Four years after Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School began an innovative program to educate leaders for tomorrow’s health care systems, 15 students earned both M.D. and master of science degrees.
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TAPS performance season at Brown to celebrate 50 years of dance
Brown’s theatre arts and performance studies department will mount student-written, student-directed and student-choreographed productions this season, among other events.
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‘Memory Dishes’ exhibit traces generations of family cooking
An exhibition of photos and stories from six Providence families of African descent shows how immigration changes home cooking traditions.
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Spending the summer with ‘The Idiot’
Incoming students in the undergraduate Class of 2023 will join many Brown faculty and staff in reading Elif Batuman’s first novel, the selected text for this year’s First Readings program.
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At the first Dr. Samuel M. Nabrit Conference, molecular life scientists from historically underrepresented groups gathered at Brown to learn about cutting-edge research; Brown professors and junior researchers discussed how their identities as members of underrepresented groups have affected their career paths.
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All News Members of the Brown community gathered at 295 Lloyd Ave. to dedicate the new Philip D. Andrews Memorial Building in memory of a legendary Plant Operations employee who served Brown from 1947 to 1990.
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Students find contemporary connections to ancient text in ‘Antigones’ course
For students in the spring 2019 course Antigones, an ancient Greek play served as the basis of a semester-long examination of journalistic ethics, citizenship and other timely topics.
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The School of Professional Studies and a new Division of Pre-College and Summer Undergraduate Programs will operate as independent units within the Office of the Provost, each under new leadership.
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Brown staff convene for 26th annual Staff Development Day
During a day dedicated to learning, exploration and community building, more than 1,000 staff members from across the University engaged in workshops, tours, community service projects and more.
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Bell Gallery exhibition explores feelings of ‘twoness’ among African Americans
“Toby Sisson: Nacirema” delves into generations of African American history, from W.E.B. DuBois to mid-century black social clubs, to reveal the complicated roots of patriotism.
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In Baccalaureate remarks punctuated by a lot of laughter, the Class of 2001 graduate and acclaimed actor cited Brown as “the cornerstone of his life and career.”
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Honoring a treasured Brown tradition, two senior orators addressed the Class of 2019 to offer congratulations and inspiration to their fellow graduates.
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Many thousands of Class of 2019 graduates and alumni from as early as the Class of 1939 took part in the annual celebration, a centuries-long University tradition.
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The Rosenberger Medal has been awarded just 31 times since its establishment in 1919 to a distinguished group of individuals who include among them Nobel laureates, university presidents and chancellors, and esteemed public servants.
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Student-designed sundial sculpture dedicated during Commencement and Reunion
As alumni returned to campus and thousands of new graduates prepared to receive their degrees and begin the next chapter of their lives, the Brown community dedicated a student-designed sundial sculpture named ‘Infinite Possibility.’
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Brown to implement new measures to strengthen food security
As college students across the nation contend with challenges accessing healthy, affordable food, the University will provide meals during spring break at no additional cost and require all sophomores to enroll in meal plans.
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After a series of investments in academic departments, the University will offer new concentration tracks in business economics and organizational studies as well as a new undergraduate certificate in entrepreneurship.
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An expanded substance-use curriculum at the Warren Alpert Medical School ensures that each future physician from Brown graduates well-versed in how to recognize and treat opioid use disorder.
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New location on three floors of 249 Thayer St. will advance the center’s mission to make entrepreneurship integral to the life of campus and connected to the world beyond.
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Research reveals exotic quantum states in double-layer graphene
A new study reveals a suite of quantum Hall states that have not been seen previously, shedding new light on the nature of electron interactions in quantum systems and establishing a potential new platform for future quantum computers.
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Health and Medicine
Cold weather increases the risk of fatal opioid overdoses, study finds
While the precise reasons are unclear, an analysis of overdose deaths in Rhode Island and Connecticut showed that cold snaps raised the risk of fatal opioid overdoses by 25 percent.
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People who use opioids would welcome safe consumption spaces, study finds
There are no legal safe consumption spaces in the U.S. currently, but a three-city study found that a majority of people who use opioids would be willing to use locations where they would have medical support in case of overdose.
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Brown undergraduate researcher teaches robots handwriting and drawing
Working with a Brown University faculty member, an undergraduate student developed an algorithm that enables robots to reproduce human-like pen strokes just by looking at images of handwriting or sketches.
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After a series of surprising discoveries, a team of scientists determined a role of opsin 3 in tuning human skin color in response to ultraviolet rays.
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Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosions
In a finding that is soon to be ground-truthed by NASA’s next Mars rover, Brown University researchers show that a Martian mineral deposit was likely formed by ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions.
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Mindfulness smoking-cessation app can change the brain
Some research study participants, for whom the app was most effective, showed decreased brain reactivity to smoking images.
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Unexpectedly big wins improve two kinds of memory
Brown researchers discover that unexpected rewards improve the memory of specific events, which may have implications for how clinicians treat individuals with depression.
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Patients who receive more physical therapy are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within a month, yet the amount of care made available to Medicare patients varies widely.
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The annual awards program recognizes the research and scholarship of both longtime and early-career faculty members.
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In a study of 200 years of pre-industrial Quebecois genealogical history, researchers at Brown found that fertility-related changes in natural selection during the pre-industrial era paved the way for economic and technological progress.
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Researchers outline how humans reduce uncertainty in social situations
A team of Brown University scientists proposed a psychological model of three interrelated ways people reduce uncertainty in social situations.
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Repelling charges prevent Cooper pairs from ‘island hopping’ in insulating state
New research shows how Cooper pairs — quasiparticles that make superconductivity possible — can also play an opposite role in an exotic type of insulating materials known as Cooper pair insulators.
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Catfish use complex coordination to catch prey
Using a powerful X-ray imaging system, Brown University scientists found that catfish move joints throughout their head in a concerted manner to suck in their prey.
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The stress-response master regulator is important for antibiotic resistance and the ability for bacteria to cause disease.
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Brown professor to co-lead international research on subsurface environments
The biosphere that exists below Earth’s surface dwarfs the surface biome, and a new collaboration co-led by Jack Mustard will work to better understand what’s underground.
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The grant will enable the digitization of the program’s peer-reviewed monograph series, providing increased access to unique, high-quality Judaic studies scholarship.
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Highlighting Brown’s distinction in brain science
Brown researchers are building understanding of the brain, restoring movement for patients with paralysis, unlocking the secrets of devastating diseases and devising new treatments to address brain-related disorders.
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Highlighting Brown’s distinction in economics
With an increased focus on unearthing novel data sources for analysis, Brown’s economics scholars are bringing new insights to complex problems and teaching the next generation of researchers and policymakers to do the same.
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Highlighting Brown’s distinction in educational innovation
Learning at Brown is a collaborative, hands-on experience — one in which students often lead their own research projects or conduct research alongside their instructors.
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Highlighting Brown’s distinction in the humanities
Humanities scholars at Brown are energizing comparative work that informs a deeper understanding of the most challenging questions of global common concern.
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