Today at Brown

In addition to debuting new works this month, the playwrights involved with the Brown/Trinity Playwrights Repertory Theatre have worked alongside young artists-in-training at Brown this summer.

Can your friends’ marital woes doom your own relationship? Current research by Rose McDermott, professor of political science, claims that divorce can be contagious and spread like a disease among social networks.

Extreme heat threatens the very old and the very young, but it can also be brutal for vigorously healthy young adults. Lynn Sweeney, assistant professor of emergency medicine at the Warren Alpert Medical School, sees all ages in the emergency room at Rhode Island Hospital.

Award-winning historian James T. Patterson, professor of history emeritus, has written a book on the Moynihan Report, its creation, publication, and long-term impact on America’s struggle with race.

Steven Lubar, the new director of Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, hopes to expand its public exhibition space and make the collections a lively resource for teaching and learning.