To the editor: As current chair of the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, a committee representing students, faculty, staff and alumni charged with advising the President and the Corporation on matters relating to the s...

On Tuesday, bioethicist Peter Singer delivered a talk on the ethics of human-animal relations. He contended that humanity has unjustly ignored the interests of animals for the sake of producing meat, and indicted in particular the modern practice of facto...

A diamond to Sayles Hall’s world-famous organ, which, not unlike the newly crowned World Series champion Yankees, was born around 1903, fell into disrepair in the 1980s and was restored to glory in the 1990s. Despite those 16-foot pipes, though, it ...

Student satisfaction with academic advising is on the rise — 10 percent higher this fall than a year and a half ago, a recent Herald poll found. Nearly 60 percent of students reported they were either very satisfied or somewhat satisfied with advisi...

Coming into this season, the football team’s seniors had — at some point in their college careers — beaten every team they have faced except three. Now, only Yale remains....

Until Tuesday, Maine had same-sex marriage. Against all odds and projections, the voters took it away....

When the Berlin Wall, which served as a “symbol of difference and division” between the east and the west sides of Germany, fell, it represented the culmination of changes in Soviet Union policies in the 1970s and ’80s, Consul General Re...

What use is a solvent state government if intoxicated teens can operate motorboats with impunity?...

An exhibit about the contributions of black gay men to Rhode Island, its culture and its politics premiered Thursday evening at the John Hay Library....

Thanks to Brown’s New Music Ensemble, the famous action scenes of the Nicolas Cage movie “Con Air” won’t be scored to the sounds of “Sweet Home Alabama” this weekend. Instead, John Cage’s avant-garde music will be...

An article in Thursday’s paper (“Buyout plan offered to U. employees,” Nov. 5) contained the information that Brown would pay all but $83 per month of the health-care premiums for employees who take the buyout offer. In fact, the employe...

In the inaugural year of the New Curriculum, more than 500 students participated in GISPs. But after flourishing for the first few years after their creation — reaching a high of 50 projects in the 1974-75 academic year — GISPs have faded...

Acknowledging the negative human impact on the environment is essential to preventing drastic climate change, three experts said in a lecture on climate change Thursday afternoon....

While legislators were busy banning indoor prostitution and texting while driving, two bills that could have cost Brown millions did not make it onto the agenda of last week’s General Assembly special session — and though they are dead for now...

Though Kaiulani Lee makes no conscious changes to the one-woman play about the life of biologist and writer Rachel Carson, Lee said the audience plays an integral role in interpreting the power of the play, in which she stars. The work explores the person...

Members of St. Anthony Hall, Brown's co-ed literary fraternity, started a children's writing workshop at the Fox Point Community Library earlier this week. The Fox Point Reading Club is an informal participatory program to get kids actively involved in re...

At a screening of his 2007 documentary about the Haitian revolution at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night,  filmmaker Noland Walker discussed the implications of the momentous event in the context of human rights and slavery....

A sociologist who has studied global knowledge networks and the politics of energy security, Michael Kennedy was previously the director of the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and its Weiser Center for Emerging Democrac...

Preserve Rhode Island, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting Rhode Island's historic structures, awarded local politicians and community members an award Oct. 29 for their role in a legislative battle against the utility company National Grid&r...

The University unveiled a new early retirement program for eligible staff members Wednesday as part of its larger effort to cut costs....