The fencing team has secured over $750,000 to save its varsity program from elimination and is eyeing another $200,000 in promised pledges, according to Arnold-Peter Weiss P'15, a professor of orthopedic surgery and associate dean of admissions of the Alpert Medical School. Of the nearly 100 donors, ...
Students, be confunded no more. The reading list for many classes does not, in fact, include "Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows".
Student leaders at Georgetown University drafted a letter to President Obama and leaders of the U.S. Congress in mid-July urging them to quickly reach a deal on raising the debt ceiling. More than 130 current and former student body presidents signed the letter, but Undergraduate Council of Students ...
She had known for months the inn would be closing, but Jeanne Medeiros was still surprised by the error message when she tried to visit its website — especially since, at that point, the Saunders Inn at Brown was still in business. So she made a quick phone call. It turned out web developers had ...
Professor of Anthropology Lina Fruzzetti will assume the role of interim institutional diversity officer, according to an email sent to the community yesterday by Provost Mark Schlissel P'15.
Tropical Storm Irene hit College Hill more with a whimper than a bang Aug. 28, with the limited damage cleaned up by the time first-years arrived for Orientation Saturday.
President Ruth Simmons will keep her promise to give every member of the class of 2015 a hug, she said at her welcome speech on the Main Green Sunday. As she has done in the past, Simmons addressed her oration to the "most beautiful class to ever enter Brown."
Hurricane Irene brought heavy winds and rain to Providence early Sunday morning, knocking out power, suspending public transportation and felling trees across the city and on campus. After sweeping up from North Carolina, the hurricane — downgraded to a tropical storm before it hit the Ocean State ...
Deep in the heart of the former Jewelry District and burgeoning knowledge district, the new home of Warren Alpert Medical School is making Providence stronger, said Ed Wing, professor of medicine and dean of medicine and biological sciences, at the building's opening ceremony last month.
A recent graduate of Alpert Medical School was charged with forging and illegally distributing prescriptions for drugs, including Vicodin, Adderall and Percocet, at Rhode Island Hospital.
The Third World Center appointed Mary Grace Almandrez as its new director this summer after a yearlong search process. Almandrez, who took office July 1, was joined by Oscar Perez, the TWC's new assistant director for diversity initiatives.
Football fans love a big hit. But when that hit is a helmet-to-helmet collision, it can have major consequences: a concussion or even the possibility of long-term brain damage.
Major changes are in the pipeline for the University greenhouse and Hunter Laboratory.
Five nonprofits associated with Brown lost their tax-exempt statuses May 15 after failing to file the proper paperwork three years in a row.
Anyone who has been on campus in the past few years has seen the ubiquitous "Building Brown" fences circling construction projects. This effort to build, or in some cases rebuild Brown has been a part of President Ruth Simmons' Plan for Academic Enrichment, a course of action for the University she ...
Brown's expansion on and off College Hill has been met with some resistance from the city of Providence, especially as the state capital teeters on the brink of an economic meltdown. Currently faced with what Mayor Angel Taveras has characterized as an unprecedented financial crisis, the Rhode Island ...
A number of building projects have transformed campus in recent years, including the renovations of J. Walter Wilson, Faunce House, Rhode Island Hall and Pembroke Hall, as well as the recently completed construction of the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. But not all plans have ...
Blair Cameron '13 of New Zealand never imagined that fraternities were really like in the movies. But when he arrived in the United States for the first time, he was in for a surprise — "Oh, it's actually like that," he remembered thinking.
African drumming heralded members of the class of 2011 as they filed into the First Baptist Church of America to mark the beginning of Brown's 243rd Commencement Weekend Saturday. Students welcomed the beating drums at the Baccalaureate service as they welcomed their final moments of college — ...
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