Two years after University affiliates first started receiving free bus and trolley rides from the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority as part of the agency's contract with Brown, just under a quarter of faculty, staff and students take advantage of it each month. Under the statewide UPass program ...
Early applications to Brown are up 21 percent from last year, according to Jim Miller '73, dean of admission. They numbered over 2,850 at the Nov. 1 deadline, he said, up from 2,343 last year.Miller said the results were "unexpected," especially during tough economic times."It does seem that people ...
The iconic monolithic city often sits in our imagination as a society's great achievement. But with megalopolises come suburban sprawl.Cities instead should be allowed to develop, mature and ultimately duplicate before they overextend into monolithic urban cores and space-filling suburbs, renowned architect ...
At the last Undergraduate Council of Students meeting of the semester Wednesday, two administrators gave a presentation on changes to the non-academic misconduct disciplinary system that they will propose to the Corporation in February.
Psychological Services will be hiring a new psychotherapist as part of an effort to increase the maximum number of sessions available to students. Belinda Johnson, director of Psych Services, said the decision comes after — but does not directly result from — a report from the New England ...
Economists, business owners and academics congregated Tuesday to discuss Rhode Island's severe fiscal woes in an economic forum hosted by the state's House of Representatives.
Since a free H1N1 vaccine became available Tuesday, hundreds of undergraduate students have been vaccinated against the virus and thousands more have scheduled appointments to be immunized.
A University endowment to support Providence public schools disbursed a second round of grants Wednesday to three elementary schools, as fundraisers seek to build a $10 million permanent fund.
Rhode Island Democratic senators Sheldon Whitehouse and Jack Reed confirmed their support for the nomination of Justice Ojetta Rogeriee Thompson '73 to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit during a 25-minute hearing on judicial nominations Tuesday in Washington.
A newly approved advising program will be piloted next semester, pairing 30 sophomores with 30 senior peer advisors for one-on-one mentoring.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri kicked off a two-day festival of Indian literature Tuesday afternoon with a reading and discussion of her work in a jam-packed Salomon 001.The festival, which also features events with authors Rana Dasgupta and Suketu Mehta, is presented by the Literary Arts ...
The University's Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research launched a Web site last month aimed at providing researchers and policy-makers with data on the quality of nursing home care in the United States.The Web site is the first of its kind to "provide a massive amount of data all in one site ...
Jeremy Goodman '10 is among 35 students nationwide who will receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom, the University announced Tuesday. A triple-concentrator from Bethesda, Md., Goodman is on track to graduate this May with an A.B. in physics, ...
The City Plan Commission unanimously approved an amendment to the University's 2006 Institutional Master Plan Tuesday night, clearing the first of two bureaucratic hurdles before renovations can begin on a new medical school building in the Jewelry District. Administrators hope to begin construction ...
Shopping period might be a little bit easier for students in 2010.Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 has asked faculty to upload their course syllabi to the University's old and infrequently used course-preview site by the spring semester. The preview page directory, courses.brown.edu, combines descriptions ...
The University will face "very painful" budget cuts in the fiscal year beginning in July necessitated by a sharp drop in revenue, President Ruth Simmons said at a monthly faculty meeting Tuesday.The Corporation recommended that the University decrease its payout from the endowment by 20 percent next ...
More than 1,600 Brown students have signed up to be immunized against H1N1 this week, now that the vaccine is available to all college students 24 and under in Rhode Island. About 350 students ventured to a makeshift clinic in Josiah's to get the vaccine Tuesday, the first day immunizations were available ...
Last week the Alpert Medical School floated a proposal that would require medical students to pass Step 1 of the United States Medical Licensing Examination in order to graduate. On Nov. 24, the Faculty Executive Committee met with Associate Dean of Medicine Philip Gruppuso about the proposed change ...
Former CIA officer Bruce Riedel '75 forecasted a bleak outlook for the political situation in both Afghanistan and Pakistan to the Watson Institute's Joukowsky Forum, which was packed to capacity Monday night.
The Rev. Joyce Penfield, a chaplain at the Adult Correctional Institutions and co-founder of a spiritually focused organization that rehabilitates prisoners, spoke to a group of students in J. Walter Wilson Sunday night about her work in Rhode Island's prisons.
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