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Brown president’s statement on vandalism of flags
Last week’s actions are in direct opposition to Brown’s values.
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One Big Self: Celebrating the life and poetry of C.D. Wright
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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Robert C. Post on why speech at universities must be regulated
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
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
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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Biomedical breakthroughs at the Brown Institute for Translational Science
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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Veterans Day ceremony at Brown calls for unity, reflection
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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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
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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Treating cholera in Haiti after Hurricane Matthew
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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Brown planetary scientist elected to Russian Academy of Sciences
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
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
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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Medical professors question ‘residency placement fever’
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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Researchers use graphene templates to make new metal-oxide nanostructures
Metal-oxide films with wrinkles and crumples transferred from graphene templates have improved properties as catalysts and electrodes.
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After Australia cut drug copays for indigenous people, hospital use declined
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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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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Hospital readmission history a valid measure of skilled nursing quality
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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Brown researchers developing new interactive sleep app
The new approach combines personal sleep analytics with recommendations based on the scientific sleep literature.
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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
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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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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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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Fun with physics: Brown’s new Nobel Laureate talks theory
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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Video: Brown's creepiest concert
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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Research helps explain formation of ringed crater on the Moon
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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‘Speed networking’ catalyzes collaborations on health disparities
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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New research identifies four organizational and administrative factors that can decrease teacher turnover and lift student test scores in math
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As competition concludes, ‘bio balloon’ team has reached great heights
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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Brown goes ‘ALL IN’ on voter participation for Election 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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Brown launches new Data Science Initiative
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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Study yields rich dossier of cancer-linked protein’s associates
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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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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Brown families rendezvous on campus for Family Weekend
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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‘Lamp/Bear’ artist to speak at Brown on Oct. 26
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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Families journey to Brown from across the globe
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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Brown welcomes first Executive Master in Cybersecurity students
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
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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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
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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Brown initiative to help bridge humanitarian, academic efforts
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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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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Ladd Observatory to celebrate 125 years
A weeklong series of events will commemorate the observatory’s rich history.
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Cocoa compound linked to some cardiovascular biomarker improvements
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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Grant funds big-data study of brain connectivity
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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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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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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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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Photos: Indigenous People’s Day at Brown
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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Brown researchers develop new ligase for biomedical use
The new heat-stable RNA ligase could be useful for a variety of applications including in vitro diagnostics and sequencing.
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