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  • Apr 23
  • Athletics
Brown and Bryant Clash At Stevenson-Pincince Field On...

Brown plays its final non-league game of the season on Tuesday, April 24, hosting Bryant in the 10th meeting between the two Rhode Island universities at Stevenson-Pincince Field.

  • Apr 23
  • Athletics
Li, Park Earn Brown Student-Athlete of the Week Honors

Men's golf senior Kevin Li and women's golf freshman Brittany Park have earned Brown University Athletics Student-Athlete of the Week honors for the week of Apr.

  • Apr 23
  • Athletics
Women's Soccer Presents Awards at Annual Team Banquet

Brown University women's soccer presented its postseason awards at the team's annual banquet held at the Brown Faculty Club on Friday night with senior Katy Schmidt and sophomore Abby Carchio shari

  • Apr 23
  • Athletics
Wrestling Celebrates Season, Presents Team Awards at...

Brown University wrestling presented its team awards, honored its seniors, and celebrated a season that saw the Bears post their highest Ivy League finish since 1997, as part of the program's annua

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Baseball Downs Harvard, 7-3, in Series Finale

Sam Grigo drove in four runs and Will Tomlinson tossed five scoreless innings as the Brown baseball team topped Harvard, 7-3, in Sunday’s series finale at O'Donnell Field.

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Bears Sixth At Ivy League Men’s Golf Championship –...

Brown placed sixth at the Ivy League Men’s Golf Championship, finishing with a 54-hole 918 at the par 70, 6886 yard Stonewall – Old Course.

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Brown 3rd At Ivy League Women’s Golf Championship –...

The Brown women’s golf team completed play at the Ivy League Women’s Golf Championship and placed third overall with a 54-hole 917 at the par 72, 6050 yard Metedeconk National Golf Club.

  • Apr 22
  • University News
Brown assessing new plans toward net-zero carbon emissions

With the University nearing its sustainability goals for 2020 and the threat of climate change growing more severe, Brown is evaluating plans to cut greenhouse gas emissions to zero.

  • Apr 22
  • University News
First-year Brown student captures ‘Jeopardy!’ college...

From a field of 15 championship qualifiers from universities across the country, Georgia native Dhruv Gaur won big in this year's tournament.

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Men’s Tennis Falls to No. 47 Cornell, 4-1

The Brown men’s tennis team was defeated by No. 47 Cornell, 4-1, on Sunday at the Brown Varsity Tennis Courts.

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Softball Falls at Yale in Nine Innings in Series Finale, 3-2

Sophomore Emily Waters and freshman Grace Ladd combined to allow just one earned run over eight innings before Brown University softball fell to Yale University in nine innings, 3-2, on Sunday afte

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Track & Field Competes at Larry Ellis Invite

Owen Russell broke the school record in the hammer for the second time this season as the Brown men’s and women’s track & field teams posted several standout performances at the Princeton Larry

  • Apr 22
  • Athletics
Women’s Tennis Topples Cornell, 6-1

The Brown women’s tennis team defeated Cornell, 6-1, on Sunday at the Reis Tennis Center to close out the regular season.

  • 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 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
  • 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 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...