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Meet Brown’s newest undergraduates
As classes begin, this year’s first-year, transfer and Resumed Undergraduate Education students are settling into living and learning on College Hill.
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Brown lands top honors in national, international rankings
Annual higher education rankings once again reflect Brown’s innovative approach to teaching and research, unique student experience, commitment to financial aid and more.
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Williams College awards honorary degree to President Paxson
Brown University President Christina Paxson received an honorary doctor of laws from Williams College as she introduced former Brown dean Maud S. Mandel as the new Williams president.
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Brown advances work toward broader web accessibility standards
With a commitment to access and inclusivity, Brown is systematically addressing website accessibility to ensure all website visitors and members of its community can fully access the University's digital content.
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Supported by a $24 million gift from the Richard A. and Susan P. Friedman Family Foundation, a renovation transformed the interior of the former Wilson Hall and made the building fully accessible to individuals with disabilities.
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Convocation 2018: Brown commences 255th academic year
As 2,693 undergraduate, graduate and medical students launched their Brown academic careers, President Christina Paxson and Provost Richard Locke implored them to embrace the University's values and leverage opportunities to create positive social change.
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Brown welcomes 53 new faculty members
Hailing from a wide variety of disciplines and backgrounds, 53 new faculty members join the Brown community this year to guide student-centered learning and engage in high-impact research.
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Arts and Humanities
Bell Gallery presents ‘Walter Feldman: A Memorial Exhibition’
On display will be paintings, prints, drawings and books created over a span of 68 years by the late Brown professor and artist of wide-ranging interests.
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VIDEO: Hannah Rosenstein: Putting policy into practice
Through a BrownConnect internship, Rosenstein spent the summer interning at a Boston-based refugee resettlement center.
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College Hill welcomes #Brown2022
Thousands of new Class of 2022 undergraduates, graduate students and medical students are about to begin their Brown University academic careers — and the campus is bustling with anticipation and activity.
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Social Sciences
Former RNC chair Michael Steele to join Brown’s Watson Institute
As a faculty fellow, the conservative political commentator and former chair of the Republican National Committee will lead a seminar on American politics and cohost two public events focused on the midterm elections.
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Science and Technology
Researchers at the Large Hadron Collider find key Higgs decay process
Brown University researchers at the LHC made important contributions to a finding that reveals the fate of the majority of Higgs particles.
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Health and Medicine
Child lead exposure study finds substantial reductions possible
Intervention by researchers reduced household lead below levels previously deemed achievable and reduced blood lead concentrations in more highly exposed children, though the decrease did not result in significant neurobehavioral improvements in children
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Environment
Marcos Rodriguez: Analyzing forest growth
For the ecology and evolutionary biology concentrator, a summer spent in a Massachusetts forest offered the chance to explore forest ecology and a future career in research.
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Science and Technology
Brown establishes new research partnership with NIST
The National Institute of Standards and Technology will provide funding for Brown researchers working in the physical sciences to collaborate with NIST researchers and access NIST’s specialized labs.
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Researchers discover exposed ice deposits on Moon’s surface
The deposits, found near the Moon’s north and south poles, could be a potential resource for future lunar exploration.
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Arts and Humanities
Brown anthropologist earns grant to develop new archaeological survey technology
Parker VanValkenburgh’s digital platform will study how the mass resettlement of indigenous Andean peoples by the Spanish Empire impacted Peru’s social and political landscape.
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Renowned Brown University physicist S. James Gates Jr. has been elected to lead the premier physics society in the U.S.
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The findings, made possible by a new method of radiocarbon dating, overturn the long-held assumption that the Vikings introduced spinning and weaving to the ancestors of today’s Inuit.
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Science and Technology
Undergraduate team helps to develop drone-based intro robotics course
With the help of a Brown summer research grant, a team of undergraduates is helping to develop a course that uses simple drones as a gateway into autonomous robotics.
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Hunter, the University’s first associate director of athletics for diversity and inclusion initiatives, will develop and implement programs focused on Brown athletics and student-athletes.
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The Civilian-Military Humanitarian Response Workshop brings together members of the military with academics and others to address issues of global concern.
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LifeSkills program reduces condomless sex acts 40% compared to standard of care HIV and STD counseling and testing, new research shows.
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Giant cancer cells are much larger and stiffer than other cancer cells and move further, study shows.
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Arts and Humanities
Music in palliative care improves patient well-being, study finds
After hearing live music as part of their treatment during downtime, patients reported feeling less pain, nausea, anxiety and other symptoms and requested fewer opioid medications.
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Health and Medicine
Brief interventions during routine care reduce alcohol use among men with HIV
Brown-led study finds that motivational interviewing with personalized feedback and booster sessions produced substantial reductions in alcohol use among heavy-drinking men who have sex with men who are living with HIV.
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Brown professor Stephen Houston will excavate a massive series of citadels in present-day Guatemala, which can shed light on how the leaders of the ancient Maya city of Tikal responded to a foreign threat.
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Though rates of insurance since the Affordable Care Act's implementation are similar, LGB individuals avoid or delay medical treatment more frequently than their straight peers due to cost.
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News and Events
Catherine Campo: Educating through performance
As an intern at CNBC’s “Mad Money,” the Brown theatre and performance studies concentrator is helping viewers improve their financial lives.
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Science and Technology
Research reveals molecular details of sperm-egg fusion
By revealing the structure of proteins that enable sperm and egg to fuse to form zygotes in plant and protozoan species, the new study may aid in discovering the fusion process for humans, which remains a mystery.
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Partners-Care New England affiliation will support Brown-led academics and teaching and bring new economic development, research opportunities to Rhode Island.
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Brown joins in legal brief supporting diversity in admissions
In support of Harvard University’s admissions case, Brown and 15 other colleges and universities argued in a July 30 amicus brief that the federal courts should affirm the ability to consider race in admissions.
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Arts and Humanities
Linguistic expertise key to improving Deaf health research
A new Brown-UMass collaboration leverages cultural and language expertise to help biomedical researchers work productively with the Deaf community and address low levels of health literacy.
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Science and Technology
Azeeza Hasan: Democratizing the stock market
At NASDAQ’s Global Technology Center, the rising Brown junior and applied mathematics concentrator is working with nine other students to create streamlined, smarter online marketplaces.
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Research identifies key weakness in modern computer vision systems
In a finding that could point the way toward better computer vision systems, Brown University researchers show why computers are so bad at seeing when one thing is not like another.
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World’s leading dark matter physicists convene at Brown
At the 12th annual Identification of Dark Matter Conference being held this week at Brown, physicists are working to understand the missing mass of the universe.
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Aaron Cooper: Training the next generation of engaged citizens
Through his work with Generation Citizen, rising Brown sophomore Aaron Cooper is helping young people in Providence cultivate leadership skills as they work with local institutions.
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Science and Technology
Research robots sometimes left unsecured on the internet, study finds
A scan of the global internet found robots in labs around the world exposed users across the web, which could allow hackers to control them remotely.
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Each summer, this Brown-based coalition sends young scholars of color to conduct research at the top universities in the nation — opportunities that often change the course of their lives and are changing the face of academia.
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A small pilot study of the effects of ADHD drugs on college students who don't have ADHD suggests the drugs do not aid in cognition.
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Health and Medicine
Many doctors go unpaid for clinical work between appointments, study finds
A new Medicare billing code that aims to compensate doctors for inter-appointment clinical work is largely unused, researchers at Brown found.
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Science and Technology
Brown physicist elected to represent U.S. in Large Hadron Collider experiment
Meenakshi Narain will lead the collaboration board for U.S. institutions participating in the CMS experiment at the Large Hadron Collider, an experiment pushing the frontiers of modern particle physics.
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Michael Fuller: Fighting for incarcerated mothers
Michael Fuller, a rising senior, is one among a handful of Brown students interning for nonprofit organizations in Oklahoma this summer as part of the Brown in Tulsa Kaiser Fellowship Program.
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Social Sciences
Web may not have advantaged Trump in 2016 election, study finds
During the 2016 U.S. presidential election, victor Donald Trump did unusually well among demographic groups least likely to use web and social media, according to Brown research.
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From one of the largest gifts in Brown history to Annual Fund donations from more than 32,000 donors, members of the extended Brown community supported University priorities in teaching, research, student support and more.
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Science and Technology
Sarah Bawabe: Untangling the fabric of the universe
Using pencil, paper and computer, rising sophomore Sarah Bawabe is spending the summer working side-by-side with Professor S. James Gates Jr. on some of the biggest questions in theoretical physics.
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Research finds new molecular structures in boron-based nanoclusters
Researchers have shown that clusters of boron and lanthanide atoms form interesting “inverse sandwich” structures that could be useful as molecular magnets.
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