Brown is among the ten colleges and universities that received grants for initiatives designed to increase college enrollment and graduation rates among low-income high school and community college students.
foundationcenter.org/pnd/news/story.jhtml?id=173700003
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Women with cancer in one breast should get an MRI scan of the other breast to make sure the cancer is not there, too, the American Cancer Society recommended on Wednesday. Constantine Gatsonis, director of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown, was the lead statistician for the trial. Coverage of this research appeared worldwide.
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/28/AR2007032800172.html
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Women with cancer in one breast should get an MRI scan of the other breast to make sure the cancer is not there, too, the American Cancer Society recommended on Wednesday, marking the first time that leading radiologists have advocated the routine use of MRI scans as a screening test. Constantine Gatsonis, director of the Center for Statistical Sciences at Brown, was the lead statistician for the trial.
www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2007/03/28/mri_scan_for_breast_cancer_is_urged/
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-120.html

Robert A.M. Stern Architects has been selected to design Brown University’s new 65,000-square-foot fitness center, which will provide state-of-the-art recreational areas as well as student-oriented community spaces. It is scheduled for completion in 2010.
www.projo.com/business/content/BZ_STERN_03-28-07_HG4U7EE.283e3c8.html
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A minimally invasive procedure called radiofrequency (RF) ablation is an effective treatment for patients with inoperable lung cancer, according to findings published in the April issue of the journal Radiology. Dr. Damian Dupuy, director of ablation at Rhode Island Hospital and professor of diagnostic imaging at The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, led the research.
www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/news/20070327/guided-heat-for-inoperable-lung-cancer

This opinion piece on slavery’s “lingering effect on the present” mentions Brown University’s commitment to 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.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/chi-0703250255mar25,1,7343298.story?ctrack=1&cset=true

Brown University hosted Chinese Ambassador to the the United States Zhou Wenzhong, as he spoke on U.S.-China relations. The webcast is available for viewing at CSPAN.org or at the Watson Institute.
CSPAN.org
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-117.html
Watson Webcast: www.watsoninstitute.org/events_detail.cfm?id=891

Coverage of the 2nd annual Black Enterprise Women of Power Summit, where hundreds of women reconvened to talk about professional goals and dreams and how to make them happen. The article mentions the “inspiring keynote message” by Brown President Ruth Simmons. The article appears in the April issue, which is currently on news stands.

A group of computer science researchers at Brown have produced a new programming language designed for modern client-based Web applications such as mashups. This article reviews that new language, called Flapjax.
www.devsource.com/article2/0,1895,2106701,00.asp

Associate Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller contributes to this article on the presidential prospects of Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, whose poll numbers currently hover around 1 percent among Republican voters.
www.nwanews.com/adg/national/185782/

BBC World News coverage of the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the transatlantic slave trade mentions Brown University as an “excellent example” of an institution that took a hard look at its history and ties to slavery.
www.bbc.co.uk/abolition/

A summary of research by Brown Professor of Neuroscience John Donoghue, which “tackles the mystery” of the neuronal code used by the brain to control muscle movement.
www.newscientisttech.com/article.ns?id=dn11459&feedId=online-news_rss20

Audio link to a radio interview with Constantine Gatsonis, a biostatistian at Brown University and co-author of the study that suggesting that all women newly diagnosed with breast cancer should get MRI of the other breast to make sure the cancer is not there too.
www.wbz1030.com/pages/325759.php?contentType=4&contentId=390463
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