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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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Science and Technology

New data science platform speeds up Python queries

July 1, 2021

Data queries written in Python, a commonly used programming language, can grind data analytics platforms to a crawl, but a new platform developed by researchers from Brown and MIT may finally solve the Python efficiency problem.

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Social Sciences

Political ‘couples therapy’ could heal a divided America, study finds

July 1, 2021

People were less politically polarized after taking part in workshops modeled on the principles of couples therapy, showed a study conducted by a political scientist at Brown, the nonprofit Braver Angels and other researchers.

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Science and Technology

Grant will support gravity research that could update Einstein’s theory of gravity

June 30, 2021

With a $1 million grant from the Simons Foundation, Brown physicist Stephon Alexander will look to expand Einstein’s theory of gravity to explain cosmic mysteries like dark matter and black hole singularities.

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Student Life

Justin Li: Keeping Pride alive in Providence during a challenging year

June 30, 2021

Brown-RISD dual degree student Justin Li led efforts to revive Pride Month activities in Rhode Island this year after challenges related to COVID-19 threatened to cancel the longstanding tradition.

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News and Events

Accomplished higher ed leader Sylvia Carey-Butler to lead institutional equity and diversity at Brown

June 24, 2021

Currently the chief diversity officer for Kennesaw State, Carey-Butler will lead the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, overseeing Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan implementation, Title IX and gender equity, and more.

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News and Events

Brown joins second legal brief to urge continued practical training for international students

June 23, 2021

The future of Optional Practical Training, a long-standing federal program that enables temporary employment for international students at American colleges and universities, is at stake in a U.S. Court of Appeals case.

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Social Sciences

Partisanship guided Americans’ personal safety decisions early in the pandemic, study finds

June 22, 2021

Results from a new study show that many Americans remain fiercely loyal to their like-minded communities, even when their health is on the line — an important lesson for future pandemics.

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News and Events

Values should guide leadership, decision-making in crisis, Paxson says in Chronicle discussion

June 21, 2021

Brown President Christina H. Paxson discussed leadership and innovation in a virtual Chronicle of Higher Education event focused on the COVID-19 pandemic, anti-Black racism and threats to democracy in 2020-21.

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University Initiatives

For Health Services at Brown, pandemic has brought 15 months of COVID response and innovation

June 17, 2021

Working with departments across the University, Brown’s student-facing health care providers developed innovative ways to provide COVID-19 care while protecting the broader community from the infectious disease.

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Health and Medicine

Conversations on COVID: Brown emergency medicine fellow in Nepal is fighting COVID-19 on multiple fronts

June 17, 2021

Dr. Ramu Kharel, a global emergency medicine fellow affiliated with Brown’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies, went to Nepal to research emergency medicine and immediately immersed himself in the practice of it.

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Social Sciences

Driven to create policies for a post-pandemic world, Brown’s largest-ever MPA cohort arrives

June 16, 2021

The Watson Institute’s one-year master of public affairs program saw a 58% increase in new students in 2021, due in large part to policy issues laid bare during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Arts and Humanities

$5 million gift to fuel new ideas, welcome new leadership at Brown’s Pembroke Center

June 16, 2021

The gift from Class of 1976 Brown alumna Shauna Stark, the largest in the Pembroke Center’s history, will establish an endowed directorship and support bold feminist research by scholars from multiple fields of study.

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Science and Technology

Brown professor wins prestigious computing award named for his late predecessor

June 15, 2021

Eli Upfal, a professor of computer science, is the winner of this year’s ACM Paris Kanellakis Theory and Practice Award, which is named for a beloved Brown professor who died in 1995.

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Health and Medicine

Deaths of assisted living residents spiked during COVID-19 pandemic, study reveals

June 14, 2021

A new study led by Brown researchers shows the crucial need for specific attention to be paid to assisted living residences in response to pandemics and other emergencies.

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Health and Medicine

After the FDA’s approval, what to know about the new Alzheimer’s drug

June 11, 2021

Dr. Stephen Salloway, associate director of Brown’s new Center for Alzheimer’s Research who led clinical trials for the recently approved aducanumab, explained the key takeaways from the FDA’s headline-making decision.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown alumna captures Pulitzer Prize for study of McDonald’s franchises in Black America

June 11, 2021

Marcia Chatelain, who graduated from Brown with a master’s and Ph.D. in American civilization, won the 2021 prize for the history category for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.”

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Health and Medicine

Top-rated Medicare Advantage plans perform worse for minority, low-income enrollees, study finds

June 11, 2021

A new analysis by researchers at Brown University shows the association of Medicare Advantage star ratings with racial, ethnic and socioeconomic disparities in quality of care.

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Science and Technology

New model accounts for the effect of behavior changes to predict COVID-19 cases

June 10, 2021

A new infectious disease model that accounts for people’s ‘level of caution’ or ‘sense of safety’ accurately captures surges and declines in COVID-19 cases since March 2020 — and could help predict how the pandemic will eventually end.

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News and Events

To plan a transformative future, Brown staff reflect on lessons from a year like no other

June 10, 2021

Over four days, hundreds of employees participated in a slate of programs that combined traditional Staff Development Day favorites with pervasive themes of the past year: care, connection and community.

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Health and Medicine

A half-decade of progress at the Hassenfeld Institute is a high five for children’s health

June 10, 2021

Launched five years ago with an ambitious vision, the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute is bringing together researchers, physicians, students and community partners to transform children’s health in Rhode Island and beyond.

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Health and Medicine

The Hassenfeld Study shows how a mother’s data can help countless children

June 10, 2021

A long-term study of mothers and babies, run by the Hassenfeld Child Health Innovation Institute, engages Rhode Island families in research that has the ability to make an outsize impact on children’s health.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown MFA students win prestigious Kennedy Center playwriting awards

June 9, 2021

Graduate student playwrights Nkenna Akunna, Seayoung Yim and Christopher Lindsay were recognized with national awards for writing creative scripts that tackle difficult subjects such as racism, misogyny and “fatphobia.”

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Arts and Humanities

With U.S. National Parks grant, Brown graduate students to unearth stories from Japanese American internment camps

June 7, 2021

A project by two Ph.D. candidates in American studies was awarded $220,000 from the U.S. National Park Service to shed light on the stories of lesser-known Japanese American internment camps from New Mexico to Alaska.

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News and Events

With support from Brown, Providence’s Hope High School opens 21st-century library and media center

June 7, 2021

Backed by $150,000 from the Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence, the transformed space offers students reimagined study areas, new technology and furniture, and an expanded collection of books and periodicals.

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Student Life

Rainbow Chen: Equitable, ethical education through international experience

June 7, 2021

To advance education equity and policy, the Class of 2021 graduate and newly named Fulbright scholar will spend a year as an English teaching assistant in the Netherlands.

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Student Life

Tara Srinivas: Examining the causes of a rare neurodevelopmental condition

June 7, 2021

After postponing her plans for a year due to the pandemic, recent Brown graduate and Fulbright fellow Tara Srinivas will travel to Spain to research how epigenetic factors may influence neurodevelopment in Rett syndrome.

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News and Events

Brown students, recent graduates earn 27 Fulbright scholarships

June 7, 2021

This year’s student Fulbright winners will begin teaching and research assignments in 17 countries around the world in fall of 2021.

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Science and Technology

Study of past South Asian monsoons suggests stronger monsoon rainfall in the future

June 4, 2021

New research finds that increases in monsoon rainfall over the past million years were linked with increases in atmospheric CO2 and the import of moisture from the southern hemisphere, which suggests stronger rains in the future as CO2 levels rise.

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Science and Technology

Brown alumni to oversee new NASA robotic missions to Venus

June 3, 2021

The space agency will send two new spacecraft to Earth’s “evil twin” in the next decade, and both Discovery Program missions will be led by Brown graduates.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation approves base budget for Fiscal Year 2022

June 1, 2021

The approved $1.34 billion base budget strikes a deliberate balance between long-term financial sustainability, economic recovery from COVID-19, and continued investments in academic excellence and support for students.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation elects three new fellows, seven trustees

June 1, 2021

Brown’s governing body elected each new member based on their commitment to the University and its mission of education and research.

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Science and Technology

New algorithm could help enable next-generation deep brain stimulation devices

June 1, 2021

Brown University researchers have developed a technique that could allow deep brain stimulation devices to sense activity in the brain and adjust stimulation accordingly.

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News and Events

Joint $500,000 gift from Brown, R.I. Foundation, Partnership for R.I. to support Nonviolence Institute

May 27, 2021

For two decades, the Nonviolence Institute has been an instrumental force in preventing violence and providing support to victims in Rhode Island; the joint contribution will support its work amid a surge in gun violence.

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Social Sciences

With more two-way dialogue, school board meetings could draw more diverse audiences, study finds

May 24, 2021

A study shows that giving the public more opportunities to converse with school board leaders could increase civic engagement and lead to more public trust in officials — especially among low-income groups and people of color.

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News and Events

Brown outlines COVID-19 vaccination requirements for faculty, staff and students

May 20, 2021

In an effort to achieve near-universal vaccination and return to more traditional operations, Brown will require all faculty, staff and students to receive a COVID-19 vaccine.

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