Events
Chinese arts troupe impresses with 11-act performance
By Liz Kelley | January 29Correction appended.
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Vending accounts may go online
By Liz Kelley | September 21The hassle of abandoning wet clothing to refill a vending stripe in one of the University's oft-broken Card Value Center machines may become a thing of the past next semester. A system under review, which would make the vending stripes on Brown ID cards obsolete, would be "a revision and update of the ...
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TWC to hire new diversity director
By Liz Kelley | February 24The Third World Center will increase its core staff positions to five by hiring an assistant director for diversity initiatives in an effort to foster cultural awareness. The new staff member will work most directly with ethnic student groups on campus and will also serve as an adviser for international ...
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History department premieres Friday movie night
By Liz Kelley | October 14The History Department's latest series, Faculty and Film, features historical movies followed by professor commentary and discussion. Kisa Takesue '88, director of the Stephen Robert '62 Campus and Student Center, and Professor of History Karl Jacoby came up with the idea together this summer, Jacoby ...
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Haffenreffer plans exhibit on Columbus Day switch
By Liz Kelley | September 28The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology will feature an exhibit about Columbus Day in response to the Fall Weekend name change. The exhibit will go up in October and will be part of the current "Reimagining the Americas" exhibition.
Features
Students redefine knitting with chain mail
By Liz Kelley | April 8Forget the sweaters, scarves and socks that most knitting circles take on. A group of students in Technology House have taken on a much harder project: making chain mail.
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Mentoring program receives $62,000 in grants
By Liz Kelley | February 3Last month, Chase Community Giving, a corporate philanthropy program, awarded two grants totaling $62,000 to ReadySetLaunch, a college mentoring program for underprivileged students.ReadySetLaunch, founded by freshmen at Brown and Yale last year, "provides college advising to students around the country ...
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Alum wins award for children's book
By Liz Kelley | January 27It was only one small step for Neil Armstrong, but man's first landing on the moon has turned into an award-winning book by Brian Floca '91.
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Brown prof. awarded grant for JC virus research
By Liz Kelley | November 29The National Institutes of Health has awarded Brown a five-year, $6 million grant to perform research that will determine how the JC virus attaches to host cells in the brain. Professor of Medical Science Walter Atwood, who has researched the virus since 1991, is leading the project along with researchers ...
