The Record

Regulating world’s ‘most heavily marketed product’

Even though cigarette ads are long absent from the airwaves, the tobacco industry still pitches its products. A Brown School team led by Doug Luke, director of the Center for Public Health Systems Science, is wrapping up a five-year study of retail tobacco-control policies.

Depressed children respond differently to rewards

Measuring brain waves, university researchers have found that clinically depressed children don’t respond to rewards the way other children do. The findings may show how the brain processes emotions in young children with depression.

Housing program provides loans, strengthens neighborhoods

The Employer Assisted Housing Program provides up to $8,500 in down payment and closing cost assistance to employees who buy homes in certain nearby neighborhoods. It’s one way the university is helping to stabilize the areas around its campuses.