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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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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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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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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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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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Research pushes concept of entropy out of kilter

Entropy isn’t well understood in systems that aren’t at equilibrium, but a new experiment shows a non-equilibrium phenomenon that actually depends upon entropy.
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Ubiquitous but overlooked, fluid is a source of muscle tension

The cellular fluid in every muscle fiber appears to play a key but previously unacknowledged role in the mechanics of muscle stretch, according to a new study by Brown University biologists.
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Are Uber drivers entrepreneurs?

A case study created by Brown undergraduates as part of an entrepreneurship class investigates the entrepreneurial aspects of the ridesharing platform’s driver model.
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RNA pathway plays key role in health, lifespan, fly study shows

The piRNA pathway was thought to be most active in the reproductive organs of animals, but researchers have discovered in the common fruit fly that the pathway also operates in a non-reproductive body tissue, playing a vital role in maintaining health and lifespan.
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Nobel Prize festivities to kick off with D.C. event

A week before heading to Sweden to receive the Nobel Prize, Brown physicist and 2016 Nobel Laureate Michael Kosterlitz will meet President Obama and participate in a discussion at the Swedish Embassy in Washington, D.C.
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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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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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Driven to discover, graduate student wins awards and strives to achieve

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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Study results advance ‘transposon theory of aging’

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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Brown to lead $9.7M grant to advance theory of aging

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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Mitosis study finds potential cancer target

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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Profiles in Summer Research: Sophia Gluskin-Braun

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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