Brown University’s analysis of its role in the slave trade could be a model for Britain to use as it explores how to commemorate the 200th anniversary of Great Britain’s abolition of slavery.

Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose is among the experts commenting on Sen. Joseph Biden’s use of the word “articulate” to characterize Sen. Barak Obama.
www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/weekinreview/04clemetson.html?ex=1171342800&en=8891d8
a08f55acc6&ei=5040&partner=MOREOVERFEATURES

Ralph Rodriguez, associate professor of American civilization, discusses “Sex, Love & Rockets: The Comix World of Los Bros Hernandez,” an exhibition opening Feb. 5 at the John Nicholas Brown Center.
www.projo.com/art/content/artsun-loveandrockets04_02-04-07_SF46S3P.404c1af.html
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-083.html

Ross E. Cheit, an associate professor of public policy who runs the site recoveredmemory.org, comments on a new study by a team of psychiatrists and literary scholars who report that it could not find a single account of repressed memory, fictional or not, before the year 1800.
www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/arts/03memo.html

Coverage of Princeton Professor Cornel West’s Martin Luther King lecture at Brown University.
www.projo.com/ri/providence/content/Cornel_West_02-03-07_NO48I7P.19f3b43.html

Bats are unique among flying animals, with wings made of highly jointed skeletons and elastic membranes. Research was conducted by Brown faculty members Kenneth Breuer and Sharon Swartz. has revealed the extreme flexibility of those wings, which allow the bats to generate and manipulate lift in unusual ways.
www.newscientist.com/article/dn11105-bats-in-flight-may-provide-military-inspira
tion-.html

Brown University’s decision to suspend a campus Christian group is mentioned in this commentary that notes “activists on all political sides would do well to recognize that colleges can set rules.”
chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i23/23b01601.htm

Professor of Sociology Phil Brown answers questions about how community groups and scientists have collaborated to clean up polluted sites and prevent exposure to toxins.
www.southcoasttoday.com/daily/02-07/02-05-07/02opinion.htm

Martin A. Weinstock, professor of dermatology and community health, discusses new research showing that women are three times more likely than men to die of genital nonmelanoma skin cancer. This wire service article appeared in several media outlets.
www.forbes.com/forbeslife/health/feeds/hscout/2007/02/05/hscout601526.html

Steven Hamburg, associate professor of environmental studies, comments on the increasing “buzz” about climate change in the media and general public.
www.projo.com/news/content/warming_reaction_02-03-07_MI48A2H.19f7c91.html