This week, Associate Professor of History Seth Rockman’s first book, Scraping By, about the lives of the working poor in early American cities, will be the subject of a symposium at the Library Company of Philadelphia.

A new Hewlett Foundation grant will build on work at the Population Studies and Training Center to prepare Africa’s next generation of population experts, with special attention to women who may face obstacles in the field.

With the publication of his latest book on October 16, Professor Emeritus of History Gordon Wood adds a thought-provoking volume to the Oxford History of the United States. Ted Widmer, director of the John Carter Brown library, talks to Wood about the early development of the new democratic society – and what surprised the Founding Fathers.

High crime rate? Check. Grinding poverty? Check. These obstacles, however, haven't deterred Mayor Cory Booker from aspiring to remake Newark as a latter-day city upon a hill. He spoke of the challenges recently at Brown.

Elementary students from Providence’s Vartan Gregorian School had close encounters with some sophisticated university laboratory equipment this week.

Brown planetary geologists led by Carle Pieters have discovered evidence of water on the moon. The discovery, published in Science, came from data from the Moon Mineralogy Mapper (M3), a NASA instrument aboard the Indian spacecraft Chandrayaan-1.

Then, new students had to read a book – and send their comments to Brown. What did they have to say?

Women in the male-dominated earth sciences often experience isolation and low self-confidence. Now, a Brown-based peer support network is helping them succeed.