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Living on Brown campus, cohort of Providence high schoolers takes major step toward college readiness

The inaugural cohort of the Brown Collegiate Scholars Program began its residential experience this summer, balancing ...
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With an eye toward exploration, researchers map Moon’s regolith thickness

Researchers from LunaSCOPE, Brown University’s NASA-funded lunar science collaboration, have mapped the thickness of the ...
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Einstein’s relativity rules chemical bonds in heavy elements, new research shows

Researchers have shown the first direct experimental evidence that the textbook triple bond structure breaks down in heavy ...
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Video: Amid World Cup fever, mechanics expert at Brown explains the science of soccer

In a series of short videos, Brown University engineering professor Roberto Zenit explores the physics of soccer as the World ...
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Photos: With Pre-College programs underway, young learners embrace their curiosity at Brown

Each summer, thousands of high school students study on campus and around the globe in Brown’s Pre-College Programs, which ...
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Brown University scholar and curator’s work gets international spotlight at Venice Biennale

Gwendolyn Collaço from the John Hay Library curated an exhibition by Azerbaijani artist Faig Ahmed for the prestigious Venice ...
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Lachlan Kirby: Biking 3,000 miles across America, fueled by community care and curiosity

Through a self-designed public health research project, the rising Brown University junior is spending the summer on a solo cross-country cycling trip, volunteering with nonprofits across the South.
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At Brown, intramural sports leagues rally all summer

Led by Brown Athletics and Recreation, summer intramural pickleball and soccer leagues bring students, faculty and staff ...
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Telescope makers at Brown revel in centuries-old craft

Working for months with staff members in the Department of Physics, a group of students and faculty from Brown and RISD ...
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The Open Curriculum

Brown’s flexible yet rigorous approach to education pushes undergraduates to be deeply creative thinkers, intellectual risk-takers and entrepreneurial problem-solvers. At most universities, students ...
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New insights could inform treatment for childhood brain disorder discovered at Brown

Studying the same metabolite from different angles, researchers from Brown and U.T. Southwestern collaborated to discover a mechanism that plays a key role in a rare genetic disease. PROVIDENCE, R.I. ...