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After faculty vote, federal Election Days designated University holidays at Brown

September 9, 2020

The Brown University faculty voted on Tuesday, Sept. 8, to suspend all University exercises on Election Day during federal election years, beginning this November.

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News and Events

Virtual convocation marks opening of new academic year at Brown

September 8, 2020

With nearly 2,800 new students launching their Brown academic careers this year, President Christina H. Paxson and Associate Professor of Religious Studies Andre Willis urged them to learn from the past and embrace change to help define the “new normal.”

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Brown welcomes talented group of 59 new faculty members

September 8, 2020

Hailing from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, the scholars join the Brown community this year to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.

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News and Events

As iconic blue bear sculpture leaves College Hill, Brown community pays tribute

September 3, 2020

“Untitled (Lamp/Bear),” affectionately known as Blueno, has been the Brown community’s constant companion for four years — now, it’s headed elsewhere for long-term conservation.

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News and Events

In court filing, Brown asserts clear case for commitment to gender equity in athletics

September 2, 2020

University confronts “conspiracy claims” in its response to an action seeking to overturn Brown’s decision to transition women’s varsity teams to club status; Brown shares exemplary record with court.

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News and Events

Brown professor wins prestigious Fulbright award

September 2, 2020

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Assistant Provost for Sustainability Stephen Porder will study and teach in Paris next year as a De Tocqueville Distinguished Chair.

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News and Events

Letter from Brown’s senior leaders: Update on actions to address racial injustice

September 1, 2020

The crucial fight to do away with systemic racism requires the deep-rooted, long-term commitment of all members of the Brown community, University leaders noted.

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Brown earns national recognition for commitment to diversity, inclusion

September 1, 2020

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award recognizes the University’s campus-wide commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion across all facets of its community.

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Arts and Humanities

With COVID-19 archives, Brown students, faculty and staff aim to diversify the historical record

August 31, 2020

In the midst of the first global pandemic of the digital age, historians and archivists, both at Brown and across the globe, have launched countless efforts to record history in the making.

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University Initiatives

Brown launches community-wide effort to promote healthy behaviors during the pandemic

August 27, 2020

A new Brown Takes Care initiative will directly engage students, faculty and staff as storytellers and influencers to promote essential health practices to fight COVID-19, both on campus and in the greater Providence community.

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Health and Medicine

Imaging rapid drug effects in the human brain

August 25, 2020

Brown University researchers outline a method of showing how drugs affect the brain within minutes to hours of being taken.

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Science and Technology

Brown professor brings drone-based robotics class to area high schools

August 20, 2020

Computer science professor Stefanie Tellex is helping schools across Rhode Island implement a new curriculum in which students learn basic robotics by building their own autonomous drones.

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Student Life

BrownConnect Summer Institute: Adapting a beloved novel into a Broadway play

August 20, 2020

As part of the BrownConnect Summer Institute, Brown students and recent graduates considered the creative and practical challenges of transforming the bestselling novel “Wonder” into a Broadway musical.

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Health and Medicine

Cesar Orduña: Delivering free virus tests to Rhode Island’s underserved

August 12, 2020

Since May, a Brown senior and other students have played an instrumental role in providing COVID-19 tests to low-income, uninsured Rhode Island residents, many of whom are working on the front lines amid a global pandemic.

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Science and Technology

New catalyst efficiently turns carbon dioxide into useful fuels and chemicals

August 12, 2020

By efficiently converting CO2 into complex hydrocarbon products, a new catalyst developed by a team of Brown researchers could potentially aid in large-scale efforts to recycle excess carbon dioxide.

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Stay-at-home orders significantly associated with reduced spread of COVID-19, study finds

August 12, 2020

As COVID-19 swept across the nation, most states went into lockdown — new research and state-by-state data suggests that stay-at-home orders helped slow the pandemic significantly.

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University Initiatives

At Brown, an innovative mental health care model centers the needs of students

August 12, 2020

By reducing wait times, meeting the urgent needs of students and diversifying its team, Counseling and Psychological Services at Brown is reimagining the most effective ways to provide mental health care on campus.

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News and Events

Brown to stagger fall student arrivals, attentive to COVID cases rising locally and nationally

August 11, 2020

The University will implement a phased approach to move-in and in-person undergraduate instruction, with the goal of bringing most returning undergrads to campus by late September, provided the public health situation improves.

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Health and Medicine

Quality of care at rural hospitals may not differ as much as reported, study suggests

August 10, 2020

A Brown University School of Public Health research team found that differences in diagnosis coding practices has resulted in artificially inflated mortality rate comparisons to other hospitals.

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News and Events

Dr. Anthony Fauci: ‘Maybe this will be a wake-up call for society to change’

August 7, 2020

In a virtual forum hosted by the Brown University School of Public Health, Dr. Fauci joined incoming dean Dr. Ashish K. Jha to address the challenges and responsibilities as public health leaders work to limit COVID-19’s spread.

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Student Life

Emily Ma and Liyuan Ao: Helping rural teens find their voices

August 7, 2020

With support from a Royce fellowship, two undergraduate students are teaching middle-schoolers in rural China how to express themselves and transform their communities through photography.

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Arts and Humanities

Ali Dipp: Building a platform for ‘borderlanders’ in the Southwest

August 6, 2020

Through digital marketplaces, murals and storytelling, the Brown-RISD dual degree student and El Paso, Texas, native seeks to celebrate the unique character of the Southwest.

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Health and Medicine

Inconsistent EPA regulations increase lead poisoning risk to kids, study finds

August 6, 2020

As new lead protection rules from the Environmental Protection Agency move toward finalization, research shows that tens of thousands of children are at increased risk under the current set of inconsistent standards.

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News and Events

Widespread testing remains key factor in nation’s ability to reopen, experts say

August 6, 2020

In a virtual discussion, economist Emily Oster and public health expert Dr. Ashish Jha agreed that embracing imperfect but effective methods, including testing and contact tracing, can keep Americans safe as the country reopens.

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Science and Technology

Portia Tieze: Conducting science research from home in a pandemic

July 30, 2020

Novel coronavirus and its effect on University science laboratories has kept engineering student Portia Tieze from working on campus this summer — so she brought the lab to her apartment to continue her research.

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Health and Medicine

In upcoming events, Dr. Fauci, Brown scholars to discuss nation’s challenges, readiness to reopen

July 30, 2020

Dr. Anthony S. Fauci, one of the world's leading infectious disease physicians, will join incoming Brown School of Public Health dean Dr. Ashish K. Jha for a publicly accessible, live-streamed event on Aug. 7.

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University Initiatives

Brown University fully funds $10M endowment to support Providence public schools

July 29, 2020

The University will permanently endow the Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence, which will provide financial support for the city’s Pre-K-12 students through a range of educational initiatives.

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Social Sciences

Anti-climate action statements get more visibility in news coverage, study finds

July 27, 2020

Analysis by assistant professor of environment and society and sociology at Brown found that press releases expressing opposition to climate action were twice as likely to receive news coverage as those supporting action.

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Social Sciences

Race and politics scholar weighs in on Black Lives Matter movement’s resurgence

July 27, 2020

Juliet Hooker, a professor of political science at Brown, has long conducted research at the intersection of race and politics — work now catapulted into the spotlight as Americans increasingly consider systemic racism.

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Science and Technology

Computational brain science center at Brown to catalyze research, train students and scholars

July 24, 2020

The Center for Computational Brain Science at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science will harness the University’s expertise in computation, cognition and systems neuroscience toward new brain health solutions.

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Science and Technology

Brown professors, students make the case for diversity, equity in physics

July 23, 2020

In the wake of George Floyd’s brutal killing, physicists and students from Brown took to the web to discuss strategies for increasing diversity and inclusion in the physics community across the nation.

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Science and Technology

Brown student startup seeks to revolutionize crop disease prevention

July 23, 2020

Cloud Agronomics — a student and alumni venture launched with support from the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship — uses hyperspectral imaging to detect crop-borne diseases that destabilize food supplies and cost farmers billions.

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Student Life

Lauren Brown: Simplifying the hair care journey for Black women

July 23, 2020

As a member of B-Lab — the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s summer startup accelerator — Brown has developed Figured, a venture that offers customized natural hair care guidance to women with Afro-textured hair.

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Health and Medicine

$6.2 million grant renews Alcohol Research Center on HIV funding for five years

July 22, 2020

The grant from the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism will fund the center, based at Brown’s School of Public Health, as researchers work to reduce the impact of alcohol misuse on the HIV epidemic.

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Health and Medicine

Expanded access to treatment in prisons and jails can reduce opioid overdose deaths by 31.6%, study finds

July 22, 2020

Using a microsimulation model, researchers at Brown predicted the number of opioid-related overdose deaths related to three different treatment options over the course of 8 years.

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Health and Medicine

Brown to fund biomedical technologies with commercial potential, patient benefits

July 20, 2020

Brown Biomedical Innovations to Impact awards projects focused on analyzing infant cries for signs of opioid withdrawal, developing a malaria vaccine and accelerating medical solutions into commercial technologies.

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Health and Medicine

Study helps to settle debate on roles of REM and non-REM sleep in visual learning

July 20, 2020

A study by a team of Brown University researchers sheds new light on the complementary roles of REM and non-REM sleep in visual perceptual learning.

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Student Life

HOPE at Brown: Battling discrimination against Rhode Islanders experiencing homelessness

July 16, 2020

This summer, members of HOPE at Brown, a student-run Swearer Center program that combats homelessness, are contributing to community-based research that identifies discrimination against housing-insecure individuals.

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News and Events

Virtual summer institute connects Brown undergraduates with vast network of alumni and parent mentors

July 15, 2020

Through the BrownConnect Summer Institute, University alumni and parents provide professional experiences and mentorship to current students and newly minted graduates interested in a wide range of fields.

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News and Events

Brown faculty members earn prominent awards, distinctions

July 14, 2020

In recent months, prestigious national and international organizations have recognized Brown faculty for their research, scholarship and leadership.

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Science and Technology

At $23.7 million, largest NSF grant in university history to renew Brown’s math institute

July 13, 2020

The largest single National Science Foundation grant in Brown’s history will fund ICERM, Brown’s national mathematics institute, for the next five years.

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Science and Technology

Burrowing crabs reshaping salt marshes, with climate change to blame

July 13, 2020

Given higher sea levels and softer soil in the wake of a shifting climate, Sesarma crabs, which have already decimated salt marshes in the Northeast, are now rising to prominence in southeastern marshes, a new study finds.

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Arts and Humanities

Kate Reed: Finding a niche in biomimetic design

July 9, 2020

The Brown-RISD dual degree student is pursuing several summer projects that use cutting-edge technology to connect people to the natural world and to each other.

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University Initiatives

Letter from President Paxson: Supporting Brown’s International Students

July 8, 2020

President Christina H. Paxson wrote to the campus community about University opposition to new federal guidance on the Student and Exchange Visitor Program and how Brown can best support its international students.

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Science and Technology

Study reveals science behind traditional mezcal-making technique

July 7, 2020

Researchers reveal for the first time why bubbles are a good gauge of alcohol content in the traditional Mexican spirit.

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Social Sciences

Voter protection led to steep drop in racially biased arrests in late 20th century, study finds

July 7, 2020

Using voting records and arrest data from before and after the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, a Brown economist found that increased enfranchisement led to fewer arrests for Black Americans.

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Health and Medicine

Drug treatment could improve effectiveness of immunotherapy for cancer patients

July 7, 2020

The MDM2 gene promotes tumor growth and interferes with immunotherapy in some cancer patients — a new study from a Brown University research team suggests that an MDM2-inhibiting drug could help address this problem.

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News and Events

Brown invites students back to campus with three-term model, reduced density for 2020-21

July 7, 2020

To mitigate the pandemic’s impact, the University will allow undergraduates back for two terms in a three-term model, reduce the density of students in campus housing, offer instruction in person and remotely, and implement extensive testing, tracing and public health measures.

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Science and Technology

Different tracks, same dinosaurs: Brown researchers dig deeper into dinosaur movements

July 1, 2020

Using X-ray-based technology developed at Brown University, researchers uncover shared subsurface movement patterns between birds and dinosaurs, adding a new dimension of fossil track diversity.

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News and Events

Graduate students, recent Brown alumni earn 36 Fulbright scholarships

July 1, 2020

With COVID-19 complicating international travel, this year’s student Fulbright winners will begin their teaching and research assignments across the globe at the start of 2021.

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