Incoming first-years will explore the tension between legal or political obligations and moral duty studied in “Beautiful Souls” by Eyal Press ’92 for their summer reading, Associate Dean of the College for First-Year and Sophomore Studies Ann Gaylin announced at Early Admitted Students Day Feb. ...
President Christina Paxson acknowledged for the first time that the University is invested in some of the 15 major coal technology companies targeted by the Brown Divest Coal Campaign at a meeting with the members of the campaign, said University officials and students present in the discussions. The ...
Recent financial gifts to the University demonstrate a trend of donors increasingly specifying what their contributions should fund, said Patricia Watson, senior vice president for University advancement. “There is a trend slowly moving to friends (of the University) wanting to support very specific ...
President Obama signed an order enacting budget cuts — including some to discretionary funding for higher education programs — as part of the federal sequester Friday. The plan went into effect midnight March 2 after Congress and the president failed to reach an agreement by the March 1 deadline ...
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice continued its spring semester events series with a teach-in last night exploring the University’s Slavery and Justice report, released in 2006. The event, “Slavery, Justice and the University,” featured talks by Seth Rockman, associate professor ...
One year after her selection, President Christina Paxson has earned acclaim on campus for what faculty members and students called receptiveness to the community and decisive leadership. Paxson entered the University without a set agenda and with a willingness to listen, get to know people and respect ...
Imagination is a “life-simulator” that often poorly predicts what will bring us happiness, said Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and New York Times bestselling author, in a lecture Thursday afternoon. The talk marked the launch of the program for Ethical Inquiry, said Bernard ...
The Providence City Plan Commission approved final plans Tuesday for 257 Thayer Street, a luxury student apartment complex slated for construction in June 2013, the Providence Journal reported. The four-story complex is expected to house 270 tenants — mostly students — in furnished apartments with ...
The University’s senior administration ranked the second least racially diverse in the Ivy League in an analysis conducted by the Daily Pennsylvanian earlier this month. At 5.6 percent, or one out of 18 total senior administrators, the University’s proportion of minority senior administrators is ...
Professor of Computer Science Maurice Herlihy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a nonprofit organization composed of globally prominent engineers, Feb. 7. He is among 69 new members and 11 foreign associates inducted into the NAE this year, according to a press release from the organization. The ...
The University is looking to strengthen its existing ties and form new connections with Brazil as part of a multi-step process of engagement, said Matthew Gutmann P’14, vice president for international affairs. Gutmann highlighted the University’s commitment to new research initiatives in conjunction ...
The Millenium Development Goals passed by the United Nations in 2000 have not progressed as far as publicized statistics indicate, said Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy and international affairs and the director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, in a lecture Wednesday night. Pogge’s talk, ...
Graduate students suggested increasing involvement in the design and teaching of online undergraduate courses and observing and applying effective program techniques from the undergraduate level to graduate disciplines, during an open forum hosted by the Committee on Doctoral Education. The forum was ...
The strategic planning Committee on Financial Aid stressed the importance of lowering the summer earnings expectation and implementing need-blind admissions for international applicants at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ meeting Wednesday. Reducing the summer earnings expectation represents ...
Feb. 28, 1963 The Interfraternity Council fined the Brown chapter of Psi Upsilon $200 for serving alcohol to freshman pledges. The president of the IFC, James Seed ’63 P’02, told The Herald the fraternity had committed a “flagrant violation of rushing rules.” If the fraternity denied the claim ...
Marion Orr, professor of public policy and political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, co-authored “Anxieties of an Ethnic Transition” in the Urban Affairs Review in October. The article deals with the tensions and increased anxieties regarding ...
In 1986, Students Against Testing submitted a referendum to the Undergraduate Council of Students urging the University to stop requiring applicants to submit SAT scores. Mark Safire ’87, co-founder of Students Against Testing, raised issues that still echo among applicants and students today. “It’s ...
The United States needs to legalize marijuana, decriminalize drug possession and combat the black market for drugs to the greatest extent possible, said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, to a crowd of close to 70 people at the Watson Institute for International Studies ...
Data from the MyCampus survey confirmed University hypotheses about how students and community members use and perceive the campus, said Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy and chair of the Committee on Reimagining the Campus and Community, at Tuesday’s Brown University ...
In response to claims that the Ivy League uses quotas when admitting Asian American students, Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 said the University does not use quotas or discriminate against any ethnic group in determining who is admitted to Brown. Several commentators alleged that the constancy ...
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