Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in the College Hill neighbourhood of Providence, Rhode Island, and the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States.布朗大学（Brown University）是一所位于罗德岛州普罗维登斯学院山的私立常春藤盟校研究型大学，也是美国第七古老的高等教育机构。

It was chartered in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, and took its present name in 1804 after a gift of 5,000 dollars from Nicholas Brown Jr.学校 1764 年以「罗德岛与普罗维登斯殖民地英属美洲学院」之名获特许设立，1804 年在小尼古拉斯·布朗捐赠 5,000 美元后改用现名。

It adopted an Open Curriculum in 1969 after student lobbying and today ranks 66th in the QS World University Rankings 2027 and joint 73rd in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027.学校在 1969 年经学生游说后采纳开放课程制，如今在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中列第 66，在 2027 年高等教育时代世界大学排名中并列第 73。

History

• The idea began in 1761, when Ezra Stiles, the Newport pastor who later became the seventh president of Yale College, William Ellery Jr., later a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Josias Lyndon, later governor of the colony, petitioned the General Assembly to open a literary institution.办学构想始于 1761 年，纽波特第二公理会牧师、后来的耶鲁学院第七任校长埃兹拉·斯泰尔斯，1776 年《独立宣言》签署人小威廉·埃勒里，以及后来的殖民地总督乔西亚斯·林登联名向殖民地议会请愿设立一所文理学校。

• The Philadelphia Baptist Association resolved in October 1762 that a college could be erected in the colony under the chief direction of the Baptists, who then had no colonial college of their own, and it picked James Manning, who had taken his first degree at the College of New Jersey in September 1762, as a suitable leader.1762 年 10 月，费城浸信会协会决议认为可在该殖民地兴办一所由浸信会主导的学院——当时浸信会在殖民地诸学院中尚无一席之地——并选定 1762 年 9 月刚于新泽西学院取得首个学位的詹姆斯·曼宁为合适人选。

• Stiles and Ellery drafted the charter, whose first version was rejected in August 1763 by Baptist members who feared under-representation on the board of fellows, and the revision was adopted by the General Assembly on 3 March 1764 at East Greenwich.斯泰尔斯与埃勒里起草校章，1763 年 8 月的首版因浸信会成员担心评议席位代表性不足而被否决，修订稿于 1764 年 3 月 3 日在东格林尼治由殖民地议会通过。

• The corporation first met in September 1764 at the Old Colony House in Newport, with Stephen Hopkins chosen as chancellor, and the charter required 22 Baptist, 5 Quaker, 5 Episcopalian and 4 Congregationalist trustees alongside 12 fellows, 8 of them Baptist including the president.学校董事会于 1764 年 9 月首次在纽波特旧殖民地会堂开会，推选斯蒂芬·霍普金斯为校监；校章规定 22 名浸信会、5 名贵格会、5 名圣公会与 4 名公理会受托人，另设 12 名评议，其中 8 人为浸信会人士且包含校长本人。

• The charter asserted that sectarian differences of opinions shall not make any part of the public and classical instruction, and Brown was the first American college to codify that admission and instruction were to be equal regardless of religious affiliation.校章明确「教派意见分歧不得成为公共与古典课程教育的任何部分」，布朗是美国第一所把入学与教学不分宗教信仰的平等原则写入章程的学院。

• The college was founded as Rhode Island College at the site of the First Baptist Church in Warren, Rhode Island, where James Manning was sworn in as its first president in 1765 and served until 1791.学院以「罗德岛学院」之名创立于罗德岛州沃伦的第一浸信会教堂旧址，詹姆斯·曼宁于 1765 年宣誓就任首任校长，任职至 1791 年。

• In 1766 the college authorised Morgan Edwards to travel to Europe to solicit benefactions, and during a stay of a year and a half in the British Isles he raised money from donors including Thomas Penn and Benjamin Franklin.1766 年学院授权摩根·爱德华兹赴欧募款，他在英伦停留一年半期间，从托马斯·佩恩与本杰明·富兰克林等捐助人处获得资助。

• The college moved from Warren to Providence in 1770, where John and Moses Brown bought a four-acre lot on the crest of College Hill, and its first building committee finalised a design on 9 February 1770 that may have been modelled on Nassau Hall at Princeton.1770 年学院从沃伦迁至普罗维登斯，约翰与摩西斯·布朗在学院山顶购入四英亩地块，首栋建筑的设计于 1770 年 2 月 9 日定稿，其形制可能仿自普林斯顿的拿骚堂。

• University Hall, completed in 1770 and later named a National Historic Landmark, served as barracks and hospital from December 1776 to May 1782 for the Continental troops of George Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau on their march to Yorktown.1770 年落成的大学楼后来被列为国家历史地标，1776 年 12 月至 1782 年 5 月间曾作为乔治·华盛顿与罗尚博伯爵麾下大陆军开赴约克镇途中的兵营与医院。

• On 8 September 1803 the corporation voted that a donation of 5,000 dollars within one year would entitle the donor to name the college, and Nicholas Brown Jr. answered on 6 September 1804, his benefactions eventually totalling nearly 160,000 dollars including Hope College and Manning Hall.1803 年 9 月 8 日董事会表决，一年内捐赠 5,000 美元者即可获得冠名权，小尼古拉斯·布朗于 1804 年 9 月 6 日回应此议，其累计捐赠接近 16 万美元，包括用于兴建霍普学院与曼宁楼。

• Medical instruction began in 1811, making it the fourth oldest medical school in the Ivy League, was suspended by President Francis Wayland in 1827, and graduate study resumed in earnest with the first advanced degrees in 1888, a Graduate Department in 1903 and a full Graduate School in 1927.医学院于 1811 年开办，是常春藤盟校中第四古老的医学院，1827 年由校长弗朗西斯·韦兰下令停办；研究生教育此后重启，1888 年授予首批高等学位，1903 年设立研究生部，1927 年成立完整的研究生院。

• The engineering programme was established in 1847 as the oldest in the Ivy League and third oldest of its kind in the country, merged its electrical, mechanical and civil departments into a single division in 1916, and became the School of Engineering in 2010.工程教育始于 1847 年，是常春藤盟校中最古老、全国第三古老的同类专业，1916 年将电机、机械与土木三个系合并为统一的工程学部，2010 年升格为工程学院。

• The Brown family's wealth derived in part from the transatlantic slave trade and they were divided, John Brown defending slavery while Moses and Nicholas Brown Jr. were abolitionists, and a committee launched under President Ruth Simmons in 2003 reported in October 2006 that the university had benefited directly and indirectly, with seven recommendations since acted on in part.布朗家族的财富部分来自跨大西洋奴隶贸易，家族内部立场亦分裂，约翰·布朗为奴隶制辩护，摩西斯与小尼古拉斯·布朗则是废奴主义者；2003 年在校长鲁思·西蒙斯任内设立调查委员会，2006 年 10 月报告认定学校曾直接或间接受益于奴隶贸易并提出七项建议，校方其后已部分落实。

• The reform movement began in 1966 when the Group Independent Study Project assembled 80 students and 15 professors to put students at the centre of their education, and its members Ira Magaziner and Elliot Maxwell published the findings as a draft working paper proposing interdisciplinary first-year courses and an end to letter grades.改革运动始于 1966 年的独立学习小组项目，80 名学生与 15 名教授集结起来，试图让学生成为教育的中心，其成员艾拉·马加齐纳与埃利奥特·麦克斯韦将成果写成一份工作论文草案，提出开设跨学科一年级课程并取消字母评分。

• President Ray Heffner established a Special Committee on Curricular Philosophy in 1968, and the faculty voted the New Curriculum into existence on 7 May 1969, abolishing general education distribution requirements and introducing Satisfactory or No Credit grading and an ABC scale with no pluses, minuses or D grades.1968 年校长雷·赫夫纳成立课程哲学特别委员会，教职工于 1969 年 5 月 7 日表决通过新课程，取消通识教育的分科必修要求，引入「及格或不计分」评分制与只保留 A、B、C 及「不计分」的等级体系。

• The modes of thought course was dropped early but the rest of the package stands, and when a proposal to restore plus and minus grading was put to the College Curriculum Council in 2006 it was rejected after alumni, faculty and students were canvassed.「思维方式」课程早期即被取消，其余改革则予以保留；2006 年校方提出恢复加减分评分，经征求校友、教职员工与学生意见后被课程委员会否决。

• The coordinate women's institution, Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891 and fully merged into Brown in 1971, its campus to the north being absorbed into the larger university grounds.女子平行学院彭布罗克学院于 1891 年 10 月创办，1971 年完全并入布朗大学，其位于校北的校园也被并入更大的校地。

• The East Campus originated when Brown bought Bryant University's Providence campus for 5 million dollars in 1969 as that college prepared to move to Smithfield, adding 10 acres and 26 buildings, and the area was renamed in 1971.东校区的前身是布朗 1969 年以 500 万美元买下布朗特大学准备迁往史密斯菲尔德的普罗维登斯校址，购入 10 英亩土地与 26 栋建筑，并于 1971 年将该区域定名东校区。

• The coat of arms was created in 1834 after President Francis Wayland commissioned a committee to match it to the name adopted in 1804, centring on a white shield divided by a red cross with an open book in each of its four quarters.校徽于 1834 年创制，此前校长弗朗西斯·韦兰指派委员会使其与 1804 年启用的校名相称，其核心为白底红十字分割的盾面，四个区域内各置一本摊开的书。

• On 30 July 2025 Brown settled with the federal government to restore frozen research funding in return for 50 million dollars over ten years to state workforce programmes, an undertaking to exclude transgender women from women's spaces and renewed links with Israeli institutions, the third such settlement after deals at Columbia University and the University of Pennsylvania.2025 年 7 月 30 日，布朗与联邦政府达成协议以恢复被冻结的科研经费，条件包括十年内向州劳动力发展项目支付 5,000 万美元、承诺将跨性别女性排除在女性空间之外，以及恢复与以色列机构的合作，这是继哥伦比亚大学与宾夕法尼亚大学之后的第三例同类协议。

Academics

• Brown University comprises the College, the Graduate School, the Alpert Medical School, the School of Engineering, the School of Public Health and the School of Professional Studies, with international programmes organised through the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.布朗大学由本科学院、研究生院、阿尔珀特医学院、工程学院、公共卫生学院与专业研究学院六个单位组成，国际事务项目则由沃森国际与公共事务研究所统筹。

• The College, the oldest of the six, enrols about 7,200 undergraduates across 81 concentrations, and a quarter of them complete more than one concentration before graduating, with computer science, economics, biology, history, applied mathematics, international relations and political science the most popular for the class of 2020.六个单位中创立最早的本科学院设有约 7,200 名本科生、81 个专业方向，四分之一的学生在毕业前完成一个以上专业，2020 届最热门的专业依次包括计算机科学、经济学、生物学、历史、应用数学、国际关系与政治学。

• Undergraduates whose interests do not match the existing programmes may design and pursue an independent concentration, and around 35% go on to graduate or professional study immediately, 60% within five years and 80% within ten.若现有专业与学生志趣不合，本科生可自行设计并攻读独立专业方向；约 35% 的毕业生立即升学，5 年内升至 60%，10 年内达 80%。

• Because the 1969 curriculum abolished distribution requirements, undergraduates sample broadly across departments before settling on a concentration, and the Satisfactory or No Credit option lets a student explore a subject without a grade appearing on the transcript.因 1969 年的新课程取消了分科必修，本科生可先跨系广泛选课再确定专业方向，而「及格或不计分」选项使学生得以修读一门课程而不在成绩单上留下分数。

• University figures list 11,005 students, of whom 7,272 are undergraduates and 3,130 postgraduates alongside 602 medical students, taught by 848 academic staff.校方数据列出的在校生为 11,005 人，其中本科 7,272 人、研究生 3,130 人，另有 602 名医学生，任教教师 848 人。

• The Graduate School enrols about 2,600 students and offers 33 master's and 51 doctoral programmes, with an average acceptance rate of roughly 9% in recent years.研究生院约有 2,600 名学生，开设 33 个硕士项目与 51 个博士项目，近年平均录取率约 9%。

• The applied mathematics programme, established in 1941, is the oldest in the United States, and 22 of the 67 recipients of the Timoshenko Medal have been faculty, researchers or students of the division.学校应用数学专业创办于 1941 年，为全美最早，该系 67 位蒂莫申科奖章得主中有 22 位出自该系的教师、研究人员或学生。

• Computer science teaching began in 1956 with an IBM machine, the computing laboratory designed by Philip Johnson opened in 1960, the first degrees were awarded in 1974 and full departmental status came in 1979, and the subject overtook economics as the most popular concentration in 2017.计算机科学教学始于 1956 年购入的一台 IBM 计算机，1960 年建成由菲利普·约翰逊设计的计算实验室，1974 年授予首批该专业学位，1979 年升格为独立系，2017 年该专业超过经济学成为最热门的专业方向。

• In the 1960s Andries van Dam, with Ted Nelson and Bob Wallace, created the Hypertext Editing System and FRESS, Nelson coined the word hypertext, and the alumni include Andy Hertzfeld, a principal architect of the classic Mac OS.20 世纪 60 年代，安德里亚斯·范·达姆与特德·纳尔森、罗伯特·华莱士共同研制了超文本编辑系统与 FRESS，纳尔森由此提出「超文本」一词；校友中还有经典麦金塔操作系统的主要架构师安迪·赫兹菲尔德。

• Engineering at Brown has no traditional departments, grouping faculty in clusters across biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, computer science and the humanities, and its student teams have flown the 1U CubeSat EQUiSat and the 3U SBUDNIC.布朗工程教育不设传统系别，而是把师资按学科群组横跨生物、医学、物理、化学、计算机科学与人文学科组织，其学生团队已发射立方星 EQUiSat 与 SBUDNIC 两颗卫星。

• The Alpert Medical School's eight-year liberal medical programme, inaugurated in 1984, admitted 2% of applicants in 2021, and the US News placed it 9th for selectivity in 2020, 38th for research and 35th for primary care, after Warren Alpert donated 100 million dollars in January 2007, while its Early Identification Programme has recruited Rhode Island students since 1976 from Providence College, Rhode Island College, the University of Rhode Island and Tougaloo College.阿尔珀特医学院的八年制「自由医学教育」项目于 1984 年设立，2021 年录取率仅 2%；《美国新闻与世界报道》2020 年将其按选择性列全美第 9、科研列第 38、基层医疗列第 35；2007 年 1 月沃伦·阿尔珀特捐赠 1 亿美元后该校更为此名，其早期识别计划自 1976 年起每年从普罗维登斯学院、罗得岛学院、罗得岛大学与杜加卢学院招收罗得岛州学生。

• The School of Public Health grew out of the medical school's community health department and was founded as an independent school in 2013, issuing undergraduate, master's, doctoral and dual degrees, and in 2021 it received the fourth most National Institutes of Health funding among US schools of public health.公共卫生学院源自医学院的社区健康系，2013 年作为独立学院设立，授予本科、硕士、博士与双学位；2021 年该校在美国公共卫生学院中获得的美国国立卫生研究院资助额列第 4。

• Named institutes include the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, founded in 2004 with fieldwork from Petra to the Caucasus, the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science, founded in 2009 and renamed in 2018 after a 100 million dollar gift, and the Pembroke Center, established in 1981 by Joan Wallach Scott.具名研究机构包括 2004 年成立的乔科夫斯基考古与古代世界研究所，其田野工作从佩特拉延伸至高加索；2009 年创立、2018 年因获 1 亿美元捐赠而更为现名的卡尼脑科学研究所；以及 1981 年由琼·瓦拉克·斯科特创立的彭布罗克中心。

• The Department of Egyptology and Assyriology, formed in 2006 and one of only a handful of its kind in the United States, hosts the Watson Institute, whose Costs of War Project has since 2011 estimated the economic and human cost of the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan.埃及学与亚述学系由 2006 年合并组建，是全美仅数个同类系所之一，同时承载沃森研究所，其「战争代价」项目自 2011 年起估算伊拉克、阿富汗与巴基斯坦战争的经济与人命代价。

• Students have been able to cross-register with the Rhode Island School of Design since 1900, taking up to four courses there, and the five-year Brown and RISD Dual Degree Programme, formalised in 2007 with a first class in 2008, admitted 20 of 725 applicants for entry in autumn 2020, and the two schools launched a joint Master of Arts in Design Engineering in 2020.自 1900 年起布朗学生可在罗德岛设计学院交叉选课，最多可将 4 门计入布朗学位；两校于 2007 年正式设立、2008 年招收首届学生的五年制双学位项目，在 2020 年秋季入学的一轮中从 725 名申请者中录取 20 人，并于同年在两校间新设设计工程艺术硕士项目。

• Six graduates have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, namely Alfred Uhry in 1978, Nilo Cruz in 2003, Lynn Nottage in 2009 and 2017, Quiara Alegria Hudes in 2012, Ayad Akhtar in 2013 and Jackie Sibblies Drury in 2019.已有六位毕业生获得普利策戏剧奖，分别是 1978 年的阿尔弗雷德·尤里、2003 年的尼洛·克鲁兹、2009 年与 2017 年两度获奖的林恩·诺塔奇、2012 年的基娅拉·阿莱格里亚·乌德斯、2013 年的阿亚德·阿克塔尔与 2019 年的杰基·西布利斯·德鲁里。

• For the class of 2026 the university received 50,649 applications and admitted 2,560, an acceptance rate of 5.0% and the lowest in its history, and since 2017 the Brown Promise has removed loans from need-based aid for domestic first-years, with an average award of 47,940 dollars for the class of 2020.2026 届共收到 50,649 份申请，录取 2,560 人，录取率 5.0%，为校史最低；自 2017 年起「布朗承诺」计划已把贷款从面向本国本科新生的助学金中取消，2020 届平均资助额为 47,940 美元。

Campus

• The main campus covers 235 buildings on 143 acres in the East Side neighbourhood of College Hill, with its historic core occupying a 15-acre block bounded by Waterman, Prospect, George and Thayer Streets.主校区位于学院山的东街区，占地 143 英亩、共有 235 栋建筑，其历史核心区占据由沃特曼街、普罗斯佩克特街、乔治街与塞耶街围合的 15 英亩街区。

• The historic core, built mainly between 1770 and 1926, is defined by three greens, the Front or Quiet Green, the Main or College Green and the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle formerly called Lincoln Field, and is enclosed by a brick and wrought-iron fence, in Georgian and Richardsonian Romanesque styles.这一主体建于 1770 至 1926 年间的核心区，由三片绿地界定：前绿地（又名静园）、主绿地（又名学院绿地）与原称林肯操场的鲁思·西蒙斯广场，四周环绕砖砌与锻铁围栏，建筑风格以乔治王式与理查森·罗曼式为主。

• To the east sit Sciences Park and the School of Engineering, to the north the performing and visual arts facilities, life sciences laboratories and the Pembroke Campus, to the south the Wriston, Keeney and Gregorian quadrangles, and on the western edge two of the university's seven libraries, the John Hay Library and the John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library.校东侧为科学园区与工程学院，校北为表演与视觉艺术设施、生命科学实验室及彭布罗克校区，校南为 Wriston、基尼与格里高利三处方院，西缘则是全校七座图书馆中的两座——约翰·海图书馆与小约翰·洛克菲勒图书馆。

• University Hall, Brown's oldest building at 1770 and a National Historic Landmark, anchors the main green, and the wrought iron Soldiers Memorial Gate of 1921 long marked the eastern edge of the campus.1770 年建成的大学楼是校内最古老的建筑，亦为国家历史地标，主绿地以其为中心；1921 年的锻铁士兵纪念门则长期标示着校区东缘。

• The Van Wickle Gates, built in 1901, stand at the crest of College Hill with a large main gate flanked by two smaller ones, and a student superstition holds that crossing the central gate a second time before graduating prevents graduation unless one walks back backwards.建于 1901 年的范·威克尔校门矗立于学院山顶，由一座正门与两座侧门组成；校内相传，若在毕业前第二次穿过正门将无法毕业，除非倒着走回去。

• The John Hay Library, opened in 1910 and named for the 1858 graduate who served as Lincoln's private secretary and as secretary of state, was funded in large part by Andrew Carnegie, who paid half of its 300,000 dollar cost, and its special collections include the Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, the papers of H. P. Lovecraft and one of the broadest collections of incunabula in the Americas.约翰·海图书馆 1910 年启用，以 1858 届毕业、曾任林肯总统私人秘书与国务卿的约翰·海命名，建校经费由安德鲁·卡内基承担 30 万美元造价的一半；其特藏包括安妮·布朗军事收藏、H. P. 洛夫克拉夫特手稿，以及美洲最广的早期印刷本收藏之一。

• The John Carter Brown Library, founded in 1846 and on the campus since 1904, holds the best preserved of the eleven surviving copies of the Bay Psalm Book and the world's largest collection of 16th-century Mexican texts, while the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology keeps one million artifacts on the main green and at a research centre in Bristol.约翰·卡特·布朗图书馆创办于 1846 年，1904 年起设于校内，藏有现存十一部《海湾诗篇》中保存最完好的一本，以及全球最大的 16 世纪墨西哥文本收藏；哈弗纳弗人类学博物馆则在主绿地与布里斯托尔的研究中心保存 100 万件文物。

• The Pembroke Campus lies three blocks north on Meeting, Brown, Bowen and Thayer Streets, the East Campus on Hope and Charlesfield Streets is largely residential, and The Walk linking them past the Lindemann Performing Arts Center and the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts carries public art by Maya Lin and Tom Friedman.彭布罗克校区位于北面三个街区外的梅廷街、布朗街、博文街与塞耶街之间，东校区位于霍普街与查尔斯菲尔德街且以学生宿舍为主，两处之间由「散步道」相连，沿线有林德曼表演艺术中心与格拉诺夫创意艺术中心，绿地内矗立着林璎与汤姆·弗里德曼的公共艺术作品。

• The Alpert Medical School has occupied the historic Jewelry District since 2011 near the Rhode Island Hospital medical campus, the engineering research centre designed by KieranTimberlake was completed in 2018, Brown Stadium opened in 1925, and overseas programmes run through Groton in Connecticut and Madrid.阿尔珀特医学院自 2011 年起设于历史悠久的珠宝区，毗邻罗得岛医院医学园区，由 KieranTimberlake 事务所设计的工程研究中心于 2018 年落成，1925 年建成的布朗体育场则是橄榄球队主场，海外项目则经由康涅狄格州格罗顿与马德里展开。

Reputation

• Brown ranked 66th in the QS World University Rankings 2027.布朗在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位列第 66 位。

• The Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027 placed it joint 73rd, having ranked it 58th in the 2026 edition of the same table.2027 年高等教育时代世界大学排名将学校并列排在第 73 位，而该榜单 2026 年版曾列第 58 位。

• The US News Best Global Universities 2026-2027 edition ranked Brown 144th, far below its domestic standing, because that table is built almost entirely on bibliometric research output and is structurally unfavourable to small liberal arts colleges.《美国新闻与世界报道》2026-2027 年度最佳全球大学排名将布朗列第 144 位，远低于其在美国国内的口碑，因为该榜单几乎完全以文献计量科研产出构建，对规模较小的文理学院天然不利。

• The same publisher ranked Brown 9th among national universities in its 2023 edition and 2nd for undergraduate teaching in 2022, while Forbes placed it 19th in America's Top Colleges 2022 and the Washington Monthly ranked it 30th in 2024.同一出版方在 2023 年版中把布朗列为全美全国大学第 9，2022 年版更以本科教学列第 2；《福布斯》2022 年「美国顶尖大学」榜列第 19，《华盛顿月刊》2024 年列第 30。

• OpenAlex records 182,434 works and 17,424,698 citations for the institution, a research weight that sits oddly against its place on the US News global table.OpenAlex 数据库记录该校 182,434 项成果与 17,424,698 次引用，这样的科研体量与它在美国新闻全球榜上的位置形成了奇特的反差。

• On the US News 2022 subject tables Brown scored 12th in earth sciences, 13th in biostatistics and English, 14th in mathematics and 16th in public health, but 62nd in chemistry and public affairs.在《美国新闻与世界报道》2022 年学科榜上，布朗地球科学列第 12，生物统计与英语列第 13，数学列第 14，公共卫生列第 16，而化学与公共事务则列第 62。

• As of October 2025 the university counted 12 Nobel Prize laureates, 1 Fields Medalist, 1 Dan David Prize winner, 7 National Humanities Medalists and 11 National Medal of Science recipients among its alumni, faculty and researchers.截至 2025 年 10 月，校方统计校友、教职员工与研究人员中共有 12 位诺贝尔奖得主、1 位菲尔兹奖得主、1 位丹·戴维奖得主、7 位国家人文奖章获得者和 11 位国家科学奖章获得者。

• It has produced 58 Rhodes Scholars, 29 Pulitzer Prize winners and 22 MacArthur Fellows, and in 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2021 it produced more Fulbright recipients than any other university in the United States.学校已培养出 58 位罗德学者、29 位普利策奖得主与 22 位麦克阿瑟学者，并在 2016、2017、2018 与 2021 年成为全美富布赖特奖学金获得者最多的大学。

• In fiscal year 2017 it spent 212.3 million dollars on research and ranked 103rd in the United States for total research and development spending, it has been a member of the Association of American Universities since 1933, and in 2025 a free speech survey placed it 229th of 257 institutions, down from 69th in 2024.2017 财年学校投入科研经费 2.123 亿美元，按研发总支出列全美第 103，自 1933 年起即为美国大学协会成员；2025 年一项言论自由调查将其排在 257 所院校中的第 229 位，而 2024 年它还排在第 69 位。

Student life

• The motto is In Deo Speramus, Latin for in God we hope, which appears on a shield created in 1834, and the mascot is Bruno the bear.校训为拉丁文 In Deo Speramus，意为「我们寄望于上帝」，与 1834 年创制的盾形校徽一同使用，吉祥物则是小熊布鲁诺。

• Brown has no houses or colleges, so campus life is organised around departments, residence halls and a dense club system rather than a collegiate house, and the university frames the open curriculum as a contract between each student and their adviser.布朗不设书院或学院，校园生活围绕院系、学生公寓与密集的社团体系展开，而非依托某个学院；学校将开放课程制界定为每位学生与其指导教师之间的一份契约。

• The historic Pembroke residence halls, Metcalf Hall of 1919, Miller Hall of 1910 and Andrews Hall of 1947, now serve as freshman residences, the East Campus is largely residential, and the university commits to meeting the demonstrated financial need of every admitted undergraduate.彭布罗克校区的历史宿舍——1910 年的米勒楼、1919 年的梅特卡夫楼与 1947 年的安德鲁斯楼——如今用作新生宿舍，东校区亦以住宿为主，学校承诺满足每位录取本科生的实际经济需求。

• Spring Weekend, the annual spring music festival, was established in 1950 and has been organised by the student-run Brown Concert Agency since 1960, with past performers including Ella Fitzgerald, Ray Charles, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen and U2.春季周末音乐节创办于 1950 年，自 1960 年起由学生自主经营的布朗音乐会公司筹办，历届表演者包括埃拉·菲茨杰拉德、雷·查尔斯、鲍勃·迪伦、布鲁斯·斯普林斯汀与 U2 乐队。

• The first intercollegiate ice hockey game in America was played between Brown and Harvard on 19 January 1898, and the first university rowing regatta larger than a dual meet was held at Lake Quinsigamond on 26 July 1859.美国第一场校际冰球比赛于 1898 年 1 月 19 日在布朗与哈佛之间进行，首场规模超出双校对抗的大学赛艇赛事则于 1859 年 7 月 26 日在昆西加蒙德湖举行。

• There are over 300 registered student organisations, among them the Brown Daily Herald, the Brown Political Review, the Brown Debating Union and the Brown International Organization, and about 12% of students take part in Greek life through thirteen recognised societies, most of them in Wriston Quadrangle.校内有 300 多个注册学生组织，其中便包括《布朗每日先驱报》《布朗政治评论》、布朗辩论联盟与布朗国际组织；约 12% 的学生参与希腊字母社团生活，全校承认十三个活跃社团，绝大多数位于 Wriston 方院。

• Student activism has a documented line, from the walkout of 65 Black students at Pembroke College on 5 December 1968, which brought a large rise in Black enrolment the following year, to the Brown Center for Students of Color, founded in 1972 after protest, and the Sarah Doyle Women's Center.学生行动主义有清晰脉络，从 1968 年 12 月 5 日彭布罗克学院 65 名黑人学生的罢课抗议（次年黑人学生人数大幅上升），到 1972 年经抗议后成立的有色学生中心，再到以早期女性学生萨拉·多伊命名的女性中心。

• The Brown Bears compete in the Ivy League within NCAA Division I with 32 varsity teams, winning Ivy football championships in 1999, 2005 and 2008, and the university's alumni include 38 Olympic medalists.布朗熊队在美国大学体育协会第一级别联盟中参加常春藤联盟赛事，共设 32 支校队，橄榄球队在 1999、2005 与 2008 年三度夺得常春藤联盟冠军，校友中共有 38 位奥运奖牌得主。

Notable people

• Ezra Stiles, who drafted the charter and later became the seventh president of Yale College, William Ellery, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and Josias Lyndon, later governor of the colony, petitioned for the school in 1761, and James Manning, chosen to lead it, served as its first president from 1765 to 1791.1761 年联名请愿设校的埃兹拉·斯泰尔斯后成为耶鲁学院第七任校长，小威廉·埃勒里是《独立宣言》签署人，乔西亚斯·林登后来出任殖民地总督；而被选中主持校务的詹姆斯·曼宁自 1765 至 1791 年任首任校长。

• James Mitchell Varnum, who graduated with honours in 1769, became a brigadier general in the Continental Army and founded the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, widely regarded as the first Black battalion in American military history, while David Howell, an 1769 graduate, was a delegate to the Continental Congress from 1782 to 1785.1769 年以优异成绩毕业的詹姆斯·米切尔·瓦纳姆成为大陆军准将，并创建了被广泛视为美国军事史上第一支黑人营队的罗得岛第一团；1769 年毕业生戴维·豪威尔则于 1782 至 1785 年担任大陆会议代表。

• Among the university's presidents were the philosopher and economist Francis Wayland, the academic Vartan Gregorian, and Ruth Simmons, the first African American to head an Ivy League university, while Christina Hull Paxson, formerly dean of Princeton University's School of Public and International Affairs, has served since 2012.学校历任校长中包括哲学家兼经济学家弗朗西斯·韦兰、学者瓦尔坦·格里高利，以及作为首位执掌常春藤盟校的非裔大学校长鲁思·西蒙斯；此前曾任普林斯顿大学公共与国际事务学院院长的克里斯蒂娜·赫尔·帕克森自 2012 年起在任。

• Eight Nobel laureates have been faculty at the university, among them Lars Onsager, awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1968, and Leon Cooper, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1972.共有八位诺贝尔奖得主曾任该校教职，其中包括 1968 年获诺贝尔化学奖的拉斯·昂萨格与 1972 年获诺贝尔物理学奖的利昂·库珀。

• George Snell received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1980, George Stigler the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1982, and Henry David Abraham the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985.乔治·斯内尔于 1980 年获诺贝尔生理学或医学奖，乔治·斯蒂格勒于 1982 年获诺贝尔经济学奖，亨利·戴维·亚伯拉罕于 1985 年获诺贝尔和平奖。

• Vernon Smith won the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2002, J. Michael Kosterlitz the Nobel Prize in Physics in 2016, and Peter Howitt the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 2025.弗农·史密斯于 2002 年获诺贝尔经济学奖，迈克尔·科斯特利茨于 2016 年获诺贝尔物理学奖，彼得·豪伊特于 2025 年获诺贝尔经济学奖。

• Faculty and fellows at the Watson Institute have included Romano Prodi, prime minister of Italy and president of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004, Fernando Henrique Cardoso, president of Brazil, Ricardo Lagos, president of Chile, and Richard Holbrooke, the 1962 graduate who drafted the Dayton Peace Accords.沃森研究所的教职研究员曾包括意大利总理、1999 至 2004 年任欧盟委员会主席的罗马诺·普罗迪，巴西总统费尔南多·恩里克·卡多佐，智利总统里卡多·拉戈斯，以及 1962 届毕业、主导起草《代顿和平协议》的理查德·霍尔布鲁克。

• Among the alumni are John Hay, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and secretary of state, John D. Rockefeller Jr., the philanthropist who gave the university a library, Jim Yong Kim, president of the World Bank from 2012 to 2017, and Ted Turner, who graduated in 1960.知名校友包括林肯总统的私人秘书兼国务卿约翰·海、捐出图书馆的慈善家小约翰·洛克菲勒、2012 至 2017 年任世界银行行长的金墉，以及 1960 年毕业的泰德·特纳。

• Six alumni have won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, and the university's Chinese-language alumni include Ting-Chai Ding, the solid mechanics scholar at the University of Illinois at Chicago, the geophysicist and academician Wang Ren, and Yang Wei, president of Zhejiang University.已有六位校友获普利策戏剧奖；华人校友中则有力学与固体力学专家、美国伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校教授丁启财，地质地球物理学家、中国科学院学部委员王仁，以及浙江大学校长杨卫。