Providence Fire and Rescue and the Providence Police Department led a rescue effort early Friday morning after an apparently intoxicated woman became trapped in a narrow space between FedEx Kinko's and City Sports near the corner of Meeting and Thayer streets. Courtney Malloy, a University of ...
Discussing India's politics and economic prospects, World Bank Chief Economist Kaushik Basu emphasized the importance of incorporating sound economic theory into practical policy making work in a lecture Friday afternoon. The lecture, entitled "From the Slopes of Raisina Hill: India's Economic Reforms ...
Belinda Johnson, director of Psychological Services, will retire at the end of this year, wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, in an email Friday. Johnson will step down after 20 years as director and 35 years with Psychological Services, where she started as ...
The University Resources Council held its annual open forum to discuss the budgeting process and how it affects members of the University community Thursday evening. A crowd of staff, students and faculty crowded into Petterutti Lounge to hear Provost Mark Schlissel P'15, chair of the URC, speak ...
The School of Engineering implemented a 20-page-per-week printing quota for most of its students last Wednesday. The new policy comes after students objected to the revoking of more extensive printing privileges for concentrators this semester, said David Mycue, the school's director of information ...
The Program in Public Health took a major step toward becoming an officially accredited school as the faculty unanimously approved the school's formation at their meeting Tuesday. The faculty vote marks "the last of the campus approval steps" in the 12-year effort to establish the school for public ...
About 65.5 percent of students sleep six to eight hours a night, according to a poll conducted by The Herald last month. Slightly more than a quarter of students polled said they sleep four to six hours a night, and 7.1 percent reported sleeping at least eight hours nightly. The recommended amount ...
Brown ranked third among research universities in the number of Fulbright grants awarded this year, according to a report published Oct. 28 by the Chronicle of Higher Education. Twenty-seven recent alums from the classes of 2012 and 2011 and two graduate students received the scholarship out of Brown's ...
The Supreme Court heard arguments for the case Kirtsaeng v. John Wiley and Sons, which centers on the issue of whether international copyrighted works can be bought and sold in the United States without the owner's consent, last Monday. Depending on the decision the court reaches, students may no longer ...
Only a week after Hurricane Sandy cut a wide swath of destruction through the Northeast, the Nor'easter Athena blew into the Ocean State, bringing high winds and a shock of blustery snow.
The faculty unanimously approved a motion to create a school of public health Tuesday night. The Corporation will vote on the proposal at its February meeting.
The Leung Gallery in the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center normally inspires a strict code of silence - even heavy footsteps can draw angry glares during a midterms week. But on election night, the space pulsed with excited anticipation as it played host to the Special Event Committee's ReSPECt the Exec ...
Despite having the highest tuition in Rhode Island, Brown had the lowest average debt of all reporting colleges in the state for class of 2011 graduates, according to the Project on Student Debt, a report published by the Institute for College Access and Success, a nonprofit.
Following the hiring of ombudsperson Ruth Rosenberg last semester, the Faculty Executive Committee has begun discussing whether to expand the part-time position to a full-time one, according to recent meeting minutes.
Professor of Literary Arts Brian Evenson has authored novels, short story collections and even a few video game-based books, all falling within the genre of horror and science fiction. He recently published a novel entitled "Dead Space: Catalyst," the second book he has written based on the third-person ...
The Faculty Executive Committee will be expanded to include either a full-time lecturer or senior lecturer, following a faculty vote approving the proposal Tuesday night. The FEC, which manages faculty governance, will now include 10 members instead of the previous nine.
Nearly 84 percent of students said they feel at least as happy as their peers on average, according to a poll conducted by The Herald earlier this month. About half the students polled reported feeling equally as happy as their peers. More than 35 percent reported feeling happier, while only around ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students spoke to representatives from the Student Athletic Advising Committee, Ryan McDuff '13 and Lindsay Nickel '13, as well as Director of Athletics Jack Hayes, at their weekly meeting. The guests presented an agenda to promote the greater integration of ...
Americans talk a lot about First Amendment rights. But how much do we really stop to think about its punctuation and the specially chosen words that give it meaning? Not enough, says Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover ...
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