Brown leaders invited the campus community to use the year ahead as an opportunity to critically reflect on the University’s defining educational philosophy.
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Study reveals final fate of levitating Leidenfrost droplets
The research shows why levitating droplets on hot surfaces eventually explode if they start out large enough.
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Health and Medicine
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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In keeping with a Brown tradition that has stood for two and a half centuries, seniors Ruth Miller and Patricia Rodarte will deliver Commencement speeches on Sunday, May 26.
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Social Sciences
Brown course delves into scholarship on neurological difference
A class and symposium examine neurodiversity, a still-nascent concept that explores autism, dyslexia and epilepsy as more than simply disorders.
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"This is the time to be a protagonist and not a spectator," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a talk on College Hill.
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Health and Medicine
National Institutes of Health awards $2.7M to Leadership Alliance
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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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
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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The annual awards program recognizes the research and scholarship of both longtime and early-career faculty members.
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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
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
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
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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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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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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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
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
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
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
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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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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While most teens can define consent as saying ‘yes,’ their understanding of how consent translates into real life experiences varies.
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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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Health and Medicine
NASA Twins Study finds remarkable resilience to the stress of space
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
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
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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Science and Technology
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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News and Events
Global leaders gather for symposium on higher education’s future
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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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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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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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
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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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
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
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
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
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
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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