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Medical school graduates celebrate Match Day 2017

Balloons dropped and champagne popped at the Warren Alpert Medical School when the clock struck noon and students found out where their medical careers will begin.
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Science and Technology

New grant extends IMSD across all sciences

The Initiative to Maximize Student Development, which has increased the diversity of doctoral students in the life sciences and supported student achievement, will expand to serve physical sciences, engineering and mathematics.
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Health and Medicine

The run up to Match Day is a marathon, and it’s tilting uphill

The process by which medical students become residents has a very precise moment of culmination — noon on the third Friday in March — but the preparation takes months of hard work and expense that has been increasing over time.
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Health and Medicine

Student research success supported by unique Brown curricula

To lead a new paper in Health Affairs that describes the exceptional success of Costa Rica’s approach to primary care, student Madeline Pesec combined her own initiative and talent with Brown’s unique academic programs and alumni network.
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Science and Technology

Robot uses social feedback to fetch objects intelligently

By enabling them to ask a question when they’re confused, an algorithm developed at Brown University helps robots get better at fetching objects, an important task for future robot assistants.
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Arts and Humanities

University celebrates Brown Arts Initiative’s launch

With aspirations to be the primary destination for students who want to integrate the arts into a complete liberal arts education, Brown formally launched an effort to create new opportunities and collaborations for students, scholars, artists and community members.
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Arts and Humanities

Spotlight on diversity, at center stage

In curating this year’s theater season, Brown students and faculty sought to bring issues of diversity and inclusion into the limelight.
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Science and Technology

New studies illustrate how gamers get good

Researchers led by a Brown University computer scientist used data from online video games to study what kinds of practice and habits help people acquire skill.
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News and Events

David Cameron, former British Prime Minister, to speak at Brown on March 20

Eight months after leaving office as the leader of the United Kingdom’s government, David Cameron will explore the future of the European Union, Britain’s place in the world following Brexit and the rise of populism across the globe.
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Health and Medicine

Bringing evidence to health screening debates

At a talk and panel discussion in Boston the morning of Feb. 19, Brown University biostatistician Constantine Gatsonis discussed how big trials help us make sense of our many questions about cancer screening.
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Health and Medicine

Hogan to succeed Gatsonis as biostatistics chair

Constantine Gatsonis is the founding chair of Brown’s biostatistics department, but on July 1 he’ll step down and Joseph Hogan will take the helm.
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Health and Medicine

Biomedical research hub makes first pilot awards

Advance Clinical and Translational Research (Advance-CTR), a statewide partnership established last year to support collaborative medical studies that build on basic research, has awarded its first two Pilot Project grants.
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News and Events

Amid political pressure on science, Paxson reasserts its vital value

As a global public good, an economic engine and a vital source of evidence for policymaking, science will withstand the latest political onslaught, Brown President Christina Paxson said at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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Arts and Humanities

Brown’s Bell Gallery presents the work of 40 student artists

The 37th annual student exhibition, open to students from all disciplines, was juried by Leonie Bradbury, director of art and creative initiatives for Boston’s HUBweek, and Anabel Vázquez Rodríguez, an independent curator, artist and organizer.
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Class of 2016 graduate selected as Gates Cambridge Scholar

Kiera Peltz will join 35 other U.S. scholars at the University of Cambridge, where they will pursue graduate degrees as they work toward careers focused on improving the lives of others.
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Health and Medicine

Researchers propose a new way to assess medication-based HIV prevention

Delivering on the promise of preventing HIV infections with antiretroviral medicines, or pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP), requires thinking about PrEP as a nine-step continuum of preventive care, Brown researchers write in the journal AIDS.
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Brown Corporation approves budget, sets tuition for 2017-18

The approved $1.061 operating budget includes $122.1 million for financial aid, a 4 percent tuition increase and a reduction in the endowment’s contribution, a move intended to support Brown’s long-term fiscal health.
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Arts and Humanities

Brown plans new, cutting-edge performing arts center

Brown Corporation authorizes architect selection process, a critical step in the University’s vision to create a hub for arts performance, practice and scholarship.
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Science and Technology

Research reveals novel quantum state in strange insulating materials

Experiments show how electrons in Mott insulators with strong spin-orbit coupling arrange themselves to make the materials magnetic at low temperatures. The work could help zero in on a more complete quantum theory of magnetism.
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