Through the weeklong TRUE Orientation program, Brown’s newest nontraditional undergraduates connect, create and chart their course ahead as they arrive for their first semester on College Hill.
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Photos: From school visits to sports clinics, Brown Bears rally behind Providence kids
Through a series of outreach initiatives, Brown Athletics and the University’s student-athletes forge deeper connections between city residents and the campus community.
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Photos: Brown’s newest students arrive on campus for move-in day
Families and volunteers from across the University helped Brown’s newest students settle into their new homes on campus, launching a full week of New Student Orientation activities.
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Littman is working with colleagues to develop guidance for using AI in the classroom, looking for new opportunities in AI-enabled research and identifying how AI might help the University run even more effectively.
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Arts and Humanities
Nathan Winoto: From Brown University to a big Broadway break
Talent and tenacity landed a member of Brown’s Class of 2025 in New York, where he is co-producing the hit play “John Proctor Is The Villain.”
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Recent Highlights
All News To better understand how bubbles behave in space, Brown University doctoral student Madeline Federle goes to perilous and occasionally nauseating lengths.
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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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Since 2018, Brown University has hosted dozens of interns through PrepareRI, a statewide initiative that helps high schoolers explore careers, build skills and shape Rhode Island’s future workforce.
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The one-of-a-kind artifact in Brown University Library’s special collections offers students and scholars insights into the novelist’s writing process.
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The voluntary agreement preserves the ability for students and scholars to teach and learn without government intrusion, and includes a $50 million commitment from Brown to support workforce development in Rhode Island.
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Student Life
Nigel Evans: From Army boots to Arabic books
Inspired by his military service and driven by a desire to work internationally, the rising Brown University senior is spending the summer learning Arabic as a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholar.
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The Sustainable Education Research Initiative will build collaborations between scholars, policymakers and practitioners to generate insights that inform Pre-K-12 education policy and practice.
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Health and Medicine
Frances Moriniere: Rising early to advance sleep research in dream job
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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Arts and Humanities
Photos: Students master their mediums in summer art courses at Brown
From sculpture and digital media to drawing and painting, undergraduate students embrace creativity and advance their skills in visual art courses during the University’s Summer Session.
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Science and Technology
National Science Foundation renews Brown’s national mathematics institute with $16.5 million
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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Brown and Providence
Across education, research, community engagement and the economy, Brown University is deeply intertwined with its home city of Providence, Rhode Island. From improving medical care and public health, to supporting local schools and fueling the regional economy, Brown’s commitment to the success of the local community is reflected in many ways.
Research News
All News 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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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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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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Science and Technology
‘Bridge’ of stray stars reveals active merger of two galaxy clusters
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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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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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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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
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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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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Science and Technology
Faster topology optimization: An emerging industrial design technique gets a speed boost
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
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
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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Student Stories
See more stories The Brown Ph.D. student collaborates with psychologists and computer scientists across campus to find ways AI can support, but not replace, human-centered mental health counseling.
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Informed by her Nigerian-American identity and guided by her spiritual compass, the Brown University senior is advancing migration-policy research, humanitarian law and public service.
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Whether she’s captaining the men’s club hockey team or participating as the first openly autistic cast member on “Survivor,” the Brown graduate student in fluid and thermal science finds success in authenticity.
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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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Brown University senior Elijah Golden pursues a varied academic and extracurricular life at Brown while also performing and touring with his family’s three-generation country music band.
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As she investigates cancer treatments and pursues her own path toward becoming a physician-scientist, the Brown University doctoral student is supporting fellow Indigenous students interested in science and medicine.
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Wounded in a school shooting in California in 2019, the Brown sophomore has dedicated herself to preventing gun violence nationwide, harnessing her education at Brown to forge a career in advocacy.
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Through determination, courage and a supportive community, LePage is flourishing as a nontraditional student at Brown and using her own experiences to help others on campus and beyond.
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Through the installation of educational public art in urban neighborhoods, the Brown sophomore hopes to inspire mutual understanding of the blind and visually impaired community.
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From a small farm in Hawaii to College Hill to the corridors of the White House, Brown senior Kaliko Kalāhiki is making inroads as an advocate for Indigenous sovereignty, queer visibility and sustainable land use.
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Science and Technology
Eric Ewing: Helping multi-robot research lift off at Brown and beyond
Advancing a commitment to accessible robotics education, the Ph.D. student is researching how to simultaneously control multiple drones and teaching others how to build and operate them.
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