There were babies, dogs and beards aplenty on the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle Saturday when the fifth annual Brown Folk Festival kicked off in a celebration of live music. The noon-to-midnight festival featured 13 acts from Providence and the Northeast, including two student bands. Bands performed on ...
The Senate Judiciary Committee heard testimonies from dozens of opponents and supporters of two same-sex marriage measures Thursday night. One, which passed in the House of Representatives in January, would legalize same-sex marriage. The other would let Rhode Island voters decide the issue through ...
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice kicked off its spring event series — “Ships of Bondage, Freedom and the Knowledges of the Enslaved” — Wednesday with a screening of the documentary “Traces of the Trade.” In addition to a film screening every Wednesday in February, the center ...
A state representative introduced a joint resolution to the House Judiciary Committee Jan. 17 that would impose a three-term limit on state lawmakers in the General Assembly and lengthen the span of a term from two years to four years. If adopted by both houses, the resolution, introduced by Rep. John ...
Providence will lease 250 parking spaces to the University beginning July 1, as part of a broader attempt by the city, the University and local businesses to increase the availability of parking on College Hill. As determined in negotiations with the city last spring, Brown faculty and staff members ...
Brown ranked third among research universities in the number of Fulbright grants awarded this year, according to a report published Oct. 28 by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Twenty-seven recent alums from the classes of 2012 and 2011 and two graduate students received the scholarship out of Brown's ...
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