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Employees put off retirement to retain health care
By Jordan Hendricks | September 27Correction appended.
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Nanomaterials studies advance cancer research
By Hannah Kerman | September 27Behind the purple doors of a sixth-floor Barus and Holley Lab, Thomas Webster, associate professor of engineering, works small but thinks big. His work with nanomaterials, tiny devices implanted into the human body, has led to a potential breakthrough in cancer research.
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With downturn, some grads reconsider law
By Aparna Bansal | September 27Graduating from college and getting into law school used to be a sure path to a lucrative job. But with thousands of law school graduates entering a shrinking labor market each year, job prospects are growing dimmer.
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Landline users not ready to be put on hold
By Kate Nussenbaum | September 26Only 200 students have activated their free voicemail boxes this year, though around 4,000 are eligible to do so, said Kathy D'Aguanno, director of finance and administration for Computing and Information Services. Individual voicemail accounts are provided to each student living on campus through their ...
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Police fight to contain partying students
By Inni Youh | September 26Over a dozen police officers and four ambulances arrived at a University of Rhode Island fraternity party in South Kingston Thursday night when 500 people surrounded a fight that spread into the street.
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Partnership to fill shelves in bankrupt city's school
By Alexandra Macfarlane | September 26The President's Staff Advisory Council, in partnership with the Brown Bookstore, is launching a pilot program to collect book donations to put 500 books in the new library at a Central Falls middle school, the Segue Institute for Learning.
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Drive-in: More food trucks hit College Hill streets
By Sophia Seawell | September 26Students tired of eating dinner at the Sharpe Refectory or in need a late-night snack are more likely than ever to find a food truck nearby to fill their stomachs. In addition to staples such as Mama Kim's, the campus now hosts a number of new trucks whose options are not limited to food. Mijos, which ...
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No Google+ for Brown Gmail users
By Katherine Cusumano | September 26Google+ was not among the 10 Google Apps made available to Brown Gmail users by Computing and Information Services July 14. The social network is not yet available to Google Apps, the service through which Brown Gmail is run.
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R.I. undocumented students' tuition changed
By Nicole Grabel | September 26Following many hours of heated public debate Monday night, the Rhode Island Board of Governors for Higher Education voted unanimously to allow undocumented students in Rhode Island to pay in-state tuition to attend public colleges and universities. The change will go into effect for the 2012 fall semester. ...
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Average statewide SAT scores drop
By Elizabeth Carr | September 26Average SAT scores for public school seniors in Rhode Island — and across the country — dropped this year, but the lower scores are not a reflection of intelligence, experts are saying.
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Achebe joins Africana writers in historic panel
By Tonya Riley | September 26African music percolated with excited chatter as a crowd waited to hear Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe kick off the Department of Africana Studies 2011-12 Conversations in Africana Writing Series Monday. Achebe and other authors were featured in a panel titled "Voice and Memory in the Poetic ...
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Former professor warns of technology's dangers
By Izzy Rattner | September 26The University honored its 150-year-old Federal Depository Library yesterday with a ceremony and a cautionary talk on technology by former political science professor Darrell West.
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Keeping kosher, but not with meal plans
By Hannah Loewentheil | September 26Correction appended.
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Former Cosa Nostra restaurant gets new management, name
By Max Ernst | September 25Once Via Via IV, then Cosa Nostra, the restaurant on Meeting Street is now claiming its third name in a year: Prince Cafe and Restaurant. Mohamed Badr, the restaurant's owner, changed its name Aug. 1 and expanded its cuisine to include Mediterranean dishes along with its traditional array of Italian ...
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Bears Lair bare without machines
By Joseph Rosales | September 25Sam Williams '12 wakes earlier this semester, knowing she will have to wait for machines at the Bears Lair satellite fitness center. Julie Rodriguez '14 has postponed her workouts on certain days because she cannot afford to waste time in line for one of the two remaining treadmills.
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Undergrads give high marks to academics
By Jake Comer | September 25A majority of students rate their educational experience at Brown as "excellent," according to the 2011 enrolled student survey, whose findings were released Thursday. Two thirds of all undergraduates participated in the confidential electronic survey, which the Office of Institutional Research kept ...
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Central Falls receiver fires police chief
By Elizabeth Carr | September 25State-appointed Receiver Robert Flanders Jr. '71 fired Central Falls Police Chief Joseph Moran III Friday, along with a prosecution clerk for the police department and a deputy city clerk. The firings were part of a series of cost-cutting measures to help rescue the bankrupt city.
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In GeoChem, greater density the result of compression at depth
By Maddie Berg | September 25Despite admitting a similar number of prospective students as in previous years, the Department of Geological Sciences matriculated 18 graduate students this year, a large increase compared to the average class of 12 students. Though the department had no trouble funding its incoming class, the ...
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Program markets College Hill homes
By Kyle McNamara | September 25Brown plans to put more than 20 houses on the market to sell to faculty and staff at 80 percent of their assessed market value.
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Canvas slated to replace MyCourses
By Sahil Luthra | September 24Clarification appended.
