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Brown to confer 3,310 degrees at 257th Commencement

May 23, 2025

On Saturday and Sunday, May 24 and 25, the University will confer a total of 3,310 degrees in all categories — undergraduate, graduate, medical and honorary.

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A spirited celebration: Sights, sounds and stories from Commencement and Reunion 2025

May 22, 2025

Brown’s big weekend offered graduation ceremonies, alumni reunions and a multitude of other opportunities for graduates, alumni, family and friends to honor accomplishments and reunite.

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Science and Technology

Brown University undergraduates harness ‘spooky’ quantum effects for 3D holography imaging

May 21, 2025

Two Brown students developed a new technique called Quantum Multi-Wavelength Holography, which creates high-fidelity 3D images using quantum entangled photons.

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Arts and Humanities

Photos: The Lindemann lights up with lively Spring Festival of Dance

May 19, 2025

Brown University students performed an array of works during the Department of Theatre Arts and Performance Studies’ annual spring dance showcase.

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Brown to create dedicated center to welcome prospective students, families to campus

May 19, 2025

In the heart of campus, a new admission welcome center in Brown’s historic Manning Hall will serve as an inviting, dedicated hub for prospective students and families when it opens in the fall.

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Student Life

At Brown, independent concentrators pursue academic paths as unique as their ambitions

May 19, 2025

In this Q&A, four Brown students reflect on the experience of designing their own concentrations that defy conventional categories, from empathy in practice to computational neuroscience.

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Science and Technology

Streaked slopes on Mars probably not signs of water flow, study finds

May 19, 2025

Researchers analyzed a global database of 500,000 strange streaks that occur on steep Martian slopes, concluding that they’re most likely caused by dry processes rather than liquid flow.

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Health and Medicine

Brown medical school graduate to emphasize love as key to success, fulfillment in medicine

May 15, 2025

At the Commencement ceremony for the Warren Alpert Medical School’s Class of 2025, Alisa Pugacheva will reflect on the importance of appreciating patients, colleagues and the practice of medicine.

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Brown University’s 257th Commencement set for Sunday, May 25

May 14, 2025

Sunday's procession and University Ceremony on the College Green will cap Brown's three-day celebration of Commencement and Reunion Weekend 2025.

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Student Life

Ancient melodies, new voices: Bamboo Rhyme ensemble strikes a chord at Brown

May 14, 2025

The new student-led Chinese music ensemble, founded in Fall 2024, made its debut with a spring concert that showcased the group’s rich repertoire of traditional and contemporary medleys.

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Science and Technology

What lies beneath: Using rock blasted from craters to probe the Martian subsurface

May 14, 2025

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.

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Health and Medicine

Zainab Iftikhar: Helping humans use artificial intelligence to better support mental health

May 14, 2025

The Brown Ph.D. student collaborates with psychologists and computer scientists across campus to find ways AI can support, but not replace, human-centered mental health counseling.

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Science and Technology

Targeted nanoparticles show promise for more effective antifungal treatments

May 12, 2025

In an advance that could lead to better treatment of troublesome fungal infections, Brown University engineers have developed a nanoscale drug delivery system specially targeted to fungal cells.

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Brown faculty to confer highest honor on preeminent scholars in physics, public health

May 12, 2025

J. Michael Kosterlitz, a professor of physics, and Terrie Fox Wetle, a professor emerita of health services, policy and practice, will receive the Rosenberger Medal of Honor during Commencement and Reunion Weekend.

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‘Presence of Absence’ explores death and connection with unexpected joy

May 9, 2025

Graduating senior Elysee Barakett reflects on the loss of her brother through a community-created mural on display in Brown’s Lindemann Performing Arts Center through May 16.

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Science and Technology

Researchers develop AI motion 'translation' model for controlling different kinds of robots

May 8, 2025

A new AI model created by researchers at Brown can generate motion in all kinds of robots and animated figures — humanoids, quadrupeds and more — from simple text commands.

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Graduate student speakers at Commencement will encourage peers to engage with curiosity, compassion

May 8, 2025

As Brown celebrates its 257th Commencement, Akashleena Mallick and Melaine Ferdinand-King will address their peers in separate master’s and Ph.D. ceremonies on College Hill.

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Photos: Local families enjoy story hour at the Brown Bookstore

May 8, 2025

The Brown University Bookstore welcomed families for a bilingual reading of "Planting Stories," celebrating community and cultural heritage through children’s literature.

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Student Life

Photos: Flash mob brings rhythm, relief during final exams at Brown

May 7, 2025

On the first day of Brown’s final examination period, members of the student-led organization No Empty Seats brought the College Green to life with a spontaneous, throwback dance routine.

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Social Sciences

Collaborative project yields new digital archive on hidden history of Indigenous enslavement

May 7, 2025

Stolen Relations, a public database set to launch on Saturday, May 10, reveals the stories of thousands of Native people forced into servitude across the Americas.

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Brown to confer honorary degrees on seven distinguished leaders at Commencement 2025

May 7, 2025

The University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of community leaders, artists, writers, performers and scholars during its Commencement exercises on Sunday, May 25.

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Brown joins federal lawsuit challenging cuts to National Science Foundation grant funding

May 6, 2025

Legal action aims to block funding cuts that would jeopardize Brown’s leading-edge research in areas including quantum computing, machine learning, advanced engineering materials and biomechanics.

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Professor of History Ethan Pollock named Brown University’s new dean of the College

May 6, 2025

An accomplished historian and academic leader, Pollock looks forward to guiding and strengthening the academic experience for more than 7,200 undergraduates.

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University Initiatives

Brown University faculty to consider Statement of University Values and Voice

April 30, 2025

The proposed statement from Brown’s Ad-hoc Committee on University Values and Voice outlines four core institutional values for Brown and defines how the University may use its voice publicly.

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Student Life

Ayoola Fadahunsi: Anchored by community at Brown, she leads with love, justice and joy

April 30, 2025

Informed by her Nigerian-American identity and guided by her spiritual compass, the Brown University senior is advancing migration-policy research, humanitarian law and public service.

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Student Life

Brown students rescue campus food to serve neighbors in need

April 29, 2025

For more than 15 years, Brown’s Food Recovery Network has redirected thousands of pounds of surplus food to support local soup kitchens, shelters and community food pantries, while diverting landfill waste.

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Health and Medicine

New center at Brown to study the intersection of climate, environment and human health

April 28, 2025

During a campus conversation to celebrate the launch of the Center for Climate, Environment and Health, panelists explored the impacts of climate change on human health and the research that will drive life-saving solutions.

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Health and Medicine

U.S. maternal deaths doubled during COVID-19 pandemic, among other findings in new study

April 28, 2025

Public health researchers untangle two decades of maternal mortality data and find that while early increases were driven by reporting changes, real increases followed during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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In upcoming Commencement speeches, senior orators to reflect on resilience, responsibility

April 28, 2025

In keeping with a Brown tradition that dates back more than two and a half centuries, seniors Nkéke Harris and Aliza Kopans will address their fellow graduates on Sunday, May 25.

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Brown students, recent alumni earn prestigious graduate scholarships

April 25, 2025

Three Brown University undergraduates and two recent alumni were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Truman, Gates Cambridge and Ellison scholars.

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Brown scholars elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 23, 2025

With their election to the prestigious honor society, eight members of the Brown University faculty join the nation’s leading scholars in science, public affairs, business, arts and the humanities.

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Arts and Humanities

‘Wild Stories’ shows the power of ‘bombastic’ and brilliant narrative art

April 23, 2025

An exhibition in Brown’s Granoff Center for the Creative Arts celebrates the artwork of Professor of Visual Art Leslie Bostrom as she reflects on three decades of teaching and painting at Brown.

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Student Life

‘SNL’ veteran Colin Jost talks comedy as craft and coping mechanism with Brown students

April 22, 2025

Known best for his contributions to “Saturday Night Live,” the comedian and actor shared behind-the-scenes stories and industry insights in a talk organized by the student-run Brown Lecture Board.

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University Initiatives

Staff Spotlight: Sowing more than seedlings, Nicholas Vasques cultivates learning and research

April 22, 2025

As Brown’s research greenhouse manager, Vasques tends the Plant Environmental Center run by the University’s Department of Ecology, Evolution and Organismal Biology.

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Environment

Video: Brown biologist Stephen Porder on taking purposeful, planet-positive personal steps

April 22, 2025

This Earth Day, Brown University’s associate provost for sustainability offers strategies to minimize carbon dioxide emissions and help mitigate climate change.

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News and Events

John N. Friedman appointed inaugural dean of Brown’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs

April 21, 2025

A distinguished economist and public affairs scholar, Friedman will lead a new school dedicated to advancing research and teaching on the world’s most pressing economic, political, social and policy challenges.

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Student Life

Photos: Quiet Green turns clamorous with ancient Egyptian battle reenactment at Brown

April 18, 2025

As the culminating project of Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare, more than 90 Brown students participated in a student-led, live-action reconstruction of the 13th-century B.C.E. Battle of Kadesh.

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Science and Technology

Scientists probe the mystery of Titan’s missing deltas

April 18, 2025

New research finds that despite large rivers and seas of liquid methane, Saturn’s moon Titan seems mostly devoid of river deltas, raising new questions about the surface dynamics on this alien world.

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Alumni-led event to celebrate the profound history of Jewish life at Brown

April 17, 2025

After more than a year of planning, “130 Years of Jewish Life at Brown” will convene generations of Brown community members for a weekend of panels, activities and celebrations in early November.

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Arts and Humanities

Two Brown faculty members win Guggenheim fellowships

April 16, 2025

The prestigious fellowships will support the creation of new books by Yannis Hamilakis, a professor of archaeology and modern Greek studies, and Tracy Steffes, a professor of education and history.

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Science and Technology

Golden eyes: How gold nanoparticles may one day help to restore people’s vision

April 16, 2025

A team of Brown University researchers has identified a promising new approach that may one day help to restore vision in people affected by macular degeneration and other retinal disorders.

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Health and Medicine

Novel study at Brown shows how late-life health traces back to what happened in the womb

April 16, 2025

The New England Family Study, launched in 1959 and now led by a Brown epidemiologist, spans three generations of participants and unlocks key insights for healthy aging.

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On semantics and snails: Retired U.S. Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer visits Brown

April 15, 2025

This year’s Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture featured Justice Stephen Breyer, who discussed his time on the nation’s highest court and his pragmatic approach to the law.

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Brown joins federal lawsuit challenging cuts to U.S. Department of Energy grant funding

April 14, 2025

Legal action aims to block funding cuts that would jeopardize Brown’s leading-edge research in semiconductor materials, scientific computing and research that is advancing U.S. security and technology.

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Social Sciences

Political economist Mark Blyth weighs in on inflation, tariffs and ‘the worst of all possible worlds’

April 14, 2025

As global financial systems react to economic shifts, a new book from the director of the Rhodes Center for International Economics and Finance at Brown University explores the causes and impacts of inflation.

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Arts and Humanities

Free, student-led public art tours at Brown University to run from April to November

April 11, 2025

The Brown Arts Institute will host public art tours every Saturday and Sunday, inviting Brown and Providence community members to explore the University’s distinctive public art collection.

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News and Events

Uber CEO and Brown alumnus talks Open Curriculum, artificial intelligence and career advice

April 10, 2025

During an event commemorating the 10th anniversary of Brown’s School of Professional Studies, Class of 1991 graduate Dara Khosrowshahi discussed leadership and innovation with President Christina H. Paxson.

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Student Life

‘Anora’ director, ‘BoJack Horseman’ creator among speakers at 25th annual Ivy Film Festival at Brown

April 10, 2025

From April 14 to 20, the student-produced festival will bring a dynamic slate of film screenings, speaker events, live screenplay readings and new media exhibitions to Brown University’s campus.

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Health and Medicine

Three-quarters of survey respondents supported an overdose prevention center in their neighborhood

April 10, 2025

An assessment by researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health revealed that before the opening of an OPC in Providence, people living and working in the area were generally supportive.

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University Initiatives

Providence-area students discover college life, future possibilities at Brown’s annual College Day

April 9, 2025

With a full day of classes, campus tours and conversations with Brown community members, local high schoolers got a firsthand look into what college can offer — and how their futures might take shape.

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