Have you ever arrived in a hotel room after a long flight and despite being exhausted, failed to fall asleep? This is called the first-night effect and we may have understood why it occurs.
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Located in historic Providence, Rhode Island and founded in 1764, Brown University is the seventh-oldest college in the United States. Brown is an independent, coeducational Ivy League institution comprising undergraduate and graduate programs, plus the Alpert Medical School, School of Public Health, School of Engineering, and the School of Professional Studies.
With its talented and motivated student body and accomplished faculty, Brown is a leading research university that maintains a particular commitment to exceptional undergraduate instruction.
Brown’s vibrant, diverse community consists of 6,400 undergraduates, 2,000 graduate students, 450 medical school students, more than 5,000 summer, visiting, and online students, and over 700 faculty members. Brown students come from all 50 states and more than 100 countries.
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As Brazil struggles through a political and economic crisis, its soybean farmers are thriving. Their growing clout could trigger new deforestation and undercut the nation’s climate change pledges.
Only 28% of working women across the globe are fully protected by maternity laws that provide for time off work with full pay.
Female scholars tend to assign more readings from women authors. But then male instructors assign more of their own work.
Why do certain songs and colors make us feel a certain way?
In 12 years Kenya has managed to dramatically improve its exclusive breastfeeding rates from 13% to 61%. The success has not come without challenges, and some persist.
On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
When Republicans took over Congress, many observers predicted a goodbye to gridlock. Not so fast, however. Politicians say they hate filibusters – until they want to use them.
An era has ended. The last of the “Watergate Babies” has left the Congress. The nickname was applied to the class of House Democratic freshmen elected in 1974 in the wake of the Watergate scandal. There…
Editor’s note: On November 20, President Obama announced a plan - through an executive order - to protect millions of undocumented immigrants from deportation if they meet certain criteria. His move has…
Nearly a year ago, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pulled the trigger on a parliamentary maneuver many have labeled the “nuclear option.” Democrats were able to change the way Senate Rule XXII, which…
Midterm elections in American politics are akin to a reset button and on November 4, 2014 the American people pushed that reset button in a big way. The Founders of the American Constitution set up an…
Extinct giant kangaroos may have been built more for walking, rather than hopping like today’s kangaroos, especially when moving slowly. These sthenurine kangaroos existed until around 30,000 years ago…
Children who grew up with a family member in jail are at risk for poor health even as adults, an American study shows. From…
Women with a history of miscarriage or stillbirth have a slightly increased risk of coronary heart disease (CHD), new research…
In the comic series Watchmen, physicist Jon Osterman is blown apart in a science experiment gone awry. But his “consciousness” is able to pull his body back together atom by atom, becoming the radiating…
The residents of Trout River in Newfoundland, Canada have a stinking whale of a problem. What to do with the 81-feet-carcass of Balaenoptera musculus on their shore? While such an occurrence is not uncommon…
I was 12 when I first came across an ocean dandelion. I wish I had known then how strange these animals truly are. I was watching a documentary where researchers had collected a deep-sea dandelion using…
When I first saw a sea sapphire I thought I was hallucinating. The day had been anything but normal, but this part will always stand out. I had spent the afternoon on a small dingy off the coast of Durban…
Infants who carry a gene associated with increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease tend to have differences in brain development…
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Research Associate at the Pandemic Center, Brown University
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Adjunct Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
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Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
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PhD Candidate, Health Services, Policy & Practice, Brown University
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Psychiatry and Human Behaviour, Brown University
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Professor of Health Services, Policy and Practice, Brown University
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Assistant Professor of Health Services, Policy, and Practice, Brown University
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Professor of Epidemiology and Director of the Pandemic Center, Brown University
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Associate Professor, Brown University
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Professor Emeritus of Sociology, Brown University
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Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs, Brown University
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Associate Professor of American Studies, Brown University
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Research Scientist in Health Economics, Brown University
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Distinguished Senior Fellow in Global Health Security, Brown University
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Director of the Annenberg Institute and Professor of Education, Brown University