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.

“The issues that are at stake are so important to every single Rhode Islander,” Paxson told Eyewitness News in an interview Wednesday on the university’s College Hill campus. “They are just first order of importance. This is about access to health care, quality of health care, economic development in the state, access to health care for underserved communities – so many, many dimensions.”

Video interview with Joseph Braun, Ph.D., an assistant professor of Public Health and Epidemiology at Brown.

Once a week at Brown University, professors and students with backgrounds ranging from neuroscience to literary arts come together to collaborate. They're participating in a program called "SciToons," created in 2011 by Oludurotimi Adetunji, an adjunct assistant professor of physics and Brown's associate dean of undergraduate research and inclusive science.

Brown is among the Rhode Island employers who are joining an initiative that aims to connect local suppliers with the state’s largest employers.

Avory Brookins, environmental reporter at Rhode Island Public Radio, sat down with Lint Barrage, assistant professor of economics and environmental studies at Brown University, to get a better sense of how oil and gas exploration could impact New England.

Brown University President Christina Paxson says that local options for a high-quality, affordable health system exist and that Rhode Islanders should ask a series of questions of policy leaders before the future of the state's health care system is decided.

Curator Rica Maestas has divided the art into groups that look at topics such as the Mexican Revolution, religion and educational reform and women and culture.