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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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Arts and Humanities

From medieval manuscripts to 19th-century laundry, student researchers find history in the Hay

September 4, 2025

The John Hay Library Undergraduate Fellowship Program offers Brown students a unique summer opportunity to engage in intensive, self-guided research with one-on-one support from library mentors.

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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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Environment

Sophia Wu: Crab wrangler, ocean dreamer

July 30, 2025

Brown sophomore Sophia Wu is spending her summer at Save the Bay in Rhode Island, wrangling crabs, supporting summer camps for kids and exploring a future in marine science.

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Student Life

At Brown, independent concentrators pursue academic paths as unique as their ambitions

May 19, 2025

In this Q&A, four Brown students reflect on the experience of designing their own concentrations that defy conventional categories, from empathy in practice to computational neuroscience.

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News and Events

Brown students, recent alumni earn prestigious graduate scholarships

April 25, 2025

Three Brown University undergraduates and two recent alumni were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Truman, Gates Cambridge and Ellison scholars.

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Student Life

Photos: Quiet Green turns clamorous with ancient Egyptian battle reenactment at Brown

April 18, 2025

As the culminating project of Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare, more than 90 Brown students participated in a student-led, live-action reconstruction of the 13th-century B.C.E. Battle of Kadesh.

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Health and Medicine

Research showcase celebrates the innovation and ideas of Brown public health students

April 8, 2025

National Public Health Week offered students at Brown’s School of Public Health the opportunity to discuss the impact of their research projects and learn about the work of others.

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News and Events

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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Student Life

Kanayo Duru: The Brunonian behind the baton has a heart that beats for music and medicine

March 4, 2025

The Brown University senior and head conductor of the Brown Band embraces a wide range of musical, academic and volunteer pursuits as he marches toward a career in medicine.

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Social Sciences

Meet the Brown student who created New York City’s popular new traffic tracker

February 7, 2025

With support from Brown economist Emily Oster, senior Benjamin Moshes and his brother developed a website that visualizes the impacts to drivers of New York City’s recently launched congestion-pricing program.

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News and Events

Three Brown seniors awarded prestigious fellowships for global learning opportunities

January 28, 2025

Through the Marshall Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholarship and Pickering Fellowship, three members of the Class of 2025 will depart Rhode Island for the global stage to pursue international graduate studies and careers.

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Health and Medicine

Searching for cures for antibiotic resistance on the road to scientific and personal discovery

January 16, 2025

In an intensive Winter Session course at Brown, undergraduates learned lab techniques and performed experiments as they sought breakthrough discoveries to inform future antibiotic treatments.

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Arts and Humanities

Art history detectives for a semester, Brown students research mystery of the ‘Black Gospel Window’

December 20, 2024

In a hands-on history of art and architecture course, students researched a stained-glass window uncovered in a local church, which may be the first representation of a Black Christ and gospel women.

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Arts and Humanities

From the Lab: Christelle Alvarez illuminates ancient Egyptian insights, encoded in hieroglyphs

December 19, 2024

A collaboration between an Egyptologist and data scientists at Brown aims to make the Pyramid Texts, the world’s oldest surviving corpus of religious texts, widely accessible to a modern audience.

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News and Events

Brown University senior Ariana Palomo named one of nation’s 32 Rhodes Scholars

November 16, 2024

A concentrator in international and public affairs and Latin American and Caribbean studies, Palomo will pursue a graduate degree at Oxford through one of the most prestigious awards for international study.

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News and Events

Dean of the College Rashid Zia to conclude term, return to Brown faculty

October 24, 2024

After a seven-year tenure marked by his commitment to students and expanded access to learning and research opportunities for Brown’s undergraduates, Zia will end his term as dean in June 2025.

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Arts and Humanities

Renovated Andrews House reopens its doors as new humanities hub at Brown

September 24, 2024

A breathtaking renovation has transformed the historic building, which housed Brown’s Health Services for eight decades, into a modern, collaborative and flexible space to advance humanities scholarship.

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News and Events

Higher education rankings place Brown among world’s top universities, employers

September 24, 2024

From U.S. News and World Report to Forbes and Princeton Review, prominent rankings and surveys in the last year gave Brown high marks for its distinctive student experience and high-impact teaching and research.

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Environment

How do coexisting animals find enough to eat? Biologists unlock insights into foraging habits in Yellowstone

September 19, 2024

Brown University ecologists teamed with National Park Service scientists in Yellowstone to answer a vexing question about how different wildlife species find enough to eat.

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Science and Technology

From the Lab: Brown chemical biologists impact health by focusing on the molecular level

September 11, 2024

By understanding tiny, powerful molecules, a collaborative research team led by Professor of Chemistry Ming Xian develops innovative chemical tools that could lead to new medical treatments.

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Student Life

Student-curated exhibition explores history of LGBTQ student experiences at Brown

June 21, 2024

"So That We May Write and Be Heard," on view at Stonewall House, unearths and expands on a decades-old collection of collaborative journals written by students at Brown, and adds alumni reflections.

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Arts and Humanities

Student research sheds light on history of Andrews House on Brown campus

May 15, 2024

As Brown’s Cogut Institute for the Humanities prepares to move into Andrews House, the institute engaged two undergraduates in a semester-long research internship to explore the building’s history and significance.

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Health and Medicine

Students from Brown University and Tougaloo College investigate public health challenges in rural areas

April 25, 2024

An innovative course is bringing together students in Rhode Island and Mississippi to conduct an impactful public health research project focused on a rural community in Gloster, Mississippi.

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Health and Medicine

‘ScanFest’ sessions teach students the ins and outs of using an MRI machine for research

April 18, 2024

As part of a class taught by Brown neuroscientist David Badre, undergraduates embrace the rare opportunity to conduct experiments and engage in research with state-of-the-art MRI technology.

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Health and Medicine

Research showcase brings to life the breadth and depth of public health research at Brown

April 2, 2024

National Public Health Week offered students at Brown’s School of Public Health the opportunity to discuss the impact of their research projects and learn about the work of others.

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Health and Medicine

Open for leading-edge science: New Brown wet labs open at Point 225 in Providence

March 26, 2024

The sixth floor of 225 Dyer St. has been outfitted with much-needed life sciences lab space to welcome Brown University researchers and encourage innovation and collaboration.

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Social Sciences

In public affairs course, Brown students offer policy recommendations to city facing prison closure

February 27, 2024

John Eason’s seminar gave 18 seniors the opportunity to collaborate with city officials in California, where they interviewed residents and explored ways to mitigate the negative economic impact of prison closure.

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News and Events

Brown senior awarded prestigious Kanders Churchill Scholarship for science policy

January 23, 2024

Maddie McCarthy is the first student from Brown to earn the award, which enables graduate study at the University of Cambridge in England.

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Arts and Humanities

Digging into Providence’s past, Brown’s in-demand Archaeology of College Hill course opens new site

December 6, 2023

After seven years of excavation at the former site of a 19th-century Providence family home, Brown students have begun searching for artifacts at a new location on campus.

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Science and Technology

Through real-world projects, Brown environmental course explores contemporary climate issues

December 6, 2023

Environmental Studies 0110 is both an introductory course on environmental change in the 21st century and a hands-on lab where students engage with how local communities and the natural environment intersect.

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Student Life

Alice Im: Called to advance public health and well-being through community engagement

September 20, 2023

Opportunities through Brown’s Swearer Center and the Brown-Tougaloo Partnership ignited the Brown senior’s passion for engaged community research and a focus on advancing public health.

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Science and Technology

Kyle Paul: From Vienna, India and Providence, advancing understanding of amphibian behavior

August 31, 2023

The rising Brown University junior and pre-med concentrator was eager to dive into field research to study how frog species respond to stimuli in their environment.

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Student Life

Eric Sorge: Leveraging synthetic biology to clean arsenic-poisoned water

August 24, 2023

Building on a deep interest in synthetic biology, the rising Brown University senior spent his summer helping to develop a sustainable alternative to arsenic detection and removal methods.

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News and Events

Leadership Alliance continues legacy of expanding research pathways and workforce opportunities

July 20, 2023

Seventy undergraduates from across the U.S. are engaging in research at Brown this summer through the Leadership Alliance, a nationwide consortium originally founded at the University in 1992.

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Environment

Eliza Atwood: Researching wildlife nutrition and migration patterns in Yellowstone

July 13, 2023

Knee-deep in prairie grasses, the rising Brown University senior is collecting plant samples and bison waste to expand biologists’ understanding of animal nutrition in the wild.

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Health and Medicine

Mind-body practice of qigong can improve cancer-related fatigue

May 24, 2023

A study led by Brown University researchers found that a low-impact, meditative movement program involving qigong was as effective as more standard exercise programs in improving cancer-related fatigue.

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News and Events

Four Brown students earn prestigious Goldwater Scholarship

April 27, 2023

Juniors Lucas Brito, Jordan Feldman, Tyler Lane and William Lin were awarded the scholarships, which recognize excellence in mathematics, engineering and natural sciences.

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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

Satellite built by Brown students and launched by SpaceX shows a low-cost way to reduce space junk

March 15, 2023

SBUDNIC, built by an academically diverse team of students using off-the-shelf parts, was confirmed to have successfully operated in orbit, demonstrating a practical, low-cost method to cut down on space debris.

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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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Arts and Humanities

In Archaeology of College Hill course, Brown students dig up Rhode Island history

December 20, 2022

Since 2015, students at Brown have been excavating a 19th-century Providence family home — unearthing stories about the booming local textile industry, the European immigrant experience and life in the Gilded Age.

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Science and Technology

With superconducting diodes, scholars advance work toward ultra-efficient quantum electronic devices

August 30, 2022

A research team including Brown University faculty and students created a superconducting diode without a magnetic field in multi-layer graphene, a development that could form the basis for future “lossless” electronics.

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Science and Technology

Allen Dufort: Coding a cutting-edge space telescope

August 25, 2022

As a software engineer intern, Allen Dufort is supporting a Brown physicist’s NASA-funded project to help build a telescope that will enable the study of distant planets.

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Science and Technology

Rebecca Ward-Diorio: Diving deep into research in the Galápagos

August 22, 2022

In a culmination of her Brown biology education, the rising senior is studying the biodiversity of marine life in the Galápagos Islands for the effects of decreased human presence due to the pandemic.

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Environment

Olivia McClain: Exploring hyperlocal air pollution in Providence

August 17, 2022

As a summer research assistant in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, McClain is supporting research and building community connections.

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Science and Technology

John Michael Slezak: Researching the risks, impacts of nuclear war with the Nuclear Threat Initiative

July 28, 2022

As a summer intern at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, D.C., the rising Brown junior is combining his love for science with a driving interest to ensure that policy decisions on complex issues are evidence-backed.

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Science and Technology

At home, on College Hill and off-campus, undergraduate research maintains momentum

July 15, 2022

From conducting fluid dynamics experiments in a home lab to spearheading a statewide COVID-19 relief plan, Brown undergraduate students pursued, developed and adapted research projects despite challenges posed by the pandemic.

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Health and Medicine

Communicating for impact: Public health students get comfortable talking about why their work matters

April 7, 2022

A poster conference during National Public Health Week offered Brown public health students the opportunity to discuss the significance of their research to the community — and to their own educational experience.

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Social Sciences

Uncovering an epidemic: Student journalists and data scientists chronicle Rhode Island’s opioid crisis

March 21, 2022

A team of Brown journalism and computer science students produced a series of stories, some published and broadcast by prominent outlets, providing new insights into the Ocean State’s opioid epidemic and its human toll.

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