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Sociology course selection sees rise in BEO offerings

With the growing popularity of the business, entrepreneurship and organizations concentration, there is increasing concern among sociology concentrators that the number of sociology-specific classes offered each semester is decreasing. Multiple sociology concentrators, some who chose to stay anonymous, ...


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Dining Services increases food prices, meal credit value

The beginning of the semester always kicks off with similar conversations: boasting about internships, complaining about your living situation and groaning about the ever-increasing price of dining hall food. This year, students handed over $3.00 for Blue Room iced coffee and sacrificed their points ...


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Students circulate petition in support of former professor

Following the release of a viral video that showed former Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies Anila Daulatzai being forcibly removed from a Southwest Airlines flight, Brown community members have circulated a petition demanding Daulatzai receive justice for her treatment. On Sept. 26, Daulatzai ...


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Science & Research

Sleep lab links alcoholism, mood to sleep

Everybody sleeps, yet we still know so little about why, what the brain does while we do or how it affects people’s behavior. Recent studies conducted bythe University’s joint sleep research lab with Bradley Hospital hope to answer some of these questions by identifying genes that control sleep ...


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Belyakova ’19 remembered for humor, talent

Friends and faculty close to Kristina Belyakova ’19 remember them as a quietly humorous, intensely passionate and contradictory individual who avidly participated in theater productions around Brown and performed in a band. Belyakova passed away unexpectedly in the middle of August 2017, just weeks ...


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University opens new mindfulness center

Beginning in the late 1970s, mindfulness moved from the ashram to the laboratory, where researchers began to study its effects on health. Brown has been at the forefront, having formally introduced a contemplative studies initiative and concentration over 10 years ago. Now, Brown is opening a new center ...


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Students rally for DREAM Act

Following the Trump administration’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program, students organized on the Main Green to call Congressional representatives, demanding the passage of a revised DREAM Act, and raise awareness of the issues facing undocumented immigrants in the ...


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Paxson outlines University responses to crises

President Christina Paxson P’19 outlined the University’s response to the hurricane in Puerto Rico and other recent crises at the faculty meeting Tuesday. A motion to establish a Master of Science in Global Public Health was also passed, and Provost Richard Locke presented updates on the budgets ...


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University endowment grows 13.4 percent

The University’s endowment rose to nearly $3.5 billion over the 2017 fiscal year, according to a University press release. It grew by 13.4 percent, surpassing a preliminary benchmark of 11.1 percent. Compared to 145 peer colleges and universities, the endowment had strong returns, according to data ...


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Rhode Island Governor urges women to engage in politics

Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo encouraged students — and women in particular — to participate in the political process during a discussion hosted by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Tuesday evening. She also voiced a keen interest in incentivizing University students to ...


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No immediate changes to U.’s Title IX policy

The U.S. Department of Education issued new interim Title IX guidelines and rescinded the 2011 “Dear Colleague” letter Sept. 22, allowing institutions more freedom in their policies. Despite this new flexibility from the federal government, the new guidelines will not prompt any immediate changes ...


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Award recipient critiques Hobbes through Moby Dick

Bonnie Honig, professor of modern culture and media and political science, delivered a Presidential Faculty Award Lecture on the ways literature can teach people about politics at the John Carter Brown Library Oct. 2. The award, which was established by President Christina Paxson P’19 in spring 2013, ...


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