About 25 students with the newly formed Brown Divest Coal Campaign group walked into University Hall Tuesday afternoon to ask the University to divest from some of its coal and fossil fuel investments. Students delivered a letter addressed to President Christina Paxson and handed out flyers to students ...
Following an evaluation in 2010, Health Services has implemented a number of changes this semester including additional hours, advancement in online accessibility and improved support for transgender students. The changes are part of a "constant quality improvement process as well as a commitment and ...
President The first debate of the 2012 presidential campaign will take place tomorrow at 9 p.m. on cable and network news channels. President Obama will face off against Republican challenger, former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney, in a confrontation that many speculate will be a definitive moment ...
Over the summer, the University's two main dining halls underwent a series of minor changes, including additions to the Sharpe Refectory dining area and new food options with an emphasis on local produce. "We wanted to focus our menus around our most popular recipes, offer seasonal variety, more sustainable ...
Senators, representatives and other government officials addressed a packed room Sept. 27 at the fall open house for Betaspring, a startup accelerator located in Providence's Knowledge District. The audience energetically welcomed the 13 new startups participating in Betaspring's fall session. Betaspring ...
Trinity College Dublin became the newest partner school in Brown Plus One, a study abroad program that allows students to earn one-year master's degrees following graduation, last spring. Trinity College joins the University of Edinburgh and the Chinese University of Hong Kong as the three Brown Plus ...
Grinnell reviews need-blind policy In a letter to alums last Thursday, Grinnell College announced it would consider amending its financial aid policies, prompting rumors that the college could end its need-blind admissions policy, though nothing in the letter explicitly referenced such a plan. The school ...
Jayson Marwaha '14 and Han Sheng Chia '14, co-directors of Medical Equipment Donations International, spent about 10 weeks in Zanzibar this summer assessing medical equipment needs in the region. MED International is a recently-formed nonprofit organization that focuses on the delivery and use of medical ...
Involvement in faculty governance remains persistently low - only one in seven faculty members regularly attend monthly faculty meetings, and the task of recruiting faculty for leadership roles is often extremely difficult, according to Faculty Executive Committee members. But as President Christina ...
With a new president recruited in part for her high-profile work framing academics in an international context, the University is positioned to reexamine and expand its global presence. Since her naming this March, President Christina Paxson has highlighted internationalization as a key priority, noting ...
Students and professionals flooded in from across the globe this weekend to attend the fifth anniversary of A Better World By Design as the conference sought to promote interactivity and increase participant engagement. The three-day conference, put on by a committee of Brown and Rhode Island School ...
At this weekend's Northeast Regional Students for Sensible Drug Policy Conference, 120 college students representing eight different states and Washington, D.C. - including 20 from Brown - gathered to discuss drug policy reform's focus on human rights. "We wanted ... to show people that this drug war ...
In a lecture Friday that served as the official inauguration of the Brown-India Initiative, S.M. Krishna, India's minister of external affairs, said the nation must create an "external environment" conducive to both collective and individual welfare. Krishna, who has held the position since 2009, discussed ...
As part of a year-long process to develop President Christina Paxson's long-term strategic initiatives, six committees - whose memberships were announced today - will meet throughout the year and discuss ways to follow up on the goals of the Plan for Academic Enrichment, former president Ruth Simmons' ...
As the year-long strategic planning process commences, the University aims to redouble its efforts to increase faculty diversity. Though none of the six committees that will carry out the planning process will specifically focus on diversity, all of them will prioritize the issue as they consider their ...
There were significant increases in robberies and liquor law violations between 2010 and 2011, while most other crime rates remained fairly stable, according to the 2012 Annual Security Report released by the Department of Public Safety this weekend. The report contains safety information and ...
This spring's A Day on College Hill event for prospective members of the class of 2017 will combine three previously separate programs - the Science Technology Engineering Math program, Third World Welcome and ADOCH itself - into a single recruitment weekend lasting three days and two nights, a day ...
The income the University earned as a result of patent royalties stemming from its research increased by about 65 percent from 2011 to 2012. Gross licensing income climbed to $1,592,300 in 2012, an increase from $962,000 in the previous fiscal year, according to information provided by the Technology ...
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