The Swearer Center's Social Innovation Initiative is creating a new blog aimed at promoting social innovation and entrepreneurship at Brown.
Climate change is difficult to predict. But trying to deduce historical precipitation patterns may help us build a model for the weather patterns of the future, geologist Wallace Broecker told a full MacMillan 115 audience Thursday afternoon.
In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month this October, Computing and Information Services will be hosting several events to promote cyber safety in the Brown community. Presented by the Information Security Group, the events are organized to educate and help protect students from cyber ...
Americans can expect conservative Supreme Court justices to practice their brand of "judicial activism" in the coming years, CNN senior analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin told a Salomon 101 audience Thursday night.
As it enters its second year, the International Scholars Program is in an unexpected position: it has more scholarships to offer and fewer applicants vying for them.The program, whose deadline was Oct. 5, will send 20 Brown students — six more than last year — abroad this summer for internships, ...
Tired of reading Marx and Freud? Getting hand cramps from drawing benzene rings? This semester, nine students in a Group Independent Study Project on graphic novels are reading "Calvin and Hobbes" for class instead — and drawing their own multimedia masterpieces.
The nation-wide debate over health care reform is also contentious in Rhode Island, where a 12.6 percent unemployment rate and an already-strained state budget make questions over health insurance a crucial subject for many elected officials.
President Obama nominated Justice O. Rogeriee Thompson '73 to sit on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit this week. The nomination is awaiting a vote by the Senate Judiciary Committee before it goes to the full Senate for confirmation.
This fall, the local "knowledge economy" will get another boost. The Innovation Providence Implementation Council announced recently that it will be awarding $100,000 in grant funding to bolster the local knowledge-based economy.
"Chris Adrian tries things."
In April of 1843, Sophia Hawthorne scratched the phrase "Man's accidents are God's purposes" into a window of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord, Mass. home, which frequently hosted Hawthorne, her writer husband Nathaniel, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott.
There's a new way to get a taste of Brown that doesn't involve setting foot in Providence.After a pilot period starting in May, Brown plans to launch its own page on iTunes U this week, joining hundreds of other colleges that already post free audio and video of lectures, student performances and virtual ...
Rhode Island institutions will receive more than $22 million in federal stimulus funds to promote medical research beginning this month — and Brown is leading the charge. The University has procured 52 of 91 federal grants distributed to the state by the National Institutes of Health, adding $12 ...
In Amy Diaz's world, beauty queens aren't afraid of a little dirt. Diaz, who grew up in Providence, is a national advocate for the environment and green living — and the new Miss Earth USA.
Responsibility for monitoring students' writing competency will be centralized in concentration advising, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said at a monthly faculty meeting Tuesday.
President Ruth Simmons, speaking at a faculty meeting Tuesday, reiterated the University's opposition to proposed state legislation levying fees on private universities for their out-of-state students and valuable real estate.She also emphasized the ways Brown already contributes to the local economy ...
The month-long standoff between Governor Donald Carcieri '65 and state employee unions over his plan to meet budget cut requirements may soon be over.
From Seattle to Cincinnati, streetcars are rattling back onto U.S. streets — and Providence may not be far behind.
Cold Stone Creamery on Thayer Street closed its doors last week, leaving College Hill ice cream-lovers disappointed and a handful of local students out of a job.
The Jonathan Nelson '77 Fitness Center and a new aquatics center may be combined under one roof rather than being constructed as separate facilities, top administrators said recently. A combined and somewhat scaled-back facility would cost approximately $40 million, about $25 million less than the ...
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