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Technique could help climate models sweat the small stuff

Research led by a Brown University physicist reveals a way to include small-scale dynamics into computer simulations of large-scale phenomena, which could make for better climate models and astrophysical simulations.
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Software turns webcams into eye-trackers

Developed by computer scientists at Brown, the new software could help web developers to optimize content and make websites more user-friendly.
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Brown University will launch a Center for Biomedical Research Excellence in Computational Biology of Human Disease to expand its research using sophisticated computer analyses to understand and fight human diseases.
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Brown awards eight honorary doctorates

At the 248th Commencement ceremony today, Brown University President Christina Paxson conferred honorary doctorates on eight candidates who have achieved great distinction in their fields.
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Sabrina Imbler, one of two graduating seniors chosen as orators for the 248th Commencement, delivered an address titled “How Do We Want to Become?" on the College Green on Sunday, May 29.
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Jamelle Watson-Daniels: "Storytelling"

Jamelle Watson-Daniels, one of two graduating seniors chosen as orators for the 248th Commencement, delivered an address titled “Storytelling” on the College Green on Sunday, May 29.
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Kevin Gover, director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, delivered Brown's 2016 Baccalaureate address and will receive an honorary degree at Commencement.
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Science and Technology

Study finds that protein puts the brakes on melanin

Skin, eye and hair pigmentation requires a delicate balance of acidity within the cellular compartments where melanin is made – that balance is partly regulated, scientists now know, by a protein called TPC2.
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Wilson Cusack, a senior computer science concentrator, developed a text-message-based trading platform that helps connect farmers and buyers. With a grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he’ll pilot the project in the West African nation of Ghana.
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Dalton wins NSF CAREER Award

Assistant professor Colleen Dalton’s CAREER Award will support her work using seismic waves to understand the Earth’s interior.
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The same scientific quest for which Erika Edwards won recognition from President Obama on May 5 had two months earlier led her and 12 students up dusty mountainsides in the world’s driest desert.
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Advance could help grow stem cells more safely

Nurturing stem cells atop a bed of mouse cells works well, but is a non-starter for transplants to patients – Brown University scientists are developing a synthetic bed instead.
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The film is based on Brown faculty member David Kertzer’s 1997 book, a historical account of a Jewish boy abducted by the Papal Inquisitor and converted to Catholicism — a case that helped fuel the rise of the Italian secular state.
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A study in JAMA Internal Medicine reports wide disparities in the quality of care for Medicare Advantage plan holders in Puerto Rico compared to those in the 50 states. The quality gaps exist in the context of the territory’s significant economic challenges and low and declining payments from the Medicare program.
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