A year has passed since the death of Avi Schaefer '13, but the words he published early in his first year still stand strong. Schaefer's death has had a more lasting impact on the Brown community than most.
From Rhode Island to Hawaii, high school students are learning environmental leadership through programs offered by the Brown Leadership Institute, a pre-college program that teaches high school students interested in global issues to take action in their own communities.
The Corporation's Committee on Budget and Finance approved the search for an architect to renovate Hunter Laboratory at its meeting this weekend. The Committee on Facilities and Design, which is in charge of the search, hopes to have a recommendation for the Corporation in time for its May meeting, ...
The Corporation approved an $834.3 million budget, raised tuition and increased enrollment for the 2012 fiscal year at its meeting Saturday.
About 350 attendees explored the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts at its dedication ceremony last night, taking in the wide variety of student artwork — incorporating visual art, sound, video, dance and sculpture — that adorns the latest addition to the campus. The building ...
Beginning today, students will be able to declare their concentrations electronically using a new feature on Advising Sidekick, the web-based tool run by the Office of the Dean of the College.
In 2008, Chancellor Thomas Tisch '76 — who leads the Corporation — admitted to The Herald that the Corporation has often been accused of being a bunch of "dead white males."
Martin Granoff P'93, the largest donor for the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts, has been involved with Brown for years. Though neither of the Granoffs attended Brown — Martin attended New York University and Perry attended the University of Michigan — their daughter ...
Trustees and fellows of the Corporation make their greatest impact on the University during the three weekends a year they convene to set policy, but the off-campus activities of some members have caught nationwide attention with a series of scandals in the financial world.
Though in a newly-released national survey college freshmen rated their emotional health at a record low, Psychological Services has not seen a significant change in visits from first-year students, Director of Psych Services Belinda Johnson said.
With few major capital projects left on its plate, the Corporation will meet this weekend to discuss various University policies and vote on next year's budget.
The Undergraduate Council of Students elected an Ivy Council liaison and approved the formation of four new student groups, including "Jockapella," last night.
About two-thirds of the faculty are male and about four-fifths identify as white, according to statistics published on the Dean of the Faculty's website. The faculty continues to lack racial and gender diversity despite concerted institutional efforts in recent years to increase it.
This semester the Swearer Center for Public Service will pay its program coordinators by the hour, rather than with a stipend, in order to bring its compensation polices in line with the Fair Labor Standards Act.
Alpert Medical School professors working at Rhode Island Hospital will play a major role in the development of a new University of Rhode Island five-year degree program combining a bachelor's in physics with a master's in medical physics, the first of its kind in New England. The instructors will ...
A fire destroyed the Edgewood Yacht Clubhouse — home to the University's nationally ranked co-ed sailing team — but members of the team say they do not expect the fire to adversely affect their season.
Renowned scholar Ronald Ferguson gave the 14th Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Tuesday afternoon. Before the lecture, he sat down with The Herald to talk about a social movement for equity in education.
What does a Brown degree mean in the job market today? According to Lauren Rivera, not much.
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