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Health and Medicine

Stroke rate drops for men, but not women

A new study of a population of 1.3 million people in Ohio and Kentucky finds that the rate at which strokes occur has dropped significantly for men in recent years, but not for women.
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Health and Medicine

Profiles in Summer Research: Gary Chien

Driven by a passion for computer vision, Gary Chien has learned new programming skills this summer to help make Brown’s “smart playroom” even smarter.
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Health and Medicine

Opioid makers made payments to one in 12 U.S. doctors

As public health officials combat the opioid overdose epidemic, in part by reducing unnecessary prescribing, a study shows that drug manufacturers paid more than $46 million to more than 68,000 doctors over a 29-month period.
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Health and Medicine

What to expect: the FDA’s plan to limit nicotine in cigarettes

For years, researchers at Brown’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies have been studying the potential impact of reducing nicotine in cigarettes, a policy that has now been formally introduced by the FDA.
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Science and Technology

Brown shares in NSF grant to model how mutations change traits

With a $1.5 million share of a new $6 million, four-year grant, Brown scientists will contribute to an effort to model how genetic mutations can lead to differences in proteins that ultimately cause different traits in organisms.
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Social Sciences

Sixty at 60: A living history of the Haffenreffer Museum

As Brown’s museum of anthropology celebrates its 60th anniversary, the legacy of its influential early director and the museum’s impact on alumni from across the decade is finding new audiences through a blog and exhibition.
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Science and Technology

ICERM to lead $8M pure math research collaboration

Brown’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics will lead a multi-institution effort sponsored by the Simons Foundation to explore fundamental questions in algebra and number theory.
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Social Sciences

Profiles in Summer Research: Ellen Cola

Only a year into her studies at Brown, undergraduate Ellen Cola has spent her first semesters and summer on campus unearthing connections between the experiences of slaves and present-day movements to celebrate black women in America.
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Health and Medicine

Brown to lead center for creating bioluminescent neuroscience tools

In a new collaboration, scientists will advance and freely disseminate a research technology that makes brain cells able to produce, respond to and communicate with light that they make themselves via bioluminescence.
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Science and Technology

Scientists spy new evidence of water in the Moon’s interior

Using satellite data, Brown researchers have for the first time detected widespread water within ancient explosive volcanic deposits on the Moon, suggesting that its interior contains substantial amounts of indigenous water.
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News and Events

Brown to participate in national study of doctoral career paths

The Council of Graduate Schools has included Brown in a multi-year study of the career aspirations of current doctoral students and professional paths of Ph.D. alumni, in an effort to improve career services, professional development and mentoring.
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Science and Technology

To swallow food, some sharks shrug their shoulders

Sophisticated X-ray imaging technology has allowed scientists to see that to keep food moving down toward the digestive tract, bamboo sharks use their shoulders to create suction.
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Arts and Humanities

Using arts to understand autism, from the inside out

A summer performance camp organized by the Brown-based Miracle Project New England uses the arts to help young people with autism engage, socialize and communicate.
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Science and Technology

Research makes robots better at following spoken instructions

A new software system helps robots to more effectively act on instructions from people, who by nature give commands that range from simple and straightforward to those that are more complex and imply a myriad of subtasks.
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Health and Medicine

Unique medical school program trains students to qualify to treat addiction

More than 30 fourth-year medical students at the Warren Alpert Medical School will gain the training required to prescribe medication-assisted therapy for opioid use disorder under a first-in-the-nation program implemented in partnership with the state of Rhode Island.
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News and Events

17 snapshots of spring at Brown

In an era when everyone is a photographer, these stunning photos taken by members of Brown's campus community offer some new perspectives of Spring 2017 on College Hill.
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Health and Medicine

V.A. campaign to increase hospice care showing results

After a major push by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to improve end-of-life care, a new study shows strong growth in the proportion of veterans receiving palliative care at the end of life.
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Social Sciences

Moffitt to lead Brown’s Taubman Center

Starting July 1, Susan Moffitt will lead the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, a research center at the University’s Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
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News and Events

What’s past is prologue: BCSC at 40

At the conclusion of the Brown Center for Students of Color’s 40th anniversary year, members of the Brown community reflect on pivotal historical moments for students of color on campus.
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Health and Medicine

Bess Marcus named next School of Public Health dean

Brown has appointed health behavior and exercise promotion expert Bess Marcus, a member of the Brown faculty from 1991 to 2011 and a senior leader at the University of California San Diego School of Medicine, as the next dean of its School of Public Health.
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Health and Medicine

Lipscombe elected president of Society for Neuroscience

Brown University neuroscience professor Diane Lipscombe, director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, has been elected the next president of the Society for Neuroscience.
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