A new $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will increase scholarly and public access to the Haffenreffer Museum’s collections.
Read Article
All News
3187
Results based on your selections.
Science and Technology
Scientists call for more rigor in forensic science
A Perspectives article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for “more science in forensic science.”
Read Article
State of Rhode Island, Brown University to create a data-driven policymaking and research center.
Read Article
News and Events
Thirty Brown students, alumni win prestigious NSF fellowships
The Graduate Research Fellowship Program provides tuition support and a stipend for promising young STEM leaders.
Read Article
News and Events
Brown alumna Ellen Stofan to head National Air and Space Museum
Stofan, a former chief scientist at NASA who earned her Ph.D. in geology from Brown in 1989, will be the first woman to lead what is one of the world’s most widely visited museums.
Read Article
A year after scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT and earning admission to Brown, Georgia native Dhruv Gaur will represent the University beginning on Tuesday, April 10.
Read Article
Baylor Fox-Kemper will be a coordinating lead author for a key chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next global climate assessment report.
Read Article
News and Events
Brown to host fifth annual robot block party
From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Sunday to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy to deliver Casey Shearer Lecture
On Wednesday, April 18, the Emmy Award-winning director and producer will visit Brown to speak about her work making films about some of the world’s most pressing issues.
Read Article
News and Events
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to visit Brown on April 25
In the 97th Ogden Memorial Lecture, the former governor and U.S. presidential candidate will discuss the need to rebuild U.S. institutions and support opportunities for success for all Americans.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
City approval enables Brown to proceed with revised performing arts center plan
The Providence City Plan Commission approved an amendment to Brown’s Institutional Master Plan, allowing the University to take the next step toward creating a new academic center for the performing arts.
Read Article
With a diverse lineup of National Public Health Week events starting on April 2, Dean Bess Marcus shares her thoughts on Brown’s role in advancing public health through research and education.
Read Article
News and Events
With record applications, Brown admits 2,566 to Class of 2022
The University made offers of admission to next year’s incoming undergraduate class, the first to be admitted under the Brown Promise initiative, which will eliminate loans from University undergraduate aid packages.
Read Article
Using computer simulations and laboratory experiments, a Brown-led team of scientists found a new class of antibiotics with the potential to treat MRSA and other infections that are increasingly resistant to traditional antibiotics.
Read Article
Science and Technology
Mitochondrial replacement moratorium should be reconsidered, researchers say
Professors from Brown’s medical school and Harvard’s law school urge the U.S. to allow for the replacement of mutation-bearing mitochondria to prevent fatal illnesses in children.
Read Article
Brown’s School of Professional Studies will join fellow tenants Johnson & Johnson and the Cambridge Innovation Center in the Jewelry District building being developed by Wexford Science & Technology.
Read Article
A series of public events and exhibitions staged in April by five University partner programs will confront climate change from a wide variety of perspectives.
Read Article
Health and Medicine
Focus on early stage of illness may be key to treating ALS, study suggests
Many inhibitory neurons were lost early in the development of ALS, new research shows, which is in sharp contrast to other degenerative diseases.
Read Article
Health and Medicine
Brown medical students celebrate Match Day
At Match Day 2018, a record 118 Brown students were placed in medical residency programs across the country.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
Restored films and fresh gelato — Brown’s Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour
The fifth edition of the annual film festival features cinematic gems, live music and gelato custom-created by a master ice cream maker to pair with what’s showing on screen.
Read Article
Science and Technology
After 7 years of work, Brown’s student satellite is cleared for NASA launch
A small satellite, designed and built by Brown undergraduates, will launch on an Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, on May 20.
Read Article
News and Events
Photos: National School Walkout at Brown
As high school students and others gather nationwide on the one-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, hundreds of Brown community members convened on the College Green to call for increased attention to gun violence.
Read Article
Health and Medicine
Study reveals vision’s role in vowel perception
In a study based at Brown University, researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker’s lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech.
Read Article
After 20 years on the Brown faculty and a four-year tenure stewarding the academic experience for Brown's 6,500 undergraduates, Mandel will lead Williams as president beginning in July 2018.
Read Article
Health and Medicine
ADHD drugs increase brain glutamate, predict positive emotion in healthy people
The findings by Brown University scientists offer clues about how misused drugs affect healthy brains and hint at an undiscovered link between glutamate and mood.
Read Article
Science and Technology
Brown physicist advises on space-time physics for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ film
Stephon Alexander, professor of physics at Brown, helped bring the strange science of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel to the big screen.
Read Article
Social Sciences
Brown launches engaged scholarship programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Through a partnership with the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the University is offering new fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students focused on policy and community engagement.
Read Article
News and Events
Brown University statement on men's swim team sanctions
Men's varsity swimming and diving team suspended following investigation into hazing allegations.
Read Article
Health and Medicine
Brain Week to bring brain-themed films, forums and fun to Brown
Backed by the Brown Institute for Brain Science and organized by a neuroscience postdoc, the weeklong series of talks, film screenings, art shows and fairs aims to make brain research fun, educational and accessible.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
Brown statement on cancellation of Rosa Parks exhibit
Out of respect for the memory of the civil rights icon, Brown will not display a Detroit house that is involved in a dispute among external parties.
Read Article
Science and Technology
New approach to measuring stickiness could aid micro-device design
At the scale of microdevices, adhesion is one of the most important forces that engineers need to contend with — Brown University researchers have come up with a new way to measure it.
Read Article
In a visit to Brown University, the professor, author and activist spoke about the need to attend to the suffering of others and hold oneself to a high moral standard.
Read Article
Knight-Hennessy and Keasbey fellowships will allow the young scholars to pursue graduate study and research at Stanford and Oxford universities.
Read Article
Science and Technology
Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration site
Scientists have long wanted to retrieve rock samples from the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin, and a new study could be helpful in locating an ideal landing site.
Read Article
Since becoming the University’s first general counsel in 1978, Ledbetter has been instrumental in helping Brown navigate a spectrum of issues and initiatives.
Read Article
The former secretary-general of the United Nations encouraged U.S. citizens to look beyond their borders — and to women and young people — to find solutions to global climate change, poverty and war.
Read Article
Researchers have developed a new statistical understanding of how turbulent flows called mesoscale eddies dissipate their energy, which could be helpful in creating better ocean and climate models.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
Brown to cover full tuition for acting and directing MFA students
The move will expand access to the University’s MFA programs with Trinity Rep, diversify the stories told on stage and encourage innovation and experimentation in art-making.
Read Article
Anthony Bogues, whose work leading the CSSJ has impacted the global conversation on legacies of slavery, will discuss the black intellectual tradition.
Read Article
News and Events
Mellon Foundation awards $1.25M grant to Leadership Alliance
The funds will support summer undergraduate research in the humanities and social sciences for underrepresented students identified, trained and mentored through the Brown-based Leadership Alliance.
Read Article
News and Events
Brown alumna Lauren Gibbs captures Olympic silver
The Class of 2006 Brown graduate left her job in corporate sales to push a bobsled and won big in PyeongChang.
Read Article
Health and Medicine
Separate brain systems cooperate during learning, study finds
Brown University researchers have shown that reinforcement learning and working memory — two distinct brain systems — work hand-in-hand as people learn new tasks.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
Brown to submit revised plan for performing arts center
A revised plan that preserves historic structures and reduces the above-ground building footprint remains true to the University's academic requirements while addressing community concerns.
Read Article
Science and Technology
New software helps detect adaptive genetic mutations
Brown University researchers have developed a new machine learning technique that can track down beneficial mutations in population genetic datasets.
Read Article
Thirty-nine Brown students and recent graduates earned the prestigious U.S. State Department grant to teach or conduct research abroad during the 2017-18 year.
Read Article
News and Events
Brown mathematics faculty member earns 2018 Sloan Fellowship
Melody Chan, an assistant professor of mathematics, is among this year’s group of early-career scholars named as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows.
Read Article
Science and Technology
$50 million gift to help translate research into cures for disease
A new gift from Brown University Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and Ann S. Mencoff will establish medical research funds and support top medical scholars.
Read Article
Four months after the movement she originated gained global visibility, Tarana Burke spoke to a Brown and RISD crowd about the realities of supporting survivors and interrupting sexual violence.
Read Article
A new study in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that treating people for opioid addiction in jails and prisons is a promising strategy to address high rates of overdose and opioid use disorder.
Read Article
Arts and Humanities
Cornel West to speak at Brown on March 6
The public intellectual, author and political activist will give a talk as part of Brown’s Politics in the Humanities lecture series.
Read Article