Brown and McGill University researchers have discovered an important relationship between cells of the immune system — a finding that might someday benefit patients receiving bone marrow and organ transplants.
Brown professors are among a team of researchers that recently received a $10.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study a new treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Brown faculty will lead two of the study's six sub-projects.
If you don't know much about Brown's Pre-Law Society, chances are you are not alone. Over the past few years, the society has had a relatively weak presence on campus, but that may change soon.
The government's role in the pharmaceutical industry — either highly regulative or uninvolved, leaving the industry to police itself through competition — was the subject of a Janus Forum-sponsored debate Thursday night before a half-full Salomon 001.
With Dining Services workers' contract with the University set to expire Monday and negotiations on a new deal ongoing, public demonstrations in support of the workers intensified this week.
Queer Hillel, a new group for LGBTQ Jewish students, gathered for the first time on Tuesday.
The Swearer Center's Social Innovation Initiative is creating a new blog aimed at promoting social innovation and entrepreneurship at Brown.
Climate change is difficult to predict. But trying to deduce historical precipitation patterns may help us build a model for the weather patterns of the future, geologist Wallace Broecker told a full MacMillan 115 audience Thursday afternoon.
In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month this October, Computing and Information Services will be hosting several events to promote cyber safety in the Brown community. Presented by the Information Security Group, the events are organized to educate and help protect students from cyber ...
Americans can expect conservative Supreme Court justices to practice their brand of "judicial activism" in the coming years, CNN senior analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin told a Salomon 101 audience Thursday night.
There's a new way to get a taste of Brown that doesn't involve setting foot in Providence.After a pilot period starting in May, Brown plans to launch its own page on iTunes U this week, joining hundreds of other colleges that already post free audio and video of lectures, student performances and virtual ...
In April of 1843, Sophia Hawthorne scratched the phrase "Man's accidents are God's purposes" into a window of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord, Mass. home, which frequently hosted Hawthorne, her writer husband Nathaniel, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott.
"Chris Adrian tries things."
Tired of reading Marx and Freud? Getting hand cramps from drawing benzene rings? This semester, nine students in a Group Independent Study Project on graphic novels are reading "Calvin and Hobbes" for class instead — and drawing their own multimedia masterpieces.
As it enters its second year, the International Scholars Program is in an unexpected position: it has more scholarships to offer and fewer applicants vying for them.The program, whose deadline was Oct. 5, will send 20 Brown students — six more than last year — abroad this summer for internships, ...
President Ruth Simmons, speaking at a faculty meeting Tuesday, reiterated the University's opposition to proposed state legislation levying fees on private universities for their out-of-state students and valuable real estate.She also emphasized the ways Brown already contributes to the local economy ...
Responsibility for monitoring students' writing competency will be centralized in concentration advising, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said at a monthly faculty meeting Tuesday.
Rhode Island institutions will receive more than $22 million in federal stimulus funds to promote medical research beginning this month — and Brown is leading the charge. The University has procured 52 of 91 federal grants distributed to the state by the National Institutes of Health, adding $12 ...
The Jonathan Nelson '77 Fitness Center and a new aquatics center may be combined under one roof rather than being constructed as separate facilities, top administrators said recently. A combined and somewhat scaled-back facility would cost approximately $40 million, about $25 million less than the ...
After a dismal year for university finances nationwide, losses reported by peer schools have been on par with the Brown endowment's 26.6 percent decline.Harvard and Yale, the two wealthiest U.S. universities, both saw the total value of their endowments tumble by nearly 30 percent between July 2008 ...
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