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Program fosters student entrepreneurship

Spies to step down in wake of Simmons' resignation

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Panel addresses social influences on health

Rhode Island Lieutenant Governor Elizabeth Roberts said she is amazed by how often health care financing is discussed and how rarely actual health policy is addressed during the first part of a three-seminar series called "Social Determinants of Health: Law and Public Policy," presented by the Taubman ...

Teach-in dissects marriage equality

Tax differences between gay and heterosexual couples and the local marriage equality situation, as well as its judicial progress, were the focus of a teach-in hosted by the Queer Alliance last night. The event featured law professors from Roger Williams University and a representative from Marriage ...

Market Shares recognized by White House

The Brown Market Shares Program, which supplies produce from local farms to students, faculty and staff shareholders, was recently named a finalist in the first national Campus Champions of Change Challenge sponsored by the White House. Choosing from a group of 15 finalists, the public can cast votes ...

Bill may close gender gap in health costs

BUCC talks solutions to tensions with city

Lecturer criticizes 'new Jim Crow reality' of prisons

Michelle Alexander, associate professor of law at Ohio State University, discussed problems with the nation's criminal justice system last night in this year's Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice. Alexander spoke to a packed audience that included President Ruth Simmons and Provost Mark Schlissel ...

UCS aims to bring Bear Bucks to Thayer

The Undergraduate Council of Students is discussing a proposal that would allow students to use their Bear Bucks accounts at restaurants and local businesses on Thayer Street. The Bear Bucks system replaced the declining balance account this semester and functions as a centralized vending system through ...

Federal aid proposal to target rising tuition costs

In his State of the Union address last month, President Barack Obama outlined a plan to incentivize lowering college tuition by redirecting federal financial aid from universities that raise college costs to schools taking steps to lower costs. Though the University could be affected by the proposed ...

Task force targets RI youth violence

Web update: Spies to step down at the end of the year

U. starts search for new athletics director

The University is in the initial stages of its search for a new director of athletics and, with an independent search firm currently looking for qualified candidates, the search committee hopes to announce a decision in April in conjunction the announcement of a new University president. Current Director ...

GOP to sue over new district lines

At forum, residents criticize MBTA cuts

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'Activist intellectual' discusses social change

"Blessings be upon you all," began Rami Nashashibi, executive director of the Inner-City Muslim Action Network in Chicago, at the 2012 K. Brooke Anderson Lecture Monday night. IMAN, a community-based nonprofit incorporated in 1997 and based in Chicago, works to foster social justice in urban communities, ...

New patent liaison to focus on engineering

The University will be adding a new position in the Technology Ventures Office to assist engineering faculty members in identifying research suitable for patents and then guide them through the patenting process. The position was added as part of the University's recently approved budget for fiscal ...

Stimulus funds for U. dry up

The most recent budget passed by the Corporation, the University's highest governing body, marks the end of the University's use of federal funding provided by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

Student-founded nonprofit tackles HIV problems

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Man shot outside popular club