In President Obama's recent State of the Union address, we heard repeated appeals to renew America's long-term competitiveness and to "win the future" against emerging rivals like India and China. Similarly, in the decade following Ruth Simmons' hiring as President in 2001, Brown has seen a heightened ...
Contrary to the current hype about the national debt, America's most pressing problem is a deficit of vision, not dollars.
If you've been conscious on a college campus or visited CNN.com in the last month, you've probably heard of Four Loko, a popular new drink combining malt liquor, caffeine and somewhat questionable fruit flavoring. After a media firestorm was set off over the alleged danger of these drinks following ...
So you all know BrownFML and Spotted@Brown, but how about a website where you can procrastinate and actually end up knowing about what's going on in Rhode Island?
Tuesday, Nov. 2 — midterm election day. If you're someone like me, you're probably looking forward to this day with some mixture of dread, revulsion and dark humor (at the prospect of Christine O'Donnell getting elected and lecturing America on the evils of masturbation from the Senate floor). ...
Is it just me, or does something seem stale at Brown? That fundamental Brunonian institution, the New Curriculum, turned forty years old last year and yet, even solidly into middle age, it has never had a systematic re-evaluation.
Caitlin McKenna '09 and Sara Damiano '08 were announced as the winners of the University Library's second annual Undergraduate Research Awards for "extensive, creative use" of library resources, according to an April 4 press release.
Students who turn on their TVs after class tomorrow might see a surprisingly familiar face on the screen. An interview with Marjorie Thompson '74 PhD'79 P'02 P'07 P'09, associate dean of biological sciences, will be featured on the Oprah Winfrey Show at 4 p.m.
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