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'Renaissance' reporter mixes media and medicine
By Shefali Luthra | April 27Sanjay Gupta is lucky, he says. He has always been good at telling stories.
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JWU building gets green award
By Jordan Hendricks | April 27Johnson and Wales University's new $42 million Cuisinart Center for Culinary Excellence was awarded LEED Gold certification by the U.S. Green Building Council this month. The award is the second-highest environmental acknowledgment a building can receive.
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Report blames Cicilline '83 for R.I. deficit
By Chip Lebovitz | April 27A financial report released last week holds the administration of former Providence Mayor and current U.S. Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., responsible for the city's $110 million deficit for the next fiscal year.
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Project seeks to spark religious dialogue
By Daniel Sack | April 27Every Tuesday this semester, about 20 students gathered in J. Walter Wilson for the Brown Religious Literacy Project, a non-for-credit class designed to promote dialogue about world religions.
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Renovated Metcalf to open in October
By Greg Jordan-Detamore | April 27The Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory, currently under renovation, will reopen in October as the new home of the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. The project's final completion is set for Sept. 30, and the department will move in the next week, said David LaPlante, ...
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Drunk driving a stubborn problem in Rhode Island
By Morgan Johnson | April 27Since February 2010, two high-profile campus accidents involving drunk driving have raised awareness of the issue at Brown. A hit-and-run two weeks ago that injured two students came just over a year after the Feb. 12, 2010 death of Avi Schaefer '13 after being struck by a car on Thayer St. Though drunk ...
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To finance projects, U. to take on more debt
By Mark Raymond | April 27The University's debt has risen by almost $500 million over the past decade, largely to finance infrastructure improvements on campus, according to Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. The accumulation of debt is part of a broader trend in higher education, and ...
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Driver gets eight years for death of Schaefer '13
By Katrina Phillips | April 27Daniel Gilcreast, the driver who struck and killed Avi Schaefer '13 last February, was sentenced to eight years in the Adult Corrections Institution in an emotionally charged hearing yesterday.
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Suspects in two-night robbery spree detained
By Lucy Feldman | April 27Five armed robberies occurred on or near Brown's campus early Tuesday morning and yesterday morning. Two suspects, one male and one female, were identified by victims and arrested yesterday morning.
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Fox shifts support from gay marriage to civil unions
By Morgan Johnson | April 27Rhode Island Speaker of the House Gordon Fox, D-Providence, sent a letter to House representatives yesterday announcing his decision to support civil unions after what he deemed to be an unsuccessful attempt to pass gay marriage legislation.
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$5.5 million grant to help fund labs
By Kristina Klara | April 26The University's Center of Biomedical Excellence for Cancer Signaling Networks was recently awarded a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant worth more than $5.5 million to be paid in annual $1.1 million increments for five years. The grant will be used to purchase and maintain new equipment ...
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Forum examines ethics of ROTC
By Caroline Flanagan | April 26Over 100 students, professors and community members crowded into MacMillan 117 last night for the Janus Forum Town Hall panel on the presence of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Brown.
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Faculty considers offering language certificates
By Ashley Aydin | April 26Correction appended.
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Online declaration elicits mixed reactions
By Jackie Choi | April 26The new online system for concentration declarations, instituted for the first time for sophomores and transfer students this spring, has received mixed reviews from students and faculty members.
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DPS arrest records go to FBI
By Jake Comer | April 26Under a federal program recently activated by the state attorney general, anyone arrested by the Department of Public Safety will have their fingerprints and identity submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be run against federal law enforcement records.
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Politician lauds repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
By Shanoor Seervai | April 26As Former Congressman Patrick Murphy walked to the podium yesterday afternoon for the Brown Democrats' John F. Kennedy Jr. Lecture, he offered his hand to the students filling the hall. He sustained this gracious tone throughout the lecture, as he spoke about defending the repeal of "Don't Ask, Don't ...
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Campaign over, U. Hall seeks money elsewhere
By Amy Rasmussen | April 26Total gifts to the University have fallen since the seven-year $1.6 billion Campaign for Academic Enrichment came to a close Dec. 31, said Steven King '91, senior vice president for University advancement, and the University is looking for ways to increase revenue. The question for leaders now will ...
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Students petition against Grad School funding policy
By Caitlin Trujillo | April 26Graduate students petitioned President Ruth Simmons and Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 April 21 to reevaluate the new Graduate School funding policy. The policy, which was finalized March 9, requires graduate students in the humanities and social sciences to apply for additional funds after five ...
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City suggests revised teachers' contract
By Claire Schlessinger | April 26At a hearing last night, the City Council Education Subcommittee presented its recommendations for negotiating a new Providence teachers' contract, the single biggest expense in the city budget and the most costly teacher contract in the state. The current contract is set to expire in August.
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Top high schools find admissions success
By David Chung | April 26Besides rigorous academic curricula, extracurricular opportunities, long histories of distinguished alums and growing national and international reputations, the Harvard-Westlake School and Phillips Academy have something else in common. Both institutions have sent more than 45 graduates each to Brown ...
