Brown students, recent graduates earn 29 Fulbright Scholarships
May 19, 2016
The award, one of the country’s most prestigious, offers students the opportunity to teach, study or pursue independent research in more than 140 countries.
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Dalton wins NSF CAREER Award
May 17, 2016
Assistant professor Colleen Dalton’s CAREER Award will support her work using seismic waves to understand the Earth’s interior.
Commencement 2016
First-generation scholars will address Graduate School degree recipients
May 17, 2016
Graduates Alberto Morales and Matthew J. Lyddon will address their peers in separate master’s and doctoral ceremonies, respectively, at Commencement on Sunday, May 29.
Guide to Commencement 2016
Brown’s 248th Commencement set for Sunday, May 29
May 17, 2016
Sunday’s procession and University Ceremony on the College Green cap Brown’s three-day celebration of Commencement and Reunion Weekend.
Brown University’s Engaged Scholars Program connects academic learning with social impact
May 13, 2016
<div>The program, now in its second year, links the classroom and community through co-created experiential research, projects and internships.</div>
Teaching with the News tool offers students, educators a scholarly look at Black Lives Matter
May 11, 2016
A new interactive timeline offered by the Choices Program will give students insights into black activism spanning the mid-20th century and beyond.
As exposure to chemical rises, so does risk of ending breastfeeding early
May 11, 2016
In a new study of hundreds of Cincinnati moms, higher levels of exposure to the common industrial chemical PFOA were linked to a greater likelihood of ending breastfeeding by three months.
Passages
Poet and professor emeritus Michael S. Harper
May 11, 2016
Acclaimed poet Michael S. Harper, a beloved teacher to generations of Brown students, passed away on May 7.
U.N. Development Programme grant to expand Brown’s digital archive on U.S.-Brazilian relations
May 10, 2016
An effort led through the Watson Institute’s Brazil Initiative, the Opening the Archives Project provides open access to thousands of primary documents for researchers around the world.
Early life stress accelerates maturation of key brain region in male mice
May 10, 2016
Scientists studying how stress in early childhood affects the brain have new evidence from a study in male mice that a key region appears to mature faster.