A lawyer for William McCormick III — a former member of the class of 2010 who is suing the University, over a dozen employees, a female student and her father — said in federal court last week that a statement made by the lawyer for the female student and her father during that same ...
The University is partnering with the City of Providence to upgrade most of the traffic lights on Angell and Waterman streets. The project, which will "significantly reduce congestion," is underway and will be completed over the summer, said Michael McCormick, assistant vice president for planning, ...
Last semester, Brown Dining Services hired two students to search for "real food" — food that is local, fair, ecologically sound and humane — and this Thursday at the Sharpe Refectory's Earth Day Dinner Special, the Brown community will see what they've found. The Herald reported in October that ...
A small group of students gathered on the south side of the Main Green Monday to discuss planned cuts to the budget for the Swearer Center for Public Service and what the cuts say about University commitment to service in the community.The gathering came after over 250 alums and current students involved ...
The elections board will consider changes to campaigning rules for future elections in light of questions raised at a hearing Sunday afternoon by two candidates for the Undergraduate Finance Board, said elections board member Sarah Rutherford '12.
Two bills that would end the criminal prohibition of marijuana use came before the Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee last Wednesday. The first bill — proposed by Rep. Edith Ajello, D-Providence, whose district includes College Hill — would legalize the drug under certain conditions. ...
This 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 ...
From Serena van der Woodsen of "Gossip Girl," to Brian Griffin of "Family Guy," to the nearly 30,000 students that applied for admission this fall, it seems like everyone wants to go to Brown. With myriad popular culture references and a couple well-known students over the years — not to mention, ...
Many doctors are not referring to predefined criteria when diagnosing major depressive disorder, according to a study by Mark Zimmerman, associate professor of psychiatry and human behavior and director of outpatient psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital.
For some seniors, it's the most wonderful time of the year: the time their theses are finally due. As seniors prepare to present their research to their professors and peers, some who participated in the inaugural year of a year-long workshop on research communication will be prepared to explain their ...
The six-day 2010 Ivy Film Festival began on Tuesday with advance screenings of feature films, a series of student film showings and industry guest panels.
Organizers 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 ...
The 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 ...
After 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 ...
Essayist 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, ...
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. ...
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.
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.
An interactive exhibit created by a Brown professor will travel New England over the next five years.
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