Article notes that Jeff D. Colgan, a professor of political science at Brown University, writes in an article released last week in the journal Global Environmental Politics, Camp Century represents both a second-order environmental threat from climate change and a new path to political conflict. “We’re starting to get better about dealing with the anticipated problems associated with climate change,” says Colgan. “There are going to be a whole host of unanticipated problems that we never saw coming.”

Scientists led by Brown University have developed perovskite solar cells, which replace the toxic lead common to many of these material structures with titanium. The researchers say that with further optimization, the material could eventually be ideal for use as a tandem cell layer.

Brown University Men’s Hockey, along with Team IMPACT, which is a national nonprofit organization that connects children facing life-threatening or chronic illnesses with the support system of college sports teams, honored an eight-year-old boy battling a rare disease.

Brown Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and wife Ann S. Mencoff have given Brown University’s Warren Alpert Medical School $50 million intended to help transform biomedical research into cures and treatments for disease, the university announced on Thursday.

The clinical trial seeks to assess the safety, tolerability and effectiveness of the experimental drug Tauriel in people with early to mild signs of Alzheimer’s, according to the hospital’s Memory and Aging Program. The Butler group is affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University.