The Occupy movement returned to College Hill Monday afternoon, but neither protesters nor banners were in sight. Instead, about 20 students could be found in Wilson 101 discussing the social and economic grievances that sparked the movement last September.
Stanford professor and author Claude Steele knows first-hand the pressures of being an underrepresented minority on a college campus. At the 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture Wednesday afternoon, Steele discussed the influence of negative stereotypes on minority academic performance and urged ...
In a series of public hearings held across the state last month, members of a special commission of the Rhode Island House of Representatives explored the lack of affordability and accessibility plaguing the state's public higher education system.
The University will soon become the second American institution with a center devoted entirely to social sciences in India, due to an anonymous parent donation of $6 million made last year. The Brown-India Research Initiative will promote academic research and teaching on contemporary political, economic ...
After sitting vacant since 2009 due to a hiring freeze, the faculty ombudsperson position has been filled, according to an email sent to the faculty Friday afternoon. Ruth Rosenberg, currently director of student mediation in the Office of Student Citizenship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
Emily Eastlake never expected she would be forced to leave Brown.
As state legislators debate the idea of building a destination casino in Quonset Point, North Kingston, business leaders and residents of the city remain unconcerned about the prospect. The casino would be the first of its kind in Rhode Island.
Students, faculty and staff now have an easier way to connect to wireless Internet for free when visiting a select group of other colleges and universities.
At last night's housing options fair hosted by the Office of Residential Life, 755 students entered the first pick raffle for the housing lottery.
Taking PHP 1680J: "The Race To Inner Space: Conflating Science, Politics and Economics To Promote Brain Health" might be one of the most important things 24 Brown students ever do. At least, that's what Patrick Kennedy, former R.I. congressman and visiting fellow in brain science, suggested after the ...
With the national debate on health care and rising obesity in the U.S. raging on, Rajiv Kumar '05 MD'11 has decided to "disrupt the health care system" on his own terms.
Total applications to the University decreased slightly from last year, with international applicants making up a record 16 percent of the applicant pool. The 28,671 total applications for the class of 2016 — 25,744 regular decision and 2,927 early decision — represented a 7 percent decline ...
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