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.
Like a star shooting across the night sky of low-priced dining options, pizza cone purveyor Toledo had a brilliant but short-lived run. Thayer Pita Pockets, the eatery that has quietly replaced Toledo, offers a combination of gyros, falafel, deli wraps, New York style pizza and pizza cones. Thayer Pita ...
Rhode Island legalized civil unions for same-sex couples in July, but lawmakers and lawyers have found that the legislation does not bestow all of the benefits of marriage. In particular, gay couples do not qualify for estate tax exemption and cannot file joint income taxes.
When Andrew Winters, former assistant to the vice president for student affairs at the University of Rhode Island, resigned his post in June under controversial circumstances, faculty members, alumni and local organizations rose to his defense.
After nearly six months of contentious debate over the prospect of cutting the ski, fencing and wrestling programs, President Ruth Simmons recommended yesterday that the Corporation, the University's highest governing body, keep all three programs this year. In a report sent to the Brown community ...
Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., is facing a tough reelection contest in the race for Rhode Island's first district following a controversy over charges of financial mismanagement during his time as mayor of Providence.
Moments after President Ruth Simmons released her response to the Athletics Review Committee Report yesterday, men's fencing captain Andrew Pintea's '12 phone started buzzing. Though he was in a meeting, he left to see what the texting frenzy was about. "I had to check immediately," he said.
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Last month, Princeton became the latest in a series of prestigious universities to adopt an open-access policy, allowing free public access to research completed at the university. The University Library Advisory Board, the Research Advisory Board and a group of deans have been considering adopting ...
Correction appended. Speaking for the last time to parents on Family Weekend, President Ruth Simmons relied on a superlative. "Brown has the most supportive parents, unmatched by any of its peers," she said. Simmons' speech, before a crowd of more than 100 students and parents Saturday, was engaging ...
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