A professor and three students studying abroad in Kyoto, Japan, are safe after an 8.9 magnitude earthquake Friday triggered a tsunami that hit Japan's northeastern coast.
In an effort to sustain the fundraising momentum initially sparked by the Campaign for Academic Enrichment, which ended in Dec. 31, the Corporation has formed the Committee on Development, which will oversee all University fundraising.
The 2008 Plan for Academic Enrichment set a goal of offering 75 first-year seminars by 2010. As of the 2011 spring semester, the registrar's office lists 74 first-year seminars on record. Despite being one course short of the goal, Kathleen McSharry, associate dean for writing and issues of chemical ...
Five days after University researchers released a poll showing public division over immigration issues, academic and policy leaders met for a conference entitled "Policy and Demographics in Rhode Island: A Symposium on Immigrants and Immigration in the State" Saturday in MacMillan 117, adding a human ...
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In an effort to increase both the amount and quality of undergraduate on-campus housing, the University is renovating the building at 315 Thayer St. and considering several possible spaces for new residence halls which, while still years away, would be part of a "larger plan" for revamping the housing ...
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The Office of Residential Life has initiated discussion about possible reorganization and expansion of campus residence and dining halls. The ideas proposed include moving all first-years to either Keeney Quandrangle or Pembroke Campus, expanding the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall, renovating the Sharpe ...
Despite the University's perch atop College Hill, students have a long history of engagement with the Providence Public School District. With more than 60 outreach programs in local schools, Brown has a sizable presence within the district. But Rhode Island's education system is in dire straits, and ...
The Graduate School finalized a new standardized method of awarding funds to sixth-year doctoral candidates yesterday. Funding available for sixth-year students used to depend on the size of the incoming graduate class, but the Grad School will now put aside a set amount of funding for sixth-year students ...
The University is considering the creation of an energy science concentration, according to Peter Weber P'12, dean of the Graduate School. The Academic Priorities Committee recommended increasing support for energy science in the October update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment.
A bill in the General Assembly would prohibit people ages 18 to 21 from attending nightclubs where alcohol is served — just one of a series of measures related to alcohol and drunk driving under consideration by state lawmakers.
Brendan Doherty, superintendent of the Rhode Island State Police, announced his resignation March 3, a week after he spoke out in support of the federal immigration enforcement program known as Secure Communities. The public resignation followed a high-profile exchange in which top law enforcement officials ...
The faculty approved a proposal from the Graduate School to create a master's program in clinical and translational research at its meeting March 1.
The number of security cameras on campus has increased by nearly 40 percent in the past three years to about 250 cameras this year, according to Chief of Police Mark Porter. In 2008, there were 180 security cameras on campus, up from just 60 in 2000.
Since studying abroad together in Alexandria, Egypt, and then evacuating the country together by way of Prague, Michael Dawkins '12 and Amanda Labora '12.5 have taken very different paths. While Dawkins has returned to campus to resume classes, Labora is taking a semester off for Arabic study in Syria ...
A bill proposed by state Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence and Cranston, would grant cities and towns the authority to assess a fee on tax-exempt hospitals and private institutions of higher education like Brown. Carnavales introduced the bill on the same day that Providence Mayor Angel Taveras announced ...
Aug. 30, 2006 — First-year orientation begins for William McCormick, then a member of the Class of 2010 and a wrestling recruit.
Seven top University administrators pulled back the curtain on hot-button issues including the international student experience and faculty tenure during the second annual State of Brown address yesterday in Salomon 101. In a departure from last year's format, which featured a keynote address from President ...
In response to recent bias-related incidents, University of Rhode Island President David Dooley issued a campus-wide memo Feb. 23 stating that hate-related behavior would not be tolerated.
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