Brown President Christina Paxson visited CNBC’s studio in Hong Kong for a segment on the impact of U.S. trade and immigration policies on American universities’ ability to fulfill their educational missions.
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With the investigational BrainGate brain-computer interface and implanted muscle-stimulating electrodes, a man paralyzed from the shoulders down was able to use his arm and hand to eat, drink and perform other activities, according to new research in <em>The Lancet</em>.
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Health and Medicine
Prostate screening often occurs without discussion of benefits, risks
Less than a third of men in a large national survey reported talking with their doctor about both the pros and cons of the PSA blood test for prostate cancer, and the likelihood has decreased further since a national panel recommended against the test.
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Science and Technology
How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age
A young-looking volcanic caldera on the Moon has been interpreted by some as evidence of relatively recent lunar volcanic activity, but new research suggests it's not so young after all.
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Arts and Humanities
Bringing China’s greatest novel to modern readers
Brown professor Dore J. Levy has spent more than three decades researching, teaching and writing about a complex classic of Chinese literature.
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Arts and Humanities
Mellon grant to fund collaborative work in the humanities
A new $1.3-million Collaborative Humanities Grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will advance research practice and graduate education in the humanities.
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Countdown: NASA launch date for student space project nears
In 2018, NASA will launch into orbit a small satellite designed and built by a team of Brown undergraduates over the past six years.
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Study shows how brain combines subtle sensory signals to take notice
New research in eLife explains how the developing brain learns to integrate and react to subtle but simultaneous sensory cues — sound, touch and visual — that would be ignored individually.
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The former British Prime Minister encouraged those in the United States and United Kingdom to uphold their similar democratic values, think clearly about pressing global challenges and consider careers in public service.
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Abortion restriction may have new momentum after 40 years of pervading policy
Originally a single-sentence prohibition on Medicaid funding for abortion, the Hyde Amendment has provided the blueprint for ever-expanding prohibitions on public expenditure for the procedure.
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Social Sciences
Political polarization? Don’t blame the web, Brown study says
Using demographic information and survey data, researchers found that political polarization is not rising fastest among those Americans who rely most on internet and social media for news.
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Medical school graduates celebrate Match Day 2017
Balloons dropped and champagne popped at the Warren Alpert Medical School when the clock struck noon and students found out where their medical careers will begin.
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The two-day event will convene representatives from a range of universities to discuss innovation and best practices for increasing diversity and inclusion in higher education.
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Science and Technology
New grant extends IMSD across all sciences
The Initiative to Maximize Student Development, which has increased the diversity of doctoral students in the life sciences and supported student achievement, will expand to serve physical sciences, engineering and mathematics.
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President Paxson on Brown within the federal policy landscape
In the wake of recent federal actions, Brown's president offers her views on research funding, transgender issues, immigration policy and the University’s role in a politicized landscape.
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The run up to Match Day is a marathon, and it’s tilting uphill
The process by which medical students become residents has a very precise moment of culmination — noon on the third Friday in March — but the preparation takes months of hard work and expense that has been increasing over time.
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Beginning this month, Pierre Huyghe’s “Untitled (Human Mask)” and Gabriel Martinez’s “Mountain War Time” will run concurrently in the Bell Gallery and the List Art Center lobby.
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In the first year following the launch of its diversity and inclusion action plan, the University made strides on faculty and student diversity and focused on building a foundation for long-term success.
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“Bamboula! Black Music Before the Blues” opens with a symposium and concert on Tuesday, March 14.
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While Khaled Almilaji offers a poignant example of a Brown student affected by rapidly changing federal policy on immigration, a much broader swath of the University community has expressed concern.
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Health and Medicine
Student research success supported by unique Brown curricula
To lead a new paper in Health Affairs that describes the exceptional success of Costa Rica’s approach to primary care, student Madeline Pesec combined her own initiative and talent with Brown’s unique academic programs and alumni network.
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The Van Wickle Gates opened on Sunday as 22 executives and professionals convened as the inaugural cohort in the 16-month joint School of Engineering and School of Professional Studies program.
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Brown celebrates brain science with slate of March events
The University will host several events for Brain Week R.I. this month, including the second annual Brain Fair; Mind Brain Research Day will follow less than two weeks later.
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Science and Technology
Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently
By enabling them to ask a question when they’re confused, an algorithm developed at Brown University helps robots get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.
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Arts and Humanities
University celebrates Brown Arts Initiative’s launch
With aspirations to be the primary destination for students who want to integrate the arts into a complete liberal arts education, Brown formally launched an effort to create new opportunities and collaborations for students, scholars, artists and community members.
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Spotlight on diversity, at center stage
In curating this year’s theater season, Brown students and faculty sought to bring issues of diversity and inclusion into the limelight.
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Science and Technology
Brown computer scientist awarded Sloan Fellowship
Assistant Professor Tim Kraska wins a prestigious Sloan Fellowship for his work developing big data tools.
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Science and Technology
New studies illustrate how gamers get good
Researchers led by a Brown University computer scientist used data from online video games to study what kinds of practice and habits help people acquire skill.
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Health and Medicine
Back after a century, for-profit medical schools could make impact
Long discouraged, for-profit medical education has established a renewed foothold in the U.S., leading a trio of Brown University scholars to examine in JAMA what that rise could mean.
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Eight months after leaving office as the leader of the United Kingdom’s government, David Cameron will explore the future of the European Union, Britain’s place in the world following Brexit and the rise of populism across the globe.
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Brown produces most Fulbright winners in the U.S.
Thirty Brown students and recent graduates received the prestigious U.S. State Department grant to teach or research abroad during the 2016-17 year.
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Health and Medicine
BrainGate collaboration makes advance in interface’s speed, accuracy
Three people with paralysis used the BrainGate brain-computer interface to type on a screen with unprecedented speed and accuracy, according to a new study published in eLife.
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Photo exhibition confronts consumer culture’s impact on wildlife
The photographs in ‘Chris Jordan: Message from the Gyre’ depict albatrosses who have died from consuming floating plastic trash.
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Bringing evidence to health screening debates
At a talk and panel discussion in Boston the morning of Feb. 19, Brown University biostatistician Constantine Gatsonis discussed how big trials help us make sense of our many questions about cancer screening.
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Hogan to succeed Gatsonis as biostatistics chair
Constantine Gatsonis is the founding chair of Brown’s biostatistics department, but on July 1 he’ll step down and Joseph Hogan will take the helm.
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Biomedical research hub makes first pilot awards
Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR), a statewide partnership established last year to support collaborative medical studies that build on basic research, has awarded its first two Pilot Project grants.
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As a global public good, an economic engine and a vital source of evidence for policymaking, science will withstand the latest political onslaught, Brown President Christina Paxson said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Science denial, from evolution to climate change to vaccines
Brown biology professor shares insights on why science denial continues and what institutions of higher education should do about it.
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During a celebration to kick off the 125th anniversary year of Family Service of Rhode Island, the agency’s CEO named Brown President Christina Paxson and the University as recipients of this year’s Brighter Futures award.
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Science and Technology
Dawn mission detects organics on dwarf planet Ceres
The discovery suggests that Ceres could once have had habitable environments.
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Study by Brown University historian finds that Native Americans who surrendered during King Philip’s War were sold into slavery, with long-lasting effects.
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Arts and Humanities
Brown’s Bell Gallery presents the work of 40 student artists
The 37th annual student exhibition, open to students from all disciplines, was juried by Leonie Bradbury, director of art and creative initiatives for Boston’s HUBweek, and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, an independent curator, artist and organizer.
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Class of 2016 graduate selected as Gates Cambridge Scholar
Kiera Peltz will join 35 other U.S. scholars at the University of Cambridge, where they will pursue graduate degrees as they work toward careers focused on improving the lives of others.
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Health and Medicine
Researchers propose a new way to assess medication-based HIV prevention
Delivering on the promise of preventing HIV infections with antiretroviral medicines, or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), requires thinking about PrEP as a nine-step continuum of preventive care, Brown researchers write in the journal AIDS.
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Roxane Gay on politics, identity and the need for precise language
During her visit to Brown on Feb. 14, Gay read short stories and an essay that reveals how political slogans can impact political action.
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News and Events
Brown joins in legal challenge to executive order on immigration
Brown and 16 other universities argue in an amicus brief filed on Feb. 13 that the Jan. 27 executive order on immigration prevents universities from fulfilling their educational missions.
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Social Sciences
Social services top list of needs for post-9/11 combat veterans
A new study from Brown University’s Costs of War Project shows that Veterans Affairs investments in educational and vocational training have doubled since 2002.
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News and Events
From Angela Davis, a call for both hope and collective action
With a message both critical and hopeful in her visit to Brown on Feb. 10, Davis encouraged audience members to persevere in the struggle for freedom, despite obstacles.
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Brown Corporation approves budget, sets tuition for 2017-18
The approved $1.061 operating budget includes $122.1 million for financial aid, a 4 percent tuition increase and a reduction in the endowment’s contribution, a move intended to support Brown’s long-term fiscal health.
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Brown plans new, cutting-edge performing arts center
Brown Corporation authorizes architect selection process, a critical step in the University’s vision to create a hub for arts performance, practice and scholarship.
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