After school Wednesday, three students are hanging out outside Gilbert Stuart Middle School in Providence. It's been an hour or so since classes let out for the day, but they're standing around talking to a grown man — a streetworker with the Institute for the Study and Practice of Nonviolence, ...
In Amy Diaz's world, beauty queens aren't afraid of a little dirt. Diaz, who grew up in Providence, is a national advocate for the environment and green living — and the new Miss Earth USA.
While their classmates were writing papers and working on problem sets, a small group of Brown students were making high-stakes decisions that could win or lose them hundreds, and sometimes thousands, of dollars. Since then, the stakes of the game have risen — several young alums who once hunched ...
Papa's money and Mama's sass weren't enough to stop the radioactive, mutated sewer rats.
It represents a homecoming of sorts. "Tanner Hall," a film set amid Rhode Island's picturesque landscape and historic architecture, brought its creators — Francesca Gregorini '90 and Tatiana von Furstenberg '91 — back to the birthplace of their friendship. The independent film is the brainchild ...
Saturday's sun shone on an unlikely scene near Kennedy Plaza. Children scampered by in colorful animal masks, musicians jammed on a stage and vendors clamored for the attention of passersby. The inaugural Providence Sustainability Festival was held all day downtown, bringing together students and grandparents, ...
Academics may be known — even mocked — for being long-winded, but some are now communicating in 140 characters or fewer.
With smudges on his nose and green chalk covering his hands and knees, Daniel Valmas '11 hurried to put the finishing touches on his painting. Using his fingers, Valmas blended green into the street, creating the background of a scene highlighted by a jellyfish's hot pink tentacles slicing across the ...
Got too much on your plate? Brown Dining Services does, too — that's why it donated 737 pounds of baked goods to local charities last year alone.
About 30 students, faculty members and Providence residents gathered in the Steinert Choral Room last Thursday.The singers sat in a square — one voice part on each side — facing each other, with the song leader standing in the middle. They had no audience but themselves as they filled ...
It's 5 a.m., more than 12 hours before WaterFire's first brazier is set ablaze, and Director of Events and Operations Paul Kochanek — or PK, as the ID card clipped to his belt identifies him — is already on site, beginning the hundreds of man-hours that go into a lighting.
For about one in five students at Brown, one concentration isn't enough. And for a very small minority on campus, even two concentrations don't cut it.About 12 triple concentrators graduated last spring, according to Deputy Dean of the College Stephen Lassonde. He said that number remains relatively ...
The lot of land Mark Falugo's family owns is nearly deserted during the day, but the signs of human habitation are obvious. The downtown property holds about a dozen tents, the dwellings of 18 homeless men and women.
Four years ago, Jamila Woods '11 had never read her own poetry for an audience. She's come a long way since.
Don't judge a book by its cover — and don't judge a Brown grad just by his day job.Last summer, corporate lawyer Jeremy Schwartz '02 co-founded Book City Jackets, for him an unexpected foray into the world of literature and the arts. The company's book jackets, designed by co-founder Emma Gaines-Ross ...
Carl only has one eye. But that doesn't bother him.
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