William Rhodes '57, former senior vice chairman of Citigroup and Citibank, has accepted an appointment to a five-year term as professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies.
A $7.5 million grant to Brown will fund a new Alcohol Research Center on HIV to study the effect of alcohol consumption in people with the virus. According to a University press release, the study will investigate the "physiological and behavioral" issues that arise from consumption of alcohol by individuals ...
AT&T and the AT&T Foundation are offering new media fellowships of up to $1,500 through the Watson Institute for International Studies for students wishing to "pursue innovative international projects" over winter break.
How would you get from your dorm room to a class on the third floor of Wilson Hall? This might sound like an easy question — but now imagine trying it in a wheelchair.
The University is working to make more scholarship funds available for international students, mainly through the work of a student group and fundraisers, as part of its overall goals to internationalize and increase cultural and socioeconomic diversity on campus.
The contract between the University and the libraries union was extended for the third time Friday evening when negotiators once again failed to reach an agreement.
The Transportation Office now uses a third-party company to collect fines for unpaid parking tickets issued on campus.
Some students check their Brown e-mail every day. Some do it every hour. But imagine not being able to access it for three months — that's what some international students from China were dealing with this past summer.
Forty-two students were cited with potential violations of the Academic Code last academic year — with nearly 70 percent of the cases coming from the Department of Computer Science, according to a faculty committee's report released this month.
The number of students concentrating in history has sharply declined over the past few years, according to Nancy Jacobs, director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History.
Students in large concentrations often relish the opportunity to trade big lecture halls for the intimacy of the seminar room. For students in small concentrations, tight-knit seminars and personal attention are the rule, not the exception.
Joel Klein, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education, is not quite sure how he got his job, or how he has kept it for eight years. The nontraditional education reformer spoke Thursday about the problems in the American education system, and the difficult, but necessary, task of improvement. ...
Global Independent Study Projects — GLISPs — are entering their second year with more students than ever. This fall, 19 students embarked on the projects, compared to the 14 students who participated in the pilot program last fall, and 11 last spring.
Nearly a month after its original Sept. 30 expiration date, the twice-extended contract between the University and the library workers union is set to expire today.
The Jewish vote "doesn't seem to matter" in determining the outcome of U.S. presidential elections, political scientist Bryan Daves argued Thursday evening. The Yeshiva University professor presented his study of election data to about 15 students and faculty at the Watson Institute for International ...
The moon's surface is surprisingly wet and complex, according to results from NASA's Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite, or LCROSS, mission published Oct. 22. LCROSS, which includes Brown researchers, intentionally slammed a rocket into the moon's south pole last October. The collision ...
Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 delved into budgetary matters at Wednesday's open forum of the University Resources Committee, discussing the role of tuition increases and financial aid in the University's plan to balance its books after losing nearly $740 million from the endowment in fiscal year ...
In one solitary corner of an otherwise still Pembroke campus last Thursday, freshly carved jack o' lanterns illuminated the beaming faces of first-years hailing from Africa to Asia, from Brazil to Beijing. The pumpkin-carving event, a program sponsored annually by the International Mentorship Program, ...
The University defended its specific positions on the ongoing library contract negotiations for the first time since the contract was extended after the two sides failed to reach an agreement.
For as long as underage college students have found ways to drink illegally, officials have sought new ways to enforce the law. The Rhode Island State Police Department's Oct. 5 announcement of the Underage Drinking and Nightclub Safety Task Force is the most recent example of that pattern.
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