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Photos: Brown Brain Fair makes brain science fun for all

March 15, 2025

Through hands-on experiments, brain-bending games and expert insights, the free, all-ages annual event engages local residents and families in the wonders of neuroscience.

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News and Events

Brown University named nation’s top Fulbright-producing university

February 25, 2025

For the fifth time, Brown has earned the distinction of being the country’s top producer of Fulbright winners, with 40 grants offered to students and recent alumni for the 2024-25 academic year.

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As spring semester kicks off, Brown welcomes its newest arrivals

January 21, 2025

From undergraduates transferring from other institutions to students starting master’s degree programs, nearly 200 students embarked on their Brown journeys in late January.

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News and Events

At Brown, a day of collaboration and growth for Providence-area teachers

January 17, 2025

A new professional development initiative led by Brown’s MAT program brought together two dozen local teachers to enhance their mentoring skills, collaborate with colleagues and strengthen their teaching.

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News and Events

Students, loved ones reunite for Family Weekend at Brown

October 27, 2024

From student performances and athletic events to research forums and WaterFire, Family Weekend offered parents and families a taste of Brown University’s distinct academic and extracurricular life.

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Student Life

Photos and video: A lively beginning to the academic year

September 5, 2024

During a week of welcome events, Brown’s campus buzzed with the unmistakable spirit of new beginnings as the Fall 2024 semester kicked off.

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News and Events

At 261st Opening Convocation, a magical welcome for Brown University’s newest students

September 3, 2024

As students heralded the start of their academic journeys at Brown, University leaders urged them to build relationships across difference, be curious and courageous, and embrace the magic of the Brown experience.

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News and Events

Recent Brown graduates earn 39 Fulbright scholarships

June 14, 2024

This year’s 39 Fulbright awardees — Brown’s largest group of recipients to date — will begin teaching and research assignments in 23 countries across five continents in Fall 2024.

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Arts and Humanities

Art exhibition at Brown’s Watson Institute puts new spin on ancient art of Indo-Persian miniature painting

February 8, 2024

A series of paintings by Mahnoor Hussain, a Rhode Island-based artist whose work focuses on themes related to women’s mental health, infertility and loss, is on display through May 31.

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Arts and Humanities

Award-winning novelist Katherine J. Chen sets out to reach new literary heights at Brown

December 21, 2023

A first-year student in Brown’s English Ph.D. program, Chen recently received the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award for her novel about Joan of Arc.

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Health and Medicine

Hannah Doyle: Studying brains in the lab and showing brawn in the ring

December 13, 2023

The Brown neuroscience Ph.D. student and competitive boxer researches how the brain processes combinations — like the ones she practices at the gym — to better understand cognitive disorders.

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Arts and Humanities

Devanney Haruta: Investigating the life and death of musical instruments

October 23, 2023

As a graduate student in Brown’s music department, Haruta hopes to spark inspiration and reflection through her interactive piece, "Piano (de)composition."

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News and Events

Brown offers overview of its place in college and university rankings

September 18, 2023

From U.S. News and World Report to Forbes and Princeton Review, Brown placed among top universities based on its distinctive student experience, high-impact teaching and research, and inclusive community.

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Student Life

Photos: With both spirit and ceremony, Brown ushers in a new academic year

September 6, 2023

With a week of residence hall move-ins, orientation activities and the annual Opening Convocation celebration, the Brown campus is bustling as the Fall 2023 semester gets underway.

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News and Events

Brown’s newest students, by the numbers

September 1, 2023

A total of 3,165 undergraduate, graduate and medical students will begin studies at Brown University next week — here’s a look at who is arriving on College Hill.

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Science and Technology

Connecting beyond the shore: DEEPS graduate students get to know Narragansett Bay and each other

August 31, 2023

As part of an annual excursion geared toward incoming graduate students in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, about 20 students joined Brown faculty on a Save the Bay tour.

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Arts and Humanities

New part-time option to diversify, strengthen Brown’s urban education policy master’s program

July 25, 2023

Traditionally an intensive one-year degree program, a master’s in urban education policy will now be available to part-time students, including Rhode Island teachers, education administrators, full-time caretakers and more.

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Science and Technology

Anoop Kiran: Helping to shed new light on the aerodynamics of drone flight

July 20, 2023

Inside Brown’s Prince Laboratory, the engineering Ph.D. student is delving deeper into his passion for flight and working to solve one of the biggest challenges of drone aerodynamics.

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Student Life

Brown graduate students, recent alumni earn 35 Fulbright scholarships

June 13, 2023

This year’s Fulbright awardees will begin teaching and research assignments in 25 countries across five continents in Fall 2023.

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News and Events

At Commencement, Graduate School speakers will reckon with the past to build a better future

May 4, 2023

As Brown celebrates its 255th Commencement, Kathryn Thompson and Hamidou Sylla will address their peers in separate Ph.D. and master’s ceremonies on College Hill on Sunday, May 28.

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News and Events

Thomas A. Lewis named Brown’s new dean of the Graduate School

May 3, 2023

An accomplished scholar, mentor and administrator, Lewis will lead efforts to shape and strengthen the academic experience for Brown’s nearly 3,000 graduate students.

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Science and Technology

Four years later, AI language dataset created by Brown graduate students goes viral

April 25, 2023

Thanks to the popularity of new AI-powered chatbots and technology, Brown alumni Aaron Gokaslan and Vanya Cohen are seeing newfound interest in their dataset replicating OpenAI’s language processing model GPT-2.

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Health and Medicine

Student public health researchers focus on community needs, concerns in areas they are studying

April 6, 2023

National Public Health Week offered students at Brown’s School of Public Health the opportunity to discuss how their research projects were designed to center communities.

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Science and Technology

NIH grants extend programs at Brown focused on student diversity, success in Ph.D. science programs

March 14, 2023

The federal awards enable the extension of two separate Brown initiatives with a shared goal: to prepare students from underrepresented groups to succeed in STEM graduate programs and launch careers in the sciences.

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Social Sciences

Brown Ph.D. student uncovers early evidence of brain surgery in Ancient Near East

February 22, 2023

A recent excavation in Megiddo, Israel, unearthed the earliest example of a particular type of cranial surgery in the Ancient Near East — and potentially one of the oldest examples of leprosy in the world.

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Science and Technology

Brown researchers develop new, automated, powerful diagnostic tool for drug detection

February 10, 2023

The work by a research team made up largely of Brown graduate and undergraduate students addresses a critical biomedical need and has the potential to be widely adapted by clinicians to monitor antidepressants in patients.

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Science and Technology

Study offers neurological explanation for how brains bias partisans against new information

February 1, 2023

People who share a political ideology have more similar ‘neural fingerprints’ of political words and process new information in similar ways, according to a new analysis led by Brown University researchers.

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Arts and Humanities

Student-curated MFA Boston exhibition spotlights long-forgotten female Flemish painter

December 7, 2022

As part of a hands-on graduate practicum course, six Ph.D. students played a major role in curating an exhibition of 17th-century paintings by the female Flemish master Michaelina Wautier.

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News and Events

Brown renames Graduate School diversity fellowships in honor of first Black Ph.D. alumna

November 29, 2022

The Mae Belle Williamson Simmons Diversity Fellowships honor the legacy of a trailblazing Providence native whose lasting impact on the field of child psychology belied a life and career that were cut short.

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News and Events

At 259th Opening Convocation, Brown opens its gates to a new class

September 10, 2022

As students commenced their Brown academic careers, President Christina H. Paxson and Dean of the School of Engineering Tejal Desai urged them to seek out new perspectives and immerse themselves in research.

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Student Life

Brown’s newest students, by the numbers

September 2, 2022

A total of 3,203 new undergraduate, graduate and medical students begin studies at Brown this fall — here’s a look at who is arriving on College Hill.

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Environment

Nina Lee: Investigating the impact of noise pollution on children’s health outcomes

August 30, 2022

As a research assistant in the Brown Community Noise Lab, Nina Lee has spent years monitoring noise levels across New England, advocating for environmental justice every step of the way.

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News and Events

Academic strength, inclusion and collaboration among top priorities of Graduate School's interim dean

July 18, 2022

Thomas A. Lewis will lead the school by tapping into the values that distinguish the graduate education experience at Brown — productive collaboration, effective communication and comprehensive student support.

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News and Events

Recent Brown alumni, current graduate students awarded 28 Fulbright Scholarships

June 16, 2022

In Fall 2022, 28 awardees of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program will begin teaching assignments or independent research projects in 16 countries across the world.

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News and Events

In three ceremonies, medical, doctoral and master’s graduates celebrate hard-earned degrees

May 29, 2022

In addresses at Brown’s Commencement ceremonies on Sunday, May 29, student speakers entreated their peers to make a positive impact using lessons they had learned during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News and Events

In return to Brown, 2020 doctoral and master’s graduates reflect on two years of perseverance

May 28, 2022

Alumni who received their doctoral and master’s degrees in 2020 experienced Commencement and Reunion the way they’d long hoped to — across multiple days, in-person and surrounded by loved ones on College Hill.

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2020 doctoral and master’s degree speakers to return to College Hill for in-person addresses

May 19, 2022

Mira Nikolova and Abdullah Shihipar, who respectively earned a Ph.D. and master’s from Brown in 2020, will return to campus to address their fellow alumni during a dedicated Commencement ceremony on Saturday, May 28.

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Graduate School speakers to embrace vulnerability, the unexpected at Commencement

May 17, 2022

As Brown celebrates Commencement 2022, Jiuyang Bai and Amelia Spalter will address their peers in separate Ph.D. and master’s ceremonies on College Hill on Sunday, May 29.

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News and Events

Brown providing comprehensive support for current and incoming Ukrainian students

May 5, 2022

In the wake of the war in Ukraine, the University is supporting Ukrainian students with financial assistance, summer housing, counseling and more.

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Science and Technology

Differences between the Moon’s near and far sides linked to colossal ancient impact

April 8, 2022

New research shows how the impact that created the Moon’s South Pole–Aitken basin is linked to the stark contrast in composition and appearance between the two sides of the Moon.

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Brown Ph.D. student working to correct skin color bias in pulse oximeters

April 7, 2022

Pulse oximeters often provide inaccurate readings for people with darker skin, a significant health disparity that physics Ph.D. student Rutendo Jakachira is working to eliminate.

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Science and Technology

Seen and ‘herd’: Collective motion in crowds is largely determined by participants’ field of vision

March 21, 2022

Researchers at Brown University developed a new model to predict human flocking behavior based on optics and other sensory data.

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News and Events

Andrew Campbell to step down as Graduate School dean, return to Brown faculty

March 11, 2022

After he finishes a six-year term in June, the accomplished leader who expanded enrollment, funding and student support at Brown’s Graduate School will return to teaching and research as a professor of medical science.

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News and Events

Nobel Prize-winning Class of 1991 Ph.D. alumnus returns to Brown to discuss research in causal relationships

March 2, 2022

As part of the Lemley lecture series, Brown Ph.D. graduate and Nobel Laureate Guido Imbens explained how natural experiments can be used to determine cause and effect.

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University Initiatives

Brown launches online-only master’s degree in public health

February 23, 2022

An innovative new version of Brown’s MPH program, delivered exclusively online, will expand access to a top public health education for learners nationally and around the world.

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Science and Technology

For physics Ph.D. student, exploring the unknown universe and mentoring the next generation

February 7, 2022

An active voice for women in physics, Brown graduate student Farrah Simpson will conduct research related to the Large Hadron Collider, the world’s most powerful particle accelerator, as a 2022 Graduate Scholar at Fermilab.

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Science and Technology

Brown physics student earns Ph.D. at age 89

November 12, 2021

After a 30-year career in medicine, Manfred Steiner returned to the classroom to fulfill a lifelong dream of becoming a physicist.

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Arts and Humanities

Conversations on COVID: Studying the pandemic through cartoons

October 28, 2021

A free lesson plan created by Brown Ph.D. student Michael Dorney uses political cartoons to teach high school students about American politics and society in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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News and Events

Brown launches master’s program in data-enabled computational engineering and science

September 2, 2021

A new one-year master’s program will take a deep dive into the state-of-the-art simulation, modeling and data science techniques widely used across engineering disciplines.

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Brown’s newest students, by the numbers

September 2, 2021

A total of 3,038 new undergraduate, graduate and medical students will begin studies at Brown University next week — here’s a look at who is arriving on College Hill.

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