Brown University Prof. Mary Carskadon thinks most U.S. school systems should pay close attention to what she found in the saliva of teenagers. If they did, she said, high schools would start later than they do, and teachers would educate students about a subject as basic as reading and math: sleep.

Kim M. Gans, associate professor of community health, is one of seven people poised to make a public impact on two of Rhode Island's fastest growing industries.

Brown University’s library boasts an unusual anatomy book. Tanned and polished to a smooth golden brown, its cover looks and feels no different from any other fine leather. But here’s its secret: the book is bound in human skin.

Brown University is using $1.1 million to provide “recovery semester” scholarships to students from three schools damaged by Hurricane Katrina. The money will fund scholarships for more than 300 students at Xavier and Dillard universities, both in New Orleans, and Tougaloo College in Jackson, Miss. The scholarships are being distributed through a $5 million hurricane relief fund established in October by Sidney Frank, a Brown alumnus and philanthropist.

Brown University said yesterday that it will offer $1.1 million in grants to students at Dillard and Xavier universities in New Orleans and Tougaloo College in Mississippi to help them resume studies after Hurricane Katrina. The university will provide scholarships of as much as $5,250 for the winter semester if the students were permanent residents in the hurricane-affected areas and were enrolled at one of those colleges this fall. The Providence, R.I., school will use money from a $5 million hurricane relief fund established in October by liquor importer and 1942 Brown graduate Sidney Frank to pay for the program.