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February 27, 2012 by Lauren Landry
In hopes of getting college students more involved in their communities, the White House announced the Campus Champions of Change Challenge this fall. Now, after weeding through the thousands of submissions, they’ve announced the top 15 finalists, two of which are nearby schools: UMass Amherst and Brown University.
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Occupational Health & Safety, February 25, 2012
First prize and $10,000 went to two Brown University graduates for an app named Lifeline that will be launched prior to this year’s hurricane season.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response has chosen three winners of its challenge to develop Facebook apps that help users prepare for emergencies and get support from their friends and family during an emergency. The ASPR Facebook Lifeline Application Challenge invited software application developers to design new app to establish social connections prior to an emergency.
First prize went to two Brown University graduates, Evan Donahue and Erik Stayton, with their Lifeline app. Coming in second was a Las Vegas team (David Vinson, Erick Rodriguez, Gregg Orr, and Garth Winckler) with an app named JAMAJIC 360. Third went to AreYouOk? developed by TrueTeamEffort, a team of 11 University of Illinois students headed by Alex Kirlik.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — When Brown University opened its new $45 million medical school in August about a mile from its campus here, it was the institution’s first academic department to be located away from its home on College Hill overlooking downtown Providence.
Brown’s reasons were twofold: there was little room on its campus for a building large enough for an Ivy League medical school, and it would bolster a 360-acre so-called Knowledge District that would draw high-tech, high-wage jobs to Rhode Island, which was among the hardest-hit states in the recession. Read the rest of this entry »
Friday, December 9, 2011
MASS HIGH TECH
The Voice of New England Innovation
Brown University engineering lecturer and entrepreneur Kipp Bradford took home top honors at the Rhode Island Business Plan Competition for his emergency cooling system aimed at first-responder ambulances.
The competition, held Wednesday at the Rhode Island Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship, included 48 presenters giving 90-second business pitches to a panel of judges for a stake in the $1,000 total in cash prizes for the top nine pitches.
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Brown University on Wednesday announced a new program in which doctoral students will receive an extra year of support to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field. While many Ph.D. students earn a master’s degree in their own discipline, the aim of this program is to provide a broader experience for doctoral students. Funds for “Open Graduate Programs” — as the effort is being called — are coming from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
PROVIDENCE — To scholars of early American history, the slim volume titled “An Essay Concerning the Reconciling of Differences among Christians” is a many-sided mystery.
With no title page, author’s name or publisher’s imprint, it’s almost impossible to tell when it was published or by whom. What’s more, the book is filled with hand-scrawled notes and annotations that may or may not have been penned by Providence founder Roger Williams.
Mike Wolff and five of his Brown hockey teammates hadn’t been swimming, surfing and boogie boarding for long in the choppy waves at South Shore Beach in Little Compton on Tuesday afternoon when they heard a girl screaming.
From the July 22, 2011 edition
By David Klepper, AP
A 22-year-old Brown University student has a solution to a problem vexing advertisers in this era of distracted audiences: give viewers a chance to win prizes in exchange for watching commercials.
Brandon Yoshimura, a senior political science student, launched a startup company called Loffles that presents online advertisements to viewers in exchange for giving them gift cards to popular retailers and a chance to win products like televisions or computers.
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From the July 23, 2011 edition
PROVIDENCE, R.I.—After waiting four years, a Brown University scientist is celebrating the arrival of an unmanned space probe at a distant asteroid.
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