Brown University administrators said yesterday the school must cut its operating budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year by an additional 5.5 percent, or $30 million, on top of cuts that were already made for the fiscal year that begins tomorrow. Roughly $15 million to $20 million of those savings will require “organizational change” at Brown, with the rest coming from the deferral of capital projects and changes to purchasing, travel and other spending policies.

Sheila Blumstein, the Albert D. Mead Professor of Cognitive and Linguistic Sciences, is the principal investigator of a study into how the brain processes speech.

Hoping to realize a bigger share of federal stimulus spending, Brown University is partnering with the Draper Laboratory to create a center for alternative-energy research.

Nina Tannenwald, an associate professor (research) of international relations at the Watson Institute for International Studies, said that the Israeli self-perception of an underdog is no longer a widely accepted narrative outside of Israel - another factor which now must be taken into account.

NECN’s Beth Shelburne spoke to Kevin Roose, a Brown senior, about his experiences at Liberty University, the world’s largest evangelical college, founded by Jerry Falwell.