Expert Commentary
Brown University faculty have been involved in two major findings of water on the moon and serve as participating scientists on NASA’s Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, which is currently orbiting the moon. Brown is also a Lunar Science Institute, one of seven institutes created by NASA to study the moon and to cultivate the next crop of lunar scholars.
(Distributed November 18, 2009)
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)
news advisory
Brown University will honor members of the Brown and Rhode Island communities who have served the nation in the U.S. military during Veterans Day ceremonies, Wednesday, Nov. 11, 2009. The ceremony will include remarks by Brown President Ruth J. Simmons and a keynote address by Sen. Jack Reed.
(Distributed November 6, 2009)
Year of India
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 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)
Brown University officials learned late Friday of the death in Beijing of Arun Stewart, a member of the Class of 2011 from Dallas.
(Distributed October 31, 2009)
HIV and Africa
Epidemiologist Mark Lurie and graduate student Samantha Rosenthal have published new research challenging conventional wisdom that concurrent, or overlapping, multiple sexual partners drives the HIV epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Their research is published online as part of the journal AIDS and Behavior. The article will be featured in a print edition of the journal later this year.
(Distributed October 21, 2009)
A $3.1-million grant from the National Science Foundation will fund a new research and training program at Brown to address the growing international concern about the causes and consequences of inequality. The program, “Development and Inequality in the Global South,” will be based at the Watson Institute for International Studies.
(Distributed October 19, 2009)
Meeting of the Corporation
During its fall meeting Saturday, Oct. 17, 2009, the Corporation of Brown University approved design schematics for the school’s new medical education building on Richmond Street in the city’s Jewelry District.
(Distributed October 17, 2009)
Rhode Island Hall, one of the earliest buildings on The College Green, will be rededicated during a ceremony on Friday, Oct. 16, 2009. After a $12-million renovation, the building is the new home of the Artemis A.W. and Martha Sharp Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
(Distributed October 16, 2009)
Composer and performer Joseph “Butch” Rovan opens a new installation at the Cogut Center for the Humanities, titled Let us imagine a straight line. This interactive work, exploring movement, motion, philosophy, and science through image, text, and sound, is open to the public from Friday, Oct. 16, through Friday, Nov. 6, 2009.
(Distributed October 8, 2009)
LUNAR RESEARCH
Brown professor Peter Schultz is helping to lead a NASA mission in which a rocket will slam into shadowed areas on the moon in a search for water ice. The mission, called LCROSS, takes place at 7:30 a.m. EDT on Friday, Oct. 9, 2009.
(Distributed October 7, 2009)
H1N1 Expert list
Faculty members from the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University are available as sources for news stories or expertment commentary on developments regarding the H1N1/Swine Flu virus.
(Distributed October 1, 2009)
Taubman Center for Public Policy
An overwhelming majority of respondents to a new citywide survey believes the Providence economy is not faring well, and more than half say their families are worse off financially than they were one year ago. Most people polled are generally satisfied with city services. The survey, conducted Sept. 16-19, 2009, is based on a sample of 480 registered voters in Providence, R.I.
(Distributed October 1, 2009)
Balance and immunity
Researchers from Brown University and McGill University have discovered that the natural killer, or NK cells, help prevent T cells from over-responding when a virus hits. This balance helps prevent T cells, which ordinarily serve the immune system, from causing harm. Details are in the September issue of The Journal of Experimental Medicine.
(Distributed October 1, 2009)
