On Sept. 11, Mohamed El-Erian, president and CEO of the Harvard Management Company, announced that he will leave Harvard to rejoin the Pacific Investment Management Company, citing family reasons for his decision.
After releasing a $792 million master plan to redesign Providence public school facilities in December, educational consulting firm DeJONG Inc. is gathering local feedback before implementing the large-scale renovations.
Now that shopping period is over and being to class on time matters, students can once again rely on the clock atop Wayland Arch to help them stay on time. The tower's clock now works, and other faulty campus clocks could soon be synchronized as well.
Students for a Democratic Society, the 1960's left-wing student group that returned to the Brown campus last spring, launched a "Disorientation Guide" in January as part of its effort to encourage student involvement with social justice issues.
Providence Police arrested the managers of two Providence spas believed to be fronts for prostitution on Nov. 3. Arresting managers instead of women caught giving unlicensed massages marked a change in strategy in the state's effort to crack down on health spas serving as prostitution fronts without ...
The 2005 Southeast Asian Heritage Series began Monday night at 7 p.m. in List Art 120 with "Seasons of Migration: War, Displacement, Migration, Deportation" - a program composed of student voices, performances and local guest speakers.
In an effort to revitalize the downtown area and deal with Providence's growing parking shortage, Mayor David Cicilline '83 initiated a seven-month contract between parking consultant Andrew Miller and the Providence Off-Street Parking Corporation on July 1. More than halfway through his contract, Miller ...
For many Brown students, shopping period begins sometime in August, when they find that their favorite courses have been marked on the Brown Online Course Announcement with one dreaded red word: CANCELED.
Early in the morning on July 4, NASA scientists like Peter Schultz, a professor of geological sciences at Brown and co-investigator on the Deep Impact mission, were already celebrating.
Though attorneys for former Providence Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci say they are encouraged by a recent appeals court decision allowing reconsideration of his 2002 sentence, legal experts say it is unlikely the sentence will actually be reduced.
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