While a Swiss resort might seem like the perfect winter getaway, the World Economic Forum conference, held Jan. 25-29 in Davos, Switzerland, had nothing to do with skiing and fine chocolate. For the four professors who went — Professor of Neuroscience John Donoghue PhD'79 P'09 P'12 MD'16, Professor ...
There is something for everyone among the zips, bangs and kabooms of the Michael J. Ciaraldi Collection at the John Hay Library. The collection, started by Cornell alum Michael Ciaraldi, features about 60,000 comics, graphic novels and comic-related memorabilia and is as immersing as it is educational. ...
The feeling is all too common — an overwhelming sense of dizziness, compounded by an inability to place one foot in front of the other without stumbling. While this experience is typically induced by heavy drinking, students could mimic the effects of high blood alcohol content using special "beer ...
Thayer Street is loud — filled with the chatter of students and visitors, the whooshing of buses en route to the tunnel and the never-ending music drifting out of Johnny Rocket's and Baja's.
Faced with the prospect of yet another sweaty, disappointing dorm party, some students have wandered from College Hill and into the high-ceilinged, dimly lit main room of the Salon. Part industrial music venue, part chic urban bar and part intimate underground dance club, the Salon opened a year ago ...
Five years ago, a program house displayed a sign to the campus community — independents keep out. Though the sign's brazenness is yet to be matched, some independents living in program and Greek houses feel the sentiment still exists.
Robert Burke has beef with Boston — and Philadelphia, and even Geneva. Good thing he said he's "just feisty enough" to take them on.
President Ruth Simmons isn't the only figure on campus with a following. Brown staff cleans industrial-sized messes, feeds college-sized appetites and makes the lives of the students who love them just a little bit better. But beyond the hellos and the daily smile, how well do students know the famous ...
Hedgehogs, alligators and bunnies, oh my! Some students are living with more than just a roommate.
Gangly weeds and graffiti have long ago overrun parts of the enormous brick complex. Tattered tarp flutters from the dozens of boarded-up windows of the former Hope Webbing Company, once one of the largest mills of its kind.
Though Halloweek may be over, costumes put away and candy eaten, the thrill of monsters will never die.
Toting grinning plastic jack-o-lanterns, plastic bags and empty pillowcases, Disney princesses, Harry Potters and Buzz Lightyears will venture into the streets tonight in search of sugary treats. But some of these creatures are not so little anymore. Every Halloween, a number of Brown students gather ...
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"You're looking at the past," said one visitor at Ladd Observatory last Tuesday night, staring up at the cerulean blue telescope that has inhabited the main observation room since 1891.
Seven Bank of America customers closed accounts at the Kennedy Plaza branch yesterday as part of an action organized by Occupy Providence, according to Trish Phelan, an Occupy Providence protester who has been living in Burnside Park since Saturday.
"I've never told anybody this before, but why don't I tell a roomful of strangers?" joked Phil Goldman, host of Live Bait, as he relayed a story of his childhood weight struggles at the Oct. 7 Live Bait storytelling event at Perishable Theater.
She has been compared to Jackie Robinson, Santa Claus and Morgan Freeman. She has been called a "badass." She is remembered for her red power suit and the hugs promised to first-years at Convocation. And while President Ruth Simmons is the leader of the University and a revered academic, to many she ...
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