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Brown computer scientist aims to protect people in an age of artificial intelligence

October 4, 2022

Suresh Venkatasubramanian served as a White House advisor for the nation’s first “Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights,” helping to develop a guide to ethical practices in an era of data-driven technologies.

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Brown plans for tenancy in major public-private life sciences development in Providence

October 4, 2022

To help attract a thriving mix of entities focused on health and medicine, Brown signed a letter of intent with Ancora L&G to lease 20,000 square feet of lab space in a building that will house new State Health Laboratories.

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Health and Medicine

Brown’s new medical students don their white coats, taking their places in history

October 3, 2022

As the University commemorates 50 years of medical education at Brown, members of the Warren Alpert Medical School’s Class of 2026 celebrated a traditional rite of passage at this year’s white coat ceremony.

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Accessibility, health equity and community take center stage in student B-Lab ventures

September 30, 2022

The work of the 2022 cohort of the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s student venture accelerator culminated in presentations and a community celebration, topped off with the surprise announcement of the Jason Harry B-Lab Leadership Award.

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Social Sciences

Taubman Center kickstarts student-led research, emphasizes focus on voting access

September 30, 2022

Wendy Schiller, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, is supporting student-led research on voting access and creating a “one-stop shop” for people to learn more about politics in the United States.

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Health and Medicine

With $15 million federal grant, researchers establish new national suicide prevention center

September 28, 2022

Researchers from Brown University, Michigan State and Henry Ford Health are leading a multi-institution research effort to reduce the national suicide rate.

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News and Events

Sharon P. Pitt named Brown’s vice president for information technology

September 27, 2022

An accomplished leader with decades of information technology experience in higher education, Pitt will advance innovative technology, data and digital solutions for faculty, students and staff.

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Community unites to celebrate Martha and Artemis Joukowsky, Brown’s ‘lifelong ambassadors’

September 26, 2022

Stories, tears and Brown pride filled a weekend-long celebration of life honoring Chancellor Emeritus Artemis A.W. Joukowsky Jr. and Professor Emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky, who died in 2020 and 2022, respectively.

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Student Life

Elhadj Barry: A childhood struggle for equitable health care drives ambitious goals

September 22, 2022

A transfer student from Bronx Community College, Elhadj Barry is drawing on a lifelong love of learning as he explores Brown’s Open Curriculum with the goal of impacting health care infrastructure in Guinea, where he was born.

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Student Life

Hlib Burtsev: From Kyiv to Providence, over a few tumultuous months

September 22, 2022

Tempered by concern for a homeland in crisis, Ukrainian undergraduate Hlib Burtsev has delved into his studies, work and life at Brown, with an eye toward a career in evolutionary biology and ecology.

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Science and Technology

Brown mathematicians’ algorithm to serve as cryptography standard for quantum computing era

September 21, 2022

The federal government selected four algorithms to serve as standards for public key security in the pending era of quantum computers, three of which are based on technology devised by a team of Brown experts.

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Science and Technology

Why do woodpeckers peck? New discovery about bird brains sheds light on intriguing question

September 20, 2022

A team led by a Brown biologist discovered that the same specialized brain area that helps songbirds learn their songs also exists in woodpeckers, suggesting that the communicative drumming evolved in a similar way.

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Health and Medicine

What to know about monkeypox now: Brown University experts weigh in

September 20, 2022

Brown scholars from a variety of departments and perspectives offered key facts and insights on the persisting public health emergency.

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Health and Medicine

50 Years of Medicine: Experienced doctors look back, new Brown med students look forward

September 20, 2022

The Warren Alpert Medical School has been providing student-centered, patient-focused medical education for a half century, say graduates of its first class and members of this year’s incoming M.D. Class of 2026.

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Science and Technology

NASA’s InSight hears its first meteoroid impacts on Mars

September 19, 2022

The Mars lander’s seismometer picked up vibrations and sounds from four impacts in the past two years, a development detailed in a study co-authored by Brown planetary scientist Ingrid Daubar.

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News and Events

Brown ranks among nation’s top universities, employers

September 16, 2022

From U.S. News and World Report to Forbes, prominent rankings in the last year gave the University high marks for its distinctive student experience, world-class teaching and research, and inclusive environment.

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Student Life

Lavleen Madahar: Global consciousness inspired by small-town people watching

September 15, 2022

By drawing from her own life experiences, the incoming first-year Brown student hopes to positively impact individuals and communities through dedicated research in the social sciences.

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Student Life

One class, many journeys: A glimpse at Brown’s newest undergraduate students

September 15, 2022

With the first week of the 2022-23 academic year in the books, this year’s first-year, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students are settling into living and learning on College Hill.

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Arts and Humanities

In first exhibition since 2020, Haffenreffer Museum to showcase modern West African art

September 14, 2022

The anthropology museum, reopened to the public for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, will display colorful, experimental art that provides insights on an era of political upheaval in Anglophone West Africa.

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News and Events

At 259th Opening Convocation, Brown opens its gates to a new class

September 10, 2022

As students commenced their Brown academic careers, President Christina H. Paxson and Dean of the School of Engineering Tejal Desai urged them to seek out new perspectives and immerse themselves in research.

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News and Events

Meet Elvy, a Labrador retriever and the newest member of Brown’s Department of Public Safety

September 9, 2022

The addition of Elvy, a service dog who came to the University via Puppies Behind Bars, will help to strengthen relationships between public safety personnel and Brown students, faculty, staff and neighbors.

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Health and Medicine

New grant aims to improve understanding of aging differences between females and males

September 9, 2022

Three Brown scholars are part of a multi-institutional research team studying how multiple biological processes contribute to differences in aging between the sexes.

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Arts and Humanities

Bell Gallery exhibition sheds light on the criminal justice system’s impact

September 7, 2022

Called “Marking Time: Art in the Age of Mass Incarceration,” the exhibition features paintings, sculptures and other works by prisoners, loved ones and advocates.

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Photos: From residence hall move-ins to Orientation activities, Brown celebrates Class of 2026

September 6, 2022

After a week of welcomes at Brown’s student dormitories and a wide range of events and programs to build connections among new students, the buzz on College Hill is back as the 2022-23 academic year gets underway.

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News and Events

Brown welcomes talented group of 62 new faculty members

September 6, 2022

Representing a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, the scholars join the Brown community this year to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.

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Student Life

Brown’s newest students, by the numbers

September 2, 2022

A total of 3,203 new undergraduate, graduate and medical students begin studies at Brown this fall — here’s a look at who is arriving on College Hill.

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Social Sciences

Michael Ochoa: Growing food and building community with the African Alliance of Rhode Island

September 1, 2022

As an iProv summer fellow, the rising Brown sophomore led pop-up farmers markets with the Providence nonprofit to bring locally grown, affordable produce to communities where fresh foods are harder to access.

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Health and Medicine

Researchers discover how a brain area implicated in Alzheimer’s may be vulnerable to degeneration

September 1, 2022

In a finding that could inform therapeutic targets for Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, a team of Brown University neuroscientists reports on a mechanism of degeneration for the locus coeruleus region of the brain.

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News and Events

With new senior leadership role, Brown to strengthen commitment to Providence and Rhode Island

August 31, 2022

As Brown’s first vice president for community engagement, Mary Jo Callan will grow positive engagement locally by developing, leading and coordinating programs, partnerships and other activities.

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Science and Technology

With superconducting diodes, scholars advance work toward ultra-efficient quantum electronic devices

August 30, 2022

A research team including Brown University faculty and students created a superconducting diode without a magnetic field in multi-layer graphene, a development that could form the basis for future “lossless” electronics.

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Environment

Nina Lee: Investigating the impact of noise pollution on children’s health outcomes

August 30, 2022

As a research assistant in the Brown Community Noise Lab, Nina Lee has spent years monitoring noise levels across New England, advocating for environmental justice every step of the way.

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Science and Technology

Allen Dufort: Coding a cutting-edge space telescope

August 25, 2022

As a software engineer intern, Allen Dufort is supporting a Brown physicist’s NASA-funded project to help build a telescope that will enable the study of distant planets.

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News and Events

After 15 years leading Brown financial aid, Dean Jim Tilton to retire

August 25, 2022

Since joining the University as dean of financial aid in 2006, the longtime education leader has helped to grow Brown’s financial aid program into one of the most comprehensive and inclusive in the country.

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News and Events

$10 million gift endows vice president for athletics and recreation position at Brown

August 24, 2022

The gift from Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and Ann S. Mencoff will support M. Grace Calhoun and fellow athletics leaders in implementing a new strategic plan for Brown’s Division of Athletics and Recreation.

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Social Sciences

To advance research on incarceration, Brown acquires personal papers of prisoner Mumia Abu-Jamal

August 24, 2022

The prison records, correspondence and artwork of Abu-Jamal, and related materials from advocate Johanna Fernández, will anchor a collection at the John Hay Library focused on first-person accounts of incarceration.

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Science and Technology

Using new technique, researchers make surprising discoveries about how flies’ brains respond to tastes

August 22, 2022

The study is an example of how brain imaging technology — in this case developed by researchers at Brown University — can be adapted to advance knowledge of brain processes and prompt new questions about behavior.

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Science and Technology

Rebecca Ward-Diorio: Diving deep into research in the Galápagos

August 22, 2022

In a culmination of her Brown biology education, the rising senior is studying the biodiversity of marine life in the Galápagos Islands for the effects of decreased human presence due to the pandemic.

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Science and Technology

Girls Get Math program helps high school girls build confidence in math and science

August 18, 2022

By nurturing interest in math, a weeklong program led by Brown's mathematics institute aims to expand interest and access to STEM career opportunities for young women.

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Environment

Victor Beck: Healing forests and underserved communities in northern California

August 18, 2022

Under the shade of redwood trees, Victor Beck and other queer students of color from Brown are working with a Black and Indigenous land collective to restore and steward a 900-acre forest.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown anthropologist to deliver prestigious lecture series on ancient Mayan glyphs

August 17, 2022

As the 2023 A.W. Mellon Lecturer in the Fine Arts, Stephen Houston will provide insight on the “wild, raucous energy” of ancient Mayan glyphs at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

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Environment

Olivia McClain: Exploring hyperlocal air pollution in Providence

August 17, 2022

As a summer research assistant in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, McClain is supporting research and building community connections.

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Social Sciences

Collaboration is key to solving the climate crisis, new IBES director says

August 17, 2022

Kim Cobb, who joined the University in July as director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, described how scholars and communities can work together to mitigate the effects of climate change.

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News and Events

Provost Richard M. Locke to step down as Brown provost in December 2022

August 11, 2022

Following nearly a decade of distinguished leadership at Brown University, Locke is named vice president and dean of Apple University.

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Science and Technology

NASA fellowship to fund Brown physicist’s work on groundbreaking lunar telescope

August 10, 2022

Jonathan Pober, an assistant professor of physics, was one of six early-career researchers from across the U.S. to receive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics.

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Health and Medicine

Brown professors offer a program to reduce suicide in high-risk individuals

August 10, 2022

A new guide for clinicians, researchers and mental health practitioners details an evidence-based suicide prevention program to save lives and reduce strain on an overtaxed mental health care system.

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Social Sciences

People who disagree with scientists often overestimate their own scientific knowledge, study finds

August 9, 2022

After surveying thousands of Americans on the COVID-19 vaccine, climate change and other contested issues, scholars found a correlation between how much people think they know and deviation from scientific consensus.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown’s Pre-College Programs welcome increasing share of students from Providence

August 8, 2022

To fuel college access and readiness, Brown University and the Providence Public School District have expanded student outreach and support to recruit and enroll more Providence high school students in Pre-College Programs.

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Arts and Humanities

Lynda Umuhoza: Teaching coding to local campers and inspiring the next generation of women in tech

August 4, 2022

As an iProv summer fellow, the rising Brown sophomore created a new coding class for local students attending summer day camp at Providence recreation centers.

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News and Events

Brown urges Supreme Court to uphold admissions programs that enable all types of diversity among students

August 2, 2022

As the nation’s highest court prepares to hear two major cases this fall, Brown University and 14 peer colleges and universities argued the importance of race-conscious admissions decisions in an amicus brief.

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News and Events

Research teams at Brown to investigate solutions to nine pressing pandemic challenges

July 29, 2022

The projects, which address problems ranging from mental health to food security to the impact on K-12 education, will receive $643,029 in research support from a new Peter G. Peterson Foundation fund.

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