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Research reveals novel quantum state in strange insulating materials

Experiments show how electrons in Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling arrange themselves to make the materials magnetic at low temperatures. The work could help zero in on a more complete quantum theory of magnetism.
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Health and Medicine

Sickle cell trait may confound blood sugar readings among African-Americans

A routine diabetes test produces lower blood sugar readings in African-Americans with sickle cell trait than in those without, potentially leading patients to remain untreated or with a mistaken sense of blood sugar control, study finds.
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Social Sciences

SNAP benefits increase household spending on food, study finds

Brown University economists research food-shopping habits of half a million households receiving nutritional assistance and show that the benefit has a greater impact on food spending than would a cash equivalent.
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News and Events

Angela Davis, Roxane Gay to visit Brown in February

Prominent educators — whose scholarship, writing, activism and commentary continue to shape public discourse on feminism, race, identity and culture — will visit the University on Feb. 10 and Feb. 14, respectively.
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News and Events

Brown hackathon aims to make coding more inclusive

Hackathons are notoriously competitive and intimidating, but Hack@Brown aims to make the immersive, 24-hour marathon of creativity, coding and collaboration accessible for all.
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Science and Technology

Research pushes concept of entropy out of kilter

Entropy isn’t well understood in systems that aren’t at equilibrium, but a new experiment shows a non-equilibrium phenomenon that actually depends upon entropy.
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News and Events

Brown Corporation extends Paxson’s presidency into 2022

In announcing Christina Paxson’s reappointment, Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff cites the Corporation’s confidence in Paxson’s leadership, including her work in confronting difficult issues and uncertainty facing higher education.
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Health and Medicine

With mini-vessels, mini-brains expand research potential

A new study shows that Brown University’s mini-brains produce networks of capillaries, an important anatomical feature for lab studies of stroke and other circulation-related brain diseases.
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Health and Medicine

Practice makes perfect, and ‘overlearning’ locks it in

People who continued to train on a visual task for 20 minutes past the point of mastery locked in that learning, shielding it from interference by new learning, a new study in Nature Neuroscience shows.
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News and Events

Commitment to our Community in a Time of Uncertainty

Brown University President Christina Paxson and Provost Richard M. Locke published this letter in the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper Sunday, Jan. 29, as an open letter to the Brown community.
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Health and Medicine

Grant advances work to improve hip fracture care

A new grant, co-led by Dr. Richard W. Besdine, will promote adoption of a care model in which geriatricians and other physicians co-manage care for older patients with hip fractures.
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Science and Technology

Ubiquitous but overlooked, fluid is a source of muscle tension

The cellular fluid in every muscle fiber appears to play a key but previously unacknowledged role in the mechanics of muscle stretch, according to a new study by Brown University biologists.
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News and Events

Brown welcomes newest cohort of transfer, visiting students

A distinctively Brown cohort of 35 transfer and visiting students marched through the ceremonial Van Wickle Gates on Tuesday, marking the beginning of their academic studies on College Hill.
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Health and Medicine

Whether our speech is fast or slow, we say about the same

Fast talkers tend to convey less information with each word and syntactic structure than slower-paced speakers, meaning that no matter our pace, we all say just about as much in a given time, a new study finds.
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Health and Medicine

Hospitals in Medicare ACOs reduced readmissions faster

The Accountable Care Organization model of paying for health care appears to help reduce hospital readmissions among Medicare patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities, a new study suggests.
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Health and Medicine

Medicaid expansion linked to better care quality at health centers

In the first year of Medicaid expansion, four out of eight quality indicators at federally funded health centers improved significantly in states that expanded Medicaid compared to non-expansion states, according to a new study.
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News and Events

The year in stories

As 2016 comes to a close, here are 19 highlights among Brown’s most well-read and noteworthy stories from the last year.
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Science and Technology

Are Uber drivers entrepreneurs?

A case study created by Brown undergraduates as part of an entrepreneurship class investigates the entrepreneurial aspects of the ridesharing platform’s driver model.
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Environment

Galápagos waters illustrate ecological drama of climate change

Brown marine biologist Jon Witman and students have spent much of 2016 in the Galápagos Islands, continuing years of chronicling the complex and dramatic ecological changes wrought by the increasingly volatile El Niño – La Niña cycle.
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Science and Technology

RNA pathway plays key role in health, lifespan, fly study shows

The piRNA pathway was thought to be most active in the reproductive organs of animals, but researchers have discovered in the common fruit fly that the pathway also operates in a non-reproductive body tissue, playing a vital role in maintaining health and lifespan.
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Social Sciences

Trust in government tied to compliance with public health policies

Research by Brown University political scientist shows that citizens who distrust government institutions may disregard government-mandated disease-control measures, with negative implications for public health.
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News and Events

Brown plans for anchor tenancy in proposed Innovation Center

Envisioning a new home for the School of Professional Studies, the University signed a letter of intent to lease 50,000 square feet over 15 years as part of a major development project by Wexford Science & Technology in Providence’s Jewelry District.
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Health and Medicine

Famine alters metabolism for successive generations

A famine that afflicted China between 1959 and 1961 is associated with an increased hyperglycemia risk not only among people who were born then, but also among the children they had a generation later.
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