Brian Zink was named an assistant dean for medical student career development at the Alpert Medical School Wednesday, a newly created position he will assume Oct. 1.
Arthur Horwich '73 MD'75 will receive the prestigious Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award today for his work on the mechanism by which primary amino acids refold to form their full protein structure.
Receiving $15,000 for a college class might sound like a laughable dream, but in SOC 1870A: "Investing in Social Change," a course offered by the Department of Sociology in conjunction with the Swearer Center for Public Service, that is exactly what happens. There is, of course, a catch — students ...
It has no building yet, but with a $15 million endowment and hundreds of soon-to-be affiliated researchers, the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute promises to make its presence felt in the world of medical research.
NABsys, a Providence biotechnology company with Brown connections whose research could be used to treat cancer, recently raised $10 million in venture capital. Located in the Jewelry District, the company sits in a biotechnology research and life sciences hub that political leaders say is key to the ...
Since filing for bankruptcy Aug. 1, Central Falls has been engaged in an arduous negotiation process as city employees fight to protect the benefits included in their current contracts.
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Rhode Island House and Senate finance committees met yesterday for the second of three joint hearings on fixing the state's escalating pension problems. Sen. Daniel Daponte, D-East Providence and Pawtucket, and chair of the Senate committee on finance, announced that the General Assembly may hold more ...
Adjunct Lecturer of Education Kolajo Afolabi '03 died from an accidental head injury sustained during a morning jog yesterday.
Four months after Commencement, Alex Morse '11 still has a ways to go before landing a job.
President Ruth Simmons received $656,683 in total compensation during the 2009 calendar year, down from $884,771 in 2008. Compensation figures for top officials in 2009, including salaries, bonuses, benefits and deferred compensation, are listed on the Internal Revenue Service's Form 990, which all ...
The hassle of abandoning wet clothing to refill a vending stripe in one of the University's oft-broken Card Value Center machines may become a thing of the past next semester. A system under review, which would make the vending stripes on Brown ID cards obsolete, would be "a revision and update of the ...
The University will make a major announcement within the next several weeks regarding the Humanities Initiative, a multidisciplinary effort launched last year to strengthen teaching and research in the humanities.
Summer programs run through the Office of Continuing Education brought in around $4 million for the University this summer, up from $2.9 million in summer 2010.
There has been an increase in student demand over the past five years for Psychological Services, according to Director Belinda Johnson. Johnson largely attributed the increase to greater student awareness of available resources.
Tupac lives on in library archives
The Senate Corporations Committee approved Gov. Lincoln Chafee's '75 P'14 nominations to the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission at its hearing yesterday, green-lighting the roster for a vote by the full Senate Thursday.
In line with University goals, Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology David Rand P'12 says he will take an interdisciplinary approach to expanding research in his new role as director of the Center for Computational Molecular Biology. Rand, who replaced the center's former director, Professor ...
For a backpack containing "Grant's Atlas of Anatomy," "Junquiera's Basic Histology" and "Bates' Guide to Physical Examination and History Taking," Corey Spiro's MD'15 bag is remarkably light. Combined, the books weigh less than 1.33 pounds — the e-books, that is.
International students were responsible for a disproportionately high number of academic code violations brought before the Academic Code Committee last academic year, prompting the University to improve the support and information provided to international students this year.
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