Professor of History Gordon Wood talks about his new book, "Revolutionary Characters: What Made the Founders Different,” and about Benjamin Franklin and the rise of entrepreneurship. A podcast of his interview is available for download.
www.bloomberg.com/tvradio/podcast/index.html

In advance of his Feb. 2 lecture at Brown, Princeton University Professor Cornel West discusses the strengths of Brown University and its president, Ruth J. Simmons, and praises the University’s exploration of its ties to the slave trade.
www.projo.com/news/content/CORNELWEST_02-02-07_DC46PNJ.1839254.html

Leigh R Hochberg, a neuroscience investigator at Brown, comments on an innovative method of nerve regrowth that allows a patient with a prosthetic arm to feel its movements. This wire service article appeared in several media outlets.
www.healthday.com/Article.asp?AID=601549

Marc Tatar, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, comments on new findings that the smell of food can affect the lifespan of flies, and even partially reverse the life-prolonging effects of dietary restrictions. "It's like the whole system doesn't actually function on the currency of resources anymore, it all functions on virtual data about what the resources should be like," Tatar says. "It's mind over matter."
www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa003&articleID=7F70C25E-E7F2-99DF-3903BCB2319E
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Marc Tatar, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, comments on new findings that the smell of food can affect the lifespan of flies, and even partially reverse the life-prolonging effects of dietary restrictions. “If it works in flies, it probably works in us. There are probably neural circuits of aging in humans that remain to be discovered, and these results give us a model to go forward with," Tatar said.
www.the-scientist.com/news/home/45885/

Brown University researchers are creating a technology that will allow doctors and scientists to do the seemingly impossible: See inside living humans and animals and watch their bones move in 3-D as they run, fly, jump, swim and slither. This press release was republished in numerous media outlets.
www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-091.html

Kenneth Mayer, professor of medicine and community health, comments on the disappointing results of a recent clinical trial of an anti-HIV microbicide compound. Mayer participated in an earlier phase of the trial.
www.upi.com/HealthBusiness/view.php?StoryID=20070201-045815-6945r

This editorial praises Brown University medical student Rajiv Kumar, founder of Shape Up Rhode Island.
www.cranstononline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2809&Itemid=32

A review of “American Speeches,” a two-volume anthology of political oratory from colonial times to almost the present. The book editor is Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown Library at Brown University and a former speechwriter in the Clinton White House.
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Martin A. Weinstock, professor of dermatology and community health, presented key findings from a population-based study of nonmelanoma skin cancer mortality in the United States from 1969 to 2000. The data shows a large number of fatal nonmelanoma skin cancers that occurred in the genitalia of men and women age 65 and older, which may have been caused by HPV. Weinstock conducted the research with Kevan G. Lewis of bio-med dermatology. This press release was republished in several media outlets.
www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,54183.shtml

Brown University’s historic November 2006 conference titled “The Jerusalem Perspective: 150 Years of Archaeological Research” is noted in this article about the intensification of acrimonious debate among archaeologists and biblical scholars over how to date and interpret finds from a new excavation of a massive building in Jerusalem.
www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/315/5812/588
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-047.html