Four years after a landmark national study on sexual assault and misconduct on college campuses, Brown and 32 other institutions will ask students to participate in a follow-up survey in Spring 2019.
The five-year grant from the National Institutes of Health will support Carlos Vargas-Irwin’s research, which could ultimately improve control of robotic limbs for people with paralysis.
In the last fiscal year, the endowment contributed $163 million to the University, supporting strategic priorities ranging from financial aid to faculty research and more.
Working with researchers from Harvard and the U.S. Census Bureau, Brown economics professor John Friedman created a tool that traces the roots of social and economic outcomes to childhood neighborhoods.
User-friendly software will help connect the neural activity of the brain’s outer layers to EEG recordings, which could help in treating patients and developing new discoveries.
During a keynote event at the annual meeting of the National Association for Business Economics, Brown President Christina Paxson emphasized the need for leaders to make clear the economic and societal benefits of college degrees.
Presented by the University’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, “Unfinished Business: The Long Civil Rights Movement” will examine the black political organizing tradition in the struggle for equal rights.
Brown anthropologist Stephen Houston is among a team of researchers whose work, published in Science, drastically alters the prevailing view of the scale and complexity of the Maya.
More than 30 years ago, Brown established the Swearer Center, one of the first campus-based public service centers in the nation. Mathew Johnson, the Swearer Center’s executive director, reflects on its rich tradition of community partnerships and the crucial role that engaged scholarship continues to play in learning and research at Brown.
