The Education Alliance at Brown University will work with the Hall County (FL) school system on a comprehensive reform project. The Education Alliance, which has a federal grant for the project, had been looking for study participants on the East Coast, and was seeking schools that have been "identified for improvement or corrective action to engage in inclusive and sustainable school improvement."

National Aeronautics and Space Administration and Indian Space Research Organization 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 the world.

Robert Swift, a Brown Medical School psychiatrist who was one of the investigators in a nationwide study to see whether alcoholism can be treated in a primary care setting, discusses the success of such treatment.

This is a profile of Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the finance minister of Nigeria who will receive an honorary degree from Brown University on May 28.

Last year, Ralph Miech, associate professor emeritus of medical science, published the findings of a study showing that use of RU-486, the “abortion pill,” might suppress the immune system, which could allow bacteria already present in the vaginal canal to flourish, placing the woman at risk. Recently, a rare germ that killed four California women who took RU-486 has been implicated in the deaths of even more women following childbirth or miscarriage, broadening the debate beyond abortion on the eve of a meeting to examine the bacterial mystery. This wire service story, which appeared in newspapers and on web sites around the country, includes a look at Miech’s findings.

“Facing the past is a long and painful process. It requires not only holding individual perpetrators to account but also acknowledging the ways in which many people, through inaction and indifference, become complicit in grave injustice,” James T. Campbell, associate professor of American civilization and Africana studies, writes in this commentary about Philadelphian Florence Mars, who died last month. In 1964, Mars was among the few people who openly assisted in the search for the murderers of three civil rights activists, and took a very public stand against anyone who tried to shield the killers.