Two Brown students studying abroad in Alexandria, Egypt through a Middlebury College program are being evacuated today from the country by plane in light of the ongoing violent protests against President Hosni Mubarak's regime.
Rhode Island District Federal Court Judge William Smith recused himself from William McCormick's case against the University and two alums earlier this month because his daughter is applying to Brown, according to Joe Cavanagh, a lawyer for the alums named as defendants in the case.
Undergraduate applications to Brown from citizens of the United Kingdom have risen nearly 40 percent in the past two years, almost twice the rate of increase in total applications to the University.
The founders of Jobzle, a job search website designed to help Rhode Island students find jobs while still in college, said they plan to expand the website's reach to other New England locations this summer.
Many students aspire to be published in the future, but after only one semester at Brown, Jaclyn Katz '14 already has her story in a book. Or at least she will when Andrea Buchanan's anthology "Live and Let Love" — which includes Katz's short story about her family tragedy — is released ...
Despite interference with the Naked Donut Run last December, there is no indication the tradition will be put to a permanent end. Sciences Library security guards interfered with one run this past semester, but University officials say there is currently no intention of shutting down the run.
Two undergraduates made efficient use of their time — impressing judges and winning cash prizes in 90 seconds — Dec. 8 at an elevator pitch contest held at the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Providence.
This week, for the fourth year in a row, President Ruth Simmons is joining global leaders from business, politics and other fields at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The event, which began Jan. 26 and ends Jan. 30, allows Simmons to develop relationships with university ...
Researchers at the Alpert Medical School made an important discovery that may lead to changes in the way brain tumors are diagnosed and treated. Their findings, published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute last month, have generated a slew of questions not only on brain tumors but ...
Students rushing to buy course materials for their first days of classes will have a shorter time to return textbooks to the Brown Bookstore.
In its latest effort to integrate the sciences and the arts, the Rhode Island School of Design hosted a collaborative workshop Jan. 20 and 21. A "groundbreaking" achievement for an art school, the workshop was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, said Christopher Rose, a visiting ...
Brown's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies recommended at its Dec. 6 meeting that the University not reinvest in HEI Hotels and Resorts.
While his peers were wrapping up their winter breaks and returning to campus, Alex Morse '11 was kicking off his political career. The urban studies concentrator announced his candidacy for mayor of his hometown, Holyoke, Mass., on Tuesday.
Bolstered by support from newly elected Governor Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14, legislation to legalize gay marriage in Rhode Island has a better chance of passage than in years past.
Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, 83, former longtime boss of the New England-based Patriarca crime family, was arrested Jan. 20 along with 126 other members of the mob and known La Cosa Nostra associates during what officials call the biggest mob take-down in Federal Bureau of Investigation history. The ...
Rhode Island was overwhelmed with nearly 20 inchess of now over winter break, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
No longer will students be going to great lengths — donning Speedo bathing suits, fleeing bears on the main green, performing naked birthday a capella — in pursuit of the first pick in the housing lottery. The first pick video competition will be replaced by a drawing this year, to take ...
When Brunonians exit through the Van Wickle Gates during commencement, they take with them ideas cultivated in classrooms and steeped in academic rhetoric. With some fresh air, those ideas can grow to be bigger than their originators.
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