2017 News

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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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Arts and Humanities

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

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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News and Events

David Cameron, former British Prime Minister, to speak at Brown on March 20

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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Health and Medicine

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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Health and Medicine

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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Health and Medicine

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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News and Events

Amid political pressure on science, Paxson reasserts its vital value

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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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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News and Events

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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News and Events

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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Arts and Humanities

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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Science and Technology

Research reveals novel quantum state in strange insulating materials

Experiments show how electrons in Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling arrange themselves to make the materials magnetic at low temperatures. The work could help zero in on a more complete quantum theory of magnetism.
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Health and Medicine

Sickle cell trait may confound blood sugar readings among African-Americans

A routine diabetes test produces lower blood sugar readings in African-Americans with sickle cell trait than in those without, potentially leading patients to remain untreated or with a mistaken sense of blood sugar control, study finds.
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Social Sciences

SNAP benefits increase household spending on food, study finds

Brown University economists research food-shopping habits of half a million households receiving nutritional assistance and show that the benefit has a greater impact on food spending than would a cash equivalent.
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News and Events

Angela Davis, Roxane Gay to visit Brown in February

Prominent educators — whose scholarship, writing, activism and commentary continue to shape public discourse on feminism, race, identity and culture — will visit the University on Feb. 10 and Feb. 14, respectively.
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News and Events

Brown hackathon aims to make coding more inclusive

Hackathons are notoriously competitive and intimidating, but Hack@Brown aims to make the immersive, 24-hour marathon of creativity, coding and collaboration accessible for all.
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Science and Technology

Research pushes concept of entropy out of kilter

Entropy isn’t well understood in systems that aren’t at equilibrium, but a new experiment shows a non-equilibrium phenomenon that actually depends upon entropy.
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News and Events

Brown Corporation extends Paxson’s presidency into 2022

In announcing Christina Paxson’s reappointment, Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff cites the Corporation’s confidence in Paxson’s leadership, including her work in confronting difficult issues and uncertainty facing higher education.
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Health and Medicine

With mini-vessels, mini-brains expand research potential

A new study shows that Brown University’s mini-brains produce networks of capillaries, an important anatomical feature for lab studies of stroke and other circulation-related brain diseases.
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Health and Medicine

Practice makes perfect, and ‘overlearning’ locks it in

People who continued to train on a visual task for 20 minutes past the point of mastery locked in that learning, shielding it from interference by new learning, a new study in Nature Neuroscience shows.
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News and Events

Commitment to our Community in a Time of Uncertainty

Brown University President Christina Paxson and Provost Richard M. Locke published this letter in the Brown Daily Herald student newspaper Sunday, Jan. 29, as an open letter to the Brown community.
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Health and Medicine

Grant advances work to improve hip fracture care

A new grant, co-led by Dr. Richard W. Besdine, will promote adoption of a care model in which geriatricians and other physicians co-manage care for older patients with hip fractures.
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