A Conversation with Maps

The new exhibition, “A Conversation with Maps,” encourages visitors to interact with maps at John Carter Brown Library.

Published on February 01, 2010
Before the earthquake: Danielle Dunlap ’10 worked in a Haitian orphanage last month with children who had lost parents to HIV/AIDS. Days later, such happy moments were only a memory.
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Announcements, messages, and commentary from the week of January 31, 2010:

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Dean David Targan stands in front of a 52-inch high-definition television in Brown’s new Science Center, which opens February 5.

A science place of their own

Smart boards, high-def screens, and group-study rooms are among the amenities expected to draw science students and faculty to the third floor of the Sciences Library.

READ MORE February 4, 2010
President Simmons poses on the red carpet at the BET Awards, January 16.
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President Ruth Simmons honored by BET

Among the five high-achieving African Americans feted by Black Entertainment Television were Queen Latifah, Sean “Diddy” Combs – and Brown’s own president, Ruth J. Simmons. The festivities were filmed on January 16 and broadcast February 1.

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Candid camera: A skua – an Antarctic gull – poses on a ridge overlooking McMurdo Station in Antarctica.
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Boxes of Antarctic rocks may hold clues to planet mysteries

A team of Brown geologists wraps up its three-month stay in the Antarctic Dry Valleys and sends home two tons of hard evidence.

READ MORE January 21, 2010
Horace Mann Hall is home to the Brown University Graduate School.
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Overseas interest leads graduate application surge

With one of 46 doctoral programs and some master’s programs still open, Brown’s Graduate School applications have already reached an all-time high.

READ MORE January 20, 2010

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Nicholas Brown’s 1804 letter affirming his gift of $5,000 to support a named chair also gave the college its present name, Brown University.
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Nicholas Brown’s letter

It was a bargain by any standard: With his gift of $5,000, alumnus Nicholas Brown gave his family’s name to the university in perpetuity.

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MEET THE NEW FACULTY

Matthew Harrison: Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
New Faculty 2009-10

Matthew Harrison
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics

Whether it’s deciphering a plant’s genetic code or interpreting electrical signals in the brain, scientists in all disciplines wrestle with ever-larger and more complex data sets, screening out noise and trying to understand the signal. The challenge for Matthew Harrison and other applied mathematicians is to help make enormous data sets understandable.
READ MORE September 9, 2009

BROWN IN THE NEWS

Pulling Haiti’s culture from the rubble Thu 4 Feb | Chronicle of Higher Education
Author Salman Rushdie to speak at Brown Fri 5 Feb | Providence Journal
Making rounds in Haiti Wed 3 Feb | New England Journal of Medicine
Yale, Brown, Stanford – everyone is cutting back Wed 3 Feb | Bloomberg News
Senator Brown goes to Washington Fri 5 Feb | The Washington Post
M.F. Husain exhibit at Brown Thu 4 Feb | India Journal
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