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Haitian Initiative

Wyclef Jean named visiting fellow in Africana studies at Brown University

Visiting fellow: Wyclef Jean meets with Department Chair Professor Tricia Rose and other members of the Africana Studies Department during his first day on the campus of Brown University.
Recording artist and international aid activist Wyclef Jean will join Brown University's Department of Africana Studies as a visiting fellow during the 2010-11 academic year. Jean joins the department to engage in discussions and activities related to the University’s Haitian Initiative. (Distributed October 3, 2010)
Meeting of the Corporation

Brown to launch major multiyear humanities initiative

The Corporation of Brown University has accepted a gift that will support the new Brown University Humanities Initiative. The Corporation also toured two new capital projects and formally accepted gifts totaling more than $36 million. (Distributed October 2, 2010)
Building Brown

Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Dedication

The Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center: A glass curtain replaced a brick wall, offering views of foot traffic through Faunce Arch.
The Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center in Faunce House will be dedicated during a ceremony on Friday, Oct. 1, 2010. After a $20-million renovation, the 1904 building now features a glass archway leading to a visitor’s center, expanded dining facilities, and new areas for students to gather, study, and socialize. (Distributed September 30, 2010)
Elections 2010

Brown’s Taubman Center to host candidate debates Oct. 14 and 21

The Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions will host debates for principle candidates in the Rhode Island gubernatorial election and Providence mayoral election. The debates, scheduled for 7 p.m. on Oct. 14 and 21, 2010, are free and open to the public. (Distributed September 30, 2010)
A stronger affiliation

Alpert Medical School and Lifespan strengthen partnership

The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Lifespan have signed amendments to their affiliation agreement that will improve joint strategic planning, expand investment in the academic medical program, and formally recognize Rhode Island Hospital as “the principal teaching hospital” of the Alpert Medical School. (Distributed September 27, 2010)
News and Media Advisory

Brown and Lifespan to announce changes in affiliation agreement

Officials from Lifespan and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University will meet with reporters Monday morning, Sept. 27, to discuss changes in the affiliation agreement that governs their working relationships for medical education, biomedical research, and clinical care. (Distributed September 24, 2010)

Chinua Achebe to receive 2010 Gish Prize

Writer Chinua Achebe, the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies at Brown University, has been named the recipient of the 2010 Dorothy and Lillian Gish Prize, one of the largest and most prestigious awards in the arts. (Distributed September 24, 2010)
Clinton Global Initiative

Brown to expand educational partnerships with Haiti

Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons has announced a University commitment to expand educational partnerships between Brown and Haiti. Brown made its commitment in conjunction with the 2010 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting, held earlier this week in New York City. (Distributed September 23, 2010)

President Simmons joins new organization to promote engagement with Muslim world

Brown President Ruth J. Simmons will serve on the steering committee of the newly formed Partners for a New Beginning, an organization supporting projects that seek a better understanding and increased engagement with the Muslim world, including the University’s Heritage as Bridge project. (Distributed September 22, 2010)
Intellectual property

Brown licenses potential muscular dystrophy treatment to Tivorsan Pharmaceuticals

Hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy: A team led by Justin Fallon has tested a novel therapy in mice. Brown University has licensed the technology in hopes of developing a treatment for thousands of young boys diagnosed every year.
Duchenne muscular dystrophy affects only young boys, who begin to show symptoms when they are of preschool age. The disease is invariably fatal. Justin Fallon has led a research team that has developed a novel therapy in mice. Brown University has licensed the technology to Tivorsan Pharamaceuticals, hoping to spur development of a treatment for humans. (Distributed September 20, 2010)

Moon’s craters give new clues to early solar system bombardment

Big craters by the thousands: A research team led by Brown University mapped nearly 5,200 craters on the Moon, the first global catalog of large craters on the lunar surface. The crater analysis could shed light on planetary bombardment in the inner solar system more than 4 billion years ago.
A first-ever uniform, comprehensive catalog of large craters on the Moon is providing new clues to the bombardment history that characterized the chaotic early days of the inner solar system. In a paper that appears on the cover of Science, a research team led by Brown University identified and mapped more than 5,000 large craters, established the oldest regions on the Moon, and confirmed a theory about past solar system bombardment. (Distributed September 16, 2010)

Researchers build ‘artificial ovary’ to develop oocytes into mature human eggs

An artificial ovary: An engineered honeycomb of cultured theca cells (top row) envelopes spheres of granulosa cells (GC). The bottom row shows the tissue after 48 hours (left) and after five days.
Researchers at Brown University and Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island have built an artificial human ovary that can grow oocytes into mature human eggs in the laboratory. That development, reported in the Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics, could help preserve fertility for women facing chemotherapy or other treatments. (Distributed September 14, 2010)

Joseph S. Meisel named deputy provost

Joseph S. Meisel: Deputy Provost
Joseph S. Meisel, currently a program officer for research universities and humanistic scholarship at the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, has been appointed deputy provost at Brown University. Meisel will take up his duties at Brown on Oct. 1, 2010. (Distributed September 10, 2010)

William Rhodes appointed University professor-at-large

William R. Rhodes: University Professor-at-Large
William R. Rhodes, recently retired senior vice chairman at Citigroup Inc. and Citibank, has accepted appointment to a five-year term as professor-at-large at Brown University. Rhodes, a banker with a distinguished career in international financial diplomacy, will be based at the Watson Institute for International Studies. (Distributed September 8, 2010)