It's the 21st century. You can choose your clothing and make your own money. You can build houses and drive cars, form relationships, have sex, fall in love - all through your computer screen.
The Providence Preservation Society has placed three historic Angell Street buildings at the top of its annual Most Endangered Properties List. The May 23 announcement comes as the University continues to consider proposals to relocate or demolish the buildings to make space for a brain sciences building. ...
Last Thursday at 11:52 a.m., Vice President of Administration and Chief Risk Officer Walter Hunter stood outside his University Hall office and watched students across the Main Green reach into their pockets and pull out their cell phones. Hunter had sent them a message.
Occupying an entire square block on the south end of campus, the Graduate Center is a lot of things to a lot of people. Some students see the building as a cement fortress. Others say it's an example of modern architecture and geometry. But all agree it is not being used as was intended when it was ...
Now that the University has announced plans to reduce its carbon emissions, the Undergraduate Council of Students is looking for other ways to make Brown green.
Students returning to campus this week will see the benefits of "MyJosiah," an addition to Josiah, the University's online library catalog. The new features will allow users to save searches, spell check and improve word search results, among other changes, said Bonnie Buzzell '72, senior knowledge ...
Hollywood is no stranger to the underdog story: audiences have watched the little guy triumph over adversity ad nauseum in sports films such as "Remember the Titans," "Million Dollar Baby" and "Little Giants."
There is a heavily disputed topic in Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein's family. It's not whether he or his twin brother Philip, a professor of English literature at Swarthmore College, is the more impressive William Faulkner scholar, or what exactly smells like dirt in Faulkner's ...
The fund is a response, announced in February, to recommendations made last fall in a report from the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice. The anonymous donor requested that funds be used in Providence schools as soon as possible, said Marisa Quinn, assistant to Simmons.
The experts, who testified at a Senate Finance Committee hearing in September, asked that universities - which are exempt from taxation because of their status as nonprofit organizations - spend at least five percent of their endowments each year, the same proportion charitable foundations must spend. ...
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