Professor of Mathematics Thomas Banchoff wields an impressive collection of multi-colored chalk, drawing frantic, sweeping curves on two blackboards - one a standard flat board, the other an unorthodox sphere. After illustrating a theorem, Banchoff turns to his projection screen, where he has put up ...
Though the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was expected to submit its report to President Ruth Simmons this spring, it is unclear when the report will be submitted or whether it will be released publicly before summer. In this, the fourth in a series on the committee and its work, ...
A prospective student searching for the University on Google might come across another Brown University - John Brown University. But despite the similarities in namesakes, the school atop College Hill has little in common - at least at first glance - with the small Christian college in Siloam Springs, ...
The University Resources Committee held its second open forum of the semester in Salomon 202 Monday evening. Issues raised at the forum ranged from wireless Internet to health insurance for graduate students in masters' programs. About 25 students, faculty and staff attended the event.
Despite losing 70 percent of its annual budget, the Undergraduate Council of Students is still running smoothly, according to UCS President John Gillis '07.
Virtual reality may seem more like science fiction than an academic resource, but it can be an essential research tool for professors and students across disciplines. The Herald explores "the Cave," Brown's own virtual reality simulator.From the outside, the one-story building on the corner of Brook ...
A typical weekend party at Brown might involve cramming students into a small lounge area, playing loud club music and filling hundreds of plastic cups with cheap beer and vodka. However, students and faculty on the board that administers the newly created Late Night Fund are working to change this ...
When Max Mathias '10 heads home to nearby Sharon, Mass., for Thanksgiving break, he won't be going alone - he will be joined by Brown students who live too far away to go home for just a few days and have been invited to his house for the holiday. "My mom really likes to meet kids from college," he ...
A yearlong Activist-in-Residence pilot program, which began this fall, will bring a variety of activists to campus for periods of time ranging from a few days to a semester. The program seeks to expose Brown students to people who have dedicated their lives to social change.
Blogging may be re-inventing the news media landscape and causing a stir in Democratic politics, but has the online journal phenomenon hit College Hill? Three Brown students share their very different reasons for starting Weblogs of their own.
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