President Ruth Simmons and former Brown President Vartan Gregorian have been appointed to President's Commission on White House Fellowships, the White House announced last month. They are among 28 members President Barack Obama selected for the commission, which recommends candidates for the White House ...
This year's Spagfest, hosted by Zeta Delta Xi, will be open to the public, which may be good news for students who were disappointed when the annual Spring Weekend spaghetti party was restricted last year to members and friends of the co-ed fraternity.
The Brown Ballroom Dance Team's second annual "Dancing with the Profs" on Friday night had it all - charismatic emcees, celebrity judges and, of course, a sea of sequins. From the moment Visiting Assistant Professor of Psychology Theresa DiDonato and Eric Ho '11 took the floor with a hip-hop-infused ...
As the new semester kicks into high gear, many students have trouble balancing classes, sports, extracurriculars and that weekly shift at the Gate they work to finance their coffee habits. But for a few Brown undergraduates, there's an additional element to add to this balancing act: their marriages. ...
Deep in the bowels of the Sidney E. Frank Hall for Life Sciences, surrounded by smaller primate skeletons and crude graffiti, are 25 dead human bodies. They are organized in neat rows, each on its own stainless steel gurney with plastic bags full of removed organs on the bottom shelf, eerily greeting ...
Sergei Khrushchev, son of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev and senior fellow in international studies at the Watson Institute for International Studies, analyzed the recent Russia-Georgia conflict last night in a lecture to an over-capacity Salomon 001.
Move over Princeton Review; there's a new college information Web site on the block. Unigo.com, a student-generated college Web site, allows students from 267 schools across the country to post reviews, pictures and videos and provides the information for free.
Starting in January, students will have a new place to get coffee, study and hang out: the Brown Bookstore. Renovations will be completed in early January, according to Bookstore Director Manuel Cunard. A new cafe, to be managed by Blue State Coffee, will be the centerpiece of the revamped bookstore. ...
In the rush of shopping period, students in political science courses may not have noticed anything missing on the first days of classes. But since the department committed to becoming greener, professors are handing out fewer printed syllabus to their students.
Prospective students on admissions tours hear the same anecdotes and Brunonian lore that tour guides have been using for years - that John Hay's nose is lucky before exams, that the Rockefeller Library was once referred to as "the John" instead of "the Rock" and that Brown computer science students ...
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