The African Students Association is hosting a film festival this weekend in honor of Women's History Month that will focus on women in Africa.
John Krasinski '02, best known for his role as Jim Halpert on the NBC comedy "The Office," made his first mark on the cinematic scene this past Monday. His film, "Brief Interviews with Hideous Men," which he wrote and directed, premiered at the Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah.
"You'll never be able to get away from Shakespeare," said Visiting Professor of Literary Arts John Cayley during a meeting this past Tuesday where he presented his plan to direct a four-year long production of "King Lear." Cayley admits to "a long-term obsession with 'King Lear.' " He also teaches electronic ...
"Biography of a Constellation," by Lila Rose Kaplan '02, is an experimental play that evolves in concentric circles through time and space. Moving from a Greek myth to a 19th-century Harvard observatory, then on to a present-day New York planetarium, a constellation and a galaxy, the play, showing now ...
Tonight in Salomon 001, Starla and Sons, a Brown long-form improvisational comedy group, will kick off the College Hill Long-Form Improv Festival, a 24-hour marathon of comedy.
The Swearer Center for Public Service's Developmentally Disabled Literacy Program - which has undergone a revival in recent years - pairs Brown students and developmentally disabled adults from the Providence area for one-on-one tutoring that emphasizes developing literacy and basic life skills.
Bucking a recent trend among wealthy American universities, the University of Chicago has decided not to divest its endowment from companies with business in Sudan, its new president, ex-Brown provost Robert Zimmer, announced Feb. 2.
When Isaac Haxton '08 was a freshman, he spent winter break outside his native Syracuse, N.Y., playing poker at the Turning Stone Resort and Casino. He came away with a respectable $1,500. This year, Haxton spent part of the winter playing poker in the Bahamas, and this time, he finished $861,789 richer. ...
Brown took in 59 under-graduates and 27 graduate students as part of its relief effort.
Despite survey responses indicating the percentage of Brown students undertaking community service projects may be on the decline, leaders at the Swearer Center for Public Service say they have not noticed this trend.
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