Preserve Rhode Island, a nonprofit organization dedicated to protecting Rhode Island's historic structures, awarded local politicians and community members an award Oct. 29 for their role in a legislative battle against the utility company National Grid's decision to place gas meters outside of historic ...
An extensive report on the University's strengths and weaknesses was made available online to the campus communityWednesday. The report — written by a team of 10 faculty members and administrators from peer institutions — will serve as the basis for Brown's re-accreditation from the New ...
Instances of Department of Public Safety officers stopping people on campus have declined by more than half since early 2008, according to detailed field-stop reports from DPS. The reports, which the department began releasing in 2007, also suggest that officers have not been conducting stops in a racially-biased ...
The results of a major external audit of the University and its policies will be made public Wednesday morning, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 announced at a monthly faculty meeting Tuesday. A team from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges visited this past spring to launch the widescale ...
Editor's note: This case was dismissed in January 2010 by the 6th District Court in Providence. The man was not found guilty of any of the three charges, and his name has been removed from the article. A Woonsocket man arrested in September for allegedly trespassing on University property is being ...
The University expects about 300 students to benefit from the recent extension of a policy that will allow students to pre-register for classes next semester even if they have large unpaid tuition balances, according to Elizabeth Gentry, assistant vice president for financial and administrative services. ...
Several new businesses are slated to open on and around Thayer Street in the next few months, promising an influx of restaurants and shops in previously empty storefronts.
Would the smallest state in the union be better off doing away with some of its even smaller municipal borders? One state senator thinks it would.
The Rhode Island Urban Education Task Force, created by Gov. Donald Carcieri '65 in January 2008, released its final report last week, outlining proposals for raising student achievement and improving the quality of urban education.
Providence real-estate mogul Ed Bishop '54 P'86 P'91 wants to build a $35 million luxury hotel on Brook Street with easy access to campus and Thayer Street businesses and is attempting to get his proposal approved by the Providence City Planning Commission.
Trojan Condoms released their annual Sexual Health Report Card last week, ranking Brown ninth among 141 schools across the nation.
The animal liberation movement is a "far-reaching revolution," philosopher and animal rights advocate Peter Singer told a packed MacMillan 117 Tuesday night. In his lecture, titled "Ethics and Animals: Where we've come from, and where we need to go," the world-renowned ethicist shared his controversial ...
What if the world were tailored toward five-foot-two, tattooed Asian females?
President Ruth Simmons appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS last Thursday night to discuss higher education and the challenges of leadership, basing her comments on her experiences as a black woman in a leadership position.
In fewer than two years, Brown's new Medical Education Building will welcome its first class of students. But looking at the building now, it is hard to tell. The block-long former factory sits waiting, its 165 windows staring blankly out onto Richmond Street. And though the Med Ed building sits just ...
Arun Stewart '11, a student whom professors and friends described as "brilliant," "passionate" and "incredibly hip," died Friday in Beijing, where he was studying abroad.He was attending a rooftop gathering with friends near Tsinghua University when he lost his footing, according to an e-mail from President ...
The Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at Miriam Hospital recently received six research grants worth a total of more than $12 million from the National Institutes of Health. The money will be used to research weight-gain prevention and the benefits of losing weight.Though the research center ...
A Brown-led study has identified a genetic variant that indicates an increased risk of alcohol abuse in adolescents. The study, led by Robert Miranda P'04, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior for research, focused on a receptor gene previously tied only to adult alcohol abuse. The mutation ...
A staff position responsible for hearing and addressing the concerns of faculty and postdoctoral students will remain vacant this year after a failed search to fill the spot coincided with a hiring freeze instituted last year.For the past three academic years, the University employed a part-time ombudsperson ...
Current beliefs about the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa may be unfounded, according to a paper published recently by two Brown researchers.
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