President Ruth Simmons visited the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday night to discuss the council's work this past year and to answer questions about tuition increases, the relationship between Brown and Providence and the University's priorities. UCS also discussed ...
The John Carter Brown Library is home to more than 50,000 rare books and 16,000 reference books and secondary sources. But due to the changing nature of students' study habits and library restrictions to protect its books, most of these resources remain vastly underused. In an effort to make its collections ...
What made you decide to visit Brown for the Year of China? Professor (of Physics) Chung-I Tan wrote to me and mentioned this event. Basically, he was interested in talking about the whole issue of China and India and the relations between India and China, and that's what I've been working on for a very ...
When Amitav Ghosh is not writing best-selling novels, he might be riding across Java on a motorcycle or trekking through the mangrove forests in the Sundarbans.
It certainly is "a wonderful life after the presidency" for former Chilean President and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos, as his good friend and former Colombian President Belisario Betancur used to tell him. Lagos spoke at the Watson Institute for International Studies last night about his latest ...
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Correction Appended. Mohammed Ghazi Atallah '13 started off this year's housing lottery by choosing Minden Hall 807. The first 460 housing groups selected rooms at Sayles Hall last night, and the rest will choose next Tuesday. Members of Residential Council, dressed in bright T-shirts and funny hats, ...
Less than five years after graduating from high school, Alex Morse '11 again set foot in Holyoke High School Jan. 3 to start a very different chapter in his life. His campaign's "I Love Holyoke" button pinned to his suit, the recently elected mayor faced a crowd of supporters to give his inaugural address. ...
Brown Student Agencies has partnered with Tufts University student startup JumpOffCampus to provide a website where users can search for and post subletting opportunities for places to rent near the University. Though the Brown portion of the website has only been online since April 2, there are already ...
The University has narrowed its list of candidates for the directorship of the Watson Institute for International Studies to three contenders - Jeffrey Kopstein, acting director of the Centre for Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto, Allison Stanger, chair of the political science department ...
After almost two years in Congress, Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., returned to his alma mater last night to address the Brown Democrats - an organization he co-founded almost 30 years ago with John F. Kennedy Jr. '83. He stressed the importance of unifying the Democratic Party as the 2012 congressional ...
President-elect Christina Paxson's resume shows a rapid advancement through the academic ranks. In the last five years, she has served as a dean at Princeton and chaired the university's nationally renowned economics department, serving at one point as the department's only tenured female professor. ...
Tuesday night's public discussion held by the College Hill Neighborhood Association saw a heated debate between opponents of the proposed 257 Thayer Street student apartment complex and the few residents in favor of it. Robert Gilbane '71 P'02 P'05, chief executive officer and chairman of Gilbane, Inc., ...
Amid the national economic recession in 2009 and only months after the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs settled a costly legal battle, Christina Paxson took the reigns of the school from her predecessor, Anne-Marie Slaughter.
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As the University aims to compete with powerhouse research institutions - many of which have larger endowments - research experience has become a major factor in hiring and faculty tenure decisions. But faculty members remain conflicted as to whether the University's increased emphasis on research and ...
Students are divided on whether or not the University should give more money to the city of Providence, according to a Herald poll conducted March 12-14. The poll also found that about one third of respondents said they were satisfied with the choice of Christina Paxson as Brown's 19th president, though ...
1. How satisfied or dissatisfied are you with the choice of Christina Paxson as the University's 19th president? 13.8% Very satisfied 28.1% Somewhat satisfied 33.9% No opinion 3.3% Somewhat dissatisfied 1.0% Very dissatisfied 19.9% Not familiar enough to answer 2. ...
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