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(05/24/19 4:00am)
On Earth Day this year, my friends and I stood on the Main Green for a few hours and asked passersby to guess the age of our planet. Our team of undergrad geology students had laid out a timeline of Earth’s ...
(04/24/19 7:20am)
When we think about climate change, we should think about the Younger Dryas. You probably haven’t heard of the Younger Dryas, a cold period that started 12,900 years ago — at the end of the last glacial ...
(04/27/17 4:00am)
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Two months after the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, authorized the construction of a new performing arts center in the ...
(10/20/16 4:04am)
One could say the brain is an interdisciplinary organ. When visual stimuli arrive, little does the occipital lobe care that it is distinct in name and function from the frontal lobe. It relies on its ...
(09/28/16 4:04am)
In the 1990s, Brown’s campus was a hotbed of activism on behalf of Timor-Leste, the Southeast Asian island then occupied by — and subject to human rights violations committed by — Indonesia. Over ...
(09/22/16 4:02am)
The money flows out — from public and private coffers to military contractors, overseas partners and veteran hospitals. Territory is gained and lost, flags raised and lowered and bodies buried. The ...
(09/15/16 4:02am)
When an ancient Mayan scribe put paint to fig bark sometime around the turn of the 13th century, he hardly could have imagined that his bark sheets would ultimately make their way around the world — ...
(06/02/16 6:42pm)
As the Class of 2016 walked out of the Van Wickle Gates last weekend, Brown was preparing for the classes of 2021 and beyond to walk through them. Logan Powell has been named the next dean of admission, ...
(04/28/16 4:00am)
Among metaphors, the Internet as a cloud is especially satisfying: It captures the incomprehensible mass of the globe’s data in one fell, simple, ethereal swoop.
In 2006, Google’s Eric Schmidt introduced ...
(04/21/16 4:29am)
Somewhere out there — buried under ice in our solar system, waiting on a deep-Milky Way exoplanet, on radiation en route from the Great Beyond — lies the answer to the question, “Are we alone?”
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(04/11/16 4:04am)
Over 200 students came to College Hill this weekend for the Latinx Conference, representing two different umbrella organizations, over 18 East Coast schools and the many Latinx groups — Afro and queer, ...
(04/06/16 4:02am)
As marijuana sweeps to the center of public debate, protestors and progressives — like those who tried to inflate a 51-foot joint replica in front of the White House last week — have been at the forefront ...
(03/21/16 4:00am)
If science, technology, engineering and mathematics suffer from a deficit of interest, Brown’s Brain Fair in Sayles Hall proved otherwise. The March 19 event was attended by over 500 people ranging ...
(03/16/16 4:05am)
The phrase “big data” — and the vast, daunting numbers it implies — is thrown around a lot these days. To illustrate the concept, Helen Nissenbaum, professor of media, culture and communication ...
(03/11/16 5:20am)
Thousands of miles may separate Providence from the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, but viruses have a way of making the globe seem small.
“We do expect that we will have a case (in Rhode Island),” ...
(03/08/16 5:03am)
Logging into Banner just got a little bit harder. As of last week, all students, with the exception of those studying abroad, have been enrolled in the new two-step verification system that adds an additional ...
(02/24/16 5:10am)
The image of a city on the Moon is, in many circles, still the stuff of science fiction. But at this weekend’s Space Horizons workshop, participants were interested in talking about when it should be ...
(02/15/16 5:10am)
When it comes to skipping stones, kids know to look for the perfect rock. But according to a team of researchers from the School of Engineering, the Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport and Utah State ...
(02/09/16 5:05am)
Warren Alpert Medical School students now have the opportunity to undertake extracurricular studies in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer healthcare and advocacy as part of the school’s scholarly ...
(01/28/16 7:04am)
With opioid and other substance abuses creating public health emergencies state- and nation-wide, the University and Rhode Island Hospital have received grants from the U.S. Substance Abuse and Mental ...