Seventy-six runners and walkers finished the one-mile downhill course through campus at the fourth annual Dash for Diabetes Saturday morning.
The Residential Council will begin accepting applications today for a new program house, which will fill the void left when Interfaith House closed its doors last semester.
Occupy College Hill, a campus-based offshoot of Occupy Providence, will host a "One Night Stand" campout on the Main Green tonight to kick off discussion about how to improve the University. The event is scheduled to immediately precede the meeting of the Corporation, the University's highest governing ...
It's been another successful year for the Brown Women in Computer Science group, or WiCS, which recently learned it was a recipient of a Student Seed Fund Award from the National Center for Women and Information Technology.
The University posted an 18.5 percent return on its endowment for the fiscal year that ended in June, bringing the total endowment figure to $2.5 billion. The unusually high gains were largely due to success in the market, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. ...
As the Corporation descends on campus — and the Occupy movement prepares to protest its arrival — one of its trustees is finding himself under renewed legal scrutiny. The Wall Street Journal reported yesterday that SAC Capital Advisors, founded by billionaire Trustee Steven Cohen P'08, is ...
Renovations to restore the John Hay Library's reading room to its original size have ignited tensions among library staff members.
How tough is it to get into Brown off the waitlist? It depends.
The National Science Foundation, in part looking to moderate the effect of reduced federal funding, is investing in a pilot program to encourage international support of American research. Brown's Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics will play a key role in the project, ...
The Corporation will review President Ruth Simmons' recently released recommendations on the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and Department of Athletics at its meeting this weekend.
The Undergraduate Council of Students introduced a resolution to increase next year's student activities fee by $10 last night. The council also spoke with Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 and Lauren Kolodny '08, former UCS vice president and current member of the Corporation.
Until recently, first-years interested in face time with the University's top doctors would have to resort to hour-long keg stands or December dips in the Narragansett River. But thanks to a new University initiative, freshmen will soon be able to take first-year seminars with Alpert Medical School ...
When the Department of English began allotting concentration advisers alphabetically this summer, it left many students surprised to find they had been reassigned to new advisers.
College Hill's public masturbation spree continued with yet another incident Tuesday night.
A new Commuter Choice Assistance Program will allow employees to create pre-tax debit accounts to lower the costs of public transportation and off-site parking starting Jan. 1.
The University is looking to integrate community programs with the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and the Medical Education Building, according to the most recent update to the Plan for Academic Enrichment, President Ruth Simmons' blueprint for academic improvement.
Every three weeks at the Swearer Center for Public Service, 22 professors across 17 disciplines collide behind closed doors to discuss exciting new directions in education at Brown. Food justice is discussed with sandwiches in hand, education finds common ground with engineering and the medieval studies ...
President Ruth Simmons recommended the University not change its academic policies toward the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, according to a letter released to the community yesterday. Current policies do not permit ROTC's presence on campus.
Nick Petersdorf '12.5 is happy to be in a long-term relationship with Brown, but he wants to spread the love.
Proposed revisions to the human biology concentration program will eliminate the bachelor of science degree and alter the bachelor of arts degree, if approved. Though the changes were posted on the Division of Biology and Medicine website as early as this summer, the College Curriculum Council has not ...
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