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Brown confronts false characterizations of its Choices Program school curriculum
December 21, 2023
Misleading reports give grossly inaccurate narrative of renowned secondary school materials referencing academic views on Israel, Palestine and the Middle East.
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News and Events
Brown students, recent alumni earn prestigious scholarships
December 21, 2023
Two undergraduates, one graduate student and four recent graduates were named among this year’s classes of Marshall, Schwarzman and Voyager scholars.
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Arts and Humanities
Award-winning novelist Katherine J. Chen sets out to reach new literary heights at Brown
December 21, 2023
A first-year student in Brown’s English Ph.D. program, Chen recently received the 2023 American Library in Paris Book Award for her novel about Joan of Arc.
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News and Events
The year in stories — 2023
December 20, 2023
Surpassing ambitious goals and making memories along the way, calendar year 2023 shined a light on remarkable research, teaching and innovation at Brown University, as illustrated by these 21 stories.
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Health and Medicine
Brown joins federally supported investor catalyst group turning biomedical ideas into solutions
December 20, 2023
The goal of the regional collaboration of investors, entrepreneurs and researchers is to accelerate the development of innovative health care solutions.
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Student Life
Brown’s Society of Women Engineers brings X-treme Gingerbread Competition to local Girl Scouts
December 18, 2023
Beyond the chance to make, shake and snack on the houses, the gingerbread challenge builds confidence, sparks creativity and hones essential engineering skills in Rhode Island Girl Scouts.
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Arts and Humanities
Brown anthropologist’s mapping project shows how Peru transformed after colonization
December 18, 2023
A large-scale satellite mapping project, co-founded by Brown researcher Parker VanValkenburgh, is helping archaeologists identify sweeping climate and cultural changes that occurred in the Andes Mountains over the last millennium.
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News and Events
Brown admits 898 early decision students to the undergraduate Class of 2028
December 15, 2023
Selected from a pool of 6,244 applicants, the accomplished and talented admitted students reflect the University’s ongoing commitment to making a Brown education more accessible.
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Arts and Humanities
Political scientist Juliet Hooker examines range of forces driving racial politics
December 14, 2023
A leading thinker on race and democracy, the Brown University professor spoke about her new book, which explores race, democracy and expectations about whose losses matter.
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News and Events
Brown purchases its portion of South Street Landing in Providence’s Jewelry District
December 13, 2023
With a commitment to the long-term stewardship of the historic property and continued growth and vibrancy in the neighborhood, the University exercised an option to purchase its share of the building.
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Health and Medicine
Hannah Doyle: Studying brains in the lab and showing brawn in the ring
December 13, 2023
The Brown neuroscience Ph.D. student and competitive boxer researches how the brain processes combinations — like the ones she practices at the gym — to better understand cognitive disorders.
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Arts and Humanities
Photos: The world turned upside down: Brown students experience room-scale camera obscura
December 13, 2023
Using a technique that preceded the photographic camera, Brown Arts Institute staff projected a live image of the outside world, including the University’s stunning new Lindemann Performing Arts Center, inside a darkened room.
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Science and Technology
New study sheds light on how much methane is produced from Arctic lakes and wetlands
December 12, 2023
Brown research team finds small unmapped lakes in the Arctic are far less abundant than previously thought, greatly reducing the cumulative methane emissions they were thought to contribute to Earth’s atmosphere.
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News and Events
Brown University students organize card writing in support of injured Palestinian friend
December 7, 2023
In a show of support for junior Hisham Awartani, who was injured in a Nov. 25 shooting in Vermont, students convened in the Global Brown Center to write cards and be in community together.
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Arts and Humanities
Digging into Providence’s past, Brown’s in-demand Archaeology of College Hill course opens new site
December 6, 2023
After seven years of excavation at the former site of a 19th-century Providence family home, Brown students have begun searching for artifacts at a new location on campus.
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Science and Technology
Through real-world projects, Brown environmental course explores contemporary climate issues
December 6, 2023
Environmental Studies 0110 is both an introductory course on environmental change in the 21st century and a hands-on lab where students engage with how local communities and the natural environment intersect.\
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Health and Medicine
Brown researchers study how mobile treatment clinics can help people find the road to recovery
December 6, 2023
A drug treatment clinic on wheels allows a Brown-affiliated E.R. doctor to treat patients and conduct research on ways to serve them and the community even more effectively.
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Student Life
‘Family for four years:’ Brown welcomes first cohort of Kessler Scholars
December 5, 2023
Building on its support for first-generation and low-income students, Brown launched the Kessler Scholars Program this fall to expand resources, advising and community support throughout students’ undergraduate education.
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Health and Medicine
Rhode Islanders perceive steep challenges in cost of living and access to housing, health care, food
November 29, 2023
Results from this year’s R.I. Life Index survey, a partnership between Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island and the Brown University School of Public Health, revealed sobering information about local quality of life.
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News and Events
Ahead of ceremony, Midyear Completion speakers urge others to extend empathy, commit to community
November 29, 2023
Brown’s annual Midyear Completion Ceremony on Saturday, Dec. 2, will celebrate the achievements and unique paths of “.5ers,” who complete their degree requirements this month.
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Science and Technology
New state-of-the-art sensor at Brown is enabling city-specific air quality measurements in Providence
November 28, 2023
A high-grade air quality sensor installed on Brown’s campus is providing detailed measurements of carbon dioxide and methane concentrations in Providence, painting a clearer picture of local air quality.
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New initiative at Brown aims to boost college enrollment, readiness, success for Providence students
November 28, 2023
With its first cohort arriving next summer, the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program aims to propel more motivated, talented Providence public school students toward college degrees.\
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Arts and Humanities
Brown sociologist who contributed to new U.S. National Climate Assessment shares key takeaways
November 17, 2023
Professor Elizabeth Fussell discussed the Fifth National Climate Assessment, for which she co-authored a chapter, as part of the report’s expanded focus on the social impacts of climate change.
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Health and Medicine
Study identifies urgent need for improved research on how to respond to misleading health information
November 17, 2023
A detailed evidence review from a team at the Brown University School of Public Health informed recommendations to make research on misinformation more informative and actionable.
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Social Sciences
Logan Danker: Making advocacy and public service more accessible
November 17, 2023
By empowering a more diverse generation of future elected officials and community leaders, the Brown University senior hopes to drive inclusive policy outcomes.
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News and Events
Women’s soccer dominates in opening round, advances in NCAA tournament
November 16, 2023
After shutting out Quinnipiac with a 3-0 victory, the Bears are among 32 teams headed to Round 2 of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Championship.
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Environment
Climate change effects hit marine ecosystems in multiple waves, according to marine ecologists
November 15, 2023
A Brown professor and two Brown-trained scientists co-authored a research review proposing a ‘more realistic’ conceptual model for understanding current and future changes to marine ecosystems in the wake of climate change.
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Health and Medicine
Overdose prevention sites not associated with increase in crime, according to study
November 13, 2023
An analysis co-led by a Brown public health researcher found that the nation’s first two government-sanctioned overdose prevention centers were not associated with significant changes in crime.
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News and Events
Veterans Day Ceremony honors, affirms commitment to military community at Brown
November 10, 2023
U.S. Sen. and Army veteran Jack Reed and Class of 1975 alumnus Benjamin Cassidy joined University leaders, student veterans and Brown ROTC students in celebrating the nation’s military members.
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Arts and Humanities
Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum to move from Bristol to Providence, enabling more research, engagement
November 9, 2023
The anthropology museum’s move to Providence’s Jewelry District, slated for Fall 2025, will open new possibilities for scholarship, community outreach and partnership with Indigenous communities worldwide.
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Health and Medicine
At Brown University’s School of Public Health, collaborating against future contagion
November 8, 2023
A research project called MAPPS is convening a wide array of community members to better understand how social mixing contributes to virus spread, and how that may inform future pandemic response.
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Science and Technology
The secret to longer lasting batteries might be in how soap works, new study says
November 8, 2023
Researchers found that one of the most promising electrolytes for designing longer lasting lithium batteries has complex nanostructures that act like micelle structures do in soaped water.
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Student Life
Brown student’s class project generates excitement, energy at campus gym
November 7, 2023
The Nelson Fitness Center is piloting the use of energy-generating workout equipment, thanks to a proposal developed by junior Elina Pipa as part of a Climate Solutions course.
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Health and Medicine
Interrupted by war in Ukraine, doctors continue work to improve cancer treatment, at Brown
November 6, 2023
The Legorreta Cancer Center is hosting two visiting oncologists from Kyiv whose work and lives were interrupted when Russia invaded their country in 2022.
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Science and Technology
Powered by A.I., new system makes human-to-robot communication more seamless
November 6, 2023
Software developed by Brown researchers can translate expressive and complex plain-worded instructions into behaviors a robot can carry out, all without needing thousands of hours of training data.
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Science and Technology
Want the secret to less painful belly flops? These researchers have the answer.
November 6, 2023
Experiments by a Brown-led research team investigated belly flop mechanics and found surprising insights about air-to-water impacts that could be useful for marine engineering applications.
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Health and Medicine
‘The world is such a better place with Chuck. We need him in it.’
November 3, 2023
Dr. Colleen Kelly, a faculty member at Brown’s Warren Alpert Medical School, donated her kidney to longtime colleague Chuck Hampton, who has greeted generations of Brown students at the campus Athletic Center.
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Science and Technology
Old concept, new implications: Brown scholars interrogate how AI is changing the world
November 2, 2023
The inaugural discussion in a series convened by Brown’s Office of the Provost and Data Science Institute detailed the history of artificial intelligence and new questions generative AI is raising.
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Health and Medicine
Practicing mindfulness can help people make heart-healthy eating choices
November 2, 2023
A study led by Brown University researchers found that participants in a mindfulness-based blood pressure reduction program improved health behaviors that lower blood pressure.
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University Initiatives
With test-wells across campus, Brown University explores geothermal energy as renewable heat source
November 2, 2023
With a pledge to achieve net-zero emissions by 2040, data from three test-wells will determine if conversion to a geothermal energy system can provide a renewable approach to heating campus buildings.
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Health and Medicine
COVID-19 vaccination campaign saved 2.4 million lives, according to health economists
October 30, 2023
A working paper by researchers from the University of Southern California and Brown University analyzed the global impacts of COVID-19 vaccines.
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Arts and Humanities
With alumni gathered for Black Alumni Reunion, Brown dedicates transformed Churchill House
October 29, 2023
Alumni and community members celebrated the newly transformed home of Africana Studies and Rites and Reason Theatre as part of a weekend of lectures and events focused on the Black experience at Brown.
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Science and Technology
Researchers develop VR software to control a robot proxy through natural movements
October 26, 2023
Called VRoxy, the software has the potential to make hands-on collaboration between people working remotely and people working in physical spaces more seamless, regardless of differences in room size.
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Science and Technology
Venus had Earth-like plate tectonics billions of years ago, study suggests
October 26, 2023
Simulations produced by a Brown-led research team offer evidence that Venus once had plate tectonics — a finding that opens the door for the possibility of early life on the planet and insights into its history.
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Science and Technology
President Biden awards National Medal of Science to Brown engineer Subra Suresh
October 24, 2023
In a ceremony at the White House, Biden awarded Suresh, a professor at large at Brown University’s School of Engineering, the nation’s highest scientific honor.
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Arts and Humanities
Devanney Haruta: Investigating the life and death of musical instruments
October 23, 2023
As a graduate student in Brown’s music department, Haruta hopes to spark inspiration and reflection through her interactive piece, "Piano (de)composition."
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Health and Medicine
Dr. Eli Adashi on in vitro gametogenesis: ‘It’s time for the public to get a sense of the possible’
October 23, 2023
The Brown University professor, who chaired a National Academy of Medicine workshop on IVG, discussed the potential implications of creating eggs and sperm from any cell.
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Arts and Humanities
Celebrating the arts at Brown: Sights, sounds and stories from The Lindemann’s opening weekend
October 20, 2023
Packed with building tours, family activities, a ribbon-cutting and the center’s inaugural public performance, the weekend offered countless opportunities for community members to celebrate the arts at Brown.
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Palestinian, Arab, Jewish and Israeli students at Brown convene vigil to mourn lives impacted
October 19, 2023
In the wake of the violence and death in Israel and Gaza, the students welcomed community members to light candles, observe moments of silence, and share thoughts, prayers, grief and calls to action.
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News and Events
Journalist Kate Zernike speaks at Brown on 21st century gender discrimination in the sciences
October 19, 2023
Zernike, who wrote “The Exceptions” about women faculty and the fight for fairness at MIT, talked with Brown community members about the challenges facing women in science — and what can be done.
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