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Last Tuesday, President Ruth Simmons e-mailed the Brown community to share a report issued by the Organizational Review Committee, the group charged with finding $14 million in cuts from the University’s fiscal year 2011 budget. As President Simmons...

By: Yue Wang

Bringing those students over to Brown, even for one day, to truly savor college life in its entirety and authenticity — in Brown’s libraries and seminar rooms — may have a more profound and lasting influence on the psyches of those kids....

By: Will Wray

Be mindful of the fact that the old D.C. game of concentrated benefits/diffuse costs hurts those of us who have chosen to hire workers instead of lobbyists....

By: Nicole Boucher

Nothing brings a group together quite like a road trip, and practice has taken the diving teams out of state twice a week for over two years. After structural problems led to the demolition the Smith Swim Center in 2007, a temporary aquatics facility was ...

By: Jamie Brew

State Rep. John G. Edwards, D-Dist. 70, introduced a bill last week in the General Assembly that would decriminalize possession of up to one ounce of marijuana....

By: Anne Artley

Teach for America, a program which trains recent college graduates in teaching and places them in underperforming school districts, will start sending teachers to Rhode Island for the 2010-2011 school year.  Heather Tow-Yick ’98, a former teach...

By: Heeyoung Min

University endowments nationwide saw an average endowment loss of 18.7 percent for the last fiscal year, according to a report with data from 842 institutions compiled by the National Association of College and University Business Officers and Commonfund....

By: Mark Raymond

Thomas Cobb could never have imagined that the story he wrote when he was a student at University of Houston would one day be made into an Academy Award-nominated movie....

By: Caitlin Trujillo

Jessica Kissel ’10 turns 23 in March — which is when her status as a dependent under her mother’s health insurance policy is slated to end. Fortunately for Kissel, she and her mother are confident that she can remain a dependent while sh...

By: Max Godnick

The University Resources Committee made a recommendation to the Corporation earlier this month that the freeze placed on faculty and staff salaries be lifted in the next year’s budget. Last year’s budget initiated a freeze on all University em...

By: Sydney Ember

After almost three months in operation, Brown’s multimillion-dollar supercomputer is running at full capacity, according to Professor of Applied Mathematics Jan Hesthaven, the director of the computational center. Spurred by research projects initia...

By: Casey Bleho

The Swearer Center for Public Service launched an 11-part series on Change.org’s social entrepreneurship blog last month. Organized by Brown’s Social Innovation Initiative, the series will showcase stories and ideas from the University’s...

By: Ana Alvarez

Elizabeth LeDuc, former dean of biological sciences and landmark member of Brown’s Division of Biology and Medicine, died Jan. 31 at 88 years of age. At a time when few women were included in academic life, LeDuc left a legacy of effective leadershi...

By: Goda Thangada

A high-stakes lawsuit against a Corporation member may be brought back to life after being dropped in January....

By: Matthew Klebanoff

Shopping period — already stressful for many — becomes all the more complicated when professors require overrides for courses that appear uncapped on Banner....

By: Alex Bell

President Ruth Simmons said in an interview last week that she does not expect negative publicity about the practices of Goldman Sachs, whose Board of Directors she serves on, to carry over to the University’s image....

By: Anthony Badami

I must thank a friend who recently encouraged me to seek out a salient university document that I had treated, at best, with indifference. This noteworthy piece of text is the oft-disputed Brown University mission statement. From what I am told, it receiv...

By: Max Godnick

Project Get Ready, a national nonprofit initiative to promote the usage of plug-in electric vehicles, announced on Jan. 21 that it would add Rhode Island to its list of pilot sites. Rhode Island, the first entire state to become a pilot site, joins Housto...

By: Brian Mastroianni

Bryan Knapp GS sees two things on his refrigerator door when he enters his kitchen: pictures of his three-year-old son Lincoln, and a list of foods and beverages that he can and cannot consume. The list is necessary because Knapp has Alport syndrome &mdas...

By: Bradley Silverman

Brown has the highest rate of H1N1 vaccination among Rhode Island universities and colleges, according to a campus-wide e-mail from Health Services Director Edward Wheeler on Feb. 1....