Tougaloo College was removed from the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools' warning list this June after the association's Commission on Colleges found the institution's financial standing to have improved since its July 2009 sanction.
The Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology will feature an exhibit about Columbus Day in response to the Fall Weekend name change. The exhibit will go up in October and will be part of the current "Reimagining the Americas" exhibition.
A University sign has been added and the boards have been removed from the windows and doors, but the former house of the prominent African-American painter Edward Banister remains as vacant as it has been for the past several years.
Business is booming at the new and improved Blue Room, as students take advantage of extended hours and new menu options.
The joint doctoral program at the Alpert Medical School may be putting new admissions on hold due to financial constraints, said Philip Gruppuso, associate dean for medicine education and interim director of the joint program.
Costs of Care, a nonprofit organization founded by a recent grad, recently launched a national essay contest on the cost of healthcare. Two $1000 prizes will be awarded for anecdotes that best illustrate the importance of cost-awareness in medicine.
Providence residents gave feedback last week on the proposed installation of a streetcar system connecting College Hill with four other neighborhoods throughout the city at a series of open houses hosted by the city of Providence and the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority.
John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, predicted Monday night that "Israel faces a bleak future as a Jewish state."
The Alpert Medical School has expanded its partnership with Lifespan, amending an existing affiliation agreement meant to bring the Med School and Lifespan hospitals into closer alignment. The two institutions formally announced the agreement at a press meeting Monday.
The Underground is back in business.
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There is the slightest hint of change hanging in the musty air of the Friedman Study Center. Physically the computer clusters look the same, but the home screen has exchanged its brooding black monochrome for an ethereal blue-green. This is the first evidence cluster-users have of the new software upgrade. ...
Members of emPOWER have recently formed a new student group to raise awareness about environmental issues.
On Sept. 20, students in the first-year seminar ETHN 0090A: "The Border/La Frontera" got a closer look at the impact of the border issues they study in class. They attended the play "La Casa Rosa" — performed by Soame Citlalime, a group of 30 women from San Francisco Tetlanohcan, Mexico — ...
Brown's network-based online file storage program, MyStuff, was discontinued Saturday.
Aisles and floors full of students desperately trying to fit into a classroom or a lecture hall are a common sight at the beginning of each semester. According to University Registrar Robert Fitzgerald, it is part of the reality of Brown's approach to shopping period.
About 200 scholars from 55 countries visited Brown for three weeks in June for a hybrid program of lectures, group work, round tables, field trips and social events.
In the newly reopened Blue Room, customers have found themselves surrounded by signs of change: an array of locally prepared food items, longer hours — and no microwaves.
Joanna Cain, professor and chair of obstetrics and gynecology at Alpert Medical School, is now at the forefront of the global fight against cervical cancer. In her position as leader of a new World Health Organization committee for fighting the disease, she will be dedicated to revising and implementing ...
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