As Brown's budget guru and planner extraordinaire, Beppie Huidekoper runs a tight ship. Her desk is covered with memos and documents, her schedule a solid block of appointments. But despite her chronic optimism, the aftermath of the recent financial crisis has proved a challenge to even this most seasoned ...
Tam Tran GS was a brilliant scholar, involved daughter and sister, innovative filmmaker, selfless friend and tireless lobbyist, according to her friends, family, coworkers and collaborators. Since Tran's death at age 27 Saturday in a car crash in Maine, colleagues and companions between and beyond Brown ...
A two-car crash early Saturday morning in Maine took the life of one Brown graduate student, Tam Ngoc Tran GS, and injured another, President Ruth Simmons announced in a campus-wide e-mail Sunday morning.
Fifteen students have been subpoenaed to testify in William McCormick III's lawsuit against the University, a female student and her father, according to J. Scott Kilpatrick, McCormick's attorney.
A federal judge has denied Brown's motion to dismiss a lawsuit brought by William McCormick III against the University and top administrators, ruling that, if true, his complaint demonstrates actions that "could be considered outrageous, atrocious or utterly intolerable conduct on the part of Brown." ...
Community service is a part of many Brown students' extracurricular experience, but new programs — such as the Engaged Scholars Initiative — at the Swearer Center for Public Service support service learning in courses and research. The center is particular about using the term "engaged scholars" ...
A rainy Saturday morning did not stop the Rhode Island Latino Complete Count Committee from going out, door to door, on April 17 to encourage Central Falls residents to fill out the census forms.
The administration will be focusing more energy on new residence halls now that several major construction projects have gotten underway, said Dick Spies, executive vice president for planning and senior adviser to the President.
Jason Lee '12 will serve as vice chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board after defeating Tyler Rosenbaum '11 in a runoff election, the elections board announced Wednesday afternoon.
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For more than three millennia, Sanskrit served as the primary written language of major Indian literary works, but since 2002, Peter Scharf, senior lecturer in Classics, has revolutionized the way people can access the language today.
When Patrick Kennedy was first elected to Congress in 1994, his victory marked a rare bright note in an otherwise dismal year for the Democratic Party.
Outside, crowds have begun to gather in anticipation, and inside, ovens and stoves are nearly warm enough to welcome the hundreds of orders they will field that day. A full staff has spent the past hour cracking eggs and readying potatoes, and the aroma of fresh drip coffee now seeps through the locked ...
The College Curriculum Council met last month to discuss changes to the academic calendar that might permanently start the school year the Wednesday before Labor Day in order to make the fall and spring semesters the same length.
After a federal judge expressed apprehension earlier this month over the University's decision to handle a rape allegation internally without notifying law enforcement, representatives from a students' rights organization and a sexual assault victims' advocacy group have both criticized universities' ...
At Brown today, bared navels are a more common sight then naval officers — but that wasn't always the case.Brown was once home to a Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps, but 40 years ago the faculty voted to expel the program from College Hill. Now, some students want to bring it back, though ...
A senior was assaulted on Brook Street near Fones Alley Monday at 8:30 p.m, according to a Providence Police report.
President Ruth Simmons will deliver the keynote address at the Rhode Island School of Design's commencement ceremony June 5.
The number of undergraduate concentrators in neuroscience has grown enormously in recent years, signaling increased interest in the subject.
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