The number of students graduating from Brown with a concentration in computer science was at a 10-year low last year, part of a national downward trend in the number of college students studying the subject.

The Outdoor Leadership and Environmental Education Project – a program that matches students from the Metropolitan Regional Career and Technical Center, a local charter school, with Brown student mentors – will mark its 10th anniversary this year.

This semester, 15 sophomores and juniors – tired of the University’s dining options – have scaled down their meal plans and pooled the extra money in a bank account to cook nightly dinners as an unofficial co-operative.

One of the creators of Gardasil, pharmaceutical giant Merck’s widely discussed vaccine for the human papillomavirus – a sexually transmitted disease that is a major cause of cervical cancer – spoke Thursday in Salomon 001 on the scientific process of creating the vaccine and making it safe and practical for widespread use.

Several students have organized an Undergraduate Working Group for Queer Studies to advocate for more academic offerings dealing with queer issues.