A scholar of one of the mystical traditions of Hinduism, Swami Atmarupananda of the international Ramakrishna Order of Monks, led four guided meditations Sunday centered around the theme "Who am I? The Search for the Self" as part of the Sixth Annual Mary Interlandi '05 Lectureship. The event, held ...
The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts will open for student use and offer classes and programs in spring 2011, said Richard Fishman, professor of visual art and director of the Creative Arts Council.
This year rings in the 2010 FIFA World Cup, a competition that never fails to bring out the passion that both Harry Stark '11 and Steven Stark P'11 share for soccer. The two have collaborated on a guidebook about the World Cup that will be published at the beginning of April. The guidebook, "World Cup ...
Fourth-year Alpert Medical School students gathered with faculty, administration, families and friends in Andrews Dining Hall Thursday at noon to participate in the annual medical event Match Day, when students find out where they will be working for the next few years.
Pink newspapers have made their way to dining halls — for a limited time only.
President Ruth Simmons wrote a letter to HEI Hotels and Resorts' CEO last month to publicly express concern over reports of workers' rights violations, becoming the first university leader to do so, according to a March 15 press release from the Brown Student Labor Alliance.
Applicants for summer Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards were informed of decisions March 12, and the number of awards remained the same as last year, said Besenia Rodriguez, associate dean of the College for undergraduate research.
Large tuition increases "absolutely will not be an option" to balance the budget in the future, President Ruth Simmons told a less than half full Salomon 101 in her State of Brown address Thursday afternoon.
Director of Financial Aid Jim Tilton spoke at Wednesday's general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students about the positive impact of financial aid initiatives introduced by the Corporation in the 2008–09 academic year.
"So many contemporary novels are fundamentally un-serious. They start off with truly interesting narratives, but end up with all their attention on cranking out pre-formatted narratives," said David Shields '78, who spoke on Wednesday night as the third writer in the Great Brown Nonfiction Writers Lecture ...
For Rosa Clemente, 2008 vice-presidential nominee for the Green Party and an active community organizer and hip-hop activist running for a seat in the New York State Senate, radicalism is the means through which to obtain change. Clemente stressed a radical approach during her emotional opening convocation ...
The Alpert Medical School will co-host a conference designed to address HIV prevention and treatment at the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador in Quito, Ecuador, on Thursday and Friday. Jointly sponsored with Rhode Island College, the conference will bring together Ecuadorian medical students, ...
The minutes from Corporation meetings held after July 1, 2009, will be made public after 25 years, a change from the previous policy of holding the minutes for 50 years, according to Russell Carey '91 MA'06, senior vice president for Corporation affairs and governance. The Corporation approved the change ...
The United States Senate confirmed O. Rogeriee Thompson '73 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit Wednesday afternoon.
In a cozy room in the Sarah Doyle Women's Center Tuesday evening, students with all levels of background knowledge gathered to participate in a workshop on sexual assault as part of Sex Week. The workshop, titled "I'll Only Tell a Friend: Learning the Best Ways to Help Someone Who's Been Hurt by Sexual ...
Tuesday's Brown University Community Council meeting focused on the community's safety concerns and the repercussions for student misconduct. A committee of students, faculty and public safety officers has started reviewing pedestrian safety on campus, said Russell Carey '91 MA'06, senior vice president ...
The University is making a final push for its Campaign for Academic Enrichment after achieving its goal of raising $1.4 billion in May 2009, 19 months before the campaign's end in December 2010, according to Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA'71, senior vice president for University advancement.With "luck," the ...
The following summary includes all major incidents reported to the Department of Public Safety between Feb. 4 and March 4. It does not include general service and alarm calls. The Providence Police Department also responds to incidents occurring off campus. DPS does not divulge information on cases ...
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