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Why even try? Using brain science to answer one of life’s biggest questions

February 15, 2021

A new study from a research team based at Brown University sheds light on the cognitive processes that occur when humans decide to exert mental effort.

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Social Sciences

U.S. cities segregated not just by where people live, but where they travel daily

February 11, 2021

An analysis of 133 million tweets found that city-dwellers stay racially segregated as they eat, drink, shop, socialize and travel each day, demonstrating even deeper segregation than previously understood.

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Science and Technology

Neurons from patient blood cells enable researchers to test treatments for genetic brain disease

February 10, 2021

A team led by Brown University researchers reprogrammed patient blood cells into stem cells to test treatments for Christianson syndrome, finding that treatment responses varied according to the mutations present.

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Social Sciences

Reimbursing hospitals for postpartum contraception prevents unintended pregnancies, study finds

February 9, 2021

Researchers found that expanding access to long-acting reversible contraception methods, such as IUDs and implants, could give adolescents more agency in choosing whether and when to become pregnant again.

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Science and Technology

To figure out how dinosaurs walked, start with how they didn’t

February 8, 2021

By analyzing limb poses from modern birds and alligators with innovative 3D imaging technology developed at Brown, scientists have developed a better way to infer how extinct animals might have moved from place to place.

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Health and Medicine

Brown-based IMPACT Collaboratory teams with CVS to monitor COVID-19 vaccine effects

February 8, 2021

A $2.5 million federal grant will enable the research team to track vaccine rates and safety for Medicare beneficiaries, who face increased risk of severe illness from the coronavirus.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation sets tuition and fees for 2021-22 academic year

February 8, 2021

A 2.85% increase in tuition and fees, the lowest percent increase in more than a decade, will provide nearly $16 million of revenue, enabling Brown to continue strong support for students with financial need while supporting teaching, learning and research on campus.

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Science and Technology

Tiny sensor technique reveals cellular forces involved in tissue generation

February 4, 2021

A team of Brown University researchers developed a technique that uses tiny polymer spheres to sense the forces at play as body tissue forms and grows.

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News and Events

Diversity leader Shontay Delalue to become senior vice president and senior diversity officer at Dartmouth

February 4, 2021

Brown’s vice president for institutional equity and diversity since 2017, Delalue leaves a legacy of continued momentum toward creating a fully diverse and inclusive academic community at Brown.

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University Initiatives

With a focus on serving Rhode Island communities, Brown deepens its partnership with United Way

February 3, 2021

Brown Gives has raised millions of dollars over decades to support United Way in helping Rhode Islanders in need, and the University has pledged a four-year commitment to support the organization’s new strategic plan.

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Arts and Humanities

$4.9 million grant project to interrogate legacy of colonialism, subjugation in New England

February 2, 2021

Brown University, Williams College and the Mystic Seaport Museum scholars will use maritime history as a basis for studying the relationship between European colonization, dispossession of Native American land and racial slavery.

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News and Events

Alumni-led nonprofit donates monitors to Providence teachers in name of Brown professor

February 2, 2021

Two Screens for Teachers, cofounded by Class of 1998 graduate Matthew Lerner, donated monitors to more than 400 Providence teachers in the name of legendary Brown professor Andy van Dam.

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Health and Medicine

Lesbian, gay, bisexual medical students are more likely to experience burnout, study finds

February 2, 2021

Burnout among medical students has significant implications for student health and delivery of care, and future physicians in sexual minority groups report higher rates of burnout than their heterosexual peers.

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News and Events

Brown Athletics director to step down after nearly a decade of leadership

January 29, 2021

Jack Hayes, director of athletics and recreation since 2012, leaves a legacy of success by Brown student-athletes on the field, in the classroom and in the local community.

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Science and Technology

Thick lithosphere casts doubt on plate tectonics in Venus’s geologically recent past

January 28, 2021

A study of a giant impact crater on Venus suggests that its lithosphere was too thick to have had Earth-like plate tectonics, at least for much of the past billion years.

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News and Events

Brown alumna Janet Yellen first woman to serve as treasury secretary

January 28, 2021

The Class of 1967 Brown graduate and former Federal Reserve chair will advise President Joseph Biden and his cabinet on economic issues.

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Health and Medicine

$25 million gift to Brown will fuel innovation in brain science

January 26, 2021

The latest major investment in Brown’s cutting-edge brain science research, the generous gift will support computational brain science and endow a program to promote innovative research.

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Health and Medicine

Clinical trial to evaluate whether topical medication can prevent common skin cancer

January 25, 2021

A $34 million U.S. Veterans Affairs grant will enable Martin Weinstock, who directs dermatology research for the Providence V.A. and is a Brown professor, to evaluate the effectiveness of a common medication in preventing basal cell carcinoma.

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Social Sciences

Conversations on COVID: Is all pandemic news really bad news?

January 22, 2021

Molly Cook, a junior at Brown, participated in a research project that found that major American news outlets took a more negative tone in their COVID-19 coverage than international news outlets or scientific journals.

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Science and Technology

New technique builds super-hard metals from nanoparticles

January 22, 2021

Brown University researchers have shown a way to make bulk metals by smashing tiny metal nanoparticles together, which allows for customized grain structures and improved mechanical and other properties.

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News and Events

Letter from President Paxson: Plans for Commencement and Reunion 2021

January 21, 2021

Given the state of the public health situation, Brown will host Commencement events for Class of 2021 graduates in person, but families and guests will attend virtually, and all alumni Reunion events will be held virtually.

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Science and Technology

Researchers develop new graphene nanochannel water filters

January 21, 2021

Brown University researchers have shown that tiny channels between graphene sheets can be aligned in a way that makes them ideal for water filtration.

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Science and Technology

Brown brain scientist wins early-career award from National Academy of Sciences

January 21, 2021

Michael J. Frank, a Brown professor who directs the Center for Computational Brain Science in the Carney Institute for Brain Science, was named one of two recipients of this year’s Troland Award.

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News and Events

Brown’s newest undergraduates, by the numbers

January 20, 2021

A total of 1,756 new first-year students began studies at Brown University on Wednesday, Jan. 20 — here’s a look at who is included in the Class of 2024

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Student Life

Excitement, energy and a desire to explore: Class of 2024 undergrads arrive at Brown

January 20, 2021

After a postponed arrival due to the pandemic, Brown’s 1,756 first-year undergraduate students began their first term at the University on Wednesday, Jan. 20 — and five of them shared their stories.

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News and Events

Brown alumna to co-chair science and technology council under Biden administration

January 20, 2021

Maria Zuber, a senior leader and faculty member at MIT who earned her Ph.D. from Brown, will lead the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology.

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University Initiatives

For the Brown community, honoring the values of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

January 18, 2021

In the face of enduring systemic racism and profound political divisiveness, Brown President Christina H. Paxson urged students, faculty and staff to uphold the values that define King’s legacy.

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News and Events

Brown scholars weigh in on unrest at the Capitol, presidential transition

January 13, 2021

Ahead of Joe Biden's inauguration and Donald Trump's potential second impeachment, faculty experts from Brown weighed in on what led to this moment of upheaval and where American politics is headed.

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Science and Technology

As the brain plans movements, the middle frontal gyrus is listening

January 12, 2021

A brain-computer interface study reveals one brain region’s surprising role in planning movements exclusively in response to sounds.

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News and Events

Brown investment leader Joe Dowling to join global investment firm Blackstone

January 11, 2021

Dowling, who has played a key role in the growth of Brown University’s endowment since 2013, will leave Brown to serve as global co-head of Blackstone Alternative Asset Management, effective Jan. 12, 2021.

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News and Events

Federal Reserve Board appoints Brown president chair of Boston Fed board

January 6, 2021

Christina H. Paxson, an economist, higher education leader and president of Brown University, will serve as chair of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston's board of directors, effective Jan. 1, 2021.

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Science and Technology

Remote sensing data sheds light on when and how asteroid Ryugu lost its water

January 5, 2021

Rocks on Ryugu, a “rubble pile” near-Earth asteroid recently visited by Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft, appear to have lost much of their water before they came together to form the asteroid, new research suggests.

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Health and Medicine

What the COVID-19 pandemic teaches us about the future of public health

January 4, 2021

Scholars from Brown and its School of Public Health take stock of what went wrong during the pandemic, what went right, and what needs to change so the nation is better prepared for the next health crisis.

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Science and Technology

Researchers discover a new tool for reconstructing ancient sea ice to study climate change

January 4, 2021

A previously problematic molecule turns out to be a reliable proxy for reconstructing sea ice, a new study by Brown University researchers shows.

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Science and Technology

14,000 loops around the Earth later, Brown student satellite ends its mission

December 31, 2020

The systems on the student-designed and -built EQUiSat functioned nearly flawlessly for over two years in the harshness of space before reentering Earth’s atmosphere on Dec. 26.

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University Initiatives

In Anchor Program, faculty design courses that thrive within pandemic moment

December 18, 2020

Since this summer, over 300 Brown faculty members have completed an online institute run by the Sheridan Center that focused on innovative approaches to developing remote and hybrid courses.

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Social Sciences

Conversations on COVID: How the pandemic could increase homelessness in 2021

December 18, 2020

Francesca Mari, a visiting lecturer at Brown, spoke about what might happen when the federal eviction moratorium ends on Jan. 31 — and why millions of disadvantaged Americans have struggled to afford urban housing for years.

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News and Events

The year in stories — 2020

December 17, 2020

It has been a calendar year that will long be remembered, in more ways than could have been imagined — as 2020 comes to a close, here are 23 highlights among Brown’s most noteworthy stories.

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News and Events

From largest pool to date, Brown admits 885 early decision applicants

December 17, 2020

Selected from a total of 5,540 applicants, the Class of 2025’s first members reflect the University’s ongoing commitment to making a Brown education more accessible to students from every socioeconomic background.

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Science and Technology

$10 million federal grant expands research to protect against concussions

December 17, 2020

A multi-institution effort to better understand, diagnose and prevent concussions received a $10 million boost from the U.S. Office of Naval Research.

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News and Events

Passages: Brown Chancellor Emeritus Artemis A.W. Joukowsky, Class of 1955

December 16, 2020

After a successful 30-year career in global business, Artemis Joukowsky returned to Providence in service of his alma mater, where he played an instrumental role for decades in leading and supporting Brown priorities.

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Health and Medicine

Researchers identify predictors of timely enrollment in treatment for opioid use disorder

December 16, 2020

Frequent doctor visits were associated with timely treatment, while prior overdose, alcohol use disorder and back problems predicted non-enrollment, study finds.

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News and Events

Final court approval of Brown v. Cohen settlement sets 2024 end to Joint Agreement

December 15, 2020

Now-final settlement sets an end date to 1998 agreement that has hindered competitive varsity athletics for women and men at Brown; returns women’s equestrian and fencing teams to varsity status.

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Science and Technology

Brown alumna selected for NASA’s new lunar exploration program

December 14, 2020

As one of 18 astronauts selected for NASA’s Artemis program, Brown Class of 1999 graduate and accomplished astronaut Jessica Meir has a chance to become the first woman to walk on the Moon.

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Arts and Humanities

Online and on-site, Brown and its partners ‘top off’ future Performing Arts Center

December 10, 2020

To celebrate the topping-off of its future hub for performing arts scholarship, University leaders joined construction workers and key project partners for a live-streamed virtual ceremony complete with on-site drone footage.

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Arts and Humanities

On its 50th anniversary, Rites and Reason Theatre says goodbye to its ‘beating heart’

December 10, 2020

A virtual fete on Tuesday, Dec. 15, will pay tribute to Karen Allen Baxter, who has served as senior managing director of Brown’s Rites and Reason Theatre since 1988.

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Social Sciences

Infant health inequality has increased since 2010, study finds

December 8, 2020

After decades of narrowing gaps in health between infants born to the most and least advantaged American mothers, infant health inequality is increasing, portending a rise in health and social inequity that could last for decades.

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News and Events

Four students, recent alumni awarded prestigious Marshall and Schwarzman scholarships

December 7, 2020

Class of 2020 graduate Frishta Qaderi will study at Oxford as a recipient of the Marshall scholarship, while three others will pursue graduate degrees at Tsinghua University in Beijing as Schwarzman Scholars.

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Science and Technology

Research reveals how airflow inside a car may affect COVID-19 transmission risk

December 4, 2020

A new study uses computer simulations to track airflows inside a car’s passenger cabin, providing potential strategies — some of them counterintuitive — for reducing the risk of transmitting airborne diseases.

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Science and Technology

NASA moves forward with water-seeking Moon mission

December 4, 2020

Two Brown University alumnae and a Brown professor will lead a small satellite mission to further investigate water on the surface of the Moon, which was first detected by Brown scientists in 2009.

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