Efforts by Brown scientists to improve the structure of carbon nanotubes used to deliver drugs and repair cells may help cure central nervous system disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.
Hazardous waste management inspections conducted in Sidney Frank Hall this summer uncovered violations in 10 biology and neuroscience laboratories, according to an Office of Environmental Health and Safety report, a copy of which was obtained by The Herald.The labs were found to be in breach of container-management ...
Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA'71, the senior vice president for University advancement who led the Campaign for Academic Enrichment, is retiring, he said yesterday.
Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar '87 MA'90 PhD'09 took over as President Ruth Simmons' new assistant in July, filling a position that had been without a full-time employee since 2008.
Governor Donald Carcieri '65 has reportedly reached a provisional agreement with state employee unions to allow pay cuts in place of layoffs or government shutdown days. Carcieri has been engaged in an ongoing struggle with the unions in an effort to meet budget cut requirements.
Ariel Hudes '11, squashed into a hotel room with six Honduran male actors, was already uncomfortable when the seventh member of the troupe barged in with news that would drastically alter Honduran history and her own summer.
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While the state Senate and House reconcile differences in two versions of a bill to close a loophole that allows indoor prostitution in Rhode Island, Providence Mayor David Cicilline '83 has instructed the city council to move ahead with an ordinance banning the practice within city limits.
Willa Truelove has roamed the streets for the past two years. She has no home.
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gilad Barnea was recently awarded a EUREKA grant — $1.3 million in funding for scientific research over four years — by the National Institutes of Health.The NIH awards the EUREKA grant to scientists pursuing "high-risk, high-reward" research. In addition ...
Students returning to Brown from their summer vacations encountered change in a traditional bastion of stability and regularity: the Sharpe Refectory. The modifications are immediately visible to anyone walking into the Ratty. The salad bar has moved to a different location, a new station for soup ...
No one in the Department of Political Science knows what a year at Brown is like without Alan Zuckerman."Anybody who is here — he had a hand in hiring," said James Morone, professor of political science and department chair. "When we had a faculty meeting about who we were going to hire, he would ...
A fire Thursday night at the building at 669-685 North Main St. destroyed a furniture store and left residents living in apartments upstairs, including two Brown graduate students, looking for other places to stay.Also among the 21 people displaced by the fire were Johnson and Wales students, according ...
Though more than 200,000 heroin addicts are incarcerated every year in the United States, many prisons still lack pharmaceutical treatment for opiate addiction, according to a new study by researchers from Miriam Hospital, Brown University and their cooperative Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights.The ...
Previously done by paper and pen, intramural registration and scoring have moved to the Web site imleagues.com. Because intramural sports are so popular, the change will ease administrative burden, according to Intramural Coordinator Diane Yee.The online system provides a central forum for team schedules, ...
The Graduate School recently formalized ways to relieve the TA crunch that has plagued many departments at Brown, creating a new position for part-time TAs and encouraging related departments to work together.In a decision that has sparked debate between professors and the Grad School, departments that ...
Starting this semester, a new space on the second floor of J. Walter Wilson, known as Advising Central, is available weekday afternoons for students seeking advice from faculty and deans without prior appointments.The project, an extension of the Faculty Advising Fellows Program, brings together different ...
The University has declared the current academic year the "Year of India," which will include a series of events designed to enhance political and cultural awareness of South Asia's largest country.
Calling the current health care system a "scandal" and an "abomination" and stressing the need for an increase in primary care availability, two Brown professors of medicine presented reform options to a crowded Salomon 001 in a town hall-style meeting organized Thursday, a day after President Obama's ...
As many as 281 student groups and more than 2,000 first-years and upperclassmen packed into the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center Thursday night for a familiar fall ritual: the Activities Fair.
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