As shopping period draws to a close, enrollment in some of the seven sophomore seminars being offered this semester remains low, with only two out of the seven seminars filling all 20 of their seats. Thirteen sophomore seminars are being taught in the 2014-2015 academic year as part of the updated ...
Super PACs, access to government officials and donation caps emerged as critical points of discussion at a Janus Forum debate on campaign finance Wednesday evening. The event featured Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard, and Eugene Volokh, professor of law at the University of California at ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students filled eight leadership positions, including two positions on the executive board, during internal elections at its first general body meeting of the semester Wednesday night. Andrea Wistuba-Behrens ’16 was re-elected UCS secretary, a role on the executive ...
Anthony Davids ’49, professor emeritus of psychology, died Tuesday morning, according to an email sent out to the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences listserv by department chair William Heindel. Davids first came to Brown as an undergraduate in the fall of 1946, according ...
U. of Illinois dismisses professor over tweets The trustees of the University of Illinois voted last week to withdraw an offer of a tenured position to a Palestinian-American professor after reviewing his tweets about Gaza this summer, the New York Times reported Friday. Prior to the vote, a petition ...
Though the University and the U.S. Naval War College are only a 40-minute drive apart, the two institutions have had minimal interaction in the past. But on June 6, President Christina Paxson and former President of the Naval War College Walter Carter Jr. signed an agreement to collaborate on research ...
“Our beginnings have already been established, but our ends are nowhere in sight,” voiced performers from the College and Community Fellowship’s Theater for Social Change in a call for prison inmates to gain greater access to education at a symposium Tuesday. Addressing the cycles of incarceration, ...
The University will offer two massive open online courses through Coursera this semester: “The Fiction of Relationship,” taught by Arnold Weinstein, professor of comparative literature, and “Exploring Neural Data,” taught by Monica Linden and David Sheinberg, lecturer and professor of neuroscience, ...
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 10:50 p.m. Marjorie Thompson ’74 PhD’79 P’02 P’07 P’09 P’12 P’14 P’16, associate dean of biological sciences, died Monday afternoon while on leave from the University this semester, said Katherine Smith, who was appointed interim associate dean of biological ...
William Deresiewicz, a writer and former Yale professor, visited Brown Monday to promote his new book, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.” He sat down with The Herald to discuss his book and the surrounding controversy. So you went ...
As the semester kicks off, the University is promoting “Transformative Conversations@Brown,” a project launched by administrators in February and sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity. The project “strives to provide opportunities and spaces to engage respectfully and thoughtfully ...
The Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions will become a part of the Watson Institute for International Studies, administrators announced Monday. The integration of the two institutions will not take place immediately, but administrators and faculty members affiliated with each ...
The start of the semester inherently brings about changes: new roomates, new classes and new activities. Perhaps most important to students — a group infamous for thinking with their stomachs — are the new offerings in dining halls and eateries brought about due to student demand and the creative ...
A career fair hosted Wednesday by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown will bring over 90 employers to campus, while the Department of Computer Science has partnered with CareerLAB to host a separate technology career fair Tuesday. The stand-alone technology session marks the first time CareerLAB ...
Yolanda Rome assumed the role of assistant dean of the College for first-year and sophomore studies last Thursday. She is replacing Ann Gaylin, former associate dean of the College for first-year and sophomore studies, who left Brown Aug. 1 to become associate dean of undergraduate education for academic ...
Writer William Deresiewicz stoked controversy with his criticisms of elite education published in his book “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life” and excerpted in the New Republic under the title “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League” this ...
Students from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design came together with Providence community members Friday to protest police mistreatment of people of color. Student leaders unanimously declared the demonstration a success, with over 100 people showing up to protest at Market Square — a location ...
“There are still tons of questions” regarding sexual violence in the context of civil war, said Dara Kay Cohen ’01, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, during a lecture at the Watson Institute for International Studies Thursday evening. The ...
Before arriving at the University, Stephen Kinzer, visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, reporting from more than 50 countries on five continents. Fresh off a book tour for his latest work, “The Brothers,” a biography ...
Travel becomes part of the classroom experience with the inaugural Global Experiential Learning and Teaching grants. The Office of Global Engagement announced the recipients of nine GELT grants for the 2014-2015 academic year Aug. 29, according to a press release from the office. The grants enable faculty ...
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