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Alum killed in one-car accident during Reunion Weekend
By Alex Bell | May 27Laura Kavazanjian '06 was killed in a one-car accident at about 1:30 am Saturday on Route 95 in Groton, Conn., when a car driven by David Reidy '06 went off the road and rolled onto its hood, according to an article in the Providence Journal. Kavazanjian, the only passenger, was not wearing a seatbelt ...
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McLaughlin P'12 named dean of faculty
By Shefali Luthra | May 26Professor of English Kevin McLaughlin P'12, English department chair and interim chair of the German Studies department, will replace Rajiv Vohra P'07 as dean of the faculty starting in July, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 wrote in an email to the community May 27. Though McLaughlin's term begins ...
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Dean to head Watson Institute for one year
By Shefali Luthra | May 13Carolyn Dean, senior associate dean of the faculty and professor of history, will become interim director of the Watson Institute for International Studies July 1.
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Taveras seeks more money from U.
By Claire Peracchio | May 2Mayor Angel Taveras will seek $9 million in total contributions from tax-exempt organizations — like the University — and will support legislation in the General Assembly requiring such institutions to pay 25 percent of the property taxes they would owe if they were for-profit, he announced ...
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RISD Provost announces resignation
By Rebecca Ballhaus | May 2Two months after receiving an overwhelming vote of "no confidence," Rhode Island School of Design Provost Jessie Shefrin announced today she will step down when her contract expires June 30 to "take a well-deserved sabbatical," according to a statement from RISD President John Maeda. She has served ...
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Simmons: No teams to be cut for next year
By Sahil Luthra | April 29The men's and women's fencing teams, men's wrestling team and women's ski team will be allowed to compete through next academic year, wrote President Ruth Simmons in an email to the Brown community Friday afternoon. Simmons' recommendations to the Corporation about potential cuts of varsity teams will ...
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School board votes to close five public schools
By Elizabeth Carr | April 28The Providence School Board voted last night to close five schools — Asa Messer Elementary School, Asa Messer Annex, Windmill Street Elementary School, Edmund W. Flynn Elementary School and West Broadway Elementary School. Samuel W. Bridgham Middle School will be reopened as an elementary school. ...
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Q&A with Sanjay Gupta
By Shefali Luthra | April 27Sanjay Gupta came to campus yesterday to speak about the relationship between media and medicine. After his lecture, he sat down with The Herald.
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Roth '77 to give 2011 Baccalaureate
By Jake Comer | April 27Kenneth Roth '77 P'12, human rights advocate and executive director of Human Rights Watch, will give the 2011 Baccalaureate address Saturday, May 28 at the First Baptist Church, the University announced yesterday. Per Brown's tradition, two seniors will speak at the Commencement ceremony May 29.
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In fiscal storm, University keeps eyes on Jewelry District
By Claire Peracchio | April 27The state's political leaders call it a once-in-a-generation economic opportunity. Set to be completed at the end of 2012, the 10-year relocation of Route 195 has cleared 20 acres of prime real estate in Providence's Fox Point and Jewelry District, some of which Brown is eyeing for further expansion. ...
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Jarrett discusses gender, dispenses advice
By Nicole Boucher | April 27Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, discovered her passion for public service after moving from an elite Chicago law firm in the Sears Tower to a cubicle facing an alley in the mayor's office, she told a nearly full Salomon 101 yesterday afternoon. In her lecture, part of the Doherty-Granoff ...
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With looming team cuts, recruits face hard decisions
By Madeleine Wenstrup | April 27After making it to the Idaho state wrestling finals last spring, Ken Staub '15 was recruited by schools across the country, including Brown. "When I went to the Brown campus, I got a feeling that this was the place for me," Staub said. But with his decision already made and Brown's wrestling team ...
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UCS provides forum for student-athletes
By David Chung | April 27The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted administrators and student-athletes at its final general body meeting of the semester last night, providing a venue for them to exchange their ideas and concerns about the recommendations made last Thursday by the Athletics Review Committee to cut four varsity ...
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Rhode Island Superior Court settles indoor human trafficking case
By Chip Lebovitz | April 27The first case involving Rhode Island's indoor human trafficking law was settled this month in Rhode Island Superior Court.
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New TWC director to be announced this month
By Joseph Rosales | April 27The Third World Center's yearlong search for a new director is coming to a close, said Ricky Gresh, senior director for student engagement. The search committee hopes to make an official announcement before finals period ends May 20, Gresh said.
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Students, educators seek answers to R.I.'s 'brain drain'
By Kat Thornton | April 27As with the classic question of the chicken or the egg, political leaders, students and educators are scratching their heads over which came first — brain drain or the lack of jobs in Rhode Island.
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Gov. Chafee '75 comes to campus to support wrestling team
By Tony Bakshi | April 27Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 and other alums, as well as players and coaches of the four varsity teams that were suggested for elimination by the Athletics Review Committee, met with committee members yesterday to pitch their teams' cases for survival.
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Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 reflects as term winds down
By Emma Wohl | April 27When Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 steps down from his post June 30, his five-year term as the University's second-ranking administrator will draw to a close, though he will remain on the faculty as a professor. He leaves after a term marked by a national financial crisis, a heated tenure debate ...
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Forum addresses school interventions
By Rebecca Ballhaus | April 27When Shannon Hernandez' husband began working in Massachusetts this year, she decided to stay in Providence with her daughter, who is currently enrolled in kindergarten at Mary E. Fogarty Elementary School in Lower South Providence. But with the latest blow to the city's public schools — this ...
