When John Yoo, the author of the Bush Administration's infamous "torture memos," came to Brown in February, he was welcomed as an honored guest. Yoo, who served as an attorney in the Justice Department's Office of Legal Counsel from 2001 to 2003, came to campus in order to debate the existence of universal ...
Nearly three and a half years after it was launched from Cape Canaveral, Fla., NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft gave scientists their first glimpse of Mercury in more than 30 years. For Professor of Geological Sciences James Head PhD'69 and his team of undergraduate and graduate students, the flyby, which ...
With David Kennedy '76 starting in January as Brown's first Vice President for International Affairs, the administration has spent much of this semester preparing for his arrival. The University's internationalization effort, which aims to improve Brown's image abroad and bolster the study of international ...
Six faculty groups will receive a total of $85,000 in seed funds for internationally oriented projects from the Office of the Provost, the University announced Tuesday.
The Recording Industry Association of America, a trade group representing the country's major record labels, sent pre-litigation letters to 12 Brown students who the RIAA alleges were engaged in illegal file sharing. These letters, which the University received on Nov. 14, were sent as part of the organization's ...
As students sleep off their turkey hangovers Friday, President Ruth Simmons will be speaking at Mexico's Universidad de Guadalajara at the invitation of famed authors Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, and Brown Professor of Hispanic Studies Julio Ortega.
Ian Spector '09 is not a fan of Chuck Norris, the fetishized action star who has been the subject of thousands of jokes over the last few years.
When Linli Zhu GS arrived on campus this semester from China for his first year as a doctoral student in the Division of Engineering, he found himself unable to register for an English class.
President Ruth Simmons will travel to Houston on Friday to speak on civil rights issues at Rice University's Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Lecture. Simmons is giving her talk, "Sand and Ivy: The Unquantifiable in Academic Life," as part of the university's President's Lecture Series of Diverse Scholars. ...
David Kennedy '76, a professor of law and director of the European Law Research Center at Harvard Law School, will become Brown's first vice president for international affairs, President Ruth Simmons announced Saturday after a meeting of the Corporation. Kennedy, who will lead the University's effort ...
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