Brown geologists are braving subfreezing temperatures for three months to visit “the oldest ice on Earth.” Their goal? A better understandingof our planet’s climate history – and current conditions on Mars. This is the first of their reports from the field.
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Brown economists are measuring a country’s prosperity by how many lights it burns – as seen from space.
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Senior Zohar Atkins is one of only 32 U.S. students to receive the scholarships for advanced study at Oxford University.
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Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of one of the 20th century's most revered and peaceful activists, speaks about the links between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.
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In a scholarly acknowledgment of the historic fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, Brown’s German department organized five days of events examining the end of Communist dominance in Eastern Europe.
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For more than seven months, New York Times reporter David Rohde was a prisoner of the Taliban, which tried to use him as a bargaining chip. Then, against all expectations, he escaped.
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A tour of Providence’s proposed “Knowledge District” helped an influential congressman and a contingent of Rhode Island officials envision a more prosperous future.
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Water on the moon? Brown researchers have been at the center of new discoveries about our nearest celestial neighbor. Meet the planetary geologists who are changing our thinking about the moon’s origins and evolution.
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An avid appreciation of the wry, anachronistic Victorian works of Gilbert and Sullivan leads students to sing – very fast – about major generals, pirates, and other memorable characters.
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