A Sept. 25 report commissioned by Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 P'16 suggests Rhode Island's business climate is in critical condition and recommends a major overhaul to current state organizations relating to commerce and economic development.
Raymond Villanova, owner of the property that formerly housed the Station Nightclub in West Warwick, voluntarily signed the land's deed over to the Station Fire Memorial Foundation Sept. 28. The nightclub burned down in 2003 after pyrotechnics ignited the building, killing 100 people and injuring hundreds ...
President Barack Obama and former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney covered domestic topics in last night's presidential debate, including job creation, tax policy, deficit reduction, social welfare programs and healthcare policy. Social issues were not addressed. During the debate, Obama positioned ...
By the time President Barack Obama and U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan announced in 2009 that the federal government would distribute $4.35 billion to states purposed for developing more intensive teacher evaluation systems, among other elements, Rhode Island already had begun to overhaul ...
Students planning to study abroad will now receive additional support from the University to help them in their medical preparations. Health Services and the Office of International Programs coordinated to improve treatment checklists and expand the orientation program for students prior to their time ...
With the November elections rapidly approaching, Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., visited campus Tuesday night to speak at a meeting of the Brown Democrats, the organization he co-founded while an undergraduate at the University. In his talk, Cicilline emphasized the stark differences between the Republican ...
Hot-air balloons that delivered newspapers, hurricane destruction on Brown's campus and portraits of President Abraham Lincoln are among the topics covered on Curio, the new weekly blog launched last Wednesday by Digital Production Services, the University library department tasked with digitizing materials ...
About 25 students with the newly formed Brown Divest Coal Campaign group walked into University Hall Tuesday afternoon to ask the University to divest from some of its coal and fossil fuel investments. Students delivered a letter addressed to President Christina Paxson and handed out flyers to students ...
Following an evaluation in 2010, Health Services has implemented a number of changes this semester including additional hours, advancement in online accessibility and improved support for transgender students. The changes are part of a "constant quality improvement process as well as a commitment and ...
President The first debate of the 2012 presidential campaign will take place tomorrow at 9 p.m. on cable and network news channels. President Obama will face off against Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, in a confrontation that many speculate will be a definitive moment ...
Over the summer, the University's two main dining halls underwent a series of minor changes, including additions to the Sharpe Refectory dining area and new food options with an emphasis on local produce. "We wanted to focus our menus around our most popular recipes, offer seasonal variety, more sustainable ...
Senators, representatives and other government officials addressed a packed room Sept. 27 at the fall open house for Betaspring, a startup accelerator located in Providence's Knowledge District. The audience energetically welcomed the 13 new startups participating in Betaspring's fall session. Betaspring ...
Trinity College Dublin became the newest partner school in Brown Plus One, a study abroad program that allows students to earn one-year master's degrees following graduation, last spring. Trinity College joins the University of Edinburgh and the Chinese University of Hong Kong as the three Brown Plus ...
Grinnell reviews need-blind policy In a letter to alums last Thursday, Grinnell College announced it would consider amending its financial aid policies, prompting rumors that the college could end its need-blind admissions policy, though nothing in the letter explicitly referenced such a plan. The school ...
Jayson Marwaha '14 and Han Sheng Chia '14, co-directors of Medical Equipment Donations International, spent about 10 weeks in Zanzibar this summer assessing medical equipment needs in the region. MED International is a recently-formed nonprofit organization that focuses on the delivery and use of medical ...
Involvement in faculty governance remains persistently low - only one in seven faculty members regularly attend monthly faculty meetings, and the task of recruiting faculty for leadership roles is often extremely difficult, according to Faculty Executive Committee members. But as President Christina ...
With a new president recruited in part for her high-profile work framing academics in an international context, the University is positioned to reexamine and expand its global presence. Since her naming this March, President Christina Paxson has highlighted internationalization as a key priority, noting ...
Students and professionals flooded in from across the globe this weekend to attend the fifth anniversary of A Better World By Design as the conference sought to promote interactivity and increase participant engagement. The three-day conference, put on by a committee of Brown and Rhode Island School ...
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