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U. will seek to trim $30m more from next budget

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Recent grads planning trip to North Korea

While the United States and other nations struggle to respond to North Korea's recent aggressive military posturing, three recently graduated seniors are still moving forward with their planned trip to bring a group of about 18 students and professors to the secretive state by way of China in August. ...

CIS trying out Google for e-mail service

Gmail may finally make its official entrance into Brown's e-mail system as a pilot program makes the next step toward a transition to the Google, Inc. mail server.

A troubled past

In a campus-wide e-mail to the Brown community on Jan. 27, President Simmons announced the University stood to lose $800 million from its endowment, reducing its safety net by 30 percent to $2 billion. The e-mail marked the first mass University communication since September 2008 when the economy took ...

Rakim Brooks

After learning in November that he had won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, Rakim Brooks '09 decided to go back to his home in the Bronx to avoid the cascade of congratulations he faced on campus."Looking back, I probably should have stayed to enjoy the moment a bit more," he said with a laugh. But ...

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Noor Najeeb '09

Reflecting on 50 years of Brown sports

When the Brown and Pembroke classes of 1959 graduated, we left having experienced the beginnings of a half century of profound transformation for Brown athletics. Two major events had occurred during our time on College Hill: the formal beginning of Ivy League competition in 1956 and the University's ...

Year after year, helping New Orleans

Four Januarys ago, Josh Morrison '09 flew from Seattle, Wash. to Louisiana. He had never been to New Orleans before, and the city was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina that devastated the city six months earlier, while Morrison and his classmates were heading to College Hill for freshmen orientation. ...

Activists, scientists and the Queen of Soul: Honorary Degree Recipients

Mary ElmendorfAnthropologist and peace activistDoctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)Mary Elmendorf, a peace activist and an anthropologist, is well known for her studies of Mayan women in Mexico.She has launched projects that help improve the daily quality of life in emerging countries.Elmendorf completed ...

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Jonathan Warren, Matthew Reichel and Nicholas Young

Jonathan Warren '09, Matthew Reichel '09 and Nicholas Young '09 sit on a sofa in their yellow living room discussing everything from North Korean propaganda to Loui's corn beef hash. On their right hangs a dry erase "inkling board" full of a year's worth of scribbled ideas for entrepreneurial schemes. ...

TWTP turns 40

The Third World Transition Program, approaching its 40th anniversary this summer, is the product of years of changes from its inception as the Transitional Summer Program. The summer of 1969 saw Brown's first Transitional Summer Program, a result of the attention brought to minority issues by the 1968 ...

Corporation Controversy

You would have been forgiven last semester for thinking you had wandered into a never-aired, college-specific episode of Law and Order. Grainy surveillance footage, confrontations with police officers and a 19-hour trial — these were just a few of the scandalous details surrounding a year-long ...

Web update: Student has Brown's first swine flu case

A Brown student has a laboratory-confirmed case of H1N1 influenza, the University announced in an e-mail to the community Wednesday, just days ahead of the 241st annual Commencement exercises.

Alison Cohen

Education, environmental justice, women's health, chemistry — at first glance, the different passions that Alison Cohen '09 pursues seem loosely connected. But in her academic work and outside activities, the San Francisco native has brought together her diverse array of interests, earning recognition ...

Green-thinking seniors leave their footprints

When Aden Van Noppen '09 arrived at Brown four years ago, she went to the activities fair and scanned the tables, looking for groups that focused on climate and energy issues. She didn't find much."We were shocked. We were all shocked," Van Noppen said. Van Noppen wasn't the only frustrated freshman. ...

'Internationalization' slowly gets defined

With three years down, one to go in her Brown education, Samira Thomas '10 has a specific goal set for next year: a thesis on the redevelopment of post-conflict cities with an emphasis on Kabul, Afghanistan. But until this year, Thomas said she had few opportunities to pursue her concentration, Urban ...

How many ways can the U. say 'recession'?

In October of 1975, amid cuts to the faculty and financial aid, then-President Donald Hornig sat down with the Herald for an hour, his typical method for releasing information to the community.

Nicholson, panel give behind-the-scenes insight

A star-studded panel featuring actor Jack Nicholson P'12, producer Robert Evans and Paramount CEO Brad Grey P'10 P'12 spoke to a full Salomon 101 on Saturday to discuss the roles of individuals in the movie-making process.Between questions from producer and panel moderator Peter Bart, several lengthy ...

Zakaria will be graduation speaker

Journalist and political scientist Fareed Zakaria will deliver the baccalaureate address at Commencement next month, the University announced Thursday.