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Machine learning technique helps identify cancer cell types
The new technique could be useful in early testing of cancer drugs and in understanding drug resistance.
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New grant to aid design of data-sharing platform
Brown researchers will share nearly $1 million from the National Science Foundation for a project to help encourage big data research.
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Infants use prefrontal cortex in learning
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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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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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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Bragging as a strategy: what boasting buys, and costs, a candidate
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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Believing that others understand helps us feel that we do — even when we don’t
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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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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Low lead levels in children negatively affect test scores
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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Brown’s J. Michael Kosterlitz wins Nobel Prize in Physics
Professor of physics awarded "for theoretical discoveries of topological phase transitions and topological phases of matter.”
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Environmental change drove diversity in Lake Malawi cichlids
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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Startup@Brown connects students with startups
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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BRAIN grant of $1.6 million powers study of neural signals
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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Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA
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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Brown University responds to court’s ‘John Doe’ decision
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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Student-developed software streamlines archaeological analysis
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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Ancient global cooling gave rise to modern ecosystems
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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You’re the reason why Washington is broken
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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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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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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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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Pluto’s ‘heart’ sheds light on a possible buried ocean
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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Alexander Blum is the first Brown student to win regional honors from the Undergraduate Awards.
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New NIH grants support child health research
Several Brown University faculty members are key participants in three projects investigating how early life and environmental exposures affect children.
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$2M grant to study simultaneous marijuana, alcohol use
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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Brown launches the country’s first four-year, integrated MD/MPA program
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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Experiment looks back to when the universe’s lights came on
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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Nursing home residents who get palliative care consults use hospitals less
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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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
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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Brown renews Air Force, Naval ROTC programs
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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Simulation posits why legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness
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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Protein may be crucial in many lung ailments
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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Researchers make better sense of incoherent light
A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.
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The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship is expected to formally launch in the coming months.
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Review article takes rare look at impact of advertising psychiatric drugs
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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Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve
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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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
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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Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’
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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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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Public health doctoral student arrives with new national fellowship in tow
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’
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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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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With MRI technique, brain scientists induce feelings about faces
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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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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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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Convocation 2016: A new class and a new academic year at Brown
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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Brown welcomes 47 new faculty members
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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Brown to lead $9.7M grant to advance theory of aging
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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