News, People, Events at Brown University

What lies beneath

adiffily — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 15:48:42 -0500

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.

Mind matters: Faculty and students present at Neuroscience 2008

mhollmer — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 11:16:00 -0500

It was all about the brain when Brown researchers explained their work in Washington this week.

Time to honor Brown’s best

adiffily — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 09:43:56 -0500

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.

Engaging Iran on the eve of its nuclear future

adiffily — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 17:07:34 -0500

How does the international community stop a determined nuclear proliferator? An expert takes a realistic look at what might be done to prevent Iran from making atomic weapons.

As the bat flies

adiffily — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 16:01:28 -0500

Students and a postdoc from Brown’s Fluid Mechanics Laboratory will deliver papers on research involving bat flight at a major national conference, Nov. 23–25.

Expecting the unexpected

adiffily — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:18:23 -0500

Brown computer scientists are developing models that will help organizations cope with potentially costly contingencies.

Brown among top U.S. producers of Fulbright winners

adiffily — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 16:20:44 -0500

Brown ranks seventh in the nation and third in the Ivies in the number of Fulbright fellowships awarded for 2008–09, and its percentage of winners to applicants is second only to Yale’s.

How to talk to teens about slavery

adiffily — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 13:54:12 -0500

The Choices project helps secondary teachers find new ways to teach the difficult social and historical topic of slavery.

Summer institutes, overseas opportunities highlight partnership with Spain’s largest bank

adiffily — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:21:07 -0500

Brown and Banco Santander will inaugurate an annual series of International Advanced Research Institutes, bringing together a rising generation of scholars from the global South, beginning this June.

Brown announces campus-wide response to economic downturn

adiffily — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:37:55 -0500

A pause in new hiring and a possible delay in undertaking some facilities projects are among the cost-saving measures outlined in a memorandum from President Simmons.

60 Minutes: Brown research group’s BrainGate is ‘a leap in evolution’

adiffily — Tue, 04 Nov 2008 09:58:04 -0500

Professors John Donoghue (photo) and Leigh Hochberg talked to 60 Minutes about BrainGate, a mind-to-movement system developed in Donoghue’s lab. On camera, one of their paralyzed subjects steered a wheelchair with her thoughts.