Assistant professor Colleen Dalton’s CAREER Award will support her work using seismic waves to understand the Earth’s interior.

Graduates Alberto Morales and Matthew J. Lyddon will address their peers in separate master’s and doctoral ceremonies, respectively, at Commencement on Sunday, May 29.

Sunday’s procession and University Ceremony on the College Green cap Brown’s three-day celebration of Commencement and Reunion Weekend.

The program, now in its second year, links the classroom and community through co-created experiential research, projects and internships.

A new interactive timeline offered by the Choices Program will give students insights into black activism spanning the mid-20th century and beyond.

In a new study of hundreds of Cincinnati moms, higher levels of exposure to the common industrial chemical PFOA were linked to a greater likelihood of ending breastfeeding by three months.

Acclaimed poet Michael S. Harper, a beloved teacher to generations of Brown students, passed away on May 7.

An effort led through the Watson Institute’s Brazil Initiative, the Opening the Archives Project provides open access to thousands of primary documents for researchers around the world.

Scientists studying how stress in early childhood affects the brain have new evidence from a study in male mice that a key region appears to mature faster.

The same scientific quest for which Erika Edwards won recognition from President Obama on May 5 had two months earlier led her and 12 students up dusty mountainsides in the world’s driest desert.

Applied mathematics professor earns high honor for decades of pioneering work in conservation laws and continuum physics.

A new intervention may help mitigate some of the sleep disruption, depression and anxiety that can plague some new moms during pregnancy and postpartum.

A class taught at Brown for high school girls from the Lincoln School aims to stoke interest in engineering.

A new study suggests that if prison health providers ask women whether they have exchanged sex for drugs or money, they may find that more than one in four have, and that they are at especially high risk for health and social problems.

Nurturing stem cells atop a bed of mouse cells works well, but is a non-starter for transplants to patients – Brown University scientists are developing a synthetic bed instead.

As part of the First Folio exhibit at Brown University, graduate and undergraduate students join forces with middle-school kids to explore ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in English and Spanish.

In becoming an AAJR fellow, Maud Mandel joins nearly 100 of the most distinguished scholars in the field of Judaic studies in North America.

A master’s student in public humanities plans to launch Doors Open Rhode Island; two biomedical engineering students intend to produce quick-turnaround forensic lab kits for sexual assault cases.

Destined to encounter patients with addiction to opioids, students from across the health care disciplines and from a number of Rhode Island’s colleges and universities learned to work as a team to save lives.

The film is based on Brown faculty member David Kertzer’s 1997 book, a historical account of a Jewish boy abducted by the Papal Inquisitor and converted to Catholicism — a case that helped fuel the rise of the Italian secular state.

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine reports wide disparities in the quality of care for Medicare Advantage plan holders in Puerto Rico compared to those in the 50 states. The quality gaps exist in the context of the territory’s significant economic challenges and low and declining payments from the Medicare program.

A simple chemical conversion could be another step toward making cheap, efficient and stable perovskite solar cells.

Having spent the last eight months designing and building their own racecar, an interdisciplinary team of Brown undergraduates is about to put their 115-mph racer to the test.

The 600 Rhode Islanders surveyed also support charter school expansion, marijuana legalization and state tourism spending — but oppose the new toll tax on trucks.

During its 248th Commencement ceremony on Sunday, May 29, Brown University will bestow honorary degrees on a diverse group of scholars and leaders recognized for exceptional achievement.

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society will host Earth, Itself: Atmospheres, a multidisciplinary exploration of environmental issues surrounding air.

A record number of students and parents spent three days learning more about the Brown University experience as they neared the May 1 decision deadline.

Graduating seniors Sabrina Imbler and Jamelle Watson-Daniels will draw from experience to deliver this year's senior orations on Sunday, May 29.

Have trouble sleeping on your first night in a new place? A new study explains what’s going on in the brain during that “first-night effect.”

Barry Prizant’s work with autism spectrum disorders focuses on understanding underlying causes for non-neurotypical behavior and connecting individuals with their strengths and talents.

More than 300 new students will join Brown’s 51 doctoral programs next fall; master’s program applications are up as the admissions process continues.

Award-winning mathematician Jill Pipher will discuss her work on Tuesday, April 26, at 4:30 p.m. in the John Carter Brown Library as part of the series launched by President Paxson in 2013.

If the world turns to intensive farming in the tropics to meet food demand, it will require vast amounts of phosphorus fertilizer produced from Earth’s finite, irreplaceable phosphate rock deposits, a new analysis shows.

Known for his sing-along tunes and playful spirit, Binder turned a friendly connection to Brown in 1987 into three decades of entertainment for generations of Brown students.

A new set of experiments sheds light on how much heat is created when ice is deformed, which could help scientists understand the possibility of a subsurface ocean on one of Jupiter’s moons.

Scientists report a new degree of success in using brain scans to distinguish between adults diagnosed with autism and people without the disorder, an advance that could lead to the development of a diagnostic tool.

Two environmental science concentrators in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society have won an international prize for their idea to make Kenyan fish farming more sustainable.

The 36th annual student exhibition, open to students from all disciplines, was juried by Jan Howard, chief curator at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, and Clara Lieu, an artist, teacher and Huffington Post columnist.

Scientists studying the biology of aging have found dozens of genes common to worms, flies, mice and humans that are all affected by the same family of proteins.

With a presentation titled ‘The Iran Deal, Non-Proliferation and Global Nuclear Security,’ Ernest Moniz will deliver the 92nd Ogden Lecture at Brown University on Monday, April 18.

Managed entirely by Brown undergraduates, the annual fest has stayed true to its founders’ focus on student storytelling.

Director France Córdova joined U.S. Sen. Jack Reed for an up-close look at NSF-funded faculty and student research at Brown along with a bit of virtual reality.

A new study of hundreds of emergency department visits finds that the links between substance misuse and suicide risk are complex, but that use of cocaine and alcohol together was particularly significant.

The actor participated in a panel discussion and took questions with students and others after screening a documentary on the life of his father, the artist Robert De Niro Sr.

A new catalyst combining copper nanoparticles with a special type of graphene could lead to a greener way of producing ethylene, a key commodity chemical.

Now in its sixth year, an annual spring break trip to the University’s partner institution in Mississippi teaches much more than just history.

Over spring break, the Department of Facilities Management installed 30 pairs of eco-friendly trash bins with the aim of increasing recycling rates across the board.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to Wendy Hui Kyong Chun from Modern Culture and Media and Alberto E. Saal from Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.

On a trip to Berlin, Brown’s jazz band played two performances at the refugee camp home to some 7,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

Four upcoming events, all free and open to the public, feature timely topics in public health such as women’s issues around the globe and preventing youth gun violence.