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 Anastasia Volovich: Asking the big questions has brought her national honor.

String theory scholar wins prestigious White House award

Anastasia Volovich, the Richard and Edna Salomon Assistant Professor of Physics, went to Washington to collect a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers.
READ MORE December 18, 2008

Winter Break services and closings

Are you wondering where to eat on campus, whether you can access your mailbox, or when the libraries will be open during Brown’s month-long break from classes? Read on.
READ MORE December 18, 2008
 Abby Hein and some of her young soccer students in Tanzania.

What I learned about sports and life in Tanzania

As a Royce Fellow in Sport and Society, Brown junior Abby Hein spent last summer establishing a kids’ soccer league in an African village. To her surprise, the experience restored her own athletic career.
READ MORE December 17, 2008

Brenda Allen named provost at Winston-Salem State University

Allen, who came to Brown in 2003, has led the University’s efforts to develop and implement a diversity action plan.
READ MORE December 16, 2008

Five Brown faculty named to AAAS, world’s largest scientific society

The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) has elected five Brown University professors — David M. Berson, Mark D. Bertness, John P. Donoghue, Susan A. Gerbi, and Jimmy Xu — fellows for their significant contributions to the life and physical sciences.
READ MORE December 15, 2008
 Customers line up for holiday bargains; a 25% off promotion continues through Christmas Eve.

Here comes the new Brown Bookstore

Amid the rush of the holiday shopping season, the Brown Bookstore unveils glimpses of its most comprehensive renovation ever.
READ MORE December 11, 2008

International Scholars Program winners announced

Fourteen undergraduate students chosen to participate in Brown’s new international study program will receive grants for overseas research next summer.
READ MORE December 9, 2008
 President Ruth J. Simmons and Executive Vice President Richard Spies: “We’re all in this together.”

President Simmons to staff: ‘We will do everything we can to avoid layoffs’

At a Dec. 8 forum organized by the Staff Advisory Committee, senior Brown administrators outlined strategies for coping with the economic downturn.
READ MORE December 8, 2008

Anthropologist Daniel Jordan Smith wins Margaret Mead Award for book on corruption in Nigeria

The award honors Smith’s “socially relevant” study of a population that has become inured to graft and deceit.
READ MORE December 5, 2008
 Ashutosh Varshney: “The scale of the violence was shocking.”
Five Questions For...

Ashutosh Varshney

Calling the Mumbai attacks “India’s 9/11,” newly appointed professor Ashutosh Varshney, a scholar of South Asian ethnic conflict, advocates a multi-pronged response.
READ MORE December 4, 2008

Message from President Simmons on the Mumbai tragedy

The president of Brown offers sympathy and a plea for nonviolence in the wake of terrorist attacks on the Indian city of Mumbai.
READ MORE December 3, 2008
 Emma Clippinger: ‘Poised to make her mark on the world.’

Clippinger ’09 wins grand prize in Youth Social Entrepreneur competition

Brown senior Emma Clippinger and Emily Morell of Yale were chosen from among 100 applicants for their work as co-founders of Gardens for Health International, which provides nutritional support and economic empowerment to HIV-positive people in Rwanda.
READ MORE November 23, 2008
 Joukowsky Institute head Susan Alcock begins the time-capsule ceremony on the Green near Rhode Island Hall, watched by graduate student Thomas Leppard, postdoctoral fellow Thomas Garrison, and graduate students Sarah Craft, Elizabeth Murphy, and Jessica Nowlin.

What lies beneath

As renovations to Rhode Island Hall – their future academic home – continue, members of the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World install a time capsule in the building’s cellar.
READ MORE November 20, 2008
Meeting notes

Mind matters: Faculty and students present at Neuroscience 2008

It was all about the brain when Brown researchers explained their work in Washington last week.
READ MORE November 20, 2008

Time to honor Brown’s best

Do you know an employee who has thought outside the box? Gone out of her way to help? Made Brown a better place to work and study? If so, nominate! This Monday, November 24, is the deadline for excellence award submissions.
READ MORE November 20, 2008
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