A 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.
Every 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.
The 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, ...
Since 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 ...
The 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 ...
Daniel 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.
Five 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.
Rhode 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.
The 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 ...
Over 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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The 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.
Under 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.
As 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 ...
Total 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 ...
Graduate 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 ...
At 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.
Besides 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 ...
As of Sunday, only 766 students had responded to a survey issued by the Undergraduate Council of Students last week to collect student opinion on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, said Katherine Bergeron, dean of the College and chair of the Committee on ROTC, at yesterday's Brown Community Council ...
Correction appended. When they return in the fall, students will have the option of a new off-campus meal plan that will allow them to use a credit-and-point system at Thayer Street venues as an alternative or addition to other meal plan options. The MunchCard plan is the brainchild of four Brown ...
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