The Record

Halting HIV’s spread in Midwest is network’s aim

As part of a federal initiative to end the HIV epidemic, the university will establish a multidisciplinary resource center to support local organizations working to reduce infection rates. The center will help organizations provide PrEP, a medicine that prevents HIV infection.

Researchers begin low-income smoker study

Brown School researchers have begun work on a five-year, $3.9 million study that tests an innovative approach to help low-income smokers quit: helping people establish rules banning smoking in their homes.

Sports: an American obsession

Sports fandom — often more than religious, political or regional affiliation — determines how millions of Americans define themselves. Noah Cohan, lecturer in Arts & Sciences, focuses on sports culture as narrative in his new book, “We Average Unbeautiful Watchers.”

Violence, racism shape views on environment

People living in marginalized communities in St. Louis, particularly African Americans, have been enduring, as one person put it, “real problems,” such as violence and racism, that they perceive as more immediate than climate change, finds a Brown School study.