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Brown launches the country’s first four-year, integrated MD/MPA program

September 20, 2016

The unique degree program gives students an international perspective and enables them to earn both a doctorate of medicine and a master of public affairs in just four years.

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Science and Technology

Experiment looks back to when the universe’s lights came on

September 20, 2016

A Brown University physicist is part of an international experiment, newly funded by the National Science Foundation, to learn more about the first stars and galaxies.

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Health and Medicine

Nursing home residents who get palliative care consults use hospitals less

September 19, 2016

The first study of how specialist palliative care consults affect nursing home end-of-life care suggests that they are associated with much less hospitalization and fewer burdensome transitions, at no extra cost to Medicare.

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News and Events

Brown’s First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center opens

September 16, 2016

In a ribbon-cutting ceremony, speakers talked about the efforts that led to the center’s establishment and its essential role at Brown.

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News and Events

Prison education conference generates discussion of Brown’s role

September 16, 2016

The conference and concurrent multimedia exhibition aim to better understand ways in which increasing incarceration levels have impacted social fabric, culture and democracy — and to explore how Brown might contribute to local efforts to educate incarcerated men and women.

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Brown renews Air Force, Naval ROTC programs

September 16, 2016

Three students with distinct academic interests but a shared sense of duty are the first to engage in the renewed Air Force and Naval ROTC opportunities, which the University and military leaders announced Friday.

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Science and Technology

Simulation posits why legendary leapers have different ‘spring’ stiffness

September 15, 2016

New research on grasshoppers and bullfrogs offers a conclusion about jumping: When an animal has less time to store energy for a jump, it needs a less stiff tendon than one that can take its time.

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Health and Medicine

Protein may be crucial in many lung ailments

September 15, 2016

New research in Nature Communications implicates the protein TMEM219 in a pathway that appears to be important in pulmonary fibrosis, asthma and cancer spread in the lung.

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Science and Technology

Researchers make better sense of incoherent light

September 14, 2016

A technique called plasmonic interferometry helps to detect spatial coherence in ‘incoherent’ light.

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News and Events

Entrepreneurship community celebrates Brown’s soon-to-launch center

September 14, 2016

The Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship is expected to formally launch in the coming months.

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Health and Medicine

Review article takes rare look at impact of advertising psychiatric drugs

September 13, 2016

Direct-to-consumer advertising of psychiatric medications appears to increase prescribing, which may be having a mixed effect on the quality of treatment, according to a new review of the very few studies on the topic.

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Science and Technology

Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve

September 13, 2016

William Jordan filled his childhood with books, but college was more of a goal than a given — now he’s a doctoral student who hopes his example will make that path more apparent for others than it was for him.

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News and Events

In both national and global rankings, Brown places among top universities

September 13, 2016

The University ranked No. 14 in U.S. News and World Report’s annual “America’s Best Colleges” listing along with high marks in a wide variety of other notable surveys.

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News and Events

Brown University community reflects on summer tragedies

September 12, 2016

Students, faculty and staff convened on the College Green for a gathering and series of readings in response to the summer’s many tragedies.

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Science and Technology

Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’

September 12, 2016

A new study in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences provides substantial new evidence that health becomes endangered when aging cells lose control of rogue elements of DNA called transposons.

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News and Events

Brown to consider undocumented and DACA students as domestic applicants

September 12, 2016

Undocumented and DACA-status applicants will be considered under the University’s need-blind admission policy, and Brown will meet 100 percent of each student’s demonstrated financial need upon matriculation.

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Health and Medicine

Public health doctoral student arrives with new national fellowship in tow

September 12, 2016

A native of Nigeria with an ongoing interest in HIV/AIDS research, Adedotun Ogunbajo will begin doctoral studies at Brown with the support of a competitive new policy fellowship from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.

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News and Events

Former Malawian president to discuss ‘moral leadership’

September 9, 2016

Drawing on decades of experience as a political leader and champion for the rights of women, children and marginalized groups, Joyce Banda will discuss Africa’s future as part of the 93rd Ogden Lecture on Sept. 19.

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Social Sciences

US spending on Middle East wars, Homeland Security will reach $4.79 trillion in 2017

September 9, 2016

Total U.S. spending on national security related to the post-9/11 war on terror has reached $3.6 trillion, and interest on funds borrowed to pay those bills could climb to $7.9 trillion by 2053.

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Health and Medicine

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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Health and Medicine

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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