Story   22GSJ16e    01/30/1998   Sweeney
International UTRAs: Opportunities for students, faculty to work abroad
International UTRAs increase opportunities for Brown students to do research in another country
GSJ Story   22GSJ16f    01/30/1998   Romer
Last Word: All I needed to know about life I learned from soup
Last Word: Life is like a recipe for soup, says William Jackson, president of Brown University Research Foundation.
GSJ Story   22GSJ16g    01/30/1998   Jackson
Pell seminar Feb. 9 will examine the making of excellent teachers
The Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University is sponsoring a policy seminar that will consider the steps needed to prepare, recruit and support excellent teachers. Claudio Sanchez, education reporter for National Public Radio, will moderate a panel of educators and policymakers who will gather from 4-6 p.m. Feb. 9 in Sayles Hall.
News Release   97-070    01/26/1998   Sweeney
Work of Annette Messager to be featured at Bell Gallery
An exhibition of works by French artist Annette Messager, titled "Map of temper, Map of tenderness," will be presented at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University from Jan. 31 through March 15, 1998. Messager will speak at an opening reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 30, at the gallery, 64 College St. in the List Art Center.
News Release   97-072    01/26/1998   Mahdesian
Renewed bipartisan support for research spurs challenges
A look at the numbers suggests that Brown benefited from the improved research and development (R&D) climate. In general, research funding for Brown was $90 million for sponsored activities in fiscal year 1997, a 44-percent increase over the previous year. This article looks at trends in Brown's R&D funds as well as national trends
GSJ Story   22GSJ15a    01/23/1998   Turner
State provides funds to three ventures involving Brown faculty
Rhode Island's new Slater Technology Fund Innovation Partnership Program is created to spur manufacturing and job growth based on local technology. Three collaborations involving Brown engineering faculty received some of this money: a laser endeavor, technology for high-rate preparation of indium tin oxide powder, and an effort to advance digital color printing technology.
GSJ Story   22GSJ15c    01/23/1998   Turner
Recovering indirect costs: sponsored-funding activities involve millions of dollars at Brown
As a private university, Brown relies heavily on recovering the facilities and administrative (F&A) costs, formerly called indirect costs, of its sponsored activities. Sponsored-funding activities involve millions of dollars at Brown, and recovery of F&A costs plays a key role in the University's overall budget profess
GSJ Story   22GSJ15d    01/23/1998   Turner
Case study in grant applications: Population Studies and Training Center
Five years ago Dennis Hogan was deciding the fate of grant applications for the National Institutes of Health. Now he is using his experience to help Brown faculty at the Population Studies and Training Center to produce successful applications. PSTC saw a dramatic increase in research funding recently, from $406,000 in 1996 to $1.6 million last year.
GSJ Story   22GSJ15f    01/23/1998   Lans
ORA supports faculty research
If you plan to conduct research at Brown, expect to work with the Office of Research Administration, which helps departments and faculty members identify funding sources, prepare proposals and negotiate contracts, grants and other agreements
GSJ Story   22GSJ15h    01/23/1998   Turner
The staff-eye view: Top concerns include salaries, benefits, communications, diversity
A survey of staff found that Brown employees give the University high marks for academic quality, but their top concerns include salaries and benefits, internal communications and diversity issues. The survey was sponsored by the Office of Public Affairs and University Relations, and was conducted by a Cambridge, Mass., public opinion polling firm.
GSJ Story   22GSJ15j    01/23/1998   Nickel
Taking a turn at the crystal ball
If the New York Times were to run a story about Brown on front page five years from now, what would you hope the story would be about? Several Brown administrators had an opportunity to offer their ideas when E. Gordon Gee was about to become Brown's president. This article expanded the query to members of the Brown community. Responses ranged from ideas for the medical school to the undergraduate orientation program to football
GSJ Story   22GSJ15n    01/23/1998   Sweeney
Steinberg Festival of New Plays to run Jan. 29 through Feb. 8
The 1998 Steinberg New Plays Festival - the second year of collaboration between Brown's graduate program in playwriting and Trinity Repertory Company - presents eight plays by graduate students at Brown, from Jan. 29 through Feb. 1, and Feb. 5 through Feb. 8, at the Trinity Repertory Company in downtown Providence.
News Release   97-067    01/20/1998   Mahdesian
Brown seeks public comment on reaccreditation
In preparation for a March 11, 1998, reaccreditation visit by a team representing the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education of the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, the public is invited to submit comments regarding Brown University. Comments must address substantive matters related to the quality of the University and must be received by March 11.
News Release   97-068    01/20/1998   Sweeney
Brown and RISD presidents to create mosaic panels
On Friday, Jan. 23, at 2:30 p.m., Brown President E. Gordon Gee, RISD President Roger Mandle and Stephen Kane, principal of the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School, will create two mosaic panels as part of a larger mosaic project that brought all three institutions together.
News Release   97-069    01/20/1998   Mahdesian
Brown establishes Tillinghast Chair in international studies
Brown University has established the Tillinghast Professorship in International Studies, honoring Charles C. Tillinghast Jr., longtime trustee, fellow and chancellor emeritus. Funding for the chair included a $1-million grant from the Henry Luce Foundation, of which Tillinghast served as a director from 1974 to 1996.
News Release   97-066    01/15/1998   Nickel
All parties in Lack case agree to settlement ending legal proceedings
Adam Lack, Sara Klein and Brown University have agreed to settle a law suit in U.S. District Court arising from a University disciplinary hearing in May 1996.
News Release   97-063    12/31/1997   Nickel
Brown University senior in critical condition after shooting
Brown Police and Security Services issues Safety Bulletin following an on-campus shooting incident.
News Release   97-064a    12/23/1997   Nickel
Brown University senior in critical condition after shooting
David McManus, a Brown University senior from Acton, Mass., was the victim of a shooting early Saturday morning, Dec. 20. He was listed in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital with injuries that are not considered life-threatening.
News Release   97-064    12/20/1997   Nickel
Two Brown students selected for Marshall Scholarships
Two Brown University students are among 38 Americans selected this year to receive British Marshall Scholarships for study in Britain next year.
News Release   97-061    12/19/1997   Mahdesian
Phil Estes named Brown University's head football coach
Phil Estes, who has served as Brown's recruiting coordinator and coach of receivers and running backs, has been named head football coach at Brown University, succeeding Mark Whipple.
News Release   97-062    12/18/1997   Humm
Sheila E. Blumstein named interim provost for second semester
President-elect E. Gordon Gee has announced that Professor Sheila E. Blumstein will serve as interim provost until June 30, 1998. Blumstein, former dean of the College, will succeed Provost and Acting President James Pomerantz on Jan. 6, 1998, when Gee assumes his full-time duties at Brown.
News Release   97-059    12/16/1997   Nickel
Whipple resigns to become U-Mass. head football coach
Mark Whipple, head football coach at Brown for four seasons, has resigned to become head coach at the University of Massachusetts.
News Release   97-060    12/16/1997   Humm
Brown student receives Rhodes Scholarship
Brown University senior Sara Kristine Abrams is one of 32 students nationwide to receive a Rhodes Scholarship for study in England. Abrams, of Edmonds, Wash., will begin studying at the University of Oxford next fall.
News Release   97-058    12/12/1997   Lans
President-elect Gee to visit Martin Luther King Elementary School
Brown University President-elect E. Gordon Gee will visit the Martin Luther King Jr. Elementary School on Camp Street in Providence, at 2 p.m. Tuesday, Dec. 9, meeting students involved in the Brown-MLK mosaic project and a class of fifth-graders.
News Release   97-056    12/07/1997   Mahdesian
Mosaic project is more than the sum of its parts
Community art project unites Brown professor Richard Fishman, his class of 14 freshmen in Art 11, and 14 fourth and fifth graders from Martin Luther King School. Fishman is working with Jonny Skye Njie, at RISD, to conceive of the project, which will be a mosaic made up of tiles. The mosaic will be built on panels, then exhibited at the RISD Museum Feb. 28, then mounted in some building or at some outdoor location in the city of Providence.
GSJ Story   22GSJ14b    12/05/1997   Mahdesian
Community director program provides support network in first-year dorms
The Community Director program provides a support network for undergraduates living in campus dorms. Some CDs, who are graduate students, even provide a taste of family life in the dorms. This story focuses on Sumit Nijhawan and Ihab Girgis, married grad students who are CDs in one of Brown's dorms
GSJ Story   22GSJ14d    12/05/1997   Lans
Putting down roots through RUE helps student blossom
The Resumed Undergraduate Education program (RUE) helps older students blossom. Among the latest participants is Ilona Domanska, who left Poland for the United States to study cactus. She wound up ant Brown, where she is a member of the Class of 1999. She is studying comparative literature and has plans to study international relations in graduate school
GSJ Story   22GSJ14f    12/05/1997   Linda
Four-day series for Brown employees will celebrate diversitiy, honor King's vision
A special four-day workshop for Brown staff will be held Jan 20-24. The "Celebration of Community: Differences in Harmony" is offered in honor of the vision of MLK and in support of President's Initiative on Race in America
GSJ Story   22GSJ14h    12/05/1997   Sweeney
Adeste Fideles to the Fiftieth Annual Latin Carol Celebration
The Department of Classics will present the 50th annual Latin Carol Celebration at 8Êp.m. Monday, Dec. 8, in the First Baptist Meeting House. The program will feature readings in Latin by Brown faculty and staff, including President-elect E. Gordon Gee.
News Release   97-055    12/03/1997   Mahdesian
Campus renovations aim at increasing Brown's public and academic spaces
Campus renovation projects aim at increasing Brown's public and academic spaces. Work is being done on the President's House, Carr House, Sayles Gym, and the Old Stone Bank Building, which will become the new home of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
GSJ Story   22GSJ13b    11/21/1997   Lans
Ten-year demographic study of Providence finds revolving door at schools
The first half of a demographic study of Providence led by James W. McNally of Brown's Center for Population Studies, offers a look at the public school system. The statistics are part of a database that will describe all aspects of city life from 1987 to 1997. The database should be completed by March 1998 with regular updates thereafter.
News Release   97-051    11/21/1997   Lans
A selection of holiday story ideas from Brown University experts
From holiday stress to international travel, Brown professors offer their expertise and commentary on a variety of seasonal topics.
News Release   97-050    11/19/1997   Mahdesian
Olympians recall their quests for medals
Thirteen Brown alumni who competed in the Olympic Games come back to campus to talk about their experiences. Thirty-nine current and former Brunonians have participated in 13 summer and five winter Olympics for nine different countries.
GSJ Story   22GSJ12h    11/14/1997   Bettancourt
Role-playing high school students learn by doing at U.N. simulation
Brown students sponsor the first Brown University Simulation of the United Nations (BUSUN), a conference that draws some 300 high school students from as far away as Chicago to debate international issues and role-play as members of the United Nations
GSJ Story   22GSJ12i    11/14/1997   Niss
Conference will offer ideas for bilingual education, cross-cultural studies
Prominent researchers and leaders in bilingual education and cross-cultural studies will gather with some 400 educators from around the country to share ideas and projects at a conference Nov. 19-21 sponsored by the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown University.
News Release   97-048    11/12/1997   Sweeney
Brown's Krystyn Van Vliet wins three national engineering awards
Krystyn Van Vliet, a Brown University student who overcame serious head injuries and a resulting learning disability, has won academic scholarships that cover her senior-year tuition and other expenses.
News Release   97-046    11/11/1997   Turner
Patients with gastrointestinal cancer are sought for clinical drug trials
Doctors in the Brown University Oncology Group seek patients with gastrointestinal cancer who want to participate in clinical trials involving novel anti-canger agents. These trials are being conducted in Brown-affiliated hospitals and in Kent County Hospital. The first drug tested will be Marimastat.
GSJ Story   22GSJ11d    11/07/1997   Turner
Brown to replace portrait of Sarah Doyle, advocate for women students
Brown University's portrait of Sarah E. Doyle (1830-1922), stolen in August, will be replaced with a copy of what is considered to be a better portrait from the Rhode Island School of Design. RISD student Bryan Konietzko recently began the two-month project, and the new portrait may hang in Sayles Hall by the end of the year.
News Release   97-044    11/07/1997   Lans
The joys of Brown parenthood (and we didn't pay her to say this -- really!)
For Parents Weekend: a chat with a parent of a Brown senior who is coming to her last Parents Weekend event talks about the joys of being a Brown parent
GSJ Story   22GSJ10a    10/31/1997   Mahdesian
Student shows national conference one route to 'community'
Brown senior Christopher Punongbayan, a Filipino American, presented a resolution at national conference for Filipino Americas regarding gay rights. The resolution divided the conference, and ultimately passed. The student will be a keynote speaker at Asian-American Week on campus and will discuss working together despite differences.
GSJ Story   22GSJ10b    10/31/1997   Lans
Before there was e-mail, there was longhand correspondence
A century ago, Brown and Pembroke students didn't send e-mail to Mom and Dad. They wrote letters home. Here are excerpts from the University archives.
GSJ Story   22GSJ10e    10/31/1997   Mahdesian
Panel discussion Nov. 8 will feature Brown's alumni Olympians
As part of the University's homecoming weekend, Brown will feature 19 of its Olympians in a panel discussion, "Mens sana in corpore sano Ð Sound Mind, Sound Body," on Saturday, Nov. 8, from 4 to 6 p.m.
News Release   97-041    10/30/1997   Sweeney
Brown student studies effect of deportations on Portuguese community
Miguel D. Moniz, a Brown University graduate student in anthropology, will spend the next year interviewing resident aliens slated for deportation by the United States, then document their experiences abroad.
News Release   97-042    10/29/1997   Lans
Six receive honors for their Ôcommitment to reflective teaching'
Six people from Brown have been honored by the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning for their "ongoing commitment to reflective teaching as an integral part of the enterprise of higher education."
News Release   97-038    10/27/1997   Sweeney
A uniform look for athletic teams
Brown athletics teams sport a new logo on their uniforms -- a brown bear reaching its front paws around the word BROWN
GSJ Story   22GSJ09f    10/24/1997   Lans
Thomas Banchoff named 1997 Rhode Island Professor of the Year
Thomas F. Banchoff, professor of mathematics at Brown University, has been named the 1997 Rhode Island Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement for Teaching. He is the fifth Brown professor to win the award since its establishment in 1981.
News Release   97-039    10/23/1997   Turner
ÔR.I. Reconsidered' will challenge perceptions of state's history
"Rhode Island Reconsidered," Nov. 14-15, a conference hosted by The John Nicholas Brown Center, will bring together more than 40 scholars and historians for nine sessions exploring how recent scholarship has challenged common perceptions of Rhode Island's history.
News Release   97-036    10/15/1997   Mahdesian
Pioneering thoracic surgeon to receive top alumni award Oct. 18
On Saturday, Oct. 18, the Brown Alumni Association will present Dr. Hermes C. Grillo (Class of 1943) with the William Rogers Award, its highest honor, at the Fourteenth Annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony. Seventeen alumni will be honored during the ceremony.
News Release   97-033    10/14/1997   Mahdesian
The perils and possibilities of parking around campus: too many cars, too few spaces
Parking a car on the Brown campus is a problem. This story takes a look at the history of the parking problem, some of the statistics, and possible solutions offered by staff members
GSJ Story   22GSJ07b    10/10/1997   Mahdesian
"We don't come here to park; we come here to work," says driving force behind ride sharing
"We don't come here to park; we come here to work," says Kurt Teichert of Brown is Green, a driving force behind ride sharing proposals to alleviate problems with the lack of parking for people who drive to work
GSJ Story   22GSJ07d    10/10/1997   Mahdesian
Library celebrates three-millionth volume with three major acquisitions
Brown celebrates acquisition of the Library's 3-millionth book, on the history of fireworks, with Water Fire, guest speaker Gee.
GSJ Story   22GSJ07e    10/10/1997   Mahdesian
A Harvest Gathered shows Columbus discovered more than land
Facts about food from A Harvest Gathered: Food in the New World, the current exhibition at the John Carter Brown Library, shows the variety and range of food exchanges between the Old World and the New World, before and after Columbus.
News Release   97-034    10/10/1997   Mahdesian
New program offers study of Israelis, Palestinians in Jerusalem
Brown, in partnership with Wesleyan University and Trinity College, launches a program of study affiliated with The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. The program in Israeli and Palestinian studies is a semester-long program. Professors Jacobson and Abdel-Malek have worked from Brown's end to create the program
GSJ Story   22GSJ06b    10/03/1997   Mahdesian
By knocking out gene p21, researchers temporarily thwart cells' aging process
Brown researcher John Sedivy, former postdoc Jeremy Brown and graduate student Wenyi Wei modify a gene "knockout" method. Through this gene manipulation, they temporarily thwart human cells' aging process. The findings may help scientists understand the cancer process
GSJ Story   22GSJ06c    10/03/1997   Turner
DeQuincy Lezine: From edge of suicide to survival -- and helping others
DeQuincy Lezine, a student who once contemplated suicide, now runs a hotline for Brown students. He also has started a Brown champter of the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network.
GSJ Story   22GSJ06d    10/03/1997   Mahdesian
Brown receives $2.3M from NSF to study human and machine learning
Brown University was the largest New England recipient of the National Science Foundation's $22.5-million Learning and Intelligent Systems (LIS) awards. Grants to Brown will fund three projects over three years.
News Release   97-032    10/03/1997   Nickel
Brown to dedicate Harriet Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning
Brown University will mark the 10th anniversary of its Center for the Advancement of Teaching Oct. 24-25, by dedicating it in honor of the late Harriet W. Sheridan, dean of the College. Lee S. Shulman, president of the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, will speak.
News Release   97-030    10/02/1997   Lans
NEH awards $250,895 to Choices public policy discussion program
The Choices Library Program, a project of Brown University's Choice for the 21st Century Education Project, is one of six library or reading-based projects across the country selected to receive support from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the coming fiscal year. The grant will help the public policy discussion program continue in libraries in more than a dozen states.
News Release   97-031    10/02/1997   Sweeney
Student organizes suicide prevention group; will serve on national panel
Brown University junior DeQuincy Lezine has organized the Brown chapter of SPAN, the Suicide Prevention Advocacy Network, after surviving three suicide attempts. He has been selected to serve on the Centers for Disease Control committee to formulate a national strategy for suicide prevention.
News Release   97-027    10/01/1997   Mahdesian
Medical school celebrates primary care with free forum and workshops
The National Primary Care Day celebration Oct. 23 at the Brown University School of Medicine will feature a free public panel discussion and workshop series.
News Release   97-028    10/01/1997   Turner
Faculty artists show their work at Bell Gallery's ÔFaculty Exhibition 1997'
Thirteen faculty from Brown University's Department of Visual Art and the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Modern Culture and Media will have their art work displayed in the David Winton Bell Gallery exhibition, Faculty Exhibition 1997, from Oct. 18 through Dec. 14, with an opening reception at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Oct. 17.
News Release   97-026    09/30/1997   Mahdesian
Brown and Wesleyan present Israeli-Palestinian studies program
Brown University and Wesleyan University, in cooperation with Trinity College, have joined to present a semester-long Program in Israeli and Palestinian Studies. The Program will take place at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem, from early January through June 1998.
News Release   97-024    09/29/1997   Mahdesian
Brown researchers discover important piece of genetic aging puzzle
Brown researchers have endowed human cells with extended lifespans, making an inroad into the mysterious mechanism of aging. The findings have implications for tinkering with the aging process.
News Release   97-025    09/29/1997   Turner
Test of Mars laser altimeter hints at data feast to come
Brown researchers are analyzing data from the spacecraft Surveyor to help create a more detailed than ever map of Mars surface/
GSJ Story   22GSJ05d    09/26/1997   Turner
Rep. Brown considers engineering in a new era
Rep. George Brown Jr. of California presents a speech about changes in the field of engineering. The speech is part of a convocation celebrating the Division of Engineering's 150th -- or sesquitennial -- celebration
GSJ Story   22GSJ05e    09/26/1997   Lans
Walter Loiselle leaving Brown a safer place
Walter Loiselle is retiring after serving as Brown's fire marshall for nearly a dozen years.
GSJ Story   22GSJ05g    09/26/1997   Lans
Brown library to receive books and archival files from St. Martin's Press
St. Martin's Press and Brown University have entered into an agreement in which thousands of books and author files from the publisher will be transferred to the University's archives, beginning this year, and occurring every three years thereafter.
News Release   97-018    09/26/1997   Mahdesian
Provost Pomerantz named acting president of Brown University
Brown Provost James Pomerantz has been appointed acting president of Brown University. He will serve as both acting president and provost through Jan. 2, 1998, at which time he will resign as provost for personal reasons.
News Release   97-022    09/26/1997   Nickel
Brown named to National Honor Roll of Character-Building Colleges
The John Templeton Foundation has named Brown University to its 1997-98 Honor Roll for Character-Building Colleges, a list of 134 institutions honored for their commitment to developing character and moral values in students.
News Release   97-023    09/26/1997   Sweeney
President-elect doing his homework before taking reins in January
In preparation for his arrival as Brown's 17th president, E. Gordon Gee has been compiling information from all fronts. He talks about his preparations and how the transition from Ohio State University to Brown is going
GSJ Story   22GSJ04a    09/19/1997   Sweeney
Shop until you drop -- or add
Courses shopping season -- that time at the start of each semister when students test a course for a few sessions before actually dropping or adding them to their official schedule. It's a nightmare for the Registrar's office, but in some ways the course changes are a consequence of the Brown Curriculum
GSJ Story   22GSJ04b    09/19/1997   Mahdesian
Brown researchers play key roles in missions to Mars
Brown's participation in the next Mars mission, when the Surveyor probe enters the planet's orbit. Probe is doing 3-D mapping of Mars using device built in part by Jim Head. The Brown team will help fill in 'big missing pieces of the Mars puzzle,' Head says.
GSJ Story   22GSJ04d    09/19/1997   Turner
Caldwell named interim president of MGH Iinstitute in Boston
Ann W. Caldwell, vice president for development at Brown University, has been named interim president of MGH Institute of Health Professions. She will leave the University for Boston at the end of this month.
News Release   97-019    09/19/1997   Nickel
Lynn Davidman: The princes will do well if allowed to express grief over Diana
Lynn Davidman, associate professor of sociology, Judaic studies and women's studies at Brown University, comments on the effect of Princess Diana's death on her two sons. She is at work on a book about mother loss in adolescence.
News Release   97-016i    09/16/1997   Mahdesian
Strategic planning reports head to University advisory panels
Eleven standing University advisory committees have begun reviewing nearly 100 action items extracted from reports written this spring by six task forces involved in Brown's latest strategic planning process.
GSJ Story   22GSJ03a    09/12/1997   Sweeney
Engineering observes 150th anniversary
Engineering celebrates its 150th anniversary with a convocation, symposia and lab tours. Honorary degrees will be presented to Maurice Glicksman, John McTague, Allan Mulally, Simon Ostrach, Ronald Probstein and James Rice. Anne Renzi Wright, the first woman to receive a bachelor of science degree in engineering at Brown, will speak about her experience as an undergraduate during World War II and as a female engineer
GSJ Story   22GSJ03b    09/12/1997   Turner
Brown engineers observe sesquicentennial with free talks, tours, exhibits
Brown University will celebrate the 150th anniversary of its engineering classes and activities on September 18-20. Events will include a job fair, academic convocation, symposia, laboratory tours and exhibits. All events are free and open to the public.
News Release   97-014    09/08/1997   Turner
Brown will award six honorary degrees at engineering ceremony Sept. 19
Brown will award honorary degrees to six engineers in celebration of the University's 150 years of engineering education. Several of the recipients will speak during events observing the sesquicentennial. Those talks will be free and open to the public.
News Release   97-015    09/08/1997   Turner
University readies itself for reaccreditation team's visit
Brown prepares istself for a reaccreditation team visit; the draft of Brown's self-study will be available to the entire campus
GSJ Story   22GSJ02a    09/05/1997   Sweeney
Gee describes 'boundless expectations'
President-elect Gee is the speaker at Opening Convocation. It is his first address to a large segment of Brown population. he describes "boundless expectations."
GSJ Story   22GSJ02b    09/05/1997   Sweeney
Brown staff art show offers surprises
Sarah Doyle Women's Center has sponsored an exhibition of art by 14 Brown employees who aren't necessarily artists -- one's in plant ops, another is at Swearer Center. The exhibition was well-received
GSJ Story   22GSJ02e    09/05/1997   Sweeney
President-elect Gee discusses `boundless expectations' for new year
President-elect E. Gordon Gee delivered the address at Brown University's 234th Opening Convocation today. In welcoming the 1,385 members of the Class of 2001 to campus, Gee urged them to be actively engaged in their education and to respect the freedom of expression and variety of ideas that define the University.
News Release   97-013    09/02/1997   Nickel
A celebration of community ties: dedication honors longtime Fox Point neighbors
A look at the Lima family of Fox Point. For three generations, this family has lived next to campus. They eventually sold their house to Brown; house got razed and site now Benevolent Street Park that contains a bench dedicated to the family and how they shaped Fox Point
GSJ Story   22GSJ01b    08/29/1997   Morin
Senior's research project links weight loss by obese women to improved sex lives
Brown undergrad studied weight loss in a population of women and its effect on their sex lives. The student found that weight loss by obese women improved their sex lives
GSJ Story   22GSJ01c    08/29/1997   Turner
Brown geologist develops technique to measure velocity in volcanoes
Brown geology professor Malcolm Rutherford has developed a way to measure the rate of volcanic eruptions, which he applied in the case of Montserrat.
News Release   97-010    08/28/1997   Mahdesian
Gee to be featured speaker at Opening Convocation
Ohio State University President E. Gordon Gee, who will be sworn in as Brown University's 17th president in January, is the guest speaker at Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 2, on The College Green.
News Release   97-009    08/25/1997   Sweeney
Dedication at Benevolent Street Park honors longtime neighbors
On Thursday, Aug. 21, at 5:30 p.m., Brown University will dedicate a bench at Benevolent Street Community Park to honor the neighborhood's rich heritage represented by Joao and Joaquina Lima, who immigrated from Cape Verde and became longtime University neighbors. The couple's nine surviving children, their families and former neighbors will attend the program.
News Release   97-008    08/18/1997   Sweeney
Federal regulations led to better elder care, lower hospitalization rate
After a government mandate for better assessment of nursing home residents, the hospitalization rate among the frailest inhabitants dropped 28 percent without increased mortality, according to a government-financed study led by a Brown University researcher.
News Release   97-005    08/04/1997   Turner
Cianci and Gregorian consider building conversion for Fox Point School
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian and Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. will tour the vacant Wickenden Street Bath House, 455 Wickenden St., today (Monday, Aug. 4) at 4 p.m., to consider the possibility of converting the structure into an arts and science center for the adjacent elementary school.
News Release   97-006a    08/04/1997   Sweeney
Americans see disparity between strong economy and uncertain job prospects
Main Street Americans are dissatisfied with the gap between the strong national economy and their own job experiences and prospects, according to a Providence Journal/Brown University survey of 603 adults aged 18 years and older, conducted by political science professor Darrell West.
News Release   96-089    07/28/1997   Mahdesian
Elizabeth I will come to life in nine public library performances
Actress Marilyn Murphy Meardon will bring Queen Elizabeth I to life in a series of performances drawn from texts written by one of Great Britain's greatest rulers. In Her Own Words: Elizabeth I Onstage and Online, sponsored by Brown University's Women Writers Project and Rhode Island's Office of Library and Information Services, is funded by the Rhode Island Committee for the Humanities.
News Release   97-002    07/21/1997   Sweeney
"Global Governance" named best new journal by AAP
Global Governance: A Review of Multilateralism and International Organization has been singled out by the Association of American Publishers as the best new journal in business, the humanities, and the social sciences. The periodical was a project of the Academic Council on the United Nations System, part of Brown University's Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies.
News Release   96-077    07/13/1997   Sweeney
E. Gordon Gee named 17th president of Brown University
E. Gordon Gee, currently president of The Ohio State University, has been selected as the seventeenth president of Brown University. (See also 96-150a, 96-150b and 96-150c for additional backgrtound.)
News Release   96-150    06/27/1997   Nickel
Gregorian to say farewell to school renamed in his honor
President Vartan Gregorian will visit students and teachers at the Fox Point Elementary School on Thursday, June 26, between 11:15-11:45 a.m. The Providence School Board has been asked to rename the school, adopted by Brown's athletic teams in 1991, in Gregorian's honor.
News Release   96-149    06/25/1997   Sweeney
Heenan named director of community and government relations
Christine Heenan, who has been associate director of Brown University's Office of Community and Government Relations, has been promoted to director of the office.
News Release   96-147    06/24/1997   Sweeney
Leaders to discuss communications revolution in higher education
Presidents of 16 U.S. and Canadian institutions, along with university rectors, assistant rectors or former rectors from 14 European nations, will gather at Brown University June 25-28 to discuss the use of technology to improve teaching and learning. They also will get a taste of how new technologies can be used in the classroom and in distance education.
News Release   96-146i    06/23/1997   Sweeney
$2.1 million endows professorship for Gregorian, 11 scholarships
Elizabeth and Malcolm Chace of Providence, R.I., have given $2.1 million to Brown University to endow an assistant professorship named for outgoing President Vartan Gregorian and to endow 11 scholarships that will be named for Mrs. Chase.
News Release   96-144    06/12/1997   Sweeney
Mayor Cianci to give President Gregorian a farewell roasting
Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci, URI President Emeritus Ted Eddy and 1987 Brown graduate Hannelore Rodriguez-Farrar will be the featured roasters at a farewell reception for Brown President Vartan Gregorian Tuesday, June 10, 1997, on the Pembroke Green. The farewell roast, to be opened with a proclamation by Gov. Lincoln Almond, will be hosted by the Brown Club of Rhode Island.
News Release   96-143    06/05/1997   Nickel
Vartan Gregorian announces creation of the Cianci Urban Scholarship
President Vartan Gregorian has announced creation of the Vincent A. Cianci Jr. Urban Scholarship at Brown University. The scholarship will support the work of a Brown student that is designed to improve life in the city. Gregorian also declared June 1, 1997, as "Mayor Cianci Day."
News Release   96-142    06/02/1997   Nickel
Steven Calvert named vice president for alumni relations
Steven Calvert, currently assistant vice president for development and director of alumni relations at Carnegie Mellon University, has been named vice president for alumni relations at Brown.
News Release   96-137    05/30/1997   Nickel
Brown Corporation elects six new trustees for six-year terms
At its Commencement Weekend meeting May 24, the Brown Corporation elected six new trustees: Matthew Mallo, David McKinney, Charles Royce, Peter Green, Fraser Lang and Elizabeth West.
News Release   96-140    05/28/1997   Nickel
Clare Russell Gregorian receives Doctor of Humane Letters degree
In a very well-kept Commencement secret, the Board of Fellows of Brown University approved an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree on Clare Russell Gregorian and conferred it during Brown's 229th Commencement exercises.
News Release   96-141    05/28/1997   Sweeney
Two David Winton Bell Gallery exhibitions showcase Rhode Island talent
Two exhibitions, Of Totems, Traps, Maps, and James Jesus Angleton and Jonathan Sharlin: Ancient Stones will be presented at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University June 12 through July 6, 1997. An opening reception for both shows will be held at 7 p.m. Saturday, June 21, at the Gallery, 64 College St.
News Release   96-138    05/26/1997   Mahdesian
Gregorian honors Nuala Pell; Clare Gregorian gets honorary degree
In his ninth and final Commencement as Brown University president, Vartan Gregorian awarded the President's Medal to Nuala Pell, wife of retired Sen. Claiborne Pell. In addition, Clare Gregorian, wife of the president, received an honorary doctorate, an award that came as a surprise not only to Mrs. Gregorian but to the President as well.
News Release   96-139    05/26/1997   Sweeney
Hanoi conference to seek missed opportunities for peace in Vietnam war
Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara and former Vietnamese Foreign Minister Nguyen Co Thach will lead high-level 13-member delegations to a four-day conference on missed opportunities for peace during the Vietnam War. The conference, June 19-22 in Hanoi, is co-hosted by the Watson Institute at Brown University and the Institute of International Relations of Vietnam.
News Release   96-136    05/23/1997   Nickel
Brown will award 10 honorary degrees at Commencement May 26
Brown will award honorary degrees to 10 people: Joyce Oldham Appleby, Leo Esaki, Louis V. Gerstner Jr., Carolyn G. Heilbrun, Richard C. Holbrooke, David Macaulay, Lorraine Monroe, Bill Moyers, Dr. Augustus A. White III, and John Hazen White. Several of the recipients will speak during Commencement Weekend.
News Release   96-131    05/22/1997   Sweeney
Statement: Brown supports the academic freedom of Dr. David Kern
Brown University reiterates its full and unequivocal support for the academic freedom of Dr. David Kern, an associate professor of medicine and a specialist in occupational health employed by The Memorial Hospital in Pawtucket, R.I. (See also 96-133a, a statement by Lois Monteiro, associate dean of medicine for faculty affairs.)
News Release   96-133    05/21/1997   Nickel
RI Senate honors Vartan Gregorian May 21
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian will be honored by Rhode Island state senators this afternoon for his service to the state and local community. The ceremony will take place at 4:30 in the Senate Chambers.
News Release   96-135    05/21/1997   Morin
Parties in disciplinary case resolve disputes; OCR complaint is withdrawn
A complaint before the Office of Civil Rights regarding a disciplinary case at Brown has been withdrawn. The parties have resolved their disputes privately and have asked OCR to take no further action in its investigation.
News Release   96-134    05/20/1997   Nickel
Citations honor faculty, teaching assistants, Graduate School alumni
Hazeltine Citations and Senior Medical Citation honor faculty contributions to the Class of 1997; Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching honor those who have excelled as teaching assistants; Graduate School Alumni Awards honor achievements of those who have received advanced degrees from Brown.
News Release   96-132    05/19/1997   Sweeney
Commencement speakers include students and honored guests
Journalist Bill Moyers, former Asst. Secretary of State Richard Holbrooke, Nobel Peace Prize-winner JosŽ Ramos-Horta and members of the Class of 1997 are among those who will speak during Brown's 229th Commencement Weekend, May 24-26.
News Release   96-130    05/16/1997   Morin
Brown to unveil new war memorial on Sunday, May 25
A procession of veterans escorted by the U.S. Navy Band is one of several activities planned for the unveiling of a new war memorial, Sunday morning, May 25, 1997, on the Brown University campus. The monument will honor the 205 Brown alumni who died during World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War.
News Release   96-125    05/08/1997   Turner
Brown to hold 229th Commencement Monday, May 26, 1997
Chief Marshal Charles Watts '47 will lead more than 5,000 people down College Hill on Monday, May 26, forming one of the nation's largest and most colorful academic pageants. The Commencement procession and 229th academic exercises Ð Vartan Gregorian's ninth and final Commencement as president Ð cap a four-day Commencement and Reunion Weekend at Brown. (A schedule of events is attached.)
News Release   96-124    05/07/1997   Nickel
Committee recommends changes to Brown's disciplinary system
The final report of an Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Misconduct recommends more than a dozen changes to Brown's disciplinary system, including a new "structured negotiation" option.
News Release   96-122    05/01/1997   Nickel
Brown Library receives Ciaraldi comic book collection
The Michael J. Ciaraldi Collection of comic books and other materials, estimated to contain 60,000 items, has been donated to the Brown University Library. It is housed in the John Hay Library, corner of Prospect and College Streets.
News Release   96-123    04/30/1997   Mahdesian
Fourteen Brown Says Thank You! awards presented at honors breakfast
Fourteen members of Brown University's support staff received Brown Says Thank You! awards for the innovation, initiative, service and personal commitment they have demonstrated in their work. The awards were presented at the University's annual staff appreciation breakfast April 21.
News Release   96-121    04/29/1997   Sweeney
International conference to explore Jews and European expansion
The John Carter Brown Library will present "The Jews and the Expansion of Europe to the West: 1450 to the Revolutions for Independence in the Americas" June 15-18 on the campus of Brown University. All sessions are free and open to the public.
News Release   96-120    04/28/1997   Mahdesian
24 students receive Royce Fellowships for research, public service
Twenty-four Brown undergraduates have been selected to receive Royce Fellowships. The program recognizes undergraduates who have gained distinction through research, creativity, service and leadership. The fellowships enable recipients to complete research, curricular development or a public service project. Recipients become lifetime members of the Society of Royce Fellows.
News Release   96-118    04/24/1997   Sweeney
Brown University ends Ôred light' policy for delinquent accounts
Brown University has changed its policy regarding the timely payment of student financial obligations and has ended an enforcement procedure known on campus as "red lighting."
News Release   96-117    04/23/1997   Morin
Brown files plan to meet court's gender ratio requirements for athletics
Although it is pursuing an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, Brown University has filed a Title IX compliance plan with the District Court in a case alleging gender bias in athletics. Brown hopes to meet the District Court's requirements for gender proportionality without adding any University-funded teams or eliminating any men's teams.
News Release   96-114    04/21/1997   Nickel
U.S. Supreme Court denies Brown's request to hear Title IX appeal
The Supreme Court today declined to grant Brown's petition for a writ of certiorari in a Title IX gender bias in athletics case. This was not a decision on the merits. Brown remains confident that its interpretation of Title IX is correct and that issues raised in the case will ultimately be decided by the Supreme Court.
News Release   96-115    04/21/1997   Nickel
Student wins Shy Award for nation's best clinical neurology paper
Neetha Shetty, a second-year student in the Brown University School of Medicine, has received the G. Milton Shy Award from the American Academy of Neurology for the best clinical research paper submitted by a U.S. medical student.
News Release   96-113    04/15/1997   Turner
Town meeting to ask if long-term care is a right or benefit for the elderly
"Health Care for Elders in an Aging World" will give the general public a chance to join an international panel of experts in a discussion of the cultural and social values behind elderly care and the economic effects of aging on our society. The program will take place at 7:30 p.m., April 29, in Brown's Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   96-111    04/11/1997   Turner
Brown to digitize 1,500 African American sheet music items, 1850-1920
Brown University will digitize 1,500 pieces of African American sheet music from the John Hay Library, under a $72,000 grant from Ameritech. The digitized music will become part of the National Digital Library Program at the Library of Congress.
News Release   96-109    04/10/1997   Nickel
Four honorary degrees will be presented at ÔDay of Spanish Language'
Brown University is celebrating "A Day of Spanish Language" April 28. Honorary degrees will be presented to Rosario FerrŽ, Puerto Rican writer and poet; Carlos Fuentes, Mexican novelist and author; Victor Garc’a de la Concha of the Universidad de Salamanca and the Royal Spanish Academy; and Jesœs de Polanco, publisher of Spain's leading newspaper.
News Release   96-110    04/10/1997   Sweeney
African political activists discuss the future of their homelands
Political activists from Zaire, Mozambique and Nigeria will discuss the future of Africa during a lecture at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 8, on the Brown University campus. They are part of the "Africa Peace Tour" sponsored by the American Friends Service Committee.
News Release   96-108    04/03/1997   Sweeney
Nine amicus curiae briefs support Brown's Title IX Supreme Court appeal
Nine friend-of-the-court briefs have been filed in support of Brown University, asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear Brown's appeal in the Title IX athletics case. The briefs represent a range of views, from 49 members of Congress to a former cabinet secretary to national educational associations and athletic and coaching organizations.
News Release   96-107    04/02/1997   Nickel
Brown Summer High School offers students mental excitement
The Brown Summer High School program, held June 30-July 25, gives high school students the opportunity to challenge their minds in a series of wide-ranging courses.
News Release   96-106    03/28/1997   Sweeney
Jewish and Arab scholars to explore Israeli and Palestinian identities
"Israeli and Palestinian Identities: In History, Literature, and the Arts," a conference sponsored by the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies, will be presented April 13-15 at Brown University.
News Release   96-105    03/25/1997   Mahdesian
Zarlengo named LAB director
Phil Zarlengo, who has served in a variety of urban and suburban teaching and administrative positions, has been named executive director of the Northeast and Islands Regional Educational Laboratory at Brown, one of 10 research and development laboratories funded by the U.S. Department of Education.
News Release   96-101    03/18/1997   Sweeney
Bell Gallery to present works by American photojournalist David H. Wells
Neighbors: Relations Between Arabs and Jews in Israel will be on view in the List Art Center Foyer at Brown University March 29 through April 15, 1997. The exhibition includes works by American photojournalist David H. Wells and is presented in conjunction with a conference, "Israeli and Palestinian Identities in History, Literature and the Arts" (April 13-15).
News Release   96-099    03/17/1997   Mahdesian
Brown to inaugurate endowed chair named for Vasco da Gama
An endowed professorship named for the Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama will be inaugurated at 5 p.m. Tuesday, March 18, in the John Carter Brown Library. This is the first Portuguese professorship in the United States funded by sources in Portugal.
News Release   96-098    03/14/1997   Mahdesian
Six graduate students to live in first-year dorms as community directors
Six graduate students will live and work in first-year residential areas next fall, serving as community directors. Deployment of the community directors is part of a blueprint for improving residential life at Brown and will provide additional support and supervision for members of the peer counseling program.
News Release   96-096    03/11/1997   Nickel
Clinton budget official to join debate on President's economic plans
Joseph Minarik, from the Office of Management and Budget in Washington, D.C., will join a debate on President Clinton's budget proposals at 8 p.m. Monday, March 17, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center. The debate is part of the Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference (March 12-20).
News Release   96-097    03/11/1997   Mahdesian
Endowed coaching chair in women's basketball honors student athlete
Elizabeth Zopfi Chace '59 and Malcolm G. Chace III of Providence, R.I., have endowed the women's basketball head coaching position in honor of Brown student-athlete Liz Turner '98.
News Release   96-094    03/10/1997   Morin
Sources of advice on restoring flood-damaged possessions
Eric Shoaf, head of the preservation department for the Brown University Library, offers flood victims advice and resources to restore their water-damaged belongings and valuables.
News Release   96-095    03/10/1997   Mahdesian
Gregorian to receive Rosenberger Medal
President Vartan Gregorian will receive the Susan Colver Rosenberger Medal, the highest honor Brown's faculty can bestow, at the University's 229th Commencement in May. Gregorian will be the 21st recipient since 1919, when the Rosenberger Medal was established.
News Release   96-092    03/07/1997   Nickel
Gregorian delivers State of the University Release
In a State of the University Address delivered Thursday, March 6, to faculty, students, staff and friends, President Vartan Gregorian reviewed accomplishments, discussed current issues, and pronounced Brown University in good health.
News Release   96-093    03/07/1997   Nickel
Four new speakers confirmed for Public Affairs Conference
Four new speakers have been confirmed for the upcoming Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference (March 12-21) at the Salomon Center for Teaching.
News Release   96-091    03/03/1997   Mahdesian
Gregorian to deliver State of the University Address March 6
On Thursday, March 6, at 4 p.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America, Brown University President Vartan Gregorian will deliver a convocation address on the state of the University.
News Release   96-090    02/28/1997   Nickel
Mor named chair of Department of Community Health
Vincent Mor, director of the Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research, has been named chair of the Department of Community Health at the Brown medical school. He succeeds Lois Monteiro.
News Release   96-087    02/21/1997   Turner
Brown takes its Title IX appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court
Attorneys for Brown University have petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court for a writ of certiorari in the Title IX athletics gender bias case. If the lower court ruling is allowed to stand, colleges and universities may be held to a compliance standard that conflicts with Supreme Court precedents.
News Release   96-085    02/19/1997   Nickel
Brown to hold summer internship and jobs fair Feb. 20
The nature of career planning services is changing rapidly. This year, corporate and nonprofit representatives attending Brown's Summer Job and Internship Fair Feb. 20 has risen 47 percent. Students seek out internship opportunities much earlier in their undergraduate careers.
News Release   96-086    02/18/1997   Morin
1997-98 tuition to rise 4.6 percent to $22,592, total charges to $29,900
Tuition for an undergraduate at Brown next year will be $22,592, a 4.6-percent increase. An advisory committee had proposed a 4.7-percent tuition hike, but President Vartan Gregorian recommended that the University Corporation approve the lower figure. Total charges will rise 4.3 percent, from $28,658 to $29,900.
News Release   96-082    02/15/1997   Sweeney
Corporation names Joukowsky chancellor, Robert vice chancellor
Following the resignation of Chancellor Alva O. Way, the Brown Corporation elected Artemis A. W. Joukowsky as chancellor. Joukowsky will serve through June 30, 1998. Stephen Robert was elected vice chancellor and named chancellor-designate. He will succeed Joukowsky in 1998. Both appointments took effect immediately.
News Release   96-083    02/15/1997   Nickel
17th Annual Public Affairs Conference: Updating the American Dream
The 17th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference Ð Updating the American Dream: What To Expect From Tomorrow's Economy Ð will take place March 12-21 on the Brown campus. A national survey in conjunction with the conference will be conducted with results released nationally March 3.
News Release   96-079    02/13/1997   Mahdesian
"Modern Culture and Modernity Today" conference March 14-15
"Modern Culture and Modernity Today," a two-day conference at Brown University, will take place March 14-15, and will feature scholars from the United States and England.
News Release   96-081    02/13/1997   Mahdesian
BLC announced spring 1997 course offerings
The Brown Learning Community offers 170 non-credit courses this spring, ranging from comet spotting and bird watching to selections in fitness and career development. A new five-course series leads to a Certificate in the Practice of Management.
News Release   96-076    02/07/1997   Sweeney
Brown names campus Advisory Committee in presidential selection
The Brown Learning Community offers 170 non-credit courses this spring, ranging from comet spotting and bird watching to selections in fitness and career development. A new five-course series leads to a Certificate in the Practice of Management.
News Release   96-074    02/06/1997   Nickel
Viennese photographer Rudolf Koppitz to be featured at Bell Gallery
Rudolf Koppitz: Viennese ÔMaster of the Camera' will be presented at the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University April 19 through June 1, 1997. Opening reception and talk by Jo-Ann Conklin, Bell Gallery director, will be presented at 5:30 Friday, April 18, at the Gallery, 64 College St.
News Release   96-072    02/04/1997   Mahdesian
Robert and Sara Reichley honored at Perlman benefit concert
During intermission at the Perlman Concert, Jan. 29, in the Veterans Memorial Auditorium in Providence, R.I., Brown President Vartan Gregorian awarded the John K. McIntyre Medal to Robert A. Reichley for his outstanding service to Brown. Gregorian also announced the establishment of the Sara and Robert A. Reichley Concert Fund, supported by a lead gift from Cookson-America Inc.
News Release   96-071    01/30/1997   Mahdesian
Brown Journal of World Affairs announces winter/spring edition
The student-published Brown Journal of World Affairs Winter/Spring 1997 issue will feature government officials and other experts offering their appraisal of global security in the post-Cold War world. The issue will be in bookstores Feb. 3, 1997.
News Release   96-069    01/24/1997   Mahdesian
Corporation establishes Presidential Search Committee
The Advisory and Executive Committee of the Brown Corporation has established a 16-member Presidential Search Committee to be chaired by Brown Chancellor Alva O. Way. A second committee of faculty, students and administrators will advise the Corporation's committee in selecting a successor to President Vartan Gregorian.
News Release   96-066    01/21/1997   Nickel
Brown reactivates committee on investor responsibility
Brown University will reactivate a faculty-student-alumni committee to consider issues of investor responsibility as they affect the University's investment policies and practices. The committee will provide information to Brown Corporation, which is responsible for the University's assets, including an $800-million endowment.
News Release   96-067    01/21/1997   Nickel
Gregorian to become president of Carnegie Corporation of New York
Vartan Gregorian, Brown's 16th president, will leave the University in July 1997 to become president of the Carnegie Corporation of New York. During his presidency, Gregorian successfully reendowed and enhanced the University's core academic activities of research, instruction and service.
News Release   96-060    01/07/1997   Nickel
Maj. Paul V. Verrecchia named chief of Police and Security Services
Maj. Paul V. Verrecchia, a 21-year veteran of the Providence Police Department, has been named chief of Police and Security Services at Brown University, succeeding Dennis L. Boucher.
News Release   96-059    12/30/1996   Nickel
Professors Newman and Baker receive 1997 NEH fellowships
Comparative literature professor Karen Newman and music professor James Baker are the two Brown University professors chosen to receive NEH fellowships announced Dec. 19, by the NEH.
News Release   96-058    12/23/1996   Mahdesian
Bell Gallery presents works of photographer Sally Mann
Still Time: Sally Mann, a retrospective exhibition of 60 photographs taken over 25 years, will be presented by the David Winton Bell Gallery of Brown University, from Feb. 1 to March 9, 1997.
News Release   96-057    12/20/1996   Mahdesian
Brown libraries receive $625K NEH challenge grant for preservation
The National Endowment for the Humanities will award Brown University $625,000 in the form of a challenge grant to support the library's ongoing preservation efforts for old and new items.
News Release   96-055    12/19/1996   Mahdesian
Two Brown experts comment on Preuvian hostage crisis
Two Brown experts Ð Thomas Skidmore, director of the Center for Latin American Studies, and Maria Elena Garcia, a Peruvian graduate student in anthropology Ð are available for interviews about the current hostage situation in Lima, Peru.
News Release   96-056i    12/19/1996   Mahdesian
New research center focuses on microstructures, advanced materials
A new research center at Brown University focuses on the mechanical behavior of advanced materials in structures as small as a billionth of a meter. The center's research expertise will also support new science and engineering teaching approaches in the nation's high schools.
News Release   96-054    12/13/1996   Turner
Two studies seek commercial uses for high-carbon fly ash
Two studies underway at Brown University are trying to find commercial uses for the 50 million tons of high-carbon fly ash piling up annually at the nation's power plants.
News Release   96-052    12/03/1996   Turner
Split decision by First Circuit reverses lower court remedy in Title IX case
In a 2 to 1 decision, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit affirms in part and reverses in part a District Court decision in Brown's Title IX athletic gender bias case. The appellate court reverses the lower court's order requiring Brown to fund four additional women's varsity teams.That
News Release   96-050    11/21/1996   Nickel
John Carter Brown Library to receive Sim—n Bol’var collection
Maury Bromsen, a Boston-based book collector, will give his collection of writings and iconographic materials related to Sim—n Bol’var to the John Carter Brown Library.
News Release   96-049    11/19/1996   Mahdesian
Associate Dean Toby Simon to leave Brown after fall semester
Associate Dean of Student Life Toby Simon, a nationally renowned innovator of college-level programs to promote health education and address issues of sexual misconduct, will leave Brown University at the end of the current semester.
News Release   96-047    11/13/1996   Nickel
Bell Gallery presents "Visionary Architecture of Brodsky and Utkin"
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present "The Visionary Architecture of Brodsky and Utkin" Dec. 7, 1996, through Jan. 19, 1997.
News Release   96-044    10/31/1996   Mahdesian
Klawunn named director of Sarah Doyle Center
Margaret Klawunn, a director of special projects at Rutgers University, has been named director of Brown University's Sarah Doyle Women's Center, which since its opening in 1975 has been an important resource for women at the University.
News Release   96-038    10/23/1996   Sweeney
Joukowsky, Ittleson receive President's Medal
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky and H. Anthony Ittleson, who helped lead Brown University's Campaign for the Rising Generation to its successful $534-million conclusion, have received the President's Medal, the highest honor a Brown president may bestow.
News Release   96-035    10/11/1996   Sweeney
Brown celebrates end of $534M Campaign for the Rising Generation
The Campaign for the Rising Generation has raised $534-million to reendow Brown University's library, faculty, student scholarships and academic programs. Brown will mark the conclusion of the campaign with the premire of a dramatic and musical work, an outdoor festival of sound and light, Oct. 11-12.
News Release   96-031    10/10/1996   Nickel
Marriage, not discrimination, may account for gender wage differential
In a potentially controversial paper, two Brown University professors and a colleague examine how marriage or the decision to marry Ð not overt discrimination Ð may account for gender-specific wage differentials.
News Release   96-032    10/07/1996   Morin
David Pingree reconstructs the history of mathematics
David Pingree, professor of the history of mathematics at Brown University, heads the only history of mathematics department in the world.
News Release   96-033i    10/07/1996   Morin
Students travel to JPL to learn 'faster, better, cheaper' realities of space exploration
Brown students travel to JPL Jet Propulsion Laboratory to learn realities of space exploration, in particular, planning a space project to Venus; Jim Head project
GSJ Story   21GSJ05d    10/05/1996   Scott
Medical School appoints three new chairpersons
The Brown University School of Medicine has named Dr. Agnes Kane chairperson of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine; Dr. Charles McDonald chairperson of a new Department of Dermatology; and Dr. John Cronan interim chairperson of the Department of Diagnostic Imaging.
News Release   96-030    10/01/1996   Turner
Revised guidelines for political activities at Brown
Revised guidelines for political activities at Brown. University prohibited from engaging in partisan political activity or permitting its resources to be used for support of such activity. These rules guide candidates, campaigning limits on campus
GSJ Story   21GSJ05a    09/27/1996   Sweeney
Fit for Brown focuses on keeping employees physically and mentally fit
A look at the Fit for Brown program: stress reduction, exercise, weight reduction, physical fitness, flu shots, cholesterol and blood pressure screenings -- all offered free to Brown employees
GSJ Story   21GSJ05c    09/27/1996   Chadwick
Lucia Trimbur wins public service award
Lucia Trimbur '97 wins the first Brian Dickinson Public Service Award, given to a Brown undergraduate who has demonstrated extraordinary commitment to community service. This event also launched the Community Partnership Directory during Brown Celebrates Providence Day. The directory outlines the more than 240 University programs and projects that affect Rhode Island
GSJ Story   21GSJ05e    09/27/1996   Sweeney
Galileo team stops at Brown to take stock
Galileo Imaging Team from JPL visits Brown lab. Jim Head is on that team, studying Jupiter and its many moons.
GSJ Story   21GSJ05f    09/27/1996   Turner
Decision to marry, not discrimination, creates gender wage gap, economists say
The economics of marriage -- not discrimination -- are responsible for gender wage gap, according to a model created by two Brown economists
GSJ Story   21GSJ05h    09/27/1996   Morin
Vanguard writers to meet for ÔUnspeakable Practices III' Oct. 1-5
Brown University's Program in Creative Writing will hold a vanguard narrative festival, "Unspeakable Practices III," October 1-5.
News Release   96-028    09/26/1996   Mahdesian
Alumni Association honors diplomat Richard Holbrooke
On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Brown Alumni Association will present Richard Holbrooke with the William Rogers Award at its annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony.
News Release   96-029    09/26/1996   Mahdesian
Watson Institute publishes study on Haiti intervention
A joint Brown University/United Nations University study group assessed the roles and contributions of many groups to Haiti's struggle toward democracy during the 10 years following the Duvalier regime. Although the international community has been effective since 1994, the study is critical of efforts during the 1991-1994 era of de facto military rule.
News Release   96-027    09/25/1996   Nickel
Harambee House disturbance: A statement from Student Life
Following weekend disturbances that involved student injuries, Dean of Student Life Robin Rose distributed the following statement to the Brown University community, addressing issues of campus security and non-academic discipline. The statement appeared on Tuesday, Sept. 24, 1996, as a paid notice in The Brown Daily Herald, the campus student newspaper, and Friday, Sept. 27, in The George St. Journal, the University's official weekly newspaper.
News Release   96-026    09/24/1996   Nickel
Lights, cameras, lasesrs, computer animation -- action
Lights, cameras, lasers, computer animation are some of the technological wizardry used to produce a sound and light show in the Green to commemmorate Brown's history and the successful completion of the Campaign for the Rising Generation
GSJ Story   21GSJ04e    09/20/1996   Mahdesian
JCB celebrates 150th anniversary with lectures, symposia
Brown University will mark the 150th anniversary of the founding of the John Carter Brown Library with a five-week long celebration, from Oct. 9 through Nov. 14.
News Release   96-022    09/20/1996   Mahdesian
Lucia Trimbur receives first Brian Dickinson Award
Lucia Trimbur, a senior from Cranston, R.I., has received the University's first Brian Dickinson Award in recognition of her extraordinary commitment to community service. Trimbur's service projects while at Brown include teaching English as a second language in South Providence, coaching youngsters on an inner-city track team, and writing a policy brief for legislators on hunger-related issues.
News Release   96-024    09/20/1996   Sweeney
Off Hours: Elana Chomiszak, Class of 1997 and Miss Rhode Island
Off Hours: Brown senior Elana Chomiszak in her off-hours competes in beauty pageants. She currently is Miss Rhode Island and will be competing in the Miss America contest.
GSJ Story   21GSJ03b    09/13/1996   Sweeney
Community Partnership Directory details 240-plus public service efforts
Brown has compiled a comprehensive guide of volunteer public service, community service and outreach projects carried out by the Brown community. Copies of the database and guide will be distributed throughout Rhode Island as a resource.
GSJ Story   21GSJ03c    09/13/1996   Richard
Brown presents end-of-campaign sound and light show Oct. 12
Brown will present "Legacy of Generations: A Portrait of Brown University in Sound and Light" at 9 and 11 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 12, on the College Green. Free tickets are available as of Monday, Sept. 16.
News Release   96-020    09/11/1996   Mahdesian
Brown celebrates Providence with directory of community service
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian will present Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. with the first official copy of the Community Partnership Directory at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the Van Wickle Gates, College and Prospect streets.
News Release   96-021    09/11/1996   Morin
Concepcion's City Year route takes her from GED to Democratic National Convention
Interview with sophomore student Marilyn Concepcion, whose City Year experience took her from a GED to Brown University enrollment and to the Democratic National Convention, where she was one of the speakers to address delegates.
GSJ Story   21GSJ02b    09/06/1996   McGreen
Brown adopts Ôpatient-first' approach to medical curriculum
MD2000, the Brown University School of Medicine's new patient-based curriculum, requires medical students to do more than learn traditional subjects. They must also show faculty that they have mastered the skills that make excellent physicians.
News Release   96-018    09/06/1996   Turner
Ukranian entrepreneurs to present business plans in four cities
Ten Ukrainian entrepreneurs, graduates of a Brown University training center in Kiev, will present business plans to U.S. investors during a four-city tour, Sept. 9-19.
News Release   96-017    09/04/1996   Morin
Maternal exposure to crack cocaine produces stressed newborns
Brown junior working with Barry Lester leads research study on cocaine's effects on infants. What happens to newborns whose mothers smoked crack cocaine during pregnancy. Study on prenatal drug exposure is sponsored by National Institutes of Health. Student is one of a handful studying substance abuse and its effect on infants.
GSJ Story   21GSJ01a    08/30/1996   Scott
Itzhak and Navah Perlman to perform in Brown benefit concert
Itzhak Perlman and his daughter Navah Perlman will perform a benefit concert with the Brown University Orchestra Jan. 29, 1997, at Veterans Memorial Auditorium. Tickets go on sale Monday, Sept. 16.
News Release   96-016    08/30/1996   Mahdesian
Joshua Lederberg to speak at Opening Convocation 9/3
Joshua Lederberg, Nobel laureate and former president of Rockefeller University, will address students, faculty, administration and guests at the 233rd Opening Convocation of Brown University, 11 a.m. Tuesday, Sept. 3, on The College Green.
News Release   96-015    08/26/1996   Nickel
BCLIR announces fall semester course offerings
The Brown Community for Learning in Retirement (BCLIR) will describe its eight fall courses and enroll new members at a noon convocation Monday, Sept. 9.
News Release   96-013    08/23/1996   Nickel
Quality of life is not a matter of GNP or economic performance
Economic performance is not the way to measure human well-being, says Brown Professor Morris David Morris. His Physical Quality of Life Index shows that quality of life has improved faster for many of the world's poorest people than it has for people in some of the world's richest nations.
News Release   96-009i    08/20/1996   Sweeney
Family-values political rhetoric is a centuries-old relic
James Morone, professor of political science at Brown, says the morality rhetoric in politics is nothing new in America and works against social progress.
News Release   96-011    08/09/1996   Mahdesian
Bell Gallery presents British prints from Steinberg Collection
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present British Prints from the Steinberg Collection from August 24 through October 6, 1996.
News Release   96-005    07/26/1996   Mahdesian
Laura Freid named VP for University Relations at Brown
Laura Freid, a senior communications officer at Harvard University, will become Brown University's spokesperson and head of communications and external affairs.
News Release   96-003    07/17/1996   Nickel
US renews $1.8M Desegregation Assistance Center contract
The U.S. Department of Education has renewed its contract with the New England Desegregation Assistance Center at Brown University. The center is expected to receive about $1.8 million over three years for its innovative programs, which provide technical assistance and training to New England public school districts dealing with issues of desegregation and equity.
News Release   96-004    07/12/1996   Sweeney
Sculptor Jerry Mischak's primary medium: duct tape
Jerry Mischak, visual arts instructor at Brown University, is a sculptor whose primary medium is duct tape.
News Release   96-002i    07/02/1996   Mahdesian
Research says attention deficit disorder persists
Brown University researchers say attention deficit disorder isn't something that is outgrown; it can persist into adulthood. The outcome for children with ADD is best when parents advocate an individualized combination of treatments.
News Release   95-174    06/21/1996   Turner
Brown librarian to testify before Congress 6/18
Daniel P. O'Mahony, a Brown librarian, will testify about the Federal Depository Library Program Tuesday, June 18, before the U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee. He will urge Congress to ensure better public access to government information, partly through adoption of electronic information technology.
News Release   95-172    06/17/1996   Nickel
Brown files appeal brief in Title IX case
Jo-Ann Conklin, curator of graphic arts at the University of Iowa Museum of Art, has been named director of the David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University, effective July 1, 1996.
News Release   95-170    06/11/1996   Mahdesian
Black church arsons are nothing new in America
The recent rash of arson and vandalism at African American churches has roots as far back as the 18th century and may not be the work of extremist groups, according to John Saillant, visiting assistant professor of Afro-American studies at Brown.
News Release   95-171i    06/11/1996   Mahdesian
Brown upgrades video conferencing with Moscow
The Russian Link, a low-cost two-way real-time video conference system offered through Brown University and the Institute for Space Research in Russia, has upgraded to a higher speed to improve service.
News Release   95-169    06/07/1996   Sweeney
Brown, Memorial announce new affiliation
Under a new affiliation agreement, Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island will assume chief responsibility for the primary care academic programs of the Brown University School of Medicine. Memorial and Brown will also collaborate to establish a Brown University Center for Primary Care. See also the news advisory, 95-167a
News Release   95-167    06/04/1996   Turner
Ted Sizer receives President's Medal
Theodore R. Sizer, University Professor and professor of education, received the President's Medal Ð the highest honor a Brown president may bestow Ð for his commitment to education reform. Sizer is retiring from Brown and stepping down as director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform on June 30, but will remain chairman of the Coalition of Essential Schools, which he founded in 1983.
News Release   95-166    05/29/1996   Sweeney
Medical school announces new strategic plan
A new strategic plan to restructure the School of Medicine and Program in Biology will help Brown maintain quality faculty at a time of information overload and waning support for academic medicine under health care reforms.
News Release   95-162    05/28/1996   Turner
Spoehr to succeed Shepp as dean of faculty
Kathryn T. Spoehr, Brown University's Dean of the Graduate School and Research, has been named the new Dean of the Faculty. She will succeed Bryan E. Shepp, who is stepping down June 30 to return to teaching in the Department of Psychology.
News Release   95-164    05/28/1996   Sweeney
Corporation elects six new trustees
At its Commencement Weekend meeting May 26, the Brown Corporation elected six new trustees: Stanley J. Bernstein, Thomas W. Berry, J. Scott Burns, Ramon Cortines, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, and Barbara Reisman.
News Release   95-165    05/28/1996   Nickel
President Gregorian's war memorial remarks
At 9:30 Sunday morning May 26 near Soldiers Arch, Brown alumni gathered to honor the University's 20th-century war dead. President Vartan Gregorian addressed the gathering and announced Brown's plans for a permanent memorial. The text of Gregorian's remarks follows.
News Release   95-161    05/26/1996   Nickel
James D. Wolfensohn receives honorary degree
James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Brown University's Commencement Monday, May 27.
News Release   Request news release 95-163    05/24/1996   Sweeney
Brown creates donor-funded coed equestrian team
A gift from Brown parents Dennis and Cynthia Suskind of New York will allow the University to establish a donor-funded coed varsity equestrian team. Funding for the team has been guaranteed for five years.
News Release   95-157    05/20/1996   Morin
Brown to honor war dead, announce memorial plans
At special Commencement Weekend events Saturday and Sunday, May 25-26, Brown University will honor the memory of 243 alumni who died in World Wars I and II, Korea and Vietnam. During a ceremony Sunday morning at 9:30, President Vartan Gregorian will announce plans for development of a permanent memorial.
News Release   95-158    05/20/1996   Nickel
O'Mahoney to testify on electronic access to government documents
Daniel P. O'Mahony, a Brown librarian, will testify about the Federal Depository Library Program Wednesday, May 22, before the U.S. Senate Rules and Administration Committee. He will urge Congress to ensure better public access to government information, partly through adoption of electronic information technology. [The hearing was postponed; see 95-172.]
News Release   Request news release 95-160    05/20/1996   Nickel
Brown to award nine honorary doctorates 5/27
Brown will award nine honorary degrees at Commencement this year. Recipients are the Aga Khan, Mary Chapin Carpenter '81, Edward D. Eddy, Timothy Forbes '76, Agnes Gund, Arthur Mitchell, Sandra Day O'Connor, Itzhak Perlman and James Wolfensohn. Several recipients will give Commencement Forums Saturday, May 25.
News Release   95-155    05/17/1996   Sweeney
NIH's Vivian Pinn to deliver Medical School address
The M.D. Class of 1996 will hear addresses by classmate Alexes Hazen, faculty member Dr. Timothy Flanigan, and Dr. Vivian Pinn, associate director for research on women's health at NIH. The class will also confer its Senior Citation on Dr. Thomas Parrino, professor of medicine at the Brown School of Medicine.
News Release   95-154    05/16/1996   Turner
Brown recognizes 13 employees for excellence and commitment
At its annual Brown Says Thank You! breakfast held for the University's support staff, Brown recognized 13 employees for the innovation, initiative, service and personal commitment they have demonstrated in their work.
News Release   95-151    05/10/1996   Sweeney
Stanley Katz to speak at Graduate School Commencement
Historian Stanley N. Katz will address advanced degree candidates during Graduate School Commencement exercises at Brown University Monday, May 27. Ceremonies will include the presentation of Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching and special recognition for three Graduate School alumni.
News Release   95-152    05/10/1996   Morin
Anderson and Palmer to deliver orations 5/27
Andrea A. Anderson and Michael Palmer, two members of the Brown Class of 1996, have been chosen by their classmates to deliver orations during Commencement ceremonies May 27 in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
News Release   95-148    05/09/1996   Morin
Reunion alumni to bring books for R.I. children
Brown alumni will donate thousands of books to the "Read to Me" program at the Hasbro Children's Hospital. Singer/Songwriter Carly Simon will highlight the Reunion public service project program by reading to Hasbro patients at 4 p.m. Sunday, May 26.
News Release   95-149    05/09/1996   Morin
Alan Shawn Feinstein receives President's Medal
The President's Medal, the highest award a Brown University president may bestow, was presented to Alan Shawn Feinstein during the 10th annual World Hunger Awards, which the Cranston, R.I., philanthropist, helped create at the University.
News Release   95-142    04/30/1996   Sweeney
Brown Summer High School prepares for 28th year
From July 1 to 26, Brown Summer High School will offer students entering ninth through 12th grades a taste of the college experience through 17 hands-on, interdisciplinary classes ranging from studies of boat design and mechanical engineering to a mathematical look at the game of pool.
News Release   95-135    04/22/1996   Sweeney
Brown Summer High School, July 1-26
For 28 years, Brown Summer High School, which this year runs from July 1 to 26, has earned high marks from the area high school students and teachers who take part in the program's unique, interdisciplinary courses.
News Release   Request news release 95-136i    04/22/1996   Sweeney
35 students from Harlem to visit Brown 4/24-25
Thirty-five eighth- and eleventh-grade students from New York City will spend two days on the Brown University campus with two Brown undergraduates and a Brown alumnus who are teaching in New York City. The three hope the campus experience will make a lasting impression and persuade the students to pursue a college degree.
News Release   95-138i    04/19/1996   Sweeney
Brown's summer programs to host Summer Fair
Information about Brown University's summer programs will be available during a Summer Fair, Friday, May 3, from 3 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. in the Leung Gallery of Faunce House on Waterman Street.
News Release   Request news release 95-139    04/19/1996   Mahdesian
Feinstein Hunger Program celebrates 10th year
The World Hunger Program at Brown University unites scholars, policy makers and social and environmental action programs through its unique interdisciplinary study of hunger, and has demonstrated steps everyone Ð at the grass roots level as well as at world summits Ð can take to make to reduce hunger and eliminate its causes.
News Release   95-134i    04/18/1996   Sweeney
First Lucille Lortel Playwriting fellow announced
Brown University has announced the recipient of the first Lucille Lortel Playwriting Fellowship. Gina Gianfriddo, a student in the Graduate Creative Writing Program, will be honored during an inauguration ceremony at 11:30 a.m., April 27, outside Carr House, corner of Brown and Angell streets.
News Release   95-131    04/15/1996   Mahdesian
University releases findings of Corrigan contract audit
An independent audit and University investigation show Brown's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior delivered full value to the State of Massachusetts under a professional services contract with the Corrigan Mental Health Center. The Boston Globe had reported that Brown was paid for research it never conducted.
News Release   95-130    04/12/1996   Nickel
Sen. John Chafee to speakWednesday, April 10
Sen. John Chafee will give a speech at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching at Brown University. His topics will include health care and the balanced budget
News Release   95-124    04/04/1996   Mahdesian
Brown set for Title IX appeal; 48% of athletes are women
Brown ready to argue Title IX appeal in Boston; statistics for 1995-96 athletic rosters show 48 percent women
News Release   95-121    03/29/1996   Nickel
19 faculty receive Salomon Research Awards
In the wake of declining federal dollars earmarked for research, Brown University has established the Richard B. Salomon Research Awards. The $1-million fund, established through the bequest of the University's former chancellor allows senior and junior faculty members with proven track records in one area of research to expand their inquiries into new and bold areas.
News Release   95-117    03/21/1996   Morin
East Timorese student meet Indonesian officials
Brown University junior Constancio Pinto will meet face-to-face with Indonesian government officials who once had him hunted and imprisoned during a UN-sponsored meeting in Austria March 19.
News Release   95-111i    03/11/1996   Morin
Federal agency endorses Brown finding in NIMH case
The Office of Research Integrity (ORI) has reviewed Brown University's inquiry into allegations of possible scientific misconduct by Dr. Martin B. Keller, chairman of the University's Department of Psychiatry and Human Behavior, and concurs with the University's finding: Because no evidence supports the allegations, no further investigation is warranted. ORI considers the case closed.
News Release   95-104    03/08/1996   Nickel
Missed dependency diagnosis costs nation $240B per year
A panel of national experts led by Dr. David Lewis, director of Brown's Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, has concluded that only a small fraction of the millions of people who are dependent on drugs and alcohol get help from their doctors, costing the nation billions in health care costs and lost worker productivity.
News Release   95-112i    03/08/1996   Morin
Literature course bridges Arab-Israeli gap
Brown professors Kamal Abdel-Malek and David Jacobson have created a course that uses literature to help students of all ethnic and religious backgrounds understand the decades-old Arab-Israeli conflict without being mired in political ideology.
News Release   95-106i    03/06/1996   Morin
Exiles, Dissidents, Rushdie to discuss Freedom to Write
A Freedom to Write Conference, March 19-22, at Brown University will host dissident and exiled writers from throughout the world, along with representatives from human rights organizations. Among those to participate are Salman Rushdie and Carlos Fuentes.
News Release   95-108    03/06/1996   Mahdesian
BCLIR announces spring semester courses
The Brown Community for Learning in Retirement (BCLIR) will launch its spring semester with a convocation and luncheon at noon Monday, March 11, at Alumnae Hall. The semester begins Monday, March 18.
News Release   95-103    03/04/1996   Mahdesian
PONG Festival celebrates technology-based art
Brown University and the Rhode Island School of Design will co-sponsor the third annual PONG: A Festival of Art and Technology March 3-9.
News Release   95-100    03/01/1996   Mahdesian
Brown to host NERCOMP training conference 3/7
The New England Regional Computing Program is sponsoring a day-long workshop at Brown University on March 7 for computer users who plan, design, develop and deliver computer training.
News Release   95-095    02/22/1996   Sweeney
Computers give campus dating a Valentine's Day nudge
Brown students organize a computer dating service for Valentine's Day as a fund-raiser for financial aid (and antidote to the "dating is dead at Brown" charge)
News Release   95-088i    02/06/1996   Morin
Martin Martel memorial service set for Feb. 13
A public service celebrating the life of sociology professor Martin Martel will take place at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 13, in Manning Chapel on the Brown campus. Martel died Dec. 20 at the age of 66.
News Release   95-085    01/31/1996   Mahdesian
University announces Steinberg Festival of New Plays
The Steinberg Festival of New Plays will take place Feb. 1-4 and 8-11 at Russell Lab, 5 Young Orchard Ave. The six plays were written by students in Brown's Graduate Writing Program and are performed in collaboration with the Trinity Repertory Company.
News Release   95-080    01/23/1996   Mahdesian
Doris Kearns Goodwin to open public affairs conference 2/21
Doris Kearns Goodwin will open the 16th annual Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference, "Democracy in America: Does it Still Work?," with the Metcalf-Swearer Memorial Lecture on Feb. 21.
News Release   95-079    01/19/1996   Morin
Dinkins and ÔDouglass' to discuss roots of racism 1/24
David Dinkins, former mayor of New York City, will deliver the Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture at Brown University at 7 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 24, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching. His speech will be followed by a dramatic presentation by actor Fred Morsell entitled, "Presenting Mr. Frederick Douglass.
News Release   95-078    01/18/1996   Mahdesian
Preview concerts to feature talented stand-ins for Perlmans, Jan. 24-25
The Brown University Orchestra will present two preview concerts for the upcoming benefit concert featuring Itzhak and Navah Perlman. The preview concerts, at 8 p.m. on Friday, Jan. 24, and Saturday, Jan. 25, will feature 13-year-old pianist Bettina Wong and Charleston String Quartet violinist Charles Sherba.
News Release   96-062    01/10/1996   Mahdesian
Brown files appeal brief in Title IX case
Brown asks the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston to reverse a lower court Title IX ruling that Brown had discriminated against women athletes. National sports organizations, individual schools, a women's group and organizations representing more than 2,000 colleges have filed briefs supporting Brown's appeal. (Brief filed 12/11/95)
News Release   95-070    12/12/1995   Nickel
$25-million grant sets up regional education lab at Brown
A $24.3-million, five-year contract from the U.S. Department of Education establishes a laboratory at Brown University to promote education reform in New England, New York, Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. The laboratory will collaborate with Brown-based school reform efforts, Hunter College at City University of New York, and partners in technology to achieve its goal.
News Release   95-069    12/11/1995   Sweeney
Local collector donates entertainment memorabilia to Brown
Robert J. Tierney Jr. of Pawtucket, R.I., has donated more than 350 radio and television scripts as well as additional entertainment ephemera to the John Hay Library at Brown University.
News Release   95-067    12/08/1995   Morin
Holloway to receive Archaeological Institute Gold Medal
Archaeology professor R. Ross Holloway of Brown University will receive the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement from the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) at its 97th Annual Meeting Dec. 29, in San Diego, Calif.
News Release   95-068    12/08/1995   Mahdesian
Keith Burris named Brian Dickinson Fellow
Keith C. Burris, editorial page editor of the Journal Inquirer in Manchester, Conn., will spend the spring semester at Brown University exploring issues facing the American family. The fellowship, established by Brown and the Providence Journal, was created to honor Journal editorial columnist Brian Dickinson.
News Release   95-057    12/04/1995   Sweeney
Catskills Institute studies, preserves Borscht Belt culture
Sociologist Phil Brown and colleagues found the Catskills Institute to preserve and study the Borscht Belt
News Release   95-062i    12/01/1995   Morin
Galaxy Hitchhiker to speak at Brown
Douglas Adams, author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," to speak 11/13, sponsored by Brown Lecture Board
News Release   Request news release 95-049    11/10/1995   Mahdesian
Brown to acquire Alcoholics Anonymous archives
Brown receives funds to acquire Alcoholics Anonymous archives
News Release   95-042    10/23/1995   Mahdesian
Story idea of Brown Journal of World Affairs
Story idea of Brown Journal of World Affairs
News Release   95-034i    10/12/1995   Sweeney
Brown launches another BRUIN on-line course
Brown launches another BRUIN course (David Lewis on a drug-free America)
News Release   95-024i    09/21/1995   Morin
Belarusian entrepreneurs on a four-city business tour
Belarusian entrepreneurs from Brown-sponsored program on a four-city swing to find venture capital
News Release   95-023    09/13/1995   Morin
C.V. Starr fellowships awarded
C.V. Starr fellowships awarded to eight Brown students. Program is now extended to match federal stipends awarded through Americorps. See 95/019a for background on public service at Brown
News Release   95-019    09/11/1995   Nickel
Brown offers houses for sale at $10
Brown offers two houses for sale at $10 each (Howell House and 15 Manning Walkway). The idea is to move them thus save them.
News Release   95-018    09/08/1995   Morin
Brown buys Old Stone Bank building
Brown buys Old Stone Bank building in order to relocate Haffenreffer Museum. Will spend $10 million on renovation.
News Release   95-005    08/11/1995   Nickel
NASA - Brown Narragansett Bay project
NASA and Brown announce remote sensing project to develop products that will help RI businesses plan and manage resources of Narragansett Bay. The pojrect is worth about $190K per year for three years.
News Release   95-006    08/09/1995   Korn
Gwen Ifill cancels, reschedules her appearance at Brown
Gwen Ifill cancels, reschedules her appearance at Brown (news advisory)
News Release   95-016    08/07/1995   Mahdesian
Title IX appeal dismissed by 1st Circuit
First Circuit Court of Appeals declines to hear the Title IX appeal because it does not consider Judge Pettine's final judgment and order to be final. Brown can resubmit the appeal after Pettine accepts or rejects Brown's plan.
News Release   95-004    07/19/1995   Morin
Brown will acquire an IBM supercomputer
Brown will acquire an IBM supercomputer
News Release   95-002    07/17/1995   Korn
Brown submits Title IX compliance plan
Brown submits Title IX compliance plan to Judge Pettine: caps for men's teams, minimum squad sizes for all teams, five jv squads for women. Phase two is to eliminate a men's team.
News Release   95-001    07/07/1995   Nickel
James Pomerantz of Rice University named provost at Brown
James Pomerantz of Rice University named provost at Brown
News Release   Request news release 94-195    06/29/1995   Sweeney
Brown files appeal brief in Boston, attracts three friend-of-court briefs in Title IX suit
Joined by several prominent higher education organizations representing over 1,700 colleges and universities nationwide, attorneys for Brown University today filed with the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston the University's brief contesting a recent U.S. District Court decision that Brown violates the regulations governing Title IX. The ruling, which the University's brief said creates "athletic quotas," was handed down March 29 by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Raymond Pettine.
News Release   94-198    06/26/1995   Morin

Brown presents master plan for city approval. See also 94/194a, which outlines Brown's commitment to historic preservation
News Release   Request news release 94-194    06/21/1995   Morin

Surprise, surprise: $2-million reunion gift from Class of 1945 puts Brown's Campaign over the $450M mark. The Campaign is extended with a challenge to fully fund all the priorities. A copy of Gregorian's Commencement 1995 remarks is appended
News Release   Request news release 94-189    05/29/1995   Nickel
Bring a Book to Brown media advisory
Bring a Book to Brown media advisory
News Release   Request news release 94-188a    05/24/1995   Korn
Pfizer employees earn first off-site master's degrees at Brown
Pfizer employees earn first off-site master's degrees at Brown
News Release   Request news release 94-187    05/23/1995   Korn
Brown announces its "Unrequired Reading List"
Brown announces its "Unrequired Reading List"
News Release   Request news release 94-177    05/18/1995   Sweeney
Brown says Thank You
Brown says Thank You
News Release   Request news release 94-165    05/09/1995   Sweeney
Alumni, friends, parents prepare to Bring a Book to Brown for Commencement service project
Alumni, friends, parents prepare to Bring a Book to Brown for Commencement service project
News Release   Request news release 94-168    05/09/1995   Korn
Brown celebrates National Astronomy Day
Brown celebrates National Astronomy Day
News Release   Request news release 94-160    05/02/1995   Korn
Brown files appeal in Title IX athletics discrimination case
Brown University today appealed the controversial March 29 ruling by U.S. District Court Senior Judge Raymond Pettine in a precedent-setting Title IX athletic discrimination case. Citing errors of fact, misinterpretations of law and omissions of evidence, attorneys for the University asked the First Circuit Court of Appeals in Boston to set aside Pettine's ruling or, alternatively, to order a new trial.
News Release   94-147    04/17/1995   Nickel
Brown pitches in for Christmas in April community service on April 29
Brown pitches in for Christmas in April community service on April 29
News Release   Request news release 94-150    04/17/1995   Morin
Brown asks cities and towns to drop mention of personal tax exemption
Brown University has formally requested that 37 Rhode Island cities and towns remove from their tax bills any mention of a personal property tax exemption for Brown faculty. That exemption, granted by King George III in 1764, was voluntarily abandoned by the University in 1965. Faculty hired since then must waive the exemption as a condition of employment. Continued mention of that exemption causes confusion and resentment.
News Release   94-146    04/10/1995   Nickel
Case Closed: Office of Civil Rights Finds No Evidence of Discrimination
OCR gives Brown clean bill of health, finds no evidence of discrimination in financial aid operation
News Release   Request news release 94-117    04/06/1995   Nickel
Fact sheet on athletics at Brown
Fact sheet on athletics at Brown [background for Title IX case]
News Release   94-143    04/05/1995   Nickel
Summary of Summer Session offerings at Brown
Summary of Summer Session offerings at Brown
News Release   Request news release 94-138    03/30/1995   Morin
Statement: Brown to appeal Title IX ruling
Brown University intends to appeal the Title IX ruling announced by the U.S. District Court in Providence. The text of Vice President Robert A. Reichley's statement follows here.
News Release   94-137    03/29/1995   Nickel
Brown's statement on fire protection and its investment in new alarms and sprinklers
Brown's statement on fire protection and its investment in new alarms and sprinklers
News Release   Request news release 94-127    03/16/1995   Nickel
Speakers to explore history and culture of pre-Castro Cuba in dual lecture series (Brown and NYC)
Speakers to explore history and culture of pre-Castro Cuba in dual lecture series (Brown and NYC)
News Release   Request news release 94-116    03/07/1995   Gannon
Brown files reply brief in Title IX case
Brown files reply brief in Title IX case
News Release   Request news release 94-106    02/24/1995   Nickel
Brown University AIDS Project (BRUNAP) gets major grant from AmFAR
Brown University AIDS Project (BRUNAP) gets major grant from AmFAR
News Release   Request news release 94-105    02/21/1995   Korn
Brown will host New England Science Bowl 2/25
Brown will host New England Science Bowl 2/25
News Release   Request news release 94-103    02/16/1995   Korn

Brown professors present papers and participate in discussions at AAAS meeting: James Wyche, John Ladd, Pierre Galletti, Robert Valentini
News Release   Request news release 94-100    02/13/1995   Korn
Brown sets tuition for 1995-96 academic year: $20,608; total cost: $27,340
Brown sets tuition for 1995-96 academic year: $20,608; total cost: $27,340
News Release   Request news release 94-099    02/11/1995   Nickel

15th Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference to consider "America's Media: Are They Out of Control?" Feb. 27 - March 9
News Release   Request news release 94-095    02/10/1995   Gannon
Media Advosiry: Rep. Jack Reed to visit Brown Monday 2/13
Media Advosiry: Rep. Jack Reed to visit Brown Monday 2/13
News Release   Request news release 94-098    02/10/1995   Korn
Five Brown physicians named among the nation's best by Town and Country
Five Brown physicians named among the nation's best by Town and Country
News Release   Request news release 94-093    02/06/1995   Korn
Brown prepares its list of unrequired reading for "Think-Read" program
Brown prepares its list of unrequired reading for "Think-Read" program
News Release   Request news release 94-089    02/02/1995   Sweeney
Madeleine Kunin does whirlwind tour of Brown and Providence; speaks at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall
Madeleine Kunin does whirlwind tour of Brown and Providence; speaks at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall
News Release   Request news release 94-086    01/23/1995   Gannon
Brown initiates free wellness program for all employees
Brown initiates free wellness program for all employees
News Release   Request news release 94-075    12/12/1994   Sweeney
Statistics on interest and ability presented in court for Title IX case
In virtually any group of young people, from grade school through college and beyond, males consistently demonstrate a significantly higher level of interest in athletics than females, according to a number of studies and surveys presented in court by attorneys for Brown University as part of a precedent-setting Title IX athletic sex-discrimination case.
News Release   94-074    12/05/1994   Nickel
Rebecca Flewelling leaves Brown for Deerfield Academy
Rebecca Flewelling leaves Brown for Deerfield Academy
News Release   Request news release 94-070    12/01/1994   Morin
Military Recruiting at Brown
Military Recruiting at Brown
News Release   Request news release 94-058    11/08/1994   Nickel
25th Anniversary of Brown Curriculum
25th Anniversary of Brown Curriculum
News Release   Request news release 94-042    10/07/1994   Gannon
Brown, Plaintiffs Announce Partial Settlement Agreement in Title IX Case
Under terms of a 26-page partial settlement, which must be formally approved by Senior U.S. District Judge Raymond Pettine, female athletes at Brown agree to drop any claims of unequal treatment of funded varsity teams, and the University agrees to continue its current programs and policies of fair and equal treatment with respect to those teams.
News Release   94-039    09/30/1994   Nickel
Brown is prepared to prove full compliance with all Title IX provisions
"Brown University believes its program of women's varsity sports is in full compliance with the spirit and letter of Title IX, and we are eager to demonstrate that fact in court," said Robert A. Reichley, executive vice president (alumni, public affairs and external relations), at the start of the Title IX trial. "Brown has a powerful story to tell. Few colleges or universities can match the number and variety of varsity teams we offer, and women athletes at Brown take advantage of those varsity opportunities at rates that are triple the national average."
News Release   94-032    09/23/1994   Nickel

1994 orientation program to include heavy dose of academics, instructions on using the Brown curriculum to best advantage
News Release   Request news release 94-018    08/29/1994   Sweeney

Some 30 junior high students descended upon the Brown University campus Aug. 15-19 and Aug. 21-26 for Summer Science Adventures, sponsored by NASA Space Grant
News Release   Request news release 94-017i    08/24/1994   Korn
Dana Foundation gives Brown $500K for neural science research
Dana Foundation gives Brown $500K for neural science research
News Release   Request news release 94-013    08/11/1994   Korn

Brown, Channel 6 to host Democratic gubernatorial debate for Bruce Sundlun, Myrth York, Louise Durfee August 10
News Release   Request news release 94-010    08/01/1994   Gannon
Connecticut students meet Moscow pen pals through Brown's video link
Connecticut students meet Moscow pen pals through Brown's video link
News Release   Request news release 94-006    07/19/1994   Morin
Brown to offer master's degree at Pfizer Inc. in Groton Conn.
Brown to offer master's degree at Pfizer Inc. in Groton Conn.
News Release   Request news release 94-002    07/07/1994   Nickel
Brown family gives Brown Archives, endowment, Nightingale-Brown House to University
Brown family gives Brown Archives, endowment, Nightingale-Brown House to University
News Release   Request news release 93-168    06/07/1994   Nickel

Brown Corporation elects eight new trustees: Deborah Coleman, Paul Dupee, Eleanor Gimon, Jeffrey Greenberg, Debra Lee, Steven Rattner, William Rhodes, Terence Walsh
News Release   Request news release 93-167    05/31/1994   Nickel
Terry and Jan Tullis lead 35 Brown faculty, students and alumni at AGU in Baltimore
Terry and Jan Tullis lead 35 Brown faculty, students and alumni in presentations at American Geophysical Union in Baltimore 5/23-27
News Release   Request news release 93-164    05/20/1994   Korn
Commencement 1994: Brown Wind Symphony to present Commencement concert
Commencement 1994: Brown Wind Symphony to present Commencement concert
News Release   Request news release 93-159    05/18/1994   Gannon
Brown Orchestra wins ASCAP award for programming
Brown Orchestra wins ASCAP award for programming
News Release   Request news release 93-160    05/18/1994   Gannon
Brown Says Thank-You to nine employees
Brown Says Thank-You to nine employees. Zoned releases: a=East Bay; b=Metro West; c=South County; d=West Bay; e=City. Sent with photos
News Release   Request news release 93-154    05/16/1994   Sweeney
Sources and Ideas: Brown Summer High School will run 6/27 - 7/22
Sources and Ideas: Brown Summer High School will run 6/27 - 7/22
News Release   Request news release 93-148i    05/11/1994   Sweeney
"It's Only a Play," by Terrence McNally, to be staged
Commencement: "It's Only a Play," by Terrence McNally, to be staged as benefit for Friends of Brown Theater
News Release   Request news release 93-143    05/09/1994   Gannon
Lord Anthony Quinton to lecture at Brown in fall semester
Lord Anthony Quinton to lecture at Brown in fall semester
News Release   Request news release 93-147    05/09/1994   Morin
Brown ends restrictions on South African investments (A&E vote on 4/15/94).
Brown ends restrictions on South African investments (A&E vote on 4/15/94).
News Release   Request news release 93-133    04/25/1994   Sweeney
Damon convenes Brown and Radcliffe conference on children: Growing up in Changing Times
Damon convenes Brown and Radcliffe conference on children: Growing up in Changing Times
News Release   Request news release 93-120    04/01/1994   Morin
Cathy Weitz, a doctoral candidate in planetary geology, will work for JPL
Cathy Weitz, a doctoral candidate in planetary geology at Brown University, will work for the Jet Propulsion Laboratory as a re-planner on the Space Radar Laboratory
News Release   Request news release 93-116i    03/21/1994   Korn
Brown helps establish RINet, a K-12 connection to the Internet
Brown helps establish RINet, a K-12 connection to the Internet
News Release   Request news release 93-117i    03/21/1994   Gannon
NASA installs ViTS at Brown
NASA installs ViTS at Brown
News Release   Request news release 93-105    02/24/1994   Korn
Robert Utley to deliver fifth annual Anne S.K. Brown Lecture
Robert Utley, authority on native American wars, to deliver fifth annual Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection lecture
News Release   Request news release 93-091    02/11/1994   Gannon
Ted Turner gives $25 million to Brown
Ted Turner gives $25 million to Brown
News Release   Request news release 93-087    02/07/1994   Nickel
Brown chosen to participate in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program in its first year
Brown chosen to participate in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program in its first year
News Release   Request news release 93-063    11/15/1993   Nickel
Carlos Fuentes to join Brown faculty.
Carlos Fuentes to join Brown faculty.
News Release   Request news release 93-038    10/04/1993   Gannon
Hillary Clinton to visit Brown 10/8, conduct hour-long prime-time broadcast on health care reform
Hillary Clinton to visit Brown 10/8, conduct hour-long prime-time broadcast on health care reform
News Release   Request news release 93-030    09/29/1993   Nickel
Colloquium on Aging and Old Age sponsored by Brown and Goethe Institute Oct. 1 and 2
Colloquium on Aging and Old Age sponsored by Brown and Goethe Institute Oct. 1 and 2
News Release   Request news release 93-025    09/21/1993   Gannon
Grand reopening of the Brown Book Store
Grand reopening of the Brown Book Store
News Release   Request news release 93-022    09/20/1993   Sweeney
More doctors turning to unfunded medical research, according to Brown study
More doctors turning to unfunded medical research, according to Brown study
News Release   Request news release 93-001    07/08/1993   DeMaio
Karen McLaurin named director of Brown's Third World Center
Karen McLaurin named director of Brown's Third World Center
News Release   Request news release 92-153    06/23/1993   Gannon
Brown University medical students study international medicine, ORT in Brownsville, Texas
Brown University medical students study international medicine, ORT in Brownsville, Texas
News Release   Request news release 92-152    06/22/1993   DeMaio
Ten Brown students named President's Community Service Fellows by Swearer Center
Ten Brown students named President's Community Service Fellows by Swearer Center
News Release   Request news release 92-151    06/16/1993   Sweeney
Brown wins Grand Gold Award from CASE for overall excellence
Brown wins Grand Gold Award from CASE for overall excellence
News Release   Request news release 92-149    06/08/1993   Sweeney
Brown elects six new trustees
Brown elects six new trustees: Nora Burgess, Purandara Das, Kathryn Fuller, Steven Jordan, Robert Sanchez, Thelma Zen
News Release   Request news release 92-145    06/03/1993   Nickel
Six New Trustees Sworn in by the Brown Corporation
The Corporation of Brown University welcomed six new trustees at its meeting May 29, 1993: Nora Liburdy Burgess, a cardiovascular surgeon in San Francisco; E. S. Purandara Das, a New York investment banker; Kathryn Scott Fuller, president of the World Wildlife Fund, of Washington, D.C.; Steven R. Jordan, a professional football player for the Minnesota Vikings, of Eden Prairie, Minn.; Robert P. Sanchez (alumni trustee), a New York securities executive; and Thelma Chun-Hoon Zen, a business executive from Hawaii.
News Release   92-145    06/03/1993   Nickel
Jill Portugal, Daniel Rosenberg, Zachary Wald are three Brown students named as White House interns
Jill Portugal, Daniel Rosenberg, Zachary Wald are three Brown students named as White House interns
News Release   Request news release 92-141    05/28/1993   Gannon
vth Blois conference on high-energy particle physics June 8-12 at Brown
vth Blois conference on high-energy particle physics June 8-12 at Brown
News Release   Request news release 92-143    05/28/1993   DeMaio
1993 Commencement Forums announced
Ted Turner, Morley Safer and Jane Fonda To Highlight Brown University's Commencement Forums Held During 225th Commencement Weekend
News Release   Request news release 92-128    05/13/1993   Gannon
Brown Learning Community summer course offerings
Brown Learning Community summer course offerings
News Release   Request news release 92-123    05/10/1993   Gannon
News advisory: Brown students go to DC to lobby for access to higher ed
News advisory: Brown students go to DC to lobby for access to higher ed
News Release   Request news release 92-113    04/20/1993   Gannon
Statement on losing the Title IX appeal
A ruling by the First Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed a preliminary injunction granted in Providence last December that ordered Brown to reinstate funding for its women's gymnastics and volleyball varsity teams.
News Release   92-112    04/16/1993   Nickel
Tribute to Stan Kenton to be performed by Brown Jazz Band and guest artists March 20.
Tribute to Stan Kenton to be performed by Brown Jazz Band and guest artists March 20.
News Release   Request news release 92-093    03/11/1993   Gannon
1993 ProJo Conference: Race in America: The Search for Common Ground
1993 Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference (aka ProJo Conference): Race in America: The Search for Common Ground.
News Release   Request news release 92-080    02/17/1993   Gannon
Events at Brown: 2/4 - 2/18
Events at Brown: 2/4 - 2/18
News Release   Request news release 92-071    02/02/1993   Gannon
Statement on preliminary injunction in Title IX case involving women's gymnastics
Brown University learned today (Tuesday, Dec. 22) that the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island has issued a preliminary injunction in a lawsuit brought by certain present and former students alleging a violation of Title IX. The basis for the claim was Brown's decision, announced in April 1991, to change the status of two women's teams and two men's teams from varsity to intercollegiate ("club varsity") status. Brown will challenge that injunction.
News Release   92-061    12/21/1992   Nickel
Gregorian releases full text of Risen Committee report on campus safety
In a statement issued Dec. 6, Brown President Vartan Gregorian announced that he concurred with The Risen Committee's report on campus safety, which recommended that the University not arm its police officers at this time. The full text of that report follows here.
News Release   92-055    12/08/1992   Nickel
Gregorian releases statement on arming campus police
In a written statement distributed to the campus community Dec. 6, 1992, Brown President Vartan Gregorian concurred with a recommendation that campus police officers not be armed at this time. Gregorian informed the community that he would publish the full report in this week's edition of the George Street Journal, the University's weekly newspaper, and would send copies to parents.
News Release   92-054    12/07/1992   Nickel
Brown Bookstore, Thayer merchants sponsor food drive
Brown Bookstore, Thayer merchants sponsor food drive
News Release   Request news release 92-048    11/17/1992   Gannon
Brown donates bottled Commencement water to Pawtucket during bacteria problem
Brown donates bottled Commencement water to Pawtucket during bacteria problem
News Release   Request news release 92-007    08/04/1992   Sweeney
ATLAS education reform program, headquartered at Brown, gets enormous federal grant
ATLAS education reform program, headquartered at Brown, gets enormous federal grant
News Release   Request news release 92-003    07/09/1992   DeMaio
Lamphere Consent Decree is vacated; Brown cited as a national leader
Chief Judge Francis J. Boyle of the U.S. District Court in Providence granted a petition to terminate the Lamphere Consent Decree. The University and members of a class representing all current and future female professors at Brown had jointly petitioned the court to terminate the decree, which had governed faculty hiring and promotion at Brown for 14 years.
News Release   91-165    05/27/1992   Nickel
University To Confer Seven Honorary Degrees at Commencement
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian will confer seven honorary degrees at the University’s 224th Commencement Monday, May 25, 1992. The recipients are Johnnetta B. Cole, president of Spelman College in Atlanta; Dr. James P. Comer of Yale University’s Child Study Center; Kathryn S. Fuller, president of the World Wildlife Fund; Marie J. Langlois, Brown University trustee and treasurer of the Brown Corporation; Joan W. Scott, professor of social science at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, N.J.; Rosemary Pierrel Sorrentino, dean emerita of Pembroke College and Brown professor emerita of psychology; and the Hon. Joseph R. Weisberger, Rhode Island Supreme Court justice.
News Release   91-154    05/20/1992   Sweeney
Brown Says Thank You to 13 employees (four release versions, sent to zones of hometown papers)
Brown Says Thank You to 13 employees (four release versions, sent to zones of hometown papers)
News Release   Request news release 91-158    05/15/1992   Sweeney
Commencement: Brown Orchestra to perform with Eugenia Zukerman 5/24
Commencement: Brown Orchestra to perform with Eugenia Zukerman 5/24
News Release   Request news release 91-138    05/04/1992   Gannon
Brown to press only 2 of 5 charges against arrested students
Brown to press only 2 of 5 charges against arrested students
News Release   Request news release 91-140    04/24/1992   DeMaio
Events at Brown: 3/19 - 4/2
Events at Brown: 3/19 - 4/2
News Release   Request news release 91-114    03/17/1992   Gannon
Brown and Dartmouth wind symphonies present joint concert 3/7
Brown and Dartmouth wind symphonies present joint concert 3/7
News Release   Request news release 91-106    03/04/1992   Gannon
Sherman is Brown's first Licht intern
Sherman is Brown's first Licht intern
News Release   Request news release 91-079    01/13/1992   Sweeney
Danforth Foundation gives Brown $420,000 for minority PhD fellowships
Danforth Foundation gives Brown $420,000 for minority PhD fellowships
News Release   Request news release 91-075    12/20/1991   Gannon
Two of the White House Fellows are Brown grads
Two of the White House Fellows are Brown grads
News Release   Request news release 91-076    12/20/1991   Gannon
Brown Orchestra and Chorus do Mozart's Requiem on his Death Date
Brown Orchestra and Chorus do Mozart's Requiem on his Death Date
News Release   Request news release 91-060    11/18/1991   Gannon
Oxfam gets 1,200 Brown students to give up a meal, raises >$2,000 for world hunger
Oxfam gets 1,200 Brown students to give up a meal, raises >$2,000 for world hunger
News Release   Request news release 91-058    11/15/1991   Gannon
Brown names Center for Public Policy after Howard Swearer
Brown University has named its Center for Public Service in honor of its 15th president, the late Howard R. Swearer. Community service was among Swearer’s highest priorities; he established the center in 1986. Note: A statement from President Gregorian and a summary of the Swearer presidency, distributed to news media Oct. 19, 1991, when Swearer died, are appended to this release.
News Release   91-041    10/23/1991   Nickel
Brown Athletics Department adopts Fox Point School
Brown Athletics Department adopts Fox Point School
News Release   Request news release 91-033    10/15/1991   Nickel
100 Years of Women at Brown: An overview of the symposium
100 Years of Women at Brown: An overview of the symposium
News Release   Request news release 91-021    10/04/1991   Nickel
Brown Orchestra announces 1991-92 concert season
Brown Orchestra announces 1991-92 concert season
News Release   Request news release 91-025    10/03/1991   Gannon
Linda Mason to be honored at AABU recognition night. Brown Bears, alumni awards also.
Linda Mason to be honored at AABU recognition night. Brown Bears, alumni awards also.
News Release   Request news release 91-007    08/30/1991   DeMaio
Beer kegs banned from Brown residence halls
Beer kegs banned from Brown residence halls
News Release   Request news release 91-005    08/20/1991   DeMaio
Forbes Foundation grants $2 million for MCM
Forbes Foundation grants $2 million for MCM; Brown names Malcolm Forbes Center for Modern Culture and Media
News Release   Request news release 91-004    08/19/1991   Nickel
Brown Announced Howard Foundation award recipients
Brown Announced Howard Foundation award recipients
News Release   Request news release 90-127    05/01/1991   Mahdesian
Kashkooli, a Brown sophomore, wins JC Penney Service Award
Kashkooli, a Brown sophomore, wins JC Penney Service Award
News Release   Request news release 90-126    04/29/1991   Sweeney
Athletic Department cuts funding for four varsity teams
Brown University announced today (Monday, April 29, 1991) that it is withdrawing funding for four varsity teams as part of a Universitywide budget reduction process aimed at eliminating a projected $1.6-million deficit in the 1991-92 fiscal year. The four teams are men's water polo, men's golf, women's gymnastics and women's volleyball.
News Release   90-128    04/29/1991   DeMaio
Ken Burns, Mr. Civil War, to speak at Brown May 10
Ken Burns, Mr. Civil War, to speak at Brown May 10
News Release   Request news release 90-124    04/24/1991   Mahdesian
12 honored for working with Brown's community outreach programs
12 honored for working with Brown's community outreach programs
News Release   Request news release 90-121    04/17/1991   Sweeney
PSA for Brown Office of Student Employment summer job listing
PSA for Brown Office of Student Employment summer job listing
News Release   Request news release 90-108    03/15/1991   Mahdesian
NSF science and technology center created at Brown, four other institutions
NSF science and technology center created at Brown, four other institutions
News Release   Request news release 90-107    03/14/1991   DeMaio
Tom Watson gives $25 million to the capital campaign; IIS renamed Watson Institute
Brown University has named its Institute for International Studies in honor of Thomas J. Watson Jr., a 1937 Brown graduate, chairman emeritus of IBM and former U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union.
News Release   90-083    02/08/1991   Nickel
Background on Tom Watson, his life and philanthropy at Brown
Background on Tom Watson, his life and philanthropy at Brown
News Release   Request news release 90-083a    02/08/1991   Nickel
Brown launches Brown Is Green with Nader, VG proclamation
Brown launches Brown Is Green with Nader, VG proclamation
News Release   Request news release 90-080    01/29/1991   DeMaio
Ralph Nader to speak at Brown 1/29, launches Brown Is Green
Ralph Nader to speak at Brown 1/29, launches Brown Is Green
News Release   Request news release 90-076    01/18/1991   Ferguson
Jennifer Adibi, Brown student, leads delegation to Iraq seeking peace
Jennifer Adibi, Brown student, leads delegation to Iraq seeking peace
News Release   Request news release 90-058    12/12/1990   Ferguson
Workforce 2000 gives Brown three-year grant for English as a Foreign Language
Workforce 2000 gives Brown three-year grant for English as a Foreign Language
News Release   Request news release 90-049    11/29/1990   Sweeney
Brown Summer Academy offers new scholarships, has new name
Brown Summer Academy offers new scholarships, has new name
News Release   Request news release 90-051    11/27/1990   Sweeney
Cleve Jones, AIDS Quilt creator, to visit Brown 12/6; Public lecture at 8 p.m.
Cleve Jones, AIDS Quilt creator, to visit Brown 12/6; Public lecture at 8 p.m.
News Release   Request news release 90-050    11/26/1990   Sweeney
Brown leads Ivy League alumni track team to compete in Nagoya Ekiden
Brown leads Ivy League alumni track team to compete in Nagoya Ekiden
News Release   Request news release 90-041    10/29/1990   Nickel
Brown conference on famine and children to be held 9/26 as part of planning for UN World Conference
Brown conference on famine and children to be held 9/26 as part of planning for UN World Conference
News Release   Request news release 90-025    09/21/1990   Mahdesian
Fulbrights awarded to four Brown students
Fulbrights awarded to four Brown students
News Release   Request news release 89-155    05/18/1990   Mahdesian
Commencement: Brown Chorus sings benefit for Soviet tour
Commencement: Brown Chorus sings benefit for Soviet tour
News Release   Request news release 89-139    05/08/1990   DeMaio
Chinese poets will give readings 4/11, forum on 4/12
Three dissident Chinese writers Ð Ma Bo, Bei Ling and Xue Di Ð who are now in residence at Brown University will read from their works on April 11, 1990, and share their life experiences in a forum on April 12.
News Release   89-107    03/29/1990   Mahdesian
Matthew Mallow becomes head of Brown Annual Fund
Matt Mallow becomes head of Brown Annual Fund
News Release   Request news release 89-108    03/29/1990   Mahdesian
Brown sophomore gets AISEC internship in Czechoslovakia
Brown sophomore gets AISEC internship in Czechoslovakia
News Release   Request news release 89-099    03/12/1990   Mahdesian
Lamphere appeal dismissed; tenure goal remains at 67
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit dismissed an appeal by women faculty at Brown, allowing a previous decision by Senior Judge Raymond J. Pettine to stand. Pettine had ruled that while 74 tenured women was the goal for “full representativeness,” a total of 67 tenured women would demonstrate “substantial compliance” and allow for possible termination of the consent decree.
News Release   89-092    03/06/1990   Nickel
Brown / Providence Journal conference on environment
Brown / Providence Journal conference on environment
News Release   Request news release 89-082    02/14/1990   Nickel
Columbus at Brown Quincentenary lecture series at JCB
Columbus at Brown Quincentenary lecture series at JCB
News Release   Request news release 89-077    02/02/1990   Weiner
Brown adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy
Brown adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy
News Release   Request news release 89-071    01/24/1990   Nickel
Brown students head to South Carolina to repair Hurricane Hugo damage
Brown students head to South Carolina to repair Hurricane Hugo damage
News Release   Request news release 90-070    01/10/1990   Sweeney
John Harley to perform at Brown Club of Rhode Island event
John Harley to perform at Brown Club of Rhode Island event
News Release   Request news release 90-065    01/07/1990   Ferguson
Brown names new head football coach
Brown names new head football coach
News Release   Request news release 89-065    01/05/1990   Nickel
Brown offers no-interest loans to employees whose money is trapped in closed banks
Brown offers no-interest loans to employees whose money is trapped in closed banks
News Release   Request news release 90-064    01/03/1990   Nickel
Keegan to deliver first Anne S.K. Brown military lecture 1/26
Keegan to deliver first Anne S.K. Brown military lecture 1/26
News Release   Request news release 89-062    12/21/1989   Rippis
Brown Morehouse Spelman Tougaloo start biology program
Brown Morehouse Spelman Tougaloo start biology program
News Release   Request news release 89-061    12/19/1989   Nickel
Soviet trio plays earthquake benefit with Brown Jazz Band
Soviet trio plays earthquake benefit with Brown Jazz Band
News Release   Request news release 89-054    11/22/1989   DeMaio
Westerly schools computer program has major Brown help
Westerly schools computer program has major Brown help
News Release   Request news release 89-037    10/20/1989   DeMaio
Challenge Years campaign a success; Brown Fund record
Challenge Years campaign a success; Brown Fund record
News Release   Request news release 89-031    10/13/1989   Nickel
Brown buys Brook Street Garage land
Brown buys Brook Street Garage land
News Release   Request news release 89-030    10/11/1989   Nickel
Digital summer training school at Brown; DEC is largest ever
Digital summer training school at Brown; DEC is largest ever
News Release   Request news release 88-194    05/30/1989   Nickel
Howard Hughes Foundation gives Brown $1 million
Howard Hughes Foundation gives Brown $1 million
News Release   Request news release 88-197    05/24/1989   Mahdesian
Overseas college advisers meet at Brown 5/21-21
Overseas college advisers meet at Brown 5/21-21
News Release   Request news release 88-185    05/15/1989   Mahdesian
Yukiko Brown receives a Chun Hoon Scholarship
Yukiko Brown receives a Chun Hoon Scholarship
News Release   Request news release 88-175    05/11/1989   Mahdesian
Brown senior wins horse show, is national collegiate champion
Brown senior wins horse show, is national collegiate champion
News Release   Request news release 88-181    05/11/1989   Mahdesian
Brown to provide day care for employees' infants and toddlers
Brown to provide day care for employees' infants and toddlers
News Release   Request news release 88-160    04/25/1989   Nickel
Economic impact study: Brown is worth millions to Providence
Economic impact study: Brown is worth millions to Providence
News Release   Request news release 88-148    04/07/1989   Broudy
Vartan Gregorian assumes Brown presidency
Vartan Gregorian assumes Brown presidency
News Release   Request news release 88-094    01/12/1989   Nickel
Brown co-hosts ACTF theater festival 1/27-2/1
Brown co-hosts ACTF theater festival 1/27-2/1
News Release   Request news release 88-093    01/10/1989   Mahdesian
AT&T gives Brown $45,000 for Engineering, CS
AT&T gives Brown $45,000 for Engineering, CS
News Release   Request news release 88-066    10/24/1988   Nickel
Mario Cuomo to speak at Brown Oct. 18
Mario Cuomo to speak at Brown Oct. 18
News Release   Request news release 88-051    10/13/1988   Mahdesian
Brown makes final offer to SEIU union groups
Brown makes final offer to SEIU union groups
News Release   Request news release 88-056    10/11/1988   Broudy
Brown plans community educational computing gifts
Brown plans community educational computing gifts
News Release   Request news release 88-042    10/06/1988   Nickel
Sheila Blumstein to address Brown Club of Worcester
Sheila Blumstein to address Brown Club of Worcester
News Release   Request news release 88-037    10/04/1988   Mahdesian
James Williams, Brown senior, to debate in Russia
James Williams, Brown senior, to debate in Russia
News Release   Request news release 88-031    09/20/1988   Mahdesian
Brown students to perform Chopstick Dance on 9/18
Brown students to perform Chopstick Dance on 9/18
News Release   Request news release 88-022    09/15/1988   Mahdesian
Brown Band turns 65, plays at Yale game
Brown Band turns 65, plays at Yale game
News Release   Request news release 88-023    09/15/1988   Mahdesian
First Alan Shawn Feinstein scholars come to Brown
First Alan Shawn Feinstein scholars come to Brown
News Release   Request news release 88-016    09/06/1988   Mahdesian
Brown Theater schedule for 1988-89
Brown Theater schedule for 1988-89
News Release   Request news release 88-013    08/15/1988   Mahdesian
NEH travel grants to 4 Brown scholars
NEH travel grants to 4 Brown scholars
News Release   Request news release 88-002    07/05/1988   Mahdesian
Brown scholars visit Gorki Institute in Moscow
Brown scholars visit Gorki Institute in Moscow
News Release   Request news release 87-217    06/06/1988   Broudy
Baker fellowships to 7 Brown seniors
Baker fellowships to 7 Brown seniors
News Release   Request news release 87-194    05/10/1988   Mahdesian
Keasbey fellowships to Brown seniors
Keasbey fellowships to Brown seniors
News Release   Request news release 87-191    05/09/1988   Mahdesian
Stillwell Book collection prices to 3 Brown students
Stillwell Book collection prices to 3 Brown students
News Release   Request news release 87-187    05/05/1988   Mahdesian
Brown accepts 2,592 into Class of 1992
Brown accepts 2,592 into Class of 1992
News Release   Request news release 87-152    04/11/1988   DeMaio
Brown chooses not to totally divest
Brown chooses not to totally divest
News Release   Request news release 87-106    02/13/1988   Broudy
Brown A&E votes to go ahead with new dorm
Brown A&E votes to go ahead with new dorm
News Release   Request news release 87-075    11/18/1987   Broudy
New Plays at Leeds by Brown students
New Plays at Leeds by Brown students
News Release   Request news release 87-074    11/13/1987   Mahdesian
NY Brown Club's Limousine race
NY Brown Club's Limousine race
News Release   Request news release 87-022    09/14/1987   Broudy
3 Brown women get Radcliffe fellowships
3 Brown women get Radcliffe fellowships
News Release   Request news release 87-007    07/29/1987   Mahdesian

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