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Ceremony honors new military officers, graduating veterans

May 25, 2019

On a weekend that marks graduations, reunions and military sacrifice, the University honored two new officers, a military promotion and seven graduating veterans.

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Forums offer insights on Open Curriculum at 50, other timely topics

May 25, 2019

This year’s forums explored everything from cancer research and digital health innovations to media and political engagement, the 1968 Black Student Walkout at Brown, and patriotic philanthropy.

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Corporation approves 2019 degree candidates, elects new members

May 25, 2019

During its annual Commencement week meeting, the University's governing body also approved the awarding of 2,795 degrees at Sunday's ceremonies.

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Science and Technology

Student-designed sundial sculpture dedicated during Commencement and Reunion

May 25, 2019

As alumni returned to campus and thousands of new graduates prepared to receive their degrees and begin the next chapter of their lives, the Brown community dedicated a student-designed sundial sculpture named ‘Infinite Possibility.’

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Brown to confer 2,954 degrees at Sunday's Commencement

May 24, 2019

At its 251st Commencement on Sunday, May 26, Brown University will confer a total of 2,954 degrees in all categories — undergraduate, graduate, medical and honorary.

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Social Sciences

Brown dedicates Stephen Robert Hall ahead of Commencement and Reunion Weekend

May 23, 2019

In the six months since it opened its doors, the new Watson Institute building has become a prime destination on campus and supported an equally ambitious programmatic expansion underway at the institute.

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Brown to implement new measures to strengthen food security

May 23, 2019

As college students across the nation contend with challenges accessing healthy, affordable food, the University will provide meals during spring break at no additional cost and require all sophomores to enroll in meal plans.

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Science and Technology

Strange Martian mineral deposit likely sourced from volcanic explosions

May 22, 2019

In a finding that is soon to be ground-truthed by NASA’s next Mars rover, Brown University researchers show that a Martian mineral deposit was likely formed by ashfall from ancient volcanic explosions.

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Health and Medicine

Researchers discover how a member of a family of light-sensitive proteins adjusts skin color

May 16, 2019

After a series of surprising discoveries, a team of scientists determined a role of opsin 3 in tuning human skin color in response to ultraviolet rays.

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Brown’s 251st Commencement set for Sunday, May 26

May 16, 2019

Sunday's procession and University Ceremony on the College Green will cap Brown's three-day celebration of Commencement and Reunion Weekend 2019.

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Brown approves new undergraduate programs in business, entrepreneurship

May 15, 2019

After a series of investments in academic departments, the University will offer new concentration tracks in business economics and organizational studies as well as a new undergraduate certificate in entrepreneurship.

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Health and Medicine

Mindfulness smoking-cessation app can change the brain

May 15, 2019

Some research study participants, for whom the app was most effective, showed decreased brain reactivity to smoking images.

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Brown undergraduate researcher teaches robots handwriting and drawing

May 15, 2019

Working with a Brown University faculty member, an undergraduate student developed an algorithm that enables robots to reproduce human-like pen strokes just by looking at images of handwriting or sketches.

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Innovative, integrated curriculum gives Brown med students tools to tackle opioid crisis

May 14, 2019

An expanded substance-use curriculum at the Warren Alpert Medical School ensures that each future physician from Brown graduates well-versed in how to recognize and treat opioid use disorder.

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Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship opens doors to new Thayer Street home

May 13, 2019

New location on three floors of 249 Thayer St. will advance the center’s mission to make entrepreneurship integral to the life of campus and connected to the world beyond.

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Brown diversity and inclusion annual report highlights successes, next steps

May 9, 2019

In the three years since launching its strategic action plan, Brown has boosted student, faculty and staff diversity and implemented a wide range of initiatives in support of diversity and inclusion on campus.

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Social Sciences

Brown launches new lab for evidence-based policy research

May 9, 2019

The Policy Lab at Brown will work in concert with government leaders and experts to develop evidence-based policy programs that improve lives and strengthen communities.

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Graduate speakers to extol their peers’ research and resilience at Commencement

May 8, 2019

As Brown celebrates Commencement 2019 on Sunday, May 26, Jen Thum and Eunice Gonzalez-Sierra will address their fellow graduates in separate Ph.D. and master’s ceremonies on College Hill.

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Science and Technology

Sundial installation represents ‘Infinite Possibility’

May 8, 2019

A student-designed sundial in the shape of a Mobius strip will mark the position of the noontime sun throughout the year on the plaza in front of Brown’s Engineering Research Center.

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With a nod to 1969, Brown commences celebration of the Open Curriculum at 50

May 7, 2019

Brown leaders invited the campus community to use the year ahead as an opportunity to critically reflect on the University’s defining educational philosophy.

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Study reveals final fate of levitating Leidenfrost droplets

May 6, 2019

The research shows why levitating droplets on hot surfaces eventually explode if they start out large enough.

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Health and Medicine

Unexpectedly big wins improve two kinds of memory

May 6, 2019

Brown researchers discover that unexpected rewards improve the memory of specific events, which may have implications for how clinicians treat individuals with depression.

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Senior orators to reflect on crossing borders, creating positive change

May 3, 2019

In keeping with a Brown tradition that has stood for two and a half centuries, seniors Ruth Miller and Patricia Rodarte will deliver Commencement speeches on Sunday, May 26.

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Social Sciences

Brown course delves into scholarship on neurological difference

May 1, 2019

A class and symposium examine neurodiversity, a still-nascent concept that explores autism, dyslexia and epilepsy as more than simply disorders.

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In a talk at Brown, ACLU leader urges student activists to keep fighting for equality

April 26, 2019

"This is the time to be a protagonist and not a spectator," said Anthony Romero, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union, in a talk on College Hill.

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Health and Medicine

National Institutes of Health awards $2.7M to Leadership Alliance

April 26, 2019

The funds will support expanded mentorship of biomedical science students and junior researchers from historically underrepresented groups through the Brown-based Leadership Alliance.

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Health and Medicine

Student, faculty scholars in public health join forces via Philippine Health Initiative

April 25, 2019

The new initiative at Brown — spearheaded by a master of public health student — will formalize collaboration among faculty and students who are conducting research on health outcomes of Filipinos and Filipino Americans.

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Brown to confer seven honorary degrees at Commencement 2019

April 23, 2019

Brown University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of business and community leaders, scholars and artists during its 251st Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 26.

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Research Achievement Awards honor accomplished and early-career Brown researchers

April 23, 2019

The annual awards program recognizes the research and scholarship of both longtime and early-career faculty members.

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Social Sciences

In ‘Cribsheet,’ a Brown economist debunks long-held parenting myths

April 23, 2019

Emily Oster’s new book, out on Tuesday, April 23, uses data to help new parents make crucial decisions, from whether to breastfeed to how to discipline a toddler.

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How data can promote social mobility in Providence

April 22, 2019

A discussion hosted by the Wealth and Income Inequality Project at Brown touched on City and University initiatives that aim to improve economic equality in Providence.

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Science and Technology

Researchers outline how humans reduce uncertainty in social situations

April 22, 2019

A team of Brown University scientists proposed a psychological model of three interrelated ways people reduce uncertainty in social situations.

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Repelling charges prevent Cooper pairs from ‘island hopping’ in insulating state

April 22, 2019

New research shows how Cooper pairs — quasiparticles that make superconductivity possible — can also play an opposite role in an exotic type of insulating materials known as Cooper pair insulators.

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Health and Medicine

Stroke patients receive vastly different amounts of physical therapy, despite its clear benefits

April 19, 2019

Patients who receive more physical therapy are less likely to be readmitted to a hospital within a month, yet the amount of care made available to Medicare patients varies widely.

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Social Sciences

$25 million Bravo Family Foundation gift will amplify Brown’s high-impact economics scholarship

April 18, 2019

Generous support from the foundation will fund the creation of the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research, expanding the scope of research in the University’s top-ranked economics department.

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Research Matters highlights graduate student research and its impact

April 17, 2019

The annual “TED Talks”-style event challenged 12 graduate students to explain why their current research matters — to the field and to themselves — in 5 minutes or less.

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Brown professor elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 17, 2019

Renowned engineering professor Huajian Gao is honored for his research in mechanical engineering and material science.

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Health and Medicine

Heart patch could limit muscle damage in heart attack aftermath

April 17, 2019

Guided by computer simulations, an international team of researchers has developed an adhesive patch that can provide support for damaged heart tissue, potentially reducing the stretching of heart muscle that’s common after a heart attack.

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Science and Technology

Catfish use complex coordination to catch prey

April 16, 2019

Using a powerful X-ray imaging system, Brown University scientists found that catfish move joints throughout their head in a concerted manner to suck in their prey.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown alumna, emeritus faculty member capture Pulitzers for drama, poetry

April 15, 2019

Class of 2010 MFA graduate Jackie Sibblies Drury earned the drama award for “Fairview,” and Professor Emeritus Forrest Gander won the poetry prize for “Be With.”

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Brown to launch yearlong celebration, exploration of Open Curriculum at 50 years

April 15, 2019

Open Curriculum at 50 anniversary kick-off event on May 7 will commemorate a pivotal moment in Brown’s history and begin a 12-month community exploration of the University’s distinctive, student-centered curriculum.

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Health and Medicine

New studies can inform programs to prevent sexual violence among teens locally, globally

April 12, 2019

While most teens can define consent as saying ‘yes,’ their understanding of how consent translates into real life experiences varies.

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Scientists capture a ‘snapshot’ of bacterial stress-response regulator’s ‘recycling truck’

April 11, 2019

The stress-response master regulator is important for antibiotic resistance and the ability for bacteria to cause disease.

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NASA Twins Study finds remarkable resilience to the stress of space

April 11, 2019

A Brown assistant professor studied how the “cellular powerhouse” responds to microgravity stress markers as a part of a NASA study of identical twins.

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Public Health Research Day features Brown student researchers

April 9, 2019

A poster session during National Public Health Week showcased an array of research on public health concerns in communities from college campuses to Cape Town, South Africa.

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Science and Technology

Robot Block Party to feature the latest in robotics from Brown and other partners

April 9, 2019

From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Saturday, April 13, to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.

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Brown professor to co-lead international research on subsurface environments

April 8, 2019

The biosphere that exists below Earth’s surface dwarfs the surface biome, and a new collaboration co-led by Jack Mustard will work to better understand what’s underground.

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Global leaders gather for symposium on higher education’s future

April 5, 2019

A partnership between Brown and I.E. University, the 10th annual “Reinventing Higher Education” conference convened 37 international opinion leaders from higher education and the private sector to discuss educating and managing the global workforce of the future.

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Social Sciences

Evolutionary changes played a crucial role in industrialization, study finds

April 4, 2019

In a study of 200 years of pre-industrial Quebecois genealogical history, researchers at Brown found that fertility-related changes in natural selection during the pre-industrial era paved the way for economic and technological progress.

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Communication theorist cheers ‘Lunar Library’ to be delivered to the Moon

April 4, 2019

Brown engineering professor Chris Rose thinks the tiny data disks with volumes of human knowledge currently flying to the Moon on the Beresheet spacecraft are a great way to communicate across time and space.

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