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Grant funds media projects abroad, online
By Ashley Aydin | April 18This summer, 11 students will travel to nine countries on a new fellowship funded by a $100,000 AT&T grant awarded last fall to the Watson Institute for International Studies. The grant, given by the AT&T Foundation and AT&T Corporation to fund new media projects, is meant to create new forms of communication ...
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Essayist John D'Agata shares eclectic writing
By Anish Gonchigar | April 15Essayist John D'Agata read from his latest book, "About a Mountain," to a crowd of about 60 people in the English department's McCormack Family Theater Thursday night. D'Agata, a professor of English at the University of Iowa, merges ordinarily separate literary techniques, such as fictional storytelling, ...
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Over 700 visit the Hill for a taste of Brown
By Ana Alvarez | April 15After a record number of applications and months of student planning, A Day on College Hill welcomed over 700 prospective students to the sunny Brown campus. The two-day event, which gives admitted students a taste of life at Brown, officially began Thursday afternoon. Many prospective students had ...
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Corporation fellow investigated for kickbacks
By Alicia Chen | April 15The Quadrangle Group — a private investment firm co-founded by Steven Rattner '74 P'09, a member of the Corporation's board of fellows and a former Herald editor-in-chief — has reached a settlement with the Securities and Exchange Commission and New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo concerning ...
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Gala planners have not paid Westin in full
By Alex Bell | April 15Organizers of Saturday's Gala have not paid more than the $5,000 deposit they had originally paid to the Westin Providence hotel, despite a contractual obligation to pay the remainder of a $20,000 minimum payment by Wednesday, Senior Director for Student Engagement Ricky Gresh wrote in an e-mail to ...
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Art historians dig into 'movable feast'
By Kristina Klara | April 14The Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World was recently awarded an $180,000 grant from the Getty Foundation to begin work on an international project titled "The Arts of Rome's Provinces."
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Junior wins Truman scholarship
By Heeyoung Min | April 14Over spring break, David Poritz '11.5 checked his e-mail and found a message from President Ruth Simmons — telling him that he was one of 60 Truman Scholars, a select group of students chosen from 576 candidates across the nation to receive up to $30,000 for their graduate studies. Poritz, who ...
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UCS election competition heats up
By Nicole Boucher | April 14The candidates running in this year's Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board elections next week will encounter stiff competition, with only the UCS treasurer and UFB at-large representatives facing uncontested races.Students will also vote on a referendum to adopt instant ...
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Cupcakes, snuggles on Wickenden
By Avery Houser | April 14The frequenter of chic East Side eateries cannot help but be haunted by the ghost of the Blue Elephant — former resident of 312 Wickenden St. — upon entering the building's new pristine foyer. But the Duck and Bunny, which opened in February, soon coaxes nostalgic memories out of mind.
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Teach-in spotlights R.I. homeless
By Clare De Boer | April 14"Being poor, and its corollary, being homeless, is a crushing burden to bear," Gregory Elliot, professor of sociology, told an intimate audience in MacMillan 115 at the Rhode Island Hunger and Homelessness Teach-In on Thursday evening. At the teach-in, sponsored by the Community Health Departmental ...
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TWW welcomes potential minority students
By Sara Luxenberg | April 14About 120 minority students admitted to the class of 2014 arrived on campus Wednesday for this year's Third World Welcome, a day before A Day on College Hill, which welcomes the rest of their potential classmates who applied regular decision. The two-day program, which aims to give prospective students ...
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Pre-frosh invade campus for ADOCH
By Anne Artley | April 14For the next two days, Brown's population will increase by about 700 as admitted students invade campus for A Day On College Hill.
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Local inventor goes Banana-grams
By Crys Guerra | April 14Age-neutral, board-free and un-scored; fast-paced, portable and creative: These are just some of the words used to describe Bananagrams, a word game invented by Pawtucket native Abe Nathanson.
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Graphic novelist muses on comics, art
By Claire Peracchio | April 14Everything Art Spiegelman P'13 learned, he learned from comics.
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Chemistry professor will be new Grad School dean
By Talia Kagan | April 14Peter Weber, professor and chair of the chemistry department, will replace Sheila Bonde as dean of the Graduate School beginning July 1, according to a Wednesday University press release.
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Prof's exhibit examines effects of climate change on New England
By Zung Nguyen Vu | April 14An interactive exhibit created by a Brown professor will travel New England over the next five years.
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Most undergrads fly solo
By Jessica Liss | April 14The 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.
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On TV and the Web, sifting through images of Brown
By Claire Peracchio | April 14For 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.
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U. donates $50,000 for flood relief
By Anita Badejo | April 14In 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. ...
