A competitive seed grant program, which will fund faculty research through a grant of up to $10,000, was announced at the beginning of this month by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. The grants are intended to encourage research centered on gender, sexuality, race and class, though ...
The class of 2016 includes 221 international students from 57 countries. Though this distribution does not mark any dramatic shift from last year, the gradual shift in international student demographics over the past decade has been drastic - 10 years ago, the freshman class only included 127 international ...
The November election represents a nationwide referendum on the best way to fix the economy and the importance of social entitlement programs, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said at Tuesday night's Brown Democrats meeting.
Each semester, anywhere between eight and 30 groups of ambitious students get together with a professor to choose a topic, write a syllabus and create their own credit-bearing course known as a Group Independent Study Project, or GISP. There are eight GISPs open to Brown students this fall.
Rafael Gonzalez '11 MD'15 spent his summer after junior year uncovering mass graves filled with the remains of victims from the Spanish Civil War. Alongside a team of forensic scientists, archeologists, anthropologists, medical doctors and dentists, Gonzalez said he spent a week working at a grave site ...
The computer science department began installing 10 new computers in the lobby outside of the SunLab at the end of last week. The computer increase is in response to rising student enrollment in the department's courses, said Tom Doeppner, vice chair and associate professor of computer science. It ...
Corporation board member Jonathan Nelson '77 P'07 P'09 recently joined CNN founder Ted Turner, former member of the class of 1960, and 89 other American billionaires in a pledge to donate over half of his wealth to a charitable cause. Nelson, the chief executive officer and founder of the private equity ...
Providence has seen an elevation in lead levels in the water of some old buildings in recent years, including those on and around the University's campus. Many houses on College Hill are more than 100 years old. This means that some properties have pipes that are either made entirely of lead, or, more ...
Biographer Charles Rappleye proposed looking at the past as a continuum rather than a series of isolated events in a lecture inspired by his novel "Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution," the assigned summer reading for the class of 2016. Reflecting upon ...
Forty college students from Latin America and Puerto Rico arrived at Brown Oct. 1 to kick off the two-month Botin Scholars program, which brings students to the University for a week before they head to Spain for the duration of the program. This is the third consecutive year that the Watson Institute ...
Patricia Watson, Cornell's senior associate vice president for alumni affairs and development, will serve as the University's senior vice president for advancement beginning Dec. 1, President Christina Paxson announced in an email yesterday morning. Watson will replace Steven King '91, who resigned ...
The biology department held the first of its "TED-ish" talks Wednesday, as a group of professors helped "get the word out" about the revolutionary projects taking place in the University's biology labs, said Marjorie Thompson '74 PhD'79 P'02 P'07 P'09 P'12 P'14 P'16, associate dean of biological ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 spoke about the University's strategic planning initiatives at Wednesday night's general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students.
Fifty-seven exit signs were destroyed, and a bathroom stall's dividers were ripped out in Keeney Quadrangle during a weekend at the end of September. The incident was the peak of an upward trend in campus vandalism in the past two years, according to the Office of Residential Life.
Eduardo Diaz-Santana Vazquez '14 and Ria Mirchandani '15 were the winners of the TEDxBrownUniversity Student Challenge held Tuesday evening in Metcalf Auditorium. As a lead-up to the TEDxBrownUniversity conference Oct. 20, the Student Challenge was designed to select a student to join the lineup of ...
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