Providence has seen an elevation in lead levels in the water of some old buildings in recent years, including those on and around the University's campus. Many houses on College Hill are more than 100 years old. This means that some properties have pipes that are either made entirely of lead, or, more ...
Biographer Charles Rappleye proposed looking at the past as a continuum rather than a series of isolated events in a lecture inspired by his novel "Sons of Providence: The Brown Brothers, the Slave Trade and the American Revolution," the assigned summer reading for the class of 2016. Reflecting upon ...
Forty college students from Latin America and Puerto Rico arrived at Brown Oct. 1 to kick off the two-month Botin Scholars program, which brings students to the University for a week before they head to Spain for the duration of the program. This is the third consecutive year that the Watson Institute ...
Patricia Watson, Cornell's senior associate vice president for alumni affairs and development, will serve as the University's senior vice president for advancement beginning Dec. 1, President Christina Paxson announced in an email yesterday morning. Watson will replace Steven King '91, who resigned ...
The biology department held the first of its "TED-ish" talks Wednesday, as a group of professors helped "get the word out" about the revolutionary projects taking place in the University's biology labs, said Marjorie Thompson '74 PhD'79 P'02 P'07 P'09 P'12 P'14 P'16, associate dean of biological ...
Provost Mark Schlissel P'15 spoke about the University's strategic planning initiatives at Wednesday night's general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students.
Fifty-seven exit signs were destroyed, and a bathroom stall's dividers were ripped out in Keeney Quadrangle during a weekend at the end of September. The incident was the peak of an upward trend in campus vandalism in the past two years, according to the Office of Residential Life.
Eduardo Diaz-Santana Vazquez '14 and Ria Mirchandani '15 were the winners of the TEDxBrownUniversity Student Challenge held Tuesday evening in Metcalf Auditorium. As a lead-up to the TEDxBrownUniversity conference Oct. 20, the Student Challenge was designed to select a student to join the lineup of ...
Students planning to study abroad will now receive additional support from the University to help them in their medical preparations. Health Services and the Office of International Programs coordinated to improve treatment checklists and expand the orientation program for students prior to their time ...
With the November elections rapidly approaching, Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., visited campus Tuesday night to speak at a meeting of the Brown Democrats, the organization he co-founded while an undergraduate at the University. In his talk, Cicilline emphasized the stark differences between the Republican ...
Hot-air balloons that delivered newspapers, hurricane destruction on Brown's campus and portraits of President Abraham Lincoln are among the topics covered on Curio, the new weekly blog launched last Wednesday by Digital Production Services, the University library department tasked with digitizing materials ...
About 25 students with the newly formed Brown Divest Coal Campaign group walked into University Hall Tuesday afternoon to ask the University to divest from some of its coal and fossil fuel investments. Students delivered a letter addressed to President Christina Paxson and handed out flyers to students ...
Following an evaluation in 2010, Health Services has implemented a number of changes this semester including additional hours, advancement in online accessibility and improved support for transgender students. The changes are part of a "constant quality improvement process as well as a commitment and ...
Over the summer, the University's two main dining halls underwent a series of minor changes, including additions to the Sharpe Refectory dining area and new food options with an emphasis on local produce. "We wanted to focus our menus around our most popular recipes, offer seasonal variety, more sustainable ...
Trinity College Dublin became the newest partner school in Brown Plus One, a study abroad program that allows students to earn one-year master's degrees following graduation, last spring. Trinity College joins the University of Edinburgh and the Chinese University of Hong Kong as the three Brown Plus ...
Grinnell reviews need-blind policy In a letter to alums last Thursday, Grinnell College announced it would consider amending its financial aid policies, prompting rumors that the college could end its need-blind admissions policy, though nothing in the letter explicitly referenced such a plan. The school ...
Jayson Marwaha '14 and Han Sheng Chia '14, co-directors of Medical Equipment Donations International, spent about 10 weeks in Zanzibar this summer assessing medical equipment needs in the region. MED International is a recently-formed nonprofit organization that focuses on the delivery and use of medical ...
Involvement in faculty governance remains persistently low - only one in seven faculty members regularly attend monthly faculty meetings, and the task of recruiting faculty for leadership roles is often extremely difficult, according to Faculty Executive Committee members. But as President Christina ...
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