Click to reveal the search form
Close the search form
Menu

Brown University

Located in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh-oldest college in the United States. Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs, plus the Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the School of Professional Studies.

With its talented and motivated student body and accomplished faculty, Brown is a leading research university that maintains a particular commitment to exceptional undergraduate instruction.

Visit the Brown University website.

Opioid Makers Made Payments to One in 12 U.S. Doctors

As public health officials combat the opioid overdose epidemic, a study shows that drug manufacturers paid more than $46 million to more than 68,000 doctors over a 29-month period.
Brown University

With 3-D Printing, Students Create a ‘Wolverine’ Arm for Local 12-year-old

Taking advantage of 3-D printing technology, students at Brown University are creating fanciful but functional custom-made arms for local children with upper-arm anomalies.
Brown University

Closing the Achievement Gap in STEM: A Two-Year Reform Effort at Brown University

Undergraduate attrition from STEM fields remains a problem despite decades of research and education reform efforts to improve the STEM student experience.
Brown University | Articles & Op-Eds | STEM Initiative Resources

Companies Should Rethink Data Collection

The European Court of Justice has struck down the so-called Safe Harbor agreement, which allowed U.S. companies to skirt many European data privacy laws. Computer scientist Anna Lysyanskaya says now is a good time for companies to start using cryptographic methods that enable them to do business without collecting customers’ private information.
Brown University

An Accessible Approach to Making a Mini-brain

In a new paper in Tissue Engineering: Part C, Brown University researchers describe a relatively accessible method for making a working – though not thinking – sphere of central nervous system tissue. The advance could provide an inexpensive and easy-to-make 3-D testbed for biomedical research.
Brown University

Brown University President Makes Economic Case for Humanities

In this defense of the humanities, Brown University President Christina Paxson argues there are "real, tangible benefits to the humanistic disciplines."
Brown University | Articles & Op-Eds | Humanities

Brown is a Project Site for AAU STEM Effort

Brown University is one of eight research universities chosen as a project site for a national effort at improving undergraduate education in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM).

Brown University | Press Releases | STEM Initiative Resources

AAU Selects Eight Campus Project Sites for Undergraduate STEM Education Initiative

Over the next three years, each of the eight campus sites will implement a major undergraduate STEM education project that incorporates key elements of the AAU STEM framework.
Brown University | Michigan State University | The University of Arizona | The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | University of California, Davis | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Pennsylvania | Washington University in St. Louis | Press Releases | AAU Project Sites | STEM Initiative Resources

Brown University Undergraduate STEM Education Initiatives

Brown University

Changing the Culture of Introductory Science

Brown University focuses on improving the mathematical competency among STEM majors by seeking to introduce evidence-based, high impact practices in first and second year STEM courses. The goal, reducing attrition from science and improving students’ identification with science as a career.
Brown University