Accessible through a long-term home at Syracuse University, the vast repository co-founded by Brown’s Katherine A. Mason includes nearly 27,000 personal stories, photos and more from people living during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The scholar and former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund delivered the University’s 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture with reflections on U.S. history and a present-day call to action.
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Eric Ewing: Helping multi-robot research lift off at Brown and beyond
Advancing a commitment to accessible robotics education, the Ph.D. student is researching how to simultaneously control multiple drones and teaching others how to build and operate them.
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With two publicly recognized overdose prevention centers open in New York and the nation’s third expected to open in Rhode Island, the project includes recent research about the centers to answer questions and address misconceptions.
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The neurotoxic effects of Agent Orange have important implications for the long-term brain health not only of veterans, but of all people exposed to biologically similar herbicides.
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Brown ranked No. 2 nationally for 2023-24 Fulbright winners
With 36 Fulbright grants awarded to students and recent alumni, the University is among the top three Fulbright-producing institutions for the eighth consecutive year.
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The Corporation of Brown University has elected the 1981 Brown graduate, long-time trustee, and chair and CEO of Bank of America to lead Brown’s governing body, effective July 2024.
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As the nation and the University continue to contend with inflation, Brown’s governing body approved a 4.5% undergraduate tuition increase and a 4.5% salary increase pool for faculty and staff.
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Aiming to spark a love for learning, the annual student-organized academic tournament invites high schoolers to showcase knowledge, skills and enthusiasm for science in a fun, competitive atmosphere.
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Ahead of the holiday, hundreds of students from across Brown, RISD and Johnson & Wales gathered to celebrate the Lunar New Year and honor traditions old and new.
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The Warren Alpert Medical School hosted the first international working group meeting for a project that aims to sequence all of humanity’s RNA, mirroring the approach of the Human Genome Project in the 1990s.
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A series of paintings by Mahnoor Hussain, a Rhode Island-based artist whose work focuses on themes related to women’s mental health, infertility and loss, is on display through May 31.
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Brown engineering dean Tejal Desai elected to the National Academy of Engineering
Named a member of the academy’s Class of 2024, the accomplished biomedical engineer and academic leader received the honor in recognition of her work in nanotechnology and therapeutic delivery.
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Portraits of children living with rare diseases remind medical students, faculty, staff and medical school visitors to look at patients beyond their diagnoses.
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With an award from the Barr Foundation, Brown researchers will develop a pilot program to strengthen retention and training for recent Brown MAT graduates teaching in Providence, Central Falls and Pawtucket.
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Brown climate scientist Baylor Fox-Kemper co-authored a new study of the diverse factors controlling global temperatures, offering a framework for improving warming predictions.
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New website details programs and initiatives aimed at sharing enhancements to Title VI procedures, engaging in discourse across difference and supporting an ongoing commitment to academic freedom.
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Arts and Humanities
Dual-degree students explore nostalgia, intimacy in wide-ranging art exhibition
The 16th annual Brown-RISD dual-degree student art exhibition, "While The Sap Flows," is on display at Brown’s Granoff Center through Feb. 25.
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Health and Medicine
Three things every woman should know about stroke risk
A Brown University researcher who has studied women and stroke for over a decade shared crucial information about factors emerging in studies as important risk indicators.
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Cheney will share insights on policy, principled leadership and the future of bipartisanship as she delivers the University’s 103rd Ogden Memorial Lecture on Tuesday, Feb. 13. (Event now rescheduled.)
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In a new, creative partnership, the Brown student organization Art for Service and the Providence nonprofit teamed to create a vibrant mural series to inspire strength and positivity for victims of domestic abuse.
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A newly opened Washington base for the Pandemic Center at Brown’s School of Public Health will expand impact and connect current and future public health leaders with national and global policymakers.
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In a victory over Quinnipiac University, first-year Bears forward Margot Norehad successfully executed a move completed by fewer than 10 NHL players ever: a perfect “Michigan” goal.
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In a major step toward expanded access, the University met its ambitious $120 million fundraising goal to launch need-blind admission for international students beginning with the Class of 2029.
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In a presentation at Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School, Dr. Isaac Kohane, who has worked on medical AI since the 1990s, urged doctors-in-training to understand and make use of artificial intelligence.
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Brown welcomes midyear arrivals as spring semester kicks off
Whether they’re undergraduates transferring from other institutions, students starting master’s degree programs or visiting scholars, nearly 200 students embarked on their Brown journeys in late January.
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Maddie McCarthy is the first student from Brown to earn the award, which enables graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.
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Brown University resolves financial aid antitrust litigation
Brown maintains that it made all financial aid decisions in the best interests of families and within the law, but resolving the case will enable the University to focus its resources on further growth in generous aid for students.
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Arts and Humanities
Brown’s Lindemann Performing Arts Center debuts recital configuration
Acclaimed classical singer Julia Bullock was the first artist to grace The Lindemann stage in its recital configuration, one of five dramatically different arrangements available in its main hall.
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Spearheaded by Brown University junior Lara Jacobowitz, the effort raised funds for nonprofits and provided material to help make high-quality wigs for children with hair loss.
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Science and Technology
Brown engineer earns prestigious early career award from National Science Foundation
The grant will help Daniel Harris establish a more complete understanding of particles at interfaces, and share new experimental designs and methods that others can adapt for use in related research.
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Health and Medicine
New center to train scientists to improve disability and chronic condition care
A new center at the Brown University School of Public Health will transform the care of people with disability and chronic conditions through a collaborative approach to research and practice.
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Elvy, the Brown University Department of Public Safety’s first comfort dog, has been barking up cheer and community connections on campus and beyond.
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The former president of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund will share insights with the University community and the public during a presentation on Thursday, Feb. 15.
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Faculty at Brown earn prominent awards, distinctions in 2023
Over the last year, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, scholarship and leadership.
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Misleading reports give grossly inaccurate narrative of renowned secondary school materials referencing academic views on Israel, Palestine and the Middle East.
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Brown students, recent alumni earn prestigious scholarships
Two undergraduates, one graduate student and four recent graduates were named among this year’s classes of Marshall, Schwarzman and Voyager scholars.
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A first-year student in Brown’s English Ph.D. program, Chen recently received the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award for her novel about Joan of Arc.
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The year in stories — 2023
Surpassing ambitious goals and making memories along the way, calendar year 2023 shined a light on remarkable research, teaching and innovation at Brown University, as illustrated by these 21 stories.
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The goal of the regional collaboration of investors, entrepreneurs and researchers is to accelerate the development of innovative health care solutions.
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Beyond the chance to make, shake and snack on the houses, the gingerbread challenge builds confidence, sparks creativity and hones essential engineering skills in Rhode Island Girl Scouts.
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A large-scale satellite mapping project, co-founded by Brown researcher Parker VanValkenburgh, is helping archaeologists identify sweeping climate and cultural changes that occurred in the Andes Mountains over the last millennium.
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Selected from a pool of 6,244 applicants, the accomplished and talented admitted students reflect the University’s ongoing commitment to making a Brown education more accessible.
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A leading thinker on race and democracy, the Brown University professor spoke about her new book, which explores race, democracy and expectations about whose losses matter.
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With a commitment to the long-term stewardship of the historic property and continued growth and vibrancy in the neighborhood, the University exercised an option to purchase its share of the building.
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Hannah Doyle: Studying brains in the lab and showing brawn in the ring
The Brown neuroscience Ph.D. student and competitive boxer researches how the brain processes combinations — like the ones she practices at the gym — to better understand cognitive disorders.
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Using a technique that preceded the photographic camera, Brown Arts Institute staff projected a live image of the outside world, including the University’s stunning new Lindemann Performing Arts Center, inside a darkened room.
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Science and Technology
New study sheds light on how much methane is produced from Arctic lakes and wetlands
Brown research team finds small unmapped lakes in the Arctic are far less abundant than previously thought, greatly reducing the cumulative methane emissions they were thought to contribute to Earth’s atmosphere.
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In a show of support for junior Hisham Awartani, who was injured in a Nov. 25 shooting in Vermont, students convened in the Global Brown Center to write cards and be in community together.
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After seven years of excavation at the former site of a 19th-century Providence family home, Brown students have begun searching for artifacts at a new location on campus.
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