When Sophie Simkin '09 looked at colleges in high school, she considered more than student-to-faculty ratios, acceptance rates and tuition price tags. Simkin, who has kept kosher her entire life, wanted to know how each school accommodated observant Jewish students.
Many middle school students may turn to MySpace and video games after school lets out, but Providence public school youth can enjoy a host of after-school programs, including breakdancing, yoga, tennis, circus arts, sailing and theater.
As an undergraduate, Davis Guggenheim '86 said he could "out-sleep" anyone at the Rockefeller Library. A self-described "total geek," Guggenheim said he would go to the Rock every night and would sleep at his carrel for three hours instead of working on his senior thesis. Twenty years later, Guggenheim ...
After three years of evaluation, Harvard University's core curriculum could undergo major restructuring if a faculty vote occurs this spring. But as Harvard and other peer institutions examine the importance of general education requirements, Dean of the College Paul Armstrong says Brown is taking steps ...
After a decade of planning, three years of development and close to a year of renovation, the Library Collections Annex will open today at a 3 p.m. ribbon-cutting ceremony officiated by President Ruth Simmons, according to a Jan. 30 University press release.
Christen Decker '07, a Middle East studies concentrator, arrived on campus a few weeks ago to discover that three professors in her program were on leave, putting a kink in her academic plans.
American institutions of higher education must divest from companies that engage in "genocidal complicity" in Sudan, said Eric Reeves, professor of English language and literature at Smith College to a nearly full Smith-Buonanno 106 last night.
As their peers enjoyed post-Commencement celebrations last spring, Marie Audett '05 MD'09 and Hana Kwan '05 MD'09 boarded a flight to Montgomery, Ala. to begin a month of what many would consider boot camp.
Although President George Bush announced a proposal Jan. 5 to increase the number of Americans fluent in "critical need" languages, including Ara-bic, Chinese, Russian, Hindi and Persian, it remains unclear if this program will affect Brown.
Electoral politics will remain a bastion of patriarchy unless more women enter politics, Assistant Professor of Political Science and Public Policy Jennifer Lawless told an audience of about 25 in Smith-Buonanno 106 Thursday.
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