The Brown University Community Council heard the latest update on the 2011 Sustainability Progress Report in a nearly empty Kasper Multipurpose Room Tuesday afternoon. Approximately 10 community members were in attendance for the meeting, which also featured a recap of the Corporation's affirmations ...
In the current economy, nearly everything except the national deficit is shrinking. But to hear Deroy Murdock tell it, the nation's capital is still living large. "It's happy hour on the Potomac," declared Murdock, a nationally syndicated columnist, "while the rest of us tighten our belts, fill out ...
First-years are assigned advisers before they even set foot on campus in the fall. But who advises the advisers?
Faculty leaders of the Global Health Initiative, a University-wide effort to combat health inequalities locally and internationally, are preparing a proposal to upgrade the initiative to a permanent center.
George Vecchione, CEO of Lifespan, announced Friday he will step down at the end of 2012.
Members of Occupy Providence announced their willingness to transition from lawful demonstration to civil disobedience yesterday. In response to demands that they vacate Burnside Park, members of the movement told Mayor Angel Taveras they plan on staying put.
Gina Russo expected Feb. 20, 2003 to be a normal day. She spent the afternoon with her sister and her sister's children, and at 4:30 p.m. she met her fiance, Fred Crisostomi, for dinner at her mother's house. She heard later that Crisostomi told a neighbor that afternoon, "It's a beautiful day to be ...
Take note, budding entrepreneurs: Providence is open for business.
Less than 50 percent of faculty members rank teaching as the most time-consuming part of their job, according to a poll conducted this fall by The Herald. The poll asked faculty members to rank the amount of time they spend teaching, conducting research, writing grant proposals, participating in University ...
After being identified as one of the nation's worst-performing schools last year, Central Falls High School launched an initiative this year to drastically increase the number of Advanced Placement course offerings as part of a three-year transformation process. The school added four more AP courses ...
The Corporation instructed the University to create an office to support veterans and students interested in the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at its meeting this weekend.
The Office of Residential Life has been working with undergraduates on a proposal to allow first-years to opt in to gender-neutral housing, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services. Queer Alliance is collecting signatures for the proposal, which it expects to present ...
The new Medical Education Building glowed brightly against dark Jewelry District streets at its official dedication Friday evening.
It was 9 p.m. Friday, and 15 Occupiers — participants from Occupy College Hill and Occupy Providence — sat in a circle around a potluck dinner discussing semantics: Were the issues they planned to present to the Corporation the next morning grievances or demands?
Disaster relief trucks crowded Thayer Street yesterday after a fire broke out at Kabob and Curry. The fire, which ignited in the morning, caused "a bit of damage," said restaurant owner Sanjiv Dhar.
The 2008 recommendation from the Task Force on Undergraduate Education that senior capstone projects be made mandatory for all students generated campus-wide discussion about the nature of the projects and their role in the senior experience.
The University has been unable to increase aid packages to faculty and staff to subsidize their children's undergraduate education due to budget concerns.
Seventy-six runners and walkers finished the one-mile downhill course through campus at the fourth annual Dash for Diabetes Saturday morning.
The Residential Council will begin accepting applications today for a new program house, which will fill the void left when Interfaith House closed its doors last semester.
Occupy College Hill, a campus-based offshoot of Occupy Providence, will host a "One Night Stand" campout on the Main Green tonight to kick off discussion about how to improve the University. The event is scheduled to immediately precede the meeting of the Corporation, the University's highest governing ...
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