The Meiklejohn Peer Advising Program saw a 5 percent decrease in the number of applicants this year, from 517 in 2010 to 492 this spring. Last year, the number of applications increased 38 percent over 2009.
Oludurotimi Adetunji embarks on his first day as Brown's director of scientific outreach today. The new position is "a recognition on the part of the University that we need to pay attention to outreach," said David Targan, associate dean of the College for science education. Dean of the College Katherine ...
Brown admitted 8.7 percent of applicants, accepting a total of 2,692 students from 79 countries for the class of 2015. The University received a record-high 30,946 applications — a 3 percent increase over last year. The 8.7 percent acceptance rate is the lowest in Brown's history.
Michael Kennedy, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, will step down at the end of the academic year, Provost David Kertzer ‘69 P'95 P'98 wrote in an email to faculty Friday.
NEW YORK — President Ruth Simmons spoke about remembering slavery and Brown's recognition of its historical ties to the slave trade in her keynote address at the United Nations General Assembly's fourth annual international slavery remembrance day March 25 in New York City.
Nearly four decades after brutally murdering a five-year-old South Kingstown boy, Michael Woodmansee is slated to be released this August, 12 years before completing his full sentence. The prospect of his release has fueled anger across the state as residents question why a prison system designed to ...
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Education Commissioner Deborah Gist expressed optimism about the implementation of federal Race to the Top funding and the current outlook for the state's education program in front of the Rhode Island House of Representatives Health, Education and Welfare Committee yesterday. She did not touch on recent ...
At a meeting to address the announced Providence school closings yesterday at Classical High School, upset students, teachers and parents loudly expressed opposition and urged the Providence Public School Board to reconsider the city's decision to close their schools.
Study abroad applications for this fall jumped to 310, up from 243 applications for last fall. But applications for programs in the Middle East did not see a similar rise — the Office of International Programs received 11 applications for programs in the region, the same number as last year.
The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution to increase water availability in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center and discussed the categorizations of approximately 30 student groups at its general body meeting last night. In response to complaints the council has received from students ...
The University Library is struggling to obtain student and faculty feedback on a one-month trial of a materials science database, said Lee Pedersen, scholarly resources librarian. The database — called Material ConneXion — provides information about a wide variety of materials often used ...
Garbed in formal black and red attire and hoisting medieval-looking banners, a faction of the American Society for the Defense of Tradition, Family and Property — a national organization that opposes gay marriage — descended on the Main Green at approximately 11 a.m. yesterday. The men were there ...
The University Library will continue to provide students with full same-day online access to New York Times articles after the paper erects its pay wall March 28, though the format for reading articles will be different from the Times' website.
As stimulus funds run dry and federal agencies tighten their budgets, the University plans to increasingly turn to corporate-sponsored research.
During finals season, throngs of bleary-eyed students flock to the libraries and do not emerge for what seems like eons. People stare angrily at textbooks, willing themselves to absorb the information — and praying to just get a good grade in that class.
A panel of four professors with expertise relating to the Japanese earthquake and tsunami met yesterday evening to ask how a country should preemptively prepare for an event that may or may not happen — but could have a catastrophic effect. In front of a half-full MacMillan 115, the professors ...
The Coalition of Bands at Brown is hoping to increase funds and equipment to better accommodate independent musicians on campus.
Professor of Physics Humphrey Maris will receive the 2011 Fritz London Memorial Prize at the 26th International Conference on Low Temperature Physics for developing a method to track the activity of a single electron in liquid helium.
Two students have reactivated the Brown chapter of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity, Inc. this year. The historically black fraternity was deactivated in 2003 — when its last member graduated — but has been revived by Raymond Jackson '12 and Marc Howland '11.
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