Plans for a new upscale apartment complex on Thayer Street between Euclid Avenue and Meeting Street are moving forward after the outlines for the complex, set to be built by Gilbane Development, were approved by the Providence City Council Aug. 1. Construction on the 257 Thayer building is slated to ...
The Brown Bookstore has expanded its textbook selection to include Rhode Island School of Design course books this semester and will also expand its rental program to include books not designated for courses, said Steven Souza, director of the bookstore. RISD books currently take up almost 20 percent ...
Amanda Anderson, a new professor of English, will be speaking at the TEDxBrown event this October on the value of a liberal arts education. Anderson, a literary scholar who received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on research into liberal philosophy in America, served as the chair of the English ...
The University's transition from MyCourses to Canvas as its primary online course management platform is in full swing. This semester, 457 courses will use the site, up from 70 last semester, said Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron. Around 7,000 students - graduate, undergraduate and medical - are ...
An iPhone application mapping the architectural history of the University is nearing completion and is slated to be released in late October. The elaborately named app, FACADES - Facts About Campus Architecture, Design, Environment and Spaces - provides information about 125 structures related to the ...
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care legislation, this summer following a national debate over the law's ramifications for patients and doctors. With the law's provisions remaining intact after the court's ...
Though the University receives "consistent reports" from students expressing concerns about their peers, few cases have required drastic intervention by threat assessment teams, said Senior Associate Dean for Student Life Jonah Ward and Director of Psychological Services Belinda Johnson. Administrators ...
Prominent Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek fled from Syria at the height of the violence following the recent civilian uprisings and has since risked her life to return to the unstable country and document its ongoing unrest. Yazbek, an activist and screenwriter, spoke to a packed audience at the Watson ...
Associate University Chaplain for the Protestant Community Rev. Kirstin Boswell-Ford joined the Office of Chaplains and Religious Life this summer after being hired in mid-May.
Joe Royo '14 and Xavius Dorego, a Providence resident with no University affiliation, were arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly stealing a student's laptop and cell phone from her Marcy House room, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety.
The Undergraduate Council of Students filled vacant positions, and its committee chairs outlined initial goals for the year during the council's first general body meeting of the semester Wednesday night.
About a dozen audience members attended President Christina Paxson's first Brown University Community Council meeting as president yesterday in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Along with Paxson, nearly half of the members of the BUCC were new. Discussion of a new strategic ...
The newly formed Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has begun planning several campus community efforts this year under the leadership of Anthony Bogues, professor of Africana Studies, who was named the center's director in May. Former University President Ruth Simmons will serve as the ...
The University is conducting a national search to find a new senior vice president for advancement after Steven King '91 resigned from the post in July. This turnover is one of several administrative changes over the last few months accompanying the University's presidential transition.
Only three international relations concentrators in the class of 2013 are currently approved to complete a thesis this year, marking a drop from previous years.
The Office of Residential Life is adjusting the housing lottery system this year to better accommodate the needs of rising sophomores, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services. After the spring lottery, 260 sophomores did not know where they would be living this fall ...
The first annual Ruth J. Simmons Urban Education Policy Scholarship, a full ride to the Urban Education Policy masters program, has been awarded to Maria Salciccioli GS, a Princeton graduate with experience training teachers to adapt to new curriculums in schools in Dallas. "(Salciccioli) ...
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