Instructed by two Brown graduate students, Secondhand Writing encourages young writers to explore archives, museums and antique shops as a way to further with their own creative-writing practices.
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University Initiatives
Brown’s Pre-College Programs see local enrollment climb for third straight year
With more partnerships and a new scholarship model, the University’s Pre-College Programs are increasing local turnout, enabling more Rhode Island teens to explore academic pathways and college life.
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Through an eight-week summer accelerator focused on personal and commercial development, the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s Breakthrough Lab is supporting 13 student-led ventures.
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Two new classes offered through Brown’s Cogut Institute for the Humanities add critical and historical context to deep questions surrounding artificial intelligence and large language models.
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Through everything from scavenger hunts to cooking demonstrations, the Brown undergraduate is connecting community members and local agriculture as an intern with Farm Fresh Rhode Island.
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Recent Highlights
All News Since 1969, Brown Summer High School has given Rhode Island teens a space to grow, explore and connect, all while training educators through the University’s master of arts in teaching program.
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Student Life
Kyle Kavully: From Brown to the big stage Down Under
This summer, the rising Brown University junior and political science concentrator is performing on the Australian tour of “MJ The Musical.”
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By welcoming its second cohort this summer, the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program now supports nearly 60 local high schoolers, guiding them on a four-year path to college readiness and success.
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Brown University scholars work to turn breakthroughs and discoveries into technologies that enhance lives, placing the University among the nation’s top utility patent holders in 2024.
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Science and Technology
Video: Brown computer scientist on generative AI’s opportunities, threats
In a video interview, the leader of Brown’s Center for Technological Responsibility, Reimagination and Redesign discussed the anxieties and possibilities surrounding artificial intelligence.
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Over the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown faculty for their research, teaching, service and leadership.
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Created in the waning years of the Cold War, the new Watson School of International and Public Affairs continues its history as a hub for scholarship on pressing economic, political, social and policy challenges.
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With summer in full swing, Dr. Elnaz Firoz of the Warren Alpert Medical School and the Miriam Hospital dispels sunscreen myths and shares advice for safe, healthy fun in the sun.
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Each summer, thousands of high school students study on campus and around the globe in Brown’s Pre-College Programs, which offer intensive academics, cultural immersion, research experiences and more.
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This year’s 37 Fulbright awardees will begin teaching and research assignments in 24 countries across four continents in Fall 2025.
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In a hearing convened by the House of Lords Social Mobility Policy Committee, incoming Watson School of International and Public Affairs Dean John Friedman spoke about his research on social and economic mobility.
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“Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature” is an ode to the physical book, exploring thousands of years of practical knowledge and natural resources that led to the production of books.
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Brown and Providence
Across education, research, community engagement and the economy, Brown University is deeply intertwined with its home city of Providence, Rhode Island. From improving medical care and public health, to supporting local schools and fueling the regional economy, Brown’s commitment to the success of the local community is reflected in many ways.
Research News
All News Researchers from Brown’s Carney Institute will investigate how the blood-brain barrier is involved in transmitting information to the brain, informing potential treatments for brain diseases and disorders.
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Science and Technology
Divers led by Brown marine biologist discover surprising changes to offshore kelp forest
A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ecosystems.
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A federally funded analysis led by Brown University biologists found that different species of large herbivores have diets that are more diverse and complex than previously known.
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Science and Technology
Faster topology optimization: An emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost
A new algorithm helps topology optimizers skip unnecessary iterations, making optimization and design faster, more stable and more useful.
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Health and Medicine
Antimicrobial common in everyday items linked to allergic conditions in children
Researchers at Brown University’s School of Public Health found that children exposed to higher levels of triclosan may be more likely to develop eczema and allergy symptoms.
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Health and Medicine
Brown University researchers discover how people gossip without getting caught
Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science spill the tea about the complicated mental computations that allow people to gossip successfully.
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Brown University biologists found that when a protein called AIMP3 was removed from heart cells in mice, it led to severe heart problems.
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Health and Medicine
Clear understanding of social connections propels strivers up the social ladder
When it comes to social influence, knowing how people are connected matters more than simply knowing lots of people, found researchers from Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science.
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News and Events
New research uncovers surprising physics of ‘marine snow’
Engineering scholars at Brown University uncovered unexpected dynamics in how organic particulates sink in the ocean, a process that plays a key role in marine nutrient cycling.
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The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the earliest known hominids appear in the fossil record.
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Psychiatry scholars who helped create the gold-standard treatment for pediatric OCD are developing more innovative and accessible delivery methods.
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Health and Medicine
New opioid testing techniques could lead to better therapies
Brown University engineers partnered with public health experts to create new diagnostic techniques that could help to deliver better, patient-centered care to adults and newborns alike.
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A new study, born out of an interest in using science to explain the everyday world, shows how competing forces conspire to keep the ball from bouncing, making it impossible for an opponent to return.
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Brown in the News
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See more stories The Brown Ph.D. student collaborates with psychologists and computer scientists across campus to find ways AI can support, but not replace, human-centered mental health counseling.
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Informed by her Nigerian-American identity and guided by her spiritual compass, the Brown University senior is advancing migration-policy research, humanitarian law and public service.
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Whether she’s captaining the men’s club hockey team or participating as the first openly autistic cast member on “Survivor,” the Brown graduate student in fluid and thermal science finds success in authenticity.
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The Brown University senior and head conductor of the Brown Band embraces a wide range of musical, academic and volunteer pursuits as he marches toward a career in medicine.
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Brown University senior Elijah Golden pursues a varied academic and extracurricular life at Brown while also performing and touring with his family’s three-generation country music band.
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As she investigates cancer treatments and pursues her own path toward becoming a physician-scientist, the Brown University doctoral student is supporting fellow Indigenous students interested in science and medicine.
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Wounded in a school shooting in California in 2019, the Brown sophomore has dedicated herself to preventing gun violence nationwide, harnessing her education at Brown to forge a career in advocacy.
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Through determination, courage and a supportive community, LePage is flourishing as a nontraditional student at Brown and using her own experiences to help others on campus and beyond.
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Through the installation of educational public art in urban neighborhoods, the Brown sophomore hopes to inspire mutual understanding of the blind and visually impaired community.
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From a small farm in Hawaii to College Hill to the corridors of the White House, Brown senior Kaliko Kalāhiki is making inroads as an advocate for Indigenous sovereignty, queer visibility and sustainable land use.
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Science and Technology
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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