Three years ago, President Ruth Simmons found herself at the helm of a University navigating a stormy financial climate unlike any since the Great Depression. As Simmons prepares to step down at the end of the academic year, she said she is proud of the University's handling of the $740 million hit ...
An academic warning once meant near-certain suspension, but a new academic standing level added two years ago now means struggling students are less likely to get the boot.
The University will establish an office to coordinate support on campus for veterans and students pursuing military studies this spring, according to Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services.
Iranian poet Pegah Ahmadi spent six years under censorship in her native Iran before fleeing that country's post-election turmoil in 2009. Now, she is the latest fellow of the International Writers Project, a program run by the Department of Literary Arts and the Watson Institute for International Studies ...
"Honor is understanding," said Chaney Harrison '11.5 at the University's Veterans Day ceremony Friday, when about 150 community members gathered by the flagpole and marched from the Main Green to Lincoln Field. Though the majority of campus bustled through its everyday routine, those that gathered for ...
A naked man passionately embraces a naked woman in a photograph. How does that make viewers feel? And how long does it take them to register their reactions? Females will take longer, according to a new study, because women are less in touch with their bodies.
At times lawyer-like, at others sharp-tongued and defensive, Glenn Greenwald, a politics and law columnist for Salon.com, and John Walters, former director of the White House Office of National Drug Control Policy during the Bush administration, debated national drug policy before a crowd unafraid to ...
Students discussed alternatives to the housing lottery — including how to revamp the system or provide other choices for on-campus residence — during a series of forums conducted by the Residential Council this week.
Humans can tan easier and faster than previously thought, according to a recent paper from the Department of Molecular Pharmacology, Physiology and Biotechnology. Using the same mechanisms the eye uses to sense light, human skin can "see" ultraviolet light, almost immediately inducing tanning.
The University's budgeting process is about making choices, said Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 at yesterday's University Resources Committee forum.
For students returning from the stark Sciences Library or a food frolic at one of Thayer Street's generic restaurants, the newly renovated Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory, with its red bricks and rows of white windows, is architectural eye candy. But to the graduate students of the Department ...
Department of Public Safety officers detained a man last night after he was seen masturbating in a parked vehicle on Hope Street. Witnesses do not believe the suspect to be the same man who has masturbated outside a John Street house on multiple occasions this semester.
"The Congress of the United States is a pretty broken place right now," said Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., to a group of students at a Jewish Leadership Seminar at Brown/RISD Hillel yesterday. "And if you weren't aware of that, I'm here to tell you that it is."
The University is in the early stages of planning what may become a new building to enhance research facilities. A committee began discussing the possible building in September, but the project's details — including what and where it will be — remain up in the air, according to Provost Mark ...
Practically everything the human body does is the work of proteins. And since the function of a protein is intrinsically tied to its structure, structural changes can have dramatic effects on human health and disease.
Nearly three hours past the scheduled meeting time, state lawmakers spoke yesterday before the joint House and Senate finance committees to present their revisions to the Chafee-Raimondo pension reform bill. The legislation, spearheaded by the state's governor and treasurer, has been billed by Rhode ...
The University allocated $250,000 for employee bonuses and merit-based awards this fiscal year, according to Karen Davis, vice president for human resources. This figure represents an increase since the fiscal downturn of 2008 and 2009, after which no funds were allotted to the pool, but it is still ...
"We, in fact, will make Knowledge Providence the epicenter of the universe," Laurie White, president of the Greater Providence Chamber of Commerce, told a crowd of about 100 at the 2011 Knowledge Economy Community Forum yesterday morning.
Evan Schwartz '13, a student representative on the University Resources Committee, estimated a 5 percent tuition increase next year — higher than the typical 3.5 percent annual increases — at last night's general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students.
Diman House, outfitted with user-controlled, variable thermostats, will pilot the Dorm Energy Efficiency Project this heating season. During the season — which began in October and will finish by early spring — the Office of Energy and Environment, a division of the Department of Facilities ...
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