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Brown to confer seven honorary degrees

April 24, 2018

Brown University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of scholars, community leaders, activists and artists during its 250th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 27.

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First-year Brown student captures ‘Jeopardy!’ college championship

April 22, 2018

From a field of 15 championship qualifiers from universities across the country, Georgia native Dhruv Gaur won big in this year's tournament.

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Brown assessing new plans toward net-zero carbon emissions

April 21, 2018

With the University nearing its sustainability goals for 2020 and the threat of climate change growing more severe, Brown is evaluating plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

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New theory shows how strain makes for better catalysts

April 20, 2018

A new theory of how compression and tension can affect the reactivity of metal catalysts could be helpful in designing new and better catalysts.

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Brown alumni capture Pulitzers for fiction, non-fiction

April 19, 2018

Andrew Sean Greer landed honors for his novel, 'Less,' while James Forman Jr. earned the nonfiction prize for 'Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.'

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Research Achievement Awards honor accomplished Brown scholars

April 19, 2018

The annual award program recognizes the research and scholarship of both longtime and early-career faculty members.

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Photos: A Day on College Hill 2018

April 18, 2018

For the first time, Brown organized two weekends of introductory experiences and activities for students admitted to the University's Class of 2022.

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Health and Medicine

$100 million gift to Brown will name Carney Institute for Brain Science, advance discoveries and cures

April 18, 2018

One of the single largest gifts in University history will drive research into brain and nerve disorders and establish one of the best-endowed brain institutes in the country.

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Faculty and student voices: Brown's brain scientists talk about the brain as 'final frontier'

April 18, 2018

Through interviews, faculty and students share in their own words how the distinctive approach to research at Brown is unlocking the complexity of the brain.

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Brown celebrates a thriving set of partnerships with Providence schools

April 17, 2018

The Fund for the Education of the Children of Providence marks its five-year anniversary this spring — but it’s just one illustration of the many ways in which Brown and the city’s schools work together to enrich educational opportunities.

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Photos: Classroom visits at the D'Abate Elementary School

April 17, 2018

A visit to the William D'Abate Elementary School offered Brown President Christina Paxson the opportunity to meet with both D'Abate students and the Brown students who teach chess, crafts and more as part of an after-school partnership run by the University's Swearer Center.

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Brown junior named Truman Scholar

April 12, 2018

Dorothy Jiang, one of only 59 undergraduates nationwide to receive the prestigious public service scholarship, will use it to further her work as a community advocate and policymaker.

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Arts and Humanities

Literary luminaries to convene at Brown to honor Robert Coover’s writing and advocacy

April 10, 2018

With an all-star lineup and a range of free public events, the three-day International Fiction Now festival at Brown will celebrate Coover’s teaching, literary inventions and activism.

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Social Sciences

Mellon grant to fund preservation, reorganization of Native American collections

April 9, 2018

A new $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will increase scholarly and public access to the Haffenreffer Museum’s collections.

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Science and Technology

Scientists call for more rigor in forensic science

April 9, 2018

A Perspectives article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for “more science in forensic science.”

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Social Sciences

Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab at Brown transitioning to a state-focused policy research center

April 6, 2018

State of Rhode Island, Brown University to create a data-driven policymaking and research center.

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Thirty Brown students, alumni win prestigious NSF fellowships

April 6, 2018

The Graduate Research Fellowship Program provides tuition support and a stipend for promising young STEM leaders.

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Brown alumna Ellen Stofan to head National Air and Space Museum

April 5, 2018

Stofan, a former chief scientist at NASA who earned her Ph.D. in geology from Brown in 1989, will be the first woman to lead what is one of the world’s most widely visited museums.

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First-year student to represent Brown on ‘Jeopardy!’ college championship

April 5, 2018

A year after scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT and earning admission to Brown, Georgia native Dhruv Gaur will represent the University beginning on Tuesday, April 10.

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Environment

Brown faculty member to play leadership role on global climate change report

April 5, 2018

Baylor Fox-Kemper will be a coordinating lead author for a key chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next global climate assessment report.

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Brown to host fifth annual robot block party

April 5, 2018

From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Sunday to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.

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Arts and Humanities

Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy to deliver Casey Shearer Lecture

April 5, 2018

On Wednesday, April 18, the Emmy Award-winning director and producer will visit Brown to speak about her work making films about some of the world’s most pressing issues.

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Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to visit Brown on April 25

April 4, 2018

In the 97th Ogden Memorial Lecture, the former governor and U.S. presidential candidate will discuss the need to rebuild U.S. institutions and support opportunities for success for all Americans.

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Arts and Humanities

City approval enables Brown to proceed with revised performing arts center plan

April 2, 2018

The Providence City Plan Commission approved an amendment to Brown’s Institutional Master Plan, allowing the University to take the next step toward creating a new academic center for the performing arts.

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Health and Medicine

National Public Health Week to spotlight Brown’s impact on pressing public health issues

March 29, 2018

With a diverse lineup of National Public Health Week events starting on April 2, Dean Bess Marcus shares her thoughts on Brown’s role in advancing public health through research and education.

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With record applications, Brown admits 2,566 to Class of 2022

March 28, 2018

The University made offers of admission to next year’s incoming undergraduate class, the first to be admitted under the Brown Promise initiative, which will eliminate loans from University undergraduate aid packages.

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Health and Medicine

Researchers identify new class of antibiotics with potential to fight ‘superbugs’

March 28, 2018

Using computer simulations and laboratory experiments, a Brown-led team of scientists found a new class of antibiotics with the potential to treat MRSA and other infections that are increasingly resistant to traditional antibiotics.

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Science and Technology

Mitochondrial replacement moratorium should be reconsidered, researchers say

March 28, 2018

Professors from Brown’s medical school and Harvard’s law school urge the U.S. to allow for the replacement of mutation-bearing mitochondria to prevent fatal illnesses in children.

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Topping-off ceremony celebrates Innovation Center, future home for Brown’s SPS

March 27, 2018

Brown’s School of Professional Studies will join fellow tenants Johnson & Johnson and the Cambridge Innovation Center in the Jewelry District building being developed by Wexford Science & Technology.

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Environment

Brown to explore pressing environmental issues in ‘WeatherProof’ series

March 22, 2018

A series of public events and exhibitions staged in April by five University partner programs will confront climate change from a wide variety of perspectives.

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Health and Medicine

Focus on early stage of illness may be key to treating ALS, study suggests

March 19, 2018

Many inhibitory neurons were lost early in the development of ALS, new research shows, which is in sharp contrast to other degenerative diseases.

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Health and Medicine

Brown medical students celebrate Match Day

March 16, 2018

At Match Day 2018, a record 118 Brown students were placed in medical residency programs across the country.

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Arts and Humanities

Restored films and fresh gelato — Brown’s Il Cinema Ritrovato on Tour

March 16, 2018

The fifth edition of the annual film festival features cinematic gems, live music and gelato custom-created by a master ice cream maker to pair with what’s showing on screen.

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Science and Technology

After 7 years of work, Brown’s student satellite is cleared for NASA launch

March 15, 2018

A small satellite, designed and built by Brown undergraduates, will launch on an Antares rocket from Wallops Island, Virginia, on May 20.

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Photos: National School Walkout at Brown

March 14, 2018

As high school students and others gather nationwide on the one-month anniversary of the Parkland shooting, hundreds of Brown community members convened on the College Green to call for increased attention to gun violence.

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Health and Medicine

Study reveals vision’s role in vowel perception

March 13, 2018

In a study based at Brown University, researchers found that the motion and configuration of a speaker’s lips are key components of the information people gather when distinguishing vowels in speech.

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Dean of the College Maud S. Mandel named 18th president of Williams College

March 13, 2018

After 20 years on the Brown faculty and a four-year tenure stewarding the academic experience for Brown's 6,500 undergraduates, Mandel will lead Williams as president beginning in July 2018.

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Health and Medicine

ADHD drugs increase brain glutamate, predict positive emotion in healthy people

March 12, 2018

The findings by Brown University scientists offer clues about how misused drugs affect healthy brains and hint at an undiscovered link between glutamate and mood.

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Brown physicist advises on space-time physics for ‘A Wrinkle in Time’ film

March 12, 2018

Stephon Alexander, professor of physics at Brown, helped bring the strange science of Madeleine L’Engle’s classic novel to the big screen.

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Social Sciences

Brown launches engaged scholarship programs in Tulsa, Oklahoma

March 9, 2018

Through a partnership with the George Kaiser Family Foundation, the University is offering new fellowship opportunities for undergraduate and graduate students focused on policy and community engagement.

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Brown University statement on men's swim team sanctions

March 9, 2018

Men's varsity swimming and diving team suspended following investigation into hazing allegations.

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Health and Medicine

Brain Week to bring brain-themed films, forums and fun to Brown

March 9, 2018

Backed by the Brown Institute for Brain Science and organized by a neuroscience postdoc, the weeklong series of talks, film screenings, art shows and fairs aims to make brain research fun, educational and accessible.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown statement on cancellation of Rosa Parks exhibit

March 8, 2018

Out of respect for the memory of the civil rights icon, Brown will not display a Detroit house that is involved in a dispute among external parties.

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Science and Technology

New approach to measuring stickiness could aid micro-device design

March 7, 2018

At the scale of microdevices, adhesion is one of the most important forces that engineers need to contend with — Brown University researchers have come up with a new way to measure it.

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Arts and Humanities

Cornel West urges students to confront ‘bleak’ historical moment with compassion, integrity

March 6, 2018

In a visit to Brown University, the professor, author and activist spoke about the need to attend to the suffering of others and hold oneself to a high moral standard.

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Two Brown students, one alumnus earn prestigious awards for graduate study

March 2, 2018

Knight-Hennessy and Keasbey fellowships will allow the young scholars to pursue graduate study and research at Stanford and Oxford universities.

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Science and Technology

Research details mineralogy of potential lunar exploration site

February 28, 2018

Scientists have long wanted to retrieve rock samples from the Moon’s South Pole-Aitken basin, and a new study could be helpful in locating an ideal landing site.

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Beverly Ledbetter, Brown’s long-time chief legal officer, to retire

February 28, 2018

Since becoming the University’s first general counsel in 1978, Ledbetter has been instrumental in helping Brown navigate a spectrum of issues and initiatives.

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Ban Ki-moon urges global citizenship, partnership to solve world’s pressing problems

February 27, 2018

The former secretary-general of the United Nations encouraged U.S. citizens to look beyond their borders — and to women and young people — to find solutions to global climate change, poverty and war.

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Environment

New understanding of ocean turbulence could improve climate models

February 26, 2018

Researchers have developed a new statistical understanding of how turbulent flows called mesoscale eddies dissipate their energy, which could be helpful in creating better ocean and climate models.

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