Richard C. Holbrooke ’62, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Accords ending the war in Bosnia, has accepted a five-year term as professor-at-large at Brown University.
www.projo.com/news/content/HOLBROOKE_BROWN_02-08-07_FH4ASUS.183c65a.html
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-090.html

Richard C. Holbrooke ’62, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations and chief architect of the 1995 Dayton Accords ending the war in Bosnia, has accepted a five-year term as professor-at-large at Brown. This wire-service article was distributed to media outlets throughout the world.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/07/america/NA-GEN-US-Holbrooke-Appointment.php
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-090.html

Yale University is removing a painting of Elihu Yale that has hung in the room where the university’s board of trustees meet. The painting shows the wealthy merchant being waited on by a black man with a silver collar around his neck. The action comes “as some of the nation's oldest, most prestigious colleges confront a shameful side of their past,” the article states, noting Brown University’s investigation of its ties to the slave trade.
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Brown University announced the appointment of Richard C. Holbrooke, a former U.S. ambassador and assistant secretary of state, to a five-year term as a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies.
www.pbn.com/contentmgr/showdetails.php/id/125335
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-090.html

Brown University and Rhode Island Hospital scientists say they have discovered a new method of controlling cell growth, possibly leading to new targets for cancer treatments. This wire-service article was distributed to media outlets throughout the world.
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-093.html

Yale University is removing a painting of Elihu Yale that has hung in the room where the university’s board of trustees meet. The painting shows the wealthy merchant being waited on by a black man with a silver collar around his neck. The action “is a rare step in academe,” the entry states, and then notes Brown University’s report regarding its founders’ ties to the slave trade.
chronicle.com/news/article/1628/yale-u-will-take-down-portrait-assailed-as-racist

A Q&A with Eugene Jarecki, visiting senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, about his award-winning film, “Why We Fight: The Contradictions of War.”
www.telegram.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070209/NEWS/702090366/1102

Scott Haltzman, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, discusses the neurochemistry of love.
www.projo.com/news/content/astronaut_02-09-07_4M4BGFT.16824d3.html

Mayor Adrian M. Fenty's public schools takeover plan would give the D.C. Council one measure of authority other big-city mayors held onto when they took over their school systems: line-by-line control over the budget. Professor Kenneth K. Wong, director of the urban education policy program at Brown, discusses the benefits and pitfalls of such control.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/08/AR2007020802021.html

A profile of Matthew Nagle, the Weymouth native who volunteered to test BrainGate, a device created by Brown University researchers. Nagel became the first person to have a sensory chip tapped directly into the electrical activity in his brain. The chip, which has since been removed, allowed him to control external devices, such as a computer cursor, or to turn a television on and off, just by thinking about them.
ledger.southofboston.com/articles/2007/02/08/news/news04.txt

Brown University will receive a $100-million donation for its medical school from a foundation created by New England retail titan Warren Alpert. To mark the gift, the institution has been renamed the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.
chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i23/23a02601.htm
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-088.html