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Arts and Humanities

Public conversation series to bring local artists, writers, musicians to Brown

September 8, 2021

With a focus on the greater Providence community, in-person conversations at the John Nicholas Brown Center for Public Humanities and Cultural Heritage will feature the work and ideas of creative public figures.

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News and Events

52 accomplished scholars join Brown faculty as 2021-22 academic year begins

September 7, 2021

As the 2021-22 academic year begins, Brown welcomes a diverse and dynamic group of talented new faculty members and scholars to campus.

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Student Life

Katherine Haley: A long journey, lit by learning

September 7, 2021

A lifelong love of learning served as a beacon for Katherine Haley, a third-year transfer student who overcame addiction to become a member of Brown’s incoming undergraduate cohort.

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Student Life

Mason Lee: Inspired by nature to create connected communities

September 7, 2021

The incoming first-year Brown student aims to combine interests in biotechnology, firefighting and fungi to build communities across U.S. states and fields of study.

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Student Life

Alejandro Jackson: A compassionate approach to science and biotechnology

September 7, 2021

A first-year student beginning Brown’s distinctive eight-year Program in Liberal Medical Education, Alejandro Jackson aspires to become an M.D./Ph.D. who develops new technologies for amputees to improve quality of life.

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News and Events

Meet Brown’s newest undergraduates

September 7, 2021

With classes set to begin on Wednesday, September 8, this year’s first-year, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students are settling into living and learning on College Hill.

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At its 258th Opening Convocation, Brown officially commences 2021-22 academic year

September 6, 2021

University President Christina H. Paxson and Professor of Africana Studies Noliwe Rooks looked to Brown’s history for lessons on how to center truth and advance knowledge amid a challenging global moment.

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Arts and Humanities

In Athens, new Acropolis renovations threaten to erase ancient history, expert says

September 3, 2021

Archaeologists across the globe, including one scholar at Brown, believe recent renovations at the iconic Athens landmark are promoting the site’s classical past — and ignoring the rest of its history.

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News and Events

Brown launches master’s program in data-enabled computational engineering and science

September 2, 2021

A new one-year master’s program will take a deep dive into the state-of-the-art simulation, modeling and data science techniques widely used across engineering disciplines.

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News and Events

Brown’s newest students, by the numbers

September 2, 2021

A total of 3,038 new undergraduate, graduate and medical students will begin studies at Brown University next week — here’s a look at who is arriving on College Hill.

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Health and Medicine

Dr. Ashish Jha: It’s time to ‘turn a public health moment into a public health movement’

September 2, 2021

In his first “State of the School” address, the dean of the Brown School of Public Health detailed an ambitious plan to learn and grow from the lessons of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Social Sciences

Costs of the 20-year war on terror: $8 trillion and 900,000 deaths

September 1, 2021

A report from the Costs of War project at Brown University revealed that 20 years of post-9/11 wars have cost the U.S. an estimated $8 trillion and have killed more than 900,000 people.

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Arts and Humanities

In first in-person public exhibition in 18 months, Brown’s Bell Gallery showcases R.I., Mass. artists

September 1, 2021

“Arrows of Desire” features the work of two local artists who bonded over a shared love of nature and the poet William Blake during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Health and Medicine

With first chief wellness officer, Brown’s medical school emphasizes well-being for future physicians

August 26, 2021

As the inaugural chief wellness officer for the Warren Alpert Medical School, Kelly Holder is advising aspiring doctors to heal thyselves, and working to build programs and infrastructure to support that goal.

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Science and Technology

New $19.9M grant will expand hub for translational science, biomedical research in Rhode Island

August 19, 2021

With five years of renewed federal funding, Advance-CTR will support researchers in taking their work from bench to bedside to the broader community, ultimately making a direct and positive impact on the people of Rhode Island.

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Health and Medicine

Parisa Afsharian: Translating research into actionable health advice

August 18, 2021

As a Hassenfeld Summer Scholar, Afsharian is researching the connection between language and health outcomes – and using her multilingualism to improve the health of families.

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Social Sciences

In new book, Emily Oster offers tips for family decision-making

August 17, 2021

The Brown economist’s third book, “The Family Firm,” gives parents of elementary school children the tools they need to make informed choices about schooling, extracurriculars and more.

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Science and Technology

Beware the ‘molecular parasites’ involved in aging and disease

August 17, 2021

Brown researcher John Sedivy, lead author of a sweeping review article about transposons, explains what these mobile genetic elements are, how they are more harmful than benign and where their weaknesses may lie.

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Social Sciences

Josh Bricker: Investigating whether low public defender spending explains high incarceration rates

August 12, 2021

As a summer research assistant, the rising senior is analyzing decades of data to investigate whether increasing spending on state public defender programs could lower America’s uniquely high incarceration rate.

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Science and Technology

Researchers take step toward next-generation brain-computer interface system

August 12, 2021

A new kind of neural interface system that coordinates the activity of hundreds of tiny brain sensors could one day deepen understanding of the brain and lead to new medical therapies.

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Science and Technology

50 years after historic Moon mission, Brown geologist shares stories from Mission Control

August 9, 2021

Jim Head, a planetary geologist at Brown, worked closely with the Apollo 15 astronauts on “the first true scientific expedition to the Moon” in 1971.

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Science and Technology

Brown professor who worked on massive climate change report shares key takeaways

August 9, 2021

Brown professor Baylor Fox-Kemper discusses a landmark report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, for which he served as a coordinating lead author.

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Science and Technology

Nathan Brown: Toward a better, more versatile wheelchair

August 5, 2021

With the help of a Royce Fellowship from the Swearer Center, Nathan Brown is developing a wheelchair design with the aim of increasing mobility for users on both indoor and outdoor terrain.

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Social Sciences

To advance human rights, consult neuroscience

August 5, 2021

Scholars at Brown found that brain science bolsters long-held notions that people thrive when they enjoy basic human rights such as agency, freedom from want, and freedom from fear.

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Student Life

For new BCSC director, success for students of color starts with inclusivity, community

August 4, 2021

Vincent Harris, who became director of the Brown Center for Students of Color in June, brings a decade of experience creating inclusive university spaces where students from historically underrepresented groups thrive.

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News and Events

Brown updates COVID-19 testing and mask protocols, staggers remote employee returns

August 3, 2021

Attentive to the Delta variant with its on-campus population set to expand, the University will increase COVID-19 testing frequency, require masks indoors and phase in the return of employees who are working remotely.

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Science and Technology

Computational brain science summer program at Brown opens up a world of science

August 3, 2021

Through a nine-week program organized by the Carney Institute for Brain Science, undergraduates from multiple universities learn the building blocks of computational brain science, a growing and increasingly important field.

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Science and Technology

Brown physicist, Ph.D. student launch mentoring program for underrepresented students

August 2, 2021

Working with the National Society of Black Physicists and the Harlem Gallery of Science, Brown physicist Stephon Alexander with the help of Ph.D. student Farrah Simpson launched the Dream+Inspire: Mentoring Future Leaders program.

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Health and Medicine

Study shows how U.S. immigration policy can have domestic health effects

July 30, 2021

Researchers designed an innovative way to measure the impact of the 2017 executive order suspending travel from seven Muslim-majority countries on the health of U.S. residents from those nations.

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Arts and Humanities

What to expect from the Brown Arts Institute in 2021-22 and beyond

July 29, 2021

Leaders at the Brown Arts Institute, which transitioned from the Brown Arts Initiative in July, are planning for a return to in-person performances, exhibitions, film screenings and more.

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News and Events

Medal for Bears softball great highlights Brown student, alumni athletes in Summer Olympics

July 29, 2021

Class of 2016 graduate Janet Leung earned bronze with Team Canada in women’s softball, while five other Brown Bears are competing in track and field, swimming and rowing events.

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Student Life

Sarah Zylberfuden: Making connections in canine cognition

July 28, 2021

With dogs important contributors in everything from rescue operations to assisting people with disabilities, the rising senior is spending her summer in a Brown laboratory researching the reasoning abilities of man’s best friend.

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Social Sciences

$3.4 million NIH grant to bolster population science at Brown

July 28, 2021

A five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will advance research at the Population Studies and Training Center, which confronts health inequities, economic divides and other major societal problems.

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Social Sciences

Education expert joins $2 million grant project to transform high school civics

July 28, 2021

An education policy expert at Brown is part of a research team that will boost high school civics lessons by connecting students directly with members of Congress.

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Arts and Humanities

With new awards, humanities, social sciences faculty to advance scholarship on freedom, sexuality

July 26, 2021

Prestigious awards from the Institute for Citizens and Scholars will allow assistant professors Elena Shih and Emily Owens to finish book projects on contemporary sex trafficking, and enslaved women in antebellum New Orleans.

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Health and Medicine

New guidelines intended to help health providers prevent gun injuries and deaths

July 26, 2021

A team of clinicians, researchers and educators, including Brown physician-scientist Dr. Megan Ranney, established new guidelines on educating health care professionals about how to help prevent firearm injuries.

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News and Events

Brown acquires residential building to offer affordable, high-quality housing for 270 graduate students

July 22, 2021

The University will transition River House, home to a mix of studio, one-bedroom and two-bedroom apartments in the Jewelry District, to affordable, safe, campus-accessible housing for graduate students.

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News and Events

Letter from President Paxson: In support of Brown’s DACA community

July 21, 2021

President Christina H. Paxson wrote to the campus community about the University's unwavering support for students and employees who benefit from the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

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Student Life

Whitney Terrill: Aligning personal insurance with collective good

July 21, 2021

As a member of B-Lab — the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s summer startup accelerator — Terrill is developing the Reem Company, an insurance carrier that benefits the greater good, as outlined by her Islamic faith.

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News and Events

Rodney Chatman named Brown’s vice president for campus safety

July 20, 2021

An accomplished leader with decades of law enforcement experience in municipal and higher education settings, Chatman will direct Brown’s Department of Public Safety and oversee campus-wide safety efforts.

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Science and Technology

Leading xenon researchers unite to build next-generation dark matter detector

July 19, 2021

Even as two powerful dark matter detectors are set to switch on later this year, scientists including a Brown professor are already planning a new experiment aimed at mysterious dark matter particles.

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Environment

Brown environmental expert testifies on equity in renewable energy before U.S. House committee

July 16, 2021

Myles Lennon, an assistant professor of environment and society and anthropology, urged members of Congress to support renewable energy research and innovation that could aid and protect marginalized communities in the U.S.

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News and Events

For second consecutive year, First Readings will examine Brown’s historical ties to the slave trade

July 15, 2021

Incoming undergraduates in the Class of 2025 will read a digitized version of the pioneering Slavery and Justice Report, the selected text for the First Readings program for the second year.

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Arts and Humanities

Halle Bryant: Indexing Rhode Island’s Indigenous history

July 14, 2021

The Class of 2021 graduate is working with Rhode Island’s Tomaquag Museum to index 1930s issues of a Native American magazine that sheds light on the lives of Indigenous people in New England and beyond.

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Science and Technology

Initiative to expand Ph.D. student diversity in STEM graduate programs has lasting positive effects

July 8, 2021

A study that looked at 10-year outcomes of the Initiative to Maximize Student Development showed that it increased diversity within academic programs and prepared underrepresented students for successful careers in STEM.

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Student Life

Pre-college programs at Brown offer high school students the chance to learn on campus or online

July 8, 2021

The first in-person Summer@Brown sessions since COVID-19’s arrival are welcoming nearly 800 high school students to campus this summer, while many others participate virtually from across the globe.

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News and Events

Brown’s on-campus students, employees achieve 90% COVID-19 vaccination

July 8, 2021

Near-universal vaccination among community members on campus is enabling reduced mask requirements, removal of vaccinated individuals from routine COVID-19 testing and expanded in-person operations.

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News and Events

Brown professor and associate provost to receive IEEE Undergraduate Teaching Award

July 8, 2021

For his innovative teaching and support for students, engineering professor and associate provost Chris Rose will receive the 2022 Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers.

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Arts and Humanities

Jeremy Chan: Gamifying the scramble for Africa

July 7, 2021

As a teaching assistant in the history course African Experiences of Empire, Chan is designing board games that deepen students’ knowledge of everyday life in sub-Saharan Africa as European powers were seizing control.

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Health and Medicine

Brown to fund four biomedical technologies with potential for patient benefit, commercial viability

July 6, 2021

Now in its third funding cycle, Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact will award four faculty projects to accelerate promising medical solutions into commercial technologies.

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