Sabrina Imbler, one of two graduating seniors chosen as orators for the 248th Commencement, delivered an address titled “How Do We Want to Become?" on the College Green on Sunday, May 29.

Jamelle Watson-Daniels, one of two graduating seniors chosen as orators for the 248th Commencement, delivered an address titled “Storytelling” on the College Green on Sunday, May 29.

The annual Commencement tradition for graduating seniors was marked by faith, gratitude and an inspiring call to action from speaker Kevin Gover.

Kevin Gover, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, delivered Brown's 2016 Baccalaureate address and will receive an honorary degree at Commencement.

On a weekend that marks graduation, reunion and military sacrifice, the University honored those who have engaged in scholarship and service.

At its 248th Commencement on Sunday, May 29, Brown University will confer a total of 2,630 degrees in all categories — undergraduate, graduate, medical and honorary.

During its annual Commencement week meeting, the University’s governing body also formally accepted BrownTogether gifts and approved the awarding of more than 2,550 degrees at Sunday’s ceremonies.

Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments where melanin is made – that balance is partly regulated, scientists now know, by a protein called TPC2.

Corporation officers who have served with Thomas J. Tisch share insights on his contributions to Brown and his approach to leadership.

During a Commencement and Reunion Week celebration, peers and colleagues honored the 1976 Brown graduate and Corporation leader with reflections on his leadership.

Wilson Cusack, a senior computer science concentrator, developed a text-message-based trading platform that helps connect farmers and buyers. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he’ll pilot the project in the West African nation of Ghana.

Brown University leaders joined Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza and others to discuss the importance of the new building for the University and for the City.

The team persevered in last weekend’s quarterfinal matchup with Navy, despite the absence of standout player Dylan Molloy.

CareerLAB’s newest tool, now in its second year, connects students with alumni and parent employers who are looking specifically for Brown students.

Brown officials and the Mayor will discuss the importance of the new building for Brown and Providence.

The campus-wide Provost’s Visiting Professors program will offer short-term appointments at Brown to exceptional faculty from historically underrepresented groups.

A recently unearthed film from 1974 documents an early foray into the digital humanities by two Brown professors.

In a new study in mice, researchers overcame a process by which cancer co-opts a fundamental protein into protecting it against the body’s defenses.

The award, one of the country’s most prestigious, offers students the opportunity to teach, study or pursue independent research in more than 140 countries.

Assistant professor Colleen Dalton’s CAREER Award will support her work using seismic waves to understand the Earth’s interior.

Graduates Alberto Morales and Matthew J. Lyddon will address their peers in separate master’s and doctoral ceremonies, respectively, at Commencement on Sunday, May 29.

Sunday’s procession and University Ceremony on the College Green cap Brown’s three-day celebration of Commencement and Reunion Weekend.

The program, now in its second year, links the classroom and community through co-created experiential research, projects and internships.

A new interactive timeline offered by the Choices Program will give students insights into black activism spanning the mid-20th century and beyond.

In a new study of hundreds of Cincinnati moms, higher levels of exposure to the common industrial chemical PFOA were linked to a greater likelihood of ending breastfeeding by three months.

Acclaimed poet Michael S. Harper, a beloved teacher to generations of Brown students, passed away on May 7.

An effort led through the Watson Institute’s Brazil Initiative, the Opening the Archives Project provides open access to thousands of primary documents for researchers around the world.

Scientists studying how stress in early childhood affects the brain have new evidence from a study in male mice that a key region appears to mature faster.

The same scientific quest for which Erika Edwards won recognition from President Obama on May 5 had two months earlier led her and 12 students up dusty mountainsides in the world’s driest desert.

Applied mathematics professor earns high honor for decades of pioneering work in conservation laws and continuum physics.

A new intervention may help mitigate some of the sleep disruption, depression and anxiety that can plague some new moms during pregnancy and postpartum.

A class taught at Brown for high school girls from the Lincoln School aims to stoke interest in engineering.

A new study suggests that if prison health providers ask women whether they have exchanged sex for drugs or money, they may find that more than one in four have, and that they are at especially high risk for health and social problems.

Nurturing stem cells atop a bed of mouse cells works well, but is a non-starter for transplants to patients – Brown University scientists are developing a synthetic bed instead.

As part of the First Folio exhibit at Brown University, graduate and undergraduate students join forces with middle-school kids to explore ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in English and Spanish.

In becoming an AAJR fellow, Maud Mandel joins nearly 100 of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Judaic studies in North America.

A master’s student in public humanities plans to launch Doors Open Rhode Island; two biomedical engineering students intend to produce quick-turnaround forensic lab kits for sexual assault cases.

Destined to encounter patients with addiction to opioids, students from across the health care disciplines and from a number of Rhode Island’s colleges and universities learned to work as a team to save lives.

The film is based on Brown faculty member David Kertzer’s 1997 book, a historical account of a Jewish boy abducted by the Papal Inquisitor and converted to Catholicism — a case that helped fuel the rise of the Italian secular state.

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine reports wide disparities in the quality of care for Medicare Advantage plan holders in Puerto Rico compared to those in the 50 states. The quality gaps exist in the context of the territory’s significant economic challenges and low and declining payments from the Medicare program.

A simple chemical conversion could be another step toward making cheap, efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.

Having spent the last eight months designing and building their own racecar, an interdisciplinary team of Brown undergraduates is about to put their 115-mph racer to the test.

The 600 Rhode Islanders surveyed also support charter school expansion, marijuana legalization and state tourism spending — but oppose the new toll tax on trucks.

During its 248th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 29, Brown University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of scholars and leaders recognized for exceptional achievement.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society will host Earth, Itself: Atmospheres, a multidisciplinary exploration of environmental issues surrounding air.

A record number of students and parents spent three days learning more about the Brown University experience as they neared the May 1 decision deadline.

Graduating seniors Sabrina Imbler and Jamelle Watson-Daniels will draw from experience to deliver this year's senior orations on Sunday, May 29.

Have trouble sleeping on your first night in a new place? A new study explains what’s going on in the brain during that “first-night effect.”

Barry Prizant’s work with autism spectrum disorders focuses on understanding underlying causes for non-neurotypical behavior and connecting individuals with their strengths and talents.

More than 300 new students will join Brown’s 51 doctoral programs next fall; master’s program applications are up as the admissions process continues.