Susan Graseck, director of the Choices for the 21st Century Program at Brown University, joins Normal, Ill., teacher Kelly Keough and a student, Heather Johnson, to talk about the curriculum developed by Choices and used by Keough.
www.here-now.org/shows/2007/02/20070227_2.asp

A look at technologies aimed at miniaturizing and internalizing the way people can control their cybernetic limbs includes the work of Brown Professor of Neuroscience John Donoghue. (Cosmic Log is an MSNBC.com blog written by science writer Alan Boyle.)
cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/02/26/69763.aspx

The AFL-CIO and the United Auto Workers have complained to the International Labor Organization, an agency of the United Nations, about a July 2004 decision by the National Labor Relations Board denying teaching assistants the right to organize. The unions say that decision violates workers' rights under international labor standards. The NLRB decision was in regard to a complaint filed by Brown University graduate students and research assistants. This wire-service article appeared in media outlets throughout the world.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/26/AR2007022600805.html

Professor of Orthopaedics Roy Aaron discusses his research to develop biohybrid prosthetic limbs.
www.pbn.com/stories/23254.html

Professor of Applied Mathematics Chi-Wang Shu has won the 2007 SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering from the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematic and the Association for Computing Machinery. Shu was selected for his “development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing.”
www.pbn.com/stories/23279.html

Brown University has announced a series of new commitments to atone for the institution’s ties to slavery, including continuing academic partnerships with several historically black colleges and universities. The new programs follow a report of the school’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, released last October.
www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7063.shtml
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-107.html

Brown University will raise a $10 million endowment for Providence schoolchildren as part of its response to last fall’s report by the university’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice.
www.pbn.com/stories/23268.html
See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-107.html

A profile of Nobel laureate Craig Mello ’82. The online audio component of the article (http://www.hhmi.org/bulletin/feb2007/audio/mello_extra.html) offers Mello family reflections on the value of education. (Craig’s parents, Jim and Sally, attended Brown in the 1950s.)
www.hhmi.org/bulletin/feb2007/features/ridge.html

Ruth J. Simmons will not stand for reelection at the Pfizer shareholder meeting in April due to her increased responsibilities as president of Brown University. She has been on the board for 10 years.
www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/27/ap3469094.html

An interview with basketball coach Craig Robinson includes discussion of whether the Ivy League should have a post-season conference tournament. The segment is expected to air Feb. 28.
www.cstv.com/cstv/programming/showpages/takingissue.html

Professor of Religious Studies Ross Kraemer discusses “The Lost Tomb of Jesus,” a documentary claiming that ten ancient caskets found in a Jerusalem suburb may have contained the bones of Jesus and his family.

Assistant Professor of Education Martin West discusses Providence teacher contract negotiations.
www.wrni.org/