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Brown and Sovereign | Santander continue ‘a shining success’ A memorandum of understanding signed Monday by Brown University and Sovereign | Santander will provide support for an additional three years of Brown International Advanced Research Institutes, a program that has brought more than 500 international scholars to campus for two-week intensive institutes on pressing global [...]
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Species management: The conference Dov Sax, of Brown’s Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Bernd Blossey, professor of natural resources at Cornell University, have organized a conference for the Ecological Society of America next week in West Virginia. Among the topics: What to do when climate change forces species out of their historical habitats. [...]
R.I. supports Obama’s contraception policy A new statewide public opinion survey conducted by the Taubman Center at Brown University finds that the majority of voters in Rhode Island, one of the nation’s most Catholic states, supports the Obama administration’s new policy to offer contraception services to women who work for religiously affiliated organizations. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown [...]
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Student volunteers promote health in a city of need Each semester scores of undergraduate volunteers provide services such as free health screenings, health-related social work, and high-school sexual education across Providence. Student volunteers talk about the CareFree Clinic, Clinica Esperanza, Health Leads, and SHAPE. The difference a few doctors or students can make Will Barbosa [...]
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Teaching science to the religious? Focus on how theories develop Brown biology Professor Ken Miller understands that most students are religious. He is too. The way to teach science to religious students is to show how scientific ideas come to be, he says. Students can learn that religious people engage in scientific explorations of nature, [...]
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Genes may travel from plant to plant to fuel evolution Evolutionary biologists at Brown University and the University of Sheffield have documented for the first time that plants swap genes from plant to plant to fuel their evolutionary development. The researchers found enzymes key to photosynthesis had been shared among plants with only a distant [...]
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Researchers make living model of brain tumor Researchers have created a living 3-D model of a brain tumor and its surrounding blood vessels. In experiments, the scientists report that iron-oxide nanoparticles carrying the agent tumstatin were taken by blood vessels, meaning they should block blood vessel growth. The living-tissue model could be used to test [...]
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Kevin McLaughlin: The Humanities Initiative Announced in 2010 with a $3-million gift, Brown’s Humanities Initiative aims to strengthen the distinctiveness of the humanities at Brown and to extend the impact of the humanities across campus and beyond. Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin recently updated the faculty on how the initiative is progressing. Kevin McLoughlin, [...]
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Building Brown, Building Futures Building Futures, Building Buildings Marc Nixon earned his GED and a place in Laborers Local 271 through the Building Futures program. He’s been working on construction downtown and at Brown, including the new aquatics and fitness center. Credit: Frank Mullin/Brown University Marc Nixon, a construction laborer working on Brown’s new aquatics and fitness center, [...]
When nerve meets muscle, biglycan seals the deal In the absence of the protein biglycan, synapses at neuromuscular junctions in mice began to break up about five weeks after birth, according to a new study led by Brown University researchers. Reintroducing byglycan helped fix the loss of synaptic stability in cell culture. The research may be relevant [...]
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