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Professor to lead collider work abroad
By Izzy Rattner | December 4Correction appended.
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Panel examines Chinese higher education
By Elizabeth Koh | December 3Globalization is the only path by which underdeveloped regions can catch up to the technological power of the developed world, said Andrew Chi-Chih Yao of Tsinghua University Friday at a talk hosted by the Year of China initiative.
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121 commence at midyear ceremony
By Nic Cavell | December 3The philosophies of Eleanor Roosevelt, Kermit the Frog and Pink Floyd were invoked as faculty, students and President Ruth Simmons took the stage of Salomon 101 Saturday to recognize the 121 members of the class of 2011.5.
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Colloquium spurs talk on African politics, language
By Katrina Phillips | December 3Poetry married politics in the third Achebe Colloquium on Africa held on campus this weekend. This year marked the first time the two-day colloquium, which included panel discussions and speeches on political issues across Africa, featured poetry readings and literary discussion. The walls of the Martinos ...
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Guided by green, Brown tests uncharted waters
By Mark Raymond and Lindor Qunaj | December 1Before the 2008 economic downturn, the University had grand plans. President Simmons' ambitious fundraising campaign was on track to surpass its goal of $1.4 billion. Administrators were eyeing a new home for the Alpert Medical School, construction of state-of-the-art brain science laboratories, increases ...
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Dark matter may be heavier than previously thought
By Aparaajit Sriram | November 30Correction appended.
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Alum launches web magazine
By Tonya Riley | November 30Tired of hearing the girls she mentored at the Wheeler School complain about being bored after school, Amie Darboe '10 decided she wanted to give her students an outlet to express themselves. Near the time of her graduation, she took a leap and launched her own business venture — "High School ...
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Unzipping the tent
By Elizabeth Carr | November 30Two-and-a-half months after the Occupy movement first made headlines, the movement's precise focus remains an open question — even for members of Occupy College Hill.
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Activist discusses politics of AIDS
By Katrina Phillips | November 30"It's always been a great time to talk about HIV," Soraya Elcock, HIV/AIDS policy advocate and former vice president for policy and government affairs at Harlem United Community AIDS Center, told The Herald following the lecture she held to top off yesterday's World AIDS Day events on campus.
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BSA to fund social innovation fellowship
By Max Ernst | November 30Brown Student Agencies has decided to reinvest the proceeds generated from student business ventures to fund an additional C.V. Starr Social Entrepreneurship Fellowship, a summer grant awarded through the Swearer Center for Public Service to support socially responsible entrepreneurship. According to ...
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Library obtains rare Chinese text
By Alison Silver | November 30The University Library has acquired one of only 10 copies worldwide of the first European-printed book on Chinese medicine, entitled "Les Secrets de la Medecine des Chinois." An addition to the Library's Special Collections, the book was purchased in connection with Brown's Year of China celebration. ...
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Med school prioritizes HIV/AIDS research
By Phoebe Draper | November 30Though Alpert Medical School may be small, the University's Center for AIDS Research is a national leader in HIV/AIDS research for marginalized populations, such as women, adolescents and incarcerated individuals.
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Applying math to biology 'nets' success
By Nic Cavell | November 30Imagine the Epcot Center at Disney World — a network of triangular elements curl together to form a silver sphere. Shaped in exactly the same way, viruses are self-assembled from two-dimensional "nets." Scientists show how this folding process could be mimicked to develop new technologies, such as ...
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Despite advances, AIDS still poses threat
By Eli Okun | November 30When the first American diagnosis of AIDS catapulted it onto the national health scene 30 years ago, the disease was shrouded in mystery and stigma. Since then, major medical breakthroughs and heightened public awareness have made AIDS a more treatable and recognizable threat. But these advances can ...
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City shines red for AIDS
By Michael Weinstein | November 30Rhode Island First Lady Stephanie Chafee P'14, local government officials, AIDS health professionals, poets, musicians and other activists literally painted the town red last night, as they gathered to celebrate the illumination of Providence buildings to raise awareness on World AIDS Day.
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Mentor program extends to sophomores
By Elizabeth Koh | November 30The University has extended the length of the African, Latino, Asian and Native American Mentoring Program from two to three semesters, according to a September update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
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From Ivy League wild child to Harvard-lite
By Sahil Luthra | November 30In 1946, President Henry Wriston wrote in a letter to the Corporation that Brown's defining feature was its status as a "university-college" — an undergraduate-centric institution focused on the liberal arts with the resources of a large university.
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Chafee '75 asks DEA to loosen pot restrictions
By Elizabeth Carr | November 29Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 and Christine Gregoire, governor of Washington, filed a petition with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to request that marijuana be reclassified as a Schedule II controlled substance, allowing it to be prescribed in states that legalized medical marijuana.
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UCS denounces UC Davis pepper spraying
By Katrina Phillips | November 29In response to the recent pepper spraying of students at the University of California at Davis by campus police, the University Council of Students passed a statement defending students' "inalienable right to peaceful assembly" during its final general body meeting of the semester last night.
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Confidence in job prospects varied
By Sandra Yan | November 29Corner office or a corner in your parents' basement? Students reported varying levels of confidence in their ability to obtain a desirable job after graduation in a recent Herald poll. According to the poll, 28.4 percent of students are somewhat worried about obtaining desirable jobs after graduation, ...
