In remarks to the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, Brown President Christina Paxson outlined ambitious plans for growth in translational sciences in Providence’s Jewelry District, building on the University’s more than $200-million investment to date in that area of the city.
Brown University will launch a series of lectures and workshops focusing on five areas of structural racism: housing, education, wealth, criminal justice, and mass media. The project will launch with a session on Wednesday, Dec. 2, and continue through the spring and fall 2016 semesters.
Brown University has developed a working draft of an action plan to enhance diversity and inclusion on campus. Faculty, students and staff may provide comments and suggestions through Friday, Jan. 8, 2016. Those responses will be carefully reviewed, and the final plan will be presented at the beginning of the spring semester. (See update note below.)
In Science, a team led by neuroscientist Alexander Jaworski reports the discovery of a protein that guides neurons as they extend axons across the spinal cord midline. The finding could help unravel the complexity of how neural connections form and help understand diseases that result from errant brain wiring.
New technologies have brought new significance to a set of fossilized jaws that Stephen Gatesy and colleagues found in Greenland 20 years ago. Their new analysis shows that proto-mammals were diversifying earlier than previously thought.
The iconic yellow and blue stripes of zebrafish form dynamically as young fish develop and grow. A mathematical model developed by Brown University researchers helps to show how pigment cells interact to form the pattern.
The disturbing and persistent disparities in health between black and white people in the United States arise from a complex mix of socioeconomic disadvantages that should be addressed early in life, said President Christina Paxson in delivering the 2015 Levinger Lecture.
In order to roost upside down on cave ceilings or tree limbs, bats need to perform an aerobatic feat unlike anything else in the animal world. Researchers from Brown University have shown that it’s the extra mass in bats’ beefy wings that makes the maneuver possible.
Brown University President Christina Paxson will deliver the Paul Levinger Lecture Monday, Nov. 16, 2015, at 4 p.m. The subject is racial health disparities.
A new Brown University analysis of HIV incidence in 36 sub-Saharan African countries finds that new HIV infections rise significantly in the five years before armed conflict breaks out.
