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12/11, Naples, FL
Holiday Party
12/11, Portland, OR
Zoolights! Family Night
12/11, Seattle, WA
Holiday Happy Hour
12/11 &
12/18, San Francisco, CA
Holiday Community Service
12/12, Los Angeles, CA
A Night at the Theater Featuring Kate Burton ’79
12/12, Boston, MA
Annual Park Plaza Holiday Party
12/12, London, England
Annual Christmas Drinks
12/13, Chicago, IL
Young Alumni Happy Hour/Night of Karaoke
12/13, Washington, DC
Young Alumni Holiday Party
12/13, Columbus, OH
Holiday Dinner
12/19, Baltimore, MD
Monthly Book Club
12/18, La Jolla, CA
1st Annual Holiday Party
1/12, San Diego, CA
Guest Workers, Free Trade and the Making of U.S. Immigration Policy
(Assoc. Prof. Matt Garcia)
1/13, Providence, RI
New Learning, New Ways, New Meanings
(University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi)
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A bidding war has granted Twelve, founded two years ago by Jonathan Karp ’86, the rights to the memoirs of Sen. Edward M. Kennedy.
Illinois Professor of the Year Steven A. Meyers ’90 makes his students spend hours volunteering in order to gain a personal connection to the issues they're studying.
The Genius of America, co-written by Eric Lane ’65, was well received by the New York Times.
Afaa Michael Weaver ’87 A.M. and Ben Percy ’01 are featured in Poets & Writers magazine.
Journalist Doug Sovern ’84
thrives on the spontaneity of his career, from Mount Everest to the Tour de France.
Chris Elam ’98 is showcased in Dance Magazine’s feature on dance and technology. (PDF)
Leonard A. Schlesinger ’73 was named the 12th president of Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts.
Ira Magaziner ’69, his son Jon Magaziner ’07, and Nathan Wyeth ’08 are committed to bringing the Clinton Climate Initiative to colleges and universities.
Randy Komisar ’76 is involved in the global collaboration with Al Gore and Generation Investment Management aimed at accelerating green business, technology, and policy solutions.
Writer and filmmaker Beena Sarwar ’86 was one of more than 180 journalists arrested for protesting the strict limitations put on Pakistani media by President Musharraf.
John Dukakis ’80 has been hired to run Boston ad agency Hill Holiday’s emerging branded entertainment division.
Provost David Kertzer ’69 tells Publisher’s Weekly how he sets a historical scene in his new book Amalia’s Tale.
Thomas E. Rothman ’76 has been named by Entertainment Weekly as one of “the 50 Smartest People in Hollywood.”
Inspired by a soldier’s ultimate sacrifice to save four squad-mates in Iraq, Seth Jackson ’77 wrote a song that has affected a number of lives.
Five Brown alumni are guiding underprivileged high school students through the college admission process.
Chris Ordonez ’07 and Scott Norton ’08*, co-founders of havadot, are connecting global design talent with clients in the U.S.
Stacey Farley’s ’77 tile murals will add art to a renovated New Jersey Transit station.
Louella Hill ’04 is making some of Rhode Island’s first artisan cheeses.
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Pat Cook-Deegan ’08 appeared in an ABC News segment to discuss his efforts to raise money and awareness about human rights violations in Myanmar.
Since leaving Brown in 1990, Scott Poulson-Bryant ’08 helped found VIBE Magazine and wrote for the New York Times and the Village Voice. Now he has returned to campus to finish his degree.
Brown’s iGEM team won gold for glowing mold at MIT.
Emily Borromeo ’09 and Federico Rodriguez ’09 were invited to audition on Broadway.
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Expansion a Balancing Act, Simmons Tells the Faculty At a recent faculty meeting, President Simmons stressed that despite the Campaign for Academic Enrichment’s “measurable progress,” much more work needs to be done to achieve the plan’s goals, with a focus on balancing growth. |
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Friedman Study Center Takes Home Gold – Twice Rhode Island Monthly recognized the “Frisc’s” renovation with High Marks Gold in commercial construction and Trend Setter Gold in commercial interior design. |
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How Boldly Brown Will Change the Face of College Hill More than $1 billion raised, need-blind admission, and 100 new faculty positions - these often top the list of accomplishments of President Simmons’s Plan for Academic Enrichment. But five years in, many of the most visible changes to the campus are still to come. |
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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 2007. Credit card gifts, including those given online, must be processed by 11:59 p.m. EST on December 31. |
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President Simmons Gives Keynote in Mexico President Simmons spoke over Thanksgiving break at the Universidad de Guadalajara, where she was a guest of honor along with author and Professor-at-Large Carlos Fuentes, author and Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez and Professor of Hispanic Studies Julio Ortega. (Image: Claudia Elliott) |
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Randy Cohen, Ethicist at the New York Times Magazine, Picks Apart Plagiarism Cohen spoke on campus as part of a new initiative at the Graduate School to bolster ethics training among graduate students, thanks to a grant received through the National Science Foundation and the Council for Graduate Schools. (Image: Chris Bennett) |
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Dean of Medicine Eli Adashi to Step Down After nearly four years as dean of medicine and biological sciences, Eli Y. Adashi, who presided over an expansion of the medical school and the public health program, has announced that he will step down at the end of the academic year. |
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Brown is Going Green It’s happening all over campus: The Sidney Frank Hall for Life Sciences will be Brown’s first LEED-certified building; the Energy and Environment Advisory Committee proposes putting $350,000 toward carbon-offsetting projects; students rally for environmental activism, attend a global warming summit, and pursue sustainability projects. (Image: Chris Bennett) |
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Brown Faculty: Productive and Satisfied The annual Faculty Scholarly Productivity Index ranked Brown at number two in engineering mechanics and classics, number five in history and cognitive science, and sixth, eighth, and tenth in four other disciplines. Brown also achieved “exemplar” status in eight categories in the “Top Academic Workplaces 2005-2007” survey. |
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Other Campus Headlines: - Outed CIA Operative Plame Addresses Packed Brown Audience* - Medical School Trains Students in Low-Income Health Centers - World-famous Palestinian-Israeli Pianist Ashkar Performs - Guerrilla Girls Still Find Discrimination in Politics, Art World (* Free registration required) |
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Major Grant Deepens Brown’s Research on Long-Term Care The National Institute on Aging has awarded a five-year, $10-million grant to Brown’s Center for Gerontology and Health Care Research to study the impact of state policies and market forces on the quality of long-term care providers. |
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Early Primaries Have Power Brown economists have put a number on just how much power voters in the Iowa caucus and New Hampshire presidential primary hold - up to 20 times the influence of voters in later states when it comes to candidate selection. |
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Computer Scientists Use Virtual Reality to Draw on Air Brown computer scientists recently revealed a new virtual-reality stylus technology. The “Drawing on Air” device gives professional artists the ability to draw 3-D objects in free space, giving them unprecedented control over their digital creations. (Image: Courtesy Daniel F. Keefe) |
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New Frontiers in Quantum Mechanics: Cooper Pairs Found in Insulators Fifty years after Professor Leon Cooper’s Nobel Prize-winning work that explained superconductivity, a team of Brown physicists has made a remarkable additional discovery: The same pairs of electrons that form in superconductors can also form in their opposite: electrical insulators. |
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Increase in Scans Exposes Pregnant Women To More Radiation Warren Alpert Medical School researchers found that pregnant women’s exposure to radiation from medical scans has doubled in the past decade. Although the total amount of exposure is still relatively low, ionizing radiation can alter cells and lead to health risks. |
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Other Faculty and Research Headlines: - Human Rights Investigator Reports on Visit to Myanmar - Biologists Make Major Contribution to Groundbreaking Genome Sequencing Project - Microwave Technology Can Treat Lung Tumors - Drinking and Smoking Don’t Boost HPV-Related Cancer Risk - Optic Flow - the Motion We Perceive with Our Eyes - Plays Critical Role in Guiding Our Feet |
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Brown Clubs Boost Internationalization Effort New or revived Brown clubs in Brazil, Greece, Spain, Mexico, Nepal, Bulgaria, and South Africa seek to strengthen Brown’s presence in those countries and foster closer ties between international alumni and the University. |
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Looking for a Few Good Ideas Got an idea for a software application that would enhance your connection to Brown? Computer science professor David Laidlaw might decide to assign it to his CS190 students next semester. E-mail your thoughts by December 17. |
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Meet the Future of Brown Prospective students would like to meet Brown alumni. Can you interview applicants through Brown’s Alumni Schools Committees (BASC)? If you live in or are traveling to the Caribbean or Central America, we especially need you! E-mail BASC or go online for more information. |
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Home Cooking Boosts Men’s Basketball Past Northwestern Thanksgiving is a good time to return home and be with family. Chicagoan Peter Sullivan ’11 did just that and more over break. His team-high 19 points helped the men’s basketball team to a 73-67 win over Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. (Image: Kori Schulman) |
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Men’s Lacrosse Jogs to Help Innocent Prisoners* The men’s lacrosse team held a 36-hour run-a-thon to raise funds for the Innocence Project, a nonprofit organization dedicated to exonerating innocent prisoners through DNA testing. Reade Seligmann ’09 had pitched the idea as a team charity event this spring. (* Free registration required.) |
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Old Dominion Requires Double-Overtime to Upset Men’s Soccer in Playoffs Though the men’s soccer team was bounced by Old Dominion University in the second round of the NCAA tournament, the Bears’ 15-1-1 regular season record and 7-0 Ivy League record were major accomplishments that reflected the team’s strong bond. (Image: Ashley Hess) |
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No. 1 Women’s Ruggers Roll at Northeast Championships When the U.S. Naval Academy’s top-ranked women’s rugby team faltered three weeks ago, Brown took over the nation’s number-one ranking. The Bears proved they belonged in the top spot by dismantling two opponents to win the Northeast Rugby Union Championships. (Image: Ashley Hess) |
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Taekwondo Kicks Off Strong Season, Looks to Nationals The Taekwondo Club has dominated two recent tournaments. At a Nov. 11 tournament in Lowell, Mass., the men swept the medals in the poomse, or forms, category, and the women dominated in the sparring event. (Image: EJ Chung) |
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Track and Field Opens Season with Success The indoor Alden Invitational is often the men’s and women’s track and field teams’ only chance to shine on their home turf. The Bears took advantage of this rare opportunity as seven men and three women gained first-place finishes. |
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