Potential applications for rhodium quinones, a mixture created by chemistry Professor Dwight Sweigart and his research group at Brown, are featured in this article.

To test the concepts of game theory, Ignacio Palacios-Huerta, professor of economics, uses decisions made by goalies and penalty kickers in soccer.

Selective four-year colleges enroll a smaller percentage of transfer students than they did 20 years ago, despite the growing number of students who start their postsecondary education at community colleges, according to a report on a national study released on Monday by the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation. The report's release comes at a time when education leaders and policy makers, including the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education, increasingly are focused on fostering socioeconomic diversity at the nation's most selective colleges.

About a third of Newark’s residents are represented at every level of government by members of the Payne family. Marion Orr, professor of political science and urban studies, compares the Payne family to other political families elsewhere, noting that "name recognition is an important cue to voters. Voters are going to listen to you more because they know your family has been involved in politics."

Wendy Schiller, associate professor of political science, discussed the toll being taken on voters by the economy and continued fighting in Iraq. Her live interview with Jon Scott aired at about 9:40 a.m. EDT from Brown University’s new remote television studio.