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Brown scientists help preserve a piece of World Cup history for Cape Verdean Museum

When the director of the Cape Verdean Museum in Rhode Island received a souvenir piece of turf from one of the tournament’s ...
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Maggie Foxx: Making history in the Women’s Pro Baseball League

As a player in the first women’s professional baseball league in the U.S. since the 1950s, Brown University student-athlete ...
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Q&A: How Brown University is navigating the rise of generative AI use in the classroom

Following a University report on AI, Brown leaders discuss aligning AI policy with academic excellence, safeguarding academic ...
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From the Lab: How Javier Gómez-Serrano is using AI to solve the most elusive question in math

The Brown University mathematician fully embraces AI as a means to answer questions that have eluded humanity for centuries.
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Coleton Hast: Bridging technology and community to help preserve Taiwan’s endangered languages

Supported by a U.S. Department of State scholarship, the Brown University doctoral student is spending the summer in Taiwan, ...
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‘Little Rhody is about to become big Rhody’ when it comes to biotechnology

Members of the National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology convened in Providence to learn about biotechnology ...
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Each summer, Brown staff step into the skilled trades, and toward new career possibilities

A workforce development program in Facilities Management has trained hundreds of employees, opening pathways to careers in the building trades and campus jobs with higher pay, greater responsibility ...
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Researchers identify rapidly spreading genetic variants that make parasites resistant to malaria treatment

Findings by scientists at Brown University help explain declining malaria drug susceptibility and highlight the urgent need to track mutations and improve current therapies. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown ...
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Research provides new design specs for burgeoning sodium-ion batteries

A study provides new guidance for designing sodium-ion batteries, which are emerging as a less expensive and more environmentally friendly complement to lithium-based batteries. PROVIDENCE, R.I.
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Road infrastructure and traffic affect community members’ mental health, study finds

Road infrastructure and traffic affect community members’ mental health, study finds Researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health and the Columbia University School of Public Health ...
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Gone but not forgotten: Beloved elm tree from Brown sees new life in the form of handcrafted art

Eiden Spilker and others from the Brown Design Workshop are repurposing wood from a treasured American elm into sculptures and keepsakes for the Brown community. PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — ...
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From Brown to the big screen: How Tim Blake Nelson’s classics degree propelled a Hollywood career

Actor, writer and director Tim Blake Nelson, a member of Brown University’s Class of 1986, talked about the impact of his time on College Hill during a conversation hosted by Brown Arts Institute.