With no signs of the global coronavirus pandemic ending soon, the University will postpone its Commencement and Reunion Weekend until a new date for the celebration can be determined.
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When clinical rotations at the Warren Alpert Medical School were paused, third- and fourth-year students found new ways to support Rhode Island’s frontline health care workers fighting coronavirus.
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Researchers have been searching for Sak Tz’i’, an important city from the ancient Maya civilization, since 1994; thanks in part to Brown anthropologists, they now have physical evidence that it existed.
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Three graduate students in archaeology worked with the Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission in Newport, Rhode Island, to create an interactive map of God’s Little Acre, one of the oldest African and African American burial grounds in the country.
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Health and Medicine
For Brown’s medical students on Match Day, a virtual community and celebration
With soon-to-graduate students from the Warren Alpert Medical School placing in medical residency programs across the country, Match Day was a time to celebrate, even without the ability to convene in person.
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New research from cognitive neuroscientists at Brown and Radboud Universities has pinpointed how stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall can change people’s motivation to complete difficult tasks.
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A former women’s football star and New York Jets scouting specialist, Marini was promoted to quarterbacks coach after one year as an assistant coach for the team.
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Health and Medicine
Health care experts issue recommendations for COVID-19 stimulus bills
Dr. Megan Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medicine and health services, policy and practice at Brown, coauthored recommendations detailing a set of public health and financial measures to combat the historic health crisis.
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The student organization’s 10th Annual Runway Show showcased the diverse professional skills and academic interests of its 120 members.
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Brown President Christina H. Paxson wrote to students, faculty, staff, parents and alumni on March 17 about maintaining a strong sense of community, even in the face of COVID-19’s impact on campus and beyond.
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Science and Technology
Barnacles offer genetic clues on how organisms adapt to changing environments
Long-term work by a Brown research team on how barnacles thrive in intertidal zones has increasingly wide implications for understanding how other organisms may adapt in the face of climate change.
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The student-founded, alumni-funded venture capital group based at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship gives students firsthand experience making investments in Brown- and RISD-affiliated startups.
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The University implements new measures to protect the health and well-being of its community while enabling students to complete the spring semester.
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A study provides new details about the collective motion of individual agents in a liquid-crystal-like system, which could help in better understanding bacterial colonies, structures and systems in the human body, and other forms of active matter.
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At Brown, first-year student Chance Emerson finds opportunity to explore wide-ranging academic interests and pursue musical collaborations while perfecting his first full-length album, “The Raspberry Men.”
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Arts and Humanities
Paris exhibition showcases Brown professor’s research on the economy of images
“The Supermarket of Images,” an exhibition on view at the Jeu de Paume through June 2020, explores how images shape and change people’s lives.
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News and Events
Theresa May talks Brexit, climate change and political division
May, who served as the U.K.’s prime minister from 2016 to 2019, spoke about the divisive present and potentially promising future of Western democracies at the 100th Ogden Lecture at Brown University.
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University Initiatives
Letter from President Paxson: Brown’s actions on climate change
President Christina H. Paxson wrote to the campus community on March 4 with an update on Brown’s efforts to confront climate change through net-zero GHG initiatives, halting investments in fossil fuel extraction in the University’s endowment and other efforts.
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Science and Technology
Researchers develop new explanation for destructive earthquake vibrations
High-frequency vibrations are some of the most damaging ground movements produced by earthquakes, and Brown University researchers have a new theory about how they’re produced.
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Imaging technique reveals 3D forces exerted by tiny cell clusters
A new technique for mapping the forces that clusters of cells exert on their surroundings could be useful for studying everything from tissue development to cancer metastasis.
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Undergraduates are creating successful new products and companies as the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship acts as incubator.
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Associate Professor Megan Ranney leads national efforts to conduct gun safety research while pushing to increase federal funding.
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Researchers at the Brown Herbarium brought Rhode Island’s long-lost ‘Cat Swamp’ back to life.
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Bolstered by faculty specializing in sophisticated analysis and a $25 million gift, Brown's economics department confronts pressing social issues.
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Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan earns accolades from critics, composers and professors alike.
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Rhode Island’s clinical and translational research center, based at Brown, has already funded over 60 projects.
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Health and Medicine
Brown researchers take charge in improving Alzheimer’s research, treatment
Through collaborations with neurologists, psychiatrists, biologists and more, projects spearheaded by Brown researchers aim to improve care for those with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.
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Brown professor, students help construct 10-ton dark matter detector — the most sensitive ever built.
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Assistant Professor of Engineering Anita Shukla aims to combat burdensome, costly and sometimes deadly infections with novel materials.
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Science and Technology
How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer
A new mathematical tool developed at Brown could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes as well as other self-assembled patterns in nature.
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Science and Technology
Sloan Foundation awards early-career fellowships to two Brown scientists
Two assistant professors at Brown, in chemistry and ecology and evolutionary biology, are among the 126 early-career scholars named as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows for 2020.
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Dr. Ashish K. Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, will work to advance academic excellence and provide strategic direction for the school, effective Sept. 1, 2020.
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Parker VanValkenburgh, an assistant professor of anthropology, curated a journal issue that explores the opportunities and challenges big data could bring to the field of archaeology.
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News and Events
Former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to visit Brown on March 4
In the University’s 100th Ogden Lecture, the former U.K. Prime Minister and current member of Parliament will share insights from her time as Britain’s leader on politics, populism and polarization.
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Arts and Humanities
Collection from renowned black feminist theorist generating excitement at Brown
With the papers of Hortense J. Spillers arriving at Brown last fall, the Pembroke Center Archives has deepened its archive of black feminist theory.
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University Initiatives
Brown plans new 375-bed residence hall on College Hill campus
As envisioned, a new two-building, 130,000-square-foot residence hall will strengthen the residential experience for third- and fourth-year students and reduce the demand for off-campus rentals.
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Arts and Humanities
Shahzad Bashir to deliver Presidential Faculty Award Lecture at Brown
Bashir, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, will discuss the cultural pervasiveness of poetry in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia.
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Opportunity Insights, co-directed by Brown Professor of Economics John Friedman, found that students from high-income backgrounds were significantly more likely to attend selective colleges than their lower-income peers.
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News and Events
Live from the International Space Station...
From her office 250 miles above the Earth, history-making astronaut and Brown alumna Jessica Meir answered students' questions about life in space.
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Science and Technology
Cracks in perovskite films for solar cells easily healed, study finds
A new study finds that cracks in brittle perovskite films can be easily healed with compression or mild heating, a good sign for the use of perovskites in next-generation solar cells.
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Brown Corporation extends President Paxson’s contract to 2025*
Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff announced to the Brown community that the early extension reflects confidence in Christina H. Paxson’s leadership and excitement for sustained momentum.
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With 38 Fulbright grants awarded to students and recent alumni, the University is among the top Fulbright institutions for the fourth consecutive year.
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Brown Corporation sets tuition and fees for 2020-21
Tuition and fees were approved at the Corporation’s February meeting as an initial step toward full budget approval in May 2020.
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Arts and Humanities
Spring events at Brown offer a window into the world of artmaking
This spring, events presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and other campus arts entities give students and curious community members the chance to see how creators in every field execute their ideas.
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News and Events
Astronaut alumna to chat with Brown students from space
Jessica Meir will answer questions from Brown students and community members during a live video downlink from the International Space Station.
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Arts and Humanities
Reimagined Sharpe and Peter Green houses, newly connected, open their doors
The two 19th-century buildings are now unified by two modern glass bridges and a light-filled “loggia,” uniting faculty, staff and students from Brown’s Department of History.
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Science and Technology
Researchers report progress on molecular data storage system
A Brown University team has shown that they can store and retrieve more than 200 kilobytes of digital image files by encoding the data in mixtures of new custom libraries of small molecules.
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Warren Alpert Medical School Class of 2020 graduates will be the first in the nation to graduate with training that allows them to prescribe medications to treat opioid use disorder in any U.S. state.
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On Friday, Jan. 31, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named Brown a recipient of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, an elective designation recognizing institution-wide commitment to community engagement.
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Science and Technology
Algorithm can infer velocity and pressure from video of fluid flows
A technique for estimating velocities and pressures from videos of fluid flows could help in studying everything from hurricanes to vascular disease.
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