Brown goes green with campus-wide Bigbelly installation
April 7, 2016
Over spring break, the Department of Facilities Management installed 30 pairs of eco-friendly trash bins with the aim of increasing recycling rates across the board.
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Two professors win Guggenheim fellowships to advance research interests
April 7, 2016
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to Wendy Hui Kyong Chun from Modern Culture and Media and Alberto E. Saal from Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences.
Taking the stage at Tempelhof
April 7, 2016
On a trip to Berlin, Brown’s jazz band played two performances at the refugee camp home to some 7,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.
Research, policy, advocacy fuel upcoming public health discussions
April 7, 2016
Four upcoming events, all free and open to the public, feature timely topics in public health such as women’s issues around the globe and preventing youth gun violence.
Globe’s rising obesity, diabetes rates no surprise to Samoa researcher
April 6, 2016
As someone who has studied nutrition and health in Samoans over the last 40 years, Brown University public health researcher Stephen McGarvey provided data for new publications on the global trends in obesity and type 2 diabetes reported in <em>The Lancet</em>.
Lipscombe appointed to direct Brown Institute for Brain Science
April 5, 2016
Neuroscientist Diane Lipscombe will lead the multidisciplinary brain science center as its new director effective immediately, Brown Provost Richard Locke announced today.
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The making of ‘SciToons’
April 5, 2016
Scientific concepts like the human microbiome, genetic splicing or conductive polymers sound complicated, but in the SciToons series Brown University students and faculty members make them fun and easier to understand.
National tour of ‘First Folio! The Book That Gave Us Shakespeare!’ comes to Brown
April 4, 2016
University celebrates the arrival of one of the world’s most treasured books with wide-ranging series of open-to-the-public events and exhibits.
Third annual Robot Block Party to be held at Brown
April 4, 2016
From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Saturday to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.
Professor of medical science named new Graduate School dean
April 4, 2016
Andrew G. Campbell, a faculty member in the University’s department of molecular microbiology and immunology since 1994, will assume his new role on July 1.