About 100 college students from around the country gathered on campus for two days of motivational lectures and networking at the second annual Collegiate Consulting Group National Conference. The conference was held this weekend by the Collegiate Consulting Group, an undergraduate-run organization ...
Even in the days President Obama was in grade school, he was ingrained with modes of thinking about policy that would affect a nation. In a speech about modern-day urban planning and the rich history that shaped it, Thomas Sugrue, professor of history and sociology at Penn, illuminated the connection ...
The Continuing Education department shut down the Continuing Studies program at the end of last semester due to dropping enrollment, said Jodi Devine, associate director for executive education and adult programs. The program offered not-for-credit evening courses to adults in the community for five ...
Since the creation of the University’s Social Choice Fund in 2007 — the first in the Ivy League — the fund has struggled with a lack of donations and poor investment returns. The fund, which invests in companies based on their active commitment to promoting social change, has seen only one donation ...
Vice President for Research Clyde Briant will be stepping down from his administrative position at the end of the academic year, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 wrote Wednesday in an email to faculty. Briant, who served as dean of engineering between 2003 and 2006 before joining the administration, will ...
Bernice King, CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, delivered a rousing speech to a packed De Ciccio Family Auditorium in the Salomon Center for the 16th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture yesterday afternoon. The talk, titled “Advancing the ‘Dream’: Addressing ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students raised concerns about potential changes to the Diversity Perspectives course category and a proposed three-year undergraduate program while showing support for possible sophomore seminars and a five-year undergraduate program. The council discussed the ...
The popular notion that Turkey is a model democracy is incorrect, Nukhet Sandal, postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, argued in a research presentation Wednesday Sandal presented her research — concerning differential treatment of religious minorities in Turkey — ...
A woman who was convicted of injuring two students in a hit-and-run in spring 2011 was sentenced to one year in a minimum-security prison followed by two years of house arrest. Rhode Island resident Jessica Paden pleaded guilty to drunk driving among other charges. The students, Julia Unanue Banuchi ...
The numbers of law school applicants and total applications submitted nationwide decreased for the second year in a row, according to a Law School Admissions Council report released last year. The percent of individuals applying for fall 2013 admission to law school fell by 13.7 percent nationwide. ...
The School of Engineering is exploring options, including sites off College Hill, for a new building to accommodate the ongoing expansion in the size of its faculty and student body, said Dean of Engineering Lawrence Larson. Some students expressed concern that a building in a different location could ...
One-third of United Nations sanctions in the last 20 years have been successful in influencing their targets, according to research presented in a panel Tuesday at the Watson Institute for International Studies. The panel of three members of the Targeted Sanctions Consortium spoke to a small audience ...
The student activities endowment, a fund that has historically been a priority for the Undergraduate Finance Board and Undergraduate Council of Students, has recently been eclipsed by student interest in expanding financial aid. “It’s been really hard because there’s been a big push for financial ...
The Modern Language Association predicted the number of 2012-13 job openings in postsecondary foreign language instruction will exceed comparable English positions for the first time in 18 years, according to the association’s December Job Information List. The report predicted the number of foreign ...
Though Department of Facilities Management officials said service requests are usually addressed within 48 hours, several students said they have had to make multiple requests and wait more than three days for dorm heating issues to be addressed. Facilities management usually turns the heating on in ...
Three men allegedly beat and robbed a male student Sunday at 4:46 a.m. near the back entrance to the Gate, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety. The men used a knife and a crowbar in the attack and robbed the student of his cell phone and other belongings, Shanley ...
Students and alums gathered for a weekend of networking and career exploration at the second annual January Career Laboratory, or JanLab. The workshop, hosted by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown, was held on campus Jan. 17-19. This year, 150 students and 85 alums attended the event, an increase ...
The University took initial steps toward charting new paths for the curriculum with the release Friday of the interim report of the Committee on Educational Innovation. The set of preliminary recommendations included a three-year bachelor’s degree, 250 online courses, a reconfiguration of the Program ...
The Committee on Doctoral Education released an interim report Friday with recommendations for improving the University’s commitment to graduate studies. The report highlighted initiatives specifically centered around achieving two objectives — excellence and distinctiveness — for graduate programs. ‘Bottom ...
The Committee on Reimagining the Campus and Community stressed ideas regarding the creation of shared, collaborative spaces between departments, renovations to existing classrooms, further expansion into the Jewelry District and the construction of several new facilities in its interim report released ...
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