As assistant vice president and executive director of health and wellness, Brown-trained physician and master’s alumna, and longtime Wellesley College health services director will oversee all medical and mental health services for students.
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Focus on lack of CLOCK protein may hold keys to future epilepsy treatments
A new study reports that some children with epilepsy lack a protein called CLOCK, which appears to disrupt the inhibition of excitatory neurons in the brain region where their seizures originate.
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Science and Technology
Where food is limited, guppy mothers gestate their young longer
When evolving in environments where a lack of predators makes food scarcity the main survival challenge, guppy mothers gestate their young longer so that they are born more ready to compete for their meals.
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Experts call for more rigor, less hype, for mindfulness and meditation
A group of 15 researchers has published a ‘critical evaluation and prescriptive agenda’ to improve research, clinical practice and neuroscience studies of mindfulness and meditation.
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Exceptional research earns DARPA fellowships for four young faculty
The prestigious awards from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency provide up to $500,000 in research funding for each of the Brown faculty members.
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For the second time since Brown’s faculty voted to change Fall Weekend to Indigenous People’s Day, an open-to-the-public gathering on Sunday will mark the occasion with community-building and celebration.
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Building on the goals of its diversity and inclusion plan, Brown looks to contribute toward a more diverse world of professionals in academia and beyond.
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A new $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will fund a yearlong seminar series examining how we have arrived at current understandings of race and indigeneity in North and South America.
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Doctoral students selected for national program to shape health policy
Graduate students Chinyere Agbai and Arjee Restar have earned competitive national awards from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to support their studies to improve health for underserved populations.
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In hurricane’s wake, a medical crisis plagues Puerto Rico
Since Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico, Dr. Janice Santos, assistant professor of surgery and a physician with Brown Urology, has been working to help provide relief where an urgent medical crisis continues.
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Science and Technology
What Earth’s climate system and topological insulators have in common
New research shows that equatorial waves — pulses of warm ocean water that play a role in regulating Earth’s climate — are driven by the same dynamics as the exotic materials known as topological insulators.
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Working in Brown University’s Center for Computation and Visualization, application scientist Benjamin Knorlein, here with visiting scientist Tom Sgouros, helps turn research data into virtual reality.
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By the close of the fiscal year on June 30, the endowment had contributed $179 million to the University, representing approximately $19,000 per student and 18 percent of Brown’s operating budget.
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Science and Technology
Space engineering group to launch high-altitude balloon
The balloon will fly a small payload to the edge of space, with the aim of testing technologies for future student-build satellites.
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New online experience enables prospective students and many others to explore Brown's campus from afar.
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Lilla’s lecture continues the ongoing initiative aimed at fostering constructive community discourse on controversial issues.
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Tushar Bhargava and Noah Fields earned top honors in the prestigious 2017 Undergraduate Awards, with 17 additional Brown students and recent alumni ‘highly commended.’
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Health and Medicine
Brown biostatisticians lead statistics for national mammography trial
Brown University biostatistics researchers, led by Professor Constantine Gatsonis, will provide a statistical ‘nerve center’ for a huge and innovative new study comparing 3-D and 2-D breast cancer screening technologies.
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Study will examine role of ‘resilience’ among African Americans living with HIV
With a new $3 million grant, a multi-institutional team led by Brown University public health researchers will measure and test how ‘resilience,’ or the ability to flourish in spite of adversity, may lead to better HIV-related outcomes.
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Anchor tenancy in the building continues University’s commitment to joining public and private partners in transforming Providence’s Jewelry District into a national hub for technology transfer, entrepreneurship and economic innovation.
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Arts and Humanities
Bonnie Honig to deliver Presidential Faculty Award lecture
Honig, known for her wide-ranging work on the conditions necessary for collective democratic action, will discuss how the novel ‘Moby Dick’ responds to Thomas Hobbes’ ‘Leviathan.’
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Agreement ends Pokanoket encampment in Bristol, outlines an inclusive process for creating a preservation trust to ensure conservation of the land and sustainable access by Native tribes with ties to its historic sites.
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Science and Technology
Brown University scientists to play key roles in new coastal research consortium
The new initiative, supported by a $19 million grant from the National Science Foundation, will focus on monitoring and predicting the impacts of climate variability on Narragansett Bay.
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Brown neuroscientists earn fellowships to study biomedical technologies
The Pew Charitable Trusts will support Gilad Barnea in a project to apply his neural circuit tracing method to tracking the spread of cancer, while a National Science Foundation fellowship will enable Scott Cruikshank to master an advanced technology for controlling brain cells with light.
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Brown to study music program for nursing home residents with dementia
Researchers at Brown’s Center for Long-Term Care Quality & Innovation landed a $3.7 million grant to conduct a pragmatic cluster randomized trial of the MUSIC & MEMORY program at as many as 60 nursing homes.
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Upon meeting fundraising goal, the University will be able to replace loans with scholarship funds in financial aid awards, building on need-blind admissions and other initiatives to make a Brown education more accessible.
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Science and Technology
New research suggests Mercury’s poles are icier than scientists thought
A Brown University study identifies three large surface ice deposits near Mercury’s north pole, and suggests there could be many additional small-scale deposits that would dramatically increase the planet’s surface ice inventory.
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Brown professor part of new anti-sexual harassment initiative in Earth science fields
A cofounder of the Earth Science Women’s Network, Meredith Hastings is now a co-principal investigator on a $1.1 million National Science Foundation grant to combat sexual harassment on college campuses and in the field.
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Political polarization has increased most among the groups least likely to use the internet and social media, Brown research finds.
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Science and Technology
HHMI fellowships support life science leaders from underrepresented groups
Postdoctoral researcher Arif Hamid and graduate students Kavin Nuñez and Shawn Williams have earned competitive fellowships from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute to support their academic careers and their desire to become role models in science.
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Clear tactics, but few easy solutions, for hospitals combating ransomware
Hospitals facing the prospect of ransomware attacks like the one that afflicted British hospitals in May can take many concrete steps to better protect themselves, but some of the most important measures — such as a national policy not to pay ransoms — may be tougher to formulate.
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News and Events
A startup summer for Brown’s student entrepreneurs
Now in its third year, Brown’s Breakthrough Lab — one of the premier programs of the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship — offers students time, money and mentorship to launch their next big ideas.
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Arts and Humanities
Brown public humanities programs, photo exhibition focus on Guantánamo
An art exhibition and associated events explore the prospects that former prisoners face after release.
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Science and Technology
Researchers create first global map of water in Moon’s soil
A new study maps the trace concentrations of water implanted in the lunar soil by the solar wind, a water source that could be used as resource in future lunar exploration.
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50 years ago, Clomid gave birth to the era of assisted reproduction
In the journal Fertility and Sterility, Dr. Eli Adashi writes a history and appreciation of the wonder drug Clomid, which radically changed what doctors could do for couples struggling to have children.
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Brown to launch mindfulness center to improve, disseminate evidence
With a dual mission of research and public service, the Mindfulness Center at Brown University will conduct and promote rigorous research on the health effects of interventions and work to disseminate and promote evidence-based practices.
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Among many other notable rankings, the University landed the No. 14 slot in the annual U.S. News and World Report guide to the nation’s best universities, including Top 5 honors for undergraduate teaching.
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Meet the Class of 2021
As Class of 2021 students begin their academic journeys at Brown, we asked five of them to tell us where they've been and what they hope for now that they're here.
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Science and Technology
Why it’s difficult to predict evolutionary fate of a new trait
In a new review paper, scientists explain the vexing complexities that make it hard to predict whether a new genetic trait will take over a population or die out, a key challenge for many fields including infectious disease.
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Social Sciences
Tom Perez to join Brown's Watson Institute as senior fellow
The former U.S. Secretary of Labor will join the University's Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
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Science and Technology
Researchers develop 3-D-printed biomaterials that degrade on demand
The temporary structures, which can be degraded away with a biocompatible chemical trigger, could be useful in fabricating microfluidic devices, creating biomaterials that respond dynamically to stimuli and in patterning artificial tissue.
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Brown students have a summer to remember
As Brown undergraduates return to College Hill from across the globe, they reflect on where their summers took them and what they learned along the way.
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As students commenced their academic careers at Brown, University President Christina Paxson and Professor of Anthropology Daniel Jordan Smith urged them to listen carefully, seek new perspectives and reject an “us vs. them” mentality to advance and repair the world.
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Brown welcomes 40 new faculty members
Hailing from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, 40 new faculty members join the Brown community this year to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.
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In the wake of the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, Brown’s president, provost and campus life vice president commit to doing everything legally possible to protect students, faculty and staff.
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Arts and Humanities
Bell Gallery presents new sculptures by Richard Fishman
The exhibition, titled “What Remains,” includes pieces completed in the last two years and encompassing three unique series by the longtime Brown University artist and scholar.
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Brown statement on proposed agreement with the Pokanoket
Brown University issued this statement on Thursday, Aug. 31, regarding a proposed path toward an agreement to resolve concerns of Pokanokets encamped on University-owned land in Bristol, R.I.
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All roads lead to College Hill for #Brown2021
From move-in weekend to the Opening Convocation ceremony for new undergraduate, graduate and medical students, the Brown campus is bustling as the 2017-18 academic year gets underway.
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Arts and Humanities
Profiles in Summer Research: Antonia Shann
By merging learned experience with lived experience, Antonia Shann co-created a French studies course on refugees that will be offered this fall.
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Brown president urges Trump to continue DACA
Christina Paxson implores President Donald Trump to preserve and defend the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and continue the country’s investment in these new Americans.
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