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National Institutes of Health awards $2.7M to Leadership Alliance

April 26, 2019

The funds will support expanded mentorship of biomedical science students and junior researchers from historically underrepresented groups through the Brown-based Leadership Alliance.

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Health and Medicine

Student, faculty scholars in public health join forces via Philippine Health Initiative

April 25, 2019

The new initiative at Brown — spearheaded by a master of public health student — will formalize collaboration among faculty and students who are conducting research on health outcomes of Filipinos and Filipino Americans.

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News and Events

Brown to confer seven honorary degrees at Commencement 2019

April 23, 2019

Brown University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of business and community leaders, scholars and artists during its 251st Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 26.

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Research Achievement Awards honor accomplished and early-career Brown researchers

April 23, 2019

The annual awards program recognizes the research and scholarship of both longtime and early-career faculty members.

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Social Sciences

In ‘Cribsheet,’ a Brown economist debunks long-held parenting myths

April 23, 2019

Emily Oster’s new book, out on Tuesday, April 23, uses data to help new parents make crucial decisions, from whether to breastfeed to how to discipline a toddler.

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News and Events

How data can promote social mobility in Providence

April 22, 2019

A discussion hosted by the Wealth and Income Inequality Project at Brown touched on City and University initiatives that aim to improve economic equality in Providence.

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Science and Technology

Researchers outline how humans reduce uncertainty in social situations

April 22, 2019

A team of Brown University scientists proposed a psychological model of three interrelated ways people reduce uncertainty in social situations.

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Science and Technology

Repelling charges prevent Cooper pairs from ‘island hopping’ in insulating state

April 22, 2019

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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Health and Medicine

Stroke patients receive vastly different amounts of physical therapy, despite its clear benefits

April 19, 2019

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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Social Sciences

$25 million Bravo Family Foundation gift will amplify Brown’s high-impact economics scholarship

April 18, 2019

Generous support from the foundation will fund the creation of the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research, expanding the scope of research in the University’s top-ranked economics department.

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News and Events

Research Matters highlights graduate student research and its impact

April 17, 2019

The annual “TED Talks”-style event challenged 12 graduate students to explain why their current research matters — to the field and to themselves — in 5 minutes or less.

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News and Events

Brown professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 17, 2019

Renowned engineering professor Huajian Gao is honored for his research in mechanical engineering and material science.

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Health and Medicine

Heart patch could limit muscle damage in heart attack aftermath

April 17, 2019

Guided by computer simulations, an international team of researchers has developed an adhesive patch that can provide support for damaged heart tissue, potentially reducing the stretching of heart muscle that’s common after a heart attack.

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Science and Technology

Catfish use complex coordination to catch prey

April 16, 2019

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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Arts and Humanities

Brown alumna, emeritus faculty member capture Pulitzers for drama, poetry

April 15, 2019

Class of 2010 MFA graduate Jackie Sibblies Drury earned the drama award for “Fairview,” and Professor Emeritus Forrest Gander won the poetry prize for “Be With.”

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News and Events

Brown to launch yearlong celebration, exploration of Open Curriculum at 50 years

April 15, 2019

Open Curriculum at 50 anniversary kick-off event on May 7 will commemorate a pivotal moment in Brown’s history and begin a 12-month community exploration of the University’s distinctive, student-centered curriculum.

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Health and Medicine

New studies can inform programs to prevent sexual violence among teens locally, globally

April 12, 2019

While most teens can define consent as saying ‘yes,’ their understanding of how consent translates into real life experiences varies.

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Health and Medicine

Scientists capture a ‘snapshot’ of bacterial stress-response regulator’s ‘recycling truck’

April 11, 2019

The stress-response master regulator is important for antibiotic resistance and the ability for bacteria to cause disease.

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Health and Medicine

NASA Twins Study finds remarkable resilience to the stress of space

April 11, 2019

A Brown assistant professor studied how the “cellular powerhouse” responds to microgravity stress markers as a part of a NASA study of identical twins.

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Health and Medicine

Public Health Research Day features Brown student researchers

April 9, 2019

A poster session during National Public Health Week showcased an array of research on public health concerns in communities from college campuses to Cape Town, South Africa.

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Science and Technology

Robot Block Party to feature the latest in robotics from Brown and other partners

April 9, 2019

From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Saturday, April 13, to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.

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Brown professor to co-lead international research on subsurface environments

April 8, 2019

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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News and Events

Global leaders gather for symposium on higher education’s future

April 5, 2019

A partnership between Brown and I.E. University, the 10th annual “Reinventing Higher Education” conference convened 37 international opinion leaders from higher education and the private sector to discuss educating and managing the global workforce of the future.

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Social Sciences

Evolutionary changes played a crucial role in industrialization, study finds

April 4, 2019

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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Science and Technology

Communication theorist cheers ‘Lunar Library’ to be delivered to the Moon

April 4, 2019

Brown engineering professor Chris Rose thinks the tiny data disks with volumes of human knowledge currently flying to the Moon on the Beresheet spacecraft are a great way to communicate across time and space.

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Science and Technology

Brown professor helps select landing site for private mission to the Moon

April 4, 2019

The Israeli firm SpaceIL turned to Brown’s Jim Head for help in selecting a landing site for what is expected in the coming weeks to become the first private spacecraft to land on the Moon.

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News and Events

National survey on campus sexual assault opens at Brown

April 4, 2019

From April 4 to May 5, students at Brown will share information and perspectives on sexual assault and misconduct as part of national survey organized by the Association of American Universities.

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Social Sciences

With $1M Carnegie Corporation grant, Watson Institute to launch military fellows program

April 3, 2019

The grant will bring up to eight military fellows to Brown University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs over the next two years.

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University Initiatives

Brown to cover textbook costs for more than 1,100 students

April 3, 2019

After a successful pilot with high-need students, Brown will expand textbook and course materials program to first-year students receiving University scholarship funds and undergraduates who have a $0 parent contribution.

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Student Life

Brown plans for dedicated, championship-level lacrosse and soccer center

April 3, 2019

As envisioned, the state-of-the-art center will provide teams with a central space for training, practice and competition — amplifying the student-athlete experience and advancing teams’ ability to succeed at the highest level.

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News and Events

Is humanity progressing? Pinker, Krugman debate the question

April 2, 2019

In a Janus Forum event hosted at Brown by the Political Theory Project, economist Paul Krugman and psychologist Steven Pinker debated whether humanity is headed for progress or a setback.

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Health and Medicine

Alzheimer’s study finds PET scan affects patient diagnosis, management

April 2, 2019

The results are the first part of a national study of whether a method to detect Alzheimer’s-related plaques improves the outcomes of patients with mild cognitive impairment and dementia.

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News and Events

Brown admits 2,551 students to the undergraduate Class of 2023

March 28, 2019

The Brown Promise initiative, which replaces loans with scholarship funds in all University-packaged undergraduate financial aid awards, played a significant role in attracting Brown’s largest applicant pool to date.

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Health and Medicine

Arbitrary categories improve visual learning transfer, study finds

March 28, 2019

This type of learning transfer opens the door for applying basic cognitive science research to help patients with vision loss.

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Arts and Humanities

Bell Gallery exhibition explores plight of the endangered saltmarsh sparrow

March 27, 2019

Opening on Saturday, April 6, “Snæbjörnsdóttir/Wilson: The Only Show in Town” depicts the process of researching a near-extinct East Coast bird species in an era of rising tides.

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Arts and Humanities

New digital portal brings women’s history, feminist theory to the fore

March 27, 2019

New access via the Brown University Library provides an easy connection to the Pembroke Center Archives, a treasure trove of documents, interviews and photos by and about women.

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News and Events

Letter from President Paxson: Responding to divestment referendum vote

March 22, 2019

University President Christina Paxson: “Brown’s endowment is not a political instrument to be used to express views on complex social and political issues, especially those over which thoughtful and intelligent people vehemently disagree.”

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Science and Technology

Dynamic hydrogel used to make ‘soft robot’ components and LEGO-like building blocks

March 21, 2019

A new type of hydrogel material developed by Brown University researchers could soon make assembling complex microfluidic or soft robotic devices as simple as putting together a LEGO set.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown Judaic Studies monograph series awarded Humanities Open Book Program grant to digitize scholarly research

March 20, 2019

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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Health and Medicine

Updated: Brown statements on gender dysphoria study

March 19, 2019

The academic journal PLOS ONE on March 19 published a revised version of a study on “rapid-onset gender dysphoria” — information on the revised version and a series of previous statements to the Brown community are detailed here.

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Health and Medicine

Brown medical students celebrate Match Day

March 15, 2019

At Match Day 2019, 125 Brown students were placed in medical residency programs across the country, the largest class to be matched to date.

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News and Events

Michael Littman to deliver Presidential Faculty Award lecture

March 14, 2019

Littman, a computer scientist, will discuss efforts to make computers, robots and other devices easily usable by all.

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News and Events

$3 billion BrownTogether campaign eclipses $2 billion milestone

March 14, 2019

From investments in financial aid and faculty research to campus facilities and more, Brown’s most ambitious campaign in history is making an impact across the University.

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Health and Medicine

Public health doctoral student selected for national health policy program

March 13, 2019

Brown graduate student Kevin Nguyen earned a competitive national fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support his research aimed at building healthier and more equitable communities.

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Brown lands national honor for global education and research strategy

March 12, 2019

The 2019 Senator Paul Simon Award for Campus Internationalization recognized five higher education institutions that demonstrate innovation and excellence in their globally focused academic efforts.

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Health and Medicine

A cerebral celebration: Brain science abounds at Brown and beyond

March 7, 2019

As part of Brain Week R.I., Brown students and faculty are bringing brain science to local high schools, planning the University’s annual Brain Fair and much more.

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Social Sciences

Hip hop series brings music scholars, emcees to Brown

March 7, 2019

The series of events at Brown celebrates the 25th anniversary of the seminal hip hop text “Black Noise,” written by Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose.

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Health and Medicine

Germ-fighting catheter coating may help prevent infections

March 7, 2019

In an innovation that may ultimately help to prevent deadly bloodstream infections, a team of biomedical engineers and infectious disease specialists at Brown University developed a coating to keep intravascular catheters from becoming a haven for harmful bacteria.

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News and Events

Brown Venture Prize finalists vie for $50K for big ideas

March 6, 2019

All eyes are on the prize — and the entrepreneurial process — in this annual Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship competition among Brown’s most promising student ventures.

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Environment

Migrating snowline plays outsized role in setting pace of Greenland ice melt

March 6, 2019

Meltwater from Greenland’s ice sheet is a leading contributor to global sea level rise, and a Brown University study shows that an underappreciated factor — the position of the snowline on the ice sheet — plays a key role in setting the pace of melting.

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