Valerie Wilson, currently associate dean of the Graduate School, will replace Brenda Allen as associate provost and director of institutional diversity starting July 1.
In a packed tent on the Main Green, waterlogged students with muddy shoes crowded in to hear President Ruth Simmons speak for the first time to potential members of the Class of 2013.
The Department of Public Safety, with the help of Safewalk, is currently testing a new product that can turn a cell phone into a personal safety device.
Rain clouds met the approximately 650 students who converged on Brown's campus Tuesday to get a taste of University life during A Day On College Hill.
The New Curriculum started with a handful of undergraduates who wanted to improve their college experience. Now it is the defining aspect of one of the world's top universities — and Brown students and faculty have come to take it for granted.
Though students might not have known it, from January to March they were engaged in a friendly competition with universities across the United States and Canada. Known as RecycleMania, the competition encourages participating campuses to recycle more and to decrease the amount of waste they produce. ...
After commencement, more Brown economics concentrators and graduate students will be heading to graduate school or taking on professorships than pursuing jobs on Wall Street this year, according to Andrew Foster, professor of economics and chair of the department.
An unidentified suspect broke into the Faunce House dressing room of one of the Spring Weekend artists during Friday's concert and stole two laptops and some cash, according to Brown Concert Agency Administrative Chair Stephen Hazeltine '09 and the Department of Public Safety.
The Department of Athletics expects to lose about 30 coaches and staff this summer, but with a University-wide hiring freeze in place, it is unclear whether the department will be able to get approval to fill vacancies with new hires, Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger said.
Though General Growth Properties Inc., the national real estate investment company that owns Providence Place Mall, filed for bankruptcy last Thursday, students will still be able to shop and catch a movie as usual.
After a poor recruitment season, Interfaith House will lose its Type B status as a program house beginning in the fall due to a lack of residential members planning to live in the organization's space in Diman House.
Liberians in Rhode Island rejoiced last month at news that refugees from the West African country would be granted an additional 12 months of amnesty in the United States, thanks to an executive order signed by President Obama.
Thirty-two of Brown's top graduating artists, actors, writers, composers and directors will be honored at the 14th annual Weston Awards ceremony tonight at Stuart Theatre.Recipients of the William and Alethe Weston Fine Arts Awards are selected by faculty in the areas of Visual Arts, Theater Arts, Dance, ...
At 5:30 p.m. on March 31 — a mere 30 minutes after thousands of students received their admission decisions — 15 students had already registered to confirm a place at A Day on College Hill.
Charging a membership fee of $5 for the year, a bike-sharing program operating out of a room in Faunce House was officially launched last week.
The John Hay Library has received a gift of 130 rare books and manuscripts, including the first two editions of Nicolaus Copernicus' "De Revolutionibus Orbium Coelestium," from Daniel Siegel '57, the owner of M&S Rare Books, a bookstore in Wayland Square on the East Side.
The recession has hit Rhode Island hard, and Thayer Street businesses have not been immune to the slumping economy.
At the end of four years, students have surprisingly little physical evidence to show for their time at Brown. Graduating seniors leave with only a transcript, a diploma and lingering questions about how their education will be received by the world beyond College Hill.
As the last remaining sophomores dropped their concentration forms into the registrar's unceremonious black bin last week, the University concluded a month-long program intended to help students connect their concentrations to real-world careers.
Ryan Lester '11 and Clay Wertheimer '10 will face each other in a run-off election for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students after receiving the most votes for the position last week. Neither received the 50 percent of the vote needed to win outright.
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