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Biophysicist creates award-winning sustainable housing
Until recently, biophysicist Derek Stein's research focused on nanostructures and biological molecules, the fundamental building blocks of life. But a…
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Harvard upstarts fall short in Board of Overseers vote
CAMBRIDGE – Five candidates for Harvard University's Board of Overseers who campaigned on a platform calling for free tuition and making…
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Leon Cooper: Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a side of neuroscience
Leon Cooper is a Nobel Prize-winning physicist at Brown University and the director of its Institute for Brain and Neural Systems.…
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GOP senator questions new Title IX policies
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A Republican senator from the Sooner State may have just kicked the proverbial federal hornet's nest after…
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Brown University students overwhelmed by class, activism
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Students at Brown University are claiming that the combination of classwork and social activism is causing them mental anguish…
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Defying ‘hookup culture,’ some students work to restore romance
BOSTON – This Valentine's Day, some New England college students are working to save an endangered form of romantic relationship on…
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Young, white Americans are addicted to this (and what Catholics should do about it)
Providence, R.I. (National Catholic Register) — When recent headlines marked a spike in drug overdoses for white, middle-class Americans, the news…
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Campuses erupt as students pursue racial grievances
PRINCETON, New Jersey – A student activist group at Princeton University calling itself "The Black Justice League" may have just dealt…
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Campus activists stir defenders of free speech
PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Voices are emerging to counter the din raised on college campuses by self-styled social-justice advocates as students…
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Brown University rescinds honorary degree it gave Cosby
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University has rescinded the honorary degree it granted Bill Cosby, becoming the third university to take such…
