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Health and Medicine

In recognition of generous gift, Brown University names the Giuliani RNA Center

September 29, 2025

The investment from Brown parents Giammaria and Sabrina Giuliani will support scholars seeking to unlock the potential of RNA to make a positive impact on human health.

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News and Events

Brown researchers bring bold ideas to life at Innovation@Brown Showcase

September 25, 2025

During Rhode Island Startup Week, faculty and student entrepreneurs pitched new technologies and connected with investors, partners and industry experts to turn cutting-edge research into real-world solutions.

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News and Events

Brown ranks among nation’s top universities

September 23, 2025

From LinkedIn to Forbes to the Princeton Review, prominent rankings and lists in the last year recognized Brown for its student experience, high-impact research, career preparation and role as a top employer.

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News and Events

Rhode Island Startup Week to spotlight Brown faculty and student ventures

September 15, 2025

Held from Sept. 18 to 26, the annual celebration of entrepreneurship and innovation will feature bold ideas and breakthrough technologies from Brown researchers and inventors.

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Social Sciences

New study: School finance reforms increased funding inequities based on student race and ethnicity

September 10, 2025

Brown University sociologist Emily Rauscher co-led an analysis that uncovered the failure of state-led school finance reforms to address funding disparities based on the racial and ethnic composition of students.

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Science and Technology

New research suggests path toward more durable smartphones and flexible electronics

September 9, 2025

Researchers from Brown University’s School of Engineering have discovered new details about how destructive cracks form in flexible electronic devices — and how to prevent them.

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Health and Medicine

Private equity's consolidation of opioid treatment market fails to expand methadone access

September 8, 2025

A study led by Brown University researchers showed that a push from private equity investors into opioid treatment programs concentrates ownership without increasing methadone supply.

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Science and Technology

Researchers uncover similarities between human and AI learning

September 4, 2025

By working to understand how new AI systems integrate flexible and incremental learning, researchers gained insights about the human brain.

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Science and Technology

Shaky cameras can make for sharper shots, new research shows

September 4, 2025

A new imaging technique turns motion blur into an advantage, using a jiggling camera and a clever algorithm to create super-resolution images sharper than would be possible with a steady camera.

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Health and Medicine

Despite vast ideological differences, political extremists exhibit similar brain processing

August 28, 2025

A new study shows that when processing political content, the brains of people with extreme views — regardless whether they identify as left or right — show more similarities than those of political centrists.

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Health and Medicine

Extinct human relatives left a genetic gift that helped people thrive in the Americas

August 21, 2025

A new study found that a gene passed down from extinct archaic humans provided an adaptive advantage for Indigenous people of the Americas and is still common today in people of Indigenous descent.

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Health and Medicine

Topping-off ceremony at Brown celebrates future laboratories for integrated life sciences research

August 20, 2025

On schedule for completion in 2027, Danoff Laboratories will convene scientists to solve complex health and medical challenges and spur economic growth in Providence’s Jewelry District.

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Health and Medicine

Even a few mutated cells can significantly impact how blood cancers develop, study finds

August 7, 2025

New findings about the effect of certain mutated cells on the entire blood-forming system and its environment could change how doctors treat patients with blood cancers.

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Health and Medicine

Frances Moriniere: Rising early to advance sleep research in dream job

August 6, 2025

This summer, Brown junior Frances Moriniere is training as a sleep scientist through the Sleep Apprenticeship program at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Bradley Hospital.

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Science and Technology

‘Bridge’ of stray stars reveals active merger of two galaxy clusters

August 5, 2025

In a preview of observations that will be made routinely by the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, astronomers found evidence indicating that a galaxy cluster is merging, a first for a nearby (astronomically speaking) cluster.

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Science and Technology

National Science Foundation renews Brown’s national mathematics institute with $16.5 million

August 4, 2025

The grant will fund the Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics through 2030, offering opportunities to explore mathematical concepts that underpin everything from AI to industrial design.

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Health and Medicine

Brown University neuroscientists help identify a biomarker for Alzheimer’s disease progression

August 1, 2025

Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science have identified electrical activity in the brain that could predict progression to Alzheimer’s disease.

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Health and Medicine

Empowering graduate students to think entrepreneurially about brain technology

August 1, 2025

Graduate students from Brown University and Ben-Gurion University put their brains together in a unique summer practicum to invent and pitch ideas for neurotechnology startups.

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Health and Medicine

How hot is too hot for health? Brown emergency room doctor shares heat-related red flags

July 30, 2025

Amid cresting heat waves around the globe, Dr. Katelyn Moretti of the Warren Alpert Medical School relays the risks of high temperatures and how to keep cool and prevent dehydration.

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Science and Technology

Brown University to lead national institute focused on intuitive, trustworthy AI assistants

July 29, 2025

A new institute, based at Brown and supported by a $20 million National Science Foundation grant, will convene researchers to guide development of a new generation of AI assistants for use in mental and behavioral health.

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Health and Medicine

$1.3 million grant to Brown to expand research on the role of blood-brain barrier in decision making

July 18, 2025

Researchers from Brown’s Carney Institute will investigate how the blood-brain barrier is involved in transmitting information to the brain, informing potential treatments for brain diseases and disorders.

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Science and Technology

Divers led by Brown marine biologist discover surprising changes to offshore kelp forest

July 18, 2025

A research trip to a biodiversity hotspot in the Gulf of Maine underscores the importance of continued monitoring of marine ecosystems.

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Health and Medicine

New research challenges animal dietary classifications in Yellowstone National Park

July 14, 2025

A federally funded analysis led by Brown University biologists found that different species of large herbivores have diets that are more diverse and complex than previously known.

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News and Events

Brown ranks again among top universities securing new patents for research discoveries

July 9, 2025

Brown University scholars work to turn breakthroughs and discoveries into technologies that enhance lives, placing the University among the nation’s top utility patent holders in 2024.

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Science and Technology

Faster topology optimization: An emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost

July 2, 2025

A new algorithm helps topology optimizers skip unnecessary iterations, making optimization and design faster, more stable and more useful.

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Health and Medicine

Antimicrobial common in everyday items linked to allergic conditions in children

July 2, 2025

Researchers at Brown University’s School of Public Health found that children exposed to higher levels of triclosan may be more likely to develop eczema and allergy symptoms.

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Health and Medicine

Brown University researchers discover how people gossip without getting caught

July 1, 2025

Researchers at the Carney Institute for Brain Science spill the tea about the complicated mental computations that allow people to gossip successfully.

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Arts and Humanities

Beyond the pages: John Carter Brown Library exhibition celebrates the making of rare books

June 27, 2025

“Elemental: Crafting Books from Nature” is an ode to the physical book, exploring thousands of years of practical knowledge and natural resources that led to the production of books.

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News and Events

Brown scientist to Congress: Quantum science investments will boost economy, protect national security

June 25, 2025

Speaking before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee, Brown University chemist and physicist Brenda Rubenstein called America’s universities “incubators that grow the future quantum workforce.”

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Health and Medicine

Molecular-level discovery about heart mechanisms could lead to new heart disease treatments

June 25, 2025

Brown University biologists found that when a protein called AIMP3 was removed from heart cells in mice, it led to severe heart problems.

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Social Sciences

‘Subjects of the Sun’: Shining a light on obstacles, opportunities of equitable renewable energy

June 24, 2025

Brown University environmental anthropologist Myles Lennon examines the complexity of sustainable energy infrastructure and explores solar solutions for working-class communities.

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News and Events

Brown University professor wins prestigious Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award

June 24, 2025

Xinsheng Sean Ling will travel to the University of Buenos Aires to study phase transitions in type-II superconductors.

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News and Events

New research uncovers surprising physics of ‘marine snow’

June 20, 2025

Engineering scholars at Brown University uncovered unexpected dynamics in how organic particulates sink in the ocean, a process that plays a key role in marine nutrient cycling.

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Health and Medicine

Clear understanding of social connections propels strivers up the social ladder

June 20, 2025

When it comes to social influence, knowing how people are connected matters more than simply knowing lots of people, found researchers from Brown University’s Carney Institute for Brain Science.

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Environment

New research casts doubt on ancient drying of northern Africa’s climate

June 20, 2025

The study challenges the idea that the climate of northern Africa dried out around 3 million years ago, a time when the earliest known hominids appear in the fossil record.

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Health and Medicine

Translational science showcase highlights RNA’s promise to improve human health

June 17, 2025

At a Brown University symposium hosted by Rhode Island’s federally funded IDeA programs, biomedical scientists shared how they’re turning discoveries into treatments.

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Social Sciences

The history behind Brown historian’s Pulitzer finalist ‘Plantation Goods’

June 17, 2025

Inspired by his scholarship and teaching at Brown, Seth Rockman uncovered an unknown facet of pre-Civil War history that he detailed in an acclaimed book.

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News and Events

Brown joins federal lawsuit challenging reductions to Department of Defense grant funding

June 16, 2025

Legal action aims to block funding limits that would jeopardize Brown’s work to support national security and American scientific innovation through research in engineering, mathematics, physics and chemistry.

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Health and Medicine

Brown researchers focus on expanding access to pediatric OCD treatment they helped pioneer

June 16, 2025

Psychiatry scholars who helped create the gold-standard treatment for pediatric OCD are developing more innovative and accessible delivery methods.

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Science and Technology

With potential implications for mechanical systems, study reveals physics of ‘nick shot’ in squash

June 12, 2025

A new study, born out of an interest in using science to explain the everyday world, shows how competing forces conspire to keep the ball from bouncing, making it impossible for an opponent to return.

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News and Events

60 years of planetary science discoveries at Brown, from the Moon to Mercury to Mars

June 10, 2025

Faculty and alumni from across six decades reflected on Brown University’s impact as an international hub for solar system exploration and planetary science.

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Social Sciences

Q&A with David Kertzer: What it means to have an American pope

June 10, 2025

After the white smoke cleared, Brown papal historian David Kertzer reflected on the significance of an American pope, how the Catholic Church could change and how Italians are responding to Pope Leo XIV.

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News and Events

Brown joins amicus brief detailing how federal research cuts imperil America’s global competitiveness

June 9, 2025

Brown and 23 fellow research institutions filed an amicus brief in support of Harvard University’s lawsuit challenging a funding freeze imposed by the federal government.

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Health and Medicine

Outbreak tracker from Pandemic Center at Brown informs action, builds awareness on infectious disease

June 5, 2025

The user-friendly weekly report provides valuable information about the spread of infectious diseases like measles, influenza and COVID-19 to physicians, public health leaders and the public.

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Environment

Air-quality monitoring underestimates toxic emissions to Salton Sea communities, study finds

June 2, 2025

Researchers showed that hydrogen sulfide, which is associated with numerous health conditions, is emitted from California’s largest lake at levels far higher and more frequently than previously reported.

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Social Sciences

Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes

May 29, 2025

An ancient DNA study co-authored by Brown archaeologist Peter van Dommelen illustrates the complexity of human migration and identity shifts over time.

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Arts and Humanities

With $2 million Mellon grant, Brown scholars will unearth a treasure trove of African poetry

May 28, 2025

With support from a Mellon Foundation grant, Brown researchers will build a database of African poetry, complete with poet biographies, scholarship, news coverage and more.

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Science and Technology

Brown University undergraduates harness ‘spooky’ quantum effects for 3D holography imaging

May 21, 2025

Two Brown students developed a new technique called Quantum Multi-Wavelength Holography, which creates high-fidelity 3D images using quantum entangled photons.

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Science and Technology

Streaked slopes on Mars probably not signs of water flow, study finds

May 19, 2025

Researchers analyzed a global database of 500,000 strange streaks that occur on steep Martian slopes, concluding that they’re most likely caused by dry processes rather than liquid flow.

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Science and Technology

What lies beneath: Using rock blasted from craters to probe the Martian subsurface

May 14, 2025

By analyzing how far material ejected from an impact crater flies, scientists can locate buried glaciers and other interesting subsurface features.

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