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One Big Self: Celebrating the life and poetry of C.D. Wright

November 16, 2016

In a two-day event titled “Come Shining: In Tribute to C.D. Wright,” the University celebrated the work and influence of the late professor and poet, who died earlier this year.

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News and Events

Robert C. Post on why speech at universities must be regulated

November 14, 2016

Legal scholar argues that free speech, as defined by the First Amendment, would prevent universities from fulfilling their dual missions of research and teaching.

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Video: Research Matters! focuses on impact of scholarship

November 14, 2016

At an event in the style of TED Talks, Brown graduate students speak about how their research connects to the issues of today.

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Health and Medicine

$27 million gift to expand Brown’s effort to decipher disease, improve health

November 14, 2016

A new gift from The Warren Alpert Foundation will allow the University to substantially expand and enhance its M.D./Ph.D. program and endow a professorship in the Brown Institute for Translational Science.

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Health and Medicine

Biomedical breakthroughs at the Brown Institute for Translational Science

November 14, 2016

Brown University is pursuing a strategic vision to ensure that the most promising advances in basic biomedical research become new treatments for patients.

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News and Events

Veterans Day ceremony at Brown calls for unity, reflection

November 11, 2016

A crowd near the flagpole on the College Green processed to the tune of bagpipes and patriotic salutes as Brown’s annual ceremony to honor service members stepped off on Friday, Nov. 11.

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Social Sciences

Watson Institute faculty offer perspective on the presidential election

November 9, 2016

Six faculty members from Brown's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs comment on key issues that will concern the American electorate and the next president.

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Health and Medicine

Neuroscience researchers restore leg movement in primates

November 9, 2016

The research is a step toward the development of a system that might help in rehabilitating people who have suffered spinal cord injuries.

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Health and Medicine

Treating cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew

November 9, 2016

In a pair of tents on the grounds of a health center in a tiny town, Dr. Adam Levine is managing a cholera treatment unit where the staff still sees 10 to 15 new cases a day, more than a month after Hurricane Matthew.

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Science and Technology

Brown planetary scientist elected to Russian Academy of Sciences

November 8, 2016

Professor Jim Head is honored as a foreign member for his decades of contributions to planetary science.

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Arts and Humanities

In wake of gift, University renames Judaic studies building

November 8, 2016

With support from a Class of 1971 graduate and his wife, the department will pursue improvements in support of its scholarship on Jewish history, literature, language, politics and religions.

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Health and Medicine

Brown awarded CDC contract to battle health care-related infections

November 8, 2016

Starting with a new three-year, $2.7 million award to help implement antimicrobial stewardship in nursing homes, a University-led team will perform research and implementation projects for the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention aimed at reducing infections.

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Health and Medicine

Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’

November 8, 2016

In Academic Medicine, two Alpert Medical School professors have examined new data suggesting that the number of student applications for residency programs has gotten out of hand, creating a problem that needs to be solved.

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Science and Technology

Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures

November 7, 2016

Metal-oxide films with wrinkles and crumples transferred from graphene templates have improved properties as catalysts and electrodes.

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Health and Medicine

After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined

November 7, 2016

When the Australian government reduced drug costs for indigenous people with or at risk for chronic conditions, they became substantially less likely to need hospitalization to treat those health problems.

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Social Sciences

Brown study maps out ways to pay for climate-related loss and damage

November 7, 2016

Work by University’s Climate and Development Lab and colleagues clarifies a key article of the Paris Agreement and assesses options that can help pay for the losses and damages climate change will inflict.

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Health and Medicine

Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality

November 1, 2016

A new study supports the federal government’s use of a skilled nursing facility’s history of hospital readmissions as a key indicator of care quality.

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Science and Technology

Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app

November 1, 2016

The new approach combines personal sleep analytics with recommendations based on the scientific sleep literature.

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Health and Medicine

U.S. Preventive Services Task Force recommends interventions to support breastfeeding

October 31, 2016

Dr. Maureen Phipps, chair of obstetrics and gynecology in the Alpert Medical School and a member of the task force, discusses its new recommendations supporting breastfeeding.

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Health and Medicine

Chinese medical education rising unevenly from Cultural Revolution rubble

October 31, 2016

A new research review chronicling the history and current state of medical education in China finds that the country’s quest to build up a medical education system to serve its massive population has produced a rapid, if uneven, result.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation approves election process for new alumni trustees

October 29, 2016

During its annual fall meeting, the Corporation accepted $91 million in gifts and discussed progress on Building on Distinction, Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion and BrownTogether.

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Social Sciences

U.S. Supreme Court’s Sonia Sotomayor to highlight forum on diversifying America’s research workforce

October 28, 2016

As it celebrates 25 years of impact, Leadership Alliance will convene college and university presidents, leaders from public and private sectors to create strategies to achieve and sustain diversity in academia and beyond.

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Science and Technology

Fun with physics: Brown’s new Nobel Laureate talks theory

October 27, 2016

Michael Kosterlitz, winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics, met with students from the physics department during a town hall event.

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News and Events

Video: Brown's creepiest concert

October 27, 2016

Brown organist Mark Steinbach offers a glimpse of the University's traditional midnight Halloween event — a celebration of spooky songs old and new delivered on the world's oldest Hutchings-Votey pipe organ.

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Science and Technology

Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the Moon

October 27, 2016

The Moon’s Orientale basin is an archetype of “multi-ring” basins found throughout the solar system. New research reveals how those rings were formed.

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Health and Medicine

‘Speed networking’ catalyzes collaborations on health disparities

October 26, 2016

To inspire new ideas aimed at addressing health disparities, the Office of the Vice President for Research convened an unconventional approach: “speed networking” for researchers.

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Social Sciences

School environment key to retaining teachers, promoting student achievement, study finds

October 26, 2016

New research identifies four organizational and administrative factors that can decrease teacher turnover and lift student test scores in math

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Science and Technology

As competition concludes, ‘bio balloon’ team has reached great heights

October 26, 2016

An undergraduate team of emerging synthetic biologists from Brown and Stanford prepares to culminate a global competition this weekend after a productive nine months advancing the science of an entirely biological balloon.

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News and Events

Brown goes ‘ALL IN’ on voter participation for Election 2016

October 26, 2016

University is among 206 colleges and universities in the nonpartisan ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge aimed at increasing student voter participation.

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Science and Technology

Brown launches new Data Science Initiative

October 25, 2016

The initiative, which includes a new master’s program, will bolster research that integrates data in new scholarly contexts and prepare students to be leaders in a data-enabled society.

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Science and Technology

Study yields rich dossier of cancer-linked protein’s associates

October 24, 2016

By developing an atomic-scale picture of how the cancer-linked enzyme PP2A binds to other proteins, Brown University researchers have developed a new list of nearly 100 of its potential partners.

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Social Sciences

Integrated neighborhoods more common across the U.S., study finds

October 23, 2016

New research tracking population shifts over 30 years shows that increasing neighborhood-level diversity is a near-universal trend in urban areas.

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News and Events

Brown families rendezvous on campus for Family Weekend

October 23, 2016

With families traveling to the University from across the globe, Brown President Christina Paxson urged them to embrace the distinctive Brown experience where students engage in the “daring adventure” of learning.

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Arts and Humanities

‘Lamp/Bear’ artist to speak at Brown on Oct. 26

October 21, 2016

The University’s Public Art Committee will welcome artist Urs Fischer, the man behind ‘Untitled (Lamp/Bear),’ to campus for a public lecture.

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News and Events

Families journey to Brown from across the globe

October 21, 2016

En route to campus to celebrate the University’s Family Weekend, six family members give their take on the annual fall tradition and what Brown means to them.

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News and Events

Brown welcomes first Executive Master in Cybersecurity students

October 20, 2016

The Van Wickle Gates opened as 28 executives and professionals convened as the inaugural cohort of cybersecurity students in the 16-month School of Professional Studies program.

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Social Sciences

A broader view of celebrated urbanist Jane Jacobs

October 18, 2016

Brown researchers gather uncollected writings, speeches and interviews to create a more comprehensive portrait of the writer who changed how we think about cities.

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Social Sciences

Events across campus to spotlight Election 2016, before and after

October 17, 2016

With all eyes on the U.S. presidential election, public events and discussions at Brown will focus on the country’s future and the forces shaping the election.

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Health and Medicine

Resisting cruelty by leading aid efforts, Syrian doctor comes to Brown to study

October 17, 2016

Tortured and then forced to flee Syria, Dr. Khaled Almilaji has countered tyranny with ever-greater efforts to care for his country’s people — his latest move is to study public health at Brown.

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Social Sciences

Brown initiative to help bridge humanitarian, academic efforts

October 17, 2016

With the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative at the University’s Watson Institute, Dr. Adam Levine and colleagues hope to improve the effectiveness and accountability of disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and post-emergency reconstruction through scholarship.

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Social Sciences

Study on climate’s impact on abandoned military base sparks debate in Greenland, Denmark

October 14, 2016

Research finding that a melting Greenland Ice Sheet could expose biological, chemical and radioactive waste at Camp Century prompts calls for Denmark to take responsibility for site clean-up and compensation.

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Science and Technology

Ladd Observatory to celebrate 125 years

October 14, 2016

A weeklong series of events will commemorate the observatory’s rich history.

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Health and Medicine

Cocoa compound linked to some cardiovascular biomarker improvements

October 14, 2016

A new review of 19 randomized clinical trials finds that consumption of cocoa, and therefore compounds called flavanols, may improve some biomarkers related to lipids and insulin resistance.

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Health and Medicine

Grant funds big-data study of brain connectivity

October 13, 2016

With more than $1.2 million over three years to study how complex brain networks process information, Brown has earned its second grant this fall from the federal BRAIN Initiative and shares significantly in a third.

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Social Sciences

Economist Jesse M. Shapiro to deliver Presidential Faculty Award lecture

October 12, 2016

Shapiro, known for finding answers to economic questions by looking in unexpected places, will discuss his work using text as data.

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Environment

Significant deforestation in Brazilian Amazon goes undetected, study finds

October 12, 2016

A new study finds that close to 9,000 square kilometers of Amazon forest was cleared from 2008 to 2012 without detection by the official government monitoring system.

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News and Events

Jelani Cobb on universities, values and the societies in which they exist

October 11, 2016

Journalist and historian argues that context informs how we understand and act upon values, which can create conflict — and urged the audience to engage in difficult conversations under circumstances that fall short of democracy's ideals in order to reach the ultimate goal of democracy.

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News and Events

Photos: Indigenous People’s Day at Brown

October 11, 2016

In an event organized by Native Americans at Brown, members of the University community and beyond joined on Monday afternoon to celebrate the inaugural Indigenous People’s Day at Brown.

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Science and Technology

Brown researchers develop new ligase for biomedical use

October 11, 2016

The new heat-stable RNA ligase could be useful for a variety of applications including in vitro diagnostics and sequencing.

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News and Events

Award-winning architects selected for two new Brown building projects

October 11, 2016

Toshiko Mori will design a new building to expand the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, and Anmahian Winton Architects will design the renovation of Wilson Hall.

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