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.
Nine African scientists and environmental activists will study at Brown this semester as part of a program coordinated through the Watson Institute for International Studies.The scholars, who represent six different African nations, will take classes alongside undergraduates with the hope that they ...
Administrators are gearing up for a tense semester of negotiating $30 million in cuts to next year's budget. But unlike last fall, when the University quickly eliminated approximately the same amount mostly through quick-fix measures such as a hiring freeze, this round of cuts will force decision-makers ...
Last year, Abdel Basset Ali al-Megrahi was diagnosed with terminal cancer — a piece of personal information that catapulted the former Libyan intelligence official to the center of an international controversy.
President Ruth Simmons officially opened the University's 246th year Wednesday afternoon, formally welcoming new members of the Brown community.
The night before classes began brought even more stress than usual.
As students return to classes, University faculty and staff are heading to walkathons , farms and food banks as part of a new program to get them more involved in the community. As part of the "Brown Gives 30 Days of Service" program, volunteers will log community service hours in the Providence area ...
The University's endowment lost $740 million in the 12 months ending with June 30, falling to just over $2 billion, President Ruth Simmons said at a faculty meeting on Wednesday. But the discouraging endowment picture was tempered by relatively robust fundraising, Simmons said.
With a sour economy squeezing the budgets of local governments and universities alike, Brown officials have spent the summer fighting to dissuade state lawmakers from passing legislation that would allow cash-strapped cities to recover funds from private colleges and large non-profit institutions. The ...
As a new fall semester begins, new restaurants and stores have begun to pop up on Thayer Street, though some shuttered windows remain.
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 man arrested for trespassing on campus last Thursday is connected to similar incidents involving ...
Nighttime satellite images of Earth may provide nuanced measurements of economic growth. According to a new working paper by Professors of Economics J. Vernon Henderson and David Weil and graduate student Adam Storeygard, analyzing changes in an area's "night lights" could be a new means of measuring ...
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.
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