The curriculum at the Rhode Island School of Design lacks instruction in emergency medicine and search and rescue techniques, but creative RISD students are still finding ways to get involved with disaster relief in Haiti after the Jan. 12 earthquake. The administration has tried to coordinate these ...
It was only one small step for Neil Armstrong, but man's first landing on the moon has turned into an award-winning book by Brian Floca '91.
Professor of Biology Ken Miller '70 P'02 was elected this month to join the Committee for Skeptical Inquiry, largely because of his defense of Darwin's evolution theory against claims of creationism. Founded in 1976, the committee applies science and the scientific method to debunk pseudoscientific ...
Brown admitted 567 early decision applicants this year — just under 20 percent of the pool of 2,847 — according to Jim Miller '73, dean of admission. The applicant pool was more diverse than ever before, and about 80 percent more black students were admitted early decision than were last ...
More than 700 books from the collection of the late Michael Bhatia '99, an international relations scholar and Afghanistan expert, are now available to researchers at Brown libraries.A visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies from 2006 to 2007, Bhatia was an Oxford University ...
The Herald will introduce the 120th editorial board and a new slate of leaders in the organization at the annual staff banquet tonight at Cav Restaurant downtown. With the calendar year of Herald production coming to an end today, the new leadership is effective Jan. 1. Leading next year's group will ...
President Obama and proponents of health care reform should adhere to a unified philosophical vision and avoid allowing the debate to focus on costs, Professor James Morone, chair of the Department of Political Science, told a packed MacMillan 115 Thursday night.In a lecture titled "The Dirty Rotten ...
Two years after University affiliates first started receiving free bus and trolley rides from the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority as part of the agency's contract with Brown, just under a quarter of faculty, staff and students take advantage of it each month. Under the statewide UPass program ...
Early applications to Brown are up 21 percent from last year, according to Jim Miller '73, dean of admission. They numbered over 2,850 at the Nov. 1 deadline, he said, up from 2,343 last year.Miller said the results were "unexpected," especially during tough economic times."It does seem that people ...
The iconic monolithic city often sits in our imagination as a society's great achievement. But with megalopolises come suburban sprawl.Cities instead should be allowed to develop, mature and ultimately duplicate before they overextend into monolithic urban cores and space-filling suburbs, renowned architect ...
At the last Undergraduate Council of Students meeting of the semester Wednesday, two administrators gave a presentation on changes to the non-academic misconduct disciplinary system that they will propose to the Corporation in February.
Psychological Services will be hiring a new psychotherapist as part of an effort to increase the maximum number of sessions available to students. Belinda Johnson, director of Psych Services, said the decision comes after — but does not directly result from — a report from the New England ...
Since a free H1N1 vaccine became available Tuesday, hundreds of undergraduate students have been vaccinated against the virus and thousands more have scheduled appointments to be immunized.
A University endowment to support Providence public schools disbursed a second round of grants Wednesday to three elementary schools, as fundraisers seek to build a $10 million permanent fund.
A newly approved advising program will be piloted next semester, pairing 30 sophomores with 30 senior peer advisors for one-on-one mentoring.
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri kicked off a two-day festival of Indian literature Tuesday afternoon with a reading and discussion of her work in a jam-packed Salomon 001.The festival, which also features events with authors Rana Dasgupta and Suketu Mehta, is presented by the Literary Arts ...
The University's Center for Gerontology and Healthcare Research launched a Web site last month aimed at providing researchers and policy-makers with data on the quality of nursing home care in the United States.The Web site is the first of its kind to "provide a massive amount of data all in one site ...
Jeremy Goodman '10 is among 35 students nationwide who will receive the prestigious Marshall Scholarship for two years of graduate study in the United Kingdom, the University announced Tuesday. A triple-concentrator from Bethesda, Md., Goodman is on track to graduate this May with an A.B. in physics, ...
The City Plan Commission unanimously approved an amendment to the University's 2006 Institutional Master Plan Tuesday night, clearing the first of two bureaucratic hurdles before renovations can begin on a new medical school building in the Jewelry District. Administrators hope to begin construction ...
Shopping period might be a little bit easier for students in 2010.Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 has asked faculty to upload their course syllabi to the University's old and infrequently used course-preview site by the spring semester. The preview page directory, courses.brown.edu, combines descriptions ...
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