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."
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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.
Each semester, anywhere between eight and 30 groups of ambitious students get together with a professor to choose a topic, write a syllabus and create their own credit-bearing course known as a Group Independent Study Project, or GISP. There are eight GISPs open to Brown students this fall.
Rafael Gonzalez '11 MD'15 spent his summer after junior year uncovering mass graves filled with the remains of victims from the Spanish Civil War. Alongside a team of forensic scientists, archeologists, anthropologists, medical doctors and dentists, Gonzalez said he spent a week working at a grave site ...
The computer science department began installing 10 new computers in the lobby outside of the SunLab at the end of last week. The computer increase is in response to rising student enrollment in the department's courses, said Tom Doeppner, vice chair and associate professor of computer science. It ...
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