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• Two Brown Faculty Receive 2008 Guggenheim Fellowships
  Brown faculty members Deborah Cohen and Forrest Gander have received Guggenheim Fellowships for 2008. They are among 190 scholars and artists selected from more than 2,600 applicants for this honor.
• International Study Awards for Undergraduates Announced
  Eight international study awards, which go to 14 Brown undergraduates, have been announced by the Office of the Dean of the College and the Office of International Affairs.
• Library's Undergraduate Research Award Winners Announced
  In partnership with the Office of the Dean of the College, the Brown University Library is pleased to announce that Caitlin McKenna and Sara Damiano are the recipients of the second annual Undergraduate Research Awards.
• The NSF Is Coming to Brown
  Looking for FUNDING from the NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION? Now is your chance to meet someone right here ON CAMPUS. DR. SEMAHAT DEMIR, the Program Director for Biomedical Engineering at the NSF, will present TWO SESSIONS on WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16.
• The Sky's The Limit
  Come hear Jack Fellows, Vice President of the University Corporation for Atmospheric Research (UCAR) explain how UCAR membership opens the sky to students and faculty. ~ Sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Research
• Report: Stagnant NIH Budgets May Derail Promising Researchers
  Brown University and six other academic research institutions today released a report that concludes that five years of flat funding for the National Institutes of Health puts a generation of science at risk.
• Brown Scientist Answers How Peruvian Meteorite Made It to Earth
  Brown University professor Peter Schultz's study of the Peruvian meteorite has yielded some interesting conclusions that could upend the conventional wisdom about the size and type of meteorites that can strike Earth.
• Brown Receives NEH Grant for Guatemala Dig
  Brown University archaeologist Stephen Houston has received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to explore the virtually untouched ruins of El Zotz, an ancient Maya kingdom in Guatemala.
• Modern Physics Is Critical to Global Warming Research
  Brown University physicist Brad Marston makes the case that statistical physics can provide a better understanding of global weather patterns – information critical for more accurately predicting climate change.
• X Ray Vision
  High tech X rays that track cancer. GIS mapping of a 17th century monastery. Energy created from nanoparticles. Just a few of the groundbreaking projects that won Seed Awards this year.
• Brown-Led Study Rearranges Some Branches on Animal Tree of Life
  An international research project led by Brown University evolutionary biologist Casey Dunn traces new roots and shoots in the animal tree of life.
• Possible Alcoholism Therapy
  Neuroscience graduate student Jodi Gilman of Brown's Graduate Partnerships Program with the NIH is the second author of a paper in the journal Science that suggests a brain circuit associated with stress is a promising treatment target for alcoholism.
• Brown Mathematicians Prove New Way To Build a Better Estimate
  Brown University applied mathematicians have found a new way to sift through mountains of data and draw reliable inferences from it – a Holy Grail in science and technology.

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