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Canadians give thanks for not-quite-international identity
By Alexandra Macfarlane | October 10Correction appended.
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By Kat Thornton | October 10Professors support Occupy movement
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Lifetime emails on horizon
By Phoebe Draper | October 10Conversion to a lifetime alumni email system has cost the University $75,000 so far, according to Todd Andrews '83, vice president for alumni relations. The program, which allows students to maintain their Brown Gmail accounts after they graduate, will officially launch early next semester.
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Black and female, but that's not the point
By Shefali Luthra | October 10President Ruth Simmons does not want to be revered simply for her race or gender.
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Partnership allows PhDs to teach in Spain
By Adam Toobin | October 10The International Teaching Fellowship, a joint venture between Brown and the Instituto de Empresa, will provide those who have received a doctoral degree from Brown with an opportunity to teach in Spain starting next September. Organizers of the teaching fellowship at IE, an institution known for its ...
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Homophobic scrawl spurs room change
By Michael Weinstein | October 10A female sophomore who identifies as gay transferred out of Sears House in response to a homophobic remark written on the whiteboard on the front of her door. The student, who asked that her name not be used, said she saw the comment when she woke up the morning of Sept. 24. The comment read "OMG IM ...
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McCormick to get donation records
By Brown Daily Herald | October 9A federal judge ordered the University Friday to hand over to William McCormick all records of donations and fundraising by the father of the woman who accused McCormick of rape in 2006.
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Campus crimes decreased in 2010
By Lucy Feldman | October 9Crime on or near campus decreased in 2010, according to the 2011 Annual Security Report released this month. Robbery and motor vehicle theft on and near campus were the only crimes to increase last year, and all other categories decreased or remained the same. The report includes statistics for nine ...
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RISD cops to get full police powers
By Morgan Johnson | October 9Rhode Island School of Design public safety officers will soon assume the power to search, detain and arrest criminal suspects on College Hill.
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Simmons defends Goldman ties
By Alex Bell | October 9Four years after signing off on a $68 million executive bonus at the height of the economic boom and two years after parting ways with Goldman Sachs amid a recession, President Ruth Simmons said she does not feel her decade-long tenure on Goldman's board has negatively impacted the University.
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All-night construction on Thayer 'unbearable' for students
By Hannah Loewentheil | October 9All-night construction on Thayer Street to complete renovations to the Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory Sept. 29 left angry and tired students in its wake. "At the completion of the Metcalf renovation project, Thayer Street was cold planed and re-paved," Stephen Maiorisi, vice president of ...
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Medical corporation funds engineering research
By Kate Nussenbaum | October 9Since committing $400,000 to University research in January, Medtronic — Fortune 500's top medical product and equipment company — has provided support for three engineering research projects, according to Brian Sheldon, a professor of engineering who has been directing the collaboration. ...
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Simmons reflects on themes of presidency
By Alex Bell | October 9"A lot of the things that have happened that seemed to be important to people, I missed," said President Ruth Simmons of her accomplishments at Brown. "I was here, I was doing it — and now somebody defines it as having been important."
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Pembroke Center beats fundraising goal
By Gabriela Gutierrez | October 9As the window of opportunity to be part of the Campaign for Academic Enrichment was closing in the fall of 2010, Kay Warren knew she had to act fast to launch a fundraising effort for the Pembroke Center. Warren, who had been named director of the center that October, had only two months to come up ...
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Ground vapors may pose health risk
By David Rosen | October 6Most homeowners don't worry about their houses' foundations unless their basements flood.
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Hay exhibit extracts chemistry's secrets
By Anish Sarma | October 6When the United Nations designated 2011 the International Year of Chemistry, Lee Pedersen immediately posted the news to the bulletin board in her office. Pedersen, a physical sciences librarian with a background in chemistry, set out with Holly Snyder, curator of the History of Science Collections ...
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With altered genes, plants adjust to climate
By Katherine Long | October 6Newly discovered links between a plant's genetic variations and climate change may reduce the agriculture industry's reliance on pesticide use, according to a paper by researchers in the University's Schmitt Lab published yesterday in the journal Nature.
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Facilities negotiates off-campus staffing
By Jordan Hendricks | October 6Yesterday's negotiations between Facilities Management and the University on a new labor contract ended with a promise of a "good faith effort" from the University to maintain Facilities Management workers' jobs in buildings that are only used by the University, said Karen McAninch '74, business agent ...
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Med professors teaching in Ghana
By Lauren Pope | October 6Timothy Flanigan, professor of medicine, recalled the enthusiasm of a Ghanian priest he met at the Sept. 20 launch of the University's new HIV education initiative, which was born from a partnership between three American universities and the University of Ghana.
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New methods hatched for egg research
By Adam Toobin | October 6A new method for testing the genetic makeup of an egg may provide clues as to why some develop after fertilization and others do not, a finding with possible implications for in vitro fertilization, according to a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
