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With MRI technique, brain scientists induce feelings about faces

September 8, 2016

In a new study, researchers report they were able to train unknowing volunteers to develop a mild but significant preference or dislike for faces that they had previously regarded neutrally.

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Negative experiences on Facebook linked to increased depression risk in young adults

September 7, 2016

A unique new study of young adults finds that negative experiences on Facebook may increase the risk of depressive symptoms, suggesting that online social interactions have important consequences for mental health.

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Social Sciences

13th century Maya codex, long shrouded in controversy, proves genuine

September 7, 2016

Brown University’s Stephen Houston and a team of leading researchers in anthropology and Maya archeology methodically verify the authenticity of the oldest known manuscript in ancient America.

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News and Events

Convocation 2016: A new class and a new academic year at Brown

September 6, 2016

As 2,675 incoming students begin their Brown academic careers, University president and Graduate School dean invite students to embrace the uncomfortable moments and the debates to come.

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News and Events

Brown welcomes 47 new faculty members

September 6, 2016

Hailing from a diverse set of backgrounds, 47 new faculty members have joined the ranks of 30 different Brown University departments for the new 2016-17 academic year.

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Science and Technology

Brown to lead $9.7M grant to advance theory of aging

September 6, 2016

A new multi-university research effort will seek to determine whether rogue elements of DNA promote or even cause aging and whether interventions against them could help people live longer and more healthfully.

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News and Events

President Paxson asserts value of freedom of expression in Washington Post op-ed

September 5, 2016

Titled 'Brown University president: A safe space for freedom of expression,' guest column comes at a time of fierce debate about the capacity of universities to prepare students for confronting difficult, complex issues.

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Arts and Humanities

Incoming Brown students come together for the First Readings program

September 5, 2016

Now in its 10th year, the program engages the entire campus community in selecting a common text that introduces first-year and transfer students to the pleasures and rigors of scholarly work at Brown.

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Health and Medicine

From DNA to disease, study describes rare, new brain disorder

September 5, 2016

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team of scientists shows how mutations in the gene GPT2 lead to a rare developmental and potentially degenerative brain disease.

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News and Events

From Orientation to Convocation, University celebrates #Brown2020

September 2, 2016

From freshman move-in on Saturday to Opening Convocation’s welcome to undergraduate, graduate and medical students, the buzz on College Hill is back as the 2016-17 academic year gets under way.

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News and Events

Brown advances on diversity and inclusion plan’s goals

September 1, 2016

Following the February 2016 launch of Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion, the University has taken immediate, meaningful actions toward achieving its longer-term goals.

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News and Events

New Graduate School dean to address incoming students at Convocation

September 1, 2016

Longtime professor of medical science Andrew G. Campbell previews his keynote, titled “Can You Imagine,” and shares insights from his early days as dean.

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Health and Medicine

Rhode Island’s role in promising new Alzheimer’s results

August 31, 2016

Important components of a clinical trial with positive results for an Alzheimer’s drug occurred at Brown University, Butler Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital.

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Health and Medicine

Brain scientists share in grant to study attention

August 30, 2016

Three Brown University faculty members have teamed up with colleagues at three other universities on a $6 million grant to study the neuroscience of attention.

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Science and Technology

Mitosis study finds potential cancer target

August 30, 2016

By drilling down to the atomic level of how specific proteins interact during cell division, or mitosis, a team of scientists has found a unique new target for attacking cancer.

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Arts and Humanities

Profiles in Summer Research: Jacob Ihnen

August 26, 2016

A summer class, a transfer to Brown and an inspiring professor led rising senior Jacob Ihnen to an UTRA project focused on the rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln.

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Science and Technology

Profiles in Summer Research: Sophia Gluskin-Braun

August 26, 2016

With a passion for problem-solving, the engineering concentrator is focused on the fundamentals of light and playing a role in promising research on next-generation solar cells.

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Arts and Humanities

Profiles in Summer Research: Jennifer Shook

August 26, 2016

The rising sophomore took part in an intensive research project that not only piqued her interest in colonial-era history, but diversified her academic interests.

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Science and Technology

Profiles in Summer Research: Nari Lee

August 26, 2016

A progression of summer experiences with faculty has left the rising senior with an expanding set of research skills and medical school aspirations.

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Social Sciences

Profiles in Summer Research: Molly Sandstrom

August 26, 2016

For the history and education studies concentrator, a summer-long dive into the lives of early Unitarians in England meant the chance to contribute to faculty scholarship and an upcoming book.

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News and Events

Profiles in Summer Research

August 26, 2016

Think summer is quiet at Brown? Not for the University’s undergraduate researchers, who pursued their passions in depth and built skills in collaboration, innovation and more.

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Science and Technology

For planetary science students, a summer of science in space with NASA

August 24, 2016

For Brown planetary science graduate students, a “mission-planning bootcamp” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena offers an insider’s view of how to conduct research in space.

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After NLRB decision, Brown grad students have right to explore whether or not to unionize

August 23, 2016

Ruling by the National Labor Relations Board presents graduate student assistants as employees.

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Health and Medicine

Among some veterans, painkiller misuse strongly linked to starting heroin

August 23, 2016

In a study that followed thousands of veterans over a decade, initiating non-medical use of opioid painkillers was associated with a more than 5-fold risk of also beginning to use heroin.

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Health and Medicine

Study validates new tool for diagnosing dehydration in children

August 22, 2016

A simple new method for assessing dehydration from diarrhea, which kills hundreds of thousands of children each year worldwide, has proven accurate and reliable.

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Science and Technology

Mathematicians, police join forces on the mathematics of crime

August 19, 2016

Researchers used real data from the City of Providence to look for interesting trends and patterns that might help police analyze criminal activity.

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Health and Medicine

Study shows how mutations disrupt ALS-linked protein

August 18, 2016

Structural biologists provide a new explanation for how ALS-associated genetic flaws interfere with the proper function and behavior of the protein TDP-43.

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Environment

On the bay with BELL, a call to environmental action

August 18, 2016

At the Brown Environmental Leadership Lab, high school students learn the skills they need to create change on environmental issues facing their local communities and the planet as a whole.

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News and Events

With BrownTogether campaign in full swing, Brown donors give a record $300 million

August 18, 2016

Funds raised in fiscal year 2016 will support the strategic goals of the University’s Building on Distinction plan.

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Health and Medicine

R.I. Department of Health, Brown School of Public Health launch partnership

August 17, 2016

Rhode Island's two accredited public health entities — the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Brown University School of Public Health — launched a new academic partnership.

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Science and Technology

In summer at sea, adventurous student continues a personal academic journey

August 16, 2016

Driven by a love of marine life and the memory of his grandfather, Peter Baek set out this summer on a six-week sailing voyage to study a delicate ecosystem south of the Equator.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown and RISD create a laboratory for innovative live arts projects

August 11, 2016

With a think-tank approach and a cohort of students from the visual and performing arts, Brown/RISD CoLAB, a new summer institute, gives students the tools and freedom to experiment with new forms of theatre and performance.

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Social Sciences

Death toll from war in Afghanistan and Pakistan climbs to 173,000

August 9, 2016

The Costs of War project releases data on the human costs of a decade and a half of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, finding that violence is not subsiding.

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Social Sciences

Physical aggression tendencies, aggressive foreign policy positions linked, study says

August 9, 2016

Findings show differences between men and women and have implications for negotiating aggressive behavior.

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News and Events

Study of summer research quantifies what students see as most beneficial

August 5, 2016

New data from the Leadership Alliance shows what specific aspects of conducting summer research underrepresented students say benefits them the most.

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Science and Technology

Declining fishery production in critical African lake pinned to climate change

August 5, 2016

Warming water over the past 150 years is causing declining fish stocks in Lake Tanganyika, a large freshwater lake that supplies food for millions of Africans.

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Health and Medicine

Major treatment expansion could essentially eliminate hepatitis C in R.I. by 2030

August 5, 2016

As the state takes a deep look at its hepatitis C epidemic, Brown University researchers have crunched the numbers to project what could be done to lift Rhode Island’s burden of death and disease.

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News and Events

An Olympic effort, from Brown to Brazil

August 4, 2016

Senior swimmer Sovijja Pou heads to Rio to represent Cambodia in the 100-meter freestyle — just one among a number of goals inspired by his heritage.

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Health and Medicine

To think about thinking, hundreds of scholars convene at Brown

August 3, 2016

For the first time ever, the International Conference on Thinking is taking place in the United States, bringing more than 250 scholars of cognition to Brown this week.

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Science and Technology

Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma

August 2, 2016

Using a laboratory device that can deliver concussive impacts to cell cultures and image the aftermath in real time, researchers from Brown are gaining new insight into how brain cells react to trauma.

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News and Events

Brown dining venues among first green-certified eateries in Rhode Island

August 2, 2016

Five of the University’s dining facilities earned certification from the Green Restaurant Association for sustainability practices including recycling, composting, energy use and more.

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Arts and Humanities

Second year of Breakthrough Lab yields 16 new ventures

July 29, 2016

Brown’s summer program, known as B-Lab, showcased students’ ingenuity and pointed to an increasingly robust future for entrepreneurship at the University.

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Health and Medicine

Task force may be too stringent in not yet recommending melanoma screening

July 26, 2016

In an editorial in JAMA, two experts including Brown University dermatologist Dr. Martin Weinstock question a USPSTF determination that there isn't enough evidence to recommend that clinicians visual screen for skin cancer, such as melanoma.

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Health and Medicine

New theory explains how beta waves arise in the brain

July 25, 2016

In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Brown University neuroscientists proposes a new theory — backed by data from people, animal models and computational simulation — to explain how beta waves emerge in the brain.

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Science and Technology

Process could make key biodegradable polymer stronger and longer-lasting

July 25, 2016

The creation of a new polymer morphology in a material called PLA could lead to better medical implants and drug-delivery devices.

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Health and Medicine

Newly found, ‘thrifty’ genetic variant influences Samoan obesity

July 25, 2016

A new study reports that a genetic variant that affects energy metabolism and fat storage partly explains why Samoans have among the world’s highest levels of obesity.

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Social Sciences

American political speech is more partisan than ever, new study finds

July 22, 2016

Widespread use of talking points and expanding role of consultants, focus groups and polls are likely contributing to deeper divisions, both in Congress and in the broader public, according to study.

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News and Events

Brown faculty members earn prestigious recognitions

July 21, 2016

Awards, fellowships and grants come in honor of accomplishments in research, teaching and service.

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Health and Medicine

World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search

July 21, 2016

At a conference in the United Kingdom, scientists with the LUX dark matter experiment present results from the detector’s final 20-month run.

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Science and Technology

Asteroid that formed Moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized

July 20, 2016

The research, published in Nature, has implications for our understanding of the early solar system.

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