Brown University, located in Providence, R.I., is one of the leading Ivy League institutions offering graduate and undergraduate academic programs. The university is known for its research in the disciplines of brain science, cognitive and linguistic sciences, the social sciences, computational molecular biology and genomics, as well as in the arts and humanities. The university faculty receives financial support with grants and Fulbright scholarships and MacArthur, Guggenheim, and National Endowment for the Humanities fellowships. Brown provides financial aid for all students demonstrating need, and more than 43 percent of the undergraduate students receive aid. Brown in a member of the NCAA and has mens and womens teams in a variety of sports. The university library system contains more than 6 million books, including bound first editions, national periodicals, world and regional maps, sheet music and manuscripts. Brown University students come from all walks of life and all states in the United States. The university also has a large contingent of foreign students.