National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Indian Space Research Organisation signed a historic agreement to send two American advanced scientific instruments on board Chandrayaan-I, India's first moon mission, in 2008. One instrument - the moon mineralogy mapper, was built by Brown University and the Jet Propulsion Lab.

National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Indian Space Research Organisation signed a historic agreement to send two American advanced scientific instruments on board Chandrayaan-I, India's first moon mission, in 2008. One instrument - the moon mineralogy mapper, was built by Brown University and the Jet Propulsion Lab. This wire service story was distributed to media throughout India and appeared in newspapers and on Web sites throughout India.

At a media briefing held during her trip to Korea, President Ruth J. Simmons said that universities ought to have the capacity to lead changes in society and educate global leaders. “It is important for both students and professors to have an attitude accepting other countries’ knowledge,’’ she said at the briefing held at Ewha Womans University in Seoul. She also said schools should form an environment where students actively participate in making curricula and develop their own ideas.

The University announces that David I. Kertzer, professor of anthropology, will replace Robert J. Zimmer, who is leaving to become president of the University of Chicago, and that Clyde L. Briant, dean of engineering, has been named the new vice president of research.

Two years after Hurricane Charley swept through Florida, thousands of Floridians still lack housing. John Logan, professor of sociology, says that the situation reveals “a failure in our disaster relief policies to take a look beyond a year or 18 months to what the situations are like further down the line.” This wire service article was distributed to member media and appeared in dozens of newspapers and on Web sites throughout the country.

A study conducted at Brown University and the Cleveland Clinic is looking at deep brain stimulation for the most severe cases of clinical depression. One of the subjects in the study is the focus of this television report, which first aired on WTAE’s 5 p.m. newscast.

Brown University is among a handful of schools participating in a prototype for a new Apple service dubbed iTunesU.The service will offer campuses a platform to work with technologies such as audio-based podcasts and video-enabled "vodcasts", and integrate them into coursework. Instructors and students will be able to post multimedia files to iTunes U, hosted on Apple servers, and download them to personal computers, laptops, iPods or other portable devices.