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Brown staff convene for 26th annual Staff Development Day

June 11, 2019

During a day dedicated to learning, exploration and community building, more than 1,000 staff members from across the University engaged in workshops, tours, community service projects and more.

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Health and Medicine

People who use opioids would welcome safe consumption spaces, study finds

June 10, 2019

There are no legal safe consumption spaces in the U.S. currently, but a three-city study found that a majority of people who use opioids would be willing to use locations where they would have medical support in case of overdose.

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Arts and Humanities

Students find contemporary connections to ancient text in ‘Antigones’ course

June 6, 2019

For students in the spring 2019 course Antigones, an ancient Greek play served as the basis of a semester-long examination of journalistic ethics, citizenship and other timely topics.

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Science and Technology

NSF CAREER awards to advance promising research by four Brown faculty members

June 5, 2019

The awards for early-career faculty will support research in computer networking, algebraic geometry, neurodegenerative diseases and robotics.

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Arts and Humanities

Bell Gallery exhibition explores feelings of ‘twoness’ among African Americans

May 29, 2019

“Toby Sisson: Nacirema” delves into generations of African American history, from W.E.B. DuBois to mid-century black social clubs, to reveal the complicated roots of patriotism.

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Student voices take center stage, as Brown celebrates 2,954 new graduates

May 26, 2019

Honoring a treasured Brown tradition, two senior orators addressed the Class of 2019 to offer congratulations and inspiration to their fellow graduates.

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Brown awards seven honorary doctorates

May 26, 2019

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

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Brown faculty awards highest honor to Chancellor Emeritus Thomas J. Tisch

May 26, 2019

The Rosenberger Medal has been awarded just 31 times since its establishment in 1919 to a distinguished group of individuals who include among them Nobel laureates, university presidents and chancellors, and esteemed public servants.

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Brown celebrates 1,199 newly minted master’s, doctoral and medical graduates

May 26, 2019

Doctoral students, along with the largest-ever classes of Brown master’s and medical school graduates, celebrated their success on College Hill during Commencement and Reunion Weekend.

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Lead lives of consequence in a changing world, Paxson urges the Class of 2019

May 26, 2019

In her annual Commencement address, Brown University President Christina Paxson asked graduating seniors to take on the most complex of challenges, from economic inequality to climate change.

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Students, alumni celebrate accomplishments, anniversaries in procession

May 26, 2019

Many thousands of Class of 2019 graduates and alumni from as early as the Class of 1939 took part in the annual celebration, a centuries-long University tradition.

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Actor and alumnus John Krasinski: Take chances, fail big and take chances again

May 25, 2019

In Baccalaureate remarks punctuated by a lot of laughter, the Class of 2001 graduate and acclaimed actor cited Brown as “the cornerstone of his life and career.”

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Ceremony honors new military officers, graduating veterans

May 25, 2019

On a weekend that marks graduations, reunions and military sacrifice, the University honored two new officers, a military promotion and seven graduating veterans.

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Forums offer insights on Open Curriculum at 50, other timely topics

May 25, 2019

This year’s forums explored everything from cancer research and digital health innovations to media and political engagement, the 1968 Black Student Walkout at Brown, and patriotic philanthropy.

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Corporation approves 2019 degree candidates, elects new members

May 25, 2019

During its annual Commencement week meeting, the University's governing body also approved the awarding of 2,795 degrees at Sunday's ceremonies.

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Science and Technology

Student-designed sundial sculpture dedicated during Commencement and Reunion

May 25, 2019

As alumni returned to campus and thousands of new graduates prepared to receive their degrees and begin the next chapter of their lives, the Brown community dedicated a student-designed sundial sculpture named ‘Infinite Possibility.’

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Brown to confer 2,954 degrees at Sunday's Commencement

May 24, 2019

At its 251st Commencement on Sunday, May 26, Brown University will confer a total of 2,954 degrees in all categories — undergraduate, graduate, medical and honorary.

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Social Sciences

Brown dedicates Stephen Robert Hall ahead of Commencement and Reunion Weekend

May 23, 2019

In the six months since it opened its doors, the new Watson Institute building has become a prime destination on campus and supported an equally ambitious programmatic expansion underway at the institute.

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Brown to implement new measures to strengthen food security

May 23, 2019

As college students across the nation contend with challenges accessing healthy, affordable food, the University will provide meals during spring break at no additional cost and require all sophomores to enroll in meal plans.

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Science and Technology

Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosions

May 22, 2019

In a finding that is soon to be ground-truthed by NASA’s next Mars rover, Brown University researchers show that a Martian mineral deposit was likely formed by ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions.

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Health and Medicine

Researchers discover how a member of a family of light-sensitive proteins adjusts skin color

May 16, 2019

After a series of surprising discoveries, a team of scientists determined a role of opsin 3 in tuning human skin color in response to ultraviolet rays.

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Brown’s 251st Commencement set for Sunday, May 26

May 16, 2019

Sunday's procession and University Ceremony on the College Green will cap Brown's three-day celebration of Commencement and Reunion Weekend 2019.

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Brown approves new undergraduate programs in business, entrepreneurship

May 15, 2019

After a series of investments in academic departments, the University will offer new concentration tracks in business economics and organizational studies as well as a new undergraduate certificate in entrepreneurship.

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Health and Medicine

Mindfulness smoking-cessation app can change the brain

May 15, 2019

Some research study participants, for whom the app was most effective, showed decreased brain reactivity to smoking images.

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Science and Technology

Brown undergraduate researcher teaches robots handwriting and drawing

May 15, 2019

Working with a Brown University faculty member, an undergraduate student developed an algorithm that enables robots to reproduce human-like pen strokes just by looking at images of handwriting or sketches.

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Health and Medicine

Innovative, integrated curriculum gives Brown med students tools to tackle opioid crisis

May 14, 2019

An expanded substance-use curriculum at the Warren Alpert Medical School ensures that each future physician from Brown graduates well-versed in how to recognize and treat opioid use disorder.

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Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship opens doors to new Thayer Street home

May 13, 2019

New location on three floors of 249 Thayer St. will advance the center’s mission to make entrepreneurship integral to the life of campus and connected to the world beyond.

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Brown diversity and inclusion annual report highlights successes, next steps

May 9, 2019

In the three years since launching its strategic action plan, Brown has boosted student, faculty and staff diversity and implemented a wide range of initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion on campus.

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Social Sciences

Brown launches new lab for evidence-based policy research

May 9, 2019

The Policy Lab at Brown will work in concert with government leaders and experts to develop evidence-based policy programs that improve lives and strengthen communities.

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Graduate speakers to extol their peers’ research and resilience at Commencement

May 8, 2019

As Brown celebrates Commencement 2019 on Sunday, May 26, Jen Thum and Eunice Gonzalez-Sierra will address their fellow graduates in separate Ph.D. and master’s ceremonies on College Hill.

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Science and Technology

Sundial installation represents ‘Infinite Possibility’

May 8, 2019

A student-designed sundial in the shape of a Mobius strip will mark the position of the noontime sun throughout the year on the plaza in front of Brown’s Engineering Research Center.

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With a nod to 1969, Brown commences celebration of the Open Curriculum at 50

May 7, 2019

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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Science and Technology

Study reveals final fate of levitating Leidenfrost droplets

May 6, 2019

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

May 6, 2019

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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Senior orators to reflect on crossing borders, creating positive change

May 3, 2019

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

May 1, 2019

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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In a talk at Brown, ACLU leader urges student activists to keep fighting for equality

April 26, 2019

"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

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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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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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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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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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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