Brown University

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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Les drapeaux canadien et américain flottent au sommet du monument Peace Arch, au poste frontalier Douglas-Peace Arch, à Surrey, en Colombie-Britannique, en 2021. Depuis des décennies, les relations entre le Canada et les États-Unis se caractérisent par l’un des partenariats transfrontaliers les plus étroits au monde. Les récentes tensions politiques et économiques ont mis cette relation à rude épreuve. La Presse canadienne/Darryl Dyck

Comment le Canada et les États‑Unis sont entrés dans un cycle d’hostilité et comment ils peuvent y mettre fin

La psychologie de la haine permet d’expliquer comment la rhétorique politique et les récits historiques peuvent transformer un différend diplomatique en hostilité.
For decades, the Canada-U.S. relationship has been defined by one of the world’s closest cross-border partnerships. Recent political and economic tensions have challenged that relationship. Canadian and U.S. flags fly atop the Peace Arch monument at the Douglas-Peace Arch border crossing in Surrey, B.C., in 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Darryl Dyck

The cycle of hate: How Canada and the U.S. entered a cycle of hostility and how they can break it

The psychology of hate helps explain how threats, political rhetoric and historical narratives can transform a diplomatic dispute into lasting hostility.
Is your hospital under the same corporate roof as your health insurance company? Michael Siluk/UCG/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

What happens when your hospital is also your insurance company? We’re starting to see the effects

Hospitals are tasked with making patients better, but when the hospital that provides care also owns the insurance company that pays for that care, the incentives get more complicated.
Louisiana’s first-of-its-kind law classifying mifepristone and misoprostol as controlled substances led to delays in treating pregnancy complications. skaman306/Moment via Getty Images

How states’ moves to call abortion drugs ‘controlled substances’ can make childbirth more dangerous and interfere with legal, safe and necessary healthcare

Medications used to perform abortions are also widely used to treat severe pregnancy complications, as well as several conditions unrelated to childbirth.
A new pilot brings some automated treatment decisions from Medicare Advantage to traditional Medicare. Doomu/iStock via Getty Images

Medicare is experimenting with having AI review claims – a cost‑saving measure that could risk denying needed care

The pilot, launched in January 2026 in 6 states, could reduce wasteful spending, but increases provider paperwork and risks patient access to necessary care.
The April 1994 international mediation team in South Africa, with Washington Okumu sitting between the US’s Henry Kissinger and the UK’s Peter Carrington. Washington Okumu, reused by Nancy J. Jacobs with permission

South Africa’s first election was saved by a Kenyan: the fascinating story of Washington Okumu, the accidental mediator

In a matter of days, one Kenyan’s intervention helped give South Africa a peaceful transition to its first post-apartheid government.
Tanto as crianças palestinas em Gaza, como mostrado à esquerda, quanto as crianças israelenses, como visto à direita, foram feridas, mortas e sequestradas na guerra entre Israel e Hamas. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

Na guerra entre Israel e Hamas, as crianças são as maiores vítimas

Para os judeus, a violência do Hamas contra as crianças lembra o Holocausto. Para os palestinos, a morte de seus filhos pela Força de Defesa de Israel também os faz lembrar de um passado doloroso.
Both Palestinian children in Gaza, as shown on left, and Israeli children, as seen on the right, have been hurt, killed and kidnapped in the Israel-Hamas war. Mahmud Hams/AFP via Getty Images/Roy Rochlin/Getty Images

In the Israel‑Hamas war, children are the ultimate pawns – and ultimate victims

For Jewish people, Hamas’ violence against children was reminiscent of the Holocaust. For Palestinians, The Israel Defense Force’s killing their children reminds them of a painful past, too.

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