In an effort to cope with a number of recent incidents, the Providence Public School District is reevaluating its bullying and harassment policy.
Cyberbullying prevention advocates are pressing forward with an attempt to present legislation in the Rhode Island General Assembly. Members of the Special Senate Commission on Cyberbullying and Cyberthreats are leading a series of town hall-style meetings with students and administrators before crafting ...
Quitting smoking helps reduce symptoms of depression, according to a study by Christopher Kahler, professor of community health. The six-month study examined a group of people seeking treatment to help them quit smoking and was designed to assess how quitting affected their mood.
Disability Support Services will change its name to Student and Employee Accessibility Services at the end of the current academic year in hopes of increasing its presence on campus, according to Catherine Axe, director of the office. General misunderstanding of its services has prevented members of ...
Although Rhode Island's unemployment rate of 11.5 percent has remained the fifth highest in the country for the past 22 months, Brown has been able to keep its employment rate relatively stable.
While the owner of the security firm accused of participating in witness intimidation in the William McCormick case denies wrongdoing in a November deposition obtained by The Herald, his testimony fails to put the issue to rest.
Five Brown professors were elected fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science this December.
More than 380 students will have to search for a new course to take this semester, as the Department of Political Science has capped POLS1510: "Great Powers and Empires" to 300 students.
Twenty-four undergraduates have applied for the two student seats on the University committee formed to consider the return of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps to campus. According to Diane Mokoro '11, president of the Undergraduate Council of Students, the two undergraduate committee members will ...
Assistant Professor of Anthropology Jessaca Leinaweaver won the 2010 Margaret Mead Award for her first published book, "The Circulation of Children: Kinship, Adoption, and Morality in Andean Peru." The award, given each year by the American Anthropological Association and the Society for Applied Anthropology, ...
This article has been updated to include comment from Michael Geisler, vice president for language schools, schools abroad and graduate programs at Middlebury.
For 10 years, students have ventured off campus seeking the overcrowded dance floor, the blaring pop music and the copious drinks. But Brown's Wednesday-night tradition has come to an end with the closing of the Fish Company.
From the author of "The Pentagram Integrals for Inscribed Polygons" and "Spherical CR Geometry and Dehn Surgery" comes "You Can Count on Monsters," a colorful picture book featuring 100 math-themed monsters. Professor of Mathematics Richard Schwartz's first children's book offers young children a unique ...
August 30, 2006 — First-year orientation begins for William McCormick, then a member of the Class of 2010 and a wrestling recruit.
The fourth floor of the Sciences Library and a small area on Level A of the Rockefeller Library were recently renovated to create additional places for quiet study.
The Office of International Programs will announce today the launch of "Brown Plus One" — a program that will allow juniors to begin earning a master's degree from either the Chinese University of Hong Kong or The University of Edinburgh.
As temperatures plummeted during the month of January, Rhode Island policymakers turned their attention to the state's homeless population.
In pursuit of a priceless relic that has been missing for more than 30 years, the University is suing the city of Newport News, Va. and noted Civil War collectors Donald and Toni Tharpe for the return of a Tiffany and Company silver presentation sword and ornamental scabbard.
The two Brown students studying abroad in Alexandria, Egypt through a Middlebury College program are safe after being evacuated from Alexandria's Borg el Arab airport to Prague late Monday night. Program administrators decided to pull participating students, including Michael Dawkins '12 and Amanda ...
While many students choose to spend a semester eating baguettes in Paris or churros in Barcelona, others explore cities closer to home through Brown's Study Away in the USA option. In recent years, Philadelphia, New York and Boulder, Colo., have all played host to students looking for a different experience ...
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