Shopping period might be a little bit easier for students in 2010.Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 has asked faculty to upload their course syllabi to the University's old and infrequently used course-preview site by the spring semester. The preview page directory, courses.brown.edu, combines descriptions ...
The City Plan Commission unanimously approved an amendment to the University's 2006 Institutional Master Plan Tuesday night, clearing the first of two bureaucratic hurdles before renovations can begin on a new medical school building in the Jewelry District. Administrators hope to begin construction ...
Jeremy Goodman '10 is among 35 students nationwide who will receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom, the University announced Tuesday. A triple-concentrator from Bethesda, Md., Goodman is on track to graduate this May with an A.B. in physics, ...
The University's Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research launched a Web site last month aimed at providing researchers and policy-makers with data on the quality of nursing home care in the United States.The Web site is the first of its kind to "provide a massive amount of data all in one site ...
The Rev. Joyce Penfield, a chaplain at the Adult Correctional Institutions and co-founder of a spiritually focused organization that rehabilitates prisoners, spoke to a group of students in J. Walter Wilson Sunday night about her work in Rhode Island's prisons.
The National Institutes of Health has awarded Brown a five-year, $6 million grant to perform research that will determine how the JC virus attaches to host cells in the brain. Professor of Medical Science Walter Atwood, who has researched the virus since 1991, is leading the project along with researchers ...
Community members ranging from students to concerned citizens and from physicians to disgruntled politicos poured in to Andrews Hall Monday afternoon to hear a panel that included Rep. Patrick Kennedy, D-R.I., speak on health-care reform.
Mustaches are having a moment.They've recently been spotted on stars such as Brad Pitt and George Clooney. Organizations like "Mustaches for Kids" and "Movember" encourage men to grow them to raise awareness and donations for charitable causes.But for professional photographer Ricky Chapman and the ...
Students are batting about .500 when it comes to attending sports games this semester, according to a recent Herald poll.
Cable television on campus may have survived past its expected expiration date, but according to Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential life and dining services, the system will not last another year.
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It's a typical weekend scene: 2:01 on Saturday morning. From Kartabar to Spats to Viva, the doors of Thayer Street's bars are locked shut, with hundreds of patrons filing out onto the street.Now imagine the future. It's 3:01 on Saturday morning. From Kartabar to Spats to Viva, the doors of Thayer Street's ...
Tucked under stairs that lead up to another restaurant, one of Thayer Street's pizza parlors has a new owner, and name.Kamal Nouhaili, co-owner of Thayer Street Pizza and Wings, said he has been trying to re-brand the restaurant's image since he bought Xtreme Pizza and Wings earlier this month."They ...
After stirring opposition from students, the University has reconsidered a policy shift that would strip undergraduates in the Program for Liberal Medical Education of their reserved spots at Alpert Medical School if they choose to apply to other medical schools.
Four out of five students say they have not committed any of several types of academic cheating in the last semester, according to a recent Herald poll.
Deputy Ambassador to Afghanistan Francis Ricciardone, Jr. sat down with The Herald Monday morning to talk about his life as a diplomat and about American relations with Afghanistan. Ricciardone, who was on campus for an evening lecture titled, "What are We Doing in Afghanistan?" at the Watson Institute ...
Though Rhode Island's unemployment rate dropped slightly in October, the state still has the third-highest unemployment in the nation, according to a report released last week by the Bureau of Labor Statistics.The Ocean State's unemployment rate fell by 0.1 percentage points to 12.9 percent last month, ...
Six universities, including Brown, have endorsed a set of principles to improve access to affordable medicine in the developing world.
Undergraduate satisfaction with advising may be on the rise, according to a recent Herald poll, in which 59.7 percent of students reported they were satisfied with advising, and 38.1 percent reported they were dissatisfied.
Professor of Literary Arts Keith Waldrop has won the National Book Award for poetry this year for his book "Transcendental Studies: A Trilogy," the National Book Foundation announced last week at a ceremony in New York.The foundation cited "Transcendental Studies" for its unity of poetry and philosophy, ...
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