Freedom without Walls

Freedom without Walls celebrations will take place Nov. 4-9 to commemorate the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Wendy Kopp: CEO and founder of Teach for America

Pembroke Center Honors Teach For America CEO with Leadership Award

Wendy Kopp, founder of Teach For America, and Hillary Salmons, executive director of the Providence After School Alliance, will receive the Leadership for Change through Education Award, presented by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women at Brown University on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009.
(Distributed November 6, 2009)
A common virus, a selective killer: A computer-enhanced image shows the general structure of viruses in the family polyomavirinae. A member of that family — the JC virus, occurring in 70 percent of humans — can cause a rare brain disease that is almost always fatal.

Brown Professor to Lead $6-Million NIH Grant to Study Rare Brain Disease

Walter Atwood, professor of medical science, will lead research efforts to determine how the JC virus, which can cause a rare brain disease known as PML, attaches to host cells. He will collaborate with research teams at Dartmouth College and the University of Tübingen in Germany.
(Distributed November 6, 2009)
Rajmohan Gandhi : Gandhi has written widely on the Indian independence movement and its leaders, Indo-Pakistan relations, human rights and conflict resolution. He is a biographer and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi.
Year of India

Rajmohan Gandhi to Deliver Lecture on Martin Luther King Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi

Rajmohan Gandhi, an author, leading public intellectual and grandson of Mahatma Gandhi, will deliver a lecture on Sunday, Nov. 15, 2009, titled “Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Mahatma Gandhi.”
(Distributed November 5, 2009)

Brown to Offer Voluntary Staff Retirement Incentive

As part of a comprehensive campuswide effort to reduce its 2010-11 budget, Brown University is offering eligible employees a lump-sum retirement payment and an additional payment to help with the transition to retirement.
(Distributed November 4, 2009)
Chinua Achebe: The David and Marianna Fisher University ProfessorProfessor of Africana Studies

Celebration to Welcome Professor Chinua Achebe to Brown

Brown University will host a public celebration and welcome for Chinua Achebe, who has joined the faculty as the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies.
(Distributed November 3, 2009)
Rachel Berwick, Zugunruhe, 2009 (detail): The word Zugunruhe, the title of Berwick's installation at the Bell Gallery, refers to the phenomenon of nighttime restlessness and agitation displayed by birds at the onset of migration.
November 14 through February 14

Birdwatching: Rachel Berwick Installation on Display at the Bell Gallery

The David Winton Bell Gallery at Brown University presents Zugunruhe, a new installation by Rachel Berwick, from Saturday, Nov. 14, 2009, through Sunday, Feb. 14, 2010. In conjunction with the exhibition, the gallery will host a series of lectures on related topics, including art, history, anthropology, zoology, and ecology.
(Distributed October 29, 2009)

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