New research on the solar system's smallest and innermost planet could help scientists understand Earth's history. Six percent of Mercury — the equivalent of 60 percent of the continental U.S. — is covered with volcanic plains, providing evidence of how the planet and possibly others were ...
Since her first visit to Mexico's Gulf of California in 1996, Heather Leslie, assistant professor of environmental studies, has seen the fish stock decline first-hand. The gulf, which supplies more than half of Mexico's seafood and three-fourths of its shrimp, is changing rapidly.
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority authorized a reduction Tuesday in the frequency of bus service on 13 routes, according to an article in yesterday's Providence Journal.
Off the main entrance looms the work of famous Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. A student's hiking journey is memorialized on the walls upstairs. And in the basement, a virtual chef can make you a pizza modeled after the globe. Every once in a while, he is shot dead.
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Over 60 protesters gathered to challenge Bank of America and rising home foreclosures in front of the bank's building in downtown Providence yesterday afternoon.
When journalists interview Professor of Anthropology and International Relations Catherine Lutz about the Costs of War study she directed, she notices a difference in the conclusions U.S. and foreign reporters draw. While U.S. journalists have tried to contextualize the study's findings on the U.S. ...
State lawmakers learned Wednesday that, despite hours of discussion and deliberation by an 12-member pension advisory group, there is no clear-cut path to solving Rhode Island's failing pension system.
When the Rhode Island Nurses Institute Middle College Charter School officially opened its doors Sept. 19, it became the first charter school in the country to give aspiring nurses the chance to earn both a high school diploma and college credit.
About 250 Brown and RISD students have signed up for MunchCard — a student-created restaurant discount program — a month into its launch. The MunchCard, billed by its creators as an off-campus alternative to University meal plans, is now being accepted at 20 College Hill eateries, with more ...
At the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students last night, Mary Grace Almandrez, newly appointed director of the Third World Center and assistant dean of the College, laid out her vision for the center.
Graduating from college and getting into law school used to be a sure path to a lucrative job. But with thousands of law school graduates entering a shrinking labor market each year, job prospects are growing dimmer.
Behind the purple doors of a sixth-floor Barus and Holley Lab, Thomas Webster, associate professor of engineering, works small but thinks big. His work with nanomaterials, tiny devices implanted into the human body, has led to a potential breakthrough in cancer research.
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Former Chilean president and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos addressed a packed Joukowsky Forum last night about the "two epochal changes" facing Latin America — income distribution inequalities and a rapidly growing middle class — as it emerges relatively unscathed from the 2008 ...
Corrections appended. They do not know his name, but some students have had disturbingly close encounters with him. He often comes up in conversation and has become the subject of jokes and songs. The man, an infamous naked masturbator, has been spotted in the yards of at least three off-campus student ...
Fall brings out the beauty of trees. But in many cities, including Providence, there is not enough foliage to compete with the concrete and asphalt.
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The University honored its 150-year-old Federal Depository Library yesterday with a ceremony and a cautionary talk on technology by former political science professor Darrell West.
African music percolated with excited chatter as a crowd waited to hear Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe kick off the Department of Africana Studies 2011-12 Conversations in Africana Writing Series Monday. Achebe and other authors were featured in a panel titled "Voice and Memory in the Poetic ...
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