The Corporation will review President Ruth Simmons' recently released recommendations on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Department of Athletics at its meeting this weekend.
For most Rhode Islanders, colder winter temperatures are a seasonal inconvenience. But for the state's homeless — a group that has grown due to the ongoing economic downturn — winter adds a new urgency to the daily struggle to find shelter.
Through a combination of volunteer efforts and food donations, Providence People's Kitchen is providing three meals per day to members of the Occupy Providence movement, who have been residing in Burnside Park since Saturday evening.
The Undergraduate Council of Students introduced a resolution to increase next year's student activities fee by $10 last night. The council also spoke with Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 and Lauren Kolodny '08, former UCS vice president and current member of the Corporation.
The Providence Journal established a pay wall and redesigned its website Tuesday. The website now features breaking news briefs for free and provides full stories only to subscribers through an eEdition of the paper.
Until recently, first-years interested in face time with the University's top doctors would have to resort to hour-long keg stands or December dips in the Narragansett River. But thanks to a new University initiative, freshmen will soon be able to take first-year seminars with Alpert Medical School ...
UnitedHealthcare of New England donated $250,000 to the Rhode Island Foundation's loan forgiveness program last week as part of a series of grants from state and national organizations encouraging medical students, including those at Alpert Medical School, to pursue careers in primary care.
When the Department of English began allotting concentration advisers alphabetically this summer, it left many students surprised to find they had been reassigned to new advisers.
College Hill's public masturbation spree continued with yet another incident Tuesday night.
A new Commuter Choice Assistance Program will allow employees to create pre-tax debit accounts to lower the costs of public transportation and off-site parking starting Jan. 1.
The University is looking to integrate community programs with the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and the Medical Education Building, according to the most recent update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons' blueprint for academic improvement.
Every three weeks at the Swearer Center for Public Service, 22 professors across 17 disciplines collide behind closed doors to discuss exciting new directions in education at Brown. Food justice is discussed with sandwiches in hand, education finds common ground with engineering and the medieval studies ...
President Ruth Simmons recommended the University not change its academic policies toward the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, according to a letter released to the community yesterday. Current policies do not permit ROTC's presence on campus.
Nick Petersdorf '12.5 is happy to be in a long-term relationship with Brown, but he wants to spread the love.
State and municipal employees will see dramatic changes to their pensions in 2012 if the General Assembly adopts a proposal outlined in a joint address Tuesday.
Proposed revisions to the human biology concentration program will eliminate the bachelor of science degree and alter the bachelor of arts degree, if approved. Though the changes were posted on the Division of Biology and Medicine website as early as this summer, the College Curriculum Council has not ...
Following the installation of 10 new exercise machines over the past week, the Bears Lair is once again filled to capacity with students working off magic bars and spicies with.
CareerLAB launched a new intensive program to facilitate interaction between Brown students and alums Monday. The three-day pilot January Career Laboratory will begin Jan. 19 and will feature panels on different career fields, networking sessions and skill workshops.
The United States must support Israel's right to exist in order to establish peace in the Middle East, Rep. Barney Frank, D-Mass. told a crowded Salomon 101 last night.
Chancellor Thomas Tisch '76 announced the 29 members of the two committees responsible for overseeing the search for a new president yesterday in an email to the Brown community.
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