The Corporation, the University's highest governing body, accepted two anonymous gifts totaling $19 million to the School of Engineering at its February meeting, along with several other large donations to fund the sciences.
The much-anticipated fitness and aquatics center's construction is near completion, with the planned relocation of some athletics staff slated to give the building its first wave of occupancy by the end of March. The building has been in the works for several years and will open to the public April ...
The University's first Professional Executive Master's Program for mid-career professionals will likely begin no later than fall 2013, said Karen Sibley MAT'81 P'07 P'12, dean of continuing education.
A masturbator was sighted last night on John Street in the same area where a series of public masturbation incidents were reported last semester.
The Office of Continuing Education's new home at 200 Dyer St. will facilitate a planned expansion of its adult and professional programs and help the University increase its engagement with the community.
The Obama administration included President Ruth Simmons on an initial list of potential nominees to lead the World Bank, Bloomberg reported Wednesday. President Obama appears to have since narrowed his focus to a smaller group of candidates, including Massachusetts Senator John Kerry, former Treasury ...
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Over the past two years, only 9 percent of students studying abroad have been science concentrators, while 65 percent have concentrated in the humanities or social sciences, according to Kendall Brostuen, director of international programs and associate dean of the College. The Office of International ...
The Curricular Resource Center has streamlined its application process for independent concentrations, said Independent Concentrations Co-Coordinators Evan Schwartz '13 and James Walsh '13.
Last week, Rebecca Mears '15 collected more than the 150 signatures required to join the race to be a Rhode Island delegate to the Democratic National Convention, held the week of Sept. 3 in Charlotte, N.C.
It is possible that Brown students have been or are being targeted by unauthorized police monitoring efforts, though the University has not seen any evidence to suggest it, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn told The Herald.
Nearly 300 students pledged to participate in Meatless Mondays, a national initiative that asks students to avoid consuming meat one day per week. The commitment of the 287 current participants reduces the University's carbon footprint by about 59 kg of CO2 per week, according to the site.
The Undergraduate Council of Students proposed an amendment last month that would allow it to allocate its own budget rather than having its funding approved by the Undergraduate Finance Board. Though the amendment did not receive the required two-thirds majority necessary to pass, it raised wider questions ...
Chandan Reddy, associate professor of English at the University of Washington, questioned the idea of violence as "the antithesis of freedom" in his lecture "Precarity after Rights: On Queer of Color Critique" at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Monday afternoon. ...
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