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Tours move to Welcome Center
By Warren Jin | September 8Beginning this semester, campus tours leave from the Welcome Center — one of the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center's new features.
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Progress on S&J recs remains steady
By Warren Jin | April 20In the three-and-a-half years since the University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice issued its report on Brown's former links to the slave trade, steady progress has been made on its recommendations — which included creating a slavery memorial, a center for the study of slavery and justice ...
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Med Ed building forces office relocations
By Warren Jin | April 8In order to make room for the new Medical Education Building in the Jewelry District, offices at 222 Richmond St. have been relocating for the past year — most recently, the Education Alliance, a department that works for education equity, on March 22.
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Speaker: Puerto Rico leads LGBTQ mov't
By Warren Jin | March 23Puerto Rico "is on the forefront" of advancing LGBTQ rights, Pedro Julio Serrano, a leader of the LGBTQ movement in Puerto Rico, told a small gathering of about 30 in List 120 Monday evening.The event, QUEERican, is part of the Third World Center's annual Puerto Rican Identity Week, said event organizer ...
Higher Ed
College faculty salaries see no growth in 2009-10
By Warren Jin | March 15Salaries fell nationwide for more than a third of college faculty members, with overall growth flat for the 2009–10 academic year, according to an annual survey released by the College and University Professional Association for Human Resources.
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Physicists discover new physical phase
By Warren Jin | March 10A team of Brown physicists published the discovery of a new physical phase related to superconductivity two weeks ago in the scientific journal Physical Review Letters.
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Compactor puts the squeeze on waste
By Warren Jin | February 3A new gray and black BigBelly Solar Compactor arrived on Dec. 18 in front of the Sharpe Refectory. The compactor outside the Ratty is the first such receptacle on campus, which was installed as a collaboration between the Brown EcoReps program and Facilities Management.Slightly larger than the average ...
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Honored by Obama, prof wins $1 mil grant
By Warren Jin | January 31Assistant Professor of Engineering Rashid Zia '01 was one of 100 recipients of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, who were honored by President Barack Obama on Jan. 13.
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Poet kicks off Asian American history month
By Warren Jin | November 2What if the world were tailored toward five-foot-two, tattooed Asian females?
