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Infants use prefrontal cortex in learning

October 5, 2016

A group of 8-month-olds has provided evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the prefrontal cortex contributes to learning during infancy.

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Social Sciences

Researchers receive $4.9 million to examine Common Core State Standards Initiative

October 5, 2016

A three-year study will look at how the standards, adopted by all but eight states, affect classroom instruction and disparities in academic achievement.

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News and Events

Series on University values launches with visit by writer and historian

October 5, 2016

Presentation by New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb kicks off series titled “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse,” which includes lectures, panels, workshops and conversations aimed at encouraging campus-wide discourse on difficult topics.

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Health and Medicine

Bragging as a strategy: what boasting buys, and costs, a candidate

October 5, 2016

Whether it’s better to brag or to be humble can depend on what perception one seeks to change, whether hard evidence will come to light and what that evidence says, according to a new study.

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Health and Medicine

Believing that others understand helps us feel that we do — even when we don’t

October 5, 2016

New research on how people think supports the idea of a “community of knowledge,” in which people blend the perceived expertise of others into their assessment of their own understanding.

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News and Events

After fiscal year 2016 return, Brown’s endowment stands at $3.2 billion

October 4, 2016

By the close of the fiscal year on June 30, the endowment had contributed $166 million to the University, representing $18,500 per student and 18 percent of Brown’s operating budget.

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Social Sciences

Low lead levels in children negatively affect test scores

October 4, 2016

A new study using data from Rhode Island’s lead-abatement program and repeated blood lead level tests finds that lead exposure among preschoolers can predict low reading scores in subsequent years.

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Science and Technology

Brown’s J. Michael Kosterlitz wins Nobel Prize in Physics

October 4, 2016

Professor of physics awarded "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”

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Science and Technology

Environmental change drove diversity in Lake Malawi cichlids

October 3, 2016

Researchers show that periods of deep, clear water in Lake Malawi over the past 800,000 years coincide with bursts of species diversification.

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Science and Technology

Startup@Brown connects students with startups

September 30, 2016

The second annual Startup@Brown conference, to be held this weekend, offers entrepreneurial students a sneak peak at the startup world.

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Health and Medicine

BRAIN grant of $1.6 million powers study of neural signals

September 29, 2016

Three-year project will develop a software tool to help scientists and doctors understand how recorded brainwaves emerge from underlying neural activity.

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Health and Medicine

Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA

September 29, 2016

Formaldehyde, a common toxicant and carcinogen recently subjected to new federal regulations, may be more dangerous than previously thought, a new study suggests.

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News and Events

Brown University responds to court’s ‘John Doe’ decision

September 28, 2016

On Sept. 28, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued its decision on John Doe v. Brown University, a case in which the plaintiff challenged the outcome of a University disciplinary process related to a sexual misconduct complaint.

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Social Sciences

Student-developed software streamlines archaeological analysis

September 27, 2016

An interdisciplinary research team of Brown undergraduates led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Parker VanValkenburgh developed a bilingual, tablet-based app for field and laboratory use.

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Science and Technology

Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems

September 26, 2016

Sea surface temperatures dipped dramatically during a period from 7 million to 5.4 million years ago, a time of massive global ecological change.

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Social Sciences

You’re the reason why Washington is broken

September 26, 2016

Practices that have been used for a century or more cannot explain the recent marked uptick in political polarization. Marc J. Dunkelman tracks how changes in the American social fabric impact Washington.

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News and Events

Slideshow: Brown Center for Students of Color celebrates 40 years

September 24, 2016

Block party brings students, alumni, faculty and staff together to launch a year of events celebrating the Brown Center for Students of Color's 40th year.

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Social Sciences

Cost, not lack of information, is greatest barrier to basic health care

September 23, 2016

New study on health care among children under age five in Mali sheds light on a major health care policy debate.

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Social Sciences

Brown provost joins global leaders awarded for work on fairness and human rights

September 23, 2016

Society for Progress recognizes Richard M. Locke with an inaugural Progress Medal for his scholarship on working conditions and labor rights in the global economy.

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Science and Technology

Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean

September 23, 2016

A giant asteroid impact in the dwarf planet’s past offers new insights into the possibility of an ocean beneath its surface.

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News and Events

Recent graduate's research honored as best in category for U.S. and Canada

September 23, 2016

Alexander Blum is the first Brown student to win regional honors from the Undergraduate Awards.

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Health and Medicine

New NIH grants support child health research

September 22, 2016

Several Brown University faculty members are key participants in three projects investigating how early life and environmental exposures affect children.

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Health and Medicine

$2M grant to study simultaneous marijuana, alcohol use

September 22, 2016

Next year at colleges in three states with different marijuana use laws, a team of public health researchers will study why students often use marijuana and alcohol simultaneously.

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Health and Medicine

Brown launches the country’s first four-year, integrated MD/MPA program

September 20, 2016

The unique degree program gives students an international perspective and enables them to earn both a doctorate of medicine and a master of public affairs in just four years.

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Science and Technology

Experiment looks back to when the universe’s lights came on

September 20, 2016

A Brown University physicist is part of an international experiment, newly funded by the National Science Foundation, to learn more about the first stars and galaxies.

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Health and Medicine

Nursing home residents who get palliative care consults use hospitals less

September 19, 2016

The first study of how specialist palliative care consults affect nursing home end-of-life care suggests that they are associated with much less hospitalization and fewer burdensome transitions, at no extra cost to Medicare.

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Brown’s First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center opens

September 16, 2016

In a ribbon-cutting ceremony, speakers talked about the efforts that led to the center’s establishment and its essential role at Brown.

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Prison education conference generates discussion of Brown’s role

September 16, 2016

The conference and concurrent multimedia exhibition aim to better understand ways in which increasing incarceration levels have impacted social fabric, culture and democracy — and to explore how Brown might contribute to local efforts to educate incarcerated men and women.

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News and Events

Brown renews Air Force, Naval ROTC programs

September 16, 2016

Three students with distinct academic interests but a shared sense of duty are the first to engage in the renewed Air Force and Naval ROTC opportunities, which the University and military leaders announced Friday.

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Science and Technology

Simulation posits why legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness

September 15, 2016

New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than one that can take its time.

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Health and Medicine

Protein may be crucial in many lung ailments

September 15, 2016

New research in Nature Communications implicates the protein TMEM219 in a pathway that appears to be important in pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and cancer spread in the lung.

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Science and Technology

Researchers make better sense of incoherent light

September 14, 2016

A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.

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News and Events

Entrepreneurship community celebrates Brown’s soon-to-launch center

September 14, 2016

The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship is expected to formally launch in the coming months.

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Health and Medicine

Review article takes rare look at impact of advertising psychiatric drugs

September 13, 2016

Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychiatric medications appears to increase prescribing, which may be having a mixed effect on the quality of treatment, according to a new review of the very few studies on the topic.

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Science and Technology

Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve

September 13, 2016

William Jordan filled his childhood with books, but college was more of a goal than a given — now he’s a doctoral student who hopes his example will make that path more apparent for others than it was for him.

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News and Events

In both national and global rankings, Brown places among top universities

September 13, 2016

The University ranked No. 14 in U.S. News and World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” listing along with high marks in a wide variety of other notable surveys.

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Brown University community reflects on summer tragedies

September 12, 2016

Students, faculty and staff convened on the College Green for a gathering and series of readings in response to the summer’s many tragedies.

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Science and Technology

Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’

September 12, 2016

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides substantial new evidence that health becomes endangered when aging cells lose control of rogue elements of DNA called transposons.

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News and Events

Brown to consider undocumented and DACA students as domestic applicants

September 12, 2016

Undocumented and DACA-status applicants will be considered under the University’s need-blind admission policy, and Brown will meet 100 percent of each student’s demonstrated financial need upon matriculation.

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Health and Medicine

Public health doctoral student arrives with new national fellowship in tow

September 12, 2016

A native of Nigeria with an ongoing interest in HIV/AIDS research, Adedotun Ogunbajo will begin doctoral studies at Brown with the support of a competitive new policy fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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Former Malawian president to discuss ‘moral leadership’

September 9, 2016

Drawing on decades of experience as a political leader and champion for the rights of women, children and marginalized groups, Joyce Banda will discuss Africa’s future as part of the 93rd Ogden Lecture on Sept. 19.

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Social Sciences

US spending on Middle East wars, Homeland Security will reach $4.79 trillion in 2017

September 9, 2016

Total U.S. spending on national security related to the post-9/11 war on terror has reached $3.6 trillion, and interest on funds borrowed to pay those bills could climb to $7.9 trillion by 2053.

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Health and Medicine

With MRI technique, brain scientists induce feelings about faces

September 8, 2016

In a new study, researchers report they were able to train unknowing volunteers to develop a mild but significant preference or dislike for faces that they had previously regarded neutrally.

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Health and Medicine

Negative experiences on Facebook linked to increased depression risk in young adults

September 7, 2016

A unique new study of young adults finds that negative experiences on Facebook may increase the risk of depressive symptoms, suggesting that online social interactions have important consequences for mental health.

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Social Sciences

13th century Maya codex, long shrouded in controversy, proves genuine

September 7, 2016

Brown University’s Stephen Houston and a team of leading researchers in anthropology and Maya archeology methodically verify the authenticity of the oldest known manuscript in ancient America.

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News and Events

Convocation 2016: A new class and a new academic year at Brown

September 6, 2016

As 2,675 incoming students begin their Brown academic careers, University president and Graduate School dean invite students to embrace the uncomfortable moments and the debates to come.

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News and Events

Brown welcomes 47 new faculty members

September 6, 2016

Hailing from a diverse set of backgrounds, 47 new faculty members have joined the ranks of 30 different Brown University departments for the new 2016-17 academic year.

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Science and Technology

Brown to lead $9.7M grant to advance theory of aging

September 6, 2016

A new multi-university research effort will seek to determine whether rogue elements of DNA promote or even cause aging and whether interventions against them could help people live longer and more healthfully.

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News and Events

President Paxson asserts value of freedom of expression in Washington Post op-ed

September 5, 2016

Titled 'Brown University president: A safe space for freedom of expression,' guest column comes at a time of fierce debate about the capacity of universities to prepare students for confronting difficult, complex issues.

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Arts and Humanities

Incoming Brown students come together for the First Readings program

September 5, 2016

Now in its 10th year, the program engages the entire campus community in selecting a common text that introduces first-year and transfer students to the pleasures and rigors of scholarly work at Brown.

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