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2024 Highlights
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IBES at 10: A decade of innovative research and teaching
Founded in 2014, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society has become a leader in producing boundary-breaking, solutions-driven research while educating the next generation of environmental leaders.
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Founded in 2014, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society has become a leader in producing boundary-breaking, solutions-driven research while educating the next generation of environmental leaders.
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Unlocking the full genetic picture
Brown's new RNA center is expanding RNA research and positioning Rhode Island to be a leader in the development of advances to improve human health.
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The sixth floor of 225 Dyer St. has been outfitted with much-needed life sciences lab space to welcome Brown University researchers and encourage innovation and collaboration.
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The ambitious goal of the new Brown RNA Center is to untangle the mysteries of human RNA, which could be instrumental in preventing and developing treatments for a wide variety of complex diseases.
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Research on the Rise
Brown’s vision for collaborative research and discovery is working, and it’s improving the health of both individuals and populations.
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Dedicated Brunonian leaves a legacy of environmental impact
Merging his love for Brown with his dedication to the environment, George Billings ’72 LHD’21 hon. made a gift through his estate that supports faculty and graduate students in the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES).
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A Brown University alumnus will lead the investigation for a lunar lander mission to study volcanic activity on the Moon, a mission first proposed by a Brown researcher and Brown-affiliated scientists.
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The JCB, an independent research library on the Brown University campus, has refreshed its entryway and online collections access, further opening its physical and digital doors to scholars researching the history of the Americas.
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Fluid mechanics researchers from Brown University and the University of Toulouse found that surfactants give the celebratory drink its stable and signature straight rise of bubbles.
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Exploring autism through stem cell technology
Assistant Professor Sofia B. Lizarraga and her lab are working to translate discoveries at the bench into therapeutic treatments for autism.
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The newly launched Initiative for Sustainable Energy will serve as a campus hub for driving technological advances in sustainable energy and preparing the next-generation of leaders in net-zero-carbon energy solutions.
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International Space Station experiments co-led by Peter Lee, a Brown scholar, cardiothoracic surgeon and longtime space researcher, will help inform understanding and treatment of cardiovascular disease.
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In celebration of 10 years of impact and the exceptional generosity of its donors, the center’s new name honors Brown’s president emerita, who sparked a landmark effort to uncover the University’s historical ties to slavery.
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The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, founded in the 2012-13 academic year, has become a leading force for original research, international engagement and public conversation on the legacies of racial slavery.
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Algorithms are guiding more decisions in more industries than ever before. In a new workshop supported by the Orlando Bravo Center for Economic Research, scholars and students convened to examine how impartial and effective these calculations really are.
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A golden anniversary becomes a golden opportunity
As Brown works to expand its research enterprise, the Division of Biology and Medicine will play a central role in discovering and disseminating solutions to the world’s most pressing medical problems.
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Confronting Indigenous enslavement, one story at a time
A partner effort among Brown scholars, volunteers and Native American leaders, Stolen Relations has recovered thousands of Indigenous enslavement records, drawing attention to a topic rarely broached in school history lessons.
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Researchers from Brown University, Michigan State and Henry Ford Health are leading a multi-institution research effort to reduce the national suicide rate.
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Appointed Brown’s 19th president in 2012, Christina H. Paxson has guided the University through major accomplishments and national moments of challenge, and she looks forward to achieving more in the years to come.
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Health on a global scale
Unlocking innovation to treat vulnerable populations around the world
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With support from a $1.25 million grant from the Abrams Foundation, scholars at Brown are working with partners to collect personal stories that reveal how slavery and colonialism shaped societies across the globe.
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Improving mental health through computational neuroscience
The Carney Institute’s new BRAINSTORM program is bridging the gap between basic brain science research and clinical applications for mental well-being.
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Foundation and corporate grants accelerate research at Brown
The past year was particularly successful for faculty working alongside Brown Advancement’s Corporate and Foundation Relations team, with more than $26 million in grants awarded to support promising projects in a range of disciplines.
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Uncovering alternatives to animal testing
Brown researchers are pursuing a promising new method that could transform toxicology testing, making it faster and more effective without the use of animals.
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Escalating the fight against Alzheimer’s disease
Generous gifts totalling $30 million are supporting the establishment of the Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research at Brown, with a focus on early detection and viable treatments.
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The Brown University Library’s new Center for Library Exploration and Research promises to strengthen scholarly inquiry and support for high-impact research by scholars on campus and beyond.
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Hope for rare diseases
Sandi Nusinoff Lehrman ’69 MD’76 and Stephen A. Lehrman ’73 have seen two grandchildren battle a rare neurological disease. Through their philanthropy, they're supporting Brown's Center for Translational Neuroscience in its crusade to discover new treatments for rare brain diseases.
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With continued momentum in support of Brown’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, new BrownTogether gifts and grants are catalyzing research on race and inequity, and supporting students from underrepresented groups.
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Fostering diverse approaches to understanding brain function
Transformational new support for The Carney Institute for Brain Science is accelerating innovation and translational research into vital aspects of the human brain.
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New research network spotlights obstruction to climate change action
Backed with alumni support, the newly formed Climate Social Science Network is working to understand why climate change has become such a divisive issue—and how to counter the misinformation and barriers to progress surrounding it.
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A look back: 2020 highlights
From providing emergency support to students during a global pandemic to game-changing research in malaria, we're looking back at some important accomplishments supported by Brown donors in a year that was anything but ordinary.
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Cogut students and faculty on why we need the humanities
From climate change to racial inequity, the students, faculty, and researchers of the Cogut Institute are tackling the biggest issues of our time—and proving why the humanities are more important than ever.
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The Climate Social Science Network, based at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, will bring together leading scholars to catalyze collaborative research on the interests that are stalling climate action.
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Collaboration across boundaries drives brain science discoveries
The Carney Institute for Brain Science is taking an unparalleled approach to artificial intelligence, neurodegeneration, and chronic disease prevention by bringing together brilliant minds across Brown.
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The Center for Computational Brain Science at Brown’s Carney Institute for Brain Science will harness the University’s expertise in computation, cognition and systems neuroscience toward new brain health solutions.
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Researchers at Brown: Prepared to Pivot in a Crisis
Physicians and scientists at Brown University and the Warren Alpert Medical School play a vital role in Rhode Island's pandemic response.
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Living longer. Living better.
Can we live longer without major health challenges? Based on the research happening at Brown’s Center on the Biology of Aging, the prognosis is good.
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The rise of digital health
As a practicing emergency physician, Dr. Megan Ranney MPH’10 RES’08 believes that the emergency department is where you can change a patient’s health care trajectory. And technology is her tool of choice.
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A quest to demystify human behavior
Through the power of an Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award, Eric Ingram ’21 is embarking on a once-in-a-lifetime research opportunity to uncover new insights that could help people with anxiety disorders.
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The understudied risks of mindfulness
Seeking inner peace? Brown researchers warn that mindfulness meditation isn’t as harmless as you may think.
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Beyond the stacks: A distinctive collection
The John Carter Brown Library wants its extraordinary collections on the history of the colonial Americas to be accessible to the world—and more scholars at Brown.
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Bridging teaching and scholarship in the study of "difference"
Pembroke postdocs bring a critical lens into classrooms and seminars, simultaneously passing it on to a new set of scholars and informing their own research.
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Through interviews, faculty and students share in their own words how the distinctive approach to research at Brown is unlocking the complexity of the brain.
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Until her Voss Fellowship, Loren Albert did emissions research by climbing trees. Now, with the help of Assistant Professor Jim Kellner and drone technology, she has the whole forest in her sights.
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With high-tech spaces for 15 faculty research groups and more than 100 research associates and graduate students, the building is designed to encourage the kind of interdisciplinary research for which Brown is known.
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New fund to accelerate medical technologies toward market
Brown’s new Biomedical Innovation Fund has made two grants to accelerate the commercialization of technologies — one for diagnosing drug dependence in newborns and a second for discovering anti-ALS medicines.
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