From freshman move-in on Saturday to Opening Convocation’s welcome to undergraduate, graduate and medical students, the buzz on College Hill is back as the 2016-17 academic year gets under way.
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Brown advances on diversity and inclusion plan’s goals
Following the February 2016 launch of Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion, the University has taken immediate, meaningful actions toward achieving its longer-term goals.
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Longtime professor of medical science Andrew G. Campbell previews his keynote, titled “Can You Imagine,” and shares insights from his early days as dean.
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Rhode Island’s role in promising new Alzheimer’s results
Important components of a clinical trial with positive results for an Alzheimer’s drug occurred at Brown University, Butler Hospital and Rhode Island Hospital.
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Brain scientists share in grant to study attention
Three Brown University faculty members have teamed up with colleagues at three other universities on a $6 million grant to study the neuroscience of attention.
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Mitosis study finds potential cancer target
By drilling down to the atomic level of how specific proteins interact during cell division, or mitosis, a team of scientists has found a unique new target for attacking cancer.
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Arts and Humanities
Profiles in Summer Research: Jacob Ihnen
A summer class, a transfer to Brown and an inspiring professor led rising senior Jacob Ihnen to an UTRA project focused on the rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Sophia Gluskin-Braun
With a passion for problem-solving, the engineering concentrator is focused on the fundamentals of light and playing a role in promising research on next-generation solar cells.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Jennifer Shook
The rising sophomore took part in an intensive research project that not only piqued her interest in colonial-era history, but diversified her academic interests.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Nari Lee
A progression of summer experiences with faculty has left the rising senior with an expanding set of research skills and medical school aspirations.
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Profiles in Summer Research: Molly Sandstrom
For the history and education studies concentrator, a summer-long dive into the lives of early Unitarians in England meant the chance to contribute to faculty scholarship and an upcoming book.
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Profiles in Summer Research
Think summer is quiet at Brown? Not for the University’s undergraduate researchers, who pursued their passions in depth and built skills in collaboration, innovation and more.
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For planetary science students, a summer of science in space with NASA
For Brown planetary science graduate students, a “mission-planning bootcamp” at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena offers an insider’s view of how to conduct research in space.
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Ruling by the National Labor Relations Board presents graduate student assistants as employees.
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Among some veterans, painkiller misuse strongly linked to starting heroin
In a study that followed thousands of veterans over a decade, initiating non-medical use of opioid painkillers was associated with a more than 5-fold risk of also beginning to use heroin.
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Study validates new tool for diagnosing dehydration in children
A simple new method for assessing dehydration from diarrhea, which kills hundreds of thousands of children each year worldwide, has proven accurate and reliable.
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Mathematicians, police join forces on the mathematics of crime
Researchers used real data from the City of Providence to look for interesting trends and patterns that might help police analyze criminal activity.
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Study shows how mutations disrupt ALS-linked protein
Structural biologists provide a new explanation for how ALS-associated genetic flaws interfere with the proper function and behavior of the protein TDP-43.
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At the Brown Environmental Leadership Lab, high school students learn the skills they need to create change on environmental issues facing their local communities and the planet as a whole.
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Funds raised in fiscal year 2016 will support the strategic goals of the University’s Building on Distinction plan.
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R.I. Department of Health, Brown School of Public Health launch partnership
Rhode Island's two accredited public health entities — the Rhode Island Department of Health and the Brown University School of Public Health — launched a new academic partnership.
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In summer at sea, adventurous student continues a personal academic journey
Driven by a love of marine life and the memory of his grandfather, Peter Baek set out this summer on a six-week sailing voyage to study a delicate ecosystem south of the Equator.
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Brown and RISD create a laboratory for innovative live arts projects
With a think-tank approach and a cohort of students from the visual and performing arts, Brown/RISD CoLAB, a new summer institute, gives students the tools and freedom to experiment with new forms of theatre and performance.
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The Costs of War project releases data on the human costs of a decade and a half of war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, finding that violence is not subsiding.
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Findings show differences between men and women and have implications for negotiating aggressive behavior.
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New data from the Leadership Alliance shows what specific aspects of conducting summer research underrepresented students say benefits them the most.
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Declining fishery production in critical African lake pinned to climate change
Warming water over the past 150 years is causing declining fish stocks in Lake Tanganyika, a large freshwater lake that supplies food for millions of Africans.
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As the state takes a deep look at its hepatitis C epidemic, Brown University researchers have crunched the numbers to project what could be done to lift Rhode Island’s burden of death and disease.
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An Olympic effort, from Brown to Brazil
Senior swimmer Sovijja Pou heads to Rio to represent Cambodia in the 100-meter freestyle — just one among a number of goals inspired by his heritage.
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To think about thinking, hundreds of scholars convene at Brown
For the first time ever, the International Conference on Thinking is taking place in the United States, bringing more than 250 scholars of cognition to Brown this week.
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Researchers image brain cells’ reactions to concussive trauma
Using a laboratory device that can deliver concussive impacts to cell cultures and image the aftermath in real time, researchers from Brown are gaining new insight into how brain cells react to trauma.
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Five of the University’s dining facilities earned certification from the Green Restaurant Association for sustainability practices including recycling, composting, energy use and more.
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Arts and Humanities
Second year of Breakthrough Lab yields 16 new ventures
Brown’s summer program, known as B-Lab, showcased students’ ingenuity and pointed to an increasingly robust future for entrepreneurship at the University.
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Health and Medicine
Task force may be too stringent in not yet recommending melanoma screening
In an editorial in JAMA, two experts including Brown University dermatologist Dr. Martin Weinstock question a USPSTF determination that there isn't enough evidence to recommend that clinicians visual screen for skin cancer, such as melanoma.
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New theory explains how beta waves arise in the brain
In the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, a team led by Brown University neuroscientists proposes a new theory — backed by data from people, animal models and computational simulation — to explain how beta waves emerge in the brain.
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Process could make key biodegradable polymer stronger and longer-lasting
The creation of a new polymer morphology in a material called PLA could lead to better medical implants and drug-delivery devices.
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Newly found, ‘thrifty’ genetic variant influences Samoan obesity
A new study reports that a genetic variant that affects energy metabolism and fat storage partly explains why Samoans have among the world’s highest levels of obesity.
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Widespread use of talking points and expanding role of consultants, focus groups and polls are likely contributing to deeper divisions, both in Congress and in the broader public, according to study.
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Brown faculty members earn prestigious recognitions
Awards, fellowships and grants come in honor of accomplishments in research, teaching and service.
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World’s most sensitive dark matter detector completes search
At a conference in the United Kingdom, scientists with the LUX dark matter experiment present results from the detector’s final 20-month run.
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Asteroid that formed Moon’s Imbrium Basin may have been protoplanet-sized
The research, published in Nature, has implications for our understanding of the early solar system.
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For frozen embryos in dispute, scholars propose guidelines
In a new paper, two scholars — one medical, one legal — propose a set of practical guidelines to prevent the bitter arguments over frozen embryos that have confounded U.S. courts.
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GAGA may be the secret of the sexes — at least in insects
Without simple repeating sequences of the DNA “letters” GA on the X chromosome, distinct genders could never have evolved, at least in flies and mosquitoes.
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A new analysis of survey responses from more than 100 child daycare center directors suggests that stronger nutritional guidelines, like those enforced by a federal food subsidy program for low-income kids, lead to healthier meals.
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Tiny ‘racetracks’ show how bacteria get organized
The new research sheds light on the surprisingly complex collective movements of bacteria in confined spaces.
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Alpert Medical School, Hope Hospice extend affiliation
A new five-year agreement continues the formal educational partnership between the Alpert Medical School and Hope Hospice & Palliative Care.
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Study explains how a protein deficiency causes spinal muscular atrophy
Research that reveals what goes wrong in SMA and suggests that a mild version of the same genetic defect may protect relatives against infection, which could explain why SMA is relatively common disease.
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Meeting of the minds leads to brain science technology venture
After researchers spent years developing an artificial intelligence technology to monitor lab animal behavior, a team of recently graduated entrepreneurs is investigating its commercial potential.
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Study finds no substantial harm from primary care melanoma screening
Experts concerned that primary care screening for melanomas could lead to widespread misdiagnoses or overtreatment can take comfort in the results of a new study that found no such problems.
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Finding their Royce
For 20 years, Brown’s Royce fellows have set out on carefully planned independent research projects across the world — but the discoveries that greet them aren’t always what they expect.
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