President Ruth Simmons will travel to Houston early next week on a fact-finding trip with Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 and other Rhode Island leaders. This is the first of several trips to innovative U.S. cities that the Chafee administration says will inform the governor's plans to enhance Rhode Island's ...
Three Brown alums — Lee Golini '03, Matthew Madison '05 and Jose Florentino-Reyes '08 — have applied to open a medical marijuana compassion center in North Kingston. Submitting one of 18 applications for at most three compassion center licenses, the alums proposed to create the Chronic Pain ...
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Gospel music, a speech by Professor of Economics Glenn Loury and a surprise appearance by Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 marked the second annual Black History Month celebration at the State House last night. The celebration, which also featured a performance of Martin Luther King Jr.'s "Drum Major Instinct" ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students elected a representative to the Campus Access Advisory Committee, reviewed potential changes to the UCS Code of Operations regarding student activities and discussed projects currently in progress at its meeting last night.
The International Writers Project can continue funding its fellowship after securing two substantial gifts this month.
The international relations concentration requirements have been adjusted for sophomores, program directors announced at an open meeting yesterday. Many sophomores will now have more flexibility fulfilling core class requirements, and they will not have to align their regional courses with their chosen ...
The month-long rush process began Jan. 31, and campus Greek organizations have a wide range of events planned for new recruits — including Sushi and Haiku with Alpha Delta Phi, Under the Sea with Alpha Chi Omega and Hookah and Mediterranean Night with Delta Tau.
Last night the Westin Providence hotel and union workers of Unite Here Local 217, came to an agreement on a contract ending a labor dispute that started in March. At a press conference — which organizers held in both English and Spanish — workers rejoiced with cries of, "I have my job back!" ...
Fiona Condon '12 was reading over a project handout for her computer science class. The prompt presented a hypothetical scenario, and while some students might have been amused, Condon found it "a little off-putting."
The Curricular Resource Center approved 22 Group Independent Study Projects this semester, more than twice the number offered in the fall. The rise is a result of the center's push to renew student interest in GISPs — which provide the opportunity for students to collaboratively design and lead ...
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Romeo Ramirez of the Coalition of Immokalee Workers and Meghan Cohorst of the Student/Farmworker Alliance shared the coalition's next steps in the Campaign for Fair Food with a large audience in MacMillan 117 Saturday.
The Corporation approved an $834.3 million budget, raised tuition and increased enrollment for the 2012 fiscal year at its meeting Saturday.
The Corporation's Committee on Budget and Finance approved the search for an architect to renovate Hunter Laboratory at its meeting this weekend. The Committee on Facilities and Design, which is in charge of the search, hopes to have a recommendation for the Corporation in time for its May meeting, ...
From Rhode Island to Hawaii, high school students are learning environmental leadership through programs offered by the Brown Leadership Institute, a pre-college program that teaches high school students interested in global issues to take action in their own communities.
A year has passed since the death of Avi Schaefer '13, but the words he published early in his first year still stand strong. Schaefer's death has had a more lasting impact on the Brown community than most.
A banner reading "Corporate Criminals Run Brown" appeared on Wayland Arch facing Wriston Quadrangle Friday evening, a day before this weekend's meeting of the Corporation. Less than 24 hours later, the banner had been taken down.
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