As part of Brown’s effort to enhance the on-campus dining experience, renovations over winter break bring new and improved serving stations to the Ratty.

The federal government started a program that penalizes hospitals for readmission of joint replacement patients within 90 days, but a new study finds there is no good index for assessing that risk.

The cellular fluid in every muscle fiber appears to play a key but previously unacknowledged role in the mechanics of muscle stretch, according to a new study by Brown University biologists.

A distinctively Brown cohort of 35 transfer and visiting students marched through the ceremonial Van Wickle Gates on Tuesday, marking the beginning of their academic studies on College Hill.

To inform and enhance her efforts to connect fellow African immigrants in Rhode Island with medical care, Akosua Boadiwaa Adu-Boahene dedicated her master’s thesis work at Brown to understanding the community’s health needs.

Nearly 130 students took courses in Brown’s inaugural mini-session — a three-week term that gave students the opportunity to study one subject in great depth and without distraction.

New study by Brown University faculty member and a team of researchers shows how Brown and other American colleges help students climb the economic ladder.

Dr. Peter Hollmann will serve as the new academic director of the Executive Master of Healthcare Leadership program at the Brown University School of Professional Studies.

Fast talkers tend to convey less information with each word and syntactic structure than slower-paced speakers, meaning that no matter our pace, we all say just about as much in a given time, a new study finds.

Next fall, the Bears and the Big Green will go head-to-head in the treasured baseball stadium as the teams meet for the 95th time in their storied history.

Less than one year before his death, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. visited College Hill in April 1967 and delivered an impassioned speech on the Vietnam War and civil rights in America.

In Science Translational Medicine, three experts discuss the implications of a lab technology — already far along in mice — that could allow for the creation of fertilized embryos using sperm and eggs derived from non-reproductive body tissues.

Dr. Eric Morrow, a Brown University faculty member specializing in neurodevelopmental biology and autism treatment, won the nation’s top honor for a young scientist.

The Accountable Care Organization model of paying for health care appears to help reduce hospital readmissions among Medicare patients discharged to skilled nursing facilities, a new study suggests.

In the first year of Medicaid expansion, four out of eight quality indicators at federally funded health centers improved significantly in states that expanded Medicaid compared to non-expansion states, according to a new study.

Brown University engineers looked to nature to find a shape that could improve all kinds of slender structures, from building columns to bicycle spokes.

Using a device to remove a stroke-causing clot in conjunction with clot-busting drugs is more cost-effective, in the long run, than using the drugs alone, a new study reports.