Working on an emergency lifeboat crew is not a typical high school extracurricular activity. But Henry Peck '11 did not attend a typical high school.
When Charlie Wood '10 wants to withdraw his monthly paycheck, he leaves home at 4:30 a.m. and spends five hours traveling through southeastern Africa in the back of a pickup truck alongside 20 to 30 people, produce for a local market, a few chickens and a goat. Once he makes it to the closest city — ...
Kerrissa Heffernan summed up the scope of the Royce Fellowship for Sport and Society with the story of a simple trade. Ask a former child soldier to trade his gun for a soccer ball, she said, and "the kid would say okay … It's powerful stuff."
Augustus White III '57 P'98 is no stranger to breaking down racial barriers.
Most Brown students spent their Thanksgivings eating traditional American food with family. But for students studying abroad, this was not necessarily a possibility.
Imagine taking virtual field trips across the globe, engaging in cyberspace explorations of anatomy labs and working on transnational group projects between China, Russia, Canada and Sweden. And imagine you are still in high school.
Nicole Browning '79, chair of the board of Dominique's Fund, a non-profit organization she founded in honor of her late daughter, came to Brown Nov. 9 to give a presentation on the stigma attached to mental illness and suicide. This is the first time Browning has come to campus to talk to students. ...
After graduating from Brown and leaving the College Hill bubble, how do students define their lives in the so-called "real world?" In their young twenties, are they adults? According to the New York Times article "What Is It About 20-Somethings?" this post-college period is becoming its own life stage, ...
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the baby in the baby carriage?
Dressed entirely in white uniforms, the taekwondo team appears ferocious, like a veritable army of martial artists. The team has fought its way to become one of the best collegiate taekwondo teams in the country.
The effort to rescue the trapped Chilean miners ended happily Oct. 13, and Brown graduate Benjamin Levine '78 helped save the day. Levine used his cardiovascular knowledge to help prevent the miners from fatally fainting as they were winched to the surface.
In a neighborhood on the south side of Providence, the pleasant glow of the Friendship Cafe beckons people from all walks of life to come in from the cold and share a meal together. Low-income residents living in surrounding affordable housing units and local politicians can sample delicious sandwiches ...
"I'm living the dream," says Cathy Jamison, the main character of Showtime's "The Big C." The line comes at the end of the first episode of the dark comedy about a woman dying from terminal cancer. Sitting on a couch in her backyard with only her neighbor's droopy-eyed basset hound for an audience, ...
Sex Power God never fails to turn Brown on. With provocative garments — anything from burlesque to fetish garments to classic boxer briefs — students proved that this year was not any different. Since Bill O'Reilly attacked the party five years ago on his Fox News program, Queer Alliance has strived ...
Twitter was supposed to revolutionize communication. Seemingly every news outlet, business and celebrity jumped on the Twitter bandwagon soon after its 2006 launch, using the microblogging site to self-promote and spread information in the form of 140-character tweets.
Andy van Dam, professor of computer science, is not your typical educator. When you walk into his class, you might witness a spoof of "Snow White" or a music video from "The Lion King." Even better, you can call him by his first name. And he can't seem to shake those rumors that one of the main characters ...
In efforts to strengthen interfaith relations, university officials across the world sometimes turn to forums, academic lectures and focused leadership groups as vehicles for discussion.
Boot camp is coming to Brown — but without the barbed wire and ropes course.
Brown's campus is home to thousands of students and faculty — and even beings of another kind: the supernatural. Don't buy it? Some have seen them in front of their very eyes.
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