This week, for the fourth year in a row, President Ruth Simmons is joining global leaders from business, politics and other fields at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. The event, which began Jan. 26 and ends Jan. 30, allows Simmons to develop relationships with university ...
Two undergraduates made efficient use of their time — impressing judges and winning cash prizes in 90 seconds — Dec. 8 at an elevator pitch contest held at the Rhode Island Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship in Providence.
When Brunonians exit through the Van Wickle Gates during commencement, they take with them ideas cultivated in classrooms and steeped in academic rhetoric. With some fresh air, those ideas can grow to be bigger than their originators.
No longer will students be going to great lengths — donning Speedo bathing suits, fleeing bears on the main green, performing naked birthday a capella — in pursuit of the first pick in the housing lottery. The first pick video competition will be replaced by a drawing this year, to take ...
Rhode Island was overwhelmed with nearly 20 inchess of now over winter break, and it shows no signs of slowing down.
Luigi "Baby Shacks" Manocchio, 83, former longtime boss of the New England-based Patriarca crime family, was arrested Jan. 20 along with 126 other members of the mob and known La Cosa Nostra associates during what officials call the biggest mob take-down in Federal Bureau of Investigation history. The ...
Bolstered by support from newly elected Governor Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14, legislation to legalize gay marriage in Rhode Island has a better chance of passage than in years past.
While his peers were wrapping up their winter breaks and returning to campus, Alex Morse '11 was kicking off his political career. The urban studies concentrator announced his candidacy for mayor of his hometown, Holyoke, Mass., on Tuesday.
Brown's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies recommended at its Dec. 6 meeting that the University not reinvest in HEI Hotels and Resorts.
In its latest effort to integrate the sciences and the arts, the Rhode Island School of Design hosted a collaborative workshop Jan. 20 and 21. A "groundbreaking" achievement for an art school, the workshop was funded by a grant from the National Science Foundation, said Christopher Rose, a visiting ...
Students rushing to buy course materials for their first days of classes will have a shorter time to return textbooks to the Brown Bookstore.
Tonight, for the first time in many years, students will not mark the first day of classes by heading to the South Water Street bar the Fish Company.
President Ruth Simmons has convened a committee to review Brown's policy towards the Reserve Officer Training Corp program, according to a University press release from mid-January. In an e-mail Tuesday morning to the student body, Undergraduate Council of Students President Diane Mokoro '11 wrote that ...
As students settle back into their Providence homes and dive into the often hectic shopping period, the Office of Admission will continue to review over 31,000 applications they received for the class of 2015, a task which has been underway for more than a month. This year's record-breaking number represents ...
Richard Holbrooke '62, distinguished public servant, died Dec. 13 after undergoing emergency surgery to repair a torn aorta. He was a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at the time of his death.
The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts — the newest building on campus — opens to the public today. The building, located on the Walk between Angell and Olive streets just west of the Brown Bookstore, will provide a common space for interaction between different programs in the ...
The Third World Center has begun its search for a new director, following a semester under the interim leadership of Associate Protestant University Chaplain Reverend William Mathis.
A Warwick man was stabbed on Thayer Street outside Cafe Paragon following a verbal argument on the night of Jan. 16.
The Alpert Medical School did not accept transfer students for the current academic year due to alterations in its clerkship curriculum, according to Philip Gruppuso, associate dean for medical education.
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