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Forbes: Providence a tough place to live
By George Miller | April 22If you can make it here, you can make it anywhere — at least according to Forbes.
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Tougaloo exchange opens eyes, doors
By Ellen Cushing | April 22When Courtney Johnson MD'12 arrived on College Hill in the dead of winter last January, she had never seen snow before.
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Laid-off ProJo workers print 'stimulus' paper
By Lauren Fedor | April 22Four former Providence Journal employees have teamed up to have "a little fun in the face of potential economic ruin" — by creating their own newsletter.
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PLME applications drop 13 percent
By Shara Azad | April 22The Program in Liberal Medical Education — which allows students to earn their undergraduate and medical degrees in a single eight-year program — admitted a total of 97 students this year, including 20 early decision candidates, Ip wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Both ...
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For visiting student, winding path led to Brown
By Matt Klebanoff | April 22Instead of venturing off to the jungles of South America or the cobblestone streets of Europe, Michael Riecken, an undergraduate at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., chose to spend his junior year "abroad" on College Hill.
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Move to online evals aims to save on paper
By Brown Daily Herald | April 22Seventeen departments are using online course evaluations instead of in-class paper forms this semester, according to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron.
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Rep. calls for 'product stewardship'
By Anne Speyer | April 22State Representative Donna Walsh, D-Dist. 36, has introduced a bill in the General Assembly that calls for manufacturers to regulate the disposal of waste from certain consumer products.
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More econ. students head to grad school
By Brian Mastroianni | April 21After commencement, more Brown economics concentrators and graduate students will be heading to graduate school or taking on professorships than pursuing jobs on Wall Street this year, according to Andrew Foster, professor of economics and chair of the department.
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Brown lags in RecycleMania ranking
By Sarah Julian | April 21Though students might not have known it, from January to March they were engaged in a friendly competition with universities across the United States and Canada. Known as RecycleMania, the competition encourages participating campuses to recycle more and to decrease the amount of waste they produce. ...
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The New Curriculum turns 40: How's it holding up?
By Ellen Cushing | April 21The New Curriculum started with a handful of undergraduates who wanted to improve their college experience. Now it is the defining aspect of one of the world's top universities — and Brown students and faculty have come to take it for granted.
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Prefrosh, rainfall hit campus as annual ADOCH begins
By Kevin Pratt | April 21Rain clouds met the approximately 650 students who converged on Brown's campus Tuesday to get a taste of University life during A Day On College Hill.
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Safewalk pilots cellular safety device
By Anne Speyer | April 21The Department of Public Safety, with the help of Safewalk, is currently testing a new product that can turn a cell phone into a personal safety device.
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Simmons touts New Curriculum's virtues
By Sarah Husk | April 21In a packed tent on the Main Green, waterlogged students with muddy shoes crowded in to hear President Ruth Simmons speak for the first time to potential members of the Class of 2013.
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Associate dean of Grad School to replace Allen
By Jenna Stark | April 21Valerie Wilson, currently associate dean of the Graduate School, will replace Brenda Allen as associate provost and director of institutional diversity starting July 1.
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Campus veterans create new group
By Sara Chimene-Weiss | April 21The Brown University Student Veterans Society, a newly formed group on campus, met officially for the first time last week.
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Changes in store for Thayer Street
By Joanna Wohlmuth | April 20The recession has hit Rhode Island hard, and Thayer Street businesses have not been immune to the slumping economy.
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Bookstore owner, alum donates rare science books
By Andrew Sia | April 20The John Hay Library has received a gift of 130 rare books and manuscripts, including the first two editions of Nicolaus Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium," from Daniel Siegel '57, the owner of M&S Rare Books, a bookstore in Wayland Square on the East Side.
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Bike-sharing program up and running
By Alicia Dang | April 20Charging a membership fee of $5 for the year, a bike-sharing program operating out of a room in Faunce House was officially launched last week.
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Pre-frosh flock to campus for ADOCH
By Sarah Husk | April 20At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere 30 minutes after thousands of students received their admission decisions — 15 students had already registered to confirm a place at A Day on College Hill.
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Artistic seniors to be honored tonight
By Heeyoung Min | April 20Thirty-two of Brown's top graduating artists, actors, writers, composers and directors will be honored at the 14th annual Weston Awards ceremony tonight at Stuart Theatre.Recipients of the William and Alethe Weston Fine Arts Awards are selected by faculty in the areas of Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Dance, ...
