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  • Apr 20
  • Athletics
Men's Golf Fifth After First Day of Ivy League Men’s Golf...

After the opening round of the 2018 Ivy League Men’s Golf Championship, Brown stands in fifth place with an 18-hole score of 314 at the par 70, 6886 yard Stonewall – Old Course.

  • Apr 20
  • University News
New theory shows how strain makes for better catalysts

A new theory of how compression and tension can affect the reactivity of metal catalysts could be helpful in designing new and better catalysts.

  • Apr 20
  • Athletics
Women's Golf Leads Ivy League Championship After Opening...

Freshman Brittany Park shot an even par 72 in the opening round of the Ivy League Women’s Golf Championship to lead the field individually and help Brown to the first-round lead after 18 holes at t

  • Apr 19
  • University News
Brown alumni capture Pulitzers for fiction, non-fiction

Andrew Sean Greer landed honors for his novel, 'Less,' while James Forman Jr. earned the nonfiction prize for 'Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America.'

  • Apr 19
  • Athletics
Men's Lacrosse Ivy Tournament Push Continues At #6 Cornell

With two Ivy League games remaining on the schedule, Brown looks to solidify its position for the four-team Ivy League Lacrosse Tournament, taking on #6 Cornell in Ithaca, NY on Saturday.

  • Apr 19
  • University News
Research Achievement Awards honor accomplished Brown...

The annual award program recognizes the research and scholarship of both longtime and early-career faculty members.

  • Apr 19
  • Athletics
Women’s Lacrosse Visits Columbia on Saturday

The Brown women's lacrosse team will close out the road portion of its schedule on Saturday, April 21 at Columbia in a 1:00 p.m. contest on the Ivy League Network.

  • Apr 19
  • Athletics
Women’s Swimming & Diving Announces Award Winners at...

The Brown women's swimming & diving team honored its six award winners and celebrated its 2017-18 accomplishments recently at the team's annual banquet.

  • Apr 19
  • Athletics
Wrestling Tallies Three NWCA All-Academic Honorees

Brown University wrestling senior Justin Staudenmayer and juniors Ian Butterbrodt and CJ LaFragola have earned NWCA All-Academic honors, the National Wrestling Coaches Association announced on Thur

  • Apr 18
  • University News
$100 million gift to Brown will name Carney Institute for...

One of the single largest gifts in University history will drive research into brain and nerve disorders and establish one of the best-endowed brain institutes in the country.

  • Apr 18
  • University News
Faculty and student voices: Brown's brain scientists talk...

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.

  • Apr 18
  • University News
Photos: A Day on College Hill 2018

For the first time, Brown organized two weekends of introductory experiences and activities for students admitted to the University's Class of 2022.

  • Apr 17
  • University News
Brown celebrates a thriving set of partnerships with...

  • Apr 17
  • University News
Photos: Classroom visits at the D'Abate Elementary School

  • Apr 12
  • University News
Brown junior named Truman Scholar

Dorothy Jiang, one of only 59 undergraduates nationwide to receive the prestigious public service scholarship, will use it to further her work as a community advocate and policymaker.

  • Apr 10
  • University News
Literary luminaries to convene at Brown to honor Robert...

With an all-star lineup and a range of free public events, the three-day International Fiction Now festival at Brown will celebrate Coover’s teaching, literary inventions and activism.

  • Apr 9
  • University News
Mellon grant to fund preservation, reorganization of Native...

A new $500,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will increase scholarly and public access to the Haffenreffer Museum’s collections.

  • Apr 9
  • University News
Scientists call for more rigor in forensic science

Questions for S. James Gates Jr.

A Perspectives article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences calls for “more science in forensic science.”

  • Apr 6
  • University News
Rhode Island Innovative Policy Lab at Brown transitioning...

State of Rhode Island, Brown University to create a data-driven policymaking and research center.

  • Apr 6
  • University News
Thirty Brown students, alumni win prestigious NSF...

The Graduate Research Fellowship Program provides tuition support and a stipend for promising young STEM leaders.

  • Apr 5
  • University News
Brown alumna Ellen Stofan to head National Air and Space...

Stofan, a former chief scientist at NASA who earned her Ph.D. in geology from Brown in 1989, will be the first woman to lead what is one of the world’s most widely visited museums.

  • Apr 5
  • University News
Brown faculty member to play leadership role on global...

Baylor Fox-Kemper will be a coordinating lead author for a key chapter in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s next global climate assessment report.

  • Apr 5
  • University News
Brown to host fifth annual robot block party

From preschoolers to professors, thousands of attendees are expected on Sunday to check out robotic technologies developed in the Ocean State and beyond.

  • Apr 5
  • University News
Documentary filmmaker Rory Kennedy to deliver Casey Shearer...

Casey Shearer Lecture

  • Apr 5
  • University News
First-year student to represent Brown on ‘Jeopardy!’...

A year after scoring a perfect 1600 on the SAT and earning admission to Brown, Georgia native Dhruv Gaur will represent the University beginning on Tuesday, April 10.

  • Apr 4
  • University News
Former Florida Governor Jeb Bush to visit Brown on April 25

  • Apr 2
  • University News
City approval enables Brown to proceed with revised...

  • Mar 29
  • University News
National Public Health Week to spotlight Brown’s impact...

Questions for Bess Marcus

  • Mar 28
  • University News
Mitochondrial replacement moratorium should be...

Professors from Brown’s medical school and Harvard’s law school urge the U.S. to allow for the replacement of mutation-bearing mitochondria to prevent fatal illnesses in children.

  • Mar 28
  • University News
Researchers identify new class of antibiotics with...

  • Mar 28
  • University News
With record applications, Brown admits 2,566 to Class of...

Class of 2022

  • Mar 27
  • University News
Topping-off ceremony celebrates Innovation Center, future...

  • Mar 22
  • University News
Brown to explore pressing environmental issues in...

A series of public events and exhibitions staged in April by five University partner programs will confront climate change from a wide variety of perspectives.