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Recent News About Brown University
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As Election Day nears, student-led nonprofit connects hospitalized patients to the ballot box
To increase voter turnout among Rhode Islanders who find themselves unexpectedly hospitalized in the days leading up to Election Day, a team of Brown students is taking to Providence-area hospitals and clinics to help patients learn how to vote without ever leaving the hospital.
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‘Braiding Sweetgrass’ author: ‘We haven’t loved the land enough’
If there’s one thing Robin Wall Kimmerer wants people to realize about the fight against climate change, it’s that love is more powerful than fear.
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In its second year, Military Fellows program continues to bridge the civilian-military divide
As a lieutenant colonel in the United States Air Force, Theodore “Doc” Shanks has spent years readying people and equipment for airlifts, medical evacuations and humanitarian responses.
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With support from Brown, innovative ‘STEAM Room’ opens at Vartan Gregorian Elementary
Robot-building, LEGO-stacking, microscopy, crafting — inside an innovative new learning space at Vartan Gregorian Elementary School built with financial support and partnership from Brown University, all of those activities and more are now possible.
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Brown wins historic preservation award for relocation, renovation of Sharpe House
The Providence Preservation Society awarded Brown University a 2022 Preservation Award for its work to relocate and restore Sharpe House, an 1873 building that now houses some of the Department of History’s classrooms, offices and communal spaces.
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Summit at Brown encourages health, medical careers for kids from underrepresented groups
On a picture-perfect fall Saturday made for soccer games and pumpkin-picking, scores of local families chose to gather in packed auditoriums and classrooms at Brown University’s medical school to discuss ways to strengthen and diversify the future of health care.
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Major public-private life sciences development breaks ground in Providence’s Jewelry District
To celebrate the groundbreaking for a 212,000-square-foot building that will house a new state health lab, life sciences labs for Brown University, and additional biotechnology space on former I-195 land, Brown officials joined Rhode Island Governor Daniel McKee, the state’s entire congressional delegation and a packed lineup of government, health and medicine leaders on Monday, Oct. 24.
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Brown-RISD student launches upcycled fashion collaboration with University Bookstore
A new collection of collegiate apparel lines the shelves in the Brown University Bookstore, and while the garments may seem familiar, no two are exactly the same.
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Family Weekend brings together students, families from across the world
Nearly 3,000 parents and family members from as far away as South Africa, Greece and Peru — and as near as Providence — convened on College Hill from Oct. 21 to 23 for Brown University’s annual Family Weekend.
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Student-organized health fair offers care, community resources for Rhode Islanders facing homelessness
More than 70 Brown undergraduate, graduate and medical students spent the afternoon of Saturday, Oct. 15, at Burnside Park in Providence, offering medical care, food and community resources to some of the city’s most vulnerable populations, including homeless, unemployed and undocumented residents.
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Two accomplished architecture firms selected for Brown’s planned integrated life sciences building
Brown University has selected a dynamic, multifaceted architecture team to design its planned integrated life sciences building in Providence’s Jewelry District neighborhood.
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In recognition of a generous gift, Brown University names the William and Ami Danoff Residence Hall
Brown University will name a state-of-the-art, under-construction residence hall the William and Ami Danoff Residence Hall in recognition of a generous gift from William Danoff and Ami Kuan Danoff.
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Brown to sponsor WaterFire lighting on Oct. 22, featuring community, student activities
Brown University will sponsor a full lighting of WaterFire Providence on the evening of Saturday, Oct. 22, uniting members of the Brown community with neighbors and families from across the Providence area for a world-class artistic and cultural experience.
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Amid steep global market declines, Brown endowment continues to support University’s academic mission
In a year marked by steep declines in financial markets across the globe, the Brown University endowment generated a -4.6% investment return during Brown’s Fiscal Year 2022, which closed on June 30, 2022.
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Brown Class of 1975 graduate wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Douglas W. Diamond, a University of Chicago scholar who earned a bachelor’s degree in economics from Brown University in 1975, is one of three recipients of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences announced on Monday, Oct. 10.
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In conversation, scholars discuss the global significance of protests in Iran
On Sept. 13, Mahsa Amini, a 22-year-old Kurdish woman, was visiting relatives in Tehran when members of the Guidance Control, Iran’s morality police, pulled her from a train station and arrested her for defying the country’s mandatory hijab law.
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Brown plans for tenancy in major public-private life sciences development in Providence
Building on a long-standing commitment to supporting projects in Providence’s Jewelry District that contribute to the economic vitality of the city and state, Brown University has signed a letter of intent to lease laboratory space in a major public-private life sciences development project
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Brown computer scientist aims to protect people in an age of artificial intelligence
As data-driven technologies transform the world and artificial intelligence raises questions about bias, privacy and transparency, Suresh Venkatasubramanian is offering his expertise to help create guardrails to ensure that technologies are developed and deployed responsibly.
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With $15 million federal grant, researchers establish new national suicide prevention center
With a $15 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, researchers from Brown University, Michigan State University and Henry Ford Health in Detroit are collaborating to reduce the national suicide rate by establishing a multi-institution suicide prevention research center.
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Community unites to celebrate Martha and Artemis Joukowsky, Brown’s ‘lifelong ambassadors’
Stories, tears and Brown pride filled a weekend-long celebration of life honoring Chancellor Emeritus Artemis A.W. Joukowsky Jr. and Professor Emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky, who died in 2020 and 2022, respectively.