Unfamiliar faces dotted the audiences at a cappella concerts and dance shows this weekend as parents, siblings and other guests flocked to campus theaters and auditoriums to support student performers and experience a taste of Brown culture. But what was afternoon entertainment for many visiting families ...
The speakers at the 10th annual Business Innovation Factory Summit all have one thing in common: They want to shake things up. The featured storytellers and audience members descended on the Trinity Repertory Company in downtown Providence Wednesday and Thursday, a congregation of “innovation junkies,” ...
Before arriving at the University, Stephen Kinzer, visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, reporting from more than 50 countries on five continents. Fresh off a book tour for his latest work, “The Brothers,” a biography ...
In the decade since the LGBTQ Center opened in 2004, lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer communities have experienced several dramatic changes, both within and beyond the University. Rhode Island became the 10th state to legalize same-sex marriage last year, while at the University level, ...
When Nick Martell ’11 and Jack Kramer started their first year at Middlebury College as roommates, they did not know they would end up living in the same apartment six years later, working together on a website and newsletter that break down financial news for the everyday reader. The venture, called ...
The first time Pedro Dal Bo taught microeconomics — as a teaching assistant 20 years ago to students in Argentina — it was with the traditional blackboard and chalk. But last semester, after years of teaching in a conventional manner, Dal Bo decided to conduct an experiment. Though Dal Bo, associate ...
The Meiklejohn Leadership Committee launched a Facebook page called “Brown Advisors” Aug. 30 in order to create a digital forum for students to ask their peers questions related to Brown academics, extracurriculars and social life. Brown Advisors allows students to ask questions anonymously and ...
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri offered insight into her work at an event hosted by the University bookstore Sunday afternoon. The celebrated writer read from her newly-released novel, “The Lowland,” and discussed her approach to writing with poet William Corbett in front of a packed ...
During the ninth annual Business Innovation Factory Summit held last Wednesday and Thursday at the Trinity Repertory Company, innovators gathered from around the country to meet, network and learn from each other — in the words of the group’s founder and conference organizer, Saul Kaplan, to “collide.” “How ...
The Janus Forum and Political Theory Project hosted an energetic debate on the issue of affirmative action in university admission for its annual celebration of Constitution Day in a packed MacMillan 117 yesterday. Inspired by the Supreme Court’s recent decisions on the use of race in the college ...
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