Brown's Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies recommended at its Dec. 6 meeting that the University not reinvest in HEI Hotels and Resorts.
Students rushing to buy course materials for their first days of classes will have a shorter time to return textbooks to the Brown Bookstore.
Tonight, for the first time in many years, students will not mark the first day of classes by heading to the South Water Street bar the Fish Company.
President Ruth Simmons has convened a committee to review Brown's policy towards the Reserve Officer Training Corp program, according to a University press release from mid-January. In an e-mail Tuesday morning to the student body, Undergraduate Council of Students President Diane Mokoro '11 wrote that ...
As students settle back into their Providence homes and dive into the often hectic shopping period, the Office of Admission will continue to review over 31,000 applications they received for the class of 2015, a task which has been underway for more than a month. This year's record-breaking number represents ...
Richard Holbrooke '62, distinguished public servant, died Dec. 13 after undergoing emergency surgery to repair a torn aorta. He was a professor-at-large at the Watson Institute for International Studies at the time of his death.
The Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts — the newest building on campus — opens to the public today. The building, located on the Walk between Angell and Olive streets just west of the Brown Bookstore, will provide a common space for interaction between different programs in the ...
The Third World Center has begun its search for a new director, following a semester under the interim leadership of Associate Protestant University Chaplain Reverend William Mathis.
The Alpert Medical School did not accept transfer students for the current academic year due to alterations in its clerkship curriculum, according to Philip Gruppuso, associate dean for medical education.
The Chief of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Women and Infants Hospital and Brown University, Joanna Cain, resigned late last month, sparking confusion over the circumstances surrounding her departure.
Director of Athletics Michael Goldberger will retire at the end of the academic year after 38 years with the University.
Former Providence city solicitor, state attorney general candidate and dedicated Brown alum Joseph Fernandez '85 died Dec. 18 following a brief illness. Fernandez, who was 46, was a University trustee and president of the Brown Alumni Association at the time of his death.
A man involved in the two-car collision last May that killed Tam Ngoc Tran GS and another passenger in the car was indicted Thursday on manslaughter and other charges, according to the Hancock County Superior Court clerk's office.
A watchdog group chastised the University for not taking action against a professor accused of academic dishonesty in a letter to the National Institutes of Health.
Though each of Brown's Greek organizations and nine program houses currently maintains an active on-campus status, "five or six" are working with the Office of Residential Life to further address issues of party management and new member education, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential ...
Provost David Kertzer's '69 P'95 P'98 decision to step down later this year will not significantly impact the Plan for Academic Enrichment, according to University leadership.
RISD Expose, a small contemporary art show at 210 Westminster St. in downtown Providence, has given students at the Rhode Island School of Design an opportunity to display their work to the greater community. The second annual Expose (rhymes with "OK") opened Nov. 11 and will close Dec. 10, said Production ...
The University is holding its midyear completion celebration Saturday to recognize students who have completed their degree requirements this semester.
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