Liberians in Rhode Island rejoiced last month at news that refugees from the West African country would be granted an additional 12 months of amnesty in the United States, thanks to an executive order signed by President Obama.
Thirty-two of Brown's top graduating artists, actors, writers, composers and directors will be honored at the 14th annual Weston Awards ceremony tonight at Stuart Theatre.Recipients of the William and Alethe Weston Fine Arts Awards are selected by faculty in the areas of Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Dance, ...
At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere 30 minutes after thousands of students received their admission decisions — 15 students had already registered to confirm a place at A Day on College Hill.
Charging a membership fee of $5 for the year, a bike-sharing program operating out of a room in Faunce House was officially launched last week.
The John Hay Library has received a gift of 130 rare books and manuscripts, including the first two editions of Nicolaus Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium," from Daniel Siegel '57, the owner of M&S Rare Books, a bookstore in Wayland Square on the East Side.
The recession has hit Rhode Island hard, and Thayer Street businesses have not been immune to the slumping economy.
At the end of four years, students have surprisingly little physical evidence to show for their time at Brown. Graduating seniors leave with only a transcript, a diploma and lingering questions about how their education will be received by the world beyond College Hill.
As the last remaining sophomores dropped their concentration forms into the registrar's unceremonious black bin last week, the University concluded a month-long program intended to help students connect their concentrations to real-world careers.
Ryan Lester '11 and Clay Wertheimer '10 will face each other in a run-off election for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students after receiving the most votes for the position last week. Neither received the 50 percent of the vote needed to win outright.
A female student was assaulted by an unidentified male while in a Sears House shower on Friday around 6:30 p.m., according to an e-mail sent to students from the Department of Public Safety Friday night.
By the time Of Montreal's dizzyingly psychedelic performance closed with an explosion of feathers Saturday Evening, Mother Nature had given little cause for complaint about this year's Spring Weekend.Both concerts were held on the Main Green for the first time since 2006, anchoring a weekend marked ...
They don't rave about their freshman units and may get lost on parts of campus, but otherwise, transfer students are at home at Brown — at least according to Head Transfer Student Adviser Melea Atkins '10. A transfer student herself, Atkins acknowledged that while some of her peers may remain ...
More than 2,000 protesters gathered on the steps of the State House Wednesday afternoon at a rally against "runaway" government spending and taxes.
Providence Public Schools will end the practice known as "bumping" — filling teaching vacancies based mainly on seniority — at six schools later this year and throughout the city in 2010. The move to end bumping has angered the teachers union, which may sue to stop it.
For the first time since its creation, the Sexual Assault Resource Center is now staffed regularly on weekdays. Nine students have been staffing the center, located in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center, since earlier this month.
Neil Parikh '11, a candidate for Undergraduate Finance Board vice-chair, withdrew from the race Tuesday night after he was caught removing one of his opponent's publicity posters, according to multiple sources.
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