Research led by David Baier, a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, is featured in this wrapup of research notes.
www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/march/wildthings.php
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-070.html

Rhodes Scholar Keriann M. Backus ‘07 is among the 20 students named to USA Today’s eighteenth annual All-USA College Academic Team, which honors students for outstanding intellectual achievement and leadership. A profile of Backus is at http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-02-13-college-allstars-first_x.htm
www.usatoday.com/news/education/2007-02-14-all-stars-cover_x.htm

Senior research engineer Chris Bull has teamed up with industrial designers from the Rhode Island School of Design to create Project eMotive, which aims to to develop a cheap, clean and more comfortable mode of transportation for ordinary people in developing nations. (Contact the Office of Media Relations for a copy of the text.)

A collaborative study that included Mark Lurie, assistant professor in the Department of Community Health, found that labor migration between urban and rural areas played a key role in the spread of AIDS in South Africa, which is among countries having the highest rates of HIV infection. This wire service article was distributed internationally. (Contact the Office of Media Relations for a copy of the text.)
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-095.html

In an article about vintage jewelry, Rudolf Winkes, professor of classical archaeology and the history of art and architecture, talks about cameos.
www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/fashion/22Online.html

The magazine’s “In Brief” column includes mention of research led by Professor of Biology Elizabeth Brainerd. Her team is creating a technology that will allow doctors and scientists to see inside living people and animals and watch their bones move in 3D as they move. (Contact the Office of Media Relations for a copy of the text.)
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-091.html

The brains of alcohol-dependent individuals are affected not only by their own heavy drinking, but also by genetic or environmental factors associated with their parents' drinking, according to a new study led by Jodi Gilman, a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism research fellow and Ph.D. candidate at Brown University.
www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070222103151.htm

Brain size among alcohol-dependent individuals with a family history of alcoholism is reduced even before the onset of alcohol dependence, according to a study led by Jodi Gilman, a National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism research fellow and Ph.D. candidate at Brown University. This wire service article was distributed to media outlets throughout the world.
www.upi.com/ConsumerHealthDaily/view.php?StoryID=20070222-043415-1611r

Rowland Barrett, director of the Center for Autism and Developmental Disabilities at Bradley Hospital and associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior, is among the guests discussing the latest research tracking down the causes of autism. (Audio of the interview will be available on the show’s Web site after Friday, Feb. 23.)
www.sciencefriday.com/pages/2007/Feb/hour1_022307.html

Former R.I. Sen. Lincoln Chafee, a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Relations, discusses the lack of open discussion in Congress about the war in Iraq. (Audio of the interview can be downloaded from the Web site after 4 p.m. Friday, Feb. 23.)
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7570917

This feature story examines the work done by Brown researchers at the Infant Behavior, Cry and Sleep Program run by the Brown Center for the Study of Children at Risk, which is supported by Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island.

Pedro Dal Bo, assistant professor of economics, is co-author of a working paper titled “Political Dynasties,” a new study that finds some evidence of a self-perpetuating political elite in Congress. In a study of Congress since its inception in 1789, the researchers found that legislators who won reelection were 40 percent more likely to have a relative follow their footsteps to the Capitol than those who held only one term. This press release was distributed to media throughout the United States. (Contact the Office of Media Relations for a copy of the text.)

In an article about Entrepreneurship WeekUSA, Robby Klaber ’07, co-president of Brown University’s Entrepreneurship Program, discusses Brown’s day-long event.
www.businessweek.com/smallbiz/content/feb2007/sb20070222_645291.htm?chan=smallbi
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