During its annual fall meeting, the Corporation accepted $91 million in gifts and discussed progress on Building on Distinction, Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion and BrownTogether.
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As it celebrates 25 years of impact, Leadership Alliance will convene college and university presidents, leaders from public and private sectors to create strategies to achieve and sustain diversity in academia and beyond.
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Fun with physics: Brown’s new Nobel Laureate talks theory
Michael Kosterlitz, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, met with students from the physics department during a town hall event.
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Video: Brown's creepiest concert
Brown organist Mark Steinbach offers a glimpse of the University's traditional midnight Halloween event — a celebration of spooky songs old and new delivered on the world's oldest Hutchings-Votey pipe organ.
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Science and Technology
Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the Moon
The Moon’s Orientale basin is an archetype of “multi-ring” basins found throughout the solar system. New research reveals how those rings were formed.
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Health and Medicine
‘Speed networking’ catalyzes collaborations on health disparities
To inspire new ideas aimed at addressing health disparities, the Office of the Vice President for Research convened an unconventional approach: “speed networking” for researchers.
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New research identifies four organizational and administrative factors that can decrease teacher turnover and lift student test scores in math
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As competition concludes, ‘bio balloon’ team has reached great heights
An undergraduate team of emerging synthetic biologists from Brown and Stanford prepares to culminate a global competition this weekend after a productive nine months advancing the science of an entirely biological balloon.
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Brown goes ‘ALL IN’ on voter participation for Election 2016
University is among 206 colleges and universities in the nonpartisan ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge aimed at increasing student voter participation.
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Brown launches new Data Science Initiative
The initiative, which includes a new master’s program, will bolster research that integrates data in new scholarly contexts and prepare students to be leaders in a data-enabled society.
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Study yields rich dossier of cancer-linked protein’s associates
By developing an atomic-scale picture of how the cancer-linked enzyme PP2A binds to other proteins, Brown University researchers have developed a new list of nearly 100 of its potential partners.
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New research tracking population shifts over 30 years shows that increasing neighborhood-level diversity is a near-universal trend in urban areas.
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Brown families rendezvous on campus for Family Weekend
With families traveling to the University from across the globe, Brown President Christina Paxson urged them to embrace the distinctive Brown experience where students engage in the “daring adventure” of learning.
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Arts and Humanities
‘Lamp/Bear’ artist to speak at Brown on Oct. 26
The University’s Public Art Committee will welcome artist Urs Fischer, the man behind ‘Untitled (Lamp/Bear),’ to campus for a public lecture.
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Families journey to Brown from across the globe
En route to campus to celebrate the University’s Family Weekend, six family members give their take on the annual fall tradition and what Brown means to them.
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Brown welcomes first Executive Master in Cybersecurity students
The Van Wickle Gates opened as 28 executives and professionals convened as the inaugural cohort of cybersecurity students in the 16-month School of Professional Studies program.
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Social Sciences
A broader view of celebrated urbanist Jane Jacobs
Brown researchers gather uncollected writings, speeches and interviews to create a more comprehensive portrait of the writer who changed how we think about cities.
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With all eyes on the U.S. presidential election, public events and discussions at Brown will focus on the country’s future and the forces shaping the election.
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Health and Medicine
Resisting cruelty by leading aid efforts, Syrian doctor comes to Brown to study
Tortured and then forced to flee Syria, Dr. Khaled Almilaji has countered tyranny with ever-greater efforts to care for his country’s people — his latest move is to study public health at Brown.
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Brown initiative to help bridge humanitarian, academic efforts
With the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative at the University’s Watson Institute, Dr. Adam Levine and colleagues hope to improve the effectiveness and accountability of disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and post-emergency reconstruction through scholarship.
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Research finding that a melting Greenland Ice Sheet could expose biological, chemical and radioactive waste at Camp Century prompts calls for Denmark to take responsibility for site clean-up and compensation.
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Ladd Observatory to celebrate 125 years
A weeklong series of events will commemorate the observatory’s rich history.
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Health and Medicine
Cocoa compound linked to some cardiovascular biomarker improvements
A new review of 19 randomized clinical trials finds that consumption of cocoa, and therefore compounds called flavanols, may improve some biomarkers related to lipids and insulin resistance.
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Grant funds big-data study of brain connectivity
With more than $1.2 million over three years to study how complex brain networks process information, Brown has earned its second grant this fall from the federal BRAIN Initiative and shares significantly in a third.
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Shapiro, known for finding answers to economic questions by looking in unexpected places, will discuss his work using text as data.
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A new study finds that close to 9,000 square kilometers of Amazon forest was cleared from 2008 to 2012 without detection by the official government monitoring system.
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Journalist and historian argues that context informs how we understand and act upon values, which can create conflict — and urged the audience to engage in difficult conversations under circumstances that fall short of democracy's ideals in order to reach the ultimate goal of democracy.
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Photos: Indigenous People’s Day at Brown
In an event organized by Native Americans at Brown, members of the University community and beyond joined on Monday afternoon to celebrate the inaugural Indigenous People’s Day at Brown.
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Brown researchers develop new ligase for biomedical use
The new heat-stable RNA ligase could be useful for a variety of applications including in vitro diagnostics and sequencing.
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Toshiko Mori will design a new building to expand the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Anmahian Winton Architects will design the renovation of Wilson Hall.
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Machine learning technique helps identify cancer cell types
The new technique could be useful in early testing of cancer drugs and in understanding drug resistance.
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New grant to aid design of data-sharing platform
Brown researchers will share nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation for a project to help encourage big data research.
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Health and Medicine
Infants use prefrontal cortex in learning
A group of 8-month-olds has provided evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the prefrontal cortex contributes to learning during infancy.
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A three-year study will look at how the standards, adopted by all but eight states, affect classroom instruction and disparities in academic achievement.
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Presentation by New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb kicks off series titled “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse,” which includes lectures, panels, workshops and conversations aimed at encouraging campus-wide discourse on difficult topics.
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Bragging as a strategy: what boasting buys, and costs, a candidate
Whether it’s better to brag or to be humble can depend on what perception one seeks to change, whether hard evidence will come to light and what that evidence says, according to a new study.
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Believing that others understand helps us feel that we do — even when we don’t
New research on how people think supports the idea of a “community of knowledge,” in which people blend the perceived expertise of others into their assessment of their own understanding.
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By the close of the fiscal year on June 30, the endowment had contributed $166 million to the University, representing $18,500 per student and 18 percent of Brown’s operating budget.
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Social Sciences
Low lead levels in children negatively affect test scores
A new study using data from Rhode Island’s lead-abatement program and repeated blood lead level tests finds that lead exposure among preschoolers can predict low reading scores in subsequent years.
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Brown’s J. Michael Kosterlitz wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Professor of physics awarded "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
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Environmental change drove diversity in Lake Malawi cichlids
Researchers show that periods of deep, clear water in Lake Malawi over the past 800,000 years coincide with bursts of species diversification.
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Startup@Brown connects students with startups
The second annual Startup@Brown conference, to be held this weekend, offers entrepreneurial students a sneak peak at the startup world.
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Health and Medicine
BRAIN grant of $1.6 million powers study of neural signals
Three-year project will develop a software tool to help scientists and doctors understand how recorded brainwaves emerge from underlying neural activity.
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Health and Medicine
Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA
Formaldehyde, a common toxicant and carcinogen recently subjected to new federal regulations, may be more dangerous than previously thought, a new study suggests.
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Brown University responds to court’s ‘John Doe’ decision
On Sept. 28, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued its decision on John Doe v. Brown University, a case in which the plaintiff challenged the outcome of a University disciplinary process related to a sexual misconduct complaint.
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Student-developed software streamlines archaeological analysis
An interdisciplinary research team of Brown undergraduates led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Parker VanValkenburgh developed a bilingual, tablet-based app for field and laboratory use.
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Science and Technology
Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems
Sea surface temperatures dipped dramatically during a period from 7 million to 5.4 million years ago, a time of massive global ecological change.
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Social Sciences
You’re the reason why Washington is broken
Practices that have been used for a century or more cannot explain the recent marked uptick in political polarization. Marc J. Dunkelman tracks how changes in the American social fabric impact Washington.
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Block party brings students, alumni, faculty and staff together to launch a year of events celebrating the Brown Center for Students of Color's 40th year.
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New study on health care among children under age five in Mali sheds light on a major health care policy debate.
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