Rhode Island winters are always cold, but this year's high costs of heating oil, coupled with high statewide unemployment, have added an extra chill. Federal and state officials have allocated additional funding recently to low-income families to cover energy costs.
A team of seven geologists returned last month from a three-month trip in Antarctica after collecting more than two tons of rock samples. The group hopes to understand climate conditions and climate change in Antarctica and apply that knowledge to climate change on Mars after analyzing the samples.
A salmonella outbreak affecting people in 42 states has been linked to the ground black pepper used by a Rhode Island meat-curing company, according to Annemarie Beardsworth, spokeswoman for the Rhode Island Department of Health.
Bourbon is likely to cause worse hangovers than vodka, though both are equally likely to impair cognitive functions in the morning, according to a new study by Professor of Community Health Damaris Rohsenow.
In the weeks since the Jan. 12 earthquake, several University-affiliated physicians have gone to Haiti, providing first-wave emergency care, while those on campus continue to raise funds to support relief efforts.
Project Get Ready, a national nonprofit initiative to promote the usage of plug-in electric vehicles, announced on Jan. 21 that it would add Rhode Island to its list of pilot sites. Rhode Island, the first entire state to become a pilot site, joins Houston, Indianapolis, Denver and Toronto.
The University has identified ways of minimizing the impact of recent years' losses from the University's endowment while continuing to advance Brown's agenda, administrators announced at Tuesday's faculty meeting, proposing several measures to cut costs including layoffs, a tuition increase and cuts ...
Applications for Brown's graduate school programs have risen 27 percent compared to this time last year, with international applications up 32 percent, according to the graduate admissions office.
The Rhode Island General Assembly voted last month to override the veto by Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 of a bill that will allow domestic partners to make arrangements for each other's funerals. The bill defines domestic partners as those in an "exclusive, intimate and committed relationship," in which ...
Pictures and fliers line the walls of the hallway at Elmwood Avenue Church of God in Providence. There are photos of the congregation as they sing, pray and participate in other church and community events.
Rhode Island's General Assembly began its 2010 session last month by overriding vetoes of two important electoral reform bills — one allowing 16 and 17-year-olds to pre-register to vote and the other mandating special elections to fill U.S. Senate vacancies.
Rebecca Maxfield '13 has always been a fan of "Jeopardy!," but she never thought she would actually compete on the show. She finally got her chance in a show taped this winter and airing Wednesday night at 7:30.
Patrick Tardieu, the chief conservator at Haiti's oldest library — the Bibliotheque Haitienne des Peres du Saint-Esprit in Port-au-Prince — is the John Carter Brown Library's newest visiting scholar. Tardieu arrived in Providence Monday morning after a two-week stay with family in Montreal, ...
As most Brown students were just returning to campus for a new semester, the 360 Degree Experience in Sound on 95.5 WBRU hosted a pay-by-play fundraiser for Haiti Jan. 24. All donations went to the church-based organization Providence-Haiti Outreach.
When Oscar the cat first came to Steere House Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in the summer of 2005, he wasn't particularly friendly. He lived on the third floor unit, where the vast majority of patients are critically ill, often in advanced stages of dementia or Alzheimer's disease. He did his own ...
Earlier this month, President Barack Obama honored the Leadership Alliance, which is headquartered at Brown, for its excellence in science, mathematics and engineering mentoring.
The Bursar's Office will no longer print student account statements beginning in March, according to Elizabeth Gentry, assistant vice president of Financial and Administrative Services, to whom the Bursar's Office reports.
"Keep your eye on the ball" is probably the best advice a baseball coach can give to his or her fielders, according to the results of a recent Brown study.
As representatives from 192 nations gathered in Copenhagen last December to address climate change, four students and a professor from Brown also joined in on the discussion.
Applications are now available for Brown Environmental Fellows, a new research opportunity for undergraduates run by the Environmental Change Initiative, an interdisciplinary program that funds research on environmental change.
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