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Brown launches new Data Science Initiative

The initiative, which includes a new master’s program, will bolster research that integrates data in new scholarly contexts and prepare students to be leaders in a data-enabled society.
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Brown families rendezvous on campus for Family Weekend

With families traveling to the University from across the globe, Brown President Christina Paxson urged them to embrace the distinctive Brown experience where students engage in the “daring adventure” of learning.
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Families journey to Brown from across the globe

En route to campus to celebrate the University’s Family Weekend, six family members give their take on the annual fall tradition and what Brown means to them.
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Social Sciences

A broader view of celebrated urbanist Jane Jacobs

Brown researchers gather uncollected writings, speeches and interviews to create a more comprehensive portrait of the writer who changed how we think about cities.
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Social Sciences

Brown initiative to help bridge humanitarian, academic efforts

With the Humanitarian Innovation Initiative at the University’s Watson Institute, Dr. Adam Levine and colleagues hope to improve the effectiveness and accountability of disaster preparedness, humanitarian response and post-emergency reconstruction through scholarship.
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Health and Medicine

Grant funds big-data study of brain connectivity

With more than $1.2 million over three years to study how complex brain networks process information, Brown has earned its second grant this fall from the federal BRAIN Initiative and shares significantly in a third.
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News and Events

Jelani Cobb on universities, values and the societies in which they exist

Journalist and historian argues that context informs how we understand and act upon values, which can create conflict — and urged the audience to engage in difficult conversations under circumstances that fall short of democracy's ideals in order to reach the ultimate goal of democracy.
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Photos: Indigenous People’s Day at Brown

In an event organized by Native Americans at Brown, members of the University community and beyond joined on Monday afternoon to celebrate the inaugural Indigenous People’s Day at Brown.
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Health and Medicine

Infants use prefrontal cortex in learning

A group of 8-month-olds has provided evidence that, contrary to conventional wisdom, the prefrontal cortex contributes to learning during infancy.
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News and Events

Series on University values launches with visit by writer and historian

Presentation by New Yorker writer Jelani Cobb kicks off series titled “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse,” which includes lectures, panels, workshops and conversations aimed at encouraging campus-wide discourse on difficult topics.
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Social Sciences

Low lead levels in children negatively affect test scores

A new study using data from Rhode Island’s lead-abatement program and repeated blood lead level tests finds that lead exposure among preschoolers can predict low reading scores in subsequent years.
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Science and Technology

Startup@Brown connects students with startups

The second annual Startup@Brown conference, to be held this weekend, offers entrepreneurial students a sneak peak at the startup world.
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Health and Medicine

Formaldehyde damages proteins, not just DNA

Formaldehyde, a common toxicant and carcinogen recently subjected to new federal regulations, may be more dangerous than previously thought, a new study suggests.
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News and Events

Brown University responds to court’s ‘John Doe’ decision

On Sept. 28, 2016, the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island issued its decision on John Doe v. Brown University, a case in which the plaintiff challenged the outcome of a University disciplinary process related to a sexual misconduct complaint.
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Social Sciences

Student-developed software streamlines archaeological analysis

An interdisciplinary research team of Brown undergraduates led by Assistant Professor of Anthropology Parker VanValkenburgh developed a bilingual, tablet-based app for field and laboratory use.
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You’re the reason why Washington is broken

Practices that have been used for a century or more cannot explain the recent marked uptick in political polarization. Marc J. Dunkelman tracks how changes in the American social fabric impact Washington.
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Health and Medicine

New NIH grants support child health research

Several Brown University faculty members are key participants in three projects investigating how early life and environmental exposures affect children.
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$2M grant to study simultaneous marijuana, alcohol use

Next year at colleges in three states with different marijuana use laws, a team of public health researchers will study why students often use marijuana and alcohol simultaneously.
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