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Health and Medicine

Brown biostatisticians lead statistics for national mammography trial

Brown University biostatistics researchers, led by Professor Constantine Gatsonis, will provide a statistical ‘nerve center’ for a huge and innovative new study comparing 3-D and 2-D breast cancer screening technologies.
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Arts and Humanities

Bonnie Honig to deliver Presidential Faculty Award lecture

Honig, known for her wide-ranging work on the conditions necessary for collective democratic action, will discuss how the novel ‘Moby Dick’ responds to Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan.’
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Health and Medicine

Brown neuroscientists earn fellowships to study biomedical technologies

The Pew Charitable Trusts will support Gilad Barnea in a project to apply his neural circuit tracing method to tracking the spread of cancer, while a National Science Foundation fellowship will enable Scott Cruikshank to master an advanced technology for controlling brain cells with light.
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Health and Medicine

Brown to study music program for nursing home residents with dementia

Researchers at Brown’s Center for Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation landed a $3.7 million grant to conduct a pragmatic cluster randomized trial of the MUSIC & MEMORY program at as many as 60 nursing homes.
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Science and Technology

New research suggests Mercury’s poles are icier than scientists thought

A Brown University study identifies three large surface ice deposits near Mercury’s north pole, and suggests there could be many additional small-scale deposits that would dramatically increase the planet’s surface ice inventory.
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Science and Technology

HHMI fellowships support life science leaders from underrepresented groups

Postdoctoral researcher Arif Hamid and graduate students Kavin Nuñez and Shawn Williams have earned competitive fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support their academic careers and their desire to become role models in science.
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Health and Medicine

Clear tactics, but few easy solutions, for hospitals combating ransomware

Hospitals facing the prospect of ransomware attacks like the one that afflicted British hospitals in May can take many concrete steps to better protect themselves, but some of the most important measures — such as a national policy not to pay ransoms — may be tougher to formulate.
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News and Events

A startup summer for Brown’s student entrepreneurs

Now in its third year, Brown’s Breakthrough Lab — one of the premier programs of the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship — offers students time, money and mentorship to launch their next big ideas.
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Health and Medicine

Brown to launch mindfulness center to improve, disseminate evidence

With a dual mission of research and public service, the Mindfulness Center at Brown University will conduct and promote rigorous research on the health effects of interventions and work to disseminate and promote evidence-based practices.
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News and Events

Brown places among top universities in national and global rankings

Among many other notable rankings, the University landed the No. 14 slot in the annual U.S. News and World Report guide to the nation’s best universities, including Top 5 honors for undergraduate teaching.
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News and Events

Meet the Class of 2021

As Class of 2021 students begin their academic journeys at Brown, we asked five of them to tell us where they've been and what they hope for now that they're here.
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Science and Technology

Why it’s difficult to predict evolutionary fate of a new trait

In a new review paper, scientists explain the vexing complexities that make it hard to predict whether a new genetic trait will take over a population or die out, a key challenge for many fields including infectious disease.
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Science and Technology

Researchers develop 3-D-printed biomaterials that degrade on demand

The temporary structures, which can be degraded away with a biocompatible chemical trigger, could be useful in fabricating microfluidic devices, creating biomaterials that respond dynamically to stimuli and in patterning artificial tissue.
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News and Events

Brown students have a summer to remember

As Brown undergraduates return to College Hill from across the globe, they reflect on where their summers took them and what they learned along the way.
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News and Events

Convocation 2017: Brown University opens its gates to a new class

As students commenced their academic careers at Brown, University President Christina Paxson and Professor of Anthropology Daniel Jordan Smith urged them to listen carefully, seek new perspectives and reject an “us vs. them” mentality to advance and repair the world.

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News and Events

Brown welcomes 40 new faculty members

Hailing from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, 40 new faculty members join the Brown community this year to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.
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Arts and Humanities

Bell Gallery presents new sculptures by Richard Fishman

The exhibition, titled “What Remains,” includes pieces completed in the last two years and encompassing three unique series by the longtime Brown University artist and scholar.
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News and Events

Brown statement on proposed agreement with the Pokanoket

Brown University issued this statement on Thursday, Aug. 31, regarding a proposed path toward an agreement to resolve concerns of Pokanokets encamped on University-owned land in Bristol, R.I.
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News and Events

All roads lead to College Hill for #Brown2021

From move-in weekend to the Opening Convocation ceremony for new undergraduate, graduate and medical students, the Brown campus is bustling as the 2017-18 academic year gets underway.
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Arts and Humanities

Profiles in Summer Research: Antonia Shann

By merging learned experience with lived experience, Antonia Shann co-created a French studies course on refugees that will be offered this fall.
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News and Events

Brown president urges Trump to continue DACA

Christina Paxson implores President Donald Trump to preserve and defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and continue the country’s investment in these new Americans.
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Health and Medicine

Researchers seek to catch Alzheimer’s early by peeking into the eyes

Research spanning the academic-medical partnership among Brown University, Rhode Island Hospital and Butler Hospital is advancing the possibility that the retinas will give doctors a way to identify Alzheimer’s disease risk long before symptoms begin.
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Social Sciences

Profiles in Summer Research: Gray Brakke

Urban studies concentrator Gray Brakke is using his technology know-how to shed light on the understudied subject of welfare services available to low-income residents in the suburbs.
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Health and Medicine

Scientists find RNA with special role in nerve healing process

The discovery in lab mice that an “anti-sense” RNA is expressed after nerve injury to regulate the repair of damage to the nerve’s myelin coating could lead to a treatment that improves healing in people.
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Science and Technology

Main green totally packed for partial eclipse

The Great American Eclipse drew a big crowd at a College Hill viewing event. Check out a sampling of social media posts from those in attendance.
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Health and Medicine

Profiles in Summer Research: Michael Demanche

Combining data collection in the field with work in lab, Michael Demanche is developing techniques for using satellites to monitor a key environmental indicator in Narragansett Bay.
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Health and Medicine

Simulation shows the high cost of dementia, especially for families

A new simulation of the dementia epidemic estimates the economic impact the disease has on households and public insurance programs and provides a tool for projecting the impact that different interventions could have.
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Arts and Humanities

With virtual reality, bringing the Gaspee Affair to life

A team of Brown students led by the University’s virtual reality artist-in-residence have created an immersive experience to expose new generations of students to a dramatic, historically important Revolutionary War event.
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News and Events

Leveling the career playing field with a lesson in practical skills

For 150 high-achieving students from low-income families, this week’s Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America Career Institute meant a chance to convene with prospective employers for four days of intensive career development.
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Science and Technology

Brown researchers partner with state for water testing

A team of researchers from Brown’s Superfund Research Program is partnering with the Rhode Island Department of Health to test 35 of the state’s water systems for chemicals known as PFASs.
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