"It wasn't like one day we just had baseball," Rick Harris said to a modest audience at the Brown Bookstore on Saturday. "It's kind of like a folk song. Baseball has a long history."Harris is a social worker, but that's just his day job. His true passion is baseball, and when it comes to the history ...
When Faunce House re-opens next fall after intensive renovations, students will have more than just comfy chairs and focaccia sandwiches to feast their senses on. The new Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center in Faunce will become home to an original piece of art by a Brown alum.
A newly renovated Faunce House is on track to re-open by the time students arrive on campus next fall, earlier than originally planned, due to an unexpected surplus in net tuition income, administrators said.
With University Hall as their backdrop and repeated chants of "health care now," nearly 200 students, Brown Dining Services workers and local supporters rallied Thursday afternoon against proposed changes to the workers' health care contribution requirements.
Artists, academics and engineers from across disciplines will come together on College Hill this weekend to discuss the role of design in sparking social change.
Professor of Community Health and Anthropology Stephen McGarvey has researched the intersection of genetics and lifestyle in Samoa and American Samoa for more than 30 years. Now, armed with a $5.2 million National Institutes of Health grant that will enable him to map 1 million sites on the genome, ...
A committee charged with reviewing tenure and faculty development policies met for the first time Wednesday, but some Division of Biology and Medicine departments are already hoping the committee will recommend that junior faculty in those departments be given longer to prove themselves before coming ...
One of Providence's largest clubs will soon be reopening under new ownership in the Jewelry District, despite opposition from Brown.
A new year-long series will examine contemporary South Asian political issues by hosting seminars in Providence and the Boston area.
Honduras's military coup this past summer was "clearly rooted in the struggle between classes," Shaun Joseph '03 told an overcrowded classroom at the Third World Center last night. Joseph, speaking alongside City Councilman Miguel Luna, described their week-long stay in Honduras after the coup at an ...
Due to a temporary lack of funding, the David J. Zucconi Fellowship for International Study will not be offered this year.
Potential changes to workers' health insurance contributions are emerging as a flashpoint in negotiations on a new agreement between Dining Services workers and the University ahead of an Oct. 12 deadline, when their current work contract expires.
Rhode Island students underperformed on standardized science tests for a second straight school year in 2009, and the state department of education is working with a Texas-based think tank to bring those scores up.
Over 1,000 students have been vaccinated against the seasonal flu since Health Services started offering free shots against the virus on Monday, said Director of Health Services Edward Wheeler.
Immigrants in Rhode Island facing deportation and other legal issues now have a new source of free counsel at Roger Williams University Law School, which recently opened the Immigration Law Clinic to attend to the needs of non-citizens.
An article in Monday's paper ("Liberian VP offers hopeful view for troubled nation," Sept. 28) incorrectly noted that Liberia's Truth and Reconciliation report was established after similar commissions in South Africa and Rwanda. In fact, Rwanda has not established such a commission.
A year-long series integrating the humanistic and scientific perspectives of environmental problems began last Wednesday with the New England premiere of "Butte, America," a film chronicling the history of a Montana mining town with the same name.
By the time the Rhode Island General Assembly returns to the State House for a two-day session on Oct. 28, the building's halls will have been empty for more than four months. And when the legislature — which hastily left the Capitol June 26 — returns, it will face a host of contentious ...
A research team led by a Brown professor has shed new light on the evolutionary history of bilateral organisms. In a study published last week, the team, led by Assistant Professor of Biology Casey Dunn, used a San Diego supercomputer and new DNA sequencing techniques to establish Acoelomorpha flatworms ...
The chairman of the Rhode Island Republican Hispanic Assembly, Ivan Marte, has resigned from his position and left the G.O.P. following a Republican Congressman's outburst during an address by President Obama.
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