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Conversations on COVID: Going all-in on public health

March 30, 2020

Dr. Jim Yong Kim and Dr. Ashish Jha joined Brown President Christina H. Paxson to debate solutions for ending the coronavirus pandemic, restoring economies and anticipating COVID-19’s impact on higher education.

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Social Sciences

American studies scholar at Brown chronicles the lost globalism of Wendell Willkie

March 30, 2020

In his new book “The Idealist,” associate professor Samuel Zipp argues that Willkie’s World War II-era “one world” idea could help guide how the U.S. evaluates its role on the world stage.

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Science and Technology

Machine learning improves non-destructive materials testing

March 27, 2020

A new algorithm that vastly reduces the error rates involved in testing the mechanical properties of materials could be particularly useful on evaluating modern 3D printed materials.

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Brown admits 2,533 students to the undergraduate Class of 2024

March 26, 2020

To meet the unique needs of a class admitted during the COVID-19 crisis, the University has launched a virtual campus visit platform that will enable students to interact with Brown community members as they make decisions on enrollment.

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Health and Medicine

Conversations on COVID: Applying lessons from the fight against Ebola

March 26, 2020

Dr. Adam Levine helped to find effective treatments for Ebola — now, he’s working with a global relief organization to ramp up the medical response to COVID-19 in high-risk countries.

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Health and Medicine

Conversations on COVID: Breaking the anxiety cycle

March 25, 2020

Dr. Jud Brewer, director of research and innovation at Brown’s Mindfulness Center, explains how practicing mindfulness can curb the spread of coronavirus anxiety in individuals’ personal lives and social circles.

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News and Events

Letter from President Paxson: Brown’s Commencement and Reunion Weekend

March 24, 2020

With no signs of the global coronavirus pandemic ending soon, the University will postpone its Commencement and Reunion Weekend until a new date for the celebration can be determined.

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Health and Medicine

Conversations on COVID: Pitching in to help hospitals, health care workers, health officials

March 24, 2020

When clinical rotations at the Warren Alpert Medical School were paused, third- and fourth-year students found new ways to support Rhode Island’s frontline health care workers fighting coronavirus.

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Social Sciences

Research team uncovers ancient Maya capital in a Mexican backyard

March 23, 2020

Researchers have been searching for Sak Tz’i’, an important city from the ancient Maya civilization, since 1994; thanks in part to Brown anthropologists, they now have physical evidence that it existed.

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Arts and Humanities

With historians in Newport, Brown archaeologists preserve a crucial piece of African American history

March 23, 2020

Three graduate students in archaeology worked with the Historic Cemetery Advisory Commission in Newport, Rhode Island, to create an interactive map of God’s Little Acre, one of the oldest African and African American burial grounds in the country.

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Health and Medicine

For Brown’s medical students on Match Day, a virtual community and celebration

March 20, 2020

With soon-to-graduate students from the Warren Alpert Medical School placing in medical residency programs across the country, Match Day was a time to celebrate, even without the ability to convene in person.

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Health and Medicine

With Ritalin and similar medications, the brain focuses on benefits instead of costs of work, study finds

March 19, 2020

New research from cognitive neuroscientists at Brown and Radboud Universities has pinpointed how stimulants such as Ritalin and Adderall can change people’s motivation to complete difficult tasks.

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News and Events

Brown’s Heather Marini named first female position coach in Division I football

March 19, 2020

A former women’s football star and New York Jets scouting specialist, Marini was promoted to quarterbacks coach after one year as an assistant coach for the team.

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Health and Medicine

Health care experts issue recommendations for COVID-19 stimulus bills

March 18, 2020

Dr. Megan Ranney, an associate professor of emergency medicine and health services, policy and practice at Brown, coauthored recommendations detailing a set of public health and financial measures to combat the historic health crisis.

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Student Life

PHOTOS: For students with wide-ranging interests, Fashion@Brown is a great fit

March 17, 2020

The student organization’s 10th Annual Runway Show showcased the diverse professional skills and academic interests of its 120 members.

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Letter from President Paxson: Maintaining community, reuniting for Commencement and Reunion

March 17, 2020

Brown President Christina H. Paxson wrote to students, faculty, staff, parents and alumni on March 17 about maintaining a strong sense of community, even in the face of COVID-19’s impact on campus and beyond.

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Science and Technology

Barnacles offer genetic clues on how organisms adapt to changing environments

March 16, 2020

Long-term work by a Brown research team on how barnacles thrive in intertidal zones has increasingly wide implications for understanding how other organisms may adapt in the face of climate change.

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Student Life

Van Wickle Ventures gives student entrepreneurs an investor’s perspective on startups

March 16, 2020

The student-founded, alumni-funded venture capital group based at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship gives students firsthand experience making investments in Brown- and RISD-affiliated startups.

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News and Events

In light of COVID-19, Brown transitions to remote learning for semester

March 12, 2020

The University implements new measures to protect the health and well-being of its community while enabling students to complete the spring semester.

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News and Events

Research on Science cover reveals collective dynamics of active matter systems

March 9, 2020

A study provides new details about the collective motion of individual agents in a liquid-crystal-like system, which could help in better understanding bacterial colonies, structures and systems in the human body, and other forms of active matter.

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Student Life

For student musicians at Brown, vibrant interest in music production makes for a perfect mix

March 6, 2020

At Brown, first-year student Chance Emerson finds opportunity to explore wide-ranging academic interests and pursue musical collaborations while perfecting his first full-length album, “The Raspberry Men.”

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Arts and Humanities

Paris exhibition showcases Brown professor’s research on the economy of images

March 5, 2020

“The Supermarket of Images,” an exhibition on view at the Jeu de Paume through June 2020, explores how images shape and change people’s lives.

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News and Events

Theresa May talks Brexit, climate change and political division

March 4, 2020

May, who served as the U.K.’s prime minister from 2016 to 2019, spoke about the divisive present and potentially promising future of Western democracies at the 100th Ogden Lecture at Brown University.

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University Initiatives

Letter from President Paxson: Brown’s actions on climate change

March 4, 2020

President Christina H. Paxson wrote to the campus community on March 4 with an update on Brown’s efforts to confront climate change through net-zero GHG initiatives, halting investments in fossil fuel extraction in the University’s endowment and other efforts.

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Science and Technology

Researchers develop new explanation for destructive earthquake vibrations

March 3, 2020

High-frequency vibrations are some of the most damaging ground movements produced by earthquakes, and Brown University researchers have a new theory about how they’re produced.

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Science and Technology

Imaging technique reveals 3D forces exerted by tiny cell clusters

March 3, 2020

A new technique for mapping the forces that clusters of cells exert on their surroundings could be useful for studying everything from tissue development to cancer metastasis.

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Driven by data: Brown boosts its economic department

March 1, 2020

Bolstered by faculty specializing in sophisticated analysis and a $25 million gift, Brown's economics department confronts pressing social issues.

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Music faculty member moves into leading rank of new classical composers

March 1, 2020

Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan earns accolades from critics, composers and professors alike.

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With centralized hub of resources, health researchers translate projects into change

March 1, 2020

Rhode Island’s clinical and translational research center, based at Brown, has already funded over 60 projects.

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Health and Medicine

Brown researchers take charge in improving Alzheimer’s research, treatment

March 1, 2020

Through collaborations with neurologists, psychiatrists, biologists and more, projects spearheaded by Brown researchers aim to improve care for those with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.

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Brown physicists at forefront of efforts to identify dark matter

March 1, 2020

Brown professor, students help construct 10-ton dark matter detector — the most sensitive ever built.

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'Obsession' leads to progress in fighting infection

March 1, 2020

Assistant Professor of Engineering Anita Shukla aims to combat burdensome, costly and sometimes deadly infections with novel materials.

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At Brown, entrepreneurship is more than a mindset

March 1, 2020

Undergraduates are creating successful new products and companies as the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship acts as incubator.

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‘This is our lane’: Emergency physician advocates for research-driven approach to curb gun violence

March 1, 2020

Associate Professor Megan Ranney leads national efforts to conduct gun safety research while pushing to increase federal funding.

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Herbarium highlights ecological past, provides insights into future

March 1, 2020

Researchers at the Brown Herbarium brought Rhode Island’s long-lost ‘Cat Swamp’ back to life.

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Science and Technology

How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer

February 27, 2020

A new mathematical tool developed at Brown could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes as well as other self-assembled patterns in nature.

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Science and Technology

Sloan Foundation awards early-career fellowships to two Brown scientists

February 27, 2020

Two assistant professors at Brown, in chemistry and ecology and evolutionary biology, are among the 126 early-career scholars named as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows for 2020.

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Health and Medicine

Accomplished physician, public health scholar named School of Public Health dean at Brown

February 26, 2020

Dr. Ashish K. Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, will work to advance academic excellence and provide strategic direction for the school, effective Sept. 1, 2020.

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Social Sciences

Big data could yield big discoveries in archaeology, Brown scholar says

February 25, 2020

Parker VanValkenburgh, an assistant professor of anthropology, curated a journal issue that explores the opportunities and challenges big data could bring to the field of archaeology.

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News and Events

Former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to visit Brown on March 4

February 24, 2020

In the University’s 100th Ogden Lecture, the former U.K. Prime Minister and current member of Parliament will share insights from her time as Britain’s leader on politics, populism and polarization.

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Arts and Humanities

Collection from renowned black feminist theorist generating excitement at Brown

February 21, 2020

With the papers of Hortense J. Spillers arriving at Brown last fall, the Pembroke Center Archives has deepened its archive of black feminist theory.

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University Initiatives

Brown plans new 375-bed residence hall on College Hill campus

February 18, 2020

As envisioned, a new two-building, 130,000-square-foot residence hall will strengthen the residential experience for third- and fourth-year students and reduce the demand for off-campus rentals.

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Arts and Humanities

Shahzad Bashir to deliver Presidential Faculty Award Lecture at Brown

February 17, 2020

Bashir, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, will discuss the cultural pervasiveness of poetry in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia.

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Social Sciences

Students from middle-class families underrepresented at selective colleges, study finds

February 14, 2020

Opportunity Insights, co-directed by Brown Professor of Economics John Friedman, found that students from high-income backgrounds were significantly more likely to attend selective colleges than their lower-income peers.

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News and Events

Live from the International Space Station...

February 13, 2020

From her office 250 miles above the Earth, history-making astronaut and Brown alumna Jessica Meir answered students' questions about life in space.

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Science and Technology

Cracks in perovskite films for solar cells easily healed, study finds

February 12, 2020

A new study finds that cracks in brittle perovskite films can be easily healed with compression or mild heating, a good sign for the use of perovskites in next-generation solar cells.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation extends President Paxson’s contract to 2025*

February 11, 2020

Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff announced to the Brown community that the early extension reflects confidence in Christina H. Paxson’s leadership and excitement for sustained momentum.

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News and Events

Brown ranked nation’s No. 2 producer of Fulbright winners for 2019-20

February 10, 2020

With 38 Fulbright grants awarded to students and recent alumni, the University is among the top Fulbright institutions for the fourth consecutive year.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation sets tuition and fees for 2020-21

February 10, 2020

Tuition and fees were approved at the Corporation’s February meeting as an initial step toward full budget approval in May 2020.

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Arts and Humanities

Spring events at Brown offer a window into the world of artmaking

February 6, 2020

This spring, events presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and other campus arts entities give students and curious community members the chance to see how creators in every field execute their ideas.

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