The University will not allow students to study abroad in Japan this spring, Kendall Brostuen, associate dean of the College and director of international programs, wrote last night in an email to The Herald. The six students who would have studied in Japan will be offered spots at Dartmouth for its ...
Innovative students now have access to a new source of funding, as the University continues to increase its entrepreneurial support. The Brown Venture Launch Fund — a collaboration between the Dean of the College, the Social Innovation Initiative at the Swearer Center for Public Service and the ...
Though Providence Mayor Angel Taveras is reviewing recommendations to garner more revenue from non-profits, representatives of the city's hospitals and higher education institutions said officials have not yet approached them about increasing contributions to the city.
Associate Professor of Education Jin Li filed a complaint in federal court late last month against the University in response to a Brown Institutional Review Board decision that blocked her from publishing three years worth of data from her study on the education and socialization of Chinese immigrant ...
Do you think the ban on ROTC should be lifted? Strongly approve: 16.94% Somewhat approve: 25.93% Not familiar enough to answer: 20.45% Somewhat disapprove: 13.95% Strongly disapprove: 9.71% No opinion: 13.02% What school was your first choice when applying to college? Brown: 64.25% Harvard: ...
Without his Providence public school education, Mayor Angel Taveras would not be where he is today, he told audience members at a forum to address pending school closings. But, he said, the city's fiscal challenges require overhauling the school system to cut costs, meaning fewer schools and unwanted ...
Correction appended. There is no consensus among students concerning the campus ban on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, according to a Herald poll conducted last week. The poll addressed a variety of issues including student approval of campus leadership and the effect of overcrowded housing. More ...
Writing resumes, finding internships and interviewing for jobs can be additional burdens to an already stressful academic workload. But initiatives planned by the Career Development Center to improve the career advising and internship search experience will increase the number of internships available ...
Shaky camera footage taken of the March 11 earthquake that hit Japan ignited Salomon 101 last night. In the recording — shot by a civilian during the 9.0 magnitude quake — the ground heaves up and down, wiping out an entire neighborhood. Observers at a higher elevation watch in horror.
To increase access to documents important for the University's reaccreditation process, the library will incorporate an assessment archive into the Brown Digital Repository, a database created in 2009 to centralize academic documents.
Five Brown students and three University of Rhode Island students are getting a firsthand look into the world of entrepreneurship in the life sciences through a fellowship program run by the Rhode Island-based Slater Technology Fund. The Entrepreneurial Fellows Program, now in its third year, offers ...
The unstable condition of nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-ichi power plant — about 160 miles outside Tokyo — could prevent six Brown students from attending programs at Keio, Sophia and Waseda Universities this semester.
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The University will establish a fund for relief efforts in Japan following Friday's earthquake and tsunami, President Ruth Simmons announced in an e-mail to the Brown community yesterday afternoon. A committee also met yesterday to discuss contingency plans for students studying abroad or planning to ...
Unlimited, free online access to New York Times articles — a resource as vital for students as food, coffee and spicies with — came under threat yesterday morning. But it appears the University Library will come to distressed students' rescue.
There is a "difference between information and knowledge," Vartan Gregorian, former president of the University, told an enthralled audience of 200 celebrating the centennial of the John Hay Library in a lecture yesterday afternoon.
Sporting a tie of festive green, former Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci strode down the aisle of Macmillan 117 to the enthusiastic applause of a smattering of students and community members.
Sara Bohnsack MAT'11 leads a game of word jeopardy in a fifth-grade classroom at the Paul Cuffee School in Providence. "If I told you that you'd never have to do homework again, some of you might respond by doing this," she reads from a clue. Some of the students act out the correct vocabulary word ...
Pawtucket Mayor Don Grebien has proposed sharing certain municipal services with the city of Central Falls to cut costs and generate revenue for both cities. The city of Pawtucket, which has a deficit of $9 million in its current budget, would benefit from providing services to the smaller Central Falls, ...
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