Pending bills in the Rhode Island General Assembly would require the state to count prisoners as residents of their hometowns — not the town the prison is in — when determining state and county legislative districts.
At its meeting earlier this month, the faculty approved a proposal for the Alpert Medical School to establish clinical tenure for all 15 chairs of its clinical departments. The proposal — which has yet to receive the final stamp of approval from the Corporation, the University's highest governing ...
A bill currently before the Rhode Island General Assembly would give Rhode Island School of Design police officers the power to make arrests. The bill, introduced by State Rep. Helio Melo, D-East Providence, would give RISD police the title of "peace officers," which carries with it the right to search, ...
Finding a tenured or tenure-track position is hard enough, but locating two academic job openings at once is next to impossible. Faculty recruitment — a key priority of the University's long-term Plan for Academic Enrichment — gets more complicated when a prospective hire's spouse also needs ...
The Rhode Island Department of Transportation's project to reshape the road skeleton of the Jewelry District is at the end of its planning phase, said Lambri Zerva, design project manager for the Iway relocation project at the RIDOT. The plans are concordant with the University's vision for the area, ...
As the images of lashing whips and spanking fill the screen, the showing of the documentary "Kink," followed by a panel discussion on Sunday night, provided a kickoff for what promises to be a mind-blowing Sex Week. Using the film as a platform for discussing the intersection between race, ethnicity ...
Right now, Brown's athletic complex is unattractive, inconveniently located and insufficient to meet the community's needs. But come January 2012, the fenced construction site and asphalt parking lot will be replaced by a red-bricked fitness and aquatics center and a grassy tree-lined quadrangle.
The University is reaching out to its neighbors to inform them of the impending construction of the new aquatics and fitness center, said Jennifer Braga, government relations and community affairs liaison. Construction of the Katherine Moran Coleman Aquatics Center and Jonathan Nelson '77 Fitness Center ...
In keeping with a recommendation by the Task Force on Undergraduate Education, the College Curriculum Council is continuing its reviews of concentrations in seven departments this year, said Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron. On the 2009-10 agenda are East Asian studies, South Asian studies, physics, ...
Twelve University faculty members recently received 2010 Richard B. Salomon Faculty Research Awards, according to the Office of the Vice President for Research.
For the past nine years, Brown professors and students have been working in close partnership with one of the largest automotive companies in the world on research that has the potential to impact the future of the automobile industry.
Thought up last spring and launched over the summer, BenzAndABackpack.com — a comprehensive hip-hop blog created by Peter Drinan '11 and Steven Aguiar '11 — has already gained a sizable following on campus and beyond.
Multiple Brown offices and departments are turning to Facebook to advertise and promote opportunities and events, finding that the site's capacity as a means of communication extends beyond social networking.
The New York Historical Society has awarded its annual book prize to Gordon Wood, professor emeritus of history, for his recently published book, "Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815." As Wood's work, which was published in October, begins to win accolades, he faces a ...
The Office of the Controller introduced a new payroll initiative Feb. 25 for University employees designed to improve access to payroll information. The initiative, "Pay Check+," will be used to deliver payroll checks, direct deposit notices and W-2 tax forms to students, staff and faculty, according ...
The University Resources Committee projected in a report released last month that the University's Education and General budget, which includes expenditures on administrative, academic and student support, "would see a 5.8 percent increase in indirect cost recovery from sponsored funding" in the next ...
Frances Jasmin has been arrested and charged in the Brooklyn hit-and-run accident that injured Erinn Phelan '09 and her former roommate, Alma Guerrero '09 MD '13, according to multiple news outlets.
Computing and Information Services is spearheading an ongoing project to replace WebAuth with the Shibboleth System, open-source software that allows users to sign on to multiple Web resources with a single login.
The two words have become something of a magic catchphrase for Providence's future. Say "knowledge economy" — with the perfect combination of hope and awe — around City officials, University administrators and local entrepreneurs, and watch the glimmer flicker across their eyes.
Professor of Computer Science Pascal van Hentenryck is putting "Comet," an algorithm he developed at Brown, to commercial use at Dynadec.
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