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Social solutions nonprofit celebrates 20th year

Proposal seeks accreditation for public health school in 2015

The public health program is making significant headway toward becoming an officially accredited school. The proposal has thus far been unanimously approved by the public health faculty, the Biomedical Faculty Council and the Academic Priorities Committee, wrote Terrie Wetle, associate dean of medicine ...

No U. employees give big to Romney campaign

University employees have donated almost exclusively to President Obama in this election cycle. Forty individual donors have contributed a total of $37,872 to Obama's campaign. Only one donation of $500 was made by a former University employee to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney. Twenty-six ...

Higher Ed Roundup: Oct. 12, 2012

Q&A: Kristof wants readers to 'spill their coffee'

Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Nicholas Kristof sat down with The Herald after speaking in Salomon 101 Thursday night. The New York Times columnist discussed his bestselling book "Half the Sky," what issues are most important and what can constitute "leverage for change."

Civil engineering track to be discontinued

The civil engineering track will no longer be offered for students in the class of 2017 and beyond. Prior to this decision, Brown was one of four Ivy League schools to still offer a civil engineering program.

Poll finds broad support for R.I. gambling amendments

Radio station to host controversial dance

Voters to consider road repairs

Programs seek to boost campus entrepreneurship

The University was named a Changemaker Campus last month by Ashoka U, an accelerator for social entrepreneurship at institutions of higher education. Nineteen colleges and universities were selected this year through a process that included interviews, a site visit and a selection panel that evaluated ...

Colloquium honors Carlos Fuentes

Renowned Mexican writer and former professor-at-large Carlos Fuentes was remembered by former students and colleagues for uniting literary and political concerns in the public sphere at a bilingual colloquium earlier this week. Fuentes, an internationally celebrated novelist, died in May after an internal ...

DPS acquires two portable defibrillators

Admins discuss diversity at UCS meeting

New federal funds target R.I. unemployment rate

City aims to raise recycling with single-stream system

Writing Fellows program narrows scope

The structure of the Writing Fellows program has changed this semester so that only students in writing fellows-designated courses are paired with fellows. Students not enrolled in these courses can still access writing help through the Writing Center. In previous semesters, any student seeking help ...

Grants to support interdisciplinary work

A competitive seed grant program, which will fund faculty research through a grant of up to $10,000, was announced at the beginning of this month by the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women. The grants are intended to encourage research centered on gender, sexuality, race and class, though ...

2012 caps decade of international enrollment growth

The class of 2016 includes 221 international students from 57 countries. Though this distribution does not mark any dramatic shift from last year, the gradual shift in international student demographics over the past decade has been drastic - 10 years ago, the freshman class only included 127 international ...

Whitehouse outlines key election issues

The November election represents a nationwide referendum on the best way to fix the economy and the importance of social entitlement programs, Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., said at Tuesday night's Brown Democrats meeting. 

U. ups social media presence