A new survey by Brown’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy reveals evidence of political polarization and diminishing support for some key Trump campaign promises.
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Scenes from A Day on College Hill
Hundreds of admitted students descended on College Hill for a three-day immersion in life as a Brown undergraduate.
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Science and Technology
New fund to accelerate medical technologies toward market
Brown’s new Biomedical Innovation Fund has made two grants to accelerate the commercialization of technologies — one for diagnosing drug dependence in newborns and a second for discovering anti-ALS medicines.
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News and Events
A Day on College Hill offers a rich taste of life at Brown
The current students behind Brown’s annual extravaganza for admitted students offered their take on what makes this annual rite of passage so memorable.
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Health and Medicine
University celebrates ‘Inspiring Women in Science’
At a daylong event at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts on Thursday, April 20, six renowned women scientists will speak about their work amid remarks and presentations by colleagues, including President Christina Paxson.
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Science and Technology
Researchers observe heat exchange in an exotic material
The research, co-authored by a Brown University physicist and published in the journal Nature, may help in the development of quantum computers.
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Science and Technology
Assay of nearly 5,000 mutations reveals roots of genetic splicing errors
Brown biologists have developed a new system, described in Nature Genetics, that identified and tracked hundreds of genetic variations that alter the way DNA is spliced when cells make proteins, often leading to disease.
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University Initiatives
Brown to waive application fee for low-income students
Beginning with the class entering in fall 2018, eligible prospective students will no longer need to request application fee waivers personally.
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Health and Medicine
Early school starts pit teens in a conflict between society, biology
At an April conference in Washington, D.C., Brown University Professor Mary Carskadon will describe decades of research that explain why adolescent biology makes the 7:30 a.m. school bell so problematic.
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News and Events
Brown’s president named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Christina Paxson, Brown’s 19th president and an economics and public health scholar, has been elected a member of one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2017 fellowship to Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg for a book project that explores how land reclamation projects in the 1930s helped generate public support for Benito Mussolini’s regime.
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Science and Technology
ICERM wins new grant from Simons Foundation
The funding, totaling nearly $1 million, will expand the institute’s research workshop programming.
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Health and Medicine
Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on’; research switches it back to ‘off’
Even a single, brief stress can induce days of relapse to cocaine-seeking among rats, but a new study shows how the tendency to relapse persists and how to shut it down, suggesting a new pathway for developing addiction treatment medications.
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The former president of Brazil spoke about prioritizing the fight against poverty during her administration and how income inequality threatens democracy.
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The highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships provide a stipend and cover tuition for three years of graduate school.
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Health and Medicine
Public health events highlight urgent challenges, research
The Brown University School of Public Health will feature the urgency and importance of population health scholarship with the premiere of a documentary on the opioid crisis, a broad-ranging research exposition and a lecture on gun violence.
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The 16th installment of the student-run film festival will run from April 10 to April 16 and feature a women composers panel, a focus on virtual reality in film and a slate of undergraduate and graduate films.
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Health and Medicine
Curbing alcohol to fight HIV could save money in Kenya
Expanding a program in Kenya that fights the spread of HIV by curbing alcohol consumption could produce a net economic benefit, a new study projects.
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The Providence Eruv — a symbolic perimeter that enables those who observe traditional Jewish law to carry items on the Sabbath — now extends to the Brown and RISD campuses.
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Arts and Humanities
Director, producer Ezra Edelman to deliver 17th annual Shearer Lecture
On Thursday, April 13, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker will visit Brown to speak about his career, including his 2016 documentary “O.J.: Made in America.”
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With support from the Richard A. and Susan P. Friedman Family Foundation, the University will launch a comprehensive renovation to create new classrooms, add social spaces and make the building fully accessible.
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During a tour of engineering research labs at Brown, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed warns that budget cuts to scientific research threaten innovation, the economy and America’s competitive edge.
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Rousseff, who led the country from 2011 until 2016, will speak about the challenges for democracy in Brazil.
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Brown and 30 other universities argue in a March 31 amicus brief that the revised executive order on immigration threatens the institutions’ ability to fulfill their educational missions by attracting talented students and scholars from across the globe.
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Health and Medicine
Technology to screen embryos before implantation falls short
Because current methods for assessing the viability of IVF-created embryos are not sufficiently reliable, more research on embryo development is needed, two experts write in a new review article.
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The University made offers of admission on March 30 to next year’s incoming undergraduate class, who represent all 50 states and 77 nations around the world.
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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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Science and Technology
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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Health and Medicine
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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Health and Medicine
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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Science and Technology
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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News and Events
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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Health and Medicine
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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Health and Medicine
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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