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12/15, Paris, France
Young Alumni Christmas Party
12/15, Omaha, NE
Brown Club Kickoff
12/15, Washington, D.C.
All-Ivy Young Alumni Holiday Party
12/31, Boston, MA
Volunteer at Rosie's Place
1/6, Portland, OR
Annual Holiday Party
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Husband-and-wife team Tod Williams and Billie Tsien '71 will redesign the Lincoln Center Harmony Atrium.
Masi Oka '97 stars in NBC's new hit drama Heroes.
Jody Adams '80 won the coveted Women Chefs and Restaurateurs' Golden Whisk Award honoring "a woman whose passion and excellence as a chef or cook serves as a role model for others."
Former Brown and NFL standout
Steve Jordan '82 is a recipient of the prestigious NCAA Silver Anniversary Award.
Margaret Brown '94 received a major emerging filmmakers grant from Women in Film.
Designer
Sheila Bridges '86, named one of the world's 25 most inspiring women by Essence, discusses her work in a Washington Post profile.
Children's author
Blue Balliett '78 is profiled on NPR.org's series How Writers Create Their Fiction.
See "Alumni in the News" archive...
Team USA gymnast Alicia Sacramone '10 juggles classes and world championships.
Four undergraduates presented their work at the annual Biomedical Engineering Society meeting, and graduate student Patrick Curran was honored for his accomplishments in the field.
Amanda Asay '10 was named Canada's best female baseball player for 2006.
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Cogut Center to Host Barenboim and West-Eastern Divan Orchestra World-renowned conductor and pianist Daniel Barenboim and the young musicians of the West-Eastern Divan Orchestra will visit Brown December 14-16 for a series of conversations and workshops culminating in a major concert. Hear Barenboim on NPR's Here and Now on December 14 (date subject to change). |
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Research Affiliation Pairs Brown with Oak Ridge National Lab Brown's partnership with the Oak Ridge National Laboratory will expand and improve research opportunities for Brown faculty and students and bring researchers from the Lab to campus for lectures and projects. |
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Coming Soon - A New Tax Year Gifts to Brown postmarked by December 31 not only support the Plan for Academic Enrichment, but are also tax-deductible in 2006. Credit card gifts, including those given online, must be processed by 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31. |
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Senior Keriann Backus Selected as Rhodes Scholar A chemistry and Latin American studies concentrator, world traveler, and community volunteer, Keriann Backus '07 has been chosen as one of only 32 U.S. Rhodes Scholars for 2007. Backus will head to Oxford to pursue a doctorate in chemical biology. See also Seattle Times and Providence Journal* articles. (* Free registration required) |
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Student-Faculty Committee Supports International Efforts Members of the new advisory committee on internationalization want to see improvement in Brown's reputation, its relations with institutions abroad, and financial aid for international students. The committee's first major project is to appoint a vice president of international affairs. |
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International Writers Project Festival Features Pamuk, Rushdie* At a sold-out, three-day event titled "Strange Times, My Dear: A Freedom-to-Write Literary Festival," Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize in literature, spoke on the importance of freedom of expression, and award-winning author Salman Rushdie discussed converting real-life experience to fiction. (* Free registration required) |
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Conference on Archaeology of Jerusalem Makes History* A historic three-day conference held at Brown brought together Israeli and Palestinian scholars to discuss the archaeological history of Jerusalem - a discourse that is impossible in their own city. (* Free registration required) (Photo Credit: Wayne McLean. Some rights reserved.) |
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Other Campus Headlines: - New Policies Help Grad Students Starting Families - Brown Hosts Hands-On Science and Engineering Day for Middle-School Girls - Brown Librarians Catalogue Repository of Rare Maps - Author Chang-Rae Lee Reads as Part of Asian/American History Month (Article | Interview) - Jeffrey Sachs, Advisor to UN Secretary-General, Addresses Global HIV Efforts* (* Free registration required) |
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Local Data, Global Understanding Brown's Global Environment Program joins with the Organization for Tropical Studies in Costa Rica to host the new International Long-Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER) secretariat. The secretariat will support a network of environmental monitoring sites, with the goal of long-term global data gathering and analysis. |
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The Mind-Body Connection in Fruit-Fly Sex New research by Brown biologists shows that a fruit-fly gene not only shapes bodies into male or female but also helps shape courtship behavior, suggesting that sexual development in flies - and, perhaps, in humans - is more complex than previously thought. |
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The Meaning of British Interiors Household Gods: The British and Their Possessions, a new book by Associate Professor of History Deborah Cohen that tracks the relationship of the British with their home interiors, has earned high praise. |
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Our Cousin, the Sea Urchin An international science team that includes Professor of Biology Gary Wessel and Professor of Computer Science Sorin Istrail found that the sea urchin shares more than 7,000 genes with humans. The research, which could lead to new drugs for human ills, was reported in Science Magazine, National Geographic.com, The Washington Post, Agence France Presse, People's Daily (China), and others. |
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Brown Duo Examines Key Concerns in Long-Term Care In a new report to the National Commission for Quality Long-Term Care, Professor of Medical Science Vincent Mor and Edward Alan Miller, assistant professor of public policy (research), describe the state of long-term care in the U.S., outline key areas of concern, and discuss national policy. |
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Other Faculty and Research Headlines: - Listening in on the Birth Pangs of Earth's Crust - Professor Kenneth Miller '70 Named American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow - Professor John Logan Comments on "African/African-American Paradox" - Brown Doctor Receives Inaugural AIDS Advocacy Award |
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A Timely Connection At the holiday season, re-connect with old friends and classmates through the online alumni directory. (If you need assistance logging in, e-mail alumni_help@brown.edu or call 401-863-9662 weekdays from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Eastern time.) |
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Is Brown in Your Town? Increasingly, it is: New Brown Clubs have sprung up in nine areas in the last 12 months (Berlin, Charlotte, Columbus, Iowa City, Kansas City (KS and MO), Las Vegas, Madison, Omaha, and Treasure Coast), and previously inactive clubs in Hong Kong, Southern California, Central New Jersey, and Philadelphia are coming back to life. |
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Men's Basketball Earns Stunning Victory over Providence College Brown upset Providence College, 51-41, dominating the Friars down the stretch. "This is a tremendous victory for our team," said Coach Robinson. "This game means a lot ... now we have city bragging rights for a while." |
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Women's Rugby Qualifies Once Again for Nationals Jen Hustwitt '07 led the women's rugby team to a second-place finish at the Northeast Rugby Union Championships, helping the team earn a berth in April's National Championship Tournament. For Brown, the program's second nationals bid is a nice 30th-anniversary present. |
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Career-High Game for Women's Basketball Player Leads Team to First Victory After netting 29 points and pulling down eight rebounds to defeat Sacred Heart University, 70-63, senior Ashley King-Bischof was named Ivy League Player of the Week. |
| Fencing Sweeps Its First Meet Despite using the occasion to work most of the team into the lineup, the Brown fencing team swept its 10 matches at the first Northeast Fencing Conference meet of the year. The women went 6-0, while the men swept all four of their matches. |
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Men's Hockey Claims Fifth Victory of Year, Already Matches 2005-06 Record Last year the men's hockey team won only five games all season. Led by stellar freshman goalie Dan Rosen, this year's young team has already reached that mark with four months to go. They recently beat St. Lawrence University, the team that bounced them from last year's postseason. |
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