Last year's unusually large freshman class is still presenting a strain on housing this year, as about 60 students — mostly sophomores — move this week into bedrooms converted from common rooms and kitchens.
Amid anticipation and some nerves, 1,485 new students flooded Thayer Street and the Main Green for first-year orientation this past weekend. Brown's class of 2013 found their respective rooms, unpacked their bags and said hello to their new roommates before Residential Peer Leaders escorted them in ...
Matthew Gutmann began serving at his new post as vice president for international affairs Sept. 1, becoming the second person to occupy the position since its creation less than two years ago.
The University is taking preemptive measures to control the spread of the H1N1 virus this fall, anticipating a worse-than-average flu season.
As the school year begins for more than 20,000 students and teachers in Providence public schools, a change in hiring policy has led to praise, concern — and now a lawsuit.
Financial woes have Tougaloo College facing a reaccreditation warning, but the school — and Brown's academic partnership with it — are safe for now, according to administrators from both institutions.
The Blue Room is on the move.
Nothing should get between college students and their daily doses of coffee — a sentiment the University and operators of the College Hill Cafe are now closer to making a reality.
In a move intended to invigorate alternative-energy research at Brown, the University announced this summer that it will collaborate with Draper Laboratory, a non-profit engineering organization.
The Brown e-mail accounts of every undergraduate will be switched from Microsoft Exchange to Gmail by the end of September, a move that will provide students increased storage space and access to several Google applications.
Students arriving on campus this week will likely be pleased to discover that Brown has reestablished itself as the school with the happiest students in America — at least according to The Princeton Review, which released its 2010 edition of "The Best 371 Colleges" in July.
You might think your chances of graduating are related to how much you study, or that with responsible behavior you'll have a safe and stable love life. But according to a number of Brown myths and legends that have endured over the years, your fate might be sealed by a careless misstep — literally. ...
Letters students wrote to their first-year advisers were used by administrators to assess writing ability in past years without students' or advisers' knowledge, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Associate Dean for Writing Kathleen McSharry acknowledged.
David Kennedy '76 resigned abruptly last month as vice president for international affairs and interim director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, shortly after University of Michigan sociologist Michael Kennedy was selected as Watson's new director.
David Rohde '90, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times, escaped a Taliban prison June 19 after more than seven months of captivity by jumping over the wall of the compound where he was being held.
Two bills have made progress in Rhode Island's General Assembly that could cost Brown and its students millions of dollars if they become law.
The State of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations might lose the distinction of having the longest name of any state if lawmakers and residents favor an amendment to the state constitution.
Months after scuttling plans to build an ambitious new brain science building in the wake of financial losses, the Corporation has approved a "schematic design" for the renovation of Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory into a new "mind brain behavior" center, according to Vice President for Facilities ...
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