Endowment posts gains comparable to peers'
By Chip Lebovitz | November 2Brown's endowment grew 6.9 percent last year — with a 10.2 percent net gain — chiefly due to rebounding markets.
Brown's endowment grew 6.9 percent last year — with a 10.2 percent net gain — chiefly due to rebounding markets.
Josh Fenton MA'94, CEO and co-founder of GoLocalProv — an online startup covering the Providence area — will tell you there are three things to distinguish the site from a traditional news organization.
President Ruth Simmons discussed the departure of Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 and recent cases of bullying concerning sexual identity that resulted in suicides at college campuses nationwide during Tuesday's faculty meeting.
"Gracias a todos," Angel Taveras, who will be Providence's first Latino mayor, greeted his supporters last night. "This is a historic victory for our team."
The kick-off event for the Tam Tran Scholarship for Undocumented Youth, a dinner held on Oct. 22 by Brown Immigrants' Rights Coalition, raised $2,756.45, including online donations, said Juan Martinez-Hill '12, a BIRC member.
January will see Mayor David Cicilline '83 sworn in as Rhode Island's first openly gay congressman. Despite a late surge in the polls, Republican John Loughlin was unable to trump the Democrat in yesterday's midterm election for the first district congressional seat.
Members of the Brown men's rugby team helped teach rugby workshops to middle school students on Pembroke field at last Wednesday's final session of a three-week collaboration between Brown rugby players and students at the Wheeler School.
Computing and Information Services is currently collecting feedback from students and faculty to help identify an online learning management system that would replace MyCourses.
Ocean State voters will go to the polls today to choose a successor to Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 and determine the outcome of one of the most unconventional political races in the country this year.
In the First District Congressional Race being decided Tuesday, Democrat David Cicilline '83 and Republican John Loughlin are locked in a competitive race to replace retiring Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I. Though the district they are vying to represent leans Democratic, poll numbers show a narrowing ...
Amid a national mood of voter frustration predicted to swing today's midterm elections in Republicans' favor, Rhode Island voters will cast ballots for key federal and state offices. As Democrats brace for heavy Election Day losses nationwide, the question of whether voters dissatisfied with the party ...
Students in large concentrations often relish the opportunity to trade big lecture halls for the intimacy of the seminar room. For students in small concentrations, tight-knit seminars and personal attention are the rule, not the exception.
The number of students concentrating in history has sharply declined over the past few years, according to Nancy Jacobs, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History.
Forty-two students were cited with potential violations of the Academic Code last academic year — with nearly 70 percent of the cases coming from the Department of Computer Science, according to a faculty committee's report released this month.
Some students check their Brown e-mail every day. Some do it every hour. But imagine not being able to access it for three months — that's what some international students from China were dealing with this past summer.
The Transportation Office now uses a third-party company to collect fines for unpaid parking tickets issued on campus.
The contract between the University and the libraries union was extended for the third time Friday evening when negotiators once again failed to reach an agreement.
The University is working to make more scholarship funds available for international students, mainly through the work of a student group and fundraisers, as part of its overall goals to internationalize and increase cultural and socioeconomic diversity on campus.
How would you get from your dorm room to a class on the third floor of Wilson Hall? This might sound like an easy question — but now imagine trying it in a wheelchair.