Nighttime satellite images of Earth may provide nuanced measurements of economic growth. According to a new working paper by Professors of Economics J. Vernon Henderson and David Weil and graduate student Adam Storeygard, analyzing changes in an area's "night lights" could be a new means of measuring ...
Editor's note: This case was dismissed in January 2010 by the 6th District Court in Providence. The man was not found guilty of any of the three charges, and his name has been removed from the article. A man arrested for trespassing on campus last Thursday is connected to similar incidents involving ...
As a new fall semester begins, new restaurants and stores have begun to pop up on Thayer Street, though some shuttered windows remain.
With a sour economy squeezing the budgets of local governments and universities alike, Brown officials have spent the summer fighting to dissuade state lawmakers from passing legislation that would allow cash-strapped cities to recover funds from private colleges and large non-profit institutions. The ...
The University's endowment lost $740 million in the 12 months ending with June 30, falling to just over $2 billion, President Ruth Simmons said at a faculty meeting on Wednesday. But the discouraging endowment picture was tempered by relatively robust fundraising, Simmons said.
As students return to classes, University faculty and staff are heading to walkathons , farms and food banks as part of a new program to get them more involved in the community. As part of the "Brown Gives 30 Days of Service" program, volunteers will log community service hours in the Providence area ...
The night before classes began brought even more stress than usual.
Last year, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was diagnosed with terminal cancer — a piece of personal information that catapulted the former Libyan intelligence official to the center of an international controversy.
Matthew Gutmann began serving at his new post as vice president for international affairs Sept. 1, becoming the second person to occupy the position since its creation less than two years ago.
The Blue Room is on the move.
The University is taking preemptive measures to control the spread of the H1N1 virus this fall, anticipating a worse-than-average flu season.
As the school year begins for more than 20,000 students and teachers in Providence public schools, a change in hiring policy has led to praise, concern — and now a lawsuit.
Financial woes have Tougaloo College facing a reaccreditation warning, but the school — and Brown's academic partnership with it — are safe for now, according to administrators from both institutions.
Nothing should get between college students and their daily doses of coffee — a sentiment the University and operators of the College Hill Cafe are now closer to making a reality.
In a move intended to invigorate alternative-energy research at Brown, the University announced this summer that it will collaborate with Draper Laboratory, a non-profit engineering organization.
The Brown e-mail accounts of every undergraduate will be switched from Microsoft Exchange to Gmail by the end of September, a move that will provide students increased storage space and access to several Google applications.
Students arriving on campus this week will likely be pleased to discover that Brown has reestablished itself as the school with the happiest students in America — at least according to The Princeton Review, which released its 2010 edition of "The Best 371 Colleges" in July.
You might think your chances of graduating are related to how much you study, or that with responsible behavior you'll have a safe and stable love life. But according to a number of Brown myths and legends that have endured over the years, your fate might be sealed by a careless misstep — literally. ...
Letters students wrote to their first-year advisers were used by administrators to assess writing ability in past years without students' or advisers' knowledge, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Associate Dean for Writing Kathleen McSharry acknowledged.
Solutions by The State News
