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Researchers develop new explanation for destructive earthquake vibrations

March 3, 2020

High-frequency vibrations are some of the most damaging ground movements produced by earthquakes, and Brown University researchers have a new theory about how they’re produced.

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Science and Technology

Imaging technique reveals 3D forces exerted by tiny cell clusters

March 3, 2020

A new technique for mapping the forces that clusters of cells exert on their surroundings could be useful for studying everything from tissue development to cancer metastasis.

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Health and Medicine

Brown researchers take charge in improving Alzheimer’s research, treatment

March 1, 2020

Through collaborations with neurologists, psychiatrists, biologists and more, projects spearheaded by Brown researchers aim to improve care for those with Alzheimer’s disease and their caregivers.

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Brown physicists at forefront of efforts to identify dark matter

March 1, 2020

Brown professor, students help construct 10-ton dark matter detector — the most sensitive ever built.

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'Obsession' leads to progress in fighting infection

March 1, 2020

Assistant Professor of Engineering Anita Shukla aims to combat burdensome, costly and sometimes deadly infections with novel materials.

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At Brown, entrepreneurship is more than a mindset

March 1, 2020

Undergraduates are creating successful new products and companies as the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship acts as incubator.

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‘This is our lane’: Emergency physician advocates for research-driven approach to curb gun violence

March 1, 2020

Associate Professor Megan Ranney leads national efforts to conduct gun safety research while pushing to increase federal funding.

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Herbarium highlights ecological past, provides insights into future

March 1, 2020

Researchers at the Brown Herbarium brought Rhode Island’s long-lost ‘Cat Swamp’ back to life.

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Driven by data: Brown boosts its economic department

March 1, 2020

Bolstered by faculty specializing in sophisticated analysis and a $25 million gift, Brown's economics department confronts pressing social issues.

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Music faculty member moves into leading rank of new classical composers

March 1, 2020

Assistant Professor of Music Eric Nathan earns accolades from critics, composers and professors alike.

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With centralized hub of resources, health researchers translate projects into change

March 1, 2020

Rhode Island’s clinical and translational research center, based at Brown, has already funded over 60 projects.

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Science and Technology

How do zebrafish get their stripes? New data analysis tool could provide an answer

February 27, 2020

A new mathematical tool developed at Brown could help scientists better understand how zebrafish get their stripes as well as other self-assembled patterns in nature.

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Science and Technology

Sloan Foundation awards early-career fellowships to two Brown scientists

February 27, 2020

Two assistant professors at Brown, in chemistry and ecology and evolutionary biology, are among the 126 early-career scholars named as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows for 2020.

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Health and Medicine

Accomplished physician, public health scholar named School of Public Health dean at Brown

February 26, 2020

Dr. Ashish K. Jha, faculty director of the Harvard Global Health Institute, will work to advance academic excellence and provide strategic direction for the school, effective Sept. 1, 2020.

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Social Sciences

Big data could yield big discoveries in archaeology, Brown scholar says

February 25, 2020

Parker VanValkenburgh, an assistant professor of anthropology, curated a journal issue that explores the opportunities and challenges big data could bring to the field of archaeology.

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News and Events

Former U.K. Prime Minister Theresa May to visit Brown on March 4

February 24, 2020

In the University’s 100th Ogden Lecture, the former U.K. Prime Minister and current member of Parliament will share insights from her time as Britain’s leader on politics, populism and polarization.

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Arts and Humanities

Collection from renowned black feminist theorist generating excitement at Brown

February 21, 2020

With the papers of Hortense J. Spillers arriving at Brown last fall, the Pembroke Center Archives has deepened its archive of black feminist theory.

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University Initiatives

Brown plans new 375-bed residence hall on College Hill campus

February 18, 2020

As envisioned, a new two-building, 130,000-square-foot residence hall will strengthen the residential experience for third- and fourth-year students and reduce the demand for off-campus rentals.

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Arts and Humanities

Shahzad Bashir to deliver Presidential Faculty Award Lecture at Brown

February 17, 2020

Bashir, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, will discuss the cultural pervasiveness of poetry in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia.

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Social Sciences

Students from middle-class families underrepresented at selective colleges, study finds

February 14, 2020

Opportunity Insights, co-directed by Brown Professor of Economics John Friedman, found that students from high-income backgrounds were significantly more likely to attend selective colleges than their lower-income peers.

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News and Events

Live from the International Space Station...

February 13, 2020

From her office 250 miles above the Earth, history-making astronaut and Brown alumna Jessica Meir answered students' questions about life in space.

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Science and Technology

Cracks in perovskite films for solar cells easily healed, study finds

February 12, 2020

A new study finds that cracks in brittle perovskite films can be easily healed with compression or mild heating, a good sign for the use of perovskites in next-generation solar cells.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation extends President Paxson’s contract to 2025*

February 11, 2020

Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff announced to the Brown community that the early extension reflects confidence in Christina H. Paxson’s leadership and excitement for sustained momentum.

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News and Events

Brown ranked nation’s No. 2 producer of Fulbright winners for 2019-20

February 10, 2020

With 38 Fulbright grants awarded to students and recent alumni, the University is among the top Fulbright institutions for the fourth consecutive year.

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News and Events

Brown Corporation sets tuition and fees for 2020-21

February 10, 2020

Tuition and fees were approved at the Corporation’s February meeting as an initial step toward full budget approval in May 2020.

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Arts and Humanities

Spring events at Brown offer a window into the world of artmaking

February 6, 2020

This spring, events presented by the Brown Arts Initiative and other campus arts entities give students and curious community members the chance to see how creators in every field execute their ideas.

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News and Events

Astronaut alumna to chat with Brown students from space

February 6, 2020

Jessica Meir will answer questions from Brown students and community members during a live video downlink from the International Space Station.

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Arts and Humanities

Reimagined Sharpe and Peter Green houses, newly connected, open their doors

February 5, 2020

The two 19th-century buildings are now unified by two modern glass bridges and a light-filled “loggia,” uniting faculty, staff and students from Brown’s Department of History.

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Science and Technology

Researchers report progress on molecular data storage system

February 4, 2020

A Brown University team has shown that they can store and retrieve more than 200 kilobytes of digital image files by encoding the data in mixtures of new custom libraries of small molecules.

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Health and Medicine

Federal certification enables Brown med school graduates to treat opioid use disorder nationwide

February 3, 2020

Warren Alpert Medical School Class of 2020 graduates will be the first in the nation to graduate with training that allows them to prescribe medications to treat opioid use disorder in any U.S. state.

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News and Events

Brown earns national recognition for community engagement from Carnegie Foundation

January 31, 2020

On Friday, Jan. 31, the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching named Brown a recipient of the Carnegie Community Engagement Classification, an elective designation recognizing institution-wide commitment to community engagement.

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Science and Technology

Algorithm can infer velocity and pressure from video of fluid flows

January 30, 2020

A technique for estimating velocities and pressures from videos of fluid flows could help in studying everything from hurricanes to vascular disease.

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Arts and Humanities

Long-time literary arts professor sees new opportunities for Brown Arts Initiative

January 30, 2020

Thalia Field, the Brown Arts Initiative’s new faculty director and a professor of creative writing at the University, discussed her vision for the future of the arts at Brown.

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Science and Technology

Near caves and mines, corrugated pipes may interfere with bat echolocation

January 30, 2020

Corrugated metal pipes have been installed at cave and mine entrances to help bats access their roosts, but a new study from Brown University researchers suggests that these pipes may actually deter bats.

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Science and Technology

Researchers develop new bio-inspired wing design for small drones

January 29, 2020

Taking a cue from birds and insects, Brown University researchers have come up with a new wing design for small drones that helps them fly more efficiently and makes them more robust to atmospheric turbulence.

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Science and Technology

For first-year graduate students in neuroscience, a ‘magical science space’

January 28, 2020

Through an immersive eight-day workshop at the Marine Biological Lab, graduate students gain hands-on neuroscience experience and form connections.

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News and Events

Brown poised to turn more research and discovery into commercially viable technologies

January 27, 2020

Neil Veloso will lead technology transfer efforts at Brown as executive director of the Office of Industry Engagement and Commercial Venturing.

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Health and Medicine

Report outlines integrated care recommendations for opioid use and infectious disease

January 24, 2020

Dr. Josiah Rich, an addiction specialist and Brown professor, contributed to a report by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine on how to integrate care for the intertwined epidemics of opioid use and infectious disease.

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Health and Medicine

Brown medical anthropologist weighs in on coronavirus in China

January 24, 2020

As coronavirus spreads to multiple countries, Katherine Mason, an assistant professor of anthropology at Brown, detailed lessons learned from the outbreak of SARS and cautioned against public panic.

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Student Life

Wintersession 2020 and the view from the borderlands

January 22, 2020

Students in an immersive American studies course offered during Brown's Wintersession witnessed firsthand the complex cultural dynamics at the U.S-Mexico border.

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News and Events

Brown welcomes 57 midyear transfer and visiting students

January 21, 2020

The University’s newest students completed their ceremonial procession through the Van Wickle Gates, marking their official entry into the Brown community.

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Arts and Humanities

JFK Jr. film series at Brown confronts urgent social issues

January 21, 2020

The film series, led by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and by family, friends and classmates of the late Brown alumnus, aims to underscore the importance of documentaries in understanding and confronting challenging social issues.

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Social Sciences

U.S. is polarizing faster than other democracies, study finds

January 21, 2020

Americans’ feelings toward members of the other political party have worsened over time faster than those of residents of European and other prominent democracies, concluded a study co-authored by Brown economist Jesse Shapiro.

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Health and Medicine

Statewide autism study finds later diagnoses for girls, high rates of co-occurring disorders

January 20, 2020

A study analyzing the first 1,000 patients from the Rhode Island Consortium for Autism Research and Treatment found that girls receive autism diagnoses an average of 1.5 years later than boys, and people with autism often have co-occurring medical and psychiatric conditions.

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Health and Medicine

Reward improves visual perceptual learning — but only after people sleep

January 17, 2020

A new study from Brown researchers finds that rewards improve performance on a visual perceptual task only if participants sleep after training.

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Science and Technology

Not all of nature’s layered structures are tough as animal shells and antlers, study finds

January 17, 2020

Engineers looking to nature for inspiration have long assumed that layered structures like those found in mollusk shells enhance a material’s toughness, but a study shows that’s not always the case.

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News and Events

Race expert and educator Beverly Daniel Tatum to deliver MLK Jr. Lecture

January 16, 2020

An acclaimed leader in higher education and race relations, President Emerita of Spelman College Beverly Daniel Tatum will share insights during a moderated discussion on Tuesday, Feb. 11, at Brown.

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Arts and Humanities

With $4M grant, Brown and university partners to expand study of race in the humanities

January 14, 2020

A four-year Mellon Foundation grant will enable the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity and academic centers at three fellow institutions to expand research and teaching opportunities on race and ethnicity.

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Health and Medicine

Researchers to test wearable device for weight loss

January 10, 2020

A collaboration among scientists at the University of Alabama, the Miriam Hospital, Brown and other universities will evaluate a device that monitors what you eat and delivers smartphone prompts.

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Arts and Humanities

In Croatia, Brown archaeologist traces generations-old refugee route

January 6, 2020

Postdoctoral researcher Rui Gomes Coelho plans to excavate a trail once trod by WW-II refugees — now a migration route for thousands who are fleeing war and poverty in the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa.

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