The majority of undergraduate students say they are single and about one-third report they are in an exclusive relationship, according to a recent Herald poll.
For the more than 30,000 students who applied to Brown this year, the popular college admissions Web site College Confidential, whether reliable or not, acted as a prime source of information about the school.
In response to historic flooding across much of Rhode Island at the end of March, the University donated $50,000 last week to the United Way of Rhode Island's Flood Recovery Fund. Brown community members affected by the flood have also begun to take advantage of University emergency relief programs. ...
AIDS Relief International, a nonprofit organization started by seven Brown juniors that seeks to support people living with HIV and AIDS, is currently developing a pilot program in Mumbai, India. Led by Harish Pathak, the director of the Mumbai District AIDS Control Society, the pilot program will bring ...
A new breakthrough software system, designed by Ryan Tarpine GS, is allowing biologists to find their way through the genomic DNA sequence. The program, called the CYRENE cisGRN Browser, determines the regions of new genomes that scientists do not understand well or do not know yet.The Browser is "like ...
Students crowded Sayles Hall Tuesday evening for the first night of the housing lottery — three-and-a-half hours of tension, anxiety and excitement as the lottery's first 469 numbers were called.
Despite the numerical impossibility, the average Brown undergraduate is self-proclaimed to be above average — as far as looks go, at least — according to last month's Herald poll. Over 72 percent of surveyed students classified themselves as somewhat or very physically attractive in relation ...
This Friday is the deadline for students to fill out and submit their forms for the 2010 U.S. Census.The census, a survey conducted by the U.S. government every 10 years to determine how many people are in the U.S. and where they reside, aims to "count people at their usual residence, which is the place ...
The Swearer Center for Public Service will be making a number of budget cuts as part of an overall budgeting policy unveiled by the University in memos released Sept. 29 and Feb. 2.
Faculty members and administrators engaged in a heated discussion at Tuesday afternoon's faculty forum about the changes to the tenure review process recommended last month in a report by the ad hoc Committee to Review Tenure and Faculty Development. To accommodate a large crowd, the forum was held ...
Lee Ann Herring-Olvedo '11 defies all stereotypes, and with a vengeance. The junior is concentrating in Educational Studies, she hopes to enter Brown's Masters of Arts in Teaching program and she plans to apply to Yale Law School — on top of maintaining her responsibilities within the Miss Rhode ...
Minors in Rhode Island will be unable to use tanning salons, even with their parents' permission, if a bill under consideration in the Rhode Island Senate passes.
A federal judge unsealed a civil case against the University, President Ruth Simmons, several other administrators and staff members, a female student and her father Monday at a hearing in Rhode Island District Court.
On the heels of the announcement that the Undergraduate Finance Board voted to end funding for tableslips, 52.4 percent of students said they would approve of eliminating tableslips in favor of centralized announcements, according a recent Herald poll.
In the past two months, Mayor David Cicilline '83 has amassed almost three-quarters of a million dollars to fund his bid for Rhode Island's first congressional seat.
Monday was a good day for New York Times reporter Anthony Shadid.
Candles flickered Monday in the palms of the 18 people who came to commemorate the plane crash that killed Polish President Lech Kaczysnki and numerous Polish government officials on Saturday. The afternoon vigil was held in Manning Chapel.
Tickets for Saturday's Gala went back on sale Sunday after being put on hold Thursday, a few days after Student Labor Alliance members informed the event's organizers of claims of unfair labor practices made by workers at the Westin Providence hotel, the previously scheduled location.The Gala will instead ...
Red brick buildings, wide campus greens, the New Curriculum, the Van Wickle Gates: these ideas represent Brown to the outside world.
Researchers at Brown have received over $28 million in funding from the National Institutes of Health so far in the federal government's current fiscal year, which began Oct. 1.
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