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The Brown Institute for Media Innovation awards upwards of $1 million in grants and fellowships, called Magic Grants, to fund projects and prototypes that devise new tools and new ways to tell stories. Director Mark Hansen discussed the breadth of the institute’s work as it prepares to select the next set of Magic Grant recipients.

As a scientist, Sean Solomon has studied Mercury, Venus and Mars. Now he heads Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, whose researchers study planet Earth, from its deepest ocean to its highest peak.

Federica Coppola's research exists at the intersection of neuroscience and law. She investigates how brain research has been applied in the past and could be used to revise criminal law doctrines, theories of punishment and correctional practices.