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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.
Author and former NBC News anchor Tom Brokaw will speak on Monday, April 21, 2008. at 6 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. The lecture, sponsored by the Office of the President, is free and open to the public. At 5 p.m., prior to the lecture, Brokaw will sign copies of his books Boom! and The Greatest Generation in Sayles Hall.
Bolivian President Evo Morales will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden ’60 Memorial Lecture on April 22, 2008, at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall. Morales is the first indigenous head of state in Bolivia’s history. His talk comes as part of a University-wide focus on Latin American issues.
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.
Pulitzer-Prize-winning New York Times columnist Thomas L. Friedman will speak about the environment on April 22, 2008, at 6 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101.
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.
Tommy Thompson, former U.S. secretary of Health and Human Services and former Wisconsin governor, delivers the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture in Public Health on Tuesday, April 8, 2008. The lecture begins at 4 p.m. in Andrews Hall and is free and open to the public.
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.
Ali A. Allawi, former senior minister in the post-Saddam government of Iraq and author of The Occupation of Iraq: Winning the War, Losing the Peace, will deliver the inaugural Peter Green Lecture on the Modern Middle East. His talk, titled “The Iraq Crisis and the Future Middle East Order,” will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2008, at 5 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. Allawi will sign copies of his book at 4 p.m. in the lobby.
Writer Michael Pollan will discuss his new best seller, In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, in a Feb. 21, 2008, lecture at 6 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. The Committee on Science and Technology Studies is sponsoring Pollan’s talk, which 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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Cut Folded Dyed & Glued, an exhibition of paper and Mylar sculptures by artists Imi Hwangbo and Jae Ko, from Saturday, Jan. 26, through Wednesday, March 5, 2008. An opening reception will be held on Friday, Jan. 25, at 5:30 p.m. The exhibition and opening event are 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.
Roy Lichtenstein’s 30-foot sculpture, Brushstrokes, will be removed from its site outside MacMillan Hall on Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007. It has been on display since December 2003, on loan from the estate of the artist.
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 David Winton Bell Gallery will present KIDS, an exhibition of photographs of children by Julie Blackmon, Jill Greenberg, and Ruud van Empel, from Saturday, Nov. 3 through Friday, Dec. 21, 2007. An opening reception and gallery talk will be held on Friday, Nov. 2, at 5:30 p.m. The exhibition and opening event are free and open to the public.
Carolyn Rovee-Collier, founder of infant long-term memory research, will deliver the 2007 Lipsitt-Duchin Lecture in Child Behavior and Development on Thursday, Oct. 18, 2007, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
Retired Gen. Barry McCaffrey will deliver the 77th Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs on Tuesday, Oct. 9, 2007. His lecture, titled “After Iraq: How the World has Changed,” begins at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. It is free and open to the public.
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.
A statewide survey of 571 registered Rhode Island voters conducted Sept. 8-9, 2007, shows Sen. Hillary Clinton with a significant lead over Sen. Barack Obama for the Democratic presidential nomination. The survey also finds a drop in the approval rating of Gov. Don Carcieri and a decline – to 31 percent from 50 percent in January – in the number of voters who believe the state is headed in the right direction.
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.
Exploring the parallels between the war in Iraq and the Vietnam War, artist Mark Tribe will stage re-enactments of Vietnam-era protest speeches in Boston and Washington, D.C. in July. The events are part of Tribe’s Port Huron Project, a series of re-enactments of protest speeches from the New Left movements of the 1960s and ’70s.
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.
StoryCorps, a national oral history and storytelling project, will stop in Providence June 7–30, 2007, to record the voices and stories of Rhode Islanders. Their traveling studio – the StoryBooth – will be located in the park at Kennedy Plaza in downtown Providence. The public is invited to make reservations.
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.
University officials and consultants have determined that the Smith Swim Center, closed since mid-February, will not be reopened due to serious and irreversible deterioration in the strength of the heavy timbers that support the roof structure. Russell C. Carey, interim vice president for campus life and student services, and Michael Goldberger, director of athletics, sent the following message to individuals and groups that have used the facility.
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.
Five Nobel Prize-winning physicists join the chief technology officer of American Superconductor and other researchers to discuss the nature of superconductivity, its broad scientific utility and current applications to energy transmission, transportation and computing. Public lectures and a panel discussion on Thursday, April 12, the first day of the symposium, will help celebrate the 50th anniversary of the BCS theory of superconductivity.
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.
This spring, the Bell Gallery presents a group exhibition Urban Landscapes ... emancipation and nostalgia ..., featuring works by British artist Catherine Yass, New York-based artist Sze Tsung Leong, and German artist Sabine Hornig. An opening reception and artist lecture will be held on Thursday, April 19, 2007. All events are 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.
Troy Duster, a leading voice on the issues raised by genomic research and race, delivers the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture in Public Health on Wednesday, April 11, 2007. The free lecture begins at 4 .p.m in Andrews Hall and is open to the public.
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.
Zhou Wenzhong, the Chinese ambassador to the United States, will give a lecture on China’s foreign policy and its relationship with the United States at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 22, 2007, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
Gifts totaling $15 million will allow the University to renovate Faunce House and create the new Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, in honor of outgoing Chancellor Stephen Robert.
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.
Selected student artwork will be shown in the 27th annual student exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery from Saturday, March 17, through Sunday, April 1, 2007. An opening reception will be held Friday, March 16 at 7 p.m. Both the exhibit and the reception 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.
Former U.S. Sen. Lincoln Chafee will deliver the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs during a Spring Forum on Monday, Feb. 12, 2007. His address, titled “Mideast Roadmaps: An Unkept Promise,” will begin at 5:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall. It is free and open to the public.
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.
Author and activist Nonie Darwish will discuss women’s rights in the Middle East and the threat of Islamic fundamentalism at a lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 7, 2007. Her talk, titled “The Road to Peace: Women’s Rights,” begins at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 001. It is free and open to the public.
A statewide survey of 475 registered Rhode Island voters conducted Jan. 27, 2007, finds Sen. Hillary Clinton is favored over Democratic challengers and likely Republican opponents in the general election. Only 16 percent of R.I. voters rate President Bush’s performance excellent or good.
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.
New chemical evidence sheds light on the physical constraints of “hotspots” – locations where upwellings of Earth’s mantle material form seamounts and island chains. Although the existence of hotspots has been debated for the last 30 years, consistent data from uranium isotope decay series at eight island locations supports the idea that concentrated plumes of hot mantle material formed these islands.
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.
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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.
Karen Davis, a noted economist and president of The Commonwealth Fund, will discuss “Why We’re Not Number One: A Look At High Performance Health Systems Across the Globe” on Tuesday, Nov. 28, 2006, at 4 p.m. in Andrews Dining Hall. The event, free and open to the public, is the annual Paul Levinger Professorship Pro Tem in the Economics of Health Care Lecture.
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.
A fresh look at Apollo-era images combined with recent spectral data leads researchers to re-examine conventional wisdom about the Earth’s moon. Several lines of evidence suggest that the moon may have seen eruptions of interior gasses as recently as 1 million years ago, rather than 3 billion years ago – the date that had been most widely accepted.
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.
A citywide survey of 403 Providence residents conducted Oct. 14-17, 2006, finds Providence Mayor David Cicilline leading Republican challenger Daniel Harrop by 66 to 13 percent. Sixty-two percent of respondents think Cicilline is doing a good job and 64 percent feel the city is headed in the right direction.
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
A statewide survey of 578 likely Rhode Island voters conducted Sept. 16-18, 2006, shows Sen. Lincoln Chafee and Sheldon Whitehouse in a dead heat in the U.S. Senate race and Gov. Donald Carcieri leading Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty in the gubernatorial race. The survey also finds a majority of voters opposed to amending the state constitution to build a gambling casino in West Warwick.
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.
Using data collected by the Japanese space probe Hayabusa in a rendezvous with the 550-meter asteroid Itokawa, researchers have demonstrated that space weathering occurs even on small asteroids. The new data, published in Nature, confirm that the mineral composition of such asteroids is consistent with meteorites fallen on Earth.
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.
A new model of treatment for bipolar disorder, similar to care given to diabetics and others with chronic diseases, improved patient outcomes without adding costs, according to new research funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs. Results appear in Psychiatric Services.
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.
A statewide survey of 719 Rhode Island voters conducted June 24-26, 2006, shows Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a virtual tie with Democratic challenger Sheldon Whitehouse. Whitehouse would have a strong lead if Steve Laffey were the Republican candidate. The survey also finds Gov. Don Carcieri with a 5-percentage point lead over Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty and finds voters opposed to amending the state constitution to build a gambling casino in West Warwick.
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.
For the first time, a group of scientists have an intimate look at a small asteroid, this one dubbed Itokawa. Using data from the Japanese space probe Hayabusa, the team has determined the mineral makeup and surface characteristics of Itokawa and published their findings in Science. Itokawa and other asteroids contain materials relatively unchanged since the birth of the solar system, offering clues to how the system has evolved over time.
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.
Greta Pemberton of Silver Spring, Md., and Ari Savitzky of Providence, R.I., will deliver senior orations to their classmates on Sunday, May 28, 2006, at 12:50 p.m. on The College Green. Pemberton’s address is titled “Consider Play,” and Savitzky’s is titled “Save the Oration (for Tomorrow).”
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.
Global warming and other threats are killing coral reefs through a phenomenon known as bleaching. But why do some corals survive? A new study, published in Nature, is the first to document a trait that helps some coral species live through, and recover from, bleaching. The survivors’ secret: Ramped up feeding rates.
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.
Herbert Needleman, M.D., one of the foremost experts on childhood lead poisoning, will deliver the Dr. and Mrs. Frederick W. Barnes Jr. Lecture in Public Health on Wednesday, April 26, 2006. The free lecture begins at 4 p.m. in Andrews Hall and is open to the public.
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.
Images by seven American photographers will be shown in the Bell Gallery’s latest exhibition, 7 Documentarians, from April 12 through May 10, 2006. The exhibition takes visitors through a history of 20th-century documentary photography, with subjects ranging from the Depression-era rural south to New York City street life to baseball stadiums of the 1980s.
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.
The Harry S. Truman Scholarship Foundation is honoring Te-Ping Chen and Geoffrey Gusoff, both of the Class of 2007, for their exceptional leadership skills, demonstrated academic excellence, and commitment to public service. The Truman Scholarships enable college students to attend graduate school in preparation for careers in government or public service.
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.
This year’s best student artwork will be shown in the 26th annual Student Exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery from Saturday, March 18, through Sunday, April 2, 2006. An opening reception for the artists will be held Saturday, March 18, from 7 to 9 p.m. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public.
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.
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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.
Two new research studies on progeria, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, detail the damage a mutant protein does to blood vessel cells of humans and mice. The discoveries offer increased hope for a cure for progeria, a genetic condition fatal in children, but may also provide key insight into the cause of adult heart disease.
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.
Comet Tempel 1, target of last year’s July 4 cosmic collision, contains small amounts of surface water ice. Reported in Science by members of NASA’s Deep Impact mission, this finding marks the first evidence of surface ice on any comet.
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.
From South Carolina to Texas, salt marshes have experienced a massive die-off in recent years, threatening fisheries and leaving coastal areas vulnerable to flooding. The culprit, ecologists have long thought, is degraded soil. But new research, published in Science, points to the periwinkle – cordgrass consuming sea snails – as a major contributor to salt marsh loss.
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.
Labyrinths, a group exhibition that explores the search for direction, for self, for discovery and for meaning, features work of Jan Mancuska, Domenic McGill, and Alyson Shotz. The exhibition opens Saturday, Nov. 12, 2005, and runs through Dec. 22. The exhibit and an opening reception (5:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11,) are open to the public without charge.
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.
A study of digital services offered by governments around the world finds that 198 nations are making steady progress at putting services and information online, but movement forward has been slowed because of budget, bureaucratic and institutional factors. The United States ranks third behind Taiwan and Singapore and ahead of Hong Kong and China.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery, located on the first floor of List Art Center, 64 College St., will open its 2005-06 season with two installations by composer and artist Joe Diebes. Joe Diebes: Song of Transformation will run from Sept. 10 through Oct. 30, 2005. An opening reception with a lecture by the artist begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Sept. 9, in the List Auditorium.
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.
All pregnant women should get an HIV test, according to federal guidelines. Which women get tested, however, depends on their race and where they get their medical care, concludes research published by the Journal of the National Medical Association and funded by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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.
The assertion that the theory of evolution is inherently anti-God is simply wrong. A 2004 document approved by Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, now Pope Benedict, carries a ringing endorsement of the “widely accepted scientific account” of life’s emergence and evolution, describes the descent of all forms of life from a common ancestor as “virtually certain,” and echoes John Paul II’s observation of the “mounting support” for evolution from many fields of study.
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.
A statewide survey of 470 Rhode Island voters conducted June 25-27, 2005, finds that former Rhode Island Attorney General Sheldon Whitehouse would give incumbent Lincoln Chafee a competitive run in a U.S. Senate race. Additionally, incumbent Gov. Donald Carcieri leads Lt. Gov. Charles Fogarty in the governor’s race. The poll also found less optimism about the direction in which the state is headed, compared to a February survey.
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.
“Intelligent design” is now the subject of constant debate in and around biological circles. Humanists would be happy to help sort things out, if only they could understand what the issues really are. Toward that end, Robert Scholes poses five not entirely rhetorical questions.
Six artists who live and work in New England are represented in the David Winton Bell Gallery’s summer exhibition, in and around us, through July 10, 2005. The exhibition and an opening reception Friday, June 10, at 5:30 p.m. are open to the public without charge.
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.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s guidelines for treating patients who have been exposed to HIV through sex or injection drug use are a powerful – but partial – weapon for fighting the spread of the virus, according to a commentary in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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.
Margaret Klawunn, who has been serving as interim dean for campus life during the 2004-05 academic year, has been appointed associate vice president and dean for student life. Her appointment is effective July 1, 2005.
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.
A former lecture space in Manning Hall will become a permanent gallery showcasing treasures from the University’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology in Bristol, R.I. The gallery opens to the public on May 28 with Warp Speeds.
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.
The Rio Tinto is a foul, oozing trickle of a river that muddles its way through southwestern Spain, has the pH of gastric juice, and is awash with pollution, heavy metals, and odd microscopic organisms called extremophiles. It's also where Associate Professor of Geological Sciences John Mustard seeks clues about how and where life might survive on Mars.
The Rio Tinto is a foul, oozing trickle of a river that muddles its way through southwestern Spain, has the pH of gastric juice, and is awash with pollution, heavy metals, and odd microscopic organisms called extremophiles. It's also where Associate Professor of Geological Sciences John Mustard seeks clues about how and where life might survive on Mars.
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."
Environmentalists, in their zeal to promote ecological health, often alienate the very people who could be their best allies, says Brian Mayer. A doctoral candidate in the Department of Sociology, Mayer studies how labor and environmental groups can form lasting alliances.
Counter-terrorism expert Richard A. Clarke will present his detailed threat analysis of LNG terminals and tanker traffic in Rhode Island waters during a public forum at 3:30 p.m., Monday, May 9, 2005, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The event, sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and moderated by R.I. Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch, is open to the public without charge.
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.
Poet C.D. Wright, anthropologist David Kertzer, engineer Rodney Clifton and historian Omer Bartov 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.
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.
Biographer A. Scott Berg, winner of a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award for his work, will give the fifth annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture. Berg will speak on “Telling Lives: Writing Biography” Thursday, April 21, 2005, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present two photographic exhibitions – One Big Self: Prisoners of Louisiana and The Omega Suites – April 15 to May 29, 2005. Each exhibition depicts an aspect of U.S. prisons, Photographer Deborah Luster and poet C.D. Wright will discuss their work – One Big Self – during an opening reception Thursday, April 14. Photographer Lucinda Devlin will give a slide lecture on The Omega Suites April 21. Both events and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
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 David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art will present the 25th annual Student Exhibition March 19 through April 3, 2005. There will be an opening reception Saturday, March 19, from 8 to 10 p.m. at the gallery. Both the exhibition and the reception are free and open to the public.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author Seymour Hersh will give the 39th annual Meiklejohn Lecture Tuesday, March 8, 2005, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Hersh will speak on “Chain of Command: The Road from 9/11 to Abu Ghraib.” The lecture, sponsored by the Taubman Center, is free and open to the public.
Assistant Professor Jennifer Hughes and graduate student Melissa Lage have found that bacteria follow what ecologists call the "species-area relationship." Their groundbreaking work was published in Nature.
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.
Students in a computer science course work with area educators to create software.
The Public Humanities Initiative, through Steven Lubar, pushes the boundaries of museum studies.
The Freedom Now!, a web site about the Brown-Tougaloo collaboration, puts ideas about public humanities into practice.
President Ruth Simmons: Across the country, the President finds enthusiasm for the University's agenda
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.
A statewide survey of 384 Rhode Island voters conducted Feb. 12-13, 2005, finds Rep. James Langevin would lead Sen. Lincoln Chafee in a U.S. Senate race, and Gov. Donald Carcieri leads all challengers for re-election. In sports, one-third of Rhode Islanders expect the Red Sox to repeat as World Series champions; Red Sox fans outnumber Yankees fans six to one; and a majority considers the Patriots a dynasty and expects another Super Bowl victory.
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.
The John Hay Library will present Black Lavender: An Exhibit of Writings by Black Gay Men Feb. 8 through March 11, 2005. This exhibition, free and open to the public, features an extensive array of books and periodicals dating from the late 19th century to today, along with photographs, posters and other ephemera. The opening reception, set for Feb. 8 at 5:30 p.m., will feature a lecture by Nigerian poet Julius Sokenu.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will host a new exhibition, "More Like a Dream Than a Scheme," featuring the sculptural works of Charles Long, beginning Jan. 29, 2005, and continuing through March 6, 2005. Long will speak at an opening reception that begins at 5:30 p.m. Friday, Jan. 28. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
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.
Of course evolution is a theory – the biology textbook already said so. So why did the Cobb County Board of Education order stickers affixed inside the book’s cover, warning students that evolution is a theory? Kenneth Miller, co-author of the textbook and a witness at the trial in federal district court, has a theory ...
Widespread fears of gathering Shi'a political strength in Iraq may be unwarranted, writer William O. Beeman. Success for the Iraqi Shi'a could help moderate the more extreme political philosophies of the fundamentalist Iranian regime, contributing to the stability of the region.
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.
India, home to one-sixth of the human race, has an AIDS epidemic, writes Kenneth Mayer. Five million Indians are living with HIV infection. The stakes are high; the government is racing against time.
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.
Mark V. Pauly, professor of economics, health care systems, business and public policy, insurance and risk management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, will discuss "Shooting Ourselves in the Foot? Employers and Health Benefits for Workers and Retirees" Wednesday, Dec. 1, 2004, at 5 p.m. in MacMillan Hall. This event, free and open to the public, is the annual Paul Levinger Professorship Pro Tem in the Economics of Health Care Lecture.
Democrats are said to outnumber Republicans on the nation's college campuses, both among faculty and students. What might that mean, and what's to be done about it? It all depends on what is meant by the terms liberal and conservative.
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 called Braingate, developed in the laboratory of John Donoghue.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist David S. Broder, a national political correspondent for The Washington Post, will give the Gov. Frank Licht Lecture Monday, Nov. 29, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall. Broder will speak on "American Politics: 2004 and Beyond." The lecture is free and open to the public.
In 1896, Republican William McKinley defeated William Jennings Bryan and ushered in a Republican hold on political power that would last 30 years – until Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression. Is it possible that Republican strategist Karl Rove is helping history repeat itself?
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.
The Sarah Doyle Women's Center will host a new exhibition of the work of artist Jessica E. Ritter, titled "Sugar Coated," in its gallery at 26 Benevolent St., beginning Nov. 1 and continuing through Nov. 30, 2004. There will be an artist's reception Thursday, Nov. 4, at 6 p.m. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
Mara Liasson, national political correspondent for National Public Radio, will discuss "Election 2004: A Washington Insider's View," part of the John Hazen White Sr. Lecture Series, Thursday, Nov. 11, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This event is free and open to the public.
First Amendment expert and author Geoffrey Stone will speak on "Civil Liberties in Wartime" Tuesday, Nov. 9, 2004, at 6 p.m. in Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the U.S., a traveling exhibition featuring the work of 26 artists, Nov. 6 through Dec. 23, 2004. A lecture and opening reception are scheduled for Nov. 11. A second lecture is set for Nov. 15. The exhibition, reception and lectures are free and open to the public.
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.
The Declaration of Independence was in part an outreach to nations of the world – an international explanation of actions the Americans were about to undertake. What might a strict constructionist reading of our nation's earliest document tell us about political life in the 21st century?
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.
Campus Compact's Presidents' Leadership Colloquium, a national meeting of leaders in higher education, is launching a campaign to promote civic learning in college. The Colloquium will take place in Carmel Valley, Calif., Oct. 5-6, 2004.
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.
A study of the 70 largest metropolitan government Web sites shows city governments vary enormously in the extent to which they are placing electronic information and services online and maintaining basic protections for privacy, security and disability access. A ranking urban government Web sites is included.
The Sarah Doyle Women's Center will host a new exhibition of work by photographer Deana Lawson, titled "Matters of Grace," in its gallery at 26 Benevolent St. The exhibition opens Monday, Oct. 4, and continues through Friday, Oct. 29, 2004. There will be an artist's reception Thursday, Oct. 7, from 5 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Both the exhibit and reception are free and open to the public.
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.
A look at the Smoke summer interns. Each received funding to conduct research, advocacy and/or service related to a contemporary global problem. One intern spent his summer working with the UN in an Africal refugee camp; another worked in the Caribbean with young people.
Smoke intern Annemarie Guzy '05 spent three months volunteering for the Dominican Dream Project, a nonprofit organization that works to improve the education of poor children in the Dominican Republic by donating supplies, building new facilities and placing volunteers in classrooms. Guzy, a music and English concentrator, taught at the LaColonia School and a summer camp. She shares her experience in this first-person account.
When it comes to faculty hiring, the news is good, according to Dean of the Faculty Rajiv Vohra. After a decade of steady-state hiring, where arrivals and departures were roughly equal, the faculty has grown nearly 9 percent in the last three years. The George Street Journal talked with Vohra about the progress.
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 public opinion survey of 432 adults in Providence indicates that more than two-thirds of city residents are not worried about a terrorist attack harming them or a family member next year. Twenty-eight percent say they keep emergency supplies on hand, and 41 percent say they try to watch out for people who look or act like terrorists.
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.
The Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice will sponsor a lecture, titled "An Open Letter to Jonathan Doe: Reflections on Racial Inequality in America," by distinguished historian John Hope Franklin Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. This event is free and open to the public.
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.
A study of digital government finds that 198 nations around the world are making steady progress at putting services and information online, but movement forward has been slowed because of budget, bureaucratic and institutional factors. The United States and Canada rank third and fourth behind Taiwan and Singapore. A table ranking the governmental Web efforts of 198 countries follows below.
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.
The debate about prescribing antidepressants for children and adolescents has raised many good questions about how research is funded and how results are reported. It has also exposed a misplaced preference for a pharmacological "magic bullet" over a more comprehensive approach that includes "talk therapy." The real problem is not the pills but a system of mental health care that does not deliver the careful treatment and follow-up young patients need.
Opening Convocation coverage
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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.
The Watson Institute for International Studies will host a symposium, "The Power and Pathology of Networks," as part of its Information Technology, War and Peace Project, Friday and Saturday, Sept. 10-11, 2004. Public radio commentator Christopher Lydon will moderate the opening session on Sept. 10 at 1:30 p.m. The symposium is free and open to the public, except where an admission fee is noted.
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.
Howard Dean, the former Democratic presidential contender and Vermont governor, will speak on "The Long-Term Implications of the 2004 Presidential Election" when he delivers the 2004 Noah Krieger Memorial Lecture Thursday, Sept. 9, 2004, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. The lecture is free and open to the public.
The Sarah Doyle Women's Center will present a new exhibition, Kim Salerno: Suspended Landscapes, in the center's gallery at 26 Benevolent St., Sept. 9 to 30, 2004. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
Political Scientist Scott W. Allard found evidence of emerging mismatches between areas experiencing increasing rates of poverty and the locations of social services. Because social services are central to the current welfare system, proximity to providers has never been more critical.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a new group exhibition titled InVisible Silence Sept. 11 through Oct. 26, 2004, featuring artists from Israel, Brazil, Switzerland, Luxembourg, Japan and the United States. An opening reception is set for Friday, Sept. 10; participating artist Yael Bartana will discuss her work on a date and time yet to be announced. Both events and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
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.
When America is waging its war on terrorism, citizens are more apt to vote for male candidates. A survey of 2,119 people completed a year after Sept. 11, 2001, found voters prefer men's perceived leadership traits and characteristics.
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.
Kate L. Lapane, an associate professor at the Medical School who specializes in drug use by the elderly, is one of the world's few pharmacoepidemiologist - someone who crunches numbers to see what medications are being used for what purposes.
The Leadership Alliance has landed a five-year $1.3 million grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to support its National Symposium, an annual event where minority undergraduates from across the country present findings from scientific research projects.
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.
Members of the Class of 2004 find their first postgraduate jobs in fresh ways and on their own timelines
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.
Aaron Friedman, M.D., is the new Sylvia Kay Hassenfeld Professor of Pediatrics and chair of the Department of Pediatrics at the Medical School and the new pediatrician-in-chief at Hasbro Children's.
After two years of study, Grace Macalino, assistant professor of community health, and her research team found that inmates entering Rhode Island prisons have high rates of HIV and hepatitis. Once in prison, male prisoners pass on the hepatitis B virus at alarming rates.
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.
A 3 Tesla Magnetic Resonance Imaging machine has been installed at Memorial Hospital of Rhode Island's Southeastern Medical Center in Pawtucket for use in osteoarthritis study. Later this year it will accommodate brain research.
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.
Going public with quality and inspection data isn't a prescription for better nursing home care, write Vincent Mor and Jacqueline Zinn. Proactive public policy is required to improve the lives of the estimated 1.6 million elderly in nursing homes in the United States.
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.
One of the most coveted posts during Commencement Weekend is not on any stage. It's up in the First Baptist Church in America, where a crew of five rings the bell during Baccalaureate and Commencement processions.
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.
Commencement wrapup: quotes and photos
Providence-area artists explore the dynamics of fabric and light in an intriguing exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery through July 11. Titled "The Fabric of Light," the exhibit features the recent work of Searles, Nina Cinelli, Esther Solondz and Cynthia Treen.
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.
Hollywood hit campus in "Ivy Idol," the University's true-life takeoff of "American Idol" held on Staff Development Day.
Frog stutterers, cell division, scent and slumber
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 statewide survey of 477 Rhode Island voters, conducted June 12-14, 2004, finds 47 percent favor a proposed casino, 43 percent oppose it, and 10 percent are undecided. The survey also finds John Kerry with a big lead over President George W. Bush.
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 David Winton Bell Gallery will host a new exhibition titled "The Fabric of Light," featuring the work of local artists Nina Cinelli, Cristin Searles, Esther Solondz and Cynthia Treen, opening June 12 and continuing through July 11, 2004. An opening event Friday, June 11, at 5:30 p.m. will feature a performance of Cinelli's the dance. Both the performance and the exhibition are free and open to the public.
A look at the research done by three Ph.D. graduates: Sarah Alexander Chase, Brenda Foley and Brian Zugay
A 2001 study written by then-graduate students John Williams and Bryan Shuman, and Professor of Geological Sciences Thompson Webb III, has been awarded the 2004 William S. Cooper Award, the Ecological Society of America's highest honor for book- or paper-length research in plant ecology.
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.
Artists-in-residence will bring their cultural traditions and personal talent to the stage when the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance presents it popular annual Dance Ensemble Spring Concert May 6 to 8 at 8 p.m. and May 9 at 3 p.m. and 8 p.m. in Stuart Theatre.
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.
The memories of meeting the flamboyant artist Salvador Dali and the ensuing decade-long friendship are particularly fresh in geometer Thomas Banchoff's mind these days as Europe celebrates the centennial of Dali's birth with major retrospective exhibitions, symposiums and other events. Banchoff is working with a crew filming "The Dali Dimension," a documentary to air in Europe this fall.
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.
David A. Greene, currently serving as interim vice president, has been named vice president for campus life and student services. His appointment is effective July 1, 2004.
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.
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In ancient maps of the world, expanses of unknown territory might hold a warning to would-be explorers: Here there be monsters. For today's explorers seeking to navigate and understand the world of science, the monsters are the untamed collections of data that inhabit a largely uncharted landscape, according to the National Science Foundation
At a press briefing held on campus April 5, the University expanded upon the Planfor Academic Enrichment's proposals to enhance the Medical School.
Six multidisciplinary research proposals will receive financial support totaling nearly $442,000 for projects that will explore the areas of cognitive computer applications, vaccine development, environmental issues along the Israeli-Palestinian watershed, the potential toxicity of nanomaterials, adolescent pregnancy, and neuroproteomics.
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.
Inhibitions about doctor visits was a main reason unmarried women said they did not seek routine cancer screening tests, according to initial findings from a five-year study of women ages 40 to 75. Change is needed to ensure the 20 million women in this population undergo tests that detect cancer in its early stages. Researchers are recruiting 600 women for the next phase of the project.
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.
Jorge Castaneda, former Mexican secretary of foreign affairs and now a candidate for Mexico's 2006 presidential election, will give a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture on International Affairs titled "Mexico: Democracy in Progress." Castaneda will speak on Tuesday, April 13, 2004, at 6:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall. The lecture is free and open to the public.
In many cases where strong national interests are at stake, a deliberate deception may be called for. But the decision to go to war is among the most fundamental questions the state faces, writes Corey Brettschneider. For this reason, Article I of the Constitution grants the power to declare war to Congress, our deliberative body, and an agent of the people's consent. Can people give their informed consent if they have been deceived?
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will host a new exhibition, titled "Unbuilt Providence: Architectural Visions, 1856 to 2000," April 14 through May 31, 2004. A reception and a lecture by guest curator Dietrich Neumann are set for Friday, April 23, at 5:30 p.m. in the List Art Center, 64 College St. Both events are free and open to the public.
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.
After 16 years of research and more than a decade of following the development of children thought to have been at serious risk, medical experts have not identified a recognizable condition, syndrome or disorder that should merit the label "crack baby." With no basis in science, the term serves only to stigmatize and slander children and their mothers and should be eliminated from public discourse.
The Independent Review Committee, appointed by G. Carcieri to study the State Police raid on a tax-free smoke shop operated by the Narragansett tribe, is subject to Rhode Island's Open Meeting Act, according to an opinion released today by the Rhode Island attorney general.
The 'Art and Medicine' course is designed to give medical students a chance to explore the roles of art and art-making in the practice of medicine, to enhance their observation and communication skills - and to encourage them to become creative, sensitive physicians.
Sheridan Center teaching awards; On the Road; research note on Milankovitch Theory
Brown volunteers will hoist paintbrushes, hammers and shovels to refurbish the Fox Point Boys and Girls Club on April 24
The new Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgendered and Questioning Resource Center in Faunce House "is a demonstration that diversity is respected and celebrated," said Angela Mazaris, who serves as LGBTQ Resource Center part-time coordinator.
Six undergraduate students participating in a Group Research Project (GRP) under the direction of Assistant Professor of Medical Science and Engineering Diane Hoffman-Kim are using sophisticated laser techniques to determine what makes nerves grow. The research eventually may help scientists develop treatments for people with spinal cord injuries, as well as developmental neurological disorders.
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.
Wilbur Johnson, lecturer and clinical professor of social studies and history in the Department of Education, recently received the Wriston Fellowship, one of the highest awards the University bestows upon its teaching faculty. Johnson will use the fellowship to create a new undergraduate seminar course that examines issues surrounding the concept of "white privilege."
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.
Newsweek magazine chief political correspondent Howard Fineman will give the inaugural Governor Frank Licht Lecture on Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall on The College Green. Fineman will fill in for the previously-announced Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David S. Broder, who has canceled due to illness.
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art will present the 24th annual "Student Exhibition" March 20 through April 4, 2004. An opening reception for the artists is scheduled for Saturday, March 27, 2004, from 6 to 9 p.m. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public.
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.
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist David S. Broder will give the inaugural Gov. Frank Licht Lecture when he speaks on "American Politics: 2004 and Beyond" on Tuesday, March 23, 2004, at 7:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall on The College Green. The lecture, sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, is free and open to the public.
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.
Women make up 58 percent of those vying to walk through the Van Wickle Gates in the fall as members of the Class of 2008 - 8,854 applications compared to 6,414 applications from men. Letters to applicants accepted from the total applicant pool of 15,268 will be mailed April 1.
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.
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. Four 2003-04 Faculty Scholars were announced at the Feb. 3 faculty meeting: Tanwen Ellis, Eugene Fukudome, Julia Glenady, and Daniel Harkett.
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.
LGBTQ center opens; awards and honors; obituary; research note; more
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.
Maggie Haskins '04.5, is one of 12 finalists, chosen among 10,000 hopefuls, to compete on ESPN's new show, "Dream Job." The winner receives a one-year anchor contract on the network's bread-and-butter show, "SportsCenter." The show debuted Feb. 22 at 10 p.m.
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.
"Balancing theory and practice" was the theme of a gala event that helped inaugurate the University's Department of Computer Science in September 1979. Twenty-five years later, the theme "remains our distinguishing philosophy," according to John Savage, department co-founder and its chair from 1985-1991.
A grand opening celebration for the LGBTQ Resource Center will be held Tuesday, March 2, 2004, from 5 to 7 p.m., in Rooms 321 and 323 of Faunce House on The College Green. The center will serve as a meeting place for a variety of student groups and as a hub for academic activity and administrative programs.
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.)
Violations of privacy protections often occur in the most intensely publicized child abuse cases, says Ross E. Cheit, associate professor of political science and public policy. As a result, children can be further victimized by false reports about their testimony. Cheit presented his findings Sunday, Feb. 15, 2004, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) meeting.
Facilities Management award nominations; awards and honors; more
The bonus program announced by President Simmons last fall culminated during the last week of January with 225 staff members Ð 187 individuals and 13 teams totaling 38 members Ð receiving bonus checks.
The Brown community is invited to share in the celebration when the newly renovated Glennand Darcy Weiner Hillel Center is dedicated Feb. 26.
Cardiologist Barbara Roberts on women's heart health
Ten new members will join the Staff Advisory Committee for two-year terms beginning January 2004.
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 inscholarly work by providing funding for faculty research projects deemed to be of exceptional merit.
For the most part, economists have left unexplored how political borders are formed and redrawn, assuming that national borders are fixed much like geographical features such as mountains or coasts, said Enrico Spolaore, Kutayba Alghanim Assistant Professor of Political Economy. However, when borders are viewed as human-made institutions, as Spoloare and Alberto Alesina of Harvard do in a new book "The Size of Nations," the importance of studying the economics of country size becomes apparent: Nations are some of the world's most powerful organizations.
A group of researchers led by Professor of Geological Sciences Terry Tullis has discovered a gel-like substance Ð forming when samples of quartz rock rub against each other Ð that may help explain the weakening of friction that occurs between geologic faults during certain earthquakes.
Women have as much success being elected as men but they are not as likely to consider running for office. A groundbreaking study to be published in the American Journal of Political Science found two major factors at work: Women are not as likely as men to view themselves as qualified to hold office, and women are not as likely to receive encouragement from party leaders to become candidates.
Child care center fund raiser; research notes; obituary
Stanley M. Aronson, professor emeritus of medical science, and co-author Renee Rose Shield, clinical associate professor of community health, set out to examine the complex issues facing the older person in today's society in their new book, "Aging in Today's World." Aronson, a physician, tackled the subject from a medical perspective. Shield, an anthropologist, provides the view of a careful observer.
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.
A community-driven group research project investigates "functional disenfranchisement," which the student participants and faculty leader suspect prevents residents in underserved communities from getting the health care they need.
Office moves; new Corporation member; obituaries; awards and honors; more
For several decades, Professor of Geological Sciences James Head has played a significant role in both U.S. and international space missions. Head is involved in the Mars Global Surveyor and Mars Express mission, both orbiting the planet, and worked in astronaut training, site selection and mission operations during the Apollo Lunar Exploration Program, among other efforts. He spoke recently about the current Mars missions and President Bush's recently announced new vision for NASA.
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.
Three first-year MFA candidates will offer workshop productions of their new plays during part one of the festival Feb. 4-8 in the McCormack Family Theatre. Part two, scheduled for April 28 through May 2, will showcase the thesis projects of three second-year MFA playwriting students.
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.
Most nursing homes remain a long way from fully embracing hospice care in their programs, but some, in fact, have integrated it with great success. These are the organizations Susan Miller, assistant professor of community health, will look at in a one-year project funded with a grant from The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
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.
Noted author and educator Lani Guinier, the Bennett Boskey Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, will give the ninth annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture on Tuesday, Jan. 27, 2004, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon center for Teaching. The lecture, titled "Serving the Dream," is free and open to the public.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a multisensory interactive exhibition, "Bill Seaman: Exhange Fields," featuring the work of award-winning video artist and RISD Professor Bill Seaman, Jan. 24 through March 10, 2004. The exhibit is free and open to the public, as is the opening reception and artist's lecture on Friday, Jan. 23, at 5:30 p.m.
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.
Providing Saddam with an open speaker's platform in court will undoubtedly be uncomfortable, but it is the right way to proceed. The world will then see the real Hussein, rather than the symbolic villain the United States has been fighting for the last two years.
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.
Katharina Galor, visiting assistant professor at the Center for Old World Archaeology and Art, has organized a symposium that will bring together some 40 scholars from Israel, Jordan, Europe and North America to discuss their research on the Wadi Arabah.
The Environmental Change Initiative takes advantage of growing collective environmental science expertise among faculty in the University's social, life, and physical science departments. The initiative will create research projects and educational programs that address geological, human and biogeochemical facets, among other aspects of environmental change
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.
Daniel J. Smith, assistant professor of anthropology and a faculty member in the Population Studies and Training Center, is on the team of researchers from various universities who won a $1.5 million award from the National Institutes of Health for the three-year collaboration.
The offspring of mothers who smoke heavily during their pregnancy are far more likely to develop nicotine dependence once they themselves try cigarettes.
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.
Allison Whitney's internship in Tanzania united her interest in development issues and biology with her interest in science writing.
Vice President for Research Andries van Dam talks about the direction of Brown's research efforts.
In the year since being named to lead the University's new Office of the Vice President of Research, Andries van Dam has hired a team of individuals to help him advocate for the University's research community on and off campus.
Engineering Professor L. Ben Freund has received one of applied mechanics' highest honors - the Stephen P. Timoshenko Medal.
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.
It is no longer disease that poses the biggest threat to young lives, but behavioral misadventures of poorly understood origins, writes Lewis P. Lipsitt. We need an effort on the scale of a Manhattan Project to create a solution that would end the behavior that is killing our children. That we are so limited in our knowledge at this stage in human history about the origins and nature of human behavior is unacceptable.
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.
Although scientists have sought a connection between the herpes virus and Alzheimer's disease for nearly a decade, agreement on the value of the research is far from universal. A recent discovery in the laboratory of Elaine Bearer, associate professor in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, may provide an important link.
Six women - five over the age of 50 and one youth - are honored every year by the Canadian government for performing work that benefits the quality of life for women. Last month, first-year student Jennifer Hustwitt received that honor.
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.
Students in ES126, "Public Perception of the Environment," have received the Rhode Island American Planning Association Journalism Award for their 2002 research project that examined the experiences and perspectives of a northern Rhode Island community in relation to a local water crisis.
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."
Her findings suggest childcare programs should be expanded beyond the historic focus of programs for preschool-age children to include older children who stand to gain considerably from greater adult supervision in the hours after school.
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.
As part of Red Cross disaster teams since 1985, Suzanne Turcotte has provided aid to victims of Hurricanes Hugo, Andrew and Bob, as well as those of countless other national and local catastrophes. On her most recent assignment just this semester, she spent two weeks in Virginia with four other local Red Cross volunteers assisting the victims of Hurricane Isabel.
NIH funds work on helmet technology that will shed light on head impacts in contact sports
Group Research Projects (GRPs) are small teams of undergraduate students who work with a faculty member - in this case, community health Professor McGarvey, on a project that contributes to the faculty member's research.
"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.
David Cane, professor of chemistry, and Johanna (Annie) Schmitt, professor of biology, were among the 348 scientists named this year.
The University closed fiscal year 2003 with a 1 percent overall surplus, the endowment returned 6.5 percent, and significant progress has been made on the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment. Those were some of the facts shared by President Simmons, Provost Robert Zimmer and Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Beppie Huidekoper at a forum sponsored Oct. 21 by the President's Staff Advisory Committee.
Three installations by the critically acclaimed contemporary artist Do-Ho Suh will be shown Nov. 8 through Dec. 21 at the Bell Gallery.
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.
The American elm tree outside the Thayer Street entrance to the Watson Institute has been found to have Dutch elm disease. It will be removed in November.
Cheryl Ferreira on the new Special Victims Unit
Brown has signed a contract to purchase an online student information system developed and sold by SCT, an educational technology firm.
To accomplish their goal of photographing Tibetan Buddhist wall paintings, faculty members and avid hikers Philip and Marcia Lieberman received a grant of $65,000 from the Getty Foundation to capture on film the wall paintings in three monastery temples of Mustang, an ethnically and culturally Tibetan district in northwestern Nepal.
Brown employees will soon have an array of new - and free - health programs available to them, along with discounts on mortgage and insurance rates.
There's more to health than physical fitness. That's a message that the Human Resources Department and the Staff Advisory Committee hope to convey at this year's Benefits/Wellness Fair, titled "Finding the Keys to a Wealth of Health."
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.
Career Week, a four-day series of programs for undergraduates about exploring employment options, will include discussion of such timely topics as searching for a job in a tough economy and while facing record-high cost of living.
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.
The Independent Review Committee which reviewed the July 14 State Police raid on the Narragansett Tribe's Smoke Shop has presented its final report to Gov. Donald L. Carcieri, with additional copies to the Chief Sachem of the Narragansett Tribe, the superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, and the Rhode Island attorney general. The executive summary of the report follows here.
Former President of Brazil and Professor-at-Large Fernando Henrique Cardoso will discuss "Brazil: The Awakening Giant" on Friday, Oct. 17, 2003, at 5 p.m. in Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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
Is a better health care system a simple mouse click away? An initiative led by the World Health Organization is determining some promising practices and some of the challenges for using the Internet and other computer technologies to improve public health. Andrew Pleasant, a visiting lecturer in environmental studies, served as external evaluator of the pilot project.
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.
A hundred years of census data indicates whites are now less likely than blacksto live in extended-family households, a reversal from the earlier half of the century, according to a study published in the August "Demography."
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.
Governments around the world are using Web sites and the Internet to provide information and services to their citizens. The third annual Global e-Government Survey suggests that actual online services are not as widespread as they could be and that governments have a long way to go toward realizing the promise of Internet communications. A table ranking the governmental Web efforts of 198 countries is included.
Since last spring the University has undertaken more than 40 building and renovation projects, at a price of about $26 million. One of the largest projects is the new Life Sciences Building.
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.
You rarely hear the words "pneumonic plague" and "enjoyment" in the course of the same conversation, but Terrie Wetle, associate dean of medicine and professor of community health, managed to combine them in her description of a bioterrorism exercise she participated in late last month.
Kimberly DelGizzo on career development, job searches
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.
Is there any truth to the conventional wisdom about getting admitted to an elite college's freshman class? Leslie Killgore, a doctoral candidate in sociology, has read scores of college admission books and has interviewed scores of admissions officers at elite colleges. She shares some of her findings.
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
Prime Minister Jose Maria Neves of the Republic of Cape Verde will give a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture on International Affairs on Thursday, Oct. 2, 2003, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. Neves will speak on "New Horizons for African Leadership in a Globalizing World." The lecture is free and open to the public.
A statewide survey of 367 voters conducted Sept. 13-15, 2003, finds that a majority of Rhode Island voters would support a gambling casino built by the Narragansett Tribe, but many worry about political and gaming industry corruption. The survey also finds a dead heat between Howard Dean, John Kerry and Joseph Lieberman in the race for the Democratic presidential nomination.
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.
Americans should not fool themselves into thinking that the $87 billion President Bush will request for Iraqi reconstruction is being spent for national defense, writes William O. Beeman. The only way to stop terrorism is for the United States to stop being a magnet for terrorist operations. That means, among other things, internationalizing military operations and treating Muslim people and Islamic culture with the respect accorded to other peoples and nations.
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.
New York's Harvey Milk School opened this fall to serve a student body consisting of gay students, writes Laura Szalacha. Over the long haul, separate is never equal, and separation does not necessarily serve the best interests of students, gay or straight. But for now, safety is the primary concern; a separate school can end the hazing and attacks many gay students face.
Announcements, SAC seeks new members, awards and honors, obituary, more
Brown student spends month at Red Planet simulation site
Former U.S. senator and current presidential candidate Carol Moseley Braun (D-Ill.) will give the 2003 Noah Krieger Memorial Lecture Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This event is free and open to the public.
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 Independent Review Committee studying the incident at the Narragansett Smoke Shop concluded its first round of public hearings today. Further interviews, if required, will likely be scheduled after Labor Day.
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.
Libya's agreement to take responsibility for the Lockerbie Pan Am bombing, to renounce terrorism and to set up a $2.7-billion fund for families of the victims did not receive the attention it deserved, writes Brent Stuart Goodwin. It was part of a successful campaign against state sponsored terrorism that produced measurable change in an individual and a nation's foreign policy.
Americans are more likely to obey laws they perceive to be morally right, laws they believe were enacted through an impartial legislative process, writes Marc Perlman. The Recording Industry Association of America, among the wealthiest and most influential of industry lobbyists, has a long way to go to convince Americans that laws governing file-sharing were enacted for the good of the general public. It's easier to sue.
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.
Watson Institute hosts Israeli and Palestinian scholars at a conference to discuss shared concerns about the environment
The Watson Institute for International Studies will host more than 35 Israeli and Palestinian scholars when they gather to examine their region's environmental problems and policies in a workshop program titled Middle East Environmental Futures July 21-25, 2003, at the Watson Institute.
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.
Marisa Quinn to work for Simmons; awards and honors; off the shelf
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.
Hormone therapy and cancer; brain cancer treatment; education reform; teens' opinions
Elissa Jelalian, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, surveyed more than 1,000 pediatricians practicing in Southern New England. One-fourth reported that they were not at all or only slightly competent, and 20 percent reported feeling not at all or only slightly comfortable.
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.
Terry Tullis is taking a look at seismic activity near tiny Parkfield, Calif. Using 1,024 computer processors running in concert, he will perform calculations that he and other researchers around the country hope will yield answers about forecasting earthquakes.
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.
Distinguished conductor, teacher and author Benjamin Zander will speak about his work on Wednesday, July 2, 2003, at 7 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This event, sponsored by the Office of Summer Studies, is free and open to the public.
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.
When asked about possible means of dealing with the state budget deficit, a majority of 389 voters surveyed June 21-22, 2003, favor requiring state workers to pay a portion of their health care premiums and a larger share of their pension costs. They also favor ending subsidies to dog owners at Lincoln Park. The survey also finds strong support for the job performances of Gov. Don Carcieri and Providence Mayor David Cicilline.
The Human Resources Department has suspended Staff Development Day this year to provide for sufficient time for a thorough University-wide study of this event.
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.
Laura Freid, executive vice president for public affairs and University relations since 1996, will step down Aug. 14, 2003, to enter an executive doctoral program at the University of Pennsylvania.
If in the coming months Americans begin to notice cutbacks in schools, libraries and public transportation, writes Elliott Cola, remember this: Our leaders decided to fund military occupation in Iraq rather than vital services here. And what's worse: If we fail to provide services in Iraq -- services that will be expensive -- we should expect nothing but chaos and violence from the occupation.
Sometimes dropping a tiny piece of information into position allows the larger picture to snap into sharper focus, writes Timothy Chambers. The hunt for that tiny piece of information and for the deeper understanding it makes possible is a major satisfaction of the academic life.
A San Diego barber and one of the world's most famous anthropologists both understand Americans' unspoken rules for the use of force and their strong preference for straight talk and a square deal. While they might follow different lines of reasoning, William O. Beeman writes, the barber and anthropologist would end up at the same conclusion: Bush is in trouble.
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.
A look back at Commencement weekend, in photos and quotes
TAP information, post office summer hours, awards and honors, more
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.
The Program in Creative Writing and the Watson Institute for International Studies have named Shahrnush Parsipur, an Iranian novelist, as the recipient of the inaugural International Writers Project Fellowship.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present the work of Rhode Island artists Tayo Heuser, Jane Masters, Dean Snyder and Neal Walsh in a new group exhibition titled "Obsessive Patterns," opening June 7 and continuing through July 6, 2003. The artists will speak about their work during a 5:30 p.m. opening reception Friday, June 6. The reception and exhibition are free and open to the public.
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."
In addition to reunion events and formal academic exercises, the University offers campus guests a variety of opportunities, from theater and music performances to forums and historical exhibitions, during Commencement/Reunion Weekend 2003. Most offer free admission and are open to the public.
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.
Although guidelines do not exist for the use of medication to treat pediatric sleep disorders, about 75 percent of pediatricians surveyed had recommended some type of medication for that purpose within the previous six months. Pediatric sleep disturbances are among the most common and challenging complaints, and a set of clinical experience-based guidelines needs to be developed, according to a study in the May Pediatrics.
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.
"Perhaps self-esteem is a self-limiting commodity," writes Joachim Krueger, associate professor of psychology who served on a task force charged with determining the facts about self-esteem gleaned from more than two decades of scientific research. The task force reviewed 15,000 published papers, and reported its findings in this month's journal of the American Psychological Society.
Optimum length of treatment for drug addiction; parents, day care and antibiotics
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.
Senators' own attempts to influence approval ratings have less effect than factors beyond their control, according to a new study. Researchers examined eight factors related to senatorial approval ratings over a 17-year period, from 1981 to 1997. Their findings are published in the May "Legislative Studies Quarterly."
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.
Wriston Fellowships; Faculty Teaching Awards; announcements from Human Resouces, Financial Services; Off the Shelf; more
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.
The University's newest art exhibition has a decidedly 21st century flavor: Its works are three-dimensional and interactive. "Works from the Cave" features artworks created within the University's virtual reality lab, called the Cave. When entering the Cave, visitors remove their shoes and don special shutter glasses to synchronize the vision with alternating stereo projections on the walls; special hardware and software keep track of visitors' positions and movements, changing the images in a way that allows them to feel immersed in the virtual space.
Visit the conservatory of the campus greenhouse and, in addition to the lush vegetation and tropical flowers and fruits, you are likely to notice the presence of ladybugs. The introduction of specific predatory insects like ladybugs is creating a new indoor ecology in the conservatory while reducing insect pest populations.
Deborah A. Cohen, assistant professor of history, recently answered questions from Kristen Cole about the reception of veterans returning home after war, and what the veterans of the war with Iraq may face. Cohen is author of the book "The War Come Home: Disabled Veterans in Britain and Germany, 1914-1939," in which she analyzed the different ways in which two nations cared for their disabled after World War I.
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.
New York Times columnist and award-winning author Thomas L. Friedman will deliver the third annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Thursday, May 1, 2003, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The evening's program, free and open to the public, will include presentation of the annual Casey Shearer Memorial Awards for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Creative Arts Council will present "Works from the Cave" in limited exhibition on April 26 and May 3, 2003, in the University's virtual reality lab at the Technology Center for Advanced Scientific and Computing Visualization. This exhibit is free and open to the public, but advance reservations are required.
Psychologist Rachel S. Herz found that college students stymied by a computer game exhibited their frustration during a later word test when they were in a room with the same scent. Herz will present her study at the annual meeting of the Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) April 13, 2003, at 8 a.m.
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.
What effect might the American military action in Iraq have next door in Iran? Iranians may be overly cautious, writes William O. Beeman, but the signs are everywhere that Iran is seriously concerned about a U.S. military threat.
Brooke Harrington, assistant professor of sociology and public policy, and David H. Laidlaw, assistant professor of computer science, recently received Wriston Fellowships, one of the highest awards the University bestows upon its teaching faculty.
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 University's Creative Arts Council will host a one-night gala performance of the Broadway musical hit "Grease" on Wednesday, April 30, 2003, at 7:30 p.m. in the Providence Performing Arts Center. Proceeds from this event will benefit the Creative Arts Council programs.
The Admissions Office sent acceptance letters to 2,258 high school seniors inviting them to become members of Brown's Class of 2007.
Noted historian and author Henry Louis Gates Jr. will give a keynote lecture in a series of events set for April 7 and 8 to celebrate the dedication of the new English Department.
Putting the brakes on the ever-increasing age of childbearing in Europe would greatly moderate the continent's trend toward population aging and decline. That's according to a policy paper in the March 28 issue of "Science" co-written by Brian O'Neill of the Watson Institute
The Vulnerable Infants Program of Rhode Island (VIP-RI) prevents potential problems for drug-exposed babies by intervening early in the infant's life Ð and it saves money. In this case it is actually cheaper to prevent problems than to wait for them to occur (by Barry Lester and Jeremiah S. Jeremiah Jr.).
Lundy Braun, associate professor of pathology and laboratory medicine, and Martha Sharp Joukowsky, professor of anthropology and Old World art and archaeology, have been selected to receive the Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning.
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.
Noted scholar and teacher of African and African-American history and culture Henry Louis Gates Jr. will speak on "W.E.B. Du Bois and the Encyclopedia Africana" Monday, April 7, 2003, at 5 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This lecture is the keynote address in a series of events planned to celebrate the dedication of the English Department's new academic home.
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.
Audiences will get a preview of the future of stage performance when the University's arts departments present their seventh annual Festival of Art and Technology, "Video, Technology and Performance," April 4-6.
Julie Sedivy, a cognitive and linguistic researcher, says science holds the answers to ques-tions about the impact of advertising on society. Sedivy teaches some 150 undergraduates each spring about "Language, Truth, and Advertising."
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 David Winton Bell Gallery will host a new exhibition, "Walter Feldman: The Work of Five Decades," April 12 to May 26, 2003, celebrating the artistic and educational endeavors of a long-time faculty member. An opening reception is scheduled for April 11, 2003, at 5:30 p.m. in the gallery. The reception and the exhibit are free and open to the public.
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.
"Video, Technology and Performance," the seventh annual Festival of Art and Technology, April 4-6, 2003, brings together a multidisciplinary group of innovators exploring new concepts and interactive technologies for live performance. The festival begins with a free presentation of "Falling Up" and "Future of Memory" April 4 at 8 p.m. in Stuart Theatre.
War is an unfortunate feature of this world. As long as there are wars, the humane thing to do is to seek to make them as quick and decisive as possible, which goes a long way toward preventing them in the first place.
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.
Abraham Verghese, M.D., author of "My Own Country--A Doctor's Story," will give the 11th annual Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lecture when he speaks on "The Search for Meaning in a Medical Life" on Wednesday, March 19, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This event is free and open to the public.
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art will present the 23rd annual Student Exhibition from March 15 through March 30, 2003, in the List Art Center. The exhibit is free and open to the public.
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.
Education researcher Janine Bempechat is leading a two-year study in the United States, Great Britain and Russia, attempting to learn why some teens from low-income backgrounds are motivated to achieve academically and others are not. The project is an offshoot of Bempechat's study of achievement differences between Catholic and public school students in the United States.
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.
Former senator and presidential candidate Gary Hart will speak on "Restoration of the Republic" Tuesday, March 18, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This John Hazen White Sr. Lecture, sponsored by the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, is free and open to the public.
Former U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno will deliver a Meiklejohn Lecture Monday, March 17, 2003, at 7:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall. Reno will speak on "Freedom and Terrorism." This event is free and open to the public.
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.
In America, the president stays in office for four years unless impeached, writes William O. Beeman. In a parliamentary system, the prime minister can be removed anytime on a vote of no confidence. If the United States is in the middle of an attack on Baghdad when an ally suddenly changes leadership, the war effort will revert, by default, to the unilateral action Americans fear.
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.
Supported by a grant of more than $2 million from the National Science Foundation, Prof. Martha Joukowsky is receiving some unusual and innovative assistance from a team of engineers, mathematicians, computer scientists and artists. Together they are using technology to capture and restore aspects of the Great Temple of Petra for future generations. The multi-faceted project bridges research in the physical sciences and humanities.
Visual cues and hearing; gay and lesbian high school students
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.
In a statewide survey of 479 Rhode Island voters conducted Feb. 22-23, 2003, approximately two-thirds of respondents gave Mayor Cicilline and Gov. Carcieri high marks. Seventy-four percent of voters said the state is headed in the right direction. Voter responses varied widely on the advisability and timing of pursuing war in Iraq.
Noted Harvard Law School Professor Randall Kennedy will give the annual Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture when he speaks on "Marriage and the Politics of Race in America" Monday, March 3, 2003, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. This lecture is free and open to the public.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author N. Scott Momaday will speak on "Native American Oral Traditions: The Stories and Storytellers" on Thursday, March 6, 2003, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This event is free and open to the public.
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.
America's past crusades offer three great lessons about God and arms. First, remember humility. Second, wartime anxieties spill over to domestic suspects. Finally, fighting for our ideals abroad can remind us to take them more seriously at home.
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.
Cheit course selected as national model; Brown in the news; awards and honors; more
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.
The Center for Environmental Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America will co-sponsor The Provost's Lecture Series on Race, Poverty and Environmental Justice, a semester-long program that will open Feb. 10 with a lecture by University of Michigan Professor Dorceta Taylor.
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.
The Center for Environmental Studies and the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America will co-sponsor The Provost's Lecture Series on Race, Poverty and Environmental Justice, a semester-long program that will open Feb. 10, 2003, with a lecture by University of Michigan Professor Dorceta Taylor. The lectures are free and open to the public.
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.
Critics charge that the film "Barbershop" is disrespectful to civil rights leaders Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Defenders say the film carries an important message about freedom of speech. In either case, news that one of the film's stars will emcee the NAACP's Image Awards show suggests that the controversy might be at an end.
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.
"Clerkship in Biotechnology" offers fourth-year medical students the chance to receive credit for working up to six weeks in one of four firms in the Boston area that specialize in biotechnology or in designing and building medical devices.
Legislative Institute; calling all singers; three obituaries; more
Researcher makes case for scientifically-based education studies; health screenings at drug treatment clinics; venture capital received; new findings about eye cell receptor
In mid-December, the University announced both a nonfaculty hiring freeze and the immediate implementation of a policy for reviewing all vacant staff positions. These steps, together with ongoing savings from vacancies, are designed to help keep the budget in balance and avoid more dramatic steps. Elizabeth Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, spoke recently with the GSJ about the University's financial affairs.
A $49,000 grant from the Rhode Island Justice Commission will fuel an effort to reduce the number of fires set by young people in Rhode Island. Steven Barreto, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, leads that education program, called FireSafe Families.
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
Professor Emeritus Peter Wegner beat the odds when he recovered from life-threatening injuries he suffered when he was struck by a bus. Now a new video,"Peter Wegner is Alive and Well and Living in Providence," is being used to teach students about the physical and emotional process of recovery.
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.
The latest Bell Gallery exhibition, two video installations filmed in a Budapest bathhouse by noted Polish artist Katarzyna Kozyra, raises questions about privacy, voyeurism, narcissism, beauty and aging.
Margareta Levitsky, academic programs coordinator, Watson Institute for International Studies
A new study in "The New England Journal of Medicine" reports on the health benefits of moderate alcohol consumption. However, that study does not mean alcohol is a health food for everyone.
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.
With public opinion so crucial in shaping the actions of the Bush administration, it seems certain that Americans will get a war in Iraq unless they say emphatically that they don't want it. The militants in the White House are champing at the bit. Only their fear of the voters holds them in check.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present work by one of Poland's leading contemporary artists in a new exhibition titled "Katarzyna Kozyra: Bathhouses." The exhibit opens Jan. 25, 2003, and will continue through March 9, 2003. An opening reception and slide lecture on Kozyra's work are scheduled for Friday, Jan. 24, 2003, at 5:30 p.m. Both the exhibit and the reception are free and open to the public.
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.
Sasha Polakow-Suransky '01 has won a Rhodes Scholarship, and Eric Tucker '02 has won a Marshall Scholarship. Both will pursue advanced degrees at the University of Oxford next fall.
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.
Award-winning writer and multimedia artist Talan Memmott has been named as the University's first graduate fellow in electronic writing. The fellowship, which provides tuition and a stipend for its recipient, includes teaching opportunities that will add new course offerings in the digital arts to the University curriculum.
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.
Library hours during break; EEP reminder; research note; more
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.
Proposals that would have the Medical School implement an across-the-board ban of gifts from the pharmaceutical industry go overboard and discount the integrity of those in the medical profession, writes Patrick Sweeney, M.D., associate dean of medicine for continuing medical education.
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.
Beta-blockers; hostility and heart disease; perimenopause
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.
An NEH grant to Italian Studies powers the "Decameron" Web site, as successive generations of students add to a mini-library of resources related to this classic collection of stories of medieval life during the Great Plague.
Assistant Professor of Community Health ReneŽ Rose Shield made the most of her family ties to get the inside story on the history and culture of the New York City diamond industry.
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.
Professor Karen Newman has received an NEH grant to offer a seminar on modern urban woes for teachers this summer Ð in Paris.
On Dec. 11, 2002, John H. Tyler, assistant professor of education, public policy and economics, will address policy-makers about supporting education research that is designed in the same way as medical research -- controlled, randomized studies -- and about the potential of research designs that approximate this "gold standard."
Metal bats consistently outperformed wooden bats in an analysis of 502 hits off 19 baseball players at the professional minor league, collegiate, and high school level. Researchers attributed the metal bats' greater batted ball speeds to faster swings and greater elastic performance.
Stephen R. Smith, M.D., associate dean for medical education, has devoted most of his current sabbatical to this project. He drafted a prototype for the virtual school's curriculum. He structured it around a virtual medical practice, based on the type of electronic medical charts used in the offices of real doctors.
Heavily recruited as a football player by MIT, Penn State, and Carnegie Mellon, Bill Brucker '04 makes most of his plays in the lab as a bio-chemistry major. In his freshman year, he became one of the youngest recipients ever to receive the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Fellowship, during which he isolated several new mycobacteriophages. (He even got to name one Ð "corndog" Ð for its shape.)
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.
The presence of online resources may be changing campus in small, immeasurable ways.
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.
Many agree: Using the Web for the classroom is a difference in media, but it's not a difference in teaching or goals.
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.
Former Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harvey Pitt, who resigned his position on Nov. 5, will give a Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture Monday, Nov. 18, 2002, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This event is free and open to the public.
On the first day of her freshman seminar ÐÊBio 19, "The Life of Birds" Ð Prof. Annette Coleman summed up her educational mission: "I want to give you a feeling for a different life form other than yourself." And in a suggestion that serves as a rule to live by, she added, "Keep your eyes open. The world is full of wonders every day, but you don't come across them unless you are looking."
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.
Research has shown that accepting gifts and hospitality from pharmaceutical companies affects prescribing patterns to benefit drug companies, often to the detriment of the patient. To fourth-year medical student Jaya Agarwal, drug company marketing is "bribery" and " bad medicine." She would like to see the school adopt an across-the-board ban of industry gifts.
Researchers find that very young infants use their own names and at least one other highly familiar name Ð that associated with their mother Ð to pick out adjoining new words in fluent speech.
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.
Christopher Bizzacco '03.5, a political science and public policy major, took a leave of absence last September to accept the position of campaign manager for David Cicilline '83, the Democratic candidate for mayor of Providence.
Student Security and Safewalk. Thanks to Bratton report, these student-run groups received money to implement changes that they came up with themselves. They're a dedicated bunch. What drives their interest in students safety? Why drive a van around?
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.
SAC recording secretary position available; awards and honors; Page Turners
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.
On Tuesday, Nov. 5, voters will head to the polls. The George Street Journal's Kristen Cole spoke with Wendy J. Schiller, associate professor of political science and public policy, about what is at stake on Election Day.
Professor Jim Head presents research suggesting something new about Mars: The equally spaced bands of rocks and similar debris found across the Martian equator are signs of former "cold-based glaciers." On Earth, cold-based glaciers occur near the poles.
The Medical School successfully completed its first full-fledged fund-raising campaign, exceeding its $70-million goal by $3.2 million.
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.
U.S. Rep. Jesse L. Jackson Jr. (D-Ill.) will speak on "Education as a Human Right" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 11, 2002, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This John Hazen White Lecture, sponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, is free and open to the public.
Like other first-year students, Zunaira Wasif had to get to know her roommate, find the Ratty for meals and Store 24 on Thayer Street for extra items, and locate her classes. Unlike other first-year students, Wasif accomplished it all in a darkness she has known since an allergic reaction to penicillin claimed her vision.
how sophomores go about declaring a major; the advising process that leads to this declaration; etc. Will interview three (or so) students and their advisors about how each approaches what can be a very hard decision
It can seem like there are a thousand ways to die trekking across miles of frozen landscape carrying 60 pounds on your back. Confront that challenge, however, and you will discover a million life-affirming moments. Last summer, Anna Henderson '03 spent eight weeks in the Juneau Icefield Research Program investigating a glacial region four times the size of Rhode Island. The adventure took her 150 miles across moss, rock, ice and snow.
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.
As we head into mid-term elections, Professor of Political Science Darrell West examines how celebrities are influencing the American political process both as candidates and lobbyists.
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 Bell Gallery will host "Toward Uncertainty," a new exhibition featuring some of the best established and emerging artists of Italy. The exhibit opens Nov. 9 and continues through Dec. 29.
Award-winning playwright Alfred Uhry '58, the author of "Driving Miss Daisy," premieres his newest play at the Hartford Stage this week. Titled "Edgardo Mine," the play is based on Professor David Kertzer's book, "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara."
Electronic music pioneer Robert Ashley is the headline performer for "Any One Can Hear Anything," a festival of internationally-known , groundbreaking artists in electronic music and sound poetry set for Nov. 4 and 5.
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.
A survey of 418 statewide voters conducted Oct. 19-21, 2002, finds a majority of voters want John Harwood to step down as speaker. The survey also finds Democrat Myrth York leading Republican Don Carcieri in the race for governor. A majority of voters feel the state is headed in the wrong direction.
The lecture by physicist Stephen Wolfram has been rescheduled for 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 22, 2002, in MacMillan Hall.
If the historical John F. Kennedy had done in October 1962 what the Bush administration says he did -- asserting a doctrine of "preemptive defense" -- the likely outcome would have been a nuclear holocaust. The historical evidence, write James G. Blight and janet M. Lang, is now unambiguous.
Evelyn Hu-DeHart, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America, believes the program is on the verge of national distinction. "We want to work across disciplines as they re-examine and broaden their curriculum," she says. "My hope is to involve all departments and to build an excellent, credible ethnic studies concentration. I hope not to proceed as one lonely, separate unit, but to build bridges and alliances [across departments] so we can share and maximize our resources and energies."
Education reform by district; minorities in Providence; global e-government
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.
A computer-controlled, anatomically correct rubberized mannequin is the centerpiece of the new Rhode Island Hospital Simulation Center. The state-of-the-art facility hopes to help medical professionals and those still in training learn to minimize the possibilities of medical error.
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.
A five-year $2.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will fund a joint effort between the Medical School and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island to foster new interdisciplinary research in women's health and support the training of junior faculty researchers.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present works by two masters of modern Italian art, along with the prize-winning work of five emerging Italian artists, in the exhibition Toward Uncertainty, opening Nov. 9 and continuing through Dec. 29, 2002. An opening reception for the artists is scheduled for 6 to 8 p.m. Friday, Nov. 8, 2002.
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.
To snare a share of the external funding pie, the Office of Research Administration provides services in four key areas.
The East Asian Studies Department received a four-year $1,995,775 grant from the Freeman Foundation. Much of the grant will be spent on the University's East Asian collection Ð mostly Chinese and Japanese vernacular material. The size of the grant is a rarity in the humanities.
The new Health Education website, designed to ensure anonymity, has information concerning such topics as sexually transmitted infections, drug and alcohol use, eating disorders, pregnancy prevention, and relationship abuse.
A year after the Providence Place Mall opened, citizens viewed it as an engine of economic development and a factor in making them feel good about their city, according to a survey by two political scientists.
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.
Having a moral disposition does not pay, economics Professor Herschel I. Grossman told a conference on business ethics a few years ago. He and a colleague then set out to demonstrate that statement using the tools of economic theory. Their findings appear in the September issue of the Journal of Banking & Finance.
"Insurgent Images: The Agitprop Murals of Mike Alewitz" is a new book co-written by the artist and American civilization Lecturer Paul Buhle. Alewitz has used his art to lobby for pro-labor causes. Buhle, who has had a long involvement with the labor movement, met Alewitz several years ago when both became active with Scholars, Artists and Writers for Social Justice. "I was charmed by his effusive character and sense of humor, and I was overwhelmed by the strength and nondidactic character of his work," said Buhle. "It teaches you, but it doesn't hit you over the head."
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.
"An independent woman is what I planned for me, to be as free and safe as I could be," says the character Madam Dessaline in "Hot Comb," a new musical drama which Rites and Reason Theatre presents Oct. 3-6 and 10-13 at Churchill House.
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.
Dennie Palmer Wolf, a new director at the Annenberg Institute, is working to give all public school children access to the fine arts, regardless of their socioeconomic status.
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.
Do voters blame stagnant wages, rising unemployment and accounting scandals on President Bush? Kristen Cole asked Paul Kellstedt, assistant professor of political science and public policy, how voters form conclusions about a president's ability to manage the economy and how much power a president has to influence those opinions.
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.
Sunil Kapila '03 was pleased when he received an UTRA grant to travel to New Mexico to study the influence of white culture on Native American art this past summer, but not all of the lessons he learned were quite what he expected.
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.
Harvard professor and prominent African-American attorney/ethics expert Derek Bell will speak on ethics and ambition Sept. 28 in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
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.
A survey of 688 Providence voters conducted Sept. 14–22, 2002, finds a big margin for David Cicilline over his general election rivals. Minorities feel they have too little political power in Providence.
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.
U.S. interventions in Afghanistan and its contemplated interventions in Iraq will demand a depth of non-military historical, social and political expertise that the United States currently does not have. The author reports from an international conference in Tajikistan.
Robert Halsey was convicted in 1993 of sexually abusing two boys on his school van route in Lanesboro, Mass. There was a mountain of evidence against him, and he was sentenced to two consecutive life terms. Now a growing movement is trying to suggest that Halsey was unjustly convicted. A country that cherishes the presumption of innocence still needs to learn something about the presumption of guilt.
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.
On Sept. 24 at noon in Sayles Hall, the Staff Advisory Committee will sponsor its second President's Forum for all University staff. In addition, the committee seels 10 new members for two-year terms to begin in January.
"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.
David T. Cohen '03 and Spyridon Antonopoulos '03 won't get to dance with Cinderella at the ball, but they will add valuable experience to their resume by performing in a fully staged opera production of the beloved fairy tale this weekend.
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.
Aged garlic's effect on cancer cells; douching and microbicide; alcohol-smoking treatment
Award for Simmons; safety measures; shuttles to football game; more
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.
Faculty, staff and students seeking computing assistance can now call upon Computing and Information Services' revamped Help Desk, which debuted Aug. 28 with a professional staff, an upgraded call center and a new service dubbed SOS.
Anthropology Professor Marida Hollos sees eery similarities between Providence Mayor Vincent Cianci and the disgraced Hungarian mayor she chronicled in her latest book, "Scandal in a Small Town."
Adjunct Professor Robert Coover and his writing students are collaborating with artists and computer programmers to explore the new frontiers of literature Ð in 3-D.
Professors Donald McClure and Stuart Geman have gone Hollywood with their company, Mathematical Technologies Inc., creating the digital technology used to restore movie classics for DVD.
Two decades of work by political artist Sue Coe will be on exhibit at the Bell Gallery Sept. 7 - Oct. 27, illustrating her views on race relations, sweatshops, war and the meat industry, among other topics.
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.
Evelyn Duran of Hope High School and Ansu Baysah of Classical High School were recently named City of Providence Scholars for the Class of 2006. They will receive financial support from an endowment earmarked for students from local public schools.
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.
Palestinian Arabs often take the colonial experiences of Algeria and South Africa as models for their conflict with Zionism: As Europeans ultimately lost power in both Algeria and South Africa, perhaps Jewish settlers will not prove to be permanent, writes Herschel I. Grossman. But suppose that analogy is wrong. What if the situation is more like the example of Ireland, where a two-state solution has worked?
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will host a new exhibition, "Commitment to the Struggle: The Art of Sue Coe," Sept. 7 to Oct. 22, 2002, in the List Art Center. The show represents two decades of work by the political artist, who will discuss her work during an opening reception set for Friday, Sept. 13 at 5:30 p.m.
This summer, international graduate students who wanted assistance with spoken English had the opportunity to enroll in an intensive English language program created specifically for teaching assistants. Sixteen graduate students enrolled in the program offered for the first time by the Office of Summer Studies.
Staff Development Day public service project; obituary for Chet Worthington; more
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.
Professor Kenneth Miller, who has long debated with creationists to advocate for teaching the science of evolution in schools, reflects on the latest controversy over the separation of church and state.
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.
Study shows that dermatologists don't practice what they preach when it comes to using sunscreen; aging baboons provide insight into human lifespan; computerized calls fire up couch potatoes to exercise.
The Israeli military raid on Al-Quds University in Jerusalem is ironic in light of the recent claim by the Israeli military that Palestinian textbooks incite students against the Israeli government. That claim, repeatedly debunked by U.S. academics, misses the point, writes Lara Harb. The occupation -- not to mention the ongoing attack on primary schools and universities -- provides a far more provocative education than anything a textbook could ever convey.
Inquiring Minds: Michael Goldberger on the college admission process
When students arrive on campus for the start of the academic year, they will find new options both in living space and classroom study. Through a variety of measures, the University is adding nearly 200 beds to prepare for a larger-than-usual entering class (the yield for the class is 60 percent), and 87 courses or sections of courses to offer a wider range of academic choices for entering students.
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.
Results from a survey conducted last fall by an ad hoc committee interested in the University's grading system showed overwhelming support for adopting a grading scale that includes plus and minus grades in final grade reports.
Faces of Brown: Fatima Areia of University Food Services
In the Medical Students Outreach to Mothers-to-Be program, known as the MOM program, medical students attend sessions on postpartum depression, breastfeeding, nutrition in pregnancy and the effects of alcohol and cigarette use, among other topics, and are paired with expectant mothers in need of social support -- some faced language barriers, others were single moms and others just needed help navigating through the medical establishment.
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.
The Dutch football coach Guus Hiddink, hired two years ago to coach Korea's national team, brought with him a different set of values, including meritocracy and individual accountability. The success of those values has not gone unnoticed off the field, writes Herschel Grossman. Whatever the outcome of the World Cup, changes to Korean society are not likely to fade with the euphoria of soccer fans.
Walter Hunter, vice president of administration, discusses the 5 percent salary pool for fiscal year 2002-03 and the one-time directed adjustments prompted by the University's increase in its minimum wage.
Spring sports wrapup. Women's crew wins NCAA championship; men's tennis wins Ivy championship; more
Martin Weinstock, M.D., discusses summer skin safety.
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 nationwide team of researchers led by Arto Nurmikko, professor of engineering and physics, recently received $8.4 million to create a compact warning system for airborne biological agents such as anthrax. The award comes from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.
Providence artists Yizhak Elyashiv, David Newton and Judyth van Amringe are showcased in an exhibition at the Bell Gallery through July 7.
Besdine is named interim dean of medicine and biological sciences; new trustees named; bone marrow donor found; more
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.
Decades ago, the Cold War and Vietnam came equipped with terms like "red" and "commie," words which drained enemies of their human complexity. Might the term "axis of evil" serve a similar purpose now? The author can't shake the feeling that we have passed this way before. This article was written originally for publication in the Friends Journal.
A survey of 482 statewide voters conducted June 8-10, 2002, finds 67 percent of voters believe Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. has provided strong leadership, 52 percent believe he is guilty of the federal charges he now faces and 15 percent believe the jury will convict him. The survey also finds Myrth York leading Sheldon Whitehouse and Antonio Pires in the race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Professor Andries van Dam, the keynote speaker at Opening Convocation, presented his vision of what the future holds in a presentation titled "he Future Ain't What It Used to Be"
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.
On Sept. 4, the Rhode Island Hospital medical ICU, which is affiliated with the Medical School, was one of 11 intensive care units honored at a national forum in Washington, D.C., for introducing "innovations in ICU care that have improved the quality of that care and that serve as models for the rest of the nation." It was praised for its use of life-saving intensive care, willingness to emphasize palliative end-of-life care, and use of computers to improve care.
Andrew Nathanson, M.D., a clinical assistant professor of medicine, has led the largest study of surfing injuries to date. "I think that surfing is quite a bit safer than people believe," he says, although there is room to improve the safety of equipment.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will host an exhibition of new work by Providence artists Yizhak Elyashiv, David Newton and Judyth van Amringe, beginning June 8 and continuing through July 7, 2002, in the List Art Center. An opening reception is scheduled for Friday, June 7, 2002, from 5 to 7 p.m.
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."
Building upon its reputation as a leader in its field, the Department of Modern Culture and Media will begin offering a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), a move that department faculty believe will lead to breakthrough work and innovation in their field.
Professor Omer Bartov will use his Guggenheim Fellowship to explore Buczacz, the hometown of the only Hebrew author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon; of the great Polish Jewish historian, Emanuel Ringelblum; of Sigmund Freud's parents; and of Bartov's own mother.
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.
On Commencement Day, George Kaufman took the triple crown: a bachelor of arts, a bachelor of science and a master of science.
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.
The sound that accompanies an onscreen image of feet sloshing through mud is an exaggeration of the true sound, but viewers don't mind. In fact, we may think it is more realistic that way. A new study by researcher Laurie Heller supports longtime claims by sound effect technicians, known as Foley artists, that exaggerating sounds in movies makes the sounds more believable to the audience.
A wealth of resources awaits youngsters who travel to the Haffenreffer Museum in Bristol from throughout Southeastern New England.
Research notes on psychiatric patients after Sept. 11, hepatitis research; more
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.
Five years ago, President Clinton called for an HIV/AIDS vaccine within 10 years. If that goal is to be reached it will be because of the joint efforts of clinicians, researchers, community advisers and the people who volunteer for vaccine trials. Here are five stories that look at those efforts.
Mixed-race persons in the classroom: making the invisible visible
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.
80 freshmen and 30 upperclassmen participated in Building Understanding Across Differences, a collaboration offered by Student Life and the Dean of the College to increase understanding and dialogue among students of differing social identities related to race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ability and class.
Robert Zimmer discusses the work that awaits him when he begins his new postion as Brown's provost.
Class of 2002 winners of Joslin, other awards
A look at senior orators, Baccalaureate speaker, Medical School speakers, Ogden lecture (GSJ of May 24, 2002)
Some graduates have more in common than membership in the Class of 2002. They're twins. What is it like to grow up together, go to college together, then go your own way?
Companies had fewer jobs to offer when recruiting on campus this year, and competition was stiff, according to Career Services officials.
Faces of Brown: Debbie Lister works on more than 5,000 events each year for Facilities Management. Commencement-Reunion Weekend is her biggest task.
Cristina Bonuso and Eric Mueller of the graduating Class of 2002
The depth and breadth of graduate student scholarship is reflected in the listing of doctoral theses published each year in the Commencement program. Here is a look at five of them.
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.
The Scholarly Technology Group is poised to help faculty members create an online literary journal, an electronic book to examine 1960s popular culture in West Germany and technology to allow more sophisticated research of South Asian manuscripts. These and other projects have been selected for the second annual round of STG's Faculty Grants Program.
Deborah Lapidus '05 and Bekah Rottenberg '03 both planned to conduct research this summer in Nepal with a Nepalese scholar who spent this past semester at Brown in the Watson Institute's International Scholars of the Environment Program. However, due to internal conflict in Nepal just weeks before they were set to travel, the undergraduates' trips are being postponed until next summer.
The year-long celebration of the 100th anniversary of the founding of Sock and Buskin stages its grand finale during Commencement weekend with a full slate of events offered by the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance and its alumni.
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.
New scientific evidence supports long-time claims by sound effect technicians, known as Foley artists, that exaggerating sounds in movies makes them more believable to the audience. Laurie Heller, assistant professor (research) of psychology, will present her findings June 3, 2002, at the 143rd meeting of the Acoustical Society of America, in Pittsburgh, Pa.
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.
During Commencement ceremonies on Monday, May 27, the University's Graduate School will present its Distinguished Graduate School Alumnus/a Award and the President's Award for Excellence in Teaching.
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.
Welles Hangen Award recipient Sylvia Poggioli of NPR reflects on the dangers of reporting from a war zone.
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.
Peder Estrup, dean of the Graduate School and research since 1996, will step down to return to the faculty. Two searches will be conducted to fill Estrup's shoes: one for a new dean of the Graduate School, and a second to fill the new position of vice president of research. Both will report to the provost.
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.
Linda Karewa, who works in Alumni Relations, will join approximately 3,000 other people who will walk 60 miles over three days to raise awareness of breast cancer.
Police and Security is sponsoring a personal safety workshop for faculty and staff on May 6.
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.
The children of Abraham have shed too much blood. Neither has had a vision of the future which makes room for the other. It is time for Israelis and Palestinians alike to develop a new vision of the future Ð and it must be a moral vision, since the politicians have shown themselves to be disreputable and untrustworthy.
High school students from Providence, Newark, New York City, Baltimore and Atlanta will compete in the first East Coast urban debate championship for May 4, 2002.
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.
Like a persistent tickle in your side, "Rush Hour" star Chris Tucker kept his audience of faculty, staff and students laughing throughout his brief visit to campus. Be true to yourself and treasure your education: Those were the themes Tucker expressed when he visited Professor Lowry Marshall's theater arts class.
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.
A collection of Taoist folk paintings was thought to have dated from the 19th century. A recent translation of text, however, reveals the paintings are nearly 200 years older.
Capital improvements, particularly those that support President Simmons' Initiatives for Academic Enrichment, were discussed by the Advisory Committee on University Planning at its April 22 meeting.
People in wheelchairs who live in homes that are not adapted for handicapped fall more often, according to Brown researchers.
Research notes about Elaine Bearer's work with herpes virus; eye drops used for treatment of "lazy eye"
PBS Frontline's "Did Daddy Do It?" purports to be a documentary about an unjustly convicted child molester. Frontline, however, appears to have dismissed important evidence and credible arguments on its way to embracing a man convicted of horrendous sex crimes against numerous children, including his own son, writes Ross Cheit.
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.
The Far Rights first-round success in French presidential elections and a recent conservative victory in Germany are indications of rising insecurity in Europe, writer Hilary Silver. Given the weakness of the European Parliament, national elections serve as the main outlets for sentiments of malaise, mistrust or misery.
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.
Sylvia Poggioli, senior European correspondent for National Public Radio, will receive the Welles Hangen Award for Superior Achievement in Journalism on Friday, May 3, 2002, at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall on The College Green. Poggioli will speak on "Terrorism, Wars and the Trans-Atlantic Relationship."
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.
The John Hay Library's latest exhibit, "POW: The Prisoner of War Experience," is a collection of sketches, watercolors, memoirs and diaries from soldiers captured and held by enemy forces from the Civil War to Operation Desert Storm.
A realization nearly a decade ago by Steven Hamburg about his climate-change research has led to an altered environmental education landscape in New England. His work has been recognized by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He's one of about a dozen individuals who have won the EPA's Region I Environmental Merit Awards this year.
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.
Parents of students in some schools in Pennsylvania and Florida received letters this year notifying them that their children are overweight and encouraging them to change their children's eating habits and help them get more exercise. Patricia Risica, assistant professor (research) of community health, comments.
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.
The only hope of breaking the Israeli-Palestinian deadlock lies in outside intervention. Whereas many nations may influence Palestinian actions, the United States is the only nation with any leverage over Israel. This makes some form of American intervention in the Palestinian conflict inevitable, despite substantial domestic political risk.
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.
As long as the Israeli military closes off its military operations to news coverage, writes Elliott Colla in an op-ed, we have the moral duty to take seriously reports of atrocities that arrive via other media each day.
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.
The Initiatives for Academic Enrichment include replacing work-study money with grant money for first-year students in the hope that freshman-year experience will be the same for students on financial aid as it is for those who don't have to work 10-15 hours a week.
Professor of Africana Studies Lewis Gordon discusses the treatment of minorities in the film industry.
Off Hours: Gerry Diebold - chemist, glassblower
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
Inquiring Minds: University Chaplain Janet Cooper-Nelson discusses the controversy concerning recent revelations that church leaders sexually abused children.
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.
The tragic deaths of at least 14 girls in a fire in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, presents an opportunity for the royal family to chip away at the country's obsession over sex-segregation. The girls died when the morals police prevented them from leaving the burning building because they weren't covered in the traditional abaye and when civil defense workers were denied access to the building.
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.
Civil rights attorney Floyd Abrams will give the 36th annual Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture on Tuesday, April 9, 2002, at 7:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall. He will speak on "The First Amendment and the War on Terrorism." The public is welcome.
Andrew Solomon, author of the award-winning The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression, will give the 10th annual Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lecture on Wednesday, April 3, 2002, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. This event, which is dedicated to Drs. Stanley and Betty Aronson, is free and open to the public.
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.
When tragic, unbelievable behaviors seem to emerge suddenly from nowhere, they are invariably preceded by a process that was under way for years, writes Lewis Lipsitt. If we could learn how human experiences work to erode an individual's stability, we could become sensitive to imminent disasters and intervene to prevent them. But if we go on believing that "crazy behaviors" are happenstances, we will never get to their roots.
A hard look at what Israeli military censors cut from news articles before their publication reveals a pattern, writes Elliott Colla. The censors sought to stifle the notion that the death of Palestinians might have a pattern. Incidents of violence against Palestinians could only be reported as isolated occurrences.
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.
Twenty first-year medical students are exploring the intersections of art, science, health and medicine this semester in a new elective course, "Art and the Human Body," created by one of their peers.
This year's best student artwork is showcased in the annual Student Exhibition at the Bell Gallery.
The high turnover rate of health workers taking care of patients who have both HIV and hemophilia is due more to stress from their colleagues than to the high emotional demands of such work, according to a new study.
On March 20 the Lai family plans to close the doors of Sam Sing Laundry for the last time. They will also be closing a chapter of R.I. business history dating from the beginnings of the 20th Century and before.
Research grants awarded to Division of Biology and Medicine faculty topped $100 million recently for the first time during a fiscal year.
Campus Compact program trains RI teachers in K-12 how to incorporate service learning into curriculum.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Malangatana: A 40-Year Survey of a Contem-porary Mozambican Artist April 13 through May 27, 2002. A reception for the artist is scheduled for Saturday, April 27 at 7 p.m. at the gallery in the List Art Center.
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 Advisory Committee on University Planning voted unanimously March 4 to invite a representative of the Staff Advisory Committee to be involved as a nonvoting member of ACUP pending the outcome of a review of faculty governance issues.
Lifelong friends and seniors Eli Batalion and Jerome Saibil (that's Eli and Jerome in the photo; Jerome is wearing the garland) are producing a video for high school students about the study of philosophy and its relevance to their lives.
President Simmons outlines the short-term, intermediate and long-term steps for the Initiatives for Academic Enrichment; Dean of the Faculty Mary Fennell outlines the spring discussions regarding temporary teaching needs for fall 2002. These discussions will set the stage for the faculty expansion to come.
Using Providence as a case study, Marion E. Orr and Darrell M. West created a survey to determine factors that play into citizens' views about whether their urban domain is moving in the right direction. Police protection, street repairs, race relations and political leadership all weighed heavily on the way residents thought about life in the city, the survey showed.
"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.
Newly published author Sameer Parekh finds medicine feeds creativity; Dean Marjorie Thompson's music "came out like a flood"
Professors Sheila Bonde, James T. McIlwain and Andy van Dam have won the the latest Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning. (GSJ of March 8, 2002)
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.
Susan Short hopes her research into China's highly controversial one-child policy will provide insight into how it is fundamentally reshaping family life.
A just-released study led by Joan Teno, M.D., finds that more than one in three seriously ill patients who express their desire for comfort instead receive life-extending treatment that often prolongs their pain and suffering.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery and the Department of Visual Art will present the 22nd annual Student Exhibition from March 16 to March 31, 2002, in the List Art Center. An opening reception is scheduled for Saturday, March 16, at 6 p.m.
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.
Inquiring Minds with Elisabeth Bell, visiting professor, talks about turning a novel into a movie. Timed for Oscars
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 Re-Bordering of North America: Integration or Exclusion After September 11?" was the inaugural event in the Watson Institute's Joukowsky Forum in the institute's new building on Thayer Street.
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.
In Beijing this summer in conjunction with the International Congress of Mathematical Software, the conference has given Banchoff a way to visit an old mentor and show off collaborative work with former Ph.D. student.
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.
For the fifth year, the Malcolm S. Forbes Center for Research in Culture and Media Studies will join with nearly a dozen other University and community-based organizations in sponsoring an 11-day cavalcade of French cinema.
The University's only museum houses more than 10,000 artifacts from the native people of the Americas, Africa, Asia and the Pacific -- all 18 miles from The College Green.
Put on by the Slavic languages department, the tea and coffee gatherings are one way students can fulfill class requirements to use the language they're studying outside the classroom. The Russian teas have been held regularly for the past six or seven years, and the Czech coffees began a little more than a year ago.
"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.
Announcements, research notes, more
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.
Johnnetta B. Cole, president emerita of Spelman College, will present "The Life and Work of Martin Luther King, Jr.: Old Lessons for a New Day," this year's Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture, on Wednesday, Feb. 20, 2002, at noon in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
Police protection, street repairs, race relations and political leadership were foremost in residents minds when determining whether their city was doing well, according to a case study of Rhode Island's state capital published in the Urban Affairs Review.
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.
AOL Time Warner Vice Chairman Ted Turner will deliver the Stephen A Ogden Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs, titled "Our Common Future," on Monday, Feb. 11, 2002, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.
Iran's strategic location and economic importance make it both inevitable and imperative that the United States reestablish relations with the Iranians, rather than lob intemperate and ill-considered invective at them. It is a sad commentary on American political life that the State of the Union address should be used for cheap political shots.
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.
Associate Professor Kay Dickersin was a key player in developing the national model for breast cancer activists.
Career services is hosting an "etiquette dinner" to teach students how to gracefully spit out the bones when they're having dinner with a prospective employer or big client. The project is part of Career Week events that will bring alumni in to mentor students.
As the University grows, maintaining and restoring its historic structures presents special challenges, from replacing period features to converting 18th century buildings to a 21st century use.
Faces of Brown: Daniel Nuey of Police and Security
Orchestra director Paul Phillips and Soterios C. Zoulas, communications director at the Annenberg Institute
INQUIRING MINDS: History professor Michael Vorenberg on "widow activism" -- women like Lisa Beamer who rally in the wake of tragedy to do something positive.
The relocation of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center has provided more than attractive new lodgings: The larger building offers an inviting area Ð two rooms in all Ð to showcase one of the Sarah Doyle's most popular programs: its art exhibitions.
A survey of 461 statewide voters conducted Jan. 26-28, 2002, shows Myrth York leading Sheldon Whitehouse and Antonio Pires for the Rhode Island Democratic gubernatorial nomination and Rep. Patrick Kennedy leading all potential Republican challengers in the 1st District congressional race. The survey also finds a drop in the job approval rating for Gov. Lincoln Almond, but high numbers for President George W. Bush. Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr.'s approval rating has risen since a survey in September.
The way to support Afghanistan's evolution to peaceful representative government is to bind the Afghan people to the government and the government to the people. Money and experts can help, but the majority of the work cannot be done without the people's support and cooperation.
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.
Rachel Pepper, who will graduate this June with a concentration in biophysics, will spend the next two years at the University of Cambridge pursuing her interest in physics, thanks to a Marshall scholarship. Pepper learned in early December she was one of 40 students across the country to receive the prestigious award.
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.
What should a consumer do when today's news reports a study hailing the latest medical discovery Ð and tomorrow's contradicts its findings? How should we evaluate the news, and who and what should we believe?
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.
Literature is more than entries on the best-seller list. According to Carol DeBoer-Langworthy, it includes letters, diaries Ð and the personal narratives of students in her life writing classes.
On the ice, Mike Grady is known as a good passer. At work at the Annenberg Institute, he's also known as one of 13 volunteers who read once a week to children at a Providence elementary school through the Power Lunch program.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will host a new exhibition, "Mark Dion: New England Digs," at the List Art Center Jan. 26 to March 10, 2002. Dion will discuss his work during an opening reception on Friday, Jan. 15, 2002, at 5:30 p.m.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will host "Extreme Horticulture," a collection of landscape photographs by John Pfahl, Jan. 26 through March 10, 2002, in the lobby of the List Art Center. In conjunction with the exhibit, Pfahl will present a slide lecture Friday, March 1, at 5:30 p.m. in the List Auditorium.
Robert Scholes, professor emeritus of modern culture and media, has been elected second vice president of the Modern Language Association of America, designating him as the association's vice president in 2003 and president in 2004.
Professor Frances K. Goldscheider and visiting faculty members Saburo Haraguchi and Gustavo Florentino Vega-Canovas have been awarded Fulbright Scholar grants for 2001-2002.
After researching the asbestos-related health and economic problems of South African mine workers, Nancy Jacobs, Lundy Braun and their students brought the victims' voices to their country's Parliament.
Thirteen Annenberg staff members are among the 220 professionals who've joined the Power Lunch program to read to children in Pawtucket and Providence schools. Their goal: to build confidence and foster a love of reading.
Watson Instiutute hosts a panel discussion and keynote lecture on the political future of Afghanistan.
John Mustard and a colleague in Maryland will build a spectrometer for a mission to Mars in 2005. The instrument will remotely analyze the composition of the Martian surface, looking for telltale signs that would suggest life may have existed on the red planet.
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.
The sense of national unity that followed the World Trade Center attacks has allowed the United States to undertake a strong response to terrorism. But enemies also develop unity when they, in turn, are attacked. We should not let our sense of national unity erode the natural strength of our diversity. Listening to the voices of dissent is the best insurance for our continuing democratic values.
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.
History teaches us that extra-national terrorist organizations -- pirates, terrorists, barbarians -- must not be allowed to walk away from conflict once they lose the upper hand. Granting amnesty to such belligerents will only allow them to reappear and will embolden other groups which may share their ideology or methodology.
The following figures represent a preliminary investment proposal that will be shaped and refined in coming months. President Simmons will present the final proposal to the Corporation at its February 2002 meeting. A separate budget for one-time capital expenditures is also being developed.
ACUP chair William Rakowski speaks about the unusual demands made upon ACUP this year and how that committee is adapting to its new, more important role.
President Ruth J. Simmons this week unveiled a draft version of a multi-million dollar Plan for Academic Renewal for both ACUP and University faculty.
Off Hours: Mike Baron of the Education Department and Arts Literacy program is directing Trinity Rep's seasonal offering of "A Christmas Carol."
Associate Professor of Public Policy Ross Cheit moves each week to an off- campus classroom at the Adult Correctional Institution in Cranston, where he teaches ethics to prisoners in the Sex Offender Treatment Program.
For the first time, the Fall Dance Concert will be a student-only production, mounted by the newly created company Body & Sole, a collaboration between several student dance groups.
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.
Students participating in the Swearer Center's service-learning program won't earn an A for ladling soup, but they can learn some valuable lessons and make a contribution to the community beyond College Hill.
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.
David Sobel of cognitive and linguistic sciences uses a "blicket detector" to study how kids learn the concepts of cause and effect.
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.
Interview with new Hillel director Rabbi Richard Kirschen.
Kristy Pond and Yongsong Huang have developed an important new method for monitoring and managing land- and water-based oil spills.
David Reed, communication technician, leads an R&B band.
Jack Wands is the first Greenberg-Joukowsky Professor of Gastroenterology.
Rites & Reason's current research-to-performance project involves students creating and then performing roles of people who have been profiled on basis of race, sex, age.
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.
A small change in the American edition of the first Harry Potter book -- from philosopher's stone to sorcerer's stone -- robs the British original of an important connection to the history of human thought. The magic of Harry Potter, writes Robert Scholes, was designed by author J.K. Rowling to exist alongside "muggle" science.
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.
Students for AIDS Awareness will sponsor an array of events Nov. 29 to Dec. 1in recognition of World AIDS Day.
Alcoholics treated with a combination of the drug naltrexone and coping skills training experienced fewer and less severe relapses, according to a newly published study led by Peter Monti.
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.
Aetna head Dr. John Rowe will give a Paul Levinger Lecture titled "Good Health: Can We Afford It?" on Nov. 29 at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
Jennifer Madden, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, has taught persuasive communication and effective speaking. She sat down recently with the GSJ's Mary Jo Curtis to talk about President George W. Bush's communication skills.
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.
Kent Yrchik-Shoemakerof Psychological Services tell staff and faculty there are things they can do to make this holiday season happier, healthier -- and less stressful.
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
ACUP received reports Monday (Nov. 12) about investments the University must make in its libraries, computing infrastructure and IT training and development.
"The Great Game" Ð Kipling's term for great-power rivalry in Central Asia Ð is ongoing, with the United States, Russia, Pakistan, oil companies and other external forces competing to shape the Afghani future. The losers are likely to be the Afghani people.
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 Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, at 4 p.m., John Rowe, M.D., will discuss "Good Health: Can We Afford It?" in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. Rowe is chairman, president and CEO of Aetna Inc. His lecture will be free and open to the public.
The addition of German and Japanese military resources to the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan raises Middle East suspicions and hatreds more than a century old and may create domestic problems for those two countries. But German and Japanese support is also proof that even the worst of enemies can eventually become friends.
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.
Physics professor Ian Dell'Antonio, who has been part of various efforts working toward trying to identify, weigh and measure everything in the universe, including dark matter. (GSJ of Nov. 9, 2001)
Patricia Rubertone doesn't want to knock Rhode Island's greatest colonial hero from his time-honored pedestal, but she would like us to know Roger Williams wasn't the ultimate authority on the area's Native Americans.
Inquiring Mind: Dr. Artenstein discusses issues of bioterrorism with the GSJ's Scott Turner.
The Rothenbergs, track coaches both, have hosted team members in their home on Thanksgiving.
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.
Carl Kaestle is at the helm of a new postdoctoral fellowship program that will explore education reform at the federal level.
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.
"Langston, No Regrets," a new research to performance play at Rites & Reason, portrays Langston Hughes during 1923-24, a transformative point in the young writer's life.
TWC offers Thanksgiving dinner for students who aren't going home.
The National Weight Control Registry has gathered information on more than 3,000 people who have lost more than 30 pounds and have kept it off for a year.
This week, Merwin Sibulkin and Kelly Smith talk about good books they've recently read.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present "Before Reflection Begins," a new group exhibition featuring the work of five international artists -- Jin Soo Kim, Wolfgang Laib, Ernesto Neto, Valeska Soares and Marisa Telleria-Diez -- from Nov. 10 to Dec. 30, 2001, in the List Art Center.
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.
Physicist Greg Landsberg and others expect breakthroughs when the Large Hadron Collider at CERN in Switzerland goes online. Among the possibilities: creating miniature black holes in the laboratory for use in the exploration of gravity and extra dimensions.
Jim Blight's course about the Vietnam war is evolving into a course comparing Vietnam with the United States' new campaign against terrorism and current events in Afghanistan
NASA grant supports cognitive linguist Steve Sloman in his work toward helping computers grasp the human mind.
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
Provost search committee, November flu vaccine clinics rescheduled, more
Christopher Reeve presents Parents Weekend keynote lecture
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."
Networking with alumni, drop-in sessions and Career Week Jan. 22-27 are among the ways Career Services hopes to match seniors with positions upon graduation
Brown Oxfam opens a coffee bar in Bear's Lair called The Hourglass Cafe. Proceeds will benefot Oxfam America
This year's crop of Faculty Scholars: Peter Lee, Marc Manseau, Joshua Farkas, Eric Stovkovich, Natasha Zaretsky
Alcohol is a forgotten drug that leads to unsafe sex among injection drug users, according a new Brown-led study.
Corporation endorses Simmons' goals; plans for library storage facility gets OK
Brown's conservative investment strategy works well when the market is volatile. As of September, the endowment was $1.36 billion
Inquiring Minds: James Head reflects on tenure of NASA chair Daniel Goldin, who just stepped down
To help insurance industry determine the probability of major hurricanes striking a certain region, Jeffrey Donnelly looks back hundreds of years by taking core samples from marsh sediment
Police and Security a leading example of how campus law enforcement has matured nationwide. The force is accredited, many are trained to carry firearms, and one member has trained in exclusive FBI program.
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.
A survey of 509 voters in Providence, conducted Oct. 20-21, 2001, finds a majority of voters rank Providence police highly and 30 percent believe Providence police have gotten better over the last year. Voters are divided on whether people are treated the same regardless of race; many think there should be more training on race relations and a civilian review process to check on citizen complaints.
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.
In her inaugural address, President Simmons paid ardent tribute to the enterprise of education.
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.
Study finds disparities across state in enforcing drunk driving laws
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.
Classroom Visit Program introduces engineering to youngsters in local schools
Highlights of inauguration Voyages of Discovery
Research issue: Recovery of indirect costs plays key role in campus research
Student-run OWL cultivates leadership skills among women
Research issue: Brown counters national trend in funding for physical sciences
Research issue: Brown research grants exceed $100 million for first time
Mary Carskadon will participate in study of shift workers and sleep; Barry Lester on meth use during pregnancy
Research issue: No stem cells used by Brown researchers are derived from human embryos
Highlights from Inaugural Symposium
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.
Tough questions and intense dialogue about the future of higher education are what moderator Frank Newman expects from the Oct. 13 Inaugural Symposium titled "Evolution or Revolution: The University As We Do Not Know It."
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.
History of inaugurations past
The symbols of the office of President will be visible during Inauguration
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
In a move that will help make way for construction of the Life Sciences Building, the U.S. Post Office at 201 Meeting St. will close Oct. 6 and will reopen Oct. 9 at 302 Thayer St.
This past summer, 28 entering freshmen were able to master their periodic tables in any number of settings, thanks to Chem 10 Web, an interactive Web-based course developed by the chemistry department to prepare students for college-level chemistry
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
Ancient Studies Program launches "Perceptions and Representations of the Past in Ancient Civilizations," a broad and unique program of seven lectures that will consider how ancient cultures Ñ from Rome and the Near East to China Ñ viewed the past.
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 country's oldest college theater organization directed by faculty, Sock and Buskin has mounted hundreds of theatrical productions involving thousands of students, serving as their laboratory and preparing many for successful careers in professional theater. This season is its 100th, which will be marked by a variety of special events.
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.
The way we interpret events, especially traumatic events like the terrorist attacks in New York and Washington, will have an impact on the options we consider for responding. Rather than interpreting this tragedy as an "attack on America" Ð a war Ð it would be better to frame it as "a crime against humanity."
Faculty-staff session "Caring for yourself and loved ones after the trauma of Sept. 11" describes ways people can help themselves and loved ones if they are feeling traumatized by attacks.
The Choices Program has prepared a teaching packet in wake of Sept. 11 attacks. Available for dissemination to participating teachers around the country.
In the next few months, ACUP members will hear presentations from administrators who at Simmons' request have been gathering and evaluating a variety of data since summer. Simmons said she has asked the presenters to bring budget requests as well as ideas for strategic program investments, and is asking ACUP to think big.
On July 4, 2005, a spacecraft is scheduled to crash into Tempel 1's nucleus, leaving a crater the size of a football field and giving scientists, including Peter Schultz, a chance to see material that is as old as the solar system itself.
A United Auto Workers petition now before the National Labor Relations Board seeks to designate the UAW as the sole representative for teaching assistants, proctors and certain research assistants. Faculty Forum discusses the issues.
Oxygen levels in Narragansett Bay; colloidal crystals, Genes and diet influence cholesterol levels
Page Turners: Nadine Harris, David Konstan, Ruth Rosenberg
Memo from Police and Security; call for papers, and more
Funded by a grant from the Kirk Foundation, the Ancient Studies Program will sponsor the newly established Kirk Lecture Series for 2001-2002 titled Perceptions and Representations of the Past in Ancient Civilizations. The public is invited to attend the seven lectures free of charge. The series begins Oct. 1, 2001, and continues through March 11, 2002.
We must come to terms with the reality that we cannot utterly control the powers of all peoples, and we must begin to imagine a world without superpowers. [Kevin Lourie]
To dedicated opponents of evolution, the battle against Darwin is never-ending. Well-funded critics of evolution will fulminate against this week's NOVA series on evolution, but their charges of "false" statements about the genetic code show only the emptiness of their so-called "evidence" against Darwin. Kenneth R. Miller, professor of biology, is the author of Finding Darwin's God.
In Northern Ireland and Israel, history shows a pattern of escalation Ð that violence has only bred more violence. Similarly, previous U.S. retaliation against suspected terrorists has not brought an end to terrorism. [Neta Crawford]
None of us will ever feel calmly about what happened on September 11, 2001, and what may happen in the future. We cannot expect a young administration to form a coherent policy to meet an enormous challenge in just a few days or weeks. But we must demand greater deliberation. And for that we need time. [Neta Crawford]
In wake of terrorist attacks, Hillel anticipates larger gathering for High Holidays
Brunonians share their experiences in wake of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks
Lewis P. Lipsitt, professor emeritus of psychology, medical science, and human development, offers advice to parents in the wake of the terrorist attacks on World Trade Center, Pentagon
Campus blood drive held in wake of Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. Response is overwhelming, with the goal exceeded in less than three hours
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
Inauguration Weekend's Voyages of Discovery showcase faculty excellence
Little is known about polar bear cub development. Research conducted since last spring by senior Katy Greenwald will help change that.
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.
In the Middle East, South and Central Asia, where the administration hopes to achieve the greatest cooperation, most governments sit very uneasily. If they don't cooperate, they risk military retribution by the U.S. If they do cooperate, they risk being overthrown, removed from office, or even assassinated by extreme elements in their own societies. William O. Beeman, professor of anthropology, has more than 30 years' experience in research throughout the Middle East and Central Asia.
In the wake of the World Trade Center and Pentagon attacks, a survey of 413 Rhode Island voters conducted Sept. 15-16, 2001, finds 77 percent of Rhode Island voters worry about terrorist attacks. Sixty-eight percent think President Bush is doing a good job, up from 34 percent in June. The survey also finds sharply lower consumer confidence in the state economy and indications of a tight race for the Democratic gubernatorial nomination.
Middle Eastern opposition to the West is far from being a phenomenon invented by Osama bin Laden, or the Taliban, or for that matter Iran, Iraq or the Palestinians. It has waxed and waned as an effective oppositional force in confrontation to secular political systems for more than a century.
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.
Economists are used to thinking about policy choices as involving a comparison of perceived costs and benefits. Can this perspective help us to understand why we protected ourselves so poorly that suicidal terrorists were easily able to hijack four airplanes in one morning?
Piracy on the high seas, as terrorism today, plagued the international system with raids, hostages and slavery and in general dealt in the currency of fear. In the early 19th century as now in the wake of the World Trade Center attack, the United States faced important choices of war and peace in securing freedom from fear.
Medical School clinicians and researchers in the Rhode Island Hospital Gambling Treatment Program are helping compulsive gamblers control their impulses.
Searching for the proverbial "apple" in the adage "an apple a day keeps the doctor away" has resulted in a lot of varying Ð and contradictory Ð information. How can you weigh the merits of such studies?
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.
Sarah Doyle Women's Center has a new director, Gail Cohee, and a new home at 26 Benevolent St.
Two faculty members in the Medical School unveiled a new diagnostic/assessment report to improve routine clinical practice for all patients. Based on the current diagnostic manual, the Psychiatric Diagnostic Screening Questionnaire (PDSQ) is designed to assess the most common psychiatric disorders encountered in an outpatient setting.
At Brown for Sept. 14: awards and honors, off the shelf
A despicable act of mayhem such as those committed at the World Trade Center in New York and at the Pentagon in Washington is a measure of the revulsion that others feel at U.S. actions. If we perpetuate a cycle of hate and revenge, this conflict will escalate into a war that our great-grandchildren will be fighting.
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.
Frances Goldscheider on fatherhood; Amy Greenwald on "shopbots"; students go weightless for science; meteorite's origin; more
Jin Li, assistant professor of education, does research about the cultural differences in the way American and Chinese children think about learning.
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
When Robert Mathiesen's Staff Development Day class on tarot reading and divination was among the first to be filled during registration, he wasn't surprised. Mathiesen believes such esoteric subjects pique our natural curiosity. "We're hard-wired for mystery, religion and spirituality," he explained.
Advance on opening convocation; speaker is Ruth Simmons; with statistics on Class of 2005
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.
Carol Hang of Central High School and Elda Roman of Classical High School were recently named City of Providence Scholars for the Class of 2005. They will receive financial support throughout their four years at the University.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present Sean Scully: Walls, Windows, Horizons from Sept. 8 through Oct. 28, 2001. Scully, an internationally acclaimed artist known for his abstract paintings, will discuss his work during an opening reception Friday, Sept. 7, 2001, at 6 p.m. in the auditorium of the List Art Center.
There have been many extraordinary claims of life on Mars, writes John Mustard, professor of geological sciences, yet none has proffered extraordinary evidence. During the next 20 years the continued exploration will bring us closer to answering that question.
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.
STG Faculty Grant Proposal Descriptions Ð Accepted Projects for 2002. Titon (who will do a multimedia project on the Rev. C.L. Franklin), Bonde, Massimo Riva, Steven Sloman; Shoggy Waryn and Annie Wiart, French Studies
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.
The ascension of Megawati Sukarnoputri was supported by one of the most brutal and unaccountable militaries in the world. Now, Janet Gunter writes, the United States and others must press her to become a force for change, reform and true, sustainable peace.
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.
Seven scholars from various countries came to the Watson Institute for a semester of research on environmental issues in their home countries.
Do Rhode Island's public policies work? Research carried out by several public policy concentrators last May has been turned over to the state agencies that provided the data.
If some studies suggest that diabetics who lose weight die sooner, then what do you tell overweight diabetics who want to shed pounds? Rena Wing will try to answer that question over the next 12 years through a $180-million nationwide study of whether weight loss in people with type 2 diabetes decreases risk for heart disease, stroke and death.
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.
Selections from 2001 Commencement Forums
Inquiring Minds: Richard Besdine on living longer
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.
University eyes several sites for major parking structure
Engineering Professor Greg Crawford is working with RI Training School, teaching a class on engineering and entrepreneurism.
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.
A statewide survey of 400 Rhode Island voters conducted June 9-11, 2001, finds 81 percent believe corruption is a problem in Providence city government. Forty-one percent think Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr. is guilty of corruption charges, 21 percent think he is not guilty, and 38 percent are unsure. In a possible race for the U.S. House, Rep. Patrick Kennedy leads Gov. Lincoln Almond.
Gail E. Cohee, a member of the Governing Council of the National Women's Studies Association and a long-time activist on women's issues, has been named director of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center.
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.
Geologist John Mustard and others will brief Rep. Patrick Kennedy on the use of NASA's remote sensing technology in recording higher temperatures in Mount Hope Bay due to discharges from the Brayton Point power plant. The briefing will be held Tuesday, June 5, from 9:30 to 10:20 a.m. at the Lincoln Field Building, Room 105, located between George and Waterman streets. Press are welcome to attend.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present "Ann Fessler: Close to Home" and "Recent Acquisitions by Yitzak Elyashiv, Richard Fleischner, Irene Lawrence, and Howard Ben Tre" June 9 through July 8, 2001, in the List Art Center.
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.
Faculty members, a former University chancellor, graduate students and undergraduate students have been selected to receive special honors during Commencement ceremonies on Monday, May 28, 2001.
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.
In China, corruption has provided incentives for local government officials in much the same way as methods of compensation in Western economies. There are increasingly good reasons, however, for the Chinese authorities to reconsider their policy of tolerating corruption.
Winners of Public Service Fellowship, Interfaith Leadership Award, Manning Medal announced
Graduating into the worst economy in a decade, members of the Class of 2001 may need to spend more time on their job search and diversify their strategies, but they continue to be able to find jobs, according to Sheila Curran, director of career services. With statistics about the Class of 2000 job searches.
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.
Nine will receive honorary degrees at Commencement: Madeleine Albright; Kofi Annan of the United Nations; Sheila E. Blumstein, interim president; mathematician and physicist Demetrios Christodoulou; Oskar Eustis of Trinity Repertory Company; Margaret H. Marshall of the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court; author Philip Roth; visual scientist Lorrin A. Riggs; and Lawrence M. Small of the Smithsonian Institution.
Faculty meeting approves name change and department status for Afro-American studies. Department of Africana Studies awaits Corporation-level approval
Faculty meeting approves master's degrees in acting and directing, doctorate in theater and performance studies
In the pre-dawn hours throughout Commencement-Reunion Weekend, crews arrange and rearrange venues for events
"Stillness Seeking" by Elyse Lightman '02 wins the first Casey Shearer Award for nonfiction
REMEDY, a group run by medical students, collects unused medical supplies from hospitals and physicians and redistributes them to local and international charities. Most recent shipment went to Armenian hospital
Mark Bayfield, Vanya Dukic, Domingo Ledezma and Susanne Wiedemann will receive graduate teaching awards at the Graduate School Commencement ceremony
The Office of Student Life will sponsor a ceremony on Friday, May 25, at 4 p.m. in room 101 of Salomon Center to honor recipients of the Joslin Awards and the Jin Prize.
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.
As Professor Sheila E. Blumstein entered the final weeks of her interim presidency, she sat down with the George Street Journal to talk about the success, challenges and surprises she's experienced since being named interim president on Feb. 9, 2000.
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.
Madeleine Albright, U.S. secretary of state during the second Clinton administration, will address graduating seniors during the Baccalaureate service on Sunday, May 27, 2001, at 1:30 p.m. in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America.
Press reports linking day care to increased violent behavior were premature, according to Barry Lester. It turns out that the rates of violent behavior for children in day care were the same as the national norms, and that other factors, including family factors, were better predictors of violent behavior in kindergarten than whether or not the child was in day care. The day care reports and reports about prenatal cocaine use by women shared a common problem: the premature release of scientific information.
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.
Julie Strongwater, Emily Levy and Amy Kulak (from left) are partners in Corner Studio, Inc., a home-decorating-kit business that spun out of their enjoyment in decorating their own apartment.
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
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 Medical School researchers.
A study of 308 Dominican, Cambodian and Portuguese parents found a low level of parental involvement in their childrens'education due to several factors, including discomfort with the English language, cultural conceptions of the role of teachers and parents, and lack of familiarity with the system.
James Mahoney and Marc Perlman receive Wriston Fellowships; Greg Landsberg and David Sheinberg receive research fellowships from Sloan Foundation
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.
A study of 308 Dominican, Cambodian and Portuguese parents found a low level of parental involvement in their children's education due to several factors, including discomfort with the English language, cultural conceptions of the role of teachers and parents, and lack of familiarity with the system.
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.
Greg Tucker is part of the research team that is behind the instrument design and building of a satellite that will and analysis of the data it will provide to scientists eager for measurements that will measure the light that remains from the Big Bang
A new nationwide study shows that severe pain among elderly nursing home residents is prevalent, persistent and poorly treated.
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.
Former ABC News correspondent Robert Zelnick will speak on "Open Government v. Privacy Concerns" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 2, 2001, in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This lecture is free and open to the public.
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
Participant in Flynn diet study records her experiences.
Seventeen campus volunteers answer researcher Mary Flynn's call for subjects for a pilot study to compare dieters eating Mediterranean fare to those following a traditional low-fat diet.
Marvel Gym will be razed to make room for athletic fields.
Originally headed to India to join hospital rotations for fourth-year electives, Amit Joshi, Anish Sheth and Jason Slosberg adjusted their schedules to spend a week helping patients in a makeshift international Red Cross center in the flattened city of Bhuj
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.
Gang Xiao and his graduate students have helped IBM to improve a memory device that could make turning on a personal computer as instantaneous as clicking on a television.
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.
Dean of College, Office of Campus Life and Student Services, UCS and other parties join forces to prepare diversity orientation pilot project, year-round community-building conversations
At its meeting April 9, the Advisory Committee on University Planning (ACUP) reviewed a proposal that in the course of five years would reduce to zero the amount graduate students would have to pay for health insurance.
Brown's Arts/Literacy Project isn't about turning high school students into actors; it's about getting them to read
Inquiring Minds: Terry Hopmann on actions since collision of Chinese, U.S. planes
It used to be that graduating seniors stopped by the Career Services office, did some interviews and got "placed." It hasn't worked that way for a while. Career Services now helps seniors and a growing number of alums find their way in a Web-fueled network-driven world.
Research Notes: engineered DNA; visual control of locomotion; space weathering on minerals
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
Survey of graduate student use of libraries
Bell Gallery collaborates with waterway cleanup. Trash will be made into piece of art
Washington Post sports columnist and best-selling author Thomas Boswell will deliver the first Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture on Wednesday, April 25, 2001, at 6:30 p.m. in Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall. The evening's program will include the first presentation of the annual Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a new exhibition, Selections from the Collection, opening April 14 and continuing through May 28, 2001, at the List Art Center. An opening reception and lecture by curator Vesela Sretenovic are set for Friday, April 13, at 6 p.m. at the Gallery.
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.
For fourth-year medical students, the key to their future is Match Day mail
Inquiring Minds: Economist Ignacio Palacios-Huerta on the stock market
Admission mails more than 2,630 acceptance letters. Of the 16,601 people who applied to be a member of the Class of 2005, 16 percent were accepted. Those who applied early had a higher admit rate: 21 percent
First anniversary of Performance Appraisal Form
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.
On Thursday, April 19, 2001, at 4 p.m. Dame Cicely Saunders, M.D., will deliver a lecture titled "Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow: Reflections on End-of-Life Care," in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. Her lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
Kim Campbell, elected in 1993 as the first woman Prime Minister of Canada, will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. '60 Memorial Lecture on "Culture, Trade and Globalization" at 6:30 p.m. Monday, April 16, 2001, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. This event is free and open to the public.
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
Faculty comment on free speech vs. community concerns
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.
Inquiring Minds: Steven Hamburg, Ittleson Associate Professor of Environmental Studies and Biology, answered questions posed by Janet Kerlin about air pollution and the power industry. The Bush administration has reversed itself and said it won't restrict carbon dioxide emissions from power plants.
Off Hours: For Scott Allen, M.D., life is about making people feel better. He does his healing through medicine and music. A full-time physician at the Adult Correctional Institutions (ACI), Allen also maintains a private practice. In the Medical School, he teaches residents at Miriam Hospital.
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.
Nadine Strossen, president of the American Civil Liberties Union, will deliver the 35th annual Alexander Meiklejohn Lecture on Thursday, April 5, 2001, at 7:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall on The College Green. The public is welcome.
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.
On Thursday, April 5, 2001, at 4:30 p.m., David Kessler, M.D., will speak about "Tobacco Wars" in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. His lecture will be followed by a question and answer session. It is free and open to the public.
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.
Novelist Samuel Shem (a pseudonym for Stephen J. Bergman, M.D.) will speak on "Fiction as Resistance: Healing in Hard Medical Times" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 4, 2001, in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green. This ninth annual Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
Medical student and Miriam M.D. were so tender in their care of a patient that the patient's family endowed a lecture series aimed at promoting humane patient-doctor relationships
For the past year, the 20 members of the President's Staff Advisory Committee (SAC) have been hard at work exploring such issues as parking, service excellence, workplace relations, employee recognition, and outreach and communication. Their research culminated in the presentation of recommendations to Interim President Blumstein last November, and Blumstein responded to their recommendations in late February.
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.
Through Project HEALTH (Helping Empower, Advocate and Lead through Health), 75 student volunteers are working with underprivileged children suffering from asthma, sickle cell anemia and other health problems to educate them about their illnesses and foster good health habits.
Research notes: magma, erythromycin, word recognition
Excerpts from the "Dignity of Children" Public Affairs Conference
Four panels will address questions raised by charting the human genome at a conference titled "Genetic Influences on Human Behavior and Development" April 5-6, 2001, in Leung Gallery at Faunce House. The event is free and open to the public.
By limiting U.S. troop deployments, the Bush administration sends encouragement to Albanian terrorists. To the people of the Balkans who so earnestly seek peace and stability it sends an insult that will only create disillusion and division.
Misha Glenny and Aleksa Djilas, historians and expert commentators on the Balkans, will deliver a joint presentation titled "The Downfall of the Milosevic Regime and Its Aftermath" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, March 14, 2001, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Their presentation is part of the Watson Institute's Directors Lecture Series.
The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life has scheduled a memorial service for Elizabeth J. Cronin at 7:30 p.m. Monday, March 12, 2001, in Sayles Hall. In addition, the offices of Student Life and Psychological Services will host a discussion group at noon Friday, March 9, in North Wayland Lounge.
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.
Undergrad charges to rise 3.6 percent; Blumstein changes 'early action' policy
Inquiring Minds: Thomas Lasater on faith-based delivery of health care
OnŽsimo Almeida, talk show host
Pediatric sleep-disorders form developed
Today's black experience at Brown: fighting negative views, money troubles
Michael Harper on life as an African-American poet
Researchers to devise brain monitoring system for Mars exploration
Health Services unlikely to provide RU-486, co-director says
Off Hours: Michael McKeown, biologist, activist for rigorous math education
New technique helps tame the brain and move a muscle
Pieters is on team seeking NASA approval for asteroid exploration
A survey of 350 statewide voters conducted Feb. 24-25, 2001, find voters support phasing out the state tax on cars and strongly oppose President Clinton's pardon of Marc Rich. Nearly two-thirds of voters feel the state is headed in the right direction and believe education, unemployment and jobs are the most important problems facing the state.
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.
Inquiring mind: Enrico Spolaore, assistant professor of economics and political science, responds to questions about the California blackouts.
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?"
Applied mathematics professor George Karniadakis has demonstrated a method to make surfaces more slippery, which has potential applications for any flowing fluid, from water past a ship, oil in a pipeline, and air against an aircraft. He is working with Kenneth Breuer of engineering.
Med student / artist senior Ainsley MacLean coordinates an art program for women with cancer photographs cancer patients
Even the ancients were slaves to fashion, classics scholar Jeri DeBrohun notes. She's writing a book on fashions from 600 B.C. to the fourth century A.D.
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."
Since the 1950s the State Department has been a hard sell to Congress, and more than a few presidents have ignored the department's counsel. It may take a figure with the gravi-tas Ð and popularity Ð of Colin Powell to make the case to Congress for more funds and personnel and to help the State Department win back its influence with the president.
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.
All black men are not drug addicts, pimps or gang members. Work such as that about to be published in The Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science demonstrates this. But that's not the way I think of black men anyway. I think of them as mostly being shrewd, supportive, sensible, hard-working men like Granddad and Dad.
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
Ganymede, stress studies, work after incarceration, mind-body connection
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'
Domini, assistant professor of cognitive and linguistic sciences, investigates how velocity influences the way the human brain derives the three-dimensional structure of objects such as those moving past the train window.
Maria Goyanes is center stage, directing this year's offering in the theater department's Senior Director Showcase
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.
Is work calling your name? Flora Gardner runs a flower shop; Dr. Bird's an ornithologist. Lewis Lipsitt has long pondered whether there's a connection
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.
With heavy reliance on rewards and punishments, the Bush educational reform plan seems to imply that incentives alone will encourage schools to lift themselves out of failure. The plan pays scant attention to the one institution that can make sure there are good schools for all students: the urban school district.
In the unsteady state of American race relations today it would be all too easy to believe, as a small number of white jazz players and critics maintain, that the African American culture and African American musicians have not provided the major sources and shapes of the jazz art form. Ken Burns' documentary firmly represents the truth of African American creativity that we all need to acknowledge – and not rationalize away or forget.
Off hours: Cheng-Chieh Chuang, physician, watercolorist
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.
"Mentoring Program for Managers" is formally introduced.
Months of planning are behind Black History Month events
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.
Author Michael Ignatieff will speak on "Virtual War: Kosovo and Beyond" on Wednesday, Feb. 14, and historians Misha Glenny and Aleksa Djilas will discuss "The Downfall of Milosevic" on Wednesday, March 14. The lectures are part of the Watson Institute's Directors Series on Contemporary International Affairs.
Howard Gardner, author of the theory of multiple intelligences, will give aPresident's Lecture, titled "Good Work in Tumultuous Times," onMonday, Feb. 12, 2001, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Thisevent is free and open to the public.
Los Angeles Mayor Richard J. Riordan and Providence Schools Superintendent Diana Lam will participate in a conference titled "The Future of Urban Schools" on Feb. 15–16, 2001, in Sayles Hall on The College Green. The conference is free and open to the public.
Tony Caldemone, M.D. headed a six-member team of medical specialists, which spent nine days sharing their medical experience and techniques with Egyptian counterparts. The November trip was the latest in a series of missions by medical workers nationwide under the organization Physicians for Peace.
Inquiring Minds: Warren Simmons on student testing
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.
Artist Aimee Pickett '01 links painful pasts of Vietnam and America in an exhibition on display at the Watson Institute.
Marshall scholarships to Lam Ho '01 and Michael Bhatia '99
Gyanprakash Ketwaroo '01 and Courtney C. J. Voelker Ô99 have been selected Rhodes scholars
Off Hours with Ron Kandzerski, campaign volunteer
Assistant Professor Linda Carpenter leads a study of a pacemaker-like implant to treat debilitating depression that does not respond to medications.
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
Leon Cooper and three others will be teaching a physics class using the play "Copenhagen," about Bohr and Heisenberg. Trinity Rep actors will also participate.
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.
A new exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery will leave viewers wonderingif they can believe their own eyes. "False Witness: Installations by JoanFontcuberta and Kahn/Selesnick" opens Jan. 27 and continues through March 11,2001.
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 average marriage age for Iranian women before the 1979 Islamic revolution was 18; it is 21 today. Education for women is obligatory and universal. More than 75 percent of Iranians are under 25. For this population, literacy for men and women is well over 90 percent even in rural areas. University enrollment is nearly equal for men and women.
The United States still refuses to practice what it preaches. As supreme Cold War victor, its representatives lecture others about human rights without stopping to consider their own past crimes. For both moral and political reasons, the United States should create a commission to investigate its own involvement in Cold War misdeeds.
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.
The family who volunteered to live in "The 1940 House" have found themselves changed by the experience, differently from their prior expectations. This sounds like the mark of education: that it produces positive changes in oneself to carry forward in life. Can immersion in history, even if vicariously shared, teach us effectively?
Nothing could prove the existence of American culture more clearly than the recent presidential controversy and its resolution with the concession speech of Al Gore, and the reconciliation speech of George W. Bush, writes William O. Beeman. With these two events, the United States has gone through a textbook cultural process that anthropologists call a "social drama." In this process, members of a culture deal with a crisis by reasserting social institutions and cultural values.
At their Dec. 4 meeting, members of the Advisory Committee on University Planning (ACUP) said they will recommend a 3.7 percent increase in student charges and a 4.6 percent draw from endowment income for the 2001-02 fiscal year budget.
Ailene Kane, a senior environmental science concentrator, is writing a plan to protect and manage an increasingly rare wildflower called northern blazing star
Brunonians favor greenspace, according to survey conducted by environmental studies course; results will aid Campus Planning Committee and consultants working on strategic plan
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
A year-long project will investigate how patients and physicians have fared in the wake of the bankruptcy of Harvard Pilgrim Health Care
Bess Marcus discusses how to motivate yourself to exercise when it's dark and you're pressed for time through the holidays.
Mary McClure, a director at CIT, is a member of the Providence School Board in her off hours
BSR audio documentary format (audiozine) offers issues from ÔInside Out'
Juniors get an early start on securing next year's off-campus housing. They frequently have a sense of urgency that sends them knocking on doors of privately owned housing nearly a year before they'll be moving in
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
Asteroid named for geosciences researcher Takahiro Hiroi in recognition of his contributions in linking asteroids and meteorites using reflectance spectroscopy.
Author of "Girl Interrupted" reads from her book
Arab-Jewish Dialogue is a student group organized to help members of each group find common ground. It began with friendship building, which has sustained the group through some heated political discussions
Inquiring Minds -- Gordon Wood on the Electoral College
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
A look at some of the findings to date that are emerging from the external reviews of academic departments
To collaborate on research and teaching related to improving care for seniors, the Medical School's Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research and Division of Geriatrics have signed a two-year association agreement with CareLink
Fall presentations prepare ACUP for budget discussions on Dec. 4 . Administrators' proposals total millions of dollars; members must begin to choose which will gain priority status
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.
The question of whether today's audiences would enjoy Spike Lee's fictional "New Millennium Minstrels" remains an open one. My research into a particularly shameful form of minstrelsy Ð shows presented by white amateurs Ð supports Lee's view that the racist stereotypes of minstrel shows have been an integral part of American culture up to the present day.
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.
Award-winning poet Carolyn ForchŽ, internationally recognized for her writings and work on behalf of human rights and for the preservation of memories from the darkest moments of the 20th century, will read and discuss her most recent collection of poetry. Her presentation, part of the President's Lecture Series, will begin at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Dec. 4, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching, located on The College Green.
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.
Is University president a doable job anymore? In 1976, here is what presidents Keeney, Heffner, and Wriston had to say. A reprint from the GSJ.
Inquiring Minds: Stephen J. Nelson, research associate in the education department, on the moral voice of college presidents
Faculty, students and staff, who heard Ruth Simmons speak in Sayles Hall just hours after the Corporation named her the University's 18th president, greeted her with a standing ovation, whoops and applause before she began to speak.
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.
Since Mail Services began accepting United Parcel Service deliveries in January, it has been deluged by packages for students, a combination of the usual care packages from family and friends, and Internet orders. As a result, Mail Services is working on a proposal to address the stream of student package deliveries. The biggest need is space.
Rites and Reason theater program embraces a research-to-performance concept. Students in the "Research to Performance Method" course this year know author Ntozake Shange's novel, 'Liliane: Resurrection of the Daughter,' and its characters intimately after a semester spent living with both.
John Mustard, associate professor of geological sciences, has been selected by NASA to participate on the team that will analyze data from an Earth-observing satellite. Mustard and graduate student Andrew Elmore will attend the launch of the EO-1 satellite, scheduled for Nov. 18 on a Delta rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California.
A $726,981 grant from the National Institute on Aging will support economist Robin L. Lumsdaine's study into a variety of non-economic factors influencing the decision to retire.
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
Off Hours: Kelley Smith works at Newport folk festival
Swearer Center, city school partnership creates Urban Debate League in 10 city high schools
Campus life task force mkes presentation to ACUP on its pilot dorm renovation project
Couch potatoes looking for motivation to exercise may consider joining a new study that uses phone calls or letters, pamphlets and other written materials to prod them into adopting and maintaining a regimen of physical activity.
Student's exhibition explores the dark side of Victorian artificial flowers
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).
Inquiring Minds: Mark Steinbach, University organist, comments on reported shortage of organists nationwide
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.
Sociology students have taken on Computing and Information Services as a client this semester for the chance to survey one of CIS' consumer groups Ð graduate students. The new course is designed to teach survey research through hands-on experience.
Rodney Clifton has been selected by the American Society of Mechanical Engineers to receive the Timoshenko Medal, the society's top award in applied mechanics.
Off hours: Melissa Whiteley, administrative assistant, water aerobics instructor
Inquiring Minds: Darrell West on presidential election.
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.
A team of undergraduate researchers from the Taubman Center release a study of public access to information about legal proceedings. Among their conclusions: The public interest does not figure prominently in decisions to expunge or seal certain records.
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.
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez will present a President's Lecture titled The Writer and Social Responsibility on Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2000, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
If financial aid and political pressures are channeled to help the civic basesof protests against Slobodan Milosevic's rule – those around thepopular youth Resistance movement and other non-nationalistic initiativesscattered across the political spectrum – then what seems like VojislavKostunica's nationalistic inflexibility or the general post-Milosevicinertia will be soon fading away.
The West should add incentives for Yugoslavia's old guard to cede keyposts without fueling nationalist fears. It should offer economic, security andjudicial aid conditioned on pro-democracy leadership in key institutions,especially the police, the judiciary and the military. The West shouldtemporarily delay action on Milosevic's war crimes indictment, waitinguntil Kostunica's allies have consolidated power.
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.
The Department of Modern Culture and Media will host a two-and-a-half day conference titled "The Archaeology of Multi-Media" Thursday through Saturday, Nov. 2-4.
Inquiring Minds: Linda Miller of Watson Institute on violence in Middle East
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.
Paul Armstrong of SUNY-Stony Brook is named new Dean of the College
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.
President Blumstein and 40 other university presidents and chancellors signed a letter to Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott asking for his support to prevent further reductions in reimbursements to America's teaching hospitals and medical schools.
For years, universities have claimed that the federal government does not pay fully for the indirect costs of federally sponsored research, and that the costs are legitimate ones necessary to conducting the research. Now, a RAND analysis provides evidence to support those claims. The study finds that universities already pay a significant share of the costs associated with their research partnership with the federal government.
Novelists, journalists, local residents and many others have forecast the Catskills' decline. But while the resort area is a fragment of its past glory, the Catskills are crawling with all sorts of developments, from casinos to old hotels converted into modest private homes.
The David Winton Bell Gallery at the List Art Center will present a new exhibition, "Kim Dingle and the Wild Girls," Nov. 11 through Dec. 31, 2000. Dingle will speak about her work during an exhibition preview Nov. 9.
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.
A short film co-written by Stacia Owens, a candidate for a master's of fine arts in creative writing in May, recently received the 2000 Princess Grace Foundation Award in Film. Owens wrote the black comedy "Out of Habit" with Robin Larsen, a student in UCLA's master's of fine arts program. The award includes $10,000 in completion funds.
Inquiring Minds: Bob Coover on Stephen King, electronic publishing and what Coover and others have been doing for years.
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.
Off Hours: Associate Dean David Targen is a certified EMT on Mt. Monadnock
Interest in the economy and culture of the Pacific Rim drew Sarah Olverson '01, left, to Vietnam, but it was her interaction with a group of young women that remains with her.
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.
Members of ACUP review scope and challenges of the coming year and will help develop a long-term approach to spending. The plan will be presented to the Corporation before its February meeting.
A statement from the October 2000 meeting of the Corporation on need-blind admissions
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.
Developmental psychologist Sheldon White will deliver the first Lewis P. and Edna Duchin Lipsitt Lecture in Child Behavior and Development Thursday, Nov. 2, 2000, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The public is welcome to attend without charge.
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
"I'm not a musician, and I thought you'd have to be a 200-pound tatooed male to be a roadie," says Emily Brochin '03, who was looking for a cool summer job. "But I knew I could ride my bike, so - even though it seemed very bizarre - I applied." She spent her summer as a bike roadie for the band Bicycle.
When the Corporation meets on campus Oct. 12 and 13, President Blumstein will offer its members a plan to implement a need-blind admissions policy, she tells ACUP at its Oct. 2 meeting.
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.
Inquiring Minds: Howard Chudacoff on summer Olympics
The work of the controversial and influential Beat Generation writer William S. Burroughs will be the subject of a new exhibit at the John Hay Library.
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.
UFS expands use of Equal Exchange coffee supplied to campus.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich will deliver a Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture titled "Who Cares about Politics?" on Wednesday, Oct. 25, 2000, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
William Poole, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, will deliver a Bernard I. Fain Lecture titled "Confidence and Central Banking" on October 14, 2000.
People who find the Boy Scouts' practice of excluding gay people morallyoffensive should make their views clear through their own free expression andnon-association. The Supreme Court's decision settles a legal dispute infavor of the Boy Scouts. The court of public opinion remains open.
Psych prof. Rachel Herz explores the psychology of scent and memory
Investors must work through political system to get companies to behave ethically, former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich tells a conference on socially responsible investing. The conference is sponsored by the Values Initiative.
Jessica Casas and Heidi Hausman, both members of the class of 2002, have postpooned their studies to participate in Pole to Pole 2000, a project conceived as a way to initiate environmental and humanitarian projects worldwide.
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.
Inquiring minds: Wendy Schiller on the women's vote
More young American women are using contraceptives than a decade ago, particularly those who attend church regularly and have college-educated parents, according to a new study that examines changes between 1985 and 1995
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.
Off Hours: Ashley Feldman '04, bike restorer
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.
Professor David Estlund's commentary: Should we associate with the Boy Scouts?
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.
Professor Richard Fishman is promoting the sale of his students' artwork to University departments
George Washington may have never slept in Gardner House, but two first ladies have - and so have a host of other American and foreign dignitaries and VIPs.
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."
Inquiring Minds: David Kertzer on the beatification of Pope Piux IX
Over the past decade, University Food Services has experienced a decline in student interest in its jobs. To combat the trend, UFS has instituted innovative recruiting tactics to attract students to its work force.
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.
Beginning this semester, the obstetrician-gynecologist and two pediatric surgeons who performed the procedure, the first of its kind in the Northeast, will apply their multidisciplinary approach to medical education through the School of Medicine's new Program in Fetal Medicine.
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.
Evan Weiss, a student, traveled over the summer to research education in Palestine
Maria Pacheco, director of New England Equity Assistance Center, comments on recent news that two years after Californians voted to end bilingual education, standardized test scores show Spanish-speaking students improving in reading and other subjects.
Supported by a Royce Fellowship, Dai Shizuka '01 spent two months this summer categorizing the plants in a Costa Rican garden. Many of the plants are used for medicinal purposes.
poet-Prof. C.D. Wright won the Dorothea Lange/Paul Taylor prize for her book about inmates in La. prisons, written in collaboration with a documentary photographer.
FACES OF BROWN: Officer Spencer Haddow of Police and Security
Darrell West and students at the Taubman Center set out to answer that question last summer. They visited 1,813 Web sites operated by federal and state governments and governmental agencies, evaluated each for 27 distinct features features, summarized the best and worst features of each, then tabulated the results. Their conclusion: Government at all levels is not making full and effective use of commonly available information technology.
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.
Family members who are seeing loved ones through their final days should expect that pain can be controlled. The U.S. Health Care Financing Administration, which oversees all nursing homes in the country, should make pain a focus of state inspections of nursing homes.
OFF HOURS: Digital artist Geoff Surrette, senior academic secretary
Inquiring Minds: Q&A about AIDS with Ken Mayer
By converting some dorm space into triples and six Wriston libraries into rooms for four, the Office of Residential Life finds places for the growing number of students who want to live on campus.
Professor David Meyer commutes weekly between the University, where he is a faculty member in the departments of sociology and urban studies, and St. Louis, where he and his wife moved last year to be close to her new job.
For many visitors, the tour guide is their first encounter with a flesh-and-blood Brunonian (GSJ of Sept. 8, 2000
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.
A study led by Joan Teno, M.D., shows that more than one in three residents of Rhode Island now die in a nursing home - up from 19.5 percent just over a decade ago. The finding may force the state to confront the quality of its end-of-life care.
Research findings presented by Brown faculty and students at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association
Coverage of Opening Convocation, with an excerpt from keynote speaker Meera Viswanathan's address, "The Monumental Miniature."
Coverage of first faculty meeting of the year (9/5/00) includes special report from Blumstein, report from Presidential Search Advisory Committee, list of agenda items from Faculty Executive Committee
Freshmen move in, set up housekeeping in new surroundings.
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.
Thirty Ph.D. candidates considering careers outside academia enroll in three-week program offered through Career Services, Graduate School
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.
Opening Convocation Sept. 5 will welcome 1,420 members of the Class of 2004. Keynote speaker is Meera S. Viswanathan, associate professor of comparative literature and EastAsian studies. Article also includes statistics about freshman class. (GSJ of Sept. 1, 2000)
Jeffrey Hoffstein, Jill Pipher and Joseph H. Silverman believe they have built the world's fastest, smallest encryption system, which will make secure communications less expensive for manufacturers to build into consumer electronics. The three mathematicians were issued a patent for their company, NTRU.
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.
Elaine Bearer and colleagues record movement of herpes simplex virus in nerve cell. Understanding how a virus travels within the nerve cell may lead to better treatment and perhaps cures for potentially lethal viral infections, says Bearer. (GJS of Sept. 1, 2000)
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.
Ken Miller is an NCAA softball umpire in his off hours.
Caregivers who themselves have AIDS rarely take time out to get treatment for themselves, research shows; aging and asthma; bloodstream infections, fluconazole study; forceps delivery and mom's gas; preemies cognitive function; CO2 and ancient animals; grant to study adolescent depression; fission in electrons (GSJ of Sept. 1, 2000)
The neighborhoods of Providence have become classrooms for the students of Deborah Pacini Hernandez. The associate professor of American civilization and 20 students spent the spring semester interviewing the city's Latino residents for Hernandez' course, "Urban Borderlands: Latino Interactions," and as part of an oral history project for the Rhode Island Historical Society. (GSJ of Sept. 1, 2000)
At the Center for Behavioral and Preventive Medicine at The Miriam Hospital, researchers are recruiting participants for a study of whether regular exercise helps breast cancer survivors improve their well-being.
Inquiring Minds: Q&A with Steve Hamburg about wildfires raging in the west.
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.
A survey of 1,724 people who used the Providence Superior Court, District Court, Family Court, and Workers' Compensation Court examined racial and gender differences in views about court performance, fairness, personnel and processes.
Famed trial lawyer Johnnie L. Cochran Jr. – known for his defense of such high-profile clients as O.J. Simpson, Michael Jackson and Riddick Bowe – will deliver a John Hazen White Sr. Lecture Thursday, Sept. 7, 2000, in Sayles Hall.
In the last national election, four out of five potential voters aged 18 to 24 did not cast a vote. Voting among young persons has declined since 1972, when Congress extended the franchise. Campus Compact Executive Director Elizabeth Hollander argues that we must find a way to address civic disengagement among college-age voters.
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.
Interim President Sheila E. Blumstein will officially open the new academic year during the 237th Opening Convocation Tuesday, Sept. 5, 2000, at 11 a.m. on The College Green. Associate Professor of Comparative Literature Meera S. Viswanathan will be the keynote speaker for the ceremony.
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.
The recent work of German-born artist Stephan Balkenhol will be on exhibit at the David Winton Bell Gallery Sept. 9 through Oct. 29, 2000. Balkenhol is best known for his carved wooden sculptures of people and animals.
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.
Researchers who need to recruit subjects with particular illnesses go to great lengths to find the right people, even placing ads in newspapers. (The sports section works best, they say.)
Researchers who test promising new drugs in human subjects must follow closely reviewed protocols and gain approval from internal and external review boards.
Cranberry growers say the most useful view of their crops may be from miles overhead. NASA-sponsored remote sensing lets them identify diseases and other problems before they are visible to the naked eye in the bog.
"It's amazing how the ridiculously mundane can infiltrate culture Ð and even become iconic," says comic book collector Richard Roe.
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.
The 25th anniversary of the Sarah Doyle Women's Center has become a time to clarify its mission and services in response to changes in the women's movement.
There is an urgent need for more research on psychotropic drug use in very young children, says Henrietta Leonard, M.D., a practicing child and adolescent psychiatrist and a professor of psychiatry and human behavior in the School of Medicine. In fact, no research results support psychotropic drug treatment in preschoolers, she says.
Off Hours: Lynne Collinson, an executive assistant, is equally at home on stage as an actress or behind the scenes as a director.
Fifty college and university presidents will meet in Philadelphia June 26-27, 2000, to develop strategies for increasing civic engagement among the country's youth and to call upon U.S. presidential candidates to put the issue on the national agenda.
In ruling the Senate with an iron fist, Trent Lott is going far beyond the innocuous goal of achieving efficient government. The consequence of his actions, whether intended or not, are to undermine and weaken the very purpose of the Senate as an institution.
The West has maintained many myths about Hafez Assad, whose son is poised to take over the presidency of Syria after his recent death. Although in the west, Assad was generally seen as a hard-line enemy of Israel, he actually walked a very fine line, balancing support for Palestinians with restraint in attacking Israel. He was also seen as a repressive dictator, but his struggle to modernize the state was met by resistance from religious conservatives.
Highlights from Commencement/Reunion weekend
Faculty, staff, graduate students receive awards presented on Commencement Day
School of Medicine begins $70-million campaign.
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.
Physics professor J. Michael Kosterlitz received the 2000 Lars Onsager Prize of the American Physical Society for recognition of a controversial 1973 paper in which he and partner came up with a new definition of an ordered phase of matter.
Assistant professor Greg Landsberg's search for extra dimensions is attracting attention within the physics world and against the backdrop of a public that is fascinated by the ideas of poking through to extra dimensions and black holes.
A new study led by Damaris Rohsenow finds that low doses of alcohol may impair sailors who are unaware that their skills are diminished. In the study, two to three drinks significantly tarnished the performance of mariners who were adamant that they were not impaired.
Amy Rachel Greenwald, an assistant professor of computer science, works with what are called "intelligent automated software agents on the Internet." She researches how software that goes out to search for stuff "learns" every time you use it. Her analysis is based on "game theory" and other economic techniques.
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.
A survey of 329 Providence residents conducted May 6-9, 2000, finds they rate the Providence Place Mall highly even though it has fallen short of predictions for job creation and sales tax revenue. The survey also finds positive ratings for the job performance of Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., but his numbers are down from a year ago.
Promoting civic participation among young people is the subject of a three-day conference, June 15-17, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching on The College Green. The event is free and open to the public.
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.
Dean of Student Life Robin Rose will leave that position July 1, 2000, to become director of financial aid stewardship and dean on special assignment Jean Joyce-Brady, associate dean of student life, will serve as interim dean.
Ben Steinfeld, a junior concentrating in theater, has won the national Irene Ryan Acting Award from the American College Theater Festival.
Student orators have been selected for the past decade or more by a committee. Who selects, who coaches?
Graduates are heading to start-ups and dot-com companies, according to Career Services
Anthropology Professor William Beeman is editing seven works by anthropologist Margaret Mead in honor of her centennial.
A look at Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper, the physics professor who is always moving from one scientific venue to another. He won his Nobel in theoretical physics; now he's among the leading thinkers in brain science.
Graduate students in the physics department are showing teen-agers that high school science and math can lead them into powerful careers. The graduate students reach out through a federal fellowship programcalled Graduate Assistance in Areas of National Need.
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.
Recipients of the Joslin Awards, presented by Student Life Office, and other awards
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery will present a two-person exhibition, Sleight of Hand, featuring works by Holly Laws and Larimer Richards, from June 10 through July 9.
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.
Christine Coletta of Warwick, R.I., has been named the 2000 Vincent A. Cianci Jr. Urban Scholar. Coletta will begin a training program about turning vacant lots into urban gardens.
An updated Community Partnership Directory describes more than 220 community service initiatives between the University and community.
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.
Noted scholar and feminist Alice Shalvi will speak on the effects of feminism on Judaic life in Israel and the world beyond as part of the Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lectureship on Saturday, May 27.
The prescription drug Serzone, combined with psychotherapy designed specifically for chronic depression, produced an 85-percent response rate among 681 patients under treatment for chronic forms of major depression. The study appears in the current New England Journal of Medicine.
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.
New findings published in the current journal Addiction suggest that low doses of alcohol may impair sailors who are unaware that their skills are diminished.
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.
Included in ACUP's spring report to the president is its recommended distribution of an unallocated $450,000 in the FY01 budget, with $200,000 going toward the University's technology and information infrastructure, $100,000 for the library's acquisition budget, and $150,000 toward graduate student financial aid. During a portion of the meeting, a student group held a silent demonstration in support of a need-blind admissions policy.
WBRU was recently named News Station of the Year for Massachusetts and Rhode Island by the Associated Press. For the team of students from a university that doesn't offer a major in broadcast journalism, it's particularly sweet to beat competition from colleges that pride themselves on such programs.
Ben Steinfeld '01 has been named the winner of the Irene Ryan Winners' Circle best college actor award in the annual American College Theater Festival in Washington, D.C.
Low-skilled white high-school dropouts who pass the GED earn 10 to 19 percent more than those without the GED, according to a nationwide study of 80,000 people published in the spring Quarterly Journal of Economics.
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.
At their April 24 meeting, members of ACUP begin to determine their recommendations for budget priorities. Rising to the top of the committee's tentative list: information and technology infrastructure, library support and graduate financial aid.
The Committee on the Status of Women, a standing committee of the faculty, is working on a new Web site to provide information about everything from locating day care to choosing a doctor, and finding everything from a used couch to a summer camp.
Rabbi Alan Flam is leaving Brown and Hillel after 18 years of service.
Bell Gallery's annual faculty artist show includes Khalid Kodi's mixed-media work about Sudan, which iss but one example of art as political statement.
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.
Jon Witman and two doctoral candidates just returned from South Africa, where he completed sampling a biogeographic region of the world in his study of global patterns of marine species diversity.
ACUP hears an update from Bill Simmons regarding the status of relocating the Haffenreffer Museum to campus.
ACUP members at their April 17 meeting hear about possible changes in faculty and staff benefit packages and an update on the Campus Life Task Force work.
Finding the Words, a Swearer Center program run in partnership with CCRI and Hospice, helps families mourn and illustrates the grieving process to participating students.
Off Hours: Richard Gould, chair of anthropology department who specializes in underwater archaeology, is an aerobatist, piloting gliders and power planes through aerobatic moves.
Thomas Kniesche of German Studies responds to an April 7 Last Word on elimination of three graduate programs. With reference to online letters to the editor.
Women & Infants' Day Hospital opened in February through the efforts of Karen Rosene-Montella, M.D., associate professor of medicine and obstetrics and gynecology in the School of Medicine. The facility treats postpartum or pregnant women suffering from a range of psychiatric illnesses including depression, anxiety, and obsessive compulsive disorder.
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.
A multimedia exhibit features the work of 14 artists in the Departments of Visual Art and Modern Culture and Media now through May 30 at the David Winton Bell Gallery.
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.
The American West will be the featured topic April 27 when historian Ron Tyler discusses his work. Tyler's presentation, at 8 p.m. in the John Hay Library, marks the opening of an exhibition at the library drawn from the Ames Collection of Illustrated Books.
Of the 16,801 students who applied this year, only 2,541 received acceptance letters. They represent 15 percent of the pool of applicants who vied for acceptance to the Class of 2004, the lowest acceptance rate ever.
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.
Robert Hass, who as U.S. poet laureate championed the causes of literacy and environ-mentalism from 1995-97, will present a reading on Monday, May 8, at 7 p.m. in Salomon Center. His presentation is part of the President's Lecture Series.
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.
Samuel Shem, a.k.a. Stephen J. Bergman, author of two best-selling novels about the medical community, will present "How to Stay Human in Medicine: ÔThe House of God' and ÔMount Misery,'" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, May 3, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. His talk is free and open to the public.
Coverage of April 3 ACUP meeting on new resources, associated program costs, and need-blind admissions.
Deborah F. Tate, a graduate student in psychiatry and human behavior at the School of Medicine, is the lead researcher in a project that aims to find out whether interactive guidance through the Internet would help people lose weight.
On April 9, the Haffenreffer Museum opens its first major exhibition in many years. Called "Packrats for Posterity?," it examines the relevance of anthropology museums. It is being curated by graduate student Juliette Rogers.
Off Hours: Cardiologist Ara Sadaniantz, M.D. composes poems about matters of the heart. "As physicians, we observe so much of life, from the physiological to the psychological to the sociological," says Sadaniantz, associate professor of medicine in the School of Medicine. "Poetry is my way of expressing myself."
William Monroe of the University Library writes in support of University cuts of three graduate-level programs: Slavic, German and Italian.
LAST WORD: Don't equate the closing of three graduate programs with dismissing three great cultures, writes William Monroe, head of the University Library's Collections Department.
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.)
New York Times Washington correspondent Adam Clymer will discuss his recently released biography of Sen. Edward Kennedy at noon Monday, April 10, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. His talk will be followed by a book-signing.
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.
After a hearing on March 22, the University Disciplinary Council found that three male students had violated the University's disciplinary code during a Feb. 21 incident in a residence hall. Dean of the College Nancy Dunbar has reviewed the UDC's findings and has affirmed the recommended penalties, which range from sanction to expulsion.
Linda Greenhouse, who covers the U.S. Supreme Court for The New York Times, will present "Telling the Court's Story: The Role of Courts as Communicators" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, April 12, in Sayles Hall. The presentation is this year's Meiklejohn Lecture.
Frances Mayes, poet and author of the best-selling memoirs Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy and Bella Tuscany, will present a lecture titled "Finding the Rhythm of a Memoir" April 20, 2000, at 7 p.m. Her lecture is part of the President's Lecture Series.
In Motherloss, Lynn Davidman analyzes the impact of losing a mother during childhood. Based on interviews with 60 adults, Davidman provides an understanding of the need to talk about the death of this loved one.
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.
Ralph Reed, a presidential campaign advisor to Gov. George Bush, and Sen. Russell Fein-gold (D-Wis.) are among speakers during a three-day program entitled "Participatory Citi-zenship: First Steps into Politics." Reed will speak Thursday, March 16, and Feingold will speak Friday, March 17, both at 7 p.m. in Sayles Hall. All events of the three-day program, sponsored by the Robert Values Initiative, are free and open to the public.
Amiri Baraka, who gained prominence as an influential Beat poet and a leader in the black arts movement, will present a reading of his works on April 6 as part of the President's Lecture Series. He will be accompanied by Blue Ark, a six-person jazz ensemble.
Five U.S. college students will receive the Howard R. Swearer Student Humanitarian Award Thursday, March 16, 2000, in recognition of their commitment to public service and service learning.
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 site for the new Life Sciences Building has been approved and architect selection is under way, members of ACUP are told at their March 6 meeting.
In an effort to draw attention to the rising costs of subscriptions for scientific journals, the Science Library has hung red tags from science and medical journals with annual subscription rates of $1,000 or more.
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.
At its winter meeting Feb. 26 the Corporation approved a 3.9-percent increase in total undergraduate charges for the 2000-01 academic year, including a 4-percent increase in tuition. That overall increase is similar in percentage terms to increases in the previous two years.
Research in infants is more than child's play: two campus labs uncover what babies know and when they know it.
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
Novelist William Styron will present "Darkness Visible: The Loss and Recovery of Self" at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 5, 2000, in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Styron's address is the 2000 Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lecture. The event is free and open to the public.
The high court has decided to hear a case that could determine how society views pregnant women who use drugs and their babies. The problem of drug use by pregnant women is real, but it is not a criminal problem, writes Barry Lester. It is a mental health problem that can be treated. Criminalizing these women's actions will only further the stigma they face.
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.
Nationally known attorneys Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld and journalist Jim Dwyer will talk about miscarriages of justice and their new book, "Actual Innocence: Five Days to Execution and Other Dispatches from the Wrongly Convicted," on March 23, part of the President's Lecture Series.
ACUP meeting Feb. 14 looks ahead to spring semester priorities, which may include the capital budget and capital projects, need-blind admissions and graduate financial aid, campus life initiatives, and new revenue sources.
International Adoption Clinic opened by Boris Skurkovich, M.D., at Hasbro Children's Hospital offers medical insight for parents pursuing international adoption.
Celebration of Community luncheon keynote speaker is civil rights leader Bernard Lafayette, who traced the history of harm toward African Americans and how he devoted his life toward working for justice using methods of nonviolence.
Twenty-three Brown employees will receive special honors for their 25 years of service to the University at a campus ceremony Feb. 23
Sen. John McCain draws more support among Rhode Island voters than either Democratic presidential candidate, according to a new survey of 327 Rhode Island voters conducted Feb. 19-21, 2000. The survey also finds Sen. Lincoln Chafee ahead in his Senate race and Rep. Robert Weygand leading Richard Licht in the race for the Democratic Senate nomination. Many voters see racial tension as a big problem in Rhode Island and are less optimistic about the state's economy.
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.
Instructional technology presents challenges the University needs to grapple with, according to several committees on campus.
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.
Feb. 1 faculty meeting includes Provost Spoehr's report on progress of external reviews and the Academic Council's first outcome report, submitted to the modern languages and literatures cluster.
Harold Ward and a group of students from the Center for Environmental Studies compiled a report for the city of Providence that puts in one place for the first time information about environmental organizations, guidelines, help/assistance centers. The booklet helps put Providence a step closer to creating an environmental master plan for the city.
Annual Celebration of Community events Feb. 9 and Feb. 15
Off Hours: Joan Lusk and Karen Romer are both cello players
Borts, Goodwillie and Waage receive Sheridan Teaching Awards
A new report shows that given the opportunity, physicians are willing and eager to play a role in helping the uninsured.The document summarizes Reach Out, a program directed by H. Denman Scott of the School of Medicine.
The President's Achievement Award, which replaces the Brown Says Thank You! awards, will be presented May 12.
The Well Being is a newsletter written by students about health. Students facilitate focus groups to identify topics of interest and concern to community members. Past newsletters have focused on HIV/AIDS, alternative health, and cancer. Students work with community members to write, edt and design the newsletter.
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.
A new study will examine the combined effect of state-of-the-art counseling and medication to treat alcohol dependence
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
Changes inspired by the red tape reduction committee have drawn praise from many; latest initiative streamlines independent contractor policy, puts forms on Web; spring semester will bring centralized room reservation system and a second town meeting
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.
An entrepreneurship course in engineering is an effort of two professors who wanted to create something to prepare students for real-world experience, such technical marketing and business decision-making, and that would bridge the gap between a truly academic background and industry.
The faculty meeting of December hears an update about the new University museum to be built on campus and a presentation about the financing and programmatic goals of the Life Sciences Building
Faces of Brown: Sgt. Kevin Pepere, campus police officer
Nina Tannenwald of the Watson Institute has received a grant to explore how the UN casts certain weapons in unfavorable light, ie, land mines.
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.
A 17-member international panel of AIDS/HIV experts has reviewed existing treatment guidelines for people infected with HIV and announced new guidelines. The new guide-lines focus on individualized therapy, a greater choice of treatment regimens, and en-hanced patient adherence to the prescribed treatment regimen. The new guidelines appear in the January 19, 2000, issue of The Journal of the American Medical Association.
Russia has a new acting president, but only the barest biographical facts are known about him in the West. Vladimir Putin's writings, however, may offer a few hints to the type of policies he may try to pursue. To judge by a recent essay published under his name, change will be gradual: There are to be no more sharp breaks.
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.
The David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center will exhibit A Measured Quietude: Contemporary Irish Drawings beginning Jan. 29. The exhibition will feature nine artists from the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland. The show continues through March 12.
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.
Coverage of the Nov. 22 ACUP meeting on classrooms and deferred maintenance issues.
Adam Fontecchio and Mike Escuti have created a device to capture comet dust. The payload will be aboard a Viper Rocket to be launched in Charlestown Nov. 18. RI schoolkids will be at the launch. The payload will deploy a capture device and fall back through the Leonid meteors trail, collecting dust and then closing up. After landing, the device will be recovered so that the grad students can analyze any particles.
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
Coverage of Values Initiative forum presented by President Gee and Nancy Rosenblum
Behind the scenes of "Artistic License," the latest Brownbrokers production, and interview with director Christopher Hayes
Coverage of the Nov. 29 ACUP meeting on faculty salary issues.
Library, CIS present their technology issues to ACUP at its Nov. 15 meeting
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.
Nina Tannenwald, assistant professor at the Watson Institute for International Studies, is studying why some weapons are banned and some aren't. She has been awarded a $73,000 grant from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation.
Adolescents with serious behavioral problems are seven times more likely to be dependent on alcohol or illicit drugs, writes Dr. David C. Lewis. But rather than provide them with needed treatment, our policy toward their misbehaviors, however egregious, has become more and more punitive (distributed November 1999).
A pregnant woman's substance abuse problem is not a criminal one. It is a mental health problem that needs to be treated and prevented like any other health problem such as hypertension, says Barry Lester, professor of psychiatry and human behavior. Dismissing the similarities between these two health problems is a symptom of the stigma associated with drug use (distributed November 1999).
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
Lester Feder 01, a Royce Fellow, was an apprentice to Del Rey, a blues guitarist from Seattle. His project involved doing research on blues history, helping Rey's producer and agent create an album, and taking guitar lessons.
Interview with Sarah Wells '01, Royce Fellow who created literacy program for second-language learners using poetry as the curriculum.
Interview with Stuart Altman in advance of his lecture Dec. 2
Interview with Jane Brody in advance of her lecture Dec. 8, titled "Taking Charge of Your Life"
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.
Letter from Irkutsk by history graduate student Andrew Gentes looks at a true Soviet holdout.
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.
An oversight that left faculty out of the approval process for the new Brain Science Program will be rectified in December. Several faculty members raised the oversight with President Gee during the Nov. 2 faculty meeting. Gee and others apologize for the oversight.
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.
Off Hours: Jill Lawlor, assistant director and opera singer who is sharing her passion for the art with others through her work with Beavertail Opera Productions.
Brown researchers receive a grant to pursue teachable moments in the emergency room with patients who arrive w/ heart problems who also smoke.
Center for the Study of American Civilization helps young scholars answer the question "What next?" With a look at the work and research being done by one research fellow in particular, Justin Wolff, whose fellowship was critical for his new publication on corporealism in antibellum visual culture.
Arundhati Roy, an award-winning Indian novelist, will speak as part of a South Asian Student Association conference at 7 p.m. Friday Nov. 19 at the First Baptist Church in America. She is the author of the best selling book, "The God of Small Things."
Kathryn Spoehr is appointed the new provost at faculty meeting Nov. 2
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
New report in JAMA on use of treadmills in the home and long-term weight loss in women.
The Materials Research Science and Engineering Center is introducing scientific principles to groups of area teen-agers
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.
Interview with graduate playwriting student Sarah Ruhl, whose "Passion Play" will be performed in Leeds.
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
A look at the brain science program, which received a $2 million grant to help launch it
Researchers at the Watson Institute are working to improve the effectiveness of U.N. sanctions on countries that violate international norms.
OFF HOURS: Carole Costello, dinner theater actress, singer and administrative assistant in Am Civ
The Providence Place Mall will be a living laboratory for an American Civilization course taught by Susan Smulyan.
Research grant for $11.9 million will investigate three generations of smokers.
Preparations for the Icelandic "Voyages Festival," at which the president of Iceland, who will be delivering an Ogden Lecture around the same time, will be the honored guest.
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg will discuss "The Supreme Court: A Place for Women" on Wednesday, Nov. 17, 1999, at 4 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. Her presentation is the annual Noah Krieger '93 Memorial Lecture, sponsored by the A. Alfred Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions.
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
In a recent study of 115 overweight women, participants with home exercise equipment lost twice as much weight as those without the equipment. The findings were published in the Oct. 27 Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
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."
This academic year marks the 25th anniversary of the graduation of the first MD class from the School of Medicine. In that time, the medical school has had a profound impact on the University and the health of Rhode Islanders. With information about contributions made during the 25 years; several special lectures.
Several special collections and courses on campus take a scholarly look at the spooky, the mysterious and the occult.
John Sedivy and Kam Yeung of the Department of Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry discovered a new mechanism of mammalian cell division - signaled by a molecule called Raf kinase inhibitor protein (RKIP). RKIP represents a powerful weapon against cancerous cells because at high intracellular levels, it prevents a cell from dividing, and thus cancer from growing.
Deepak Chopra, physician, best-selling author and leader in the field of mind-body medicine, will deliver a President's Lecture to open Asian American History Month at 8 p.m. Monday, Nov. 1, 1999, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
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.
University organist Mark Steinbach will present a recital of spooky music at midnight on Sunday, Oct. 31, Halloween. The free concert will feature music by Bach, Saint Sa‘ns and Gounod and will take place in Sayles Hall.
Olafur Ragnar Grimsson, president of Iceland, will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture Thursday, Nov. 4, at 6:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The lecture is free and open to the public.
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.
Peter Wegner's accident and amazing recovery.
Brown's math and applied math departments will be strengthened with a grant of $2.8 million from the National Science Foundation (NSF).
A behind-the-scenes look at the costume shop and its work to prepare "A Flea in Her Ear."
The Boat of My Life, a 58-foot handcrafted wooden boat by Russian-born artist Ilya Kabakov, will have its Northeast premire at the David Winton Bell Gallery in the List Art Center beginning Nov. 13, 1999. The sculptural installation will be on display through Dec. 31.
International financier and philanthropist George Soros will deliver theinaugural Chong Wook Lee and Vartan Gregorian Distinguished Lecture at 4 p.m.Wednesday, Oct. 20, 1999, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
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.
Q&A with Martha Minow of Harvard Law, who will be presenting three lectures and a symposium on campus Oct. 19, 26, Nov. 2 and Nov. 19, on "Breaking the Cycle of Hatred," which will examine hate crimes and the laws that focus on such crimes.
Folk tunes from around the world will be performed at a special Parents Weekend concert in the Solomon Center for Teaching at 8 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 16. The concert will feature compositions inspired by songs from Sweden, Korea, Great Britain and other countries.
A research team is creating new software to help archaeologists reassemble complex objects from images of unearthed fragments and pieces. The work is funded by a $1.25-million grant from the National Science Foundation.
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.
Update of status of Circular A-110 research issue.
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 survey of 363 Rhode Island voters conducted September 25-27, 1999, finds VicePresident Al Gore and former Sen. Bill Bradley almost tied for the Democraticpresidential nomination. It also finds a close race for Rhode Island'sU.S. Senate seat, high marks for Providence Mayor Vincent A. Cianci Jr., and adrop in consumer confidence about the state'seconomy.
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.
Interview w. Gee re: his focus for the coming academic year -- new financial infrastructure, new vice president of student affairs/campus life
Interview with Natalie Reid, Watson Institute researcher who spent two weeks in East Timor observing referendum
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.
A blue and gray triple-decker apartment house will be relocated from the East Side to its new location in South Providence beginning at daybreak Sunday, Sept. 26. Traveling at 2 miles per hour, the journey will take an estimated 12-14 hours to complete.
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.
Federal Judges Joseph Tauro and Bruce Selya and Rhode Island Superior Court Judge Rogeriee Thompson will share views on affirmative action during "Justice for All: Affirmative Action and the American Ideal," a panel discussion taking place at 5 p.m. Monday, Sept. 27, 1999, in Starr Auditorium.
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.
The first year of external reviews of academic departmental clusters is now finished. This is the first of a three-year project. Reviews slated for the 1999-2000 academic year will be for the physical sciences and regional programs.
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.
Rites and Reason, with Lifespan and the Heart Association, are producing play about African American women and heart disease. The production will tour the state in September.
An exhibition featuring painted portraits of the Medici family will open at the David Winton Bell Gallery beginning Sept. 18. The free exhibition, "Crafting the Medici: Patrons and Artisans in Florence, 1537-1737," is made possible by the contributions of the Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy, which loaned the paintings to the gallery.
Two rising stars of Indian classical music Ð Krishna Mohan Bhatt, sitar, and Sandip Burman, tabla Ð will be in concert at 5 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 25, 1999, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
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.
Summer sees shift in senior officials, search for new provost is under way.
Moving out of the house and in to the dorms is the first order of business for many families.
Streets near campus will close for Gravity Games.
OFF HOURSL Sgt. Tony Leite of Police and Security will be participating in a three-day Boston to New York City bike ride to raise funds for AIDS research. Ride is Sept. 16-18.
The Class of 2003 by the numbers, as well as the info on opening convocation with speaker David Lewis.
Riding the RIPTA trolley, which serves Brown area and connects downtown and the new mall to campus.
Results of SAC Town Fair "balloting" held during Staff Development Day.
Study by medical school faculty member McQuaid of asthmatic teens' use of their medication.
Rhett Jones writes commentary about growing up black in the South and racism that still exists in Rhode Island.
A new study, funded by $2.3 million from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, will chronicle what it's like to die in the United States. Findings will be published for consumers and policy-makers and posted on the World Wide Web.
Episode five of the CNN presentation Millennium will premire at 5:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 30, 1999, in the Starr Auditorium of the MacMillan Science Building. Millennium is a 10-hour documentary series that takes a sweeping look at events, culture and people that have sculpted the world during the past 1,000 years.
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.
"Heart to Heart (Ain't Your Life Worth Saving?)," an original drama set in Providence, is designed to educate women of color to the warning signs and symptoms of cardiovascular disease. The free touring production will be staged at 11 sites throughout Rhode Island and will include free health screenings for audience members.
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.
Provost William S. Simmons will undertake a new assignment as senior vice president for academic outreach and affiliated programs, effective July 31, 1999. Dean of the Faculty Kathryn Spoehr will serve as interim provost.
Young people are not using inhalers prescribed to prevent asthma, and many children and parents know little about their asthma medications, say two studies.
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.
Vanessa Jennings, who restores Native American cradles, comes to the Haffenreffer to refurbish some of the museum's collection before it heads out on a national tour. (GSJ of July 9, 1999)
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.
Off Hours -- John J. Stein, neuroscientist and bicycle racer.
Deaf Literacy Program, run out of the Swearer Center, teaches the deaf and hard of hearing
Taking a look at the Orwig Music Library's unique James Koetting Ethnomusicology Archives
Sergei Khrushchev will be sworn in as a U.S. citizen at 2 p.m. July 12 in Providence. He and his wife, Valentina Golenko, will be sworn in with 250 other people at Bishop McVinney Auditorium in Providence.
At a meeting in Colorado, 51 college presidents challenged their colleagues across the country to assess civic involvement on their own campuses and to take action against a growing trend toward civic disengagement among college-age people.
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 survey of 357 Rhode Island voters conducted June 12-14, 1999, finds U.S. Rep. Robert Weygand leading Warwick Mayor Lincoln Chafee in the U.S. Senate race, but independent candidate Arlene Violet is making it close. The survey also asked voters about the Quonset Point Port, a tax cut for the rich, and a close race for a Narragansett gambling casino.
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.
The Stephen Robert Initiative for the Study of Values is a campuswide initiative to promote sustained, focused study and discussion of fundamental human values. It was announced at a Commencement Forum.
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.
A study led by Dr. Martin Keller shows that Serzone, an antidepression drug, combined with psychotherapy is much more effective than either the medication or therapy alone for treating chronic depression.
Excerpts from some of the Commencement/Reunion forums.
Excerpts from Ogden Lectures, Baccalaureate speech presented during Commencement/Reunion weekend.
Overseen and overheard during Commencement weekend.
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.
Herschel Grossman offers a Last Word commentary about kleptocratic ruling elites and notes that the situation in Kosovo is no different than other revolutions involving elite factions.
More than 60 college and university presidents Ð a cross-section of American higher education Ð will meet at the Aspen Institute June 29 to July 1, 1999, to address the need for civic renewal. They will issue a formal challenge to the nation's campuses: Take action against growing civic disengagement among college-age people. The meeting is sponsored by Campus Compact, the American Council on Education and the Aspen Institute.
News directors and station managers: Please consider running this PSA through Wednesday noon, July 7. If you have any questions, please call Kathy Sweet, Office of Summer Studies, at (401) 863-7903.
The Summer Theatre program will present "As Bees In Honey Drown," "The Last Night of Ballyhoo" and "Privates Eyes" in celebration of its 30th anniversary season. The laughter begins June 22 and continues through August 7 in the Leeds Theatre of the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts.
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.
Honorary degree recipients are Brian Dickinson, James Friedman, John Glenn, John Hume, Ruth Kirschstein, Queen Noor of Jordan, Romano Prodi, William Raspberry, Steven Spielberg and Julia Taft
The Class of 1999 will scatter all over the world after Commencement. Some will go into directing, others will try to get their own businesses off the ground, still others will head into the Peace Corps
Anecdotal evidence from Career Services indicates that entrepreneurship is hot for many graduates of the Class of 1999
Students in two engineering classes build a hovercraft. Professor Hazeltine and others take it for a test drive around Barus & Holley and pronounce it "awesome."
New computer visualization "cave" creates virtual reality for researchers. The lab "is based on the idea that it is easier to understand how something works or is put together if you can hold it in your hand or walk around inside it."
Teaching awards to be presented at Commencement ceremonies
Students in Julio Ortega's Spanish literature classes create imaginative artwork as part of their coursework
The stained glass windows by LaFarge are restored and replaced in Maddock Alumni Center
Commencement Forums will be held Saturday, May 29.
Queen Noor of Jordan will deliver an Ogden Lecture to coincide with the groundbreaking for the new headquarters of the Watson Institute
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.
The protein agrin could play a distinctive role both in the early and later stages of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
The protein agrin could play a distinctive role both in the early and later stages of Alzheimer's disease, according to a new study in the current Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Queen Noor of Jordan will deliver a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture Sunday, May 30, as part of groundreaking ceremonies for the new home of the Watson Institute for International Studies. The Queen will speak at 11:30 a.m. on The College Green.
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.
Preliminary results from the largest study undertaken of medication alone, psychotherapy alone and a combination of the two, to treat chronic depression, show a mixture of medication and psychotherapy works best.
A new analysis of a 1996 survey of 4,682 Rhode Islanders found nearly one in four experience some type of limitation in functioning. Researchers concluded that one of the most effective ways to reduce disability is to improve high school graduation rates.
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.
A Bell Gallery exhibition will show work by painter Irene Lawrence and sculptor Barbara Westermann. (Im)Mobile Spaces will open Friday, June 11, 1999, with a free public reception beginning at 5:30 p.m. The display will continue through Sunday, July 11.
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.
Roger Blumberg teaches CS92, "Educational Software," in which students create educational computer games for use in public schools around RI. Games include "Pizarro's Haunted Mansion," "Campaign Trail," "States of Matter," "Rima the Rat."
Three new Brown studies point to the crucial role pediatricians can play ingetting parents to read aloud to their children.
OFF HOURS: Marcus Civin '99 coordinates the youth programs at Project New Urban Arts, which allows young college artists to develop relationships with young high school and middle school artists. Project New Urban Arts also has a gallery that exhibits youth and local Providence artists.
Update on Access RI report from Ross Cheit class. This year's report examines town and city compliance with Open Records laws.
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.
Two traditional dances that capture the spirit of Mali, West Africa, will be featured at the Spring Concert presented by the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance in the Stuart Theatre of the Catherine Bryan Dill Center for the Performing Arts. The program, which runs May 5-9, 1999, will also showcase modern, jazz and tap selections.
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.
About 230 prospective members of the Class of 2003 took the "A Train" from Washington, D.C., to Providence April 13 for A Day on College Hill.
History Professor Howard Chudacoff has written a new book, "The Age of the Bachelor," in which he examines the heyday of the lifestyle.
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a lecture series.
Visiting professors, lecturers and researchers add spice to the faculty mix. Most visiting faculty are brought in to fill open teaching or research slots. They spice up the academic environment with new ideas; many get long looks by departments conducting national searches to fill permanent positions.
James Ron, postdoctoral research fellow at Watson Institute who has researched ethnic clensing, went to Albania for nine days to interview Kosovar refugees on behalf of Human Rights Watch
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.
Harry Holzer, chief economist for the U.S. Department of Labor, and local experts will examine minority hiring trends and other employment issues nationally and in Rhode Island on Wednesday, April 28, at 8 p.m. The presentation is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America.
Coverage of April 6 faculty meeting at which provost Simmons announces creation of a new panel to review all departments' annual budget requests. The new panel is called the Provost's Planning Committee.
Miss Rhode Island Latina is Dilania Inoa '99, a Latin American studies student
Vartan Gregorian Quadrangle dedicated
Off Hours: Jonathan Bender ('00, Biomedical Ethics) and Gabriel Kuriloff ('00.5, Urban Studies and Undergraduate Teacher Education in English) co-owners/managers of Fruit and Rally, on-campus fresh fruit and produce pick-up service.
Engineering professor Greg Crawford left corporate world of Xerox for the promise of collaboration in academia. He is a specialist in liquid crystal displays.
Three graduate students in anthropology department's museum studies program help Rehoboth museum revive itself.
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.
How the admissions office selects the Class of 2003. Behind the scenes at one of the meetings at which candidates are reviewed. Seventeen officers pondered 14,749 applications to come up with 2,483 people who were offered a place in the upcoming class.
University's academic departments are being reviewed through a new system called cluster reviewing. The system looks at groups of related departments not only to review their progress individually but also to determine how effectively they interact with each other. All are external reviews.
PSA: News directors and station managers: The Search Committee for the new Superintendent of Providence Public Schools asks your help in notifying residents about the following community meeting. This PSA should run through Tuesday, April 20. If you have any questions, please call Kate Wilson at (401) 863-9485. (Also distributed in Spanish by Marie Rose.)
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)
RUE student Darren Jorgensen grew up on welfare and was told he didn't belong in college. He lived in Bagdad as part of UNSCOM. He saw such poverty and hopelessness in the children there that when he left, he vowed to get an education.
The Renn Mentoring Program pairs gay/lesbian/bisexual/transgendered students with gay/lesbian faculty/staff mentors who provide counsel, a sounding board, etc. in a framework that is relevant to the students' orientation.
Ruth Iris Bahar, assistant professor of engineering in electrical engineering, has received an NSF grant given to promising young researchers and another grant for women in the sciences. Her research focuses on computer design technology.
Research notes: Magnetic field induces changes at the cellular level in embryonic frogs; Body Dysmorphic Disorder study of teens
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.
LAST WORD - Language crimes: A lesson in how not to write, courtesy of the professors. Essay by Denis Dutton, who each year holds a Bad Writing Contest. Nominations come from academia. Reprint from February Wall Street Journal.
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.)
Seth Andrew, of Providence, Jonathan Mooney, of Culver City, Calif., and Katherine Weisburd, of Philadelphia, are among 65 college students nationwide to receive 1999 Truman Scholarships. This year, 656 college students applied for the awards.
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 new study of 33 children and adolescents with body dysmorphic disorder Ð the largest study ever conducted on this age group Ð found subjects dropping out of school, becoming reclusive and attempting suicide.
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.
New study by sociologist Chloe Bird suggests that women who carry the bulk of the housework burden have higher incidence of depression.
UCS sponsors "The Ultimate Forum" March 8 at which Gee, Dunbar, Joyce-Brady, Reaves, Simmons and Holmes will be available for 2 hours of Q&A to all comers. UCS says this is a first.
A new treatment for drug-induced psychosis in patients with Parkinson's disease is reported by Joseph Friedman, MD, of the medical school.
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 Search Committee for the next superintendent of Providence public schools will hold public meetings March 23, 24, and 25, 1999, to gather views of the Providence community. A survey will also be distributed to gather additional information for the search. (See also the Public Service Announcement, 98-094a)
Working women and homemakers alike are depressed when their husbands don't share the housework, says a study of 1,256 adults in the March Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
Faculty members voted to eliminate a long-standing medical degree requirement after School of Medicine officials described it as unfair to learning-disabled students and unnecessary. The proposal now goes to the Board of Fellows for a final decision. If approved, students will not have to pass the second part of the Medical Licensing Examination to receive an MD.
The Web Advisory Committee is tripling in size to represent all areas of the University and tackle issues that were not even a thought when it was formed a few years ago.
William Curtin, Alan Needleman and Rob Phillips in engineering received a grant from the Department of Defense to lead a five-university project that will develop computer simulations to predict the mechanical properties of potential high-tech materials. The research will focus on what happens when the materials fail, particularly the behavior of individual atoms and their electrons.
Ryan Firestone '97 and Gidon Felsen '98 are walking across the country. They started out in Florida in September and hope to reach California by August. Along the way, the walkers file electronic newsletters.
A wide array of art will be featured during the 1999 Juried Student Exhibition opening March 15 in the David Winton Bell Gallery of the List Art Center. The annual exhibition will continue through April 4.
"Fair Play or Foul Ball," a symposium exploring ethics in sports, will be held April 9-10 in the Salomon Center for Teaching. The two-day meeting will feature a leading sports ethicist, nationally recognized sportswriters, commentators, coaches and athletes examining the social values of sports.
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.
Welsh writer and physician Dannie Abse will read selections of his writings and speak about his life as a doctor and poet at the 1999 Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Lecture. The presentation will take place at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 7, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
A survey of 324 Providence residents conducted March 6-8, 1999, found a large majority approves of the job Mayor Cianci, police and firefighters are doing. Public schools, street repairs and taxes fared worse. The city's biggest problem: its public schools.
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.
Bob Welsh, whose daughter was killed in the Oklahoma City bombing, will share his feelings about the death of his child, about Timothy McVeigh and about the death penalty on Monday, March 15, at 7 p.m. in MacMillan Hall. Welsh will be the featured speaker at a forum, "Murder: Should We Seek Vengeance or Healing?"
A virtual reality lab in Metcalf Research Laboratory has opened. It is being used to test how humans and robots learn to navigate new environments. It is under the direction of professors in cognitive and linguistic sciences and computer sciences.
Zaid Ashai '99 went to Bosnia over winter break to do research and humanitarian work. (His honors thesis is on the implementation effort of the Dayton Peace Accords.) In Bosnia he interviewed officials from the general of the Bosnian Armed Forces to the Deputy Foreign Minister of Bosnia, and came face-to-face with refugees. He has started an aid drive to help the refugees.
Which movies or actors are you rooting for when the Academy Awards are presented March 21?
panel on "Women's Health: Critical Issues, New Frontiers."
The Last Word: Using tobacco settlement funds to save lives in Rhode Island, by David B. Abrams
Factors beyond the control of city planners are important to computer companies, according to a study of 317 cities from 1977 to 1992, published in the February European Economic Review.
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.
The Ivy-Plus Virtual Career Fair is an on-line week-long event through which employers in diverse fields from around the country can recruit some of the best liberal arts graduates in the world.
The Advisory Committee on University Planning (ACUP) presents its budget recommendations for 1999-2000 to President Gee and the Corporation
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.
RESEARCH issue: Faculty members talk about the benefits of having undergraduates participate "eyeball to eyeball" on research in their labs.
for RESEARCH section: Franco Capaldi '99, a mechanical engineering student, works in Barus & Holley where he is doing graduate-level work on the stresses of thin films and coatings.
for RESEARCH section: Mohsin Malik '01 is using computer design to create nondescript creatures for use in research about how the brain learns to recognize people.
RESEARCH issue: Faculty members talk about how teaching undergraduates inthe classroom enhances the research endeavor.
for RESEARCH section: Virali Gokaldas '99, student in environmental science and comparative literature, is doing research using remote sensing data to examine land use in a semi-arid region of Southern California.
for RESEARCH issue: Eric Serrano '99 is gathering bits of data from databases in his cancer research.
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.
Time is running out for the comment period on a federal law that could force disclosure of once-confidencial research data. Revisions to Circular A-110 appeared in the Federal Register Feb. 4 and are subject to a 60-day comment period ending April 5.
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.
Excerpts from a Commencement Forum delivered by King Hussein of Jordan at 1985's Commencement
A paleontological study in the Feb. 26 issue of Science shows that modern mammals probably originated no later than 65 to 75 million years ago, not 130 million years as indicated by molecular geneticists, and that the fossil record during this period is at least 10 times better than molecular geneticists have suggested.
Initiated by two undergraduates, the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program has attracted about 140 students in its first semester.
Robert Putnam, who has written extensively on community involvement and civic responsibility, will discuss "Civic Engagement in America: Trends and Challenges" on Thursday, March 11, at 6:30 p.m. His lecture is the first public component of a new University initiative called The Presidential Seminar, which is exploring how the University can serve the public good.
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.
Best known for his futuristic novel A Clockwork Orange, British novelist Anthony Burgess was also a prolific composer. A concert showcasing his chamber music will take place at 8 p.m. Friday, Feb. 26, 1999, in Grant Recital Hall. The free concert will premire several works for piano solo, chamber group and voice.
A five-year, $1.6-million study of child disability will draw on the experiences of Rhode Island families to strengthen questions on surveys mandated by the Americans with Disabilities Act.
The diagnosis of head trauma caused by abuse was not recognized in 54 of 173 young children seen by doctors. The study, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, also finds that the injuries were more likely to be unrecognized in very young white children from two-parent families.
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.
A dog who visits chemotherapy patients at Women and Infants Hospital is just one of the complementary care services offered to women treated in the hospital's gynecological oncology chemotherapy unit. The services are not billed as alternative medicine designed to improve patient outcomes but considered therapies to enrich the quality of life for those undergoing treatment.
The Community Directors Program places graduate students in undergraduate dorms. The graduate students support the undergraduate residential programmers and counselors, and provide counseling themselves, and serve as a liaison between undergraduates and deans.
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.
Rep. John Lewis, the Georgia Democrat who has been described as "one of the most courageous persons the civil rights movement ever produced," will deliver the third annual Noah Kreiger Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 16.
New research reported in the Jan. 28 issue of Nature provides insights into a fundamental part of normal brain development. The wrong kind of sensory stimulation is worse than no stimulation at all.
"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.
Student entrepreneurs Evan Geller and David Cohen create the Entrepreneurship Program, a partnership with faculty and alumni to support and mentor students who want to create their own companies. Over the course of the semester, participants will learn how to develop marketing strategies, form a team to run the business, and raise capital.
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
Joan Teno, M.D., leads a new statewide coalition that received a six-month planning grant of $70,000 to improve end-of-life care in the state.
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.
A survey of 313 Rhode Island voters conducted Jan. 30-31, 1999, finds a strong preference for censure of President Clinton rather than removal. The survey also finds Sen. John Chafee ahead of Secretary of State James Langevin in the U.S. Senate race.
University researchers sound an alarm in the wake of a provision to revise Circular A-110, which sets many of the guidelines for federally sponsored research. The revision would require federal agencies to ensure that all research data produced under federal grants be made available to the public through procedures under the Freedom of Information Act.
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.
Review of first year of SAC (Staff Advisory Committee) members, along with call for nominations.
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.
OFF HOURS: Marge Thompson, associate dean of biology and adjunct faculty member in bio/pathology, makes "biologically correct" pins and biological clocks.
Susan Smulyan of American civilization worked with museum designers and teachers of middle and high school social studies, science and vocational education to create "Whole Cloth," a Smithsonian Web-based site of lesson plans and activities to help classroom teachers cast American industrialization as a process whose origins long predate the Civil War.
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.
Selections from the Women Writers Project. Created in 1986 as a project and funded by National Endowment for the Humanities as an electronic archive in 1988, the WWP textbase contains nearly 250 encoded texts of all genres, including poems, sermons, prayers, prose, drama and letters. So, what was on women's minds 200-plus years ago?
The art of Japanese-American painter Masami Teraoka is being showcased at the David Winton Bell Gallery through March 7 in "Masami Teraoka: From Tradition to Technology, the Floating World Comes of Age." The retrospective includes more than 30 works that survey the artist's production from 1974 to the present.
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 Staff Advisory Committee has recommended to Gee action on six employee concerns; Gee approved five: expanding the Employee Education Program; implementing campuswide use of a single performance evaluation form; a staff public service initiative; and changes in HR policies on pay practices and flextime.
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.
A group of 10 students are the first selected to be presidential hosts, who will be the University's ambassadors at Gee-sponsored events and elsewhere.
Brown co-sponsors the Rhode Island Legislative Policy Institute for new state legislators and others. They gather for panel sessions on health and education.
Bryant Currie, a manager in University Food Services and a graduate of Johnson & Wales University, is a featured chef on Ch. 10 cooking segments
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.
Peter Schultz and a colleague have a report in Science on a vein of glass in mountains in Argentina that appear to have been formed by the impact of a meteor about 3 million years ago. At the same time,numerous species of mammals disappeared.
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.
Off Hours: Stained glass artist Alice Pate, a customer service representative in CIS
Coverage of Research Symposium on Mental Health Sciences. Featured are Rena Wing talking about weight loss.
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.
Pathology Professor Elaine Bearer is also a composer. She has written a new choral piece called "Magdalene Passion," based on poetry by ninth-century abbess named Kasia. The piece will be performed in spring 1999 by Providence Singers.
A paper in Science magazine proposes that a major ecosystem-altering asteroid or comet impact took place 3.3 million years ago Ð a geologically recent time Ð in what is now Argentina.
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.
New program through Education Alliance helps Southeast Asians become teachers by offering financial assistance and mentoring to help address diversity issues in Providence public schools.
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.
Amateur archaeologists with enough curiosity can scout areas in their own backyards for likely sites to excavate or can volunteer to work with an organized dig.
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.
New York Times columnist Frank Rich will present a President's Lecture Wednesday, Dec. 9, at 6:30 p.m. in Salomon Center, room 101.
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.
A national team of researchers led by Dr. Martin Keller has published the first study that suggests an effective drug treatment - sertraline, sold under the brand name Zoloft - for chronically depressed patients.
Brown members of Oxfam and their Marble Project are featured in Washington, DC, to kick off Oxfam fast.
A new study shows that sertraline is safe and effective for treating chronic forms of depression. The research, directed by Martin B. Keller, M.D., and reported in the latest Journal of the American Medical Association, complements similar findings in the Nov. issue of the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry.
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)
Mara Liasson, who covers the White House for National Public Radio (NPR), presents a John Hazen White lecture that takes a look at the 1998 election results and the fates of President Clinton and Newt Gingrich. (GSJ of Nov. 13, 1998)
Royce Fellow Kate Weisburd '00 is investigating the status and legal compliance report of the Rhode Island Training School's non-compliance with a federal court order. She is using statistical and documentary data to create a portrait of current conditions of confinement and will compare these findings with legal standards in support of a federal class-action suit. (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.
The annual Leonid meteor showers are especially heavy every 33 years. Although this month's display, Nov. 16-18, will most likely be viewed best in Eastern Asia, local skywatchers may see up to 60 per hour.
A new program at Brown University will increase the number of Southeast Asian teachers in Rhode Island, an underrepresented population in the school systems.
Thirty-five years after John F. Kennedy's assassination on Nov. 22, Max Holland seeks to shed new light on the Warren Commission's findings by examining the personalities of the men that made up that seven-member panel.
The fall issue of "Challenge Journal," a publication of the Annenberg Challenge, offers examples of how learning has improved in Challenge schools that use funds to create local collaborations with arts organizations. Experiences in Challenge schools seem to confirm government-sponsored research that found student understanding increases when the arts are used to teach academic subjects.
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.
New concentration called Public and Private Sector Organizations will replace Organizational Behavior and Management.
The Scholarly Technology Group (STG) teams up with South Kingstown high school students to create a new Web project: "The Whole World Was Watching: An Oral History of 1968."
A look at the thriving International Relations concentration offered through the Watson Institute through the eyes of Michael Bhatia '99, who recently addressed UN committee about refugees in Western Sahara.
Kenneth Miller and three other faculty members share their ideas about ways to make large lecture courses effective learining environments. The forum is sponsored by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning.
Don't remove helmets, pads from football players who may have suffered spinal injuries on the playing field, says a group of researchers led by Mark A. Palumbo.
Lauren Gaffney '02 has created a Web site to help youngsters take action against AIDS. The organization she founded is called Kids-CAN.
Juan JosŽ Bremer, ambassador of Mexico to Spain and former ambassador of Mexico to the Soviet Union, presents his insider view of the collapse of the USSR at a campus lecture.
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.
President Gee approves proposals from the Red Tape Reduction and Administrative Savings Committee to simplify the hiring process, travel policy and room reservation system. Some of the changes will be implemented immediately.
Jon Witman of Ecology and Environmental Biology is sampling biodiversity at six places around the globe. Since his youth, the ocean has shaped his thinking about his own environmental ethic.
Steve Reich, "perhaps the greatest living composer and a very prestigious guest," is coming to campus for three days of teaching and performing.
Silvia Gennari, a graduate student in cognitive and linguistic sciences, spent a summer recording alligator noises in Florida. Her work was as a research assistant who is investigating a correlation between the size of the animals and the sound quality of their bellows.
Organizational Behavior and Management, long one of the University's most popular undergraduate concentrations, will be replaced by a new course of study titled Public and Private Sector Organizations. The new concentration will be managed jointly by sociology and public policy.
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.
Mara Liasson, White House correspondent for National Public Radio (NPR), will deliver an address about the Clinton presidency Monday, Nov. 9, 1998, at 7:30 p.m. in the Salomon Center for Teaching, Room 101. The lecture is free and open to the public.
A study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences sheds light on the remarkably sophisticated sonar that bats use to navigate, hunt and otherwise orient themselves to their surroundings. Jim Simmons and colleagues show that the animal's brain can resolve the timing of echoes for sonar images up to three times more sharply than previously thought and much better than conventional man-made equipment.
Professors of biology Peter Heywood and Kenneth R. Miller receive the Harriet W. Sheridan Award for Distinguished Contribution to Teaching and Learning, presented by the Sheridan Center for Teaching.
A new study by Barry Lester and colleagues demonstrates that the effects of prenatal cocaine exposure affects youngsters in more subtle ways than previously thought. The findings have ramifications in the cost of special education that would be required for such youngsters.
Allen Pires, a Food Service worker in the Blue Room, is also a popular DJ at parties throughout Rhode Island.
An analysis of studies on more than 800 school-age children found prenatal cocaine exposure had subtle effects on intelligence. Millions of dollars in special education funding must be spent each year to ensure those children do not fail in school.
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."
A three-year, $1.7-million grant from the National Science Foundation will support graduate student training in interdisciplinary research on human and machine behavior, fund the development of new courses, and help acquire new computer and other research equipment.
In conjunction with a major photographic exhibition on hospice care, Kristen Lans reports on the hospice movement from three perspectives: patient, caregivers, physicians. (Includes calendar of special presentations.)
Hospice workers at the Philp Hulitar Hospice Center are special people doing special work
AndrŽ and Barbara Cullen were married in 1953. Hospice care helped AndrŽ and the family.
Joan Teno, M.D., took time to ask better questions of hospice patients
The real question is not the obvious one. Certainly both sides of the physician-assisted suicide debate can work toward high-quality, sensitive care for the dying
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."
A new study in the "Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences" shows that the processing of sonar echoes by bats is significantly more sophisticated than scientists had suspected.
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.
Egyptology students find themselves in demand not only by top colleges and universities throughout the nation but by employers in a host of professions as well.
Rafe Pomerance, deputy assistant secretary of state for environment and development, will speak about Rhode Island's role in combating global climate change on Thursday, Oct. 15, at 4:30 p.m. in Starr Auditorium, MacMillan Hall.
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.
Brian Casey, a researcher in Public Affairs and University Relations, competes at the masters level in swim meets.
Daniel O'Manhoney, government documents coordinator at the Rockefeller Library, comments on whether important documents like the Starr Report, posted on the Web for all to read - will remain archived for all. Bills in Congress would assure the electronic longevity of such documents.
In their new book, "The Sound of Money: How Political Interests Get What They Want," political scientists Darrell M. West and Burdett A. Loomis probe how special-interest spending on communication campaigns shapes public policy.
A three-year, $1.7-million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) will support graduate student training in interdisciplinary research on human and machine behavior, fund the development of new courses, and help acquire new computer and other research equipment.
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.
Howard Hughes Medical Institute grant will fund Undergraduate Biological Sciences Education Program, provide for new courses and equipment for bioscience.
Renea Henry is a Ph.D. candidate whose dissertation examines contemporary experiences of black vs. black as in the Anita Hill/Clarence Thomas testimony.
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.
University starts a new undergraduate concentration in computational biology
A medical study explores surgical options to stem bleeding of women ages 18 to 45 and will compare the quality of life of women who have had hysterectomy vs. the quality of life of women who have endometrial ablation.
Annette Coleman has compiled a list of birds sighted on campus
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.
A survey by Darrell West of 304 Rhode Island voters conducted Sept. 19-20, 1998, finds Almond leading York in governor's race and Whitehouse leading Mayer for attorney general. Voters think President Clinton lied to the grand jury and committed perjury, but favor censure over impeachment or resignation. Clinton's job performance is rated highly.
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.
A study performed over the summer by Lucia Trimbur, the Vincent A. Cianci Jr. Urban Fellow, examined University partnerships with public schools in Providence. Her report, submitted to Gee and Mayor Cianci, describes the common elements of successful University-school collaborations
Primary care physicians often use "curbside consults." They find them useful, but the specialists who are consulted are less convinced of their usefulness. A study of the frequency of curbside consultations and whether physicians find them useful was done by Dr. David Gifford and colleagues at the School of Medicine.
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.
Don't worry about a meteorite smacking into your home anytime soon. A more realistic threat to Providence is the release of a deadly hazardous material, says Chris Harwood, an EMT with Health Services. His environmental studies masters thesis examined whether the city was prepared for a disaster that involved hazardous materials. A copy of his recommendations was sought by the Rhode Island Emergency Managemen Agency.
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.
President Gee discusses some of the changes in senior administration, challenges and goals of the coming academic year.
Paula Vogel speaks to Opening Convocation 1998 and offers three lessons on higher education.
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.
Students who are interns on Mary Carskadon's sleep research laboratory must be part scientist, part camp counselor and part chaperone.
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.
Change your perspective! Where to go on campus for some of the best bird's-eye views.
The Institute for Elementary and Secondary Education is serving as a consultant at the state Training School to help provide Training School teachers the technology, skills to use the technology, and mentoring in order to better educate the youngsters for life outside.
Primary care physicians frequently call or talk to subspecialists for advice about their patients rather than making a formal referral. A new study of these "curbside consults" shows the practice is widespread, but primary care physicians and subspecialists disagree about the quality of information exchanged.
Opening Convocation Sept. 8 focuses on faculty honors, features an address by English professor Paula Vogel. Her speech is called "Dis-Orientation for the Class of 02." Also, a look at the statistics of the Class of 2002.
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
BTV has a new game show similar to The Dating Game. Called The Dating Zone, student couples win dinner and dessert. The show was sparked by complaints of a flagging college dating scene.
President Gee goes to a PawSox game with the winners of a contest. Entrants had to describe to Gee why his first summer as a Rhode Islander would be incomplete without a trip to see the Pawtucket Red Sox play. Here are the winning entries.
High school students and their Brown student mentors participate in the Research Apprenticeship Program (RAP). They design their ideal charter school.
Participants in the 1998 Choices for the 21st Century public policy discussion series, held in 110 libraries in 11 states, deliberated U.S. options in international affairs, then cast "citizen ballots" expressing their views. Nearly 60 percent favored a strategy of international cooperation, "even if we have to sacrifice some of our sovereignty."
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)
Research presented in the publication Science shows that volcanoes on the Jupiter moon Io produce the solar system's highest surface temperatures. Jim Head is a co-investigator of the research project. The data were collected by the Galileo spacecraft
Faces of Brown: Zachary Fox, security officer (GSJ of July 24, 1998)
Rebecca Kanost, response services at plant ops, is a poet and novelist. (GSJ of July 24-Sespt. 3, 1998)
While doing research for the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity, Alex Majumder found information about the Interfaith Pilgrimage of the Middle Passage, a journey that retraces the footsteps of millions of slaves. He will participate in a portion of the pilgrimage. (GSJ of July 23, 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)
Research notes: Two researchers say they have found a technique that could reduce the drag of an aircraft by producing random pattern of bumps on plane skin; study on the frequency of family physicians, general internists and cardiologists perform cholesterol testing and management on their patients. (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.
Better care needed for high-cholesterol screening and treatment. How to talk to your doctor. Terminally ill patients not receiving enough pain management. Compulsive exercise may be sign of mild eating disorder. Doctors prescribe education
New guidelines stress early potent drug cocktails, individualized therapy Powerful AIDS drugs may promote heart disease Promising results for woman-controlled anti-HIV product Answers to access, adherence and tolerance of protease inhibitors Better access to clean needles may reduce spread of HIV infection Doctors scale prison walls to help women at risk for AIDS stay out of jail Worrisome delay between positive HIV test and medical care
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.
Doctors and medical students participate in an exchange program with a university and hospital in Kenya. Lacking technology, the participants discover ways to reconnect to patients' needs.
Article about copyright on software copyright, work computers, compliance, liability, licencing
Faces of Brown: Mark Perry, crime prevention officer, of Police and Security
Off Hours: A group of staff and students are faithful observers of a television soap opera. They gather daily to watch "Days of Our Lives" in the lower Blue Room
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.)
The David Winton Bell Gallery's 1998-99 schedule of exhibitions will include a collection of Korean paintings and porcelains, photos of hospice patients and portraits depicting the ravages of AIDS.
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.
Kenneth Sacks has resigned as dean of the College, effective Aug. 15, 1998, to return to full-time teaching and research. Nancy Dunbar, senior lecturer in the Department of Theatre, Speech and Dance, will succeed Sacks for a two-year term.
Research published in the June 17 issue of the Journal of American Medical Association indicates that daily pain is prevalent among nursing home residents with cancer and is often untreated, particularly among older and minority patients. Increasingly, nursing homes are the site of death for such frail and older individuals.
Registrar's new system called BRUTIS allows students to call the Registrar's Office to get their grades over the phone and to check the status of course registration
biotechnology industry Rhode Island Center for Cellular Medicine (RICCM) awarded $75,000 commercial innovation grants fledgling firms with ties to the School of Medicine start-up companies businesses around new medical therapies and technologies biotech companies generate new jobs EpiVax Summa Biologics Traumatos Therapeutics Anne DeGroot Abdalla Rifal Masyuki Endoh Hugh S. Keeping and Jonathan S. Reichner
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.
1) The menopause debate: Are grandmothers an evolutionary strategy?2) Could the deafness of tadpoles help explain the development of fetal hearing?3) If early intervention is crucial in managing HIV, why do so many people put it off?4) You make my heart sing: Healthy hearts generate the most pleasing music.5) New technology lets teleconferencing cameras switch automatically among speakers.
The University of Texas-San Antonio has joined the Leadership Alliance. The Alliance voted to approve the new membership during its annual meeting, April 17-18, 1998, on the campuses of two member schools Ð the University of Maryland-Baltimore County and Morgan State University.
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.
Six Painters, a new exhibition at the Bell Gallery, will be on display from June 13 through July 12, 1998. It features works by members of the Rhode Island Chapter of the National Museum of Women in the Arts.
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.
Eight honorary degrees will be presented during Commencement. The recipients are author Chinua Achebe; composer John Harbison; philanthropist Anthony Ittleson; Mamphela Ramphele of the University of Cape Town; mathematician Kenneth A. Ribet; educator Theodore Sizer; U.S. District Court Judge Joseph Tauro; and economist Janet Yellen
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.
Teenagers whose alcohol use land them in emergencly rooms often encounter Dr. Peter Monti and colleagues who try to change the young adults' attitudes about drinking.
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.
Early results from one of the largest marine geophysical experiments ever undertaken suggest that the separating seafloor guides magma up to the mid-ocean ridge, where it erupts and forms new oceanic crust. Seismologists from six institutions report the first detailed look at these upper-mantle processes in the May 22 issue of Science.
A survey of 357 Rhode Islanders conducted May 16-18, 1998, finds voters oppose casino gambling in Providence. Gov. Lincoln Almond and Treasurer Nancy Mayer lead in their races for governor and attorney general. Reps. Kennedy and Weygand have big leads over their opponents. Rhode Islanders are optimistic about the economy.
The new Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award honors four graduate students' doctoral research; the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Teaching honor four graduate students; the School of Medicine Senior Citation honors an anatomy professor; and an associate dean of Graduate School wins the William-Deblois Award.
A new study in the current issue of the Archives of Pediatric Adolescent Medicine shows that low-income parents of toddlers read to their children more often after receiving children's books and reading-promotion handouts from residents and nurses during well-child checkups.
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.
The first Faculty-Student Dinner, co-sponsored by the Dean of the College and the Undergraduate Council of Students (UCS) is held. More than 130 faculty members dined with some 230 students. At the dinner, the UCS Advising Awards are presented to Professors Pucci and Terry-Morgan.
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.
Joshua Woolley '99 teamed up with Professor Ted Goslow to learn about bird anatomy. Woolley's work was part of the Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship (UTRA) program.
Before the end of the academic year, the Red Tape Reduction and Administrative Savings Committee will have identified the top issues to tackle and decided upon the process by which changes can be made.
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.
A research team that included Marc Tatar reports that menopause carries no evolutionary benefit or cost. It is simply a consequence of aging, a finding that contradicts an earlier theory galled the "grandmother hypothesis."
Prof. Cynthia Garcia Coll has co-written a new book called "Mothering Against the Odds," which takes a look at all kinds of mothers and how they succeed in raising their children.
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.
Intelligent robots built and programmed by students will perform in a talent show designed to showcase these final class projects. The students' robots may look like toys, but they operate at nearly the same level of sophistication as some of the world's most famous robots. The show begins at 4Êp.m. Tuesday, April 28, in the Watson Center.
Paula Vogel, professor of creative writing, wins the Pulitzer Prize for her play, "Learning to Drive."
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.
A Population Studies and Training Center report provides a snapshot of a region of Ethiopia which will guide policy-makers' decisions about improving the livelihoods of the area's residents.
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.
Kamal Abdel-Malik receives a Wriston Fellowship, which he will use to write a book on the "Rhetoric of Violence and Reconciliation"
Technology developed at LEMS and recently patented by Harvey Silverman enables video conferencing cameras to automatically track whoever is speaking
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.
Dean of the College Kenneth Sacks announced that Kamal Abdel-Malek, assistant professor of comparative literature was selected as the winner of the 1998-99 Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship competition.
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
President Gee creates a Red Tape Reduction and Administrative Savings Task Force
Police & Security personnel participate in a cultural diversity workshop
Graduate Student Council (GSC) celebrates Graduate Student Appreciation Week
Last Word: John Tomasi's remarks, taken from his introduction to a debate about affirmative action, focus on the very nature of debate and the dueling expressions of character on campus.
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.
The Annenberg Institute for School Reform will sponsor a regional briefing for area educators, parents, policy-makers and media on April 21. The briefing, which will describe findings of a national study on public engagement in public education, will feature representatives from several organizations in southern New England cited in the groundbreaking study.
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.
Undergraduate Adia Benton is a contestant on 'College Jeopardy' television show.
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
The University Library offers the use of electronic journals, but there are some concerns
Annual conference of the Students of Caribbean Ancestry (SOCA) host annual regional conference for Caribbean students. Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson is the keynote speaker.
Last Word: Rhett Jones writes about lessons of anti-racism he learned from the late Bill McLoughlin and the late Martin Martel
The University's new Aided Internship Program waives the summer earning expectations for a select number of financial aid students who take unpaid internships between their junior and senior years.
David Lewis, working through the Physician Leadership on National Drug Policy (PLNDP), issues a report aimed at redirecting the nation's "war on drugs" toward treatment of addiction, not punishment
Annenberg Institute presents a national report about what kinds of partnerships work to advance education reform.
Police & Security seeks accreditation from the national Campus Association of Law Enforcement Agencies (CALEA)
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.
Physicians must move beyond the style of Sherlock Holmes to find better ways to diagnose and treat medical mysteries, says Kathryn Montgomery Hunter, this year's Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine lecturer. Hunter's presentation, at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 1, 1998, in the Salomon Center, is open to the public at no charge.
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.
WBRU News won six Associate Press Awards for Excellence in Broadcast Journalism, including 1997 News Station of the Year in the Massachusetts/Rhode Island College Division.
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.
Research shows that 30 seconds of advice from a physician increases by more than 20 percent the chances a smoker will quit for at least a year, according to a study by Dr. Michael Goldstein.
The University names members to the new Staff Advisory Committee
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.
The public is invited to a free conference to discuss public health policy and the role of a public health agency. The event will take place from 1 to 5 p.m. Friday, MarchÊ20, 1998, in the Ray Conference Center at Butler Hospital in Providence.
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
Bone-thin dancers, gymnasts and figure skaters hurt their health, says Dr. Dorreen Wiggins, a physician who is trying to change women's attitudes about fitness and their body images
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.
Postdoctoral student Gabrielle McLamore, studying pharmacology with Michael Walker, rescued herself from a life of gangs and drugs with a fierce belief in herself
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
Anthropologist Bill Beeman performed musical theater on the German stage for 18 months. He used the participant-observation method of research because "at some point I want to be able to talk about performance and performing from the standpoint of the inside ... not just be an observer but to find out what it's like to perform."
President Gee response to ACUP regarding recommendations for 1998-99 budget
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.
Researchers have developed two tiny probes that may be a first step in finding and treating egg abnormalities in infertile women. Testing with the probes could allow the women to use their own eggs successfully to bear children.
A free national videoconference sponsored by the Annenberg Institute for School Reform Thursday, March 5, will examine how the concept of "public engagement" has advanced education reform in three sites around the country. The videoconference from 7-9 p.m. EST will feature video profiles of each site, panel discussions and called-in questions from viewers linked to the videoconference.
Founded two years ago, the University's varsity equestrian team has 25 members, ranks third among 13 schools
Off Hours: Mark Oribello in computer science is a volunteer EMT/Firefighter with the Warren Fire Department
NCAA certifies Brown athletics program
Two ACUP members submit a minority report to President Gee
President Gee announces a reorganization of the University's senior administration. Among the chances is a larger role for the provost and a new position of vice provost for affiliated programs
Presentations to AAAS include a look at how the study of arts and music may enhance students' math and reading skills and a look at the future of mathematics
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.
An array of arts are represented on campus, from sculpture and paintings, to collections and performances -- musical, theatrical and dance
Reporter Helen Thomas, who has covered the White House for decades for UPI, gives quick impressions on all the presidents she's written about
Research conducted by sociologist Hilary Silver finds that the state of Rhode Island underutilizes minority-owned businesses
The ACUP budget recommendations for 1998-99
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.
A look at how the SATs are just one way to evaluate high school students' chances for success in college.
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.
A study in the Archives of Internal Medicine indicates that many HIV-infected individuals do not disclose their status to sexual partners. The result is that the sexual partners of HIV-infected individuals may be unaware of their risk for acquiring the HIV virus. (Embargoed for 2/8/98)
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
Dr. Betty Vohr helped Rhode Island become the first state in the nation to screen all newborns for hearing loss. The procedure spots potential problems early, often leading to early intervention for the youngsters and their parents
Professors Morone, West and Cornwell give their perspectives on the allegations President Clinton is facing regarding extramarital affairs.
Anthropologist Lina Fruzetti spent a year researching the roots of female abandonment in India. The mother of two daughters, she found the work emotionally trying.
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.
A survey of 414 Rhode Island voters conducted Jan. 24 and 25 found Rep. Patrick Kennedy leading Treasurer Nancy Mayer and Attorney General Jeff Pine leading two potential opponents. Voter responses suggested that the governor's race is a dead heat between Gov. Lincoln Almond and Myrth York.
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
The Science Coalition -- a lobbying group for research and development -- creates a web site to document R&D trends, legislative news, federal funding for science, and the work of major research universities
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
A research team that included David Cane of chemistry and biochemistry have re-tooled the molecular building blocks of an antibiotic-producing bacteria to allow it to construct new drugs.
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.
NASA has provided funding to outfit a campus computer learning center devoted to the teaching and use of remote sensing. This center will be housed in MacMillan Hall
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
Three students receive prestigious Marshall and Rhodes scholarships: Kristi Abrams, Sylvia Sellers-Garcia and Justin Driver
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.
The ballroom dancing club has grown by leaps and bounds since it formed in 1991 with eight students. Since then, the club has swelled to about 150 members, and formed a competitive ballroom dance team
The radio station WBSR is on the air at 88.1 FM. Originally the first college radio station, the station was eclipsed by WBRU, ending WBSR broadcasts by the mid-1970s. The revived station h opes to provide more coverage of campus events and sports with its staff of reporters
The Steinberg Festival of New Plays, now in its second year, is produced in partnership with Trinity Repertory Company. The festival gives budding playwrights the opportunity to see their writing performed on stage and provides feedback from the audience. The festival is a wonderful outlet for graduate students in the Graduate Writing Program
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.
Ram—n Cortines, former chancellor of New York City Schools from 1993-95, has been appointed interim director of the Annenberg Institute for School Reform.
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.
A free live videoconference on Jan. 29, 1998, will give teachers, parents, administrators and others an opportunity to participate in a national discussion about building stronger urban schools. To support local discussion, community groups can get free materials from the Annenberg Institute for School Reform, sponsors of the videoconference.
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.
A new weekly regimen of an intense dose of the drug paclitaxel significantly shrinks breast cancer tumors in many patients.
Most children who start off in the Providence public school system do not complete their education in the city's schools because families move elsewhere. A demographic study of the city schools, done by the Population Studies and Training Center, was part of a project called "Counting Ourselves." This database eventually will include information on all aspects of city life and will be made available to the public for use by businesses, agencies and scholars.
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.
Janice Okoomian, a graduate student student in American civilization, is working on a dissertation about the way the body is used to define female identity in conjunction with race or ethnicity in narratives of origin. The alien Borg Queen of Star Trek fame finds her way into one chapter of the dissertation.
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
Working with Prof. Tom Banchoff under an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Assistantship (UTRA) Dan Margalit has designed an interactive web page template for use by faculty members in their classes
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.
The Leadership Alliance will present a two-day symposium Dec. 11-12, 1997, in Washington, D.C., in conjunction with the annual meeting of the American Society for Cell Biology. A high-ranking official in the Clinton administration will deliver the keynote address at the symposium.
Dean of Student Life Robin Rose was among some 350 people -- from educators to law enforcement officers, legislators, ministers, students and victims, who assembled in Washington, D.C., for a national conference on hate crimes.
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
Krystyn Van Vliet is an outstanding engineering student who is active in community service. A scholar of the highest order, she overcame grave head injuries from a high school auto accident. She had to regain her memory, judgment, speech and other communication skills
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.
A new study shows that only 45 percent of 463 emergency-room heart-attack patients received a timely dose of aspirin at the hospital. Medical guidelines call for immediate administration of 160 mg of aspirin to patients suspected of having had a heart attack.
From holiday stress to international travel, Brown professors offer their expertise and commentary on a variety of seasonal topics.
Ladd Observatory is on target for a reopening in February. The renovated buildilng now meets fire code and accessibility laws.
Women's ice hockey player Vanessa Reid has a pacemaker implanted in her chest. That hasn't stopped her from climbing onto the ice
A replacement portrait of Sarah Doyle, stolen from campus in August 1997, will be a copy of a much better version painted by Cecilia Beaux, whose claim to fame was portraits of strong, independent women. The copy work is being done by RISD student Bryan Konietzko.
How does an artist copy a 97-year-old portrait of Sarah Doyle? "I'm just basically a human scanner," says RISD student Bryan Konietzko, who is copying a lively portrait of Sarah Doyle, painted by Cecilia Beaux in 1902, to replace they Doyle portrait stolen from campus in August 1997.
Dinesh D'Souza and Frank Wu debate affirmative action at a session sponsored during Asian-American Month.
Ying-Mao Kau, professor of political science, an expert on China-Taiwan relations and former president of Taiwanese think tank the 21st-Century Foundation, talks about Chinese President Jiang Zemin and the future of U.S.-China-Taiwan relations.
Off Hours: Jim Coccio of Payroll is in the National Guard
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
A study by psychiatrists at Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., found a nearly equal sex ratio among patients with body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), as well as similarities in age of onset, course of illness and severity of symptoms between genders.
Maria Pacheco of the New England Desegregation Assistance Center and John R. Correiro of The Education Alliance are helping the Department of Education plan its eastern regional conference, expected to draw 2,000 participants to Washington, D.C. Also, Pacheco will chair a session titled "Involving Families and Communities in Education." Correiro's session will focus on charter and magnet schools.
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.
Chaperone proteins may hold clue to aging process. In a study conducted by Marc Tatar and others, a brief genetic response to heat stress increased a fruit fly's life span. But don't head for the sauna yet
Some 300 youngsters from Providence schools, communitiy centers and clubs come to campus to trick-or-treat at Wriston Quad. The event is sponsored by the Greek Council.
Art Prof. Walter Feldman made his first book at the age of 8. He's been inventing books ever since. More than books, these are works of art. Some 30 items from his collections are on display.
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.
Professors Lipsitt and Cheit discuss who was on trial -- the au pair or in-home day care and working moms -- in the wake of a trial of British nanny Louise Woodward, accused in the death of a Boston-area infant under her care.
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.
Women who provided oral histories about Rhode Island during World War II will reunite with their interviewers Ð members of South Kingstown High School's Class of 1990 Ð for an introduction to the project's latest incarnation: an award-winning web site that has become a model for other intergenerational and school-community education projects. Their gathering on Thursday, Nov. 6, is open to media.
Transgenic flies exposed to warmth produce a brief genetic response that increases their survivability, according to a study in this week's Nature. The finding uncovers a potential aging mechanism.
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.
Off Hours: Ron Rattier, assistant to the director of the Center for Latin American Studies and a tenor
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.
Douglas "Pete" Peterson, the U.S. ambassador to the Socialist Republic of Vietnam, and Le Van Bang, the Vietnamese ambassador to the United States, will present a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture titled "U.S.-Vietnam Relations: A Dialogue Between the Ambassadors" at 4 p.m. Monday, Nov. 17, in the Salomon Center for Teaching.
A conference in celebration of the 25 years since passage of Title IX, the law that prohibits gender discrimination at educational institutions, will offer tools, skills, strategies and workshops for educators, students and parents.
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."
Math Prof. Tom Banchoff wins the R.I. Professor of the Year award from the Council for the Advancement and Support of Education (CASE) for his decades of making math come alive for students. "I try to set up a framework where students work hard because their teacher is working hard," he says.
Geologist Carle Pieters had hoped that NASA and its Discovery Program would select her Aladdin project to go to Martian moons of Phobos and Deimos. Aladdin would have collected geologic samples from the moons by firing projectiles into the surfaces.
Miguel Moniz, a graduate student in anthropology, has done research on "men without a country" -- Azoreans who came to U.S. as infants, learned English, never became U.S. citizens, got into trouble in the United States and were deported. These deportees are rejected by Azorean culture as well. The Portuguese government, concerned about the situation, has taken an interest in Moniz's dissertation
Off Hours; Paul Deissler, a window clerk at Mail Services, is a Civil War battle buff. Each year, he heads to the battlefield at Gettysburg for a first-hand look at history.
Brown athletics teams sport a new logo on their uniforms -- a brown bear reaching its front paws around the word BROWN
The change back to Eastern Standard Time may bring on a case of the winter blahs or Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD).
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.
Assistant Dean of Student Life Kristen Renn has accepted an AERA/Spencer Doctoral Fellowship and will leave the University to pursue doctoral studies in education at Boston College.
The Center for Advancement of College Teaching (CACT) is renamed the Harriet W. Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. The center helps professors, graduate students and undergraduate teaching assistants become better instructors and professors
What makes a good professor? For the past decade, the CACT -- now known as the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning -- has demonstrated that learning how to teach is a lifelong process. Graduate students, undergraduate teaching assistants and long-time faculty members all have benefitted from the center's programs, workshops and lectures.
Professor David Kertzer's book "The Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara" has been nominated for a National Book Award.
Off Hours: Graduate student Sara Beliveau is running a marathon to benefit multiple sclerosis research.
Lanny Bell, adjunct professor of Egyptology, studies ancient Egyptian culture through the lens of Egyptian of funerary rites and practices, including mummification. He talks about why the Egyptians made mummies
"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.
Researchers get $2.3 million from National Science Foundation (NSF) for work that may advance programming artificial intelligence to treating learning defects. The projects involve Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, Computer Science, Applied Math, Neuroscience, Physics. The projects: "Structured Statistical Learning," "Adaptive Cortical Computation in Visual Domain," and"Learning Minimal Representations for Visual Navigationand Recognition."
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
Three new faces in the University's Office of the Chaplain: the Rev. Henry Bodah, Catholic chaplain; the Rev. Theodore Wilson II, who leads the Imani Jubilee; and Rabbi Susan Fendrick who also holds a new position of director, visions for change
"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.
Provost Jim Pomerantz has been named acting president. He will leave the administration when his work concludes Jan. 1, 1998, and will return to teaching
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.
To help revitalize public support for public education, the Annenberg Institute for School Reform is gathering examples of school-community collaborations to find out how they work and whether they are making a difference. A report on the findings will be released in February 1998.
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.
Psychiatry Prof. Kathatrine Phillips' book "The Broken Mirror," takes a look at patients who suffer from body dysmorphic disorder -- when minor flaws loom large in the mirror.
Psychiatry Prof. Peter Kramer has written a book titled "Should You Leave?," which explores couples' relationships and how adults value autonomy and intimacy
Construction crews work toward completing MacMillan Hall, the new science building, toward completion in June 1998. Peter Landry is at the helm as the construction manager.
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
St. Martin's Press will donate books and archives to the University Library
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.
Dr. Katharine A. Phillips offers hope for sufferers of body dysmorphic disorder, a little-known disease in which people obsess about imagined flaws in their appearance. Antidepressants and cognitive-behavioral therapy may provide relief.
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
What does it mean when we say someone is "an icon"? How does one become an icon? The deaths of Princess Diana and Mother Teresa prompt comments from Professors Scholes and Torres, who teach in Modern Culture and Media
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.
Chemistry Prof. Kane presents a paper describing the 3-D structure of terpene synthase. The findings are the groundwork for understanding how to regulate the creation of cholesterol
A portrait of Sarah Doyle, which hung in Sayles Hall, was cut out of its frame; theft discovered in late August.
Off Hours: Ann Killion, who collects "Little People" toys and is a computer trainer
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.
Scientists have described the three-dimensional structure and inner workings of a protein that synthesizes a naturally occurring class of complex compounds, one of which is cholesterol. The findings provide the groundwork for understanding how to regulate the creation of cholesterol in the body.
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
Off Hours: Ali Cissoko of Police and Security seeks donations of old 386 or 486 computers for a project that sends the equipment to high school students in Senegal.
Newell Stultz, professor of political science, associate dean of the faculty and an expert on South African politics, takes a look at how F.W. deKlerk transcended the South African government's frame of mind to dismantle apartheid
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."
The arrival of first-year students through the eyes of a parent, an upperclass member, a hot dog vendor. The Class of 2001 moves into the dorms.
Geologist Malcolm Rutherford developed a technique to measure the likelihood of a volcano eruption
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
The Office of Student Life has announced changes to the non-academic disciplinary code. Growing out of recommendations made last spring by an Ad Hoc Committee on Sexual Misconduct, the changes provide students and administrators with additional options for resolving conflicts and address a number of procedural concerns identified by the committee.
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.
The College Curriculum Council approves a new undergraduate concentration in cognitive neuroscience, the study of higher cognitive functions in humans and its underlying neural bases
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
Czech artist Jana Sterbak exhibits 'cocoons' and crickets in her artwork on exhibition at the David Winton Bell Gallery
A student-produced exhibition called Tourist Art at the Haffenreffer includes a look at the effect tourists have on a culture and how objects in a particular culture change to fit the needs and wants of tourists. Another new exhibition includes a collection of model Eskimo boats and items from the Plains tribes
An undergraduate's honors thesis leads to the study of the effects of maternal depression on the fetus and an NIH fellowship
What to do if you receive unsolicited junk mail by e-mail
Leoon Cooper remarks on the importance of science and technology research, presented to the House Science Committee's new member forum, organized by the Science Coalition.
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.
Thirty-three principals from around the country have been named to the National School Reform Faculty Principals Seminar at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform. Their schools are part of a network of nearly 200 schools participating in a unique program of professional development and whole school change
Czech-Canadian artist Jana Sterbak's exhibition entitled "Metamorphosis" will be presented at the David Winton Bell Gallery from Aug. 23 through Oct. 5, 1997.
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.
Obese women may improve their sex lives by losing weight, according to a new study. The most common reason endorsed by women in the study for sexual changes was that they felt better about their bodies.
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.
The first Connecticut Capitol Forum on America's Future will bring students and teachers to the state house to discuss immigration, the environment, global conflict, and international trade.
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.
The Women Writers Project has received a $190,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to collect, encode and disseminate via the Internet printed books written in English by women before 1830. The authors of the 50 texts include working-class women, colonial women and women of color.
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.)
A survey of 407 Rhode Islanders conducted June 21-23 shows that 74 percent believe Downtown Providence looks better than it did five years ago and favor a bill that would restrict the number of non-profit hospitals in Rhode Island that could be purchased by for-profit health-care companies.
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.
Jean Joyce-Brady, a licensed psychologist who has been director of counseling services at Bradford College since 1992, will join the University's Office of Student Life as an associate dean, replacing Toby Simon, who resigned last fall.
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.
Twenty-one Commencement Forums will be presented Saturday, May 24, at various sites on campus. The forums will include best-selling author Stephen Jay Gould, The Way Things Work author David Macaulay, and IBM's Louis Gerstner.
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.
"Humanitarian Action and Politics: The Case of Nagorno-Karabakh" is a timely study issued by the Watson Institute's Humanitarianism and War Project. The study examines sources of the nine-year-old conflict and the international community's responses, which may actually have hampered a negotiated resolution.
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.
Use of a magnetic field to levitate living specimens suggests a ground-based alternative to sending astronauts into space for expensive zero-gravity experiments.
Bill Moyers, acclaimed author and broadcast journalist, will address the Class of 1997 at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 25, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America. The baccalaureate service will be simulcast to a large-format video screen on The College Green for parents and guests of the graduates.
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.
An internal review conducted by Police & Security Services finds that campus police use of pepper spray against an unruly student on Feb. 8 was justified. The student pleaded no contest to two charges and will file no complaint against officers.
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."
Four nationally known education reform advocates will "meet" via satellite with educators, students, parents and community members around the country on May 1 to talk about the work students produce in schools.
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.
"The Merrow Report on Air," a public radio series on youth and learning, is coming to campus April 23 to tape an hour-long segment about cultural conflict in the classroom. The show, hosted by journalist John Merrow, will feature nationally known educator and author Lisa Delpit and audience participation.
"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.
Government officials from Russia, Poland, the Czech Republic and the United States will gather for a discussion titled "NATO's Push Eastward: Enhancing Security or Sparking Tension?" CNN's Ralph Begleiter will moderate the event at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 1, in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching.
"Literature and Medicine," a two-day series of forums, opens at 4 p.m. April 4 with the Harriet Sheridan Memorial Lecture by Rita Charon, M.D., of Columbia University. Charon will discuss ways to bring doctors closer to patients' experiences and ways to share a common language when discussing illness.
A new technique of encapsulating drugs in biodegradable plastic microspheres could allow oral administration of insulin and other drugs not now given orally. By degrading over time, the microspheres furnish a supply of drugs to the body and may become a more effective delivery system than injections and other techniques.
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.
A memorial service will be held at noon Monday, March 17, in the Meeting Houseof the First Baptist Church in America to celebrate the life of Pierre M. Galletti, M.D., Ph.D. Galletti, 69, died in Providence, R.I., at 12:15 a.m. Saturday, March 8, 1997, of injuries from a fall.
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.
A new drug and radiation treatment may greatly improve the prognosis for a patient with locally advanced and inoperable cancer in the pancreas and stomach.
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.
A blood test that searches for susceptibility to rheumatic fever may help identify children who are at risk for obsessive-compulsive and other behavior disorders. Some psychiatric illnesses may be triggered by strep infections and could therefore be treated with penicillin.
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.
A study of 1,709 teen-agers suggests smoking may be a marker for potential drug abuse and depression among adolescents.
"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.
Participants in the Choices for the 21st Century public policy discussion series, held in libraries in eight states, deliberated the question "What is America and what do we want it to be?" then cast a "citizen ballot" for the foreign policy role they would like to see the United States play. Fifty-four percent favored a strategy of international cooperation, "even if we have to sacrifice some of our sovereignty."
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.
Text of a public service announcement for an open house at the Office of Summer Studies, Feb. 15, 1997
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.
A survey of 438 Rhode Islanders conducted Feb. 1-3 shows voters rate Gov. Almond's job performance higher than last fall. Voters are divided on proposals to build an NFL stadium and to create the state's first for-profit hospital.
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.
U.S. Secretary of Education Richard Riley will discuss the Clinton administration's education policies and agenda at 4 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 3, in Sayles Hall. The event also includes remarks from U.S. Sen. Jack Reed and a tribute to retired U.S. Sen. Claiborne Pell for his contributions to education.
Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina Wajed of Bangladesh will give a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. Memorial Lecture at noon Friday, Feb. 7, in Sayles Hall. Sheikh Hasina is the daughter of Bangladesh's slain independence leader, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, who was killed in a military coup in 1975.
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.
The 1997 Steinberg Festival of New Plays, Jan. 30 through Feb. 9, will feature eight plays performed on the downstairs stage at Trinity Repertory Theatre. The festival is part of The Providence New Play Festival at Trinity, which runs through May 11.
Excessive noise pollution at night may be an important cause of sleep disruption in hospitalized elderly patients. For years, patients have complained that noise disturbs their sleep. New findings offer direct evidence that environmental noise in the hospital correlates strongly with sleep disruption.
A prison-release program for HIV-positive women cuts the recidivism rate by more than 50 percent. The program may be the nation's first to send academic hospital personnel into public prisons to treat HIV-positive inmates.
Coaches, teachers, principals and others will examine student work, peer coaching, professional portfolio development and school and district leadership as vehicles for whole school change. Participants in the national colloquium, Jan. 16-18, 1997, in Providence, R.I., come from reform networks affiliated with the Annenberg Institute's National School Reform Faculty.
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.
Salt Lake City's public school district will receive a $4-million challenge grant from the Annenberg Foundation to begin a five-year education reform project. To meet the two-to-one challenge, the Salt Lake City-based Eccles Foundation has pledged $2.5 million; $2.5 million will come from the private sector; and $3 million will be reallocated from the district's budget.
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.
A free program on the spectacular images and other data beamed to Earth by the spaceship Galileo will be presented Wednesday, Dec. 4, at 7:30 p.m. in Room 101 of the Salomon Center for Teaching.
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
Issue advocacy advertising was more prominent in the 1996 national elections than ever before. By a wide margin, Americans believe interest groups sponsoring these ads should be subject to spending limits and funding disclosure. News media received mixed reviews, but commentators were found to be valuable sources of information.
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.
Lynn Davidman, associate professor of Judaic studies, sociology and women's studies, has interviewed 60 men and women from various economic backgrounds for a new book that explores the consequences of growing up motherless in American society.
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.
Roger D. Williams '47 has given $1 million to honor his father, Howard D. Williams '17, and legendary football coach Joe Paterno by creating the Williams/Paterno Chair in Football.
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present "The Visionary Architecture of Brodsky and Utkin" Dec. 7, 1996, through Jan. 19, 1997.
The asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was particularly deadly because it hit the Yucatan peninsula at an oblique angle, spreading a killing zone of matter downrange, according to a new study.
Boston's public schools have received a five-year, $10-million grant to help implement School Supt. Thomas W. Payzant's Comprehensive Reform Plan, which targets several groups of schools in the city. The grant will be matched by several Boston foundations and businesses.
Detroit's Schools of the 21st Century Initiative, a collaborative public school reform effort, has received a five-year, $20-million challenge grant from the Annenberg Foundation. The initiative aims to improve teaching, learning, and cooperation among school, staff and community, especially parents. The grant will be matched by $20 million from state and federal education funds and $20 million from private foundations and corporations.
Although an expectant mother's high blood pressure may cause fetal stress and premature birth, a new study provides evidence that mild maternal hypertension actually accelerates maturation of the lungs and nervous system in infants.
Results from a new study suggest that the beach is a suitable site for reaching sunbathers at high risk for skin cancer and helping them change their behaviors.
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.
The President's Cancer Panel will take testimony Oct. 25 in Providence on how managed care is affecting basic cancer research. The public is invited to attend the 8:15 a.m. to 5 p.m. meeting at Rhode Island Hospital's George Auditorium.
Cyberfiction pioneer Bobby Rabyd will embark on an East Coast speaking tour. He will read from "Sunshine '69," the Internet's first fully interactive novel, at electronic cafes in cities including Providence, Boston, New York and Washington, D.C.
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.
Carolyn Dean, associate professor of history, has been named the 1996 Rhode Island Professor of the Year by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching.
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
Off Hours: Linda Collette, who in her off-hours researches extremist groups. This work is in conjunction with her Ph.D. dissertation
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.
A survey of 405 Rhode Island voters shows a preference for Jack Reed over Nancy Mayer in the U.S. Senate race, preferences for Patrick Kennedy and Robert Weygand over their opponents in House races, and a sharp increase in the Index of Consumer Sentiment for Rhode Island.
New Swearer Center contract accommodates RISD students interested in public service
Campaigning politicians offer competing views on education to woo voters; Democrats including Rep. Richard Gephardt and Rep. Jack Reed invoke name of Pell Grant founder. They are in town for a rally on campus sponsored by the College Democrats; Republican candidates Nancy Mayer and Giovanni Cicione hold news conference to offer alternative ways to save for college tuition.
Study shows songbirds switch from insects to berries to fuel fall migration. The research suggests that the importance of fruit-rich habitats along coastal migration routes should be considered in land-management and conservation decisions
Political scientist says family-values rhetoric is old news and bad news to progress. The current political rhetoric of declining morality and a call to the return to family values is nothing new, says Jim Morone
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.
The exhibition, Order/Disorder: Paintings by Natalie Alper, Lydia Dona, Mary Heilmann & Jacqueline Humphries will be presented at the Bell Gallery Oct. 19 through Nov. 24.
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.
The School of Medicine implements its new "patient-first" curriculum called MD2000. The curriculum is based on a med student's abilities and demonstrated competencies in nine key areas.
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.
Inequality between Arabs, Jews a major theme in Calvin Goldscheider's new book about Israel. Although Israel is designed as an egalitarian society, Goldscheider said the country has many divisions. There is a great deal of inequality between Arabs and Jews, Jews of different ethnic groups, and between male and female Israelis, he writes in his new book.
Lounge converted into dorm room helps solve overcrowding, wins rave reviews from first-year freshman quartet and their friends.
A new study suggests that a dietary switch from insects to berries allows songbirds to accumulate fat for their fall migration and that migrating songbirds seek out sites where berries are abundant. Coastal shrublands, critical in providing that fruit-rich diet, are under intense development pressure.
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.
Coverage of 1996 Opening Convocation. convocation. May just end up being a quote of the week. The speaker is Rockefeller University Prof. Joshua Lederberg. His address, titled "In Praise of Ignorance: Science Challenges the Young," exhorted first-year students to seize the unique opportunity they have to use their intelligence and their ignorance to assess anew the assumptions presented to them.
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.
Dennis Boucher, director of Police and Security, has ushered the campus community through the changing landscape of community policing. He is retiring after 12 years on the force.
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.
Interview with David Wade, class of 1997, who is president of the national College Democrats of America. He spent some time in Washington, D.C., to lead the organization.
The Class of 2000 will be the largest freshman class in 30 years to enter through the Van Wickle Gates at Opening Convocation. The large size of the class has made living space in first-year dorms tight. Some lounges have been turned into dorm rooms.
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.
A new study of the representation of female lawyers in 100 corporate legal departments shows a dramatic under-representation of women. Despite increased numbers of women entering the legal profession, forty-three percent of those companies did not have a single female attorney on staff.
The Women Writers Project will receive $400,000 over three years from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation for a project called Renaissance Women Online. The project will compare the economics of online delivery of a key group of important texts by women to the costs of delivering them by traditional means.
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.
New testing techniques help resolve confusion about infants born to women who smoke crack cocaine during pregnancy. Crack produces excitable, stressed infants but might not cause hemorrhages, lesions and brain damage as previously thought.
The Annenberg Foundation has awarded a three-year $2-million grant to the Boston University/Chelsea Partnership for an education reform project to be conducted with the Chelsea, Mass., school department. The project targets school staff development, the Intergenerational Literacy Program, and a new arts curriculum.
James Morone, professor of political science at Brown, says the morality rhetoric in politics is nothing new in America and works against social progress.
Innovations in care and management can make or break a nursing home. A new study of 473 administrators examines what qualities in managers make them more likely to accept innovations.
The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University will present British Prints from the Steinberg Collection from August 24 through October 6, 1996.
Robin Rose, dean of student life, announces staff changes, including a new case administrator for the nonacademic disciplinary system.
Laura Freid, a senior communications officer at Harvard University, will become Brown University's spokesperson and head of communications and external affairs.
Peder Estrup, professor of chemistry and physics and chemistry department chair, has been named dean of Graduate School and research
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.
Bobby Rabyd releases Sunshine '69, the World Wide Web's first fully interactive novel. The novel contains text, graphics and sound and lets each reader contribute to the never-ending story.
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.
A Rhode Island public opinion survey finds Ocean State voters oppose gambling in Providence and are uncertain about welfare reform plans offered by Gov. Almond and General Assembly. In elections, voters prefer Clinton to Dole, Reed to Mayer and Paolino to other Democratic candidates.
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.
Sheila Curran, director of organizational planning and development, has been named director of the Office of Career Planning Services, effective July 1. Curran has been serving as interim director for eight months.
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.
Events through August 1996. This is the last regular Events Release of the academic year.
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.
This year's Commencement Forums will be presented Saturday, May 25, at various sites on campus and will feature U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, singer-songwriter Mary Chapin Carpenter, R.I. Sen. John Chafee and other special guests, alumni, faculty and student presenters.
Events for 5/16 - 6/20
Barbara Tannenbaum, senior lecturer in Theatre, Speech and Dance, and Marjorie Thompson, associate dean of biological sciences, will receive Hazeltine Citations at Commencement Monday, May 27.
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.
Twenty-five Royce Fellows will be honored at a private reception at the home of President Vartan Gregorian on Thursday, May 9. Program founder Charles Royce will be present to congratulate the recipients.
The Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili Muslims, will address the Class of 1996 at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, May 26, in the Meeting House of the First Baptist in America. The Baccalaureate service will be simulcast to a large-format video screen set up on The College Green for parents and guests of the graduates.
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.
Text of President Gregorian's remarks, delivered at the University ceremony on The College Green on May 27, 1996
Events for May 9-31
The benefits of high-dose interferon alfa-2b therapy outweigh its side effects when given to melanoma patients after surgery. (Release prepared for a paper delivered at ASCO national meeting 5/21/96, to be distributed through the press room at the conference.)
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.
Events for May 2 - 23
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.
Events for April 25 - May 16
As a prelude to this year's Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Awards ceremony Thursday, April 25, students will present exhibitions detailing projects their R.I. schools undertook to help combat hunger. These 21 projects, conducted by schools that are members of the Feinstein World Youth Hunger Brigade, have been selected for cash awards of up to $2,000.
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.
Mary Anne Keeffe, deputy undersecretary for food, nutrition and consumer services at the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will address the opening session of the Ninth Annual Hunger Research Briefing and Exchange on Wednesday, April 24. She then will participate in a panel discussion on "Blocking Hunger in the United States: Government Programs at Risk." Both are free and open to the public.
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.
Events for April 18 onward
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.
Richard Berke, national political correspondent for the New York Times, will lecture on "Understanding the 1996 Elections" on Monday, April 15, at 7:30 p.m.
Father J. Bryan Hehir, professor at Harvard Divinity School and an associate at the Harvard Center for International Affairs, will speak on "Ethics and International Affairs: From Theories to Cases" on Friday, April 26, at 4 p.m. in Salomon Center.
Events for April 11 through May 2
The Alan Shawn Feinstein World Hunger Awards honor Gram Vikas, which works in India's poorest villages; JosŽ El’as S‡nchez, who teaches appropriate agriculture to rural families in Central America; and Dr. Cutberto Garza, a nutritionist at Cornell University. The honorary chairman and keynote speaker for the awards ceremony Thursday, April 25, is Dr. Bob Arnot, health correspondent for CBS News.
Fayneese Miller named coordinator of ethnic studies concentration
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
A two-day conference, April 13-14 at the Watson Institute for International Studies, will examine the theoretical and policy aspects of the international sanctions applied to South Africa.
Events for April 4 - 28
Brown ready to argue Title IX appeal in Boston; statistics for 1995-96 athletic rosters show 48 percent women
Haffenreffer Museum to showcase African collection in new exhibition. A third gift from philanthropist William Brill gives the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology the largest collection of African ethnographic art in the region. The new exhibit, "African Worlds, African Art," will open April 21 and run through the end of the year and possibly into 1997.
Events for March 28 through April 25
At a governors' education summit March 26 and 27, the Annenberg Institute's Technology Group will present work on Digital School and Student Portfolios Ð a set of multimedia software tools that provide new ways of looking at a school's progress toward reform and a student's progress toward meeing a school's goals. The presentation is one of 11 demonstrations chosen from a national search.
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.
Events for March 21 to April 18
West Survey: Voters support electric power deregulation; oppose compensation for utilities; they're unhappy with cuts in welfare cash assistance provided to those on public assistance; favor a 24-hour waiting period for abortions; and favor Congressman Jack Reed over State Treasurer Nancy Mayer in the race for the U.S. Senate.
"The American Cultural Impact on Germany, France, Italy and Japan, 1945-1995: An International Comparison" will examine how America's cultural imports have been received and resisted by Western Europe and Japan since World War II. The sessions will take place April 12-13 in the Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall.
The 1996 Harriet W. Sheridan Literature and Medicine Endowed Lecture will be given by author Suzanne Poirier at 4 p.m. Wednesday, April 10, in Room 001 of the Salomon Center for Teaching. Her lecture is titled "I Think She's Gonna Bury Me': Stories of Family Care Giving."
Events for March 14 - April 4
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.
"Debating Affirmative Action: The Politics of Inclusion," a two-day conference exploring the issue of affirmative action, will take place March 15-16 at the Thayer Street Quadrangle and the Salomon Center for Teaching
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.
The Annenberg Foundation has awarded $12 million, to be matched two to one, to help New York City implement an arts-based education improvement effort in the city's public schools. Classroom teachers, community organizations, arts specialists, parents, universities and individual artists will work together to implement programs specific to each school site.
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 Royce Fellows Program, established by a $3-million gift from alumnus Charles Royce '61, will provide support for undergraduate research projects and other academic enrichment and confer lifelong membership in the Society of Royce Fellows.
Internationally renowned legal scholar and philosopher Ronald Dworkin, professor of law at the New York University Law School and Oxford University, will give a Meiklejohn Lecture titled "An Ethics for Democracy" at 8 p.m. Monday, March 18, in Sayles Hall.
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.
President Vartan Gregorian and Associate Dean of the College David Targan, each a recipient of Portugal's highest civilian honor, have been invited by the Portuguese government to attend the inauguration of Portugal's next president on March 9.
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.
Andy van Dam is elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Chemistry department uses Web postings to supplment instruction, devise new teaching techniques
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.
Robert A. Reichley has been awarded the 1996 District I Eleanor Collier Award by the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
Events for February 21 - March 21
A memorial service will be held to honor Vincent Tomas, professor of philosophy emeritus, at 1 p.m. Saturday, Feb. 24, in the Crystal Room of Alumnae Hall
Events for February 14 - March 14
Results of the Providence Journal national survey of electorate attitudes, done in conjunction with the ProJo conference
Corporation approves 4.8-percent tuition increase. Fees for 1996-97: Tuition $21,592; room $3,986; board $2,552; fees $528; TOTAL $28,658
Events for February 8 - March 7
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)
Full release on ProJo conference, with schedules and bios
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.
Events for February 1-28
Robert McNamara to deliver Ogden Lecture 2/15
Nancy Hoffman named director of the Office of the President
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.
Events for 1/25/96 - 2/23
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.
Events for January 19 - February 15
Robert McNamara to deliver an Ogden Lecture Feb. 15 at 8 p.m. in Salomon
Kasnellakis-Otoya memorial service scheduled for Monday, January 29, at 7:30 p.m. in Sayles Hall
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.
Statement in response to Sunday Globe story on Martin Keller, Corrigan Mental Health Center, and allegations of $218,000 in misspent state funds.
Paris Kanellakis, Maria-Teresa Otoya and their two children are presumed dead in American Airlines crash last night (12/20/95) in Colombia
Gregorian announces decision not th arm police officers on campus
The National Endowment for the Humanities has provided $250,000 to Choices for the 21st Century, a library-based program that brings citizens together to discuss public policy choices the nation faces as it approaches the next century. The program will be offered in 90 public libraries in eight states in 1996 Ð Connecticut, Iowa, Illinois, Maine, North Carolina, South Carolina, Utah and Virginia.
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.
The Arts, Culture, and Technology Initiative will link efforts to create classrooms that use the arts and technology to improve learning in all subject areas. School districts in California, the District of Columbia, Florida, Kentucky, Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, North Carolina, New York, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Washington may benefit from the Initiative, supported by an Annenberg Challenge grant.
Sources and Ideas piece on Jim Head, tied to the Galileo mission to Jupiter
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.
Events for 12/4 - 1/24 (last events release of calendar year)
Sociologist Phil Brown and colleagues found the Catskills Institute to preserve and study the Borscht Belt
Peggy Chang named Venture Consortium director
Events for November 29 - December 14
ProJo conference is announced: "Democracy in America" Does It Still Work?"
Nedzib Sacirbey, Bosnia-Herzegovina's ambassador-at-large, to discuss Bosnian peace prospects Nov. 29. See also 95-060a, a news advisory for the press conference
Events for November 23 through Decemer 7
Gregorian announces 1995-96 President's Lecture Series: John Ashbery, poet 11/27; John Guare, playwright 11/30; Nancy Milford, biographer 12/7; Wilma Mankiller, former chief of Cherokee Nation 12/11; Cornel West, author 12/12; Hedrick Smith, journalist/author 2/5; Zaha Hadid, architectural designer 2/12; Edmund White, novelist 2/13; Eric Rouleau, journalist, former French diplomat 3/6; Francine du Plessix Gray, author 3/12; Tom Wolfe, author 4/17 [SEE ALSO 95-055a, advising a change of date for John Guare]
Career Planning Services and Alumni Relations team up for international teleconferencing session for students
Martin Indyk, U.S. ambassador to Israel, and Ralph Begleiter will discuss Middle East peace during an Ogden lecture 11/21. The Israeli ambassador to the U.S., Itamar Rabinovitch, may also join them.
Robert Arellano -- a.k.a., Bobby Rabyd -- launches "Coven Pride," a web-based magazine of the supernatural and horror
Multimedia Lab changes the way arts and humanities present information
Events for 11/16-30
Douglas Adams, author of "Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy," to speak 11/13, sponsored by Brown Lecture Board
Events for November 9 - 23
Lisa Bakewell develops PROLARTI, a CD-ROM/Internet project for human language qcquisition and the arts
University dedicates Dyer chair in Indianapolis ceremony.
University Disciplinary Council finds two students not guilty of violations in Spats brawl
More than 3,500 educators from around the country will gather at the Coalition of Essential Schools' annual Fall Forum in New York City Nov. 2-4 to explore methods for improving classroom practice and student achievement. See also 95-044h (hometowned for teachers in attendance) and 95-044a (listing of newsworthy events during the Fall Forum).
Events for Nov. 2 - 17
Brown receives funds to acquire Alcoholics Anonymous archives
Events 10/26 - 11/9
Graduate playwriting program and Trinity Repertory Company launch the Providence Playwriting Program with a $150,000 grant from the Harold and Mimi Steinberg Charitable Trust
The former site of Bethel A.M.E. Church, 193 Meeting St., will be dedicated as a historic site at 11:30 a.m. Saturday, Oct. 28
Fayneese Miller studies Generation Y and the American dream
Dietrich Neumann named RI Teacher of the Year (CASE)
Bob Reichley announces his retirement, effective Dec. 31
Tim McDermott named associate VP at medical school
Events from October 19 to November 2
Story idea of Brown Journal of World Affairs
Bell Gallery offers Film Architecture exhibit, including set designs from 20th-century film classics
Events for October 12 - 26
Events for October 5 - 19
Dennis Littky and Deborah Meier to present video discussion of what works in educational reform 10/10
Annenberg Institute names board of overseers
Howard Fuller named senior fellow at Annenberg Institute
Darrell West Survey: Rhode Islanders oppose downtown mall, Lincoln Almond, OJ; prefer Reed to Mayer
Events for Sept. 28 - Oct. 12
Brown launches another BRUIN course (David Lewis on a drug-free America)
Events for 9/21 - 10/5
University closes Barus & Holley roof (including astronomical observatory) because of fumes leaking from exhaust stacks
Belarusian entrepreneurs from Brown-sponsored program on a four-city swing to find venture capital
Events for 9/14 - 9/28
C.V. Starr fellowships awarded to eight Brown students. Program is now extended to match federal stipends awarded through Americorps. See 95/019a for background on public service at Brown
News Advisory: Claiborne Pell and Robert Kerrey will be available to press in Maddock at 11:20 a.m. on Monday, 9/11
Annenberg Institute announces rural grants
Brown offers two houses for sale at $10 each (Howell House and 15 Manning Walkway). The idea is to move them thus save them.
A nuclear weaponry curriculum for high schools, prepared by Choices for 21st Century
Events for Sept. 7 - 21, 1995
Elie Wiesel to deliver opening convocation address 9/5/95 at 11 a.m.
Gregorian statement on Pettine's rejection of Title IX compliance plan
Two graduating seniors from Providence public high schools have been named City of Providence Scholars: Julia DaCruz of Central High School and Ewa Romaszewicz of Classical High School
Fayneese Miller named director of Center for Race and Ethnicity in America
BLC announces fall programs, including The Real Pocahontas (offered by Haffenreffer Museum)
Moody's upgrades University's bond rating from Aa to Aa1, citing superior market position, excellence of student body, low level of indebtedness, and well-maintained financial operations.
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)
Background for Master Plan hearing. This release was designed to be handed out to media as needed; it was not mailed.
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.
Conference on Women in Japan: The Last Fifty Years 7/18
James Pomerantz of Rice University named provost at Brown
Jerome Sames and John Donoghue report on how the brain controls human movement
Darrell West survey says RI voters are bearish on the American dream, pessimistic on RI economy
Leadership Alliance does DC, July 7-8
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.
Jim Head named Scherck professor
Brown presents master plan for city approval. See also 94/194a, which outlines Brown's commitment to historic preservation
Leadership Alliance to convene national symposium on minorities in research July 7-8 at National Academy of Sciences in Washington
Summer Institute To Examine the Lives of Women in Ancient Near East
Five new trustees and two new fellows elected
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
Honorary degrees: Harold Bailey, Lyman Bloomingdale, Athol Fugard, William Hewlett, Maya Lyn, Shimon Peres, Dorothy Sterling
Bring a Book to Brown media advisory
Pfizer employees earn first off-site master's degrees at Brown
Peter Heywood and Barbara Tannenbaum receive Hazeltine citations; Tom Wachtel gets medical citation
Three Graduate School alumni receive awards
Six graduate students win President's Awards
Class of 1995 honors convocation set for Saturday, May 27, at 4:30 in Lincoln Field
Evelyn Cheremiah, a Laguna Pueblo potter, to demonstrate traditional pot making at Haffenreffer 5/26
Brown announces its "Unrequired Reading List"
10 seniors receive Joslin Awards for 1995
Commencement Arts and Entertainment
Annenberg-Hewlett Challenge extended to San Francisco Bay Area school reformers
25th annual Commencement Forums set for May 27-28
Commencement: Rev. James Alexander Forbes to deliver baccalaureate address
Joycelyn Elders to address medical school at Commencement
Graduate School convocation at Commencement
Howard Foundation announces1995-96 fellowships
Jack Mustard looks at Mars
Martha Nussbaum elected to American Philosophical Society
Reichley statement on UFW accusation by Olivia Chavez Rodriguez
Brown says Thank You
Henry D. Sharpe named chief marshal for 227th Commencement
Alumni, friends, parents prepare to Bring a Book to Brown for Commencement service project
Events for May 11 to 25
Kenneth Sacks named Dean of the College
Tara Rodgers and Amy Sohn chosen as senior orators for Commencement
1995 Commencement advisory
Shimon Peres to deliver Ogden Lecture on Sunday May 28 as part of Commencement Forums
Brown celebrates National Astronomy Day
Events for May 4 through May 18
WWII Artists in Uniform exhibition opens May 1, runs through June 30
Materials Science Day is April 29
Christiane Amanpour to receive Welles Hangen Award 5/4
Events for April 27 - May 11
Second OCR letter contains additional vindication of University in Latino discrimination allegations
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.
Events for April 20 through May 4
Brown pitches in for Christmas in April community service on April 29
Gretchen Schultz receives 1995 Wriston Fellowship
Faculty Convocation set for April 19 at 4 p.m.
Madeleine Kunin to keynote Taubman Center's 10th anniversary
Ted Turner to deliver John Hazen White lecture 4/26
Events: April 13 - 27
Brown University has formally requested that 37 Rhode Island cities and towns remove from their tax bills any mention of a personal property tax exemption for Brown faculty. That exemption, granted by King George III in 1764, was voluntarily abandoned by the University in 1965. Faculty hired since then must waive the exemption as a condition of employment. Continued mention of that exemption causes confusion and resentment.
News Advisory: Clare Gregorian grazes sheep on the Green in honor of President Gregorian's 61st birthday
OCR gives Brown clean bill of health, finds no evidence of discrimination in financial aid operation
PONG festival celebrates experimental, computer-assisted art
Fact sheet on athletics at Brown [background for Title IX case]
Normal Mailer to deliver President's Lecture April 17
Susan Sontag to deliver President's Lecture April 18
Events for April 6 - April 20
Summary of Summer Session offerings at Brown
Bianca Jagger to serve as honorary chair of Feinstein Hunger Awards
Hunger Research Briefing and Exchange will debate scarcity and policy issues, April 5-7
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.
Carter-Brezhnev conference release
Events for 3/30 - 4/13
Press advisory for Ray Bradbury visit
Peter Matthiessen to deliver President's Lecture 4/4/95
John Wideman's President's Lecture 4/10/95
Events for March 23 - April 6
Choices for 21st Century launches nationwide public policy discussions in public libraries (hometowned with mailmerged cover note to six states)
1994-95 Feinstein Hunger Award recipients announced: International Institute of Rural Reconstruction ($24,000); John van Hengel ($10,000); Hans Singer ($10,000)
Conference on sexual orientation and religions set for April 7-8
Hunger Web puts world hunger information at world's fingertips (sidebar to Hunger release)
David Lewis helped lead the WHO's cocaine project, the results of which have just been released
Bill Damon says "youth charters," which spell out common moral and cultural values, help stave off a number of juvenile problems
Brown's statement on fire protection and its investment in new alarms and sprinklers
Constantine Gatsonis named head of Center for Statistical Sciences
John Elion is an early leader in the transmission of diagnostic-quality computer images
Events for March 16 - March 30
Media Advisory: Pickering and Vorontsov to discuss collapse of detente, parallels between Afghanistan and Chechnya, at press conference in DC March 27
Eowyn Reike MD '97 heads an AMSA program that puts medical student expertise at the disposal of community service groups through AmeriCorps
Speakers to explore history and culture of pre-Castro Cuba in dual lecture series (Brown and NYC)
Events for March 9 through 23
David Cutts and Richard Partridge participate in the discovery of the Top Quark at Fermilab
Harry A. Blackmun to deliver 1995 Meiklejohn Lecture March 14
Gregorian receives honorary degree from Yerevan State University Feb. 21
Darrell West's poll: mixed reviews on Gov. Almond, but state is headed in right direction
Hume to deliver Ogden Lecture
Lucille Lortel Playwrighting Fund announced
Events release for 3/2 - 3/16
Brown files reply brief in Title IX case
Brown University AIDS Project (BRUNAP) gets major grant from AmFAR
Events for Feb. 23 - March 9
Brown will host New England Science Bowl 2/25
Dwight Heath says studies decrying increased college drinking are wrong
Humphrey Maris et al. levitate droplets of superfluid helium; are attempting same for frog embryos
Events release for 2/16 - 3/2
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
W. Duncan MacMillan gives $10 million for undergraduate Sciences Center, moving his total Campaign commitment to $20 million
Media Advosiry: Rep. Jack Reed to visit Brown Monday 2/13
Annenberg Institute announces its National School Reform Faculty program
Lydia English to take position at Bennington College
Events for February 9 through 23
Five Brown physicians named among the nation's best by Town and Country
Brown prepares its list of unrequired reading for "Think-Read" program
Media advisory: National reform faculty press conference
Annenberg Philadelphia announcement
Events release for Feb. 2 - 16
Western films transcend gender, race, sexual orientation and politics, says grad student Yardena Rand
Events Release for Jan. 26 - Feb. 9
Annenberg Challenge to Chicago announced (release issued through L.R. Glenn Communications)
Madeleine Kunin does whirlwind tour of Brown and Providence; speaks at 4 p.m. in Sayles Hall
Ellen Messer gives a mid-term report on the Bellagio Declaration
Vartan Gregorian receives the Prince Henry the Navigator medal from President Soares during a luncheon in the Presidential Palace in Lisbon
Steve Jordan gives $100,000 to establish the Steven R. Jordan scholarship fund for minority scholar-athletes
Gregorian and Mara Liasson do national teleconference Feb. 1. Release was distributed in editions for each of about two dozen host cities
Annenberg Challenge to Los Angeles is announced. See also 94/076a (overview of Annenberg Institute), 94/076b (bio of Vartan Gregorian) and 94/076c (bio of Ted Sizer)
Brown initiates free wellness program for all employees
Peter Uvin says United Nations isn't rigorous about population figures in Burundi and Rwanda (Nature article, dated 12/8)
Events for 12/8 - 12/22
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
Robert Caro to deliver President's Lecture 12/1
Events: 12/1 - 12/15
Christine Heenan named associate director for government and community affairs
Events: 11-24 - 12/8
Lord Anthony Quinton to deliver President's Lecture Dec. 6
Ending the Liberian civil war
Nikita Khrushchev 100th conference
Crew trophies stolen from Marston Boathouse
Alfred Kazin to deliver President's Lecture
Events: November 17 through December 1
Visiting Russian teachers learn new method
Military Recruiting at Brown
Events: November 10 though 24
ACI HIV Treatment Program
Frank Rothman steps down as Provost
Events: November 3 through 17
Vandenburgh studies in Shuttle Experiment
School Reform conference in Chicago
Events: October 27 through November 10
Centennial of First Japanese Graduate
Latin American Finances
Events: October 20 through November 3
Nat'l Health Care Initiative for Underserved
Chaudhuri helps victims of domestic abuse
William Styron as President's Lecturer
Events October 13 through 27
Background of Financial Aid
25th Anniversary of Brown Curriculum
Galina Starovoitova joins Watson Institute
H. Hughes Med. Institute Awards $1.5
J. Fraser Mustard kicks off the President's Lecture season Oct. 11 with address on Canadian health system
Rutherford Studies Volcanism
Events: October 6 through 20
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.
Title IX Press Conference
Investigation of death of Anthony Riccio
Events: 9/29 - 10/13
Darrell West survey on governor's race
University responds to OCR investigation
"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."
University updates its sexual harrassment policy and procedures
Four women's coaching positions improved through gift from Finn Caspersen [ volleyball team, a Title IX plaintiff, has funding restored]
Events for 9/22 - 10/6
Dirk Struik, 100-year-old mathematician, will give his own centenary lecture 9/30 at 3:30 p.m.
Neil Corkery appointed executive director of HELP (sent on HELP letterhead)
Events for 9/15 - 29
BCLIR announces fall offerings for senior citizens
David Halberstam to deliver address at Opening Convocation 9/12 at 5:15 p.m.
Alumni Recognition Ceremony: Frank Newman gets William Rogers Award
Leslie Kaelbling named NSF presidential faculty fellow
Ten Belarusian entrepreneurs, having gone through a BURF-sponsored course in Western business practices, are on a five-city tour shopping their business plans. See also 94/014b for plan descriptions
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
School superintendents visit Annenberg Institute to discuss roles they play in school reform
15 teachers take part in Teaching Fellows Program of the Choices for the 21st Century Education Project [hometowned]
Dana Foundation gives Brown $500K for neural science research
Appointment of Ed Abrahams, who starts as director of government and community affairs Sept. 15, 1994.
Bruce Becker, M.D., arranges Third-World rotations for residents in training at Rhode Island hospitals
Steve Gladstone retires from coaching crew; joing the Development Office
EFL Students Piece Together an Understanding of American Volunteerism by Making Quilts for Hasbro Children's Hospital
Brown, Channel 6 to host Democratic gubernatorial debate for Bruce Sundlun, Myrth York, Louise Durfee August 10
Richard B. Salomon dies at 82
Swearer Center gets $80,000 grant for volunteer programs in Providence
West Survey: RI voters support tougher rules on domestic violence, oppose gambling, believe O.J. Simpson is guilty
Connecticut students meet Moscow pen pals through Brown's video link
Robert A. Reichley to receive CASE award for service to higher education
Financial Aid Office reorganized; Fernando de Nicochea resigns; Tony Canchola-Flores takes over
Brown to offer master's degree at Pfizer Inc. in Groton Conn.
Mark Baer received Howard Hughes Medical Institute fellowship worth $2.5 million
Reichley statement on financial aid office letter
Lincoln Almond and Ron Machtley to debate 6/23 at 8 p.m.
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
Commencement: 1994 honorary degrees to be awarded to Marian Wright Edelman, Bronislaw Geremek, Nak-chung Paik, Walter Annenberg, Leonore Annenberg, Nancy L. Buc, Masaru Ibuka, Robert MacPherson, Matthew D. Scharff, Joy Ungerleider-Mayerson
Natasha Gelfand of Classical High School and Sonia Rodrigues of Hope High School named Providence Scholars for Class of 1998
Deborah Meier appointed to full-time Annenberg Institute position as Urban Schools Fellow. Will work half-time with Chancellor Cortines.
Metro Boston Center for Collaborative Education announced. Sizer to speak 5/25 at 2 p.m. inauguration
Commencement: Hazeltine awards to Dietrich Neumann and Marjorie Thompson
Terry and Jan Tullis lead 35 Brown faculty, students and alumni in presentations at American Geophysical Union in Baltimore 5/23-27
Undergraduate honors convocation
Commencement 1994: Brown Wind Symphony to present Commencement concert
Brown Orchestra wins ASCAP award for programming
Commencement: Kehli Harding and Russell Curley are 1994 Senior Oratyors
Alumni service project at Southside Community Land Trust / Swearer Memorial Garden
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
12 Joslin Awards to be presented to graduating seniors
John Elion and the Cardiac Image Network at Miriam Hospital
Commencement 1994: Irving R. Levine named chief marshal
NPR's Sylvia Poggioli to talk Italian Politics May 27
Commencement: 24 forums scheduled for Saturday, May 28
Graduate School convocation speakers, alumni citation and presidential teaching awards recipients
Medical School Commencement convocation, speakers, award recipients
Sources and Ideas: Brown Summer High School will run 6/27 - 7/22
Presidential Teaching Awards for 1994
Commencement: Rabbi Michael Paley to deliver baccalaureate address
Commencement: "It's Only a Play," by Terrence McNally, to be staged as benefit for Friends of Brown Theater
Alumni musical cabaret to be presented Saturday May 28
Lord Anthony Quinton to lecture at Brown in fall semester
Commencement Overview 1994
Rites & Reason offers world premiere of Going to Meet the Light; will hold over through Commencement
Events for 5/5 - 5/19 (last of the year)
Gordon Wood elected to American Philosophical Society
David Cutts and Richard Partridge say the CDF team's announcement that the top quark has been found may be somewhat premature
Space Grant poster session in Warwick public schools 4/28
Events: April 28 - May 12
Brown ends restrictions on South African investments (A&E vote on 4/15/94).
Carle Pieters is a scientist on Clementine Mission to the moon. Will do press conference on NASA Select May 1
Thomas J. Biersteker named director of the Watson Institute
Darrell West survey on government employees: They get no respect
One-page background on the Campus Dance being held in Grand Central Station in NYC
Hunger Briefing and Exchange to coincide with Feinstein Awards
Gregorian presents President's Medal to Carl Haffenreffer 4/10
H. Denman Scott appointed associate dean of medicine for primary care. Will start Aug. 1
Events for 4/7 - 4/21
Carlos Fuentes, others, to examine U.S. - Mexico relations 4/14
Robert L. Carter to deliver Meiklejohn lecture April 20
Damon convenes Brown and Radcliffe conference on children: Growing up in Changing Times
BLC offers special program, Jews of Rhode Island
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
Eric Widmer resigns to become headmaster at Deerfield Academy
Events for 3/17 - 3/31
President's lecture series omnibus release: E.L. Doctorow, Calvin Trillin, David Levering Lewis, Leslie Gelb, Jamaica Kincaid, Anna Quindlen
Oke Lundin and George Loftus are designing computer wiring for RI schools
Sir Crispin Tickell, diplomat and environmentalist, will speak March 18 on "The Human Species: A Suicidal Success."
1994 Feinstein World Hunger Awards announced: COLUFIFA, a community-based self-help organization in Senegal, to receive $25,000 ASF award. Three $10,000 merit awards to be given: Child in Need Institute of India (service); Carlos Ochoa of the International Potato Center in Peru (research; The Sacramento Bee (media)
Eight Resource Scholars present their findings Tuesday evenings in March and April
Events for March 3 - 17
Coalition of Essential Schools names second group of math-science fellows
NASA installs ViTS at Brown
Banchoff at NSF computerr graphics show
Event Feb. 24 - March10
Minear and Weiss release study on U.N. humanitarian aid in the former Yugoslavia
Peter Hocking named director of Swearer Center
ProJo Conference Feb. 28 - March 10: Growing Old in America
Ann Dill wins Wriston Fellowship for one semester in 1994-95 academic year
Manisses Communications hosts conference on adolescent violence Feb. 28
West survey: RI voters put Sundlun in dead heat for Democratic primary, favor Chafee over Kushner, support ban on handgun sales
Events for Feb. 17 - March 3
Tuition set for 1994-95: $19,528. Total student fees come to $25,954
Robert Utley, authority on native American wars, to deliver fifth annual Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection lecture
Saturday Program receives $15,000 from Nellie Mae
BCLIR's 10th anniversary year offerings
Survey on the Providence Center Mall: Rhode Islanders only want it if it is done without public money
James Carville, Clinton strategist, to deliver Hazen White lecture 2/18
Events for Feb. 10 through 24
John Chancellor to receive Welles Hangen Award Feb. 17
Ted Turner gives $25 million to Brown
Employees recognized for 25 years of service. Various editions archived as: 93/085a for Providence; 93/085b for East Bay; 93/085c for Metro North; 93/085d for Metro West II; 93/085e for Pawtuxet Valley; 93/085f for Somerset; 93/085g for West Bay
Samuel Ramirez named director of EEO/AA
Teleconference technology enters the classroom for five-school computer graphics course
Events Feb. 3 - Feb. 17
Kistersky and Khrusuchev discuss Russia-Ukraine relations in a Valentine's Day foreign affairs forum
Events: Jan. 27 - Feb 10
NSF grants $692K to Institute for Secondary Education toward establishing a middle school curriculum for life sciences based at Roger Williams Zoo
Package of curriculum background materials for 25th anniversary (hand-delivered only; not mailed). Also includes:
Ulf Grenander uses mathematical theories to harness computers for assisting in interpreting CAT, PET, MRI and other images of the brain
Phil Lieberman uses speech testing to diagnose cognitive impairment among high-altitude climbers; technique could be used to monitor air traffic controllers et al.
Obituary information for Thomas J. Watson Jr.
Mark Whipple named head football coach (release by Chris Humm)
Ambassador Walter Annenberg's $500-million "Challenge to America" is announced by President Clinton in a White House ceremony.
Hassenfeld Chair announced at VG dinner for Hassenfeld family
Balfour Minority Leadership and Scholars Program established with $600,000 five-year grant from L. G. Balfour foundation (managed by Fleet financial services)
Events 12/9 - 12/23 (last events release of 1993; will resume in late January)
Happy and John Hazen White Sr. Internships announced
Events for 11/25 - 12/9
Michael Zantovsky, Czech Ambassador to the US, delivers Ogden entitled "Central Europe: How Central Is It?" 12/7/93
Fatima Mernissi, author and harem daughter, presents President's Lecture, "Are We Harem Free?" 12/9/93
Mickey Kwiatkowski's contract is not renewed.
Buddy Cianci to help kick off Thayer Street Food Drive
Gregorian releases Report of the Ad Hoc Committee on Financial Aid
Brown chosen to participate in the Federal Direct Student Loan Program in its first year
Events 11/11 - 11/25
Sheila Blumstein resigns as dean of the College
Gregorian received Dana Award, distributes money to scholarships and libraries
Susan Stroud resigns as director of Swearer Center, will work for Corporation for National and Community Service as liaison
Women Writers Festival
Events: 11/4 - 11/18
RUBK story idea with thumbnail bios of major participants
Events: Oct 28 - Nov. 11
Gregorian's statement on Annenberg gift potential
Coalition of Essential Schools offers fall forum in Louisville, Ky.
National Institute for School Reform launched with $5-million anonymous gift
E. J. Dionne to inaugurate the Hazen White Lecture Series with "The Four Crises in American Politics (With Apologies to Richard Nixon)" Tuesday, Nov. 2, at 7:30 p.m.
Events: 10/21 - 11/4
Alioune Cissoko named manager of special services for Police and Security
Duncan MacMillan gives $10M for faculty endowment
Events 10/14 - 10/28
Gregorian statement on Hispanics
University Donates 20 Computers To City For Providence Police Project
George Morgan named first Gilbane Presidential Fellow
Ellen Messer named director of Feinstein World Hunger Program
Tighter restrictions on false alarms
Leonid L. Kistersky becomes the E. L. Wiegand Distinguished Visiting Professor at Watson Institute
Leonid Kistersky story idea
Carlos Fuentes to join Brown faculty.
Dill Center dedicated.
Production of West Side Story helps celebrate Dill Center dedication
Continuing College on the future of the American theater
Dill honorary degrees
Hillary Clinton to visit Brown 10/8, conduct hour-long prime-time broadcast on health care reform
Darrell West survey on Supreme Court Justice Fay and impeachment
Conference honors Daniel Berkeley Updike (1860-1941) and 100th anniversary of his Marymount Press 10/1-3
Colloquium on Aging and Old Age sponsored by Brown and Goethe Institute Oct. 1 and 2
Grand reopening of the Brown Book Store
John Hazen White Sr. endows a lecture series
Stanley Elkin to read as President's Lecturer Sept. 17
Kathryn Spoehr named Dean of the Graduate School
Events: Sept. 9 - 23
BCLIR announces fall seminar offerings
John Levin, president of Yale, to speak at Opening Convocation Sept. 7
Wallace Terry to deliver Class of 1997 Lecture Sept. 7
University to open computer cluster and study hall in former Pembroke Library
Story idea on staff development day
Darrell West survey: RI voters want major change in state pension system
Chafee to speak Aug. 11 about issues, including gun control
Wyche's Leadership Alliance fete Aug. 6
Andy van Dam's summer graphics research course for area high school teachers and students
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
Davis Educational Foundation gives $600K to library to finish Josiah project
Reaves appointed Senior Vice President for Finance and Administration
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
Hazeltine Citations to Beiser and Morone; medical senior ditation to Herb Constantine
Honorary degrees: Willard C. Butcher, William H. Gray III, Audrey Hepburn, Peter D. Lax, W. Duncan MacMillan, Nafis Sadik, Lila Sapinsley and R.E. "Ted" Turner
Alumni undertake public service projects as part of reunion activities
Levi's testimony against bills which would require nonprofits to pay taxes (H-6802 and H-6884)
Choices in Education Project does Bosnia
Nine seniors named Joslin Award winners
William H. Gray III, CEO of United Negro College Fund, to deliver baccalaureate address May 30
Morley Safer to receive first Welles Hangen Award May 29 as part of Commencement forum
Jay W. Fidler named 1993 Commencement chief marshal
Six graduate teaching assistants or research fellows named winners of presidential awards
Graduate and medical convocation speakers
Ted Turner to deliver "special presentation" at Commencement Forums
Boris Biancheri, Italian ambassador to US, will deliver Ogden lecture 5/29
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
Lee Busabos '92.5 and Lara Schwartz '93 are the senior orators for 1993 commencement
Sixth Musical Cabaret scheduled for 10 and 11:30 p.m. Saturday 5/29
Winthrop Jordan, Carolyn Rovee-Collier and George Veronis to receive Graduate Alumni Citations
Rites & Reason Theatre presents Brer Rabbit
Commencement Advisory for 1993
Sheila Blumstein and Lambert Freund named fellows of the AAAS
Events for 5/6 - 5/20
Howard Foundation awards seven fellowships
Ted Sizer is named Annenberg Professor of the Year
Bernstein, Levy and Yamashita win Wriston Fellowships
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.
Koppel gives ABC's $10,000 Feinstein award to Irish Concern
Citibank throws NYC recognition event for Coalition of Essential Schools' Citibank Faculty 4/30
Events for 4/15 - 4/29
Events for 4/8 - 4/22
Hathaway to deliver the first JosŽ Amor y Vazquez Lecture 4/13
ASF Awards: Koppel to give keynote; tributes to Audrey Hepburn and Bob Kates
Chris Love, Anne Diffily, Brucie Harvey are promoted
Brendel Memorial Fund used to buy 1990 United Nations documents set
Feinstein Award winners: Haiti's Mouveman Peyizan Papaye (MPP); Long Ping Yuan of the Hunan Hybrid Rice Research Center; the International Committee of the Red Cross; ABC News Nightline
Events for 4/1 - 4/15
Events for 3/25 - 4/8
Two-day seminar on students whose primary language is not English. April 1-2
Natalie Zemon Davis to inaugurate the Sonia Galletti Lecture at JCB.
Events for 3/18 - 4/1
Tribute to Stan Kenton to be performed by Brown Jazz Band and guest artists March 20.
Events for 3/11 - 3/25
Events for 3/4 - 3/18
Darrell West survey: 85% of Rhode Islanders approve of mandatory auto insurance
Coalition of Essential Schools selects 13 Thompson fellows.
Coalition of Essential Schools adds 28 Citibank teachers to national Re:Learning faculty
Events for 2/25 - 3/11
Native American Week, sponsored by Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology
Julio Ortega organizes weeklong conference on Mexico
Kenneth Starr to deliver Meikeljon Lecture during ProJo conference, will donate papers to John Hay Library.
1993 Providence Journal/Brown University Public Affairs Conference (aka ProJo Conference): Race in America: The Search for Common Ground.
Update to ProJo release: Richardson address has new time, date and location.
Harold Ward and students design a commercial recycling program for RI
Events for 2/18 - 3/4
Background "white paper" about military recruitment on campus.
Tuition set for 1993-94
Phillip J. Stiles named provost at North Carolina State University effective July 1, 1993.
Mozart's Magic Flute to be performed 2/26 and 2/28
Mellon Foundation gives $200K for Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program
Events at Brown: 2/4 - 2/18
Mary Eugenia Charles, prime minister of Dominica, to present Ogden Feb. 10.
Signal to Syntax conference to investigate acquisition of language in children, Feb. 19-21
Laws & Nature: Shaping Sex, Preferences and Family conference set for Feb. 5-6.
Gregorian heads ad hoc committee on football
Admiral Crowe, head of Clinton's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, to discuss the future of politics and the military in memorial lecture Feb. 5
Gerald Shapiro's new work, Piano Trio 1992, to receive its premire Feb. 6 in Salomon
Claire Bloom, Alla Demidova to present Silenced Women: The Poems of Anna Akhmatova and Marina Tsvetayeva as a President's Lecture Jan. 28
Richard Smoke announces final report of Security for Europe project
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.
Institute for Secondary Education gets $400 million NEH grant for multicultural enrichment
John Hazen White Sr. endows Darrell West's Public Opinion Laboratory, now renamed
Center for Foreign Policy issues "Security for Europe" with five eastern European countries
Pembroke Library to close in June
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.
Events: 12/3 - 12/17
Events 11/26 - 12/10
JCB gets NEH grant to continue European Americana project
Brown Bookstore, Thayer merchants sponsor food drive
Oxfam sponsors two-day fast for workd hunger
Events: 11/19 - 12/3
Gregorian receives Bezalel Jerusalem Prize for arts and letters
Adult Academy award ceremony set
Events: 11/12 - 11/26
Appointment of Fernando de Nicochea as director of financial aid
Events: 11/5 - 11/19
Barrett Hazeltine to teach at University of Botswana in 1993
Red Alert prize winners announced by John Hazen White Sr. (NOT ON OUR LETTERHEAD)
Nurmikko gets NSF block grant for study of nanostructures
Adult Academy receives recognition award from Lamar Alexander
Events: 10/29 - 11/12
Four Futures results, hometowned to participating high schools
Corporation elects new fellows, trustees, treasurer
RI college and university students spend day of public service Oct. 24
Darrell West survey on General Assembly
Events: 10/22 - 11/5
Black postal workers study by Hilary Silver
Events: 10/15 - 10/29
Gregorian appoints 19 members to Ad Hoc Committee on Financial Aid
Events: 10/8 - 10/22
Events: 10/1 - 10/15
Darrell West survey: Legalized casino gambling, presidential race, performance
JCB inspires several exhibitions and publications for CQC
VG statement oposing casino gambling in Rhode Island
Columbus Quincentenary: Angelou, Fuentes and other speakers, panelists
VG in NYC: Faculty initiatives
Arts events for the Columbus Quincentenary
Events for 9/10 through 9/24
New York Kickoff background
George Fisher gets William Rogers Award; other alumni honored 9/11
BCLIR announces fall offerings
Orwell's 1984 manuscript given to library
Chun Hoon Scholars announced for 1992-93
Columbus Advisory: Events in calendar format
David McCollough to deliver Opening Convocation address
Brown donates bottled Commencement water to Pawtucket during bacteria problem
JCB Names 21 research fellows for 1992-93
Summer Studies to offer lectures, performances
ATLAS education reform program, headquartered at Brown, gets enormous federal grant
Portuguese and Brazilian Studies gets departmental status
Tom Weiss and Larry Minear finish study of UN humanitarian aid in Gulf War
Warwick schoolchildren win Space Contract poster contest medals
Alumni(ae) trustees announced
David Targan receives highest award from Portugal: Order of Prince Henry the Navigator
Providence Scholars announced: One from Classical, one from Hope
Darrell West survey: Perot leads Bush and Clinton; RI headed for perdition; optimism on RI economy
Murney Gerlach takes over for John McIntyre
Fortunoff Silver exhibition at Bell Gallery
Independent Award dinner 6/15 honors Akio Morita, Sony chairman
Donald J. Marsh named dean of medicine and biological sciences
Nine students win Joslin Awards
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.
Government documents section of Rockefeller Library dedicated to Alice Brendel
Byron Lichtenberg to deliver charter at Commencement
Arnold fellowships announced
Baker and Emery fellowships announced
Commencement: Hazeltine Awards, Medical Citations
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.
Commencement: Johnnetta Cole to deliver baccalaureate address
Commencement: Rod Chisholm to receive Rosenberger Medal
Presidential Teaching Awards given to six students
Brown Says Thank You to 13 employees (four release versions, sent to zones of hometown papers)
Commencement: Harvey M. Spear named Chief Marshal
Students apologize to University Hall staff; misdemeanor charge withdrawn
Commencement: Commencement Forums
Student orators chosen: Eric Rothaus, Alaraby Johnson and Andrew Greer
Coalition of Essential Schools offers two-day IBM conference
Commencement: Graduate Alumni Citations
Commencement: Musical Cabaret and "Dismember Mine" to be performed
Commencement: Rites & Reason presents "Fruits of Miss Morning" and Mardi Gras fund raiser
Commencement: Advisory
University gives students probation in UDC hearings re UH takeover; court case continues
Commencement: Brown Orchestra to perform with Eugenia Zukerman 5/24
Charleston String Quartet to perform works by women
Text of Gregorian's letter asking for leniency from court for students
Third World Alumni Program wins CASE gold medal
Shaye Cohen named first Ungerleider Professor of Judaic Studies
Brown to press only 2 of 5 charges against arrested students
Chronology of events in University Hall takeover (Printed in BDH but not sent as release)
Financial aid chronology and endowment data
RAR statement on need-blind admissions
The Great Concert with Itzhak Perlman 4/28 in New York
Jennifer Cadero-Gillette '92 named Mellon Fellow in Humanities
Four Howard R. Swearer Fellows named
VG statement and chronology on financial aid(Not sent)
Vice President Reichley's statement on women's athletics, made shortly after the University received its first notice that the Title IX case had been filed.
Campaign kickoff: $450 million for the rising generation
University establishes University Courses to fix MOT problem
Roskens to provide "concluding keynote" for Hunger BrieÞng 4/10
Admission letters mailed: 2,766 out of 12,187 applicants get good news
Gary Burton, vibraphonist, to present Eric Adam Brudner '84 Memorial Concert 4/11
David Kertzer named Þrst Paul Dupee University Professor of Social Sciences
Yuko Hayashi to play rededication recital for Hutchings-Votey organ in Sayles 4/5
Frank Newman to dedicate HRS Center for Public Service; Pell and Chafee to attend
Duke and His Mistress plays Worcester
Duke and His Mistress tours Great Britain.
Levi Adams named vice president for governmental and community affairs
BERTEX program launched
Events at Brown: 3/19 - 4/2
Nicolaos Kapouleas wins Sloan fellowship for mathematics
Audrey Hepburn, honorary chair, will deliver keynote at ASF Hunger Awards 3/12
MEDAC launched with $0.5 million from Kellogg
Feinstein Hunger Award Winners announced
Reprint of VG's BDH letter, distributed on Green at rally against anti-Semitic g raffiti
Resource Scholars to offer presentations
President's Lecture Series announced; Lord Annan and Clair Bloom to visit this year
Brown and Dartmouth wind symphonies present joint concert 3/7
Rebecca Flewelling named assistant to the president by VG
BCLIR announces spring seminars
Thompson fellows selected by CES
Citibank Coalition faculty announced
Haffenreffer opens exhibition on New England Native Americans
Forbes Center to be dedicated March 9-10
Camille Paglia to lecture 3/5
Minority Alumni Dinner honors Terry, Zen as Redding Fellows; Redding portrait unveiled
Applications up 2.5 percent to 12,044 and counting
Tuition and fees set for 1992-93 (new tuition = $17,384; fees = $5,969; total = $23,353
Ray Flynn to deliver Metcalf - Swearer memorial lecture to open ProJo Conference
ProJo Conference agenda (major release on the conference, including schedule)
Darrell West survey finds 9 percent approval for General Assembly. Even Pell is down in the polls.
Wriston awards for Bickford, Lockhart, Krech, Warren, and Yamashita
Humanitarianism and War project is funded and launched
Sherman is Brown's first Licht intern
Continuing College 1/25: A Matter of Time: Children, Poverty and Politics
Piyush Robert Jindal '91 receives Rhodes Scholarship
Danforth Foundation gives Brown $420,000 for minority PhD fellowships
Two of the White House Fellows are Brown grads
445 surplus tablet armchairs donated to Providence School Department
Two-way video teleconferencing established between Soviets, CFPD, IKI, Watson Institute
Events: 12/12 - 12/26
Robin Rose named new dean of student life
Cuban Crisis meeting set for Havana Jan 8-12, 1992 [see also 91/068a: Several panelists and participants have changed]
Events: 12/5 - 12/19
Thayer Street Food Drive
Events: 11/28 - 12/12
Rhapsody in Blue to be performed in original GrofŽ version
Search opened for Watson Institute Director; VG to be Acting Director; Center for Foreign Policy to become part of University
Gregorian appointed to IIE, Phi Beta Kappa, etc., etc.
Brown Orchestra and Chorus do Mozart's Requiem on his Death Date
Center for Foreign Policy hosts naval discussions among U.S., U.K. and U.S.S.R.
Oxfam gets 1,200 Brown students to give up a meal, raises >$2,000 for world hunger
Statement on Delta Tau / College Hill Independent case
Siersma named assistant vice president for human resources
Kurt Raaflaub to co-direct Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, DC
Library receives $500k gift from from John Crawford Jr.
Events: 11/14 - 11/28
Coalition of Essential Schools bags another $250K from Exxon Education Foundation
Statements on Brendell case
Library buys Albert Collection of George Bernard Shaw
Death of Iran Bachman, preventive measures for meningococcemia
Cluster of grants in Dean of College Office
HRS memorial details set
Events: 10/31 - 11/ 14
Gordon Wood delivers Presidential lecture in White House
Coalition of Essential Schools holds meeting in Chicago
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.
Sheila Blumstein appointed to endowed professorship
Events: 10/24 - 11/7
Swearer Memorial Service Set for 11/3/91 at 2 p.m.
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies gets several grants
Peter Eimas named Fred M. Seed Professor
Corporation accepts Tillinghast Report, renames Medical School
Latin American writers conference focusing on Venezuela
Ladd Observatory anniversary
Events: 10/17 - 10/31
Brown Athletics Department adopts Fox Point School
African Writers conference Nov. 4-8
Sizer, Coalition of Essential Schools sponsor forum for women's centennial
Events: 10/10 - 10/24
Zuni spokesman talks about repatriation of tribal materials at Haffenreffer
Alumnae Cabaret: Jeree Palmer, et al.
100 Years of Women at Brown: An overview of the symposium
Stanley Fish speaks about freedom of speech 10/10
Brown Orchestra announces 1991-92 concert season
Darrell West survey: RI approves of Clarence Thomas; all politicians' approval ratings slide
Events: 10/3 - 10/17
Arto Nurmikko invents blue-green laser diode
Events: 9/26 - 10/10
Harvey Silverman dean of engineering
1991 Champlin Fellows announced
Events release 9/19 - 10/3
JoBeth Williams to speak at Freshman Dinner
VanDam receives Coons award from SIGGRAPH
Robert Kates given National Medal of Science
Mary Robinson to deliver Ogden Lecture 9/19
Gregorian announces $1-million financial aid emergency fund; Wolfe named acting director of admission and financial aid operations
Thomson Fellows named by Coalition of Essential Schools (with Danforth grant)
Starr fellows for 1991-92 announced
Linda Mason to be honored at AABU recognition night. Brown Bears, alumni awards also.
Jill Ker Conway to speak at Opening Convocation 9/3
Beer kegs banned from Brown residence halls
Forbes Foundation grants $2 million for MCM; Brown names Malcolm Forbes Center for Modern Culture and Media
Center for Foreign Policy Development launches rapid deployment curriculum materials for high schools
Coalition of Essential Schools gets $2 million from DeWitt-WallaceÑReader's Digest fund
JCB Announces its 1991-92 Fellowship Winners
Darrell West Survey: Sundlun down, voters angry over pensions, etc.
Mari Jo Buhle gets a MacArthur Fellowship
Dennis Boucher named director of Police and Security Services
Commencement: Levi C. Adams wins W. W. Keen Award
Commencement Surprises: A.O. Way honorary degree; Howard Swearer's named directorship
Six new trustees named: Carter, Lloyd, Kobayashi, Peppard, Robert, Speed
Haffenreffer gets $41,000 grant for operations
Galletti and Greer leave the medical school
Judaic Studies receives $2-million grant from Dorot Foundation
Anton leaves the deanery to direct Providence Plan, Taubman Center
Commencement: Ten honorary degrees: Fisher, Greenhouse, Hunt, Massey, Mehta, Nitze, Para, Shevardnadze, Shklar, Tempkin
Statement on entering into the Justice Department consent decree
Commencement: Beiser, Rose get Hazeltine Awards; Wachtel gets Medical Senior Citation
Ann W. Caldwell named vice president for development
Commencement: Ruth Harris Wolf is the chief marshal
Suzanne Rivera and Tracey Robert are 1991 student orators
Commencement: Graduate Alumni Citations awarded to Cartwright, Cohen, Maxwell
Baker fellows for 1991 announced
Glynn reorganizes finance and administration
Events: 5/17 - 5/30
President's Public Service Awards announced for 12 students
Commencement: Press advisory for Shevardnadze press conference
Robert Bazell to address Medical School Convocation
Five Presidential Awards for Graduate Teaching Assistants
W. Duncan MacMillan Reading Room named at JCB
Bishop George N. Hunt to deliver baccalaureate address
Commencement: Two dozen forums and an Ogden on tap for 1991
"Jacques Brel Is Alice and Well and Living in Paris" featured for Commencement
Gregorian and Cianci announce new city-university partnership to end poverty (includes VG text)
Providence Scholars announced
Gregorian gives $265,000 (more or less) for Providence Public Library
Commencement: Billy Siegenfeld leads Alumni Musical Cabaret
Commencement: Ruby Shang's "Yellow Punk Dolls" featured by Third World Reunion people
George Street Journal laid to rest; lack of funds and staff make it candidate for budget cut
Commencement: Overview of Commencement Weekend
Joslin Awards given to seniors for service to fellow students
Events: May 9 - May 23
Gregorian travels to Japan, signs Keio University agreement
William Miller, assistant track coach, charged with rape, assault
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.
Eduard Shevardnadze to deliver Ogden Lecture Commencement Weekend, dedicate Watson Institute
Ken Burns, Mr. Civil War, to speak at Brown May 10
Events: 4/25 - 5/10
Earth Day founder Denis Hayes to lecture at Ittleson endowment dedication
12 honored for working with Brown's community outreach programs
Student designs "wink-controlled" wheelchair for disabled at VA center
Events: 4/11 - 4/25
Pell to chair reauthorization hearings here for Higher Education Act
Oddessey/ULTRA program participants announced
Events: March 29 - April 11
Justice Scalia to present Mieckeljohn lecture 4/8
Barbara Harris lecture on leadership
Brian Uhrquart to present Ogden Lecture on After the Cold War: Lessons from the Gulf
Jean Mayer is honorary chair of Hunger awards; Tony Hall to keynote Briefing and Exchange
PSA for Brown Office of Student Employment summer job listing
NSF science and technology center created at Brown, four other institutions
College Preparation for Learning Disabled Students
Events: 3/14/91 - 3/28/91
RAR statement on cancellation of overlap meetings this year
Kathryn Spoehr's second hypermedia grant
"Running Start" for high school juniors
Darrell West survey on public anget, dissatisfaction with General Assembly
Events: March 7 - March 21
Fiske to deliver Wolynsky-Joukowsky lecture
James Wyche named associate provost
Rhett Jones named director of Center for Race and Ethnicity
BAF kicks off its Cleveland solicitation program with Rothman and Kwiatkowski 3/11
Events: Feb. 28 - March 14
Schneider lecture series begins
Cohen Loan Fund (anonymous, however!) pays off loans for students in public service careers
Events: Feb. 21 - March 7
ProJo conference on free speech set for March 4
Corporation renames Churchill theater for George Bass
VG's letter to Sundlun calls for outside investigator for RISDIC
Events: Feb. 14 - Feb. 28
VG's statement about Free Speech (response to NY Times)
New senior vice president for finance and administration to succeed Bohen
Tuition set at $16,256; total charges for undergraduates at $21,946
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
Background on the Thomas J. Watson, Jr., Institute for International Studies
Second cohort of Citibank Coalition faculty named
Brown launches Brown Is Green with Nader, VG proclamation
Alan Shawn Feinstein Award winners selected
Robin Rose appointed coordinator for women's concerns; Barbara Tannenbaum is Ombudsperson
Widmer appointed acting dean of student life
Mule Bone comes to Rites and Reason
Events: Jan. 24-Feb. 7
Ralph Nader to speak at Brown 1/29, launches Brown Is Green
Paul Calabresi named chairman of National Cancer Advisory Board
Events: Jan. 17 - Jan. 31
Jennifer Adibi returns from Iraq, wants to talk
Vartan Gregorian's statement about his RISDIC investigation
Robinson Hall, newly renovated, opens with public reception 2/9
John Robinson becomes Bruce Sundlun's director of employment and training 1/1/91
Bell Gallery, Kuniyoshi show to remain open through holidays
Libby Mohr honored with alumni service award (special for Davies Bisset to Atlanta)
Ittleson grant to Environmental Studies ($2 million) announced
Strike ends; SEIU library workers return to work tomorrow
Iraq crisis forum sponsored by Continuing College 12/13
Jennifer Adibi, Brown student, leads delegation to Iraq seeking peace
Marshal and Rhodes scholars announced. Shesol gets Rhodes; Robert and Snyder get Marshalls
Events: Dec. 6 Ð Dec. 20
Vartan Gregorian's statement to faculty about the library strike
Workforce 2000 gives Brown three-year grant for English as a Foreign Language
Events: Nov. 29 - Dec. 13
Vartan Gregorian's statement on sexual assault, graffiti lists and University policy
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.
Damon gets Pew Memorial Trust grant
Starkey receives J. Saunders Redding Scholarship (hometown only)
Leaders discuss fate of Puerto Rico
NACB annual conference features Quincy Jones as keynote
Brown leads Ivy League alumni track team to compete in Nagoya Ekiden
Events: 10/18 Ð 11/1
Dusan Dzamonja sculpture, Joukowsky's gift, to be dedicated at CIT Oct. 12
VG's telegram about health care costs sent to Sen Kennedy 10/2
Gregorian appointed to Fulbright Foreign Scholars Board, Chairman of MacDowell Colony
Kathryn Fuller to receive William Rogers Award
Jorge Casta–eda to speak on Latin America and the end of the Cold War 10/16
Darrell West survey: Pell and statewide Democrat incumbents are lengthening their leads
Jim Head in a Pasadena NASA news conference about Magellan.
Events 9/27 - 10/11:
Two Soviet economists to speak (9/25, 9/26)
Starr fellows announced; will receive their awards from Bishop Tutu
Brown conference on famine and children to be held 9/26 as part of planning for UN World Conference
George Bass memorial service scheduled for 9/24
AIESEC sponsors RI-USSR business student exchange
Events 9/20 - 10/6: Duane Hanson lecture; SOAR national conference
Ocean State Issues Program/Taubman Center to sponsor open meetings in Warwick, Lincoln
Eight Champlin Scholars announced; includes two from community colleges
John Kuprevich resigns to become Commissioner of Public Safety at University of Pennsylvania
Events 9/13 - 9/27: Green Rhode Island; Bishop Tutu, European security issues; Oscar Wilde expert
Green Rhode Island announced 9/13 press conference, environmental position paper
Ted Fiske is first Joukowsky-Wolynsky Fellow in Education Writing
Desmond Tutu to speak and receive honorary degree at 8 p.m. 9/26/90 in Pizzitola
Events 9/6 - 9/20: Carol Canner art; Importance of Being Earnest
Don Reaves gets a promotion (special to Cleveland Plaindealer)
Events 8/30 - 9/13: Freedman at opening convocation, Uhry at Class of 1994, Grad School lecture
Alfred Uhry to deliver Class of 1994 Lecture
BLC announces fall course offerings
James Freedman to speak at Opening Convocation 9/4
Solid Films and Surfaces Conference here in August
Cycle tour ends at City Hall; mayor makes public service proclamation
Bikers pedal their act in Westchester
Sam Babbitt named senior VP for the campaign
Centennial conference on H.P. Lovecraft at John Hay Library
Darrell West poll: Pell increases lead; DiPrete in decline
Dave Roach named athletic director
Summer College advisory: The European Shuffle
Cycling for I Have a Dream Foundation
Janet Cooper Nelson named University Chaplain
BCLIR announces fall seminar offerings
John Imbrie's symposium
Six Graduate TAs receive Presidential Teaching Awards
JCB Library announces 1990-91 Research Fellows
W.W. Keen Award given to Sanford Udis
Smith and Mayer visit Moscow to negotiate exchanges
Tienanmen Square observances announced 6/3-4.
Seven new trustees, one fellow elected
Frank Rothman named provost of the University
Commencement: Barrett Hazeltine and Medical Senior Citations
Commencement: Graduate School Citations
Commencement: Six honorary degrees to be conferred
Latin American Literature Conference here 6/18-21
Statement on the nonappearance of Mikhail Gorbachev
Commencement: Student Orators
Commencement: Third World Alumni events announced
Summer High School offerings announced
Fulbrights awarded to four Brown students
Commencement: Schaffir to give student MD speech
Steven Graubard to deliver Grad School commencement address
Commencement: Parents who are educators join procession
Summer Theater season announced
Events: 5/18 - 5/31
Fred Bohen resigns, moves to Rockefeller University
Coalition of Essential Schools gets $3-million Citibank grant
Commencement: Gail O'Day to give Baccalaureate address 5/27
Three Presidential Young Investigators named
Chun Hoon scholars named
Emery Fellowships announced
Phi Beta Kappa juniors elected
Baker Fellowships announced
Gregorian to run the backhoe at dormitory groundbreaking 5/11
Alumni Dance Show, music from the seventies
Events: 5/10 - 5?24
Commencement: Twenty-three Commencement Forums planned
Commencement: Brown Chorus sings benefit for Soviet tour
Commencement: Commencement advisory
James van Cleve gets a National Humanities Center fellowship
Arnold Fellowships announced
Commencement: Brooke Hindle named chief marshal
Joslin Awards announced
Center for Foreign Policy: how to do business with the Russians
Conference on 12th Century B.C. here
Mary Ann Doane gets a Guggenheim for 1990-91
Howard Foundation awards announced
Angela Davis to speak May 4
Commencement: "Bedroom Farce" at Leeds Theatre
National/Local town meeting divies up the peace dividend
Events: 4/26/90 Ð 5/10/90
Conference on U.S.-Cuba relations 5/3
More details about House field hearing here 4/27
Grimshaw-Gudewicz dedicated
BLC summer courses include stuff for kids
Gregorian to testify re public service at House field hearing here
New dormitory complex to break ground
Admissions letters sent; 2649 of 12,048 accepted.
Events: 4/13 - 4/27
Gartner wins Truman Scholarship
NSEW conference offers four public lectures 4/18-19
Tamas Hofer speaks about Hungary 4/5
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
Mellons and Rhodes: awards start rolling in
World Hunger Awards; final release
Events: 3/29 - 4/12
Tommy Woon named assoc dean, dir of Third World Cntr
National televideo conference on schools and teen-agers
U.S. / Soviet space microsymposium, March 19-21
Events: 3/15 - 3/29
Brown sophomore gets AISEC internship in Czechoslovakia
Kucera to receive an honorary degree in Czechoslovakia
Unity Days, March 15-17, feature Kenneth Clark, Sarafina
Darrell West survey on Pell/Schneider, DiPrete/Paolino
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.
New duties for Hawking and Wyche
Library receives Hall-Hoag extremist literature collection
Gregorian statement on DiPrete's med school budget cut
VG appoints Baily to EEO/AA; more for Hawkins, Wyche
VG statement on higher ed and post-apartheid S. Africa
Ellington dance and jazz by Jazz Band, Dance Extension
Feinstein Award recipients announced
Brown / Providence Journal conference on environment
Events: Feb. 15 - March 1
Maurice Glicksman resigns as provost
Tuition set at $15,295 for 1990-91, total fees = $20,720
Chorus and Orchestra with Dave Brubeck at Carnegie 2/18
Events: Feb. 8 - Feb. 22
Curriculum study reviews 20 years, sets agenda
Day-care center dedication slated for 2/8
Columbus at Brown Quincentenary lecture series at JCB
Project ADEPT published alcohol and drug curriculum
Photographs of blues musicians opens
West survey: Jobs, loyalty, happiness, health insurance.
Brown adds sexual orientation to non-discrimination policy
Events: Jan. 25 - Feb. 8
Levitsky wins Marshal Scholarship
Nobel Laureate Wilson to speak on future of computers 1/29
BLC seminar includes teleconf. on teen-age violence 1/30
Brown students head to South Carolina to repair Hurricane Hugo damage
BCLIR announces spring course offerings
BCLIR announces spring seminar offerings
DEC FUSE for Ultrix announced by Digital; Savage cites it as a milestone
John Harley to perform at Brown Club of Rhode Island event
"Book in Americas" show from JCB opens in NYC Jan. 25
Brown names new head football coach
Brown offers no-interest loans to employees whose money is trapped in closed banks
Steve Simon wins Apker Phyics prize
Keegan to deliver first Anne S.K. Brown military lecture 1/26
Brown Morehouse Spelman Tougaloo start biology program
Fulbright scholars for 1989-1990 announced
Pizzitola Center wins architectural award
Shanley named manager of benefits
Bellagio Declaration issued 12/8 in NYC, Washington
Events: 11/30 Ð 12/14
Events: 11/23 - 12/7
Thomas Anton named dean of the faculty
Soviet trio plays earthquake benefit with Brown Jazz Band
Shah Scholarships awarded
Champlin Scholars hometown version (see89/023)
Events: 11/16 - 11/30
Chicano/Latino students celebrate Pachanga 11/23-25
Frances Goldscheider on living patterns of young adults
George Rattner (M.A. Ô88) gets his play done off-Broadway
Events: 11/9 - 11/23
Antonio Machado House dedicated Nov. 10
Andrea V. Rosenthal chair in art history announced
Mutual Security Project conference here 11/10-13
Events: 11/2 - 11/16
Alumni Recognition: Aaron Beck gets William Rogers Award
Events: 10/26 - 11/9
Westerly schools computer program has major Brown help
Events: 10/19 - 11/2
Grad School Convocation: Future of Knowledge 10/29-31
Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies gets 5-year grant
Challenge Years campaign a success; Brown Fund record
New Post Office dedicated
Canadian consul general opens Out of the North exhibit
Brown buys Brook Street Garage land
Cornerstone ceremony for JCB
Salinas honorary degree citation
Events: 10/6 to 10/19
AIDS Fair sponsored by SPAA
Champlin Scholars for 1993 announced
Women's fair, sponsored by more than 20 organizations
Rod Clifton inducted into Nat. Academy of Engineering 10/3
Canchola-Flores new assoc dir. of admissions (minority)
Carlos Salinas, president of Mexico, to deliver Ogden 10/5
Events: 9/21/89 - 10/5/89
1989 President's Community Service Fellows named
Gay, Bisexual and Gay Graduate Students conf. 9/22-23
Events: Ogdens, gay grad students, Russians
Starr fellows for 1990 announced
Feinstein World Hunger Awards announced.
Russian Nodari Simonia speaks on US/USSR and 3rd World
Two Debates on the federal deficit and the 1990s: 9/2, 10/25
Events: Pope Shenoudah, theatre, Ogdens
Thomas Simons to give 7 Ogden lectures on end of Cold War
Simons Ogden Lecture w/ revised schedule, titles
Christine Love, new alumni relations director
Events: Brooks, India chorus, Wendy Edwards
Gwendolyn Brooks to deliver Opening Convocation lecture
Two new freshman traditions: Dinner and Alumni Lecture
West survey shows disapproval of Supreme Ct abortion rule
Moscow city officials here for three-week training program
JCB breaks ground on new addition
Catherine Dickett '83, Cynthia Forster '78 get Fulbrights
JCB awards New World research fellowships to 18 scholars
R. Douglas Cope has NEH summer stipend for Latin Am. study
11Win Fulbright-Hayes and related grants
2 Juniors win Barry M. Goldwater fellowships
John Rowe Workman distinguished chair for Kurt Raaflaub
Broudy and Nickel promotions
Neusner lectures in Brazil in August
Minority undergrads study at summer science program
BCLIR announces fall schedule of courses
Commencement: Senior Medical, Barrett Hazeltine Citations
Swearers get honorary degrees; John McIntyre gets Medal
New Trustees: Swig, Tillinghast, Sculley, Cook, Royce, Weil
Thomas Holman appointed Bell Gallery director
Matthew Albert wins national crystal-growing award
Feinstein World Hunger Program tops $1 million in fundraising
Commencement: Graduate Alumni Citations
Digital summer training school at Brown; DEC is largest ever
John Evrard wins the Keen Award
Commencement: Dionysian Festival performed by 15 sutdents
Afro-American Studies has 20th anniversary
Grad students Camacho and Cates win Newcombe Fellowships
Howard Hughes Foundation gives Brown $1 million
Commencement: Senior orators (Amanda Biers, Reed McCraken)
Commencement: Seven honorary degrees awarded 5/29
Events: Last of the year, Commencement stuff
Nine seniors receive Joslin awards
Faunce House Rededication set for Friday, May 26.
Lee and Tewksbury receive Harry S. Truman scholarships
Beinecke Fellowship for Katrina Smith
Vartan Gregorian receives award from Am Acad Arts and Science
Commencement: Forums scheduled for Saturday 27 May
Events: Commencement, Hawking, Jazz Concert
Overseas college advisers meet at Brown 5/21-21
Commencement: Grad School celebrates 100 years of doctorates
Commencement: Alumni Dance Show in its second year
Yukiko Brown receives a Chun Hoon Scholarship
Brown senior wins horse show, is national collegiate champion
Father Theodore Hesburgh to deliver baccalaureate sermon
Commencement: Advisory with complete schedule
Commencement: Broadway-Style Musical Revue at Leeds
Events: Commencement stuff mostly
Commencement: Foster Davis (Mr. Hockey) named chief marshal
Commencement: Tito Puente here for Jazz Band Concert 5/28
Howard Fellows announced
Joe Doyle memorial flagpole dedicated 5/8
Dorothy Divine, Loni Berry in Third World Alumni show 5/27
Darrell West poll on abortion, gun control, AIDS testing
Events: Dance Mamma, Glasnost video, Over Here
Rites and Reason presents Dance, Mamma, Dance 5/12-5/28
Salomon Hall dedication
Drug-Free Schools Project Family Day, Fox Point Elem School
Events: Pops, Haffenreffer show, Over Here
Brown to provide day care for employees' infants and toddlers
Summer Theater 21st season announced
Gurland, Needleman, Clifton, Richman win engineering awards
Ancient Historians; City-States in antiquity and Middle Ages
Guggenheims to David Cane and Karen Newman
Claudine Schneider speaks at LEMS dinner 4/27
Events: Brazil, Over Here, Communists, Pizzitola
Ronald Machtley plays squash against Tom Wunderlich 4/22
Acceptances mailed; 2,705 of 11,700 kids are happy
Kristin Hoffman and Hillary Strang, freshmen, win Crowell Prize
Bill Brisk speaks at VG Inauguration! Moves practice to Newton!!
Events: Sexual Awareness Week, Charleston String Quartet
Honorary degree to Pinchas Zuckerman 4/9
Frank Deford to speak at Pizzitola dedication 4/22
Economic impact study: Brown is worth millions to Providence
Chris Berman, ESPN, to speak at Sports Weekend
Events: Toxic waste, Latin American archives, Maya Angelou
Guido Calabresi, Yale law dean, to deliver Meiklejohn lecture 4/4
Hunger Report released; cut world hunger by half in 1990s
Events: Molly Yard, Wilderness, Hunger, Aesthetics
Paul Bernard and Thomas Hatch win Spencer fellowships
Resource Scholars present their findings during April
Holly Allen wins Mellon Fellowship in Humanities
Joe Kestin named fellow of Imperial College
Students for Pediatric AIDS Awareness ( SPAA ) benefit planned
Churchill Scholarship awarded to Thomas Marieb
Goldberger Chair created; Poole is first Golberger Professor
Events: U.S.-Soviet space conference, NOW president, Hunger
Hunger Briefing and Exchange with schedule
Complete schedule of events for inauguration weekend
Inaugural background: Manning chair, charter, chain, etc.
Arthur Schlesinger to deliver inaugural lecture, April 8
Bloom, Ferrer, Davis, Dee to give dramatic readings for VG
Pinchas Zukerman performs inauguration concert April 9
Events: ProJo, student plays, women's history, Vietnam vet
Darrell West survey: DiPrete, taxes, smoking in public places
Phi Beta Kappa elects new members (hometowned)
Events: Hebrew poet; Kafka's Metamorphosis; Patinkin
"Over Here," WWI American Art show at List 4/15-5/29
Events: German Jews, ProJo, Maya Angelou
Graduate School admissions up at least 25 percent
Events: German Jews, ProJo Conference
University chooses Northern Telecom for new phone system
Ctr for Public Service hosts HS conference, Claudine Schneider
Albert Bushnell Johnson Prize to Matthew J. Stein
Lope de Vega Prize to Shaun McCarthy and Raja Subramoni
Gabriela Mistral Prizes to Penelope Elliott and Leslie Mendez
Reichley wins the Hesburgh Medal from CASE
Events: Film festivals, computing and languages
Population Studies and Training Center gets $700K
Sen. Moynihan kicks off ProJo Conference 2/27
Tuition set at $14,375 for 1989-90; total fee = $19,380
Events: Black history, Jews and Germany
German and Hungarian film festivals
Grundfest speaks at Ctr for Financial Markets Ded 2/10
Conference on aesthetics
Skidmore delivers inaugural CŽspedes lecture 2/9
1 of 52 effort gets all 52 bands signed up
Events: Black History Month, Chicanos, Cespedes
Jews in German Society lecture series, 2/9 to 3/16
Events: PanAm memorial, Jewish history, Portuguese
BLCIR spring programs announced
Memorial service for Pan-Am victims set for 2/3
Events: Ogden, Romans
Goldstein reads paper on Bangkok, Shanghai to AAAS
Continuing College: Miami, undersea archaeology 2/12
Vartan Gregorian assumes Brown presidency
Ogden: Richard Shifter on Glasnost 1/31
Events: Rites & Reason, theater festival, Ogden
Brown co-hosts ACTF theater festival 1/27-2/1
David Lewis to direct alcohol education institute
Kirsten Rendell first female to win hockey scholarship
Aronson, Udis receive Medical Recognition Awards
Rhodes Scholar, Marshall Awards
"Portraits and Propaganda: Faces of Rome" at Bell Gall.
Events: 1 of 52 exclusively
Events: Dance; Skating Band; 1 of 52
Howard Swearer to become director of IIS
Robert Gordon, trader extraordinaire, talks on Wall St.
John Hay exhibit at Hay and Rockefeller libraries
Linda Parker named Anthropology Student of the Year
Events: Steve Jobs;foreign affairs; Christmas concerts
Events: 1 of 52; Quinn on Bermuda; Aronson; Dance
Another 1 of 52 effort. Musical Mini-Marathon
Walter Cronkeit here for NACB conference 11/18-20
Miron Lukyanov, Soviet artist, here 11/13-23
Soviet Posters on display at Bell Gallery through 12/18
BTV to produce election-eve special on student opinion
William Power presents paper on fractal fault surfaces
Kentucky fiddler Bruce Green in concert 11/5
"Overcoming Constraints on Mexican Devel." 11/3-5
Neal Miller to lecture on Brain-Body connections 11/17
Irving R. Levine gets Rogers Award at Alum Recog.
Exxon grant supports Coalition of Essential Schools
William Wilson, U of Chicago sociologist, talks 11/10
"Beyond Negritude" conference 11/14-15
1 of 52 effort. Again. 23 bands have signed on.
Ronald Takaki talks of post-Reagan race relations 11/3
Second Galican Studies Conference here 11/10-12
AT&T gives Brown $45,000 for Engineering, CS
Nicholas Daniloff, arrested by KGB, talks 11/3
Sammy Smooha talks on Israel/S. Africa comparisons
Lenora Fulani, presidential candidate, to speak 10/23
Rare Portuguese astrolabes shown at JCB
Elderfield to speak at List on Joan Snyder
Mario Cuomo to speak at Brown Oct. 18
Foreign Language Workstation with NeXT Inc.
Gore Vidal to receive honorary degree 10/21
Ying-mao Kau named president of Taiwan think tank
Ted Sizer wins the gold from CASE
Brown makes final offer to SEIU union groups
Brown plans community educational computing gifts
Michael Silvestri receives Rotary Scholarship
Sheila Blumstein to address Brown Club of Worcester
Mary Kocol color photography at Sarah Doyle Gallery
Darrell West poll: DiPrete's approval rating down
Donald E. Knuth to receive honorary degree 10/7
Peter Peterson talks on foreign trade for AIESEC 10/11
Rites and Reason gets national award
Wang Chair announced, to be funded in three years
Rock groups support Feinstein Program (1 of 52)
Music of Mexico and Hispanic Southwest on 10/7
David Inman named dean of students
CIT dedication ceremonies
Marcia Falk, Jewish feminist, to speak 10/17
Alcohol Center gets grants for treatment studies
Jim Head available to comment on Shuttle launch
Portuguese Exploration Exhibit at JCB
JCB lends rare, valuable book to Australia for 200th
Starr Fellows for 1988-89 announced
Champlin Scholars for 1988-89 announced
Scholar's edition of Roger Williams letters published
JCB publishes catalog of pre-1800 German Americana
James Williams, Brown senior, to debate in Russia
Sensory exhibit to open at Sarah Doyle Gallery
Italian Senator to present Columbia display to JCB
Brown students to perform Chopstick Dance on 9/18
Brown Band turns 65, plays at Yale game
Charleston String Quartet (CSQ) first concert
Rock painting at the Haffenreffer Museum
Snyder exhibit at Bell gallery
P.J. O'Rourck lectures on Holidays in Hell 9/15
Tirebiter (rock band) donates gig to Feinstein Program
First Alan Shawn Feinstein scholars come to Brown
Gregorian named 16th president
Phyllis Wallace opening Convocation speaker
Holly Near recital w/ Take Back the Night march
Brown Theater schedule for 1988-89
Haffenreffer Museum gets IMS operating grant
1 of 52 project for Feinstein World Hunger Program
NACB: National council for student tv stations formed
Textron gives Gorham archives to John Hay
Computer Science gets $3.5 million NSF grant
Eleanor McMahon named prof. in Taubman Ctr.
D. West survey on candidates and federal govt
Anthony Schaffer's "Murderer" at Summer Theatre
Thomas James gets Pacific Historical Review prize
Center for Study of Race and Ethnicity established
Martin and Wild get Class of 1952 Premium
NEH travel grants to 4 Brown scholars
Tolnick chairs New England Museum conference
Silver and Patterson get Fulbright awards
Paula Grabowski is Presidential Young Investigator
Search for David Sacks called off
4 Hawaiian students get scholarships
Patricia Henry new director of Conference Services
Brown scholars visit Gorki Institute in Moscow
9 trustees, 3 fellows elected to Corporation
JCB research fellows for 1988-89 announced
Hicks Prize to Pendleton
Student David Sacks missing in Australia
Fulbright grants to Bailly, Rabb, Teutsch
Drunk driving law survey by Casterline
Keen award to Galletti
Graduate alumni citations
Senior citations to Sheridan, Kane, Tannenbaum
Hunger award to Select Committee divided 10 ways
Rotary scholarships to Berens and Boylan
James Rosenberg gets TAC award for teaching
Senior Orators: William Acevedo, Heather Liddell
Francis Mason Harris Prize to Robin Bradford
Flexible Flyer Prize to Paul Heck
Honorary Degrees, 1988
Poetry prize to Anita Noble
Samuel C. Lamport Prize to Steven Spitz
Marion Hassenfeld Premium to Eve Yohalem
Pawtucket area graduates listed
Buxtehude Prize to Justina Wu
Muriel Hassenfeld Mann Premium to Karen Lee
Alumni Dance Show, May 29
RI AIDS survey by Taubman Center
Commencement Forums
Commencement advisory
Emery fellowship to Jennifer Baum
Japanese exchange fellowship to Martin Springer
Kurt Weill musical at Commencement
AIDS forum part of RI Public Issues Forums, 5/21
Arnold fellowships to 3 students
Baker fellowships to 7 Brown seniors
Joan Lusk named assoc. dean of graduate school
Roderick Chisholm named Chief Marshal
Keasbey fellowships to Brown seniors
Nikko fellowship to Ewa Gorska
Howard Foundation gives fellowships
Stillwell Book collection prices to 3 Brown students
Gordon Rohde Dewart prize to John Epling
Orwig Music Library dedicated 5/7
Exceptional Student fellowships to Glenn and Kelly
George H. Main prize to Melissa Kline
Wm Leopold Fichter prizes to 3 juniors
Samuel C. Lamport prize to Frank Harper
Ruth Electa Collins prizes to 4 students
Henry Parker Manning prizes to 6 juniors
Class of 1906 prize to Wendy Bewig
Students bike across America for AIDS
Lafayette Foster Prize to Mayer and Van Riper
Rohn Truell Premium to Askew and Salame
Meiklejohn Prize to Humphrey and Lesh
Gilbert Stuart prize to Walters
Curt John Ducasse prize to Lombardo
Minnie Helen Hicks prizes to Lukoff and Silvermans
Marjorie Harris Weiss prize to Bekman
Gaspee D.A.R. prize to Russo
Thomas Carpenter prize to Brooks, McElroy & Miller
Lucius Lyon price to Mayer, Parks and Van Riper
Ratcliffe Hicks prize to 5 students
Susan Ross Steinfield prize to Lederberg and Prince
Irving Lysander Foster prize to Acker and Clossey
Summer theater anounces 20th season
"Black Children's Day" corrected release
R&R presents "Black Children's Day"
R&R PSA on "Black Children's Day"
Janet Berlo talks on women artists at Haffenreffer
Sloan fellowships to David Berson, Robt Brandenberger
Classical Tradition & Am. Constitution colloquium
Japenese comedies (Kyogen plays) at Ashamu
Brown accepts 2,592 into Class of 1992
Folk performers present concert 4/25
Frank Levy speaks on death of Am. dream
"Didactic Art" at Sarah Doyle Gallery, 4/9
Pedro Lain Entralgo honorary degree, 4/13
Anthony Lewis gives Meiklejohn Lecture, 4/18
"Hunger Report: 1988" released at Hunger Awards
"The Colored Museum" goes to Kennedy Center
"New England Now" art exhibit at List
Two get Mellon Foundation fellowships
Resource Scholars Program presents research
Age of Pyrrhus Conference, 4/8-10
Day in the Life show with Smolan, 4/6
J. Swearer & National Museum of Arts symposium
Georgia O'Keeffe seminar at Chicago Art Institute
"Borderline Fool" by Rites & Reason
"Borderline Fool" PSA
Modern American writers conference honors Hawkes
Hunger Briefing and Exchange
IIS announces dissertation fellowshipw
Inauguration Advisory: Bios, schedule, overview
Margaret Monsour exhibits at Sarah Doyle
West survey on R.I. housing problems
Aldrich-Dexter Field renamed for Wendell Erickson
Phi Beta Kappa elects new members
James Wyche appointed assoc. dean, biology and med
Pew science grant for $2.2 million
Albert Shanker speaks on school reform, 3/8
Jazz band to play at Carnegie Hall w/ Gerry Mulligan
Liv Ullmann speaks at World Hunger Awards
Chinese theologian, Kwok, lectures 3/9
Rites & Reason seeks actors for Black Children's Day
Rites & Reason PSA on auditions
Panel on Bloom's Closing of American Mind
Barbara Walzer lecture on women's books
Kilmarx speaks on AIDS in Africa
Youth Service America conference: Edelman, etc.
Doane speaks on women's film of '40s
Rites & Reason's "Dreams of Callahan" on tour
"Costume as Communication" on Tour
Rites & Reason panel on Theater and Black history
Steve Jordan, Vikings, speaks at Winter Wknd
Paints at Sarah Doyle by Rebecca Jenness
Brown chooses not to totally divest
Tuition and fees set for 1988-89
Public Affairs Conference on Ethics Announced
Physics lecture on supernova by David Helfand
Brazil ambassador speaks at JCB
Center for Study of Financial Markets
Wriston fellowships and grant winners
JCB exhibit on Surviving Slavery and Racism
John Robinson, new dean of Student Life
Feinstein World Hunger Award winners
Spoehr: Hypermedia in secondary schools
Rites & Reason auditions for spring season
Rites & Reason auditions PSA
Thea Ernest, sculptress, exhibition, Sarah Doyle
Chinese Poet writes symphony lyrics, Lincoln Ctr.
Tefft architectural exhibit at Bell Gallery
S.J. Perelman commemorated by Hay Library, 1/30
Cape Verdean education minister gives thanks
BCLIR spring courses announced
Gabriela Mistral Prizes to freshmen given
Asa Clinton Crowell Prizes to freshmen given
Phillip Stiles gets Oliver E. Buckley Prize
Fleet Bank pledges $150,000 to Medical School
Christmas carols at Sayles, 12/13
B-TV raises $30,000 in fundraiser for station
Mueller lectures on demystifying AIDS
JCB gets NEH grant of $203K for Americana
Widmer appointed dean of admission etc.
Wayland Prizes to freshmen for Latin
JCB displays books on X-mas in Colonies
Italian ambassador Petrignani as Ogden
Feinstein scholarship for studying hunger
Astrid's Leaves sold to benefit Amos House
Kristin Kearns wins freshman poetry prize
Brown A&E votes to go ahead with new dorm
New Plays at Leeds by Brown students
Obreg—n speaks on "Legends, Stars & Ships"
Rosmarie Waldrop poetry reading, 11/23
Edward Countryman lectures on liberty
Shabazz, Malcolm X widow, to speak
DOE funds drug-education project
Smith & Astrid exhibits at Sarah Doyle Gallery
CIA speaker Hulnick talks Nov. 12
Bradley to talk on Trojan wars
Liddy-Thompson debate on Heroes of our Time
Wordsworth poetry celebration in R.I.
Kresge grant for $1.5 million for CIT
AT&T gives $150,000 grants
Rockefeller fellows for Afro-Am. Studies
David Lewis named Millar Prof. of Alcohol...
Conference on women in ancient Near East
Teach-in on hungry and homeless
Schevill talks on Costume as Communication
Frank Lloyd Wright Exhibit at Bell
Center for language studies established
Search committee for new President formed
Slaby speaks at Parents Weekend on '80s
New Corporation officers nominated
Howard Swearer resigns
Rites & Reason auditions
Rites and Reason fund drive
Kicking Woman Dancers of Montana
Rites and Reason auditions PSA
Rites and Reason fund drive PSA
New gym ground breaking, Oct. 17
Clinical Neuroscience dept. established
Jean Ritchie, folksinger, artist in residence
Soup seminars at UEL
Medical/legal debate, Oct. 14
German rebuilt harpsicord in concert
Warren Muir talk on ozone, Oct. 15
Sarah Doyle exhibit on Guatemalan women
CENTS conference on older students
James Watt lectures Oct. 7
Faculty Scholars announced for '87-'88
JCB exhibit on maritime wrecks
JCB concert on shipwrecks and sea chanties
"You Can't Take It with You" at Leeds
Rites & Reason does J.e. Franklin reading
PSA for Franklin reading
Heath on Italian drinking study
Pembroke Center Lecture Series
Champlin scholarships in R.I.
Caspersen gives $250K to JCB
Assoc. Alumni Board of Governors
Appleby Hall changed to Barbour Hall
Nobel Laureate George Wald talks 9/27
BLC doubles course offerings
NY Brown Club's Limousine race
Alumni Recognition Awards
Star Wars debated 9/30 by 2 Air Force colonels
Godard television film festival
Photo Advisory, Public Service projects
Class of '91 with 1420, largest ever
NYC Regional Scholars--Dickson and Chin
Regional Scholar, So. California
Regional Scholar, Worcester
Regional Scholar, Atlanta
Regional Scholar, Chicago
Regional Scholar, Boston
John Hope Franklin Convocation speaker, 9/8
Thomas-Gendron Duo perform Sept. 9
3 Brown women get Radcliffe fellowships
John Robinson gets Kellogg fellowship
BLC in Retirement announces fall courses
Wilson Moses gets a Fulbright
Haffenreffer Museum excellence grant
Conference on Religion, Science, Magic
Tom Watson flies his jet to Moscow
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