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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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Ken Miller: America’s Darwin Problem Significant numbers of Americans now regard the scientific enterprise as a special interest group that rejects mainstream American values. “You might think that since Americans are a practical, pragmatic people, this is an issue that would turn on the weight of the evidence,” writes Ken Miller. “It’s not.” This essay […]
Corporation approves 2013 budget, sets tuition, increases financial aid At its regular February meeting today, the Corporation of Brown University approved a 3.2-percent increase in the University’s consolidated operating budget for the 2013 fiscal year. Total tuition and fees will rise 3.5 percent. The financial aid budget will reach an all-time high. The College Green […]
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‘Explorers’ use uncertainty and specific area of brain Center for uncertainty “Explorers,” whose decision-making style embraces the possibilities of uncertainty, use specific parts (red) of the right rostrolateral prefrontal cortex to make calculations based on relative uncertainty. /Credit: Badre-Frank Lab/Brown University As they try to find the best reward among options, some people explore based on how uncertain […]
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