During the spring semester, prestigious national and international organizations recognized Brown University faculty for their leadership, service, research and scholarship.

Researchers at Brown have shown the first direct evidence for a massive geologic uplift of the entire Aleutian Island archipelago driven by a rotation of the Pacific tectonic plate.

Researchers find that weather and climate patterns can help predict the timing and severity of flu outbreaks across diverse regions, and that flu spreads more easily in very dry and very humid air.

A study of ancient lake sediments reveals that a recent wildfire high in the Rwenzori Mountains was the first in 12 millennia, signaling a novel threat to Africa’s unique alpine ecosystems.

One year after announcing its inaugural set of four working groups, Brown’s Equitable Climate Futures initiative (ECF), led by the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), has determined a second cohort of awardees, with projects ranging from local environmental justice to Indigenous climate action in the Amazon.

Juben Rabbani, a Watson Ph.D. fellow from the Department of Anthropology, created a unique art project as a “visual supplement” to his master’s thesis on the impact of the EV transition on the Salton Sea region of California. Now, he has teamed up with Art at Watson to turn it into a multimedia exhibition, which will be on display until the end of summer 2026.

Researchers at the Brown University School of Public Health and the Columbia University School of Public Health found that urban communities isolated by roadways and traffic patterns are associated with more schizophrenia-related hospital visits.

The PSTC has selected this year’s Seed Award recipients.