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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Mumford, a pioneering Brown University mathematician, has won the 2008 Wolf Foundation Prize in Mathematics, one of the world’s top science prizes.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
Ricardo Lagos Escobar, former President of Chile, has been appointed as professor-at-large at Brown University. His new position begins July 1, 2007.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The National College Athletic Association (NCAA) announced today that Brown University has successfully completed the certification process required of all Division I institutions.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown University has closed Smith Swim Center as a precaution until the building’s original architect completes his analysis its roof system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown University will reopen Smith Swim Center on Wednesday, Jan. 17,2007, after repairs to the building’s roof system.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Members of the Brown and RISD communities recognized faculty and student colleagues for their outstanding commitments to teaching and mentoring at Awards Ceremony 2006.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.”
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michael Goldberger, currently Brown University’s director of admission, will become the University’s new athletic director on July 1, 2005.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Freedom Now!, a web site about the Brown-Tougaloo collaboration, puts ideas about public humanities into practice.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Former President Bill Clinton will visit the Brown University campus Friday, April 29, 2005, to deliver a policy address.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
An 11-member selection committee will begin work this week on a national search for Brown University's next athletics director.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
High-profile papers by Marc Tatar and John Sedivy on the biology of aging help raise awareness of Brown's excellence in the field.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
FleetBoston has accepted nine Brown University Medical School alumni into its Community Fellows Program, an education loan repayment program for civic-minded physicians.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown volunteers will hoist paintbrushes, hammers and shovels to refurbish the Fox Point Boys and Girls Club on 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.)
The Brown community is invited to share in the celebration when the newly renovated Glennand Darcy Weiner Hillel Center is dedicated Feb. 26.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Vice President for Research Andries van Dam talks about the direction of Brown's research efforts.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
"Freedom to Write" is a two-day series of readings and panel discussions celebrating Brown's International Writers Project.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown has signed a contract to purchase an online student information system developed and sold by SCT, an educational technology firm.
Brown employees will soon have an array of new - and free - health programs available to them, along with discounts on mortgage and insurance rates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Five Russian library managers will spend Oct. 5-12 examining the role of libraries in American communities with Brown counterparts.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A Brown medical student and four of her professors recently published some of the first clinical details about the AIDS epidemic in Cambodia.
Brown football schedules season-long celebration of its 125-year history
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown student spends month at Red Planet simulation site
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.)
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.
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.
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]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Brown Annual Fund grew by 15 percent over the previous year, reaching $19.7 million and exceeding the goal of $19 million.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The work of a Brown postdoctoral research associate lead him to advocate for conservation of intact communities, not just certain species.
Marisa A. Quinn, currently director of community and government relations, will become assistant to the President at Brown University on Aug. 1, 2003.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CSREA alumni have established themselves in institutions of higher ed across the nation. They recently gathered at Brown to share.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The Admissions Office sent acceptance letters to 2,258 high school seniors inviting them to become members of Brown's Class of 2007.
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.
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.
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.
Four recent studies involving Brown AIDS researchers provided new insights into the behavior and biology of HIV infection and treatment; two conferences
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Two Brown researchers and colleagues have found that many hospitals prescribe alcohol for medicinal purposes, yet clinical studies find alcohol uneffective for such uses.
CIS's new security officer, Connie Sadler, hopes to educate Brown community regarding the legality of downloading copyrighted material
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
The Brown Medical School now offers fourth-year medical students a rotation at one of four Boston-area biotechnology or medical device firms.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Fatima Areia of University Food Services
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Gail Medbury of Rental office
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Robert Zimmer discusses the work that awaits him when he begins his new postion as Brown's provost.
Faces of Brown: Debbie Lister works on more than 5,000 events each year for Facilities Management. Commencement-Reunion Weekend is her biggest task.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
People in wheelchairs who live in homes that are not adapted for handicapped fall more often, according to Brown researchers.
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.
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.
Every dollar parents contributed toward law school expenses increased their offspring's lifetime consumption by $1.76, says an economist at Brown University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
US News and World Report has ranked Brown's sports programs among the top 20 in the nation.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Educational Diversity and Excellence at Brown is the topic of a retreat April 12-13 sponsored by President Simmons.
At Brown for April 5: Library Users Survey; awards and honors
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.
Brown employee wins $7,777 in half-court shootout at Celtics game
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Life as a Brown student as seen from the wheelchair of Sarah Volante '05
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.
Measuring the hormone cortisol, blood pressure and perceptions of events,researchers at Brown University found that third-grade girls who went to bedbefore 9 p.m. showed more adaptive responses to stress than those who stayed uplater. The study included 138 girls in New York City.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Mark Sands of UPS and James Stewart of Fed Ex
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.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Daniel Nuey of 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.
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.
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.
Although nursing homes have been slow to offer hospice care to their terminal residents, Brown gerontologists say the program clearly benefits those patients.
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.
A $6-million NIH grant will help Brown and five other Rhode Island colleges and universities collaborate on biomedical research.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Calvin Goldscheider, Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies and professor ofsociology 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown's Urban Environmental Laboratory offers city gardeners a chance to get their hands dirty.
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.
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.
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
People in alcoholism treatment benefit from medication and coping skills training, according to a new Brown-led study published in "Alcoholism: Clinical & Experimental Research."
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.
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.
Under a new arrangement with Microsoft Corp., Brown students, faculty and staff will have free access to vitutally all of the Microsoft product line.
Planetary geologists at Brown and in Russia have collaborated across some difficult historical and political terrain, and they're still at it.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown partnership with King Faisal School in Saudi Arabia and with the IESE, Education Department at Brown, Summer Studies
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."
Brown Oxfam opens a coffee bar in Bear's Lair called The Hourglass Cafe. Proceeds will benefot Oxfam America
Alcohol is a forgotten drug that leads to unsafe sex among injection drug users, according a new Brown-led study.
Brown's conservative investment strategy works well when the market is volatile. As of September, the endowment was $1.36 billion
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
At Brown: Inauguration by the numbers; information regarding CIS vice president post; Vince Hunt award; Glicksman award
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: trio collaborates on modeling brain cell behavior.
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Charniak and others push into new areas of speech recognition.
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.
Research issue: Brown counters national trend in funding for physical sciences
Research issue: Brown research grants exceed $100 million for first time
Research issue: No stem cells used by Brown researchers are derived from human embryos
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Upfal project explores dynamic behavior of networks.
NSF gives nearly $5 million to Brown faculty working on IT: Van Hentenryck in the hunt for algorithm that takes uncertainty into account.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Six Brown alumni who perished in New York City, Pennsylvania and at the Pentagon will be remembered and honored during inaugural events this weekend.
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.
In Rhode Island, second-offense drunk drivers are accuratelycharged only 60 percent of the time, according to a study recently released bythe Taubman Center for Public Policy at Brown University. Violators oftenreceive lighter penalties than the law prescribes. The study recommendsimprovements to data collection and data access across jurisdictions.
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.
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.
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.
At Brown: Open Enrollment memo, bookmark contest, more
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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 WorldTrade Center and Pentagon attacks. The material is available free of charge on the Web.
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.
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.
At Brown for Sept. 14: awards and honors, off the shelf
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
At Brown: new appointments at Hillel, Swearer Center; a familiar face in Food Services dies; awards and honors; Brown community members on the road
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Brown Chapter of the Student National Medical Association held HIV-prevention workshops for high schools, churches in Ghana
Brown Chapter of the Student National Medical Association held HIV-prevention workshops for high schools, churches in Ghana
SAC is sponsoring a Bring a Book to Brown as a public service project during Staff Development Day
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Arthur Pete Morello, a Brown senior, used the Internet to track down nearly every single medical research participant for a follow-up study.
Brown Summer Theatre on hiatus this year
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cub Camp for Brown employees' children opens June 25
"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
Faces of Brown: Cynthia Schwartz, Office of University Events
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brownbrokers' "Emma" wins national competition, will be webcast from Kennedy Center
Javanese shadow puppet performance with Brown's gamelin ensemble
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Inquiring Minds: James Patterson on legacy of Brown v. Board of Education
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.
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.
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.
Brown's Arts/Literacy Project isn't about turning high school students into actors; it's about getting them to read
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 andintolerance.
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.
Emily Spivack, Brown senior, has created and is trying to expand a non-profit corp. that provides personal shoppers for breast cancer survivors
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Today's black experience at Brown: fighting negative views, money troubles
Ruth J. Simmons will be inaugurated as the 18th president of Brown University on Sunday, Oct. 14, 2001, at 2 p.m.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
What it was like to be a black student at Brown during 1970s. Interviews with Rhett Jones and Karen McLauren-Chesson
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Brown's Black History: Beatrice Minkins '36: 'Papa thought that education is the one thing no one could take from you'
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'
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Jane E. Smith, president and CEO of the National Council of Negro Women, Inc.,will speak on "Interchangeable Experiences: Building America in a NewCentury" on Monday, Jan. 29, 2001 at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center forTeaching. This is Brown's sixth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, andit is free and open to the public.
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."
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.
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
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.
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.
Brown faculty member Susan Cu-Uvin presents paper at AIDS conference sponsored by Brown, held at Tufts
Brown professors have a personal connection to a long-awaited atlas of the classical world
Faculty attending Nov. 14 forum on distance learning air their concerns about online courses and Brown's pilot project with Global Education Network
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Campus reaction to appointment of Ruth J. Simmons as Brown's 18th president
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown may move from early action to early decision. Director of Admissions Michael Goldberger comments about the issues surrounding the discussion
Conference at Brown about migration is culmination of four-year research and training effort in PSTC
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Calling by male bullfrogs may be elicited by calls of distant neighbors or eveninhibited by calls of neighbors close by, say researchers at Brown and theUniversity of Rhode Island.
Student researchers at Brown's Taubman Center for Public Policy have foundproblems with access to public information at Rhode Island courts. While seekinginformation about expungement of felony convictions, sealed records andmunicipal settlements, researchers encountered inconsistent record keeping,missing files and faulty implementation of open records laws. They also found aset of felony convictions that had been improperlyexpunged.
School of Medicine changes its name to Brown Medical School
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown researchers have begun testing the efficacy of a combined medication and memory-training program for Alzheimer's patients.
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.
Five members of the Brown community are the recipients of the first President's Leadership Award.
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.
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.
Auditions for "Emma," this year's Brownbrokers musical
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
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.
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.
The National Science Foundation has awarded $7 million to Brown to continue its Materials Research Science and Engineering Center.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
In a recent Brown study, women performed as much as 12 percent better on math problems when tested in a setting without men.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
FACES OF BROWN: Officer Spencer Haddow of Police and Security
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.
A study of 164 Brown University undergraduates in 1998 and 1999 found womenperformed as well as men when they took math tests with other women, but did notperform as well when tested with men.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research findings presented by Brown faculty and students at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
The Web plays a role in Brown's efforts to encourage students to vote in November election.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cynthia E. Frost, a vice president and portfolio strategist for Duke Management Company, has joined Brown University as vice president and chief investment officer.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A summer research opportunity in Madagascar leads to a multi-departmental international group UTRA for six Brown undergraduates.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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"
Brown's Rob Emlin is keynote speaker at national conference on gravestone studies being held in Providence this June.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Rabbi Alan Flam is leaving Brown and Hillel after 18 years of service.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
Brown chapter of Habitat for Humanity is working with other campus chapters to build a house on Pembroke Street.
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.
Brown University will continue its membership in the FLA (Fair Labor Association) andthe WRC (Worker Rights Consortium) and will remain productively engaged in issuesrelated to sweatshop conditions in the apparel industry.
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.)
Henrietta Leonard, M.D., a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist, is aprofessor of psychiatry and human behavior in the Brown University School ofMedicine. Leonard has talked and written extensively on scientific and ethicalissues in prescribing medications for preschoolers and otherchildren.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown University, the Brown University School of Medicine and the ProvidenceJournal will convene a day-long symposium on the current health care crisisFriday, March 24, 2000, at 8:30 a.m. in Sayles Hall, located on The CollegeGreen.
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.
Letter from President Blumstein to Brown students regarding assault that occurred on campus
Faces of Brown: Drew Yerich, the chief chef at Faculty Club.
Corporation members sponsor three forums Feb. 24 to solicit Brown community suggestions regarding qualities sought in Brown's next president.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Twenty-three Brown employees will receive special honors for their 25 years of service to the University at a campus ceremony Feb. 23
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown has historic ties to Presidents Lincoln and Washington through special collections and historic visits.
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.
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
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.
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.
The President's Achievement Award, which replaces the Brown Says Thank You! awards, will be presented May 12.
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.
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.
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.
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).
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
Brown's Y2K rollover went off with nary a hitch. Quotes from Ann Oribello praising teamwork of varied departments
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Sgt. Kevin Pepere, campus police officer
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown -- Carleia Lighty, parking office assistant
Older adults leave their established careers to come to Brown to earn a Master of Arts in Teaching
Behind the scenes of "Artistic License," the latest Brownbrokers production, and interview with director Christopher Hayes
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Many Brown students are on-call as volunteers for the Red Cross of Rhode Island.
Applications for early action at Brown are up, possibly due to change in policy.
Faces of Brown: Margaret Marisi
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.
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.
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.
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.
Daniel Tortorella, a baker at University Food Services, is making a gingerbread model of University Hall for a fundraiser at Moses Brown.
During the past academic year, 478 Brown undergraduates studied abroad through the Office of International Programs.
Off Hours with Peter Mello, a computer coordinator who plays the contrabass with the Brown Wind Symphony.
Brown researchers receive a grant to pursue teachable moments in the emergency room with patients who arrive w/ heart problems who also smoke.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Research issue: In past year, Brown research funding has experienced a $14 million increase, $10 million of which comes from DHHS/NIH.
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
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
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.
"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.
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."
Researchers at Brown University will lead a new $11.9 million project, funded bythe National Cancer Institute, that will study three generations of families todetermine why people smoke.
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.
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.
Brown's math and applied math departments will be strengthened with a grant of $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
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.
Brown University researchers recently documented the release of the naturallyproduced cannabinoid, anandamide, in response to pain in anesthetized animalmodels.
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?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Brown has a new director of EEO/AA -- Henry Johnson Jr.
Brown/Fox Point Child Care Center offers spaces for Sept. 2000
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.
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.
A Brown University psychologist has developed an easy-to-use device thatmeasures levels of macular pigment in the human eye. Macular pigmentationcorrelates with macular degeneration, the leading cause of blindness in theworld. One of the primary goals of the macular pigmentation research will be todetermine the exact cause-and-effect relationship between the pigment anddisease.
A television in the bedroom is the most powerful predictor of overall sleepdisturbances in school-aged children, according to a new study by Dr. JudithOwens, assistant professor of pediatrics in the Brown University School ofMedicine.
Children who watch television just before bedtime have more sleep problems, according to Brown researcher
Faces of Brown -- Sgt. Ronald Levy
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.
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.
Coverage of opening convocation. Guest speaker is David Lewis, professor, speaking on "This is Your Brain. This is Your Brain at Brown."
Frank Sears, parking manager -- latest in the FACES OF BROWN series.
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.
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.
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.
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.
What do you know about graduate education at Brown? Here are some facts provided by Peder Estrup, dean of the graduate school and research.
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.
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.
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.
"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."
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.
Riding the RIPTA trolley, which serves Brown area and connects downtown and the new mall to campus.
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.
Janina Montero, dean of student life at Princeton University, has been appointed vice president for campus life and student services at Brown University.
Men and women together make more profitable investing decisions than groups of men only or women only, according to a Brown sociologist.
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.
"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.
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.
Information about John F. Kennedy Jr.'s years at Brown University, September 1979 through May 1983.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown geologist Jim Head among the scientists who compile first complete 3-D map of Mars.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Nobel Peace Prize laureate John Hume and two student orators are among the scheduled speakers during Brown's 231st Commencement Weekend, May 28-31.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 researchappears in Nature and was led by Brown University scientists.
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.
Three new Brown studies point to the crucial role pediatricians can play ingetting parents to read aloud to their children.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?"
FACES of BROWN: Merrily Taylor, University librarian
Research done in Colo. by Carole Jenny, now of Brown, shows that doctors often fail to pinpoint abusive head injuries to young children.
Initiated by two undergraduates, the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program has attracted about 140 students in its first semester.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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"
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Paul Ruscito, security officer
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 atany time. The Registrar and Computing and Information Services collaborated on the project.
Brown co-sponsors the Rhode Island Legislative Policy Institute for new state legislators and others. They gather for panel sessions on health and education.
Faces of Brown: Frank Perna, communications control officer with Police and Security.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Targan, others from Brown and Skyscrapers, an amateur astronomy club in RI, go to New Mexico to view Leonid meteor shower.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown members of Oxfam and their Marble Project are featured in Washington, DC, to kick off Oxfam fast.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Faces of Brown: Security Officer Sean Greene, who often patrols campus by bike (GSJ of Nov. 13, 1998)
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.
A new program at Brown University will increase the number of Southeast Asian teachers in Rhode Island, an underrepresented population in the school systems.
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.
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.
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.
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 "Musicfor 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.
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.
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.
Fredericka Wilson of Detroit, Mich., who will graduate from Brown in May 1999,has published a cookbook, "Freddie's Cooking with Family and Friends."
Bad news from hedge funds, including Everest Capital, in which Brown had an investment, looks different to managers who invest for perpetuity
After a laboratory explosion in which no one was seriously injured, the George Street Journal interviewed Steven Morin, Brown's director of risk management
Fredericka Wilson of Detroit, Mich., who will graduate from Brown in May 1999, has published a cookbook, "Freddie's Cooking with Family and Friends."
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.
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.
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.
On Monday, Oct. 5, 1998, six Brown University students with learningdisabilities will begin mentoring six Vartan Gregorian Elementary Schoolstudents who have similar learning disabilities.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Warren Simmons, executive director of the Philadelphia Education Fund, has been named director of the Annenberg Institute for Education Reform, based at Brown University.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: P&S Detective David Boucher.
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.
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.
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
High school students and their Brown student mentors participate in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP). They design their ideal charter school.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
Faces of Brown: Zachary Fox, security officer (GSJ of July 24, 1998)
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)
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.
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.
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.
Hundreds of millions of miles from the sun, volcanoes on Jupiter's moon Iosizzle at the highest recorded surface temperatures of any planetary body inthe solar system. Planetary scientists from University of Arizona, BrownUniversity and five other institutions report this finding in the July 3 issueof the weekly journal Science.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Mark Perry, crime prevention officer, of Police and Security
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
Text of Brown University President E. Gordon Gee's inauguration address, speech delivered at his installation. "The Convergence of History and Potential"
George Street Journal (GSJ) and Brown Alumni Magazine (BAM) win gold medals (top awards) in a national competition (CASE) for publications, communications.
Carol Wooten, who has led Brown's physical planning and construction office since 1980, will retire from the University at the end of July.
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.
Chelsey C. Remington, a 1961 alumna of Brown University, has been elected national chair of the Brown Annual Fund Executive Committee.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Brown University graduates go far after graduating. They start businesses in Ireland, travel to Europe, get jobs, go to graduate school, write books
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
For more than 100 years, Brown has been producing educators.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Michelle Ferdinand, a Brown student from Haiti, is attending medical school courtesy of the Navy. She also has performed public service in Haiti.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Campus Police Officer Roland Garant
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.
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.
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.
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.
International graduate students and their spouses often struggle to fit into the community of Brown and Providence. A broad network offers support and assistance.
Brown teams up with RIPTA to explore commuting alternatives as ways to alleviate lack of parking, pollution
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
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.
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.
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.
Brown athletes and their public service projects are celebrated as part of National Student-Athlete Day
Faces of Brown: Mary O'Reilly of Special Events
Off Hours: Fred Jackson, manager of Brown's greenhouse, hosts a gardening show on radio
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Faces of Brown: Campus Security Office Calvin Watts
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.
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.
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
Faces of Brown: Michael Jackson, reference librarian
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
Brown alumni who are making a living as entrepreneurs speak to undergraduates about their trials and tribulations.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
Brown-affiliated researchers speak at the NIH about a new fertility probe that tests the viability of eggs
Having overhauled a health agency in Louisiana, Brown alumnus Bobby Jindal now turns his attention to the national health-care arena and Medicare reform
Excerpts from a century of rules and regulations found in Brown and Pembroke student handbooks
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.
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.
The NEASC visiting team has scheduled separate faculty, staff and student forums to receive comments about Brown University accreditation.
NCAA certifies Brown athletics program
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) announced today that Brown University has successfully completed the certification process now required of all Division I institutions.
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).
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.
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.
At his first faculty meeting, President Gee urges a streamlined administration, calls for faculty participation in shaping Brown's future
The students who don the Brown Bear costume bring life to the University's mascot. But they'll never reveal their faces.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
International UTRAs increase opportunities for Brown students to do research in another country
Last Word: Life is like a recipe for soup, says William Jackson, president of Brown University Research Foundation.
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.
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown Police and Security Services issues Safety Bulletin following an on-campus shooting incident.
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.
Two Brown University students are among 38 Americans selected this year to receive British Marshall Scholarships for study in Britain next year.
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.
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.
Mark Whipple, head football coach at Brown for four seasons, has resigned to become head coach at the University of Massachusetts.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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
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.
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
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.
From holiday stress to international travel, Brown professors offer their expertise and commentary on a variety of seasonal topics.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Brown athletics teams sport a new logo on their uniforms -- a brown bear reaching its front paws around the word BROWN
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.
"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.
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.
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
"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
Brown celebrates acquisition of the Library's 3-millionth book, on the history of fireworks, with Water Fire, guest speaker Gee.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown researchers are analyzing data from the spacecraft Surveyor to help create a more detailed than ever map of Mars surface/
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
Walter Loiselle is retiring after serving as Brown's fire marshall for nearly a dozen years.
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.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Brown prepares istself for a reaccreditation team visit; the draft of Brown's self-study will be available to the entire campus
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."
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
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.
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
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
Brown geology professor Malcolm Rutherford has developed a way to measure the rate of volcanic eruptions, which he applied in the case of Montserrat.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
Although it is pursuing an appeal before the U.S. Supreme Court, BrownUniversity has filed a Title IX compliance plan with the District Court in acase alleging gender bias in athletics. Brown hopes to meet the DistrictCourt's requirements for gender proportionality without adding anyUniversity-funded teams or eliminating any men'steams.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present "The Visionary Architecture of Brodsky and Utkin" Dec. 7, 1996, through Jan. 19, 1997.
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Pingree, professor of the history of mathematics at Brown University, heads the only history of mathematics department in the world.
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
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.
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
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
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
Galileo Imaging Team from JPL visits Brown lab. Jim Head is on that team, studying Jupiter and its many moons.
The economics of marriage -- not discrimination -- are responsible for gender wage gap, according to a model created by two Brown economists
Brown University's Program in Creative Writing will hold a vanguard narrative festival, "Unspeakable Practices III," October 1-5.
On Saturday, Oct. 12, the Brown Alumni Association will present Richard Holbrooke with the William Rogers Award at its annual Alumni Recognition Ceremony.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Brown University President Vartan Gregorian will present Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. with the first official copy of the Community Partnership Directory at4 p.m. Tuesday, Sept. 17, at the Van Wickle Gates, College and Prospect streets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
James Morone, professor of political science at Brown, says the morality rhetoric in politics is nothing new in America and works against social progress.
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present British Prints from the Steinberg Collection from August 24 through October 6, 1996.
Laura Freid, a senior communications officer at Harvard University, will become Brown University's spokesperson and head of communications and external affairs.
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.
Jerry Mischak, visual arts instructor at Brown University, is a sculptor whose primary medium is duct tape.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
James D. Wolfensohn, president of the World Bank, will receive an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters at Brown University's Commencement Monday, May 27.
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.
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.
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.]
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Brown ready to argue Title IX appeal in Boston; statistics for 1995-96 athletic rosters show 48 percent women
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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)
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.
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.
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.
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.
Sociologist Phil Brown and colleagues found the Catskills Institute to preserve and study the Borscht Belt
Douglas Adams, author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," to speak 11/13, sponsored by Brown Lecture Board
Brown receives funds to acquire Alcoholics Anonymous archives
Story idea of Brown Journal of World Affairs
Brown launches another BRUIN course (David Lewis on a drug-free America)
Belarusian entrepreneurs from Brown-sponsored program on a four-city swing to find venture capital
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
Brown offers two houses for sale at $10 each (Howell House and 15 Manning Walkway). The idea is to move them thus save them.
Brown buys Old Stone Bank building in order to relocate Haffenreffer Museum. Will spend $10 million on renovation.
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.
Gwen Ifill cancels, reschedules her appearance at Brown (news advisory)
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.
Brown will acquire an IBM supercomputer
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.
James Pomerantz of Rice University named provost at Brown
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.
Brown presents master plan for city approval. See also 94/194a, which outlines Brown's commitment to historic preservation
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
Bring a Book to Brown media advisory
Pfizer employees earn first off-site master's degrees at Brown
Brown announces its "Unrequired Reading List"
Brown says Thank You
Alumni, friends, parents prepare to Bring a Book to Brown for Commencement service project
Brown celebrates National Astronomy Day
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.
Brown pitches in for Christmas in April community service on April 29
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.
OCR gives Brown clean bill of health, finds no evidence of discrimination in financial aid operation
Fact sheet on athletics at Brown [background for Title IX case]
Summary of Summer Session offerings at Brown
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.
Brown's statement on fire protection and its investment in new alarms and sprinklers
Speakers to explore history and culture of pre-Castro Cuba in dual lecture series (Brown and NYC)
Brown files reply brief in Title IX case
Brown University AIDS Project (BRUNAP) gets major grant from AmFAR
Brown will host New England Science Bowl 2/25
Brown professors present papers and participate in discussions at AAAS meeting: James Wyche, John Ladd, Pierre Galletti, Robert Valentini
Brown sets tuition for 1995-96 academic year: $20,608; total cost: $27,340
15th Brown University/Providence Journal Public Affairs Conference to consider "America's Media: Are They Out of Control?" Feb. 27 - March 9
Media Advosiry: Rep. Jack Reed to visit Brown Monday 2/13
Five Brown physicians named among the nation's best by Town and Country
Brown prepares its list of unrequired reading for "Think-Read" program
Madeleine Kunin does whirlwind tour of Brown and Providence; speaks at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall
Brown initiates free wellness program for all employees
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.
Rebecca Flewelling leaves Brown for Deerfield Academy
Military Recruiting at Brown
25th Anniversary of Brown Curriculum
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.
"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."
1994 orientation program to include heavy dose of academics, instructions on using the Brown curriculum to best advantage
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
Dana Foundation gives Brown $500K for neural science research
Brown, Channel 6 to host Democratic gubernatorial debate for Bruce Sundlun, Myrth York, Louise Durfee August 10
Connecticut students meet Moscow pen pals through Brown's video link
Brown to offer master's degree at Pfizer Inc. in Groton Conn.
Brown family gives Brown Archives, endowment, Nightingale-Brown House to University
Brown Corporation elects eight new trustees: Deborah Coleman, Paul Dupee, Eleanor Gimon, Jeffrey Greenberg, Debra Lee, Steven Rattner, William Rhodes, Terence Walsh
Terry and Jan Tullis lead 35 Brown faculty, students and alumni in presentations at American Geophysical Union in Baltimore 5/23-27
Commencement 1994: Brown Wind Symphony to present Commencement concert
Brown Orchestra wins ASCAP award for programming
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
Sources and Ideas: Brown Summer High School will run 6/27 - 7/22
Commencement: "It's Only a Play," by Terrence McNally, to be staged as benefit for Friends of Brown Theater
Lord Anthony Quinton to lecture at Brown in fall semester
Brown ends restrictions on South African investments (A&E vote on 4/15/94).
Damon convenes Brown and Radcliffe conference on children: Growing up in Changing Times
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
Brown helps establish RINet, a K-12 connection to the Internet
NASA installs ViTS at Brown
Robert Utley, authority on native American wars, to deliver fifth annual Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection lecture
Ted Turner gives $25 million to Brown
Brown chosen to participate in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program in its first year
Carlos Fuentes to join Brown faculty.
Hillary Clinton to visit Brown 10/8, conduct hour-long prime-time broadcast on health care reform
Colloquium on Aging and Old Age sponsored by Brown and Goethe Institute Oct. 1 and 2
Grand reopening of the Brown Book Store
More doctors turning to unfunded medical research, according to Brown study
Karen McLaurin named director of Brown's Third World Center
Brown University medical students study international medicine, ORT in Brownsville, Texas
Ten Brown students named President's Community Service Fellows by Swearer Center
Brown wins Grand Gold Award from CASE for overall excellence
Brown elects six new trustees: Nora Burgess, Purandara Das, Kathryn Fuller, Steven Jordan, Robert Sanchez, Thelma Zen
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.
Jill Portugal, Daniel Rosenberg, Zachary Wald are three Brown students named as White House interns
vth Blois conference on high-energy particle physics June 8-12 at Brown
Ted Turner, Morley Safer and Jane Fonda To Highlight Brown University's Commencement Forums Held During 225th Commencement Weekend
Brown Learning Community summer course offerings
News advisory: Brown students go to DC to lobby for access to higher ed
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.
Tribute to Stan Kenton to be performed by Brown Jazz Band and guest artists March 20.
1993 Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference (aka ProJo Conference): Race in America: The Search for Common Ground.
Events at Brown: 2/4 - 2/18
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.
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.
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.
Brown Bookstore, Thayer merchants sponsor food drive
Brown donates bottled Commencement water to Pawtucket during bacteria problem
ATLAS education reform program, headquartered at Brown, gets enormous federal grant
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.
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.
Brown Says Thank You to 13 employees (four release versions, sent to zones of hometown papers)
Commencement: Brown Orchestra to perform with Eugenia Zukerman 5/24
Brown to press only 2 of 5 charges against arrested students
Events at Brown: 3/19 - 4/2
Brown and Dartmouth wind symphonies present joint concert 3/7
Sherman is Brown's first Licht intern
Danforth Foundation gives Brown $420,000 for minority PhD fellowships
Two of the White House Fellows are Brown grads
Brown Orchestra and Chorus do Mozart's Requiem on his Death Date
Oxfam gets 1,200 Brown students to give up a meal, raises >$2,000 for world hunger
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.
Brown Athletics Department adopts Fox Point School
100 Years of Women at Brown: An overview of the symposium
Brown Orchestra announces 1991-92 concert season
Linda Mason to be honored at AABU recognition night. Brown Bears, alumni awards also.
Beer kegs banned from Brown residence halls
Forbes Foundation grants $2 million for MCM; Brown names Malcolm Forbes Center for Modern Culture and Media
Brown Announced Howard Foundation award recipients
Kashkooli, a Brown sophomore, wins JC Penney Service Award
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.
Ken Burns, Mr. Civil War, to speak at Brown May 10
12 honored for working with Brown's community outreach programs
PSA for Brown Office of Student Employment summer job listing
NSF science and technology center created at Brown, four other institutions
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.
Background on Tom Watson, his life and philanthropy at Brown
Brown launches Brown Is Green with Nader, VG proclamation
Ralph Nader to speak at Brown 1/29, launches Brown Is Green
Jennifer Adibi, Brown student, leads delegation to Iraq seeking peace
Workforce 2000 gives Brown three-year grant for English as a Foreign Language
Brown Summer Academy offers new scholarships, has new name
Cleve Jones, AIDS Quilt creator, to visit Brown 12/6; Public lecture at 8 p.m.
Brown leads Ivy League alumni track team to compete in Nagoya Ekiden
Brown conference on famine and children to be held 9/26 as part of planning for UN World Conference
Fulbrights awarded to four Brown students
Commencement: Brown Chorus sings benefit for Soviet tour
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.
Matt Mallow becomes head of Brown Annual Fund
Brown sophomore gets AISEC internship in Czechoslovakia
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.
Brown / Providence Journal conference on environment
Columbus at Brown Quincentenary lecture series at JCB
Brown adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy
Brown students head to South Carolina to repair Hurricane Hugo damage
John Harley to perform at Brown Club of Rhode Island event
Brown names new head football coach
Brown offers no-interest loans to employees whose money is trapped in closed banks
Keegan to deliver first Anne S.K. Brown military lecture 1/26
Brown Morehouse Spelman Tougaloo start biology program
Soviet trio plays earthquake benefit with Brown Jazz Band
Westerly schools computer program has major Brown help
Challenge Years campaign a success; Brown Fund record
Brown buys Brook Street Garage land
Digital summer training school at Brown; DEC is largest ever
Howard Hughes Foundation gives Brown $1 million
Overseas college advisers meet at Brown 5/21-21
Yukiko Brown receives a Chun Hoon Scholarship
Brown senior wins horse show, is national collegiate champion
Brown to provide day care for employees' infants and toddlers
Economic impact study: Brown is worth millions to Providence
Vartan Gregorian assumes Brown presidency
Brown co-hosts ACTF theater festival 1/27-2/1
AT&T gives Brown $45,000 for Engineering, CS
Mario Cuomo to speak at Brown Oct. 18
Brown makes final offer to SEIU union groups
Brown plans community educational computing gifts
Sheila Blumstein to address Brown Club of Worcester
James Williams, Brown senior, to debate in Russia
Brown students to perform Chopstick Dance on 9/18
Brown Band turns 65, plays at Yale game
First Alan Shawn Feinstein scholars come to Brown
Brown Theater schedule for 1988-89
NEH travel grants to 4 Brown scholars
Brown scholars visit Gorki Institute in Moscow
Baker fellowships to 7 Brown seniors
Keasbey fellowships to Brown seniors
Stillwell Book collection prices to 3 Brown students
Brown accepts 2,592 into Class of 1992
Brown chooses not to totally divest
Brown A&E votes to go ahead with new dorm
New Plays at Leeds by Brown students
NY Brown Club's Limousine race
3 Brown women get Radcliffe fellowships
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