Three Brown undergraduates and one recent graduate have been awarded highly competitive awards to pursue graduate work and research in the United States and abroad.
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Galápagos study identifies keystone predator in a complex food web
Years of experiments and careful observation along the shores of the Galápagos Islands have untangled a complex food web of sea lions, fish, urchins and algae, revealing who eats (or doesn’t eat) whom and what impact they have on each other.
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Among suicidal patients, an intervention that included brief post-discharge phone calls significantly reduced the likelihood of a future suicide attempt, according to a clinical trial conducted at eight hospitals.
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Adriel Barrios-Anderson, a neuroscience and science and society concentrator, and Viet Nguyen, an education concentrator, will reflect on their Brown experiences with their speeches “Silent Lessons” and “The Idea of Deserving.”
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Science and Technology
$3.1 million grant to build new data exploration software
Brown University computer scientists will use the funding to build an interactive data exploration system that includes statistical safeguards against false discoveries.
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Monica Muñoz Martinez will use the award to complete her first book, begin a second, and create an associated digital platform that aims to enrich current understandings of histories of racial violence in the humanities.
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The American Talent Initiative brings together 68 of nation’s most respected colleges and universities committed to attracting, enrolling and graduating more high-achieving, lower-income students.
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News and Events
Brown to host fourth annual Robot Block Party
From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Sunday to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.
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Science and Technology
Researchers make tool for understanding cellular processes more useful
Brown researchers have developed methods to use data from FRAP, an experiment used to study how molecules move inside cells, in ways it’s never been used before.
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Science and Technology
Researchers develop eco-friendly, 4-in-1 catalyst
Performing multiple reactions in one shot reduces raw material needs and byproduct waste, a potential step toward a greener chemical industry.
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Health and Medicine
College students, worms help scientists find new genetic clues to sleep
Through a combination of experiments with college students and laboratory worms, researchers have identified the first specific genes to show molecular alterations associated with short sleep duration.
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From reducing greenhouse gas emissions to doing homework in the dark, Brown community members immerse themselves in sustainability measures on an everyday basis.
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News and Events
Brown to confer six honorary degrees
During its 249th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 28, Brown University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of scholars, artists and leaders recognized for exceptional achievement.
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Since arriving at Brown in 2013, Liza Cariaga-Lo has directed the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion and played a key role in Brown’s diversity and inclusion efforts.
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Health and Medicine
Mindfulness class helped women, but not men, overcome ‘negative affect’
Few studies have looked at whether mindfulness meditation is equally effective among men and women in addressing mood, but a new study in a college setting found a substantial difference.
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Science and Technology
Researchers produce detailed map of potential Mars rover landing site
Mineral deposits in a region called Northeast Syrtis Major suggest a plethora of once-habitable environments. By mapping those deposits in the region’s larger geological context, Brown researchers may help set the stage for a future rover mission.
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The new award program recognizes the work of both senior and early-career faculty members.
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News and Events
Brown signs on to Defense Department education agreement
Brown University is now officially a participating institution in the department’s Voluntary Education Partnership Memorandum of Understanding, which will allow the University to reach out to active service members on military bases.
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Arts and Humanities
University celebrates the life and legacy of Michael S. Harper
Friends, family, former students and colleagues from near and far gathered for events celebrating the life and writing of the distinguished poet, who died in 2016.
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A new survey by Brown’s Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy reveals evidence of political polarization and diminishing support for some key Trump campaign promises.
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Scenes from A Day on College Hill
Hundreds of admitted students descended on College Hill for a three-day immersion in life as a Brown undergraduate.
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Science and Technology
New fund to accelerate medical technologies toward market
Brown’s new Biomedical Innovation Fund has made two grants to accelerate the commercialization of technologies — one for diagnosing drug dependence in newborns and a second for discovering anti-ALS medicines.
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News and Events
A Day on College Hill offers a rich taste of life at Brown
The current students behind Brown’s annual extravaganza for admitted students offered their take on what makes this annual rite of passage so memorable.
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Health and Medicine
University celebrates ‘Inspiring Women in Science’
At a daylong event at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts on Thursday, April 20, six renowned women scientists will speak about their work amid remarks and presentations by colleagues, including President Christina Paxson.
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Science and Technology
Researchers observe heat exchange in an exotic material
The research, co-authored by a Brown University physicist and published in the journal Nature, may help in the development of quantum computers.
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Assay of nearly 5,000 mutations reveals roots of genetic splicing errors
Brown biologists have developed a new system, described in Nature Genetics, that identified and tracked hundreds of genetic variations that alter the way DNA is spliced when cells make proteins, often leading to disease.
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University Initiatives
Brown to waive application fee for low-income students
Beginning with the class entering in fall 2018, eligible prospective students will no longer need to request application fee waivers personally.
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Health and Medicine
Early school starts pit teens in a conflict between society, biology
At an April conference in Washington, D.C., Brown University Professor Mary Carskadon will describe decades of research that explain why adolescent biology makes the 7:30 a.m. school bell so problematic.
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News and Events
Brown’s president named to American Academy of Arts and Sciences
Christina Paxson, Brown’s 19th president and an economics and public health scholar, has been elected a member of one of the nation’s most prestigious honorary societies.
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The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded a 2017 fellowship to Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg for a book project that explores how land reclamation projects in the 1930s helped generate public support for Benito Mussolini’s regime.
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Science and Technology
ICERM wins new grant from Simons Foundation
The funding, totaling nearly $1 million, will expand the institute’s research workshop programming.
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Health and Medicine
Stress flips cocaine relapse to ‘on’; research switches it back to ‘off’
Even a single, brief stress can induce days of relapse to cocaine-seeking among rats, but a new study shows how the tendency to relapse persists and how to shut it down, suggesting a new pathway for developing addiction treatment medications.
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The former president of Brazil spoke about prioritizing the fight against poverty during her administration and how income inequality threatens democracy.
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The highly competitive National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellowships provide a stipend and cover tuition for three years of graduate school.
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Health and Medicine
Public health events highlight urgent challenges, research
The Brown University School of Public Health will feature the urgency and importance of population health scholarship with the premiere of a documentary on the opioid crisis, a broad-ranging research exposition and a lecture on gun violence.
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The 16th installment of the student-run film festival will run from April 10 to April 16 and feature a women composers panel, a focus on virtual reality in film and a slate of undergraduate and graduate films.
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Health and Medicine
Curbing alcohol to fight HIV could save money in Kenya
Expanding a program in Kenya that fights the spread of HIV by curbing alcohol consumption could produce a net economic benefit, a new study projects.
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The Providence Eruv — a symbolic perimeter that enables those who observe traditional Jewish law to carry items on the Sabbath — now extends to the Brown and RISD campuses.
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Arts and Humanities
Director, producer Ezra Edelman to deliver 17th annual Shearer Lecture
On Thursday, April 13, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker will visit Brown to speak about his career, including his 2016 documentary “O.J.: Made in America.”
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With support from the Richard A. and Susan P. Friedman Family Foundation, the University will launch a comprehensive renovation to create new classrooms, add social spaces and make the building fully accessible.
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During a tour of engineering research labs at Brown, U.S. Sen. Jack Reed warns that budget cuts to scientific research threaten innovation, the economy and America’s competitive edge.
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Rousseff, who led the country from 2011 until 2016, will speak about the challenges for democracy in Brazil.
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Brown and 30 other universities argue in a March 31 amicus brief that the revised executive order on immigration threatens the institutions’ ability to fulfill their educational missions by attracting talented students and scholars from across the globe.
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Health and Medicine
Technology to screen embryos before implantation falls short
Because current methods for assessing the viability of IVF-created embryos are not sufficiently reliable, more research on embryo development is needed, two experts write in a new review article.
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The University made offers of admission on March 30 to next year’s incoming undergraduate class, who represent all 50 states and 77 nations around the world.
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Brown President Christina Paxson visited CNBC’s studio in Hong Kong for a segment on the impact of U.S. trade and immigration policies on American universities’ ability to fulfill their educational missions.
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With the investigational BrainGate brain-computer interface and implanted muscle-stimulating electrodes, a man paralyzed from the shoulders down was able to use his arm and hand to eat, drink and perform other activities, according to new research in <em>The Lancet</em>.
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Health and Medicine
Prostate screening often occurs without discussion of benefits, risks
Less than a third of men in a large national survey reported talking with their doctor about both the pros and cons of the PSA blood test for prostate cancer, and the likelihood has decreased further since a national panel recommended against the test.
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Science and Technology
How a young-looking lunar volcano hides its true age
A young-looking volcanic caldera on the Moon has been interpreted by some as evidence of relatively recent lunar volcanic activity, but new research suggests it's not so young after all.
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Arts and Humanities
Bringing China’s greatest novel to modern readers
Brown professor Dore J. Levy has spent more than three decades researching, teaching and writing about a complex classic of Chinese literature.
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