The University posted an 18.5 percent return on its endowment for the fiscal year that ended in June, bringing the total endowment figure to $2.5 billion. The unusually high gains were largely due to success in the market, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. ...
It's been another successful year for the Brown Women in Computer Science group, or WiCS, which recently learned it was a recipient of a Student Seed Fund Award from the National Center for Women and Information Technology.
Occupy College Hill, a campus-based offshoot of Occupy Providence, will host a "One Night Stand" campout on the Main Green tonight to kick off discussion about how to improve the University. The event is scheduled to immediately precede the meeting of the Corporation, the University's highest governing ...
The Residential Council will begin accepting applications today for a new program house, which will fill the void left when Interfaith House closed its doors last semester.
Through a combination of volunteer efforts and food donations, Providence People's Kitchen is providing three meals per day to members of the Occupy Providence movement, who have been residing in Burnside Park since Saturday evening.
A new Commuter Choice Assistance Program will allow employees to create pre-tax debit accounts to lower the costs of public transportation and off-site parking starting Jan. 1.
College Hill's public masturbation spree continued with yet another incident Tuesday night.
When the Department of English began allotting concentration advisers alphabetically this summer, it left many students surprised to find they had been reassigned to new advisers.
UnitedHealthcare of New England donated $250,000 to the Rhode Island Foundation's loan forgiveness program last week as part of a series of grants from state and national organizations encouraging medical students, including those at Alpert Medical School, to pursue careers in primary care.
Until recently, first-years interested in face time with the University's top doctors would have to resort to hour-long keg stands or December dips in the Narragansett River. But thanks to a new University initiative, freshmen will soon be able to take first-year seminars with Alpert Medical School ...
The Providence Journal established a pay wall and redesigned its website Tuesday. The website now features breaking news briefs for free and provides full stories only to subscribers through an eEdition of the paper.
The Undergraduate Council of Students introduced a resolution to increase next year's student activities fee by $10 last night. The council also spoke with Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 and Lauren Kolodny '08, former UCS vice president and current member of the Corporation.
For most Rhode Islanders, colder winter temperatures are a seasonal inconvenience. But for the state's homeless — a group that has grown due to the ongoing economic downturn — winter adds a new urgency to the daily struggle to find shelter.
The Corporation will review President Ruth Simmons' recently released recommendations on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Department of Athletics at its meeting this weekend.
The United States must support Israel's right to exist in order to establish peace in the Middle East, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. told a crowded Salomon 101 last night.
The University is looking to integrate community programs with the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and the Medical Education Building, according to the most recent update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons' blueprint for academic improvement.
Every three weeks at the Swearer Center for Public Service, 22 professors across 17 disciplines collide behind closed doors to discuss exciting new directions in education at Brown. Food justice is discussed with sandwiches in hand, education finds common ground with engineering and the medieval studies ...
President Ruth Simmons recommended the University not change its academic policies toward the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, according to a letter released to the community yesterday. Current policies do not permit ROTC's presence on campus.
Nick Petersdorf '12.5 is happy to be in a long-term relationship with Brown, but he wants to spread the love.
State and municipal employees will see dramatic changes to their pensions in 2012 if the General Assembly adopts a proposal outlined in a joint address Tuesday.
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