Jeffrey Borkan, chair of the Department of Family Medicine, and Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences at the Alpert Medical School, pen a joint op-ed about the resurgence of primary care in Rhode Island. They write about Alpert Medical School’s continued focus on primary care as well as the future creation of innovative programs that “should result in even better models for caring for Rhode Islanders.”

Dan Barry gives a detailed account of the recent discovery of a rare Paul Revere print in the John Hay Library for his “This Land” column. Told from the perspective of Marie Malchodi, the library book conservation technician who found the print, the article takes readers through every detail of the discovery, including Malchodi’s initial reaction: “I have to show this to somebody.” The print was eventually found to be only the fifth copy known to exist.

Reviewer Cate McQuaid reviews “Megan and Murray McMillan: When We Didn’t Touch the Ground,” currently on display at the Cohen Gallery in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. The installation, which is about child’s play, includes a video that shows a group setting the dinner table as a boy (played by a man) lingers outside, climbing on a wall constructed of furniture, wandering along a brook. “But then a transporting moment in the video opens a trap door, and you drop into magic,” McQuaid writes.

China’s nursing home industry is seeing a boom in business due to a large aging population, with little oversight from the government to regulate living conditions. Zhanlian Feng, assistant professor of community health, led a 2011 study examining China’s surging nursing home industry and made suggestions for necessary government mandates that would improve patient care.

Brown University Continuing Education celebrated the official opening of its new offices at 200 Dyer St. on May 2. Rep. David Cicilline, Economic Development Director for the City of Providence Jim Bennett, Provost Mark Schlissel, and Dean of Continuing Education Karen Sibley gave remarks. The new Jewelry District space will allow CE to grow its executive-level academic programs, increase existing noncredit courses, and broaden offerings for private, public and nonprofit sector employees.

Esther Entin, associate professor of family medicine, writes about the benefits of recess in elementary school. “Not only can recess help improve children’s physical fitness and reduce childhood obesity, giving children time to be physically active, it helps them concentrate in school. Play also gives kids a chance to be creative and learn to solve disputes and make rules among themselves. ... It’s starting to look like recess is more than child’s play,” Entin writes.

Wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science, appears as a guest on this week’s Political Roundtable to discuss Wall Street’s lingering concerns about Rhode Island’s capital following Brown’s recent agreement to give the city $31.5 million more over 11 years. The group also talks about the future of the state’s pension overhaul, the charter review commission in Central Falls, and the November presidential election.

Brown ranked 28th on a list of the top 100 social media colleges by StudentAdvisor.com. “Tracking down all of Brown’s social media profiles is a breeze with Social@Brown,” said the StudentAdvisor report, adding that the University has a chart comparing attributes like photo uploads and text update capabilities on Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Flickr, iTunesU and LinkedIn.

New research highlights how climate change might be upsetting the synchrony between plants and the organisms they interact with. The disparity could pose difficulties for researchers who use warming data to build climate models that also predict how ecosystems will change, says Johanna Schmitt, professor of biology, who was not involved in the research. Schmitt says ecosystems will change faster than the models would suggest, giving researchers skewed data.

A new exhibition has opened in Providence City Hall to commemorate the the sesquicentennial of the Civil War. The display, which includes drawings, engravings and other memorabilia, was put together in collaboration with Anne Valk, associate director for programs at the John Nicholas Brown Center for the Humanities, and her graduate students. Other organizations that contributed include the John Hay Library, the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection at Brown, the Providence Public Library, and the Boston Public Library.

Two Brown students have been named winners of the student track of the 2012 Rhode Island Business Plan Competition. Seniors Stephen Hebson and Parker Wells took the number one spot with Overhead.fm, an application that will provide a customizable stream of music by licensing directly from artists and labels. They will receive $15,000 in cash as well as services valued at nearly $24,000.