A small primate with glassy, tennis-ball eyes and fur hanging off its frame like a shag carpet steps out from behind a tree, carrying a lantern with a glowing dragonfly inside. As it advances through the thick jungle, it suddenly trips and the firefly escapes from its cage. Horrified, the creature scrambles ...
Nine years ago, the celebrated Uffizi Gallery in Florence, Italy lent ten portraits of members of the Medici family to Brown's David Winton Bell Gallery. The city also sent a delegation of artisans, musicians and restaurateurs to Providence to participate in a week-long festival called "Splendor of ...
Sara Glick '10 has a kitchen that could make any mother proud. Color-coded dishes sit neatly in the cupboard, instead of being piled haphazardly in the sink, separated into green, white and purple. Six sponges, each one different in shape or color, ring the spotless sink, and duct tape labels assign ...
The mainstream media are saturating their airwaves, broadsheets and bandwidth with the nation's economic and political dramas, but at least one Providence newsroom has managed to steer clear of such stories by playing to its demographic.
The flagpole on the Main Green doesn't typically inspire romantic flights of fancy in the students studying on the grass next to it.
Students and faculty filled Salomon 001 to maximum capacity - and then some - on Friday afternoon to hear four Brown economics professors and a former Lehman Brothers quantitative researcher sound off on the current financial crisis and the recently passed $700 billion government bailout.
Stored inside one of the bicycle rooms in Vartan Gregorian Quad is a vessel more than twice as long as any bike and more than three times as heavy. It has weathered Tropical Storm Hanna, seen the underbelly of the Providence Place Mall and is just as at home on the Providence River as it is on a bubbly ...
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University have taken the lab to the people. Outside of some Pittsburgh bars and restaurants, exiting patrons become prospective test subjects, lured into a mobile laboratory with the promise of snacks or a few bucks.
In response to allegations of racial profiling resulting from an August incident, Harvard launched an investigation late last month into its campus police force.
The office of Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 offers a perfect view of student protests on the Main Green. But Kertzer doesn't just watch from inside - he knows what it's like to raise his voice on behalf of the little guy and once spent the night in military barracks with the late American writer ...
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