The Women's Leadership Council — which seeks to promote philanthropy and volunteerism and offer mentoring to the University's female students and alums — has been planning a conference to celebrate 120 years of women's history at Brown. But after President Ruth Simmons — who created ...
"Turn off all your cell phones, or we'll rescind your admission," announced Admission Officer Matt Price to the roughly 250 representatives of the class of 2016 who assembled Monday for the Early Decision Admitted Students Day. Despite the chuckles, nearly every student in Sayles Hall reached for his ...
A small group of Ivy League students convened this weekend at the Hope Club for an intimate conference that brought together people of all perspectives to engage in a meaningful dialogue about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Associate Professor of Evolutionary Biology Sohini Ramachandran received the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship for her research in computational and evolutionary molecular biology, according to the foundation's Feb. 15 press release. The award is granted to young scientists who are "rising stars, ...
Thirty-seven juniors were elected to the Rhode Island Alpha of Phi Beta Kappa Feb. 8. The honor society, founded in Williamsburg, Va., in 1776, is the oldest and most prestigious academic honor organization in the nation. Of the more than 3,500 institutions of higher learning in the United States, only ...
The University will fundraise $50 million over the next five years as part of a new initiative to expand the Brown Institute for Brain Science. A large portion of these funds will be used to pay for seven new positions in the institute, said John Donoghue PhD '79 P'09 P'12, director of the institute ...
Students from across the Ivy League arrived on campus yesterday to participate in IvyQ, an annual weekend-long conference that tackles issues of queer identity first held two years ago at Penn. Brown is hosting the conference for the first time and expects 500 students to participate in the weekend's ...
Graceful metal skeletons, ash wood ladders stretching skyward, woven rattan curved into elegant silhouettes — the work of sculptor Martin Puryear, who has been selected to design a memorial to acknowledge the University's links to the transatlantic slave trade, evokes a sense of minimalism even ...
Graduate school application rates to the University remain constant despite a 10 percent increase in the number of students who took the Graduate Record Examination in the United States over the past year.
Jayson Marwaha '14 first got the idea to start a non-profit organization in a setting where all good ideas are born — a high school party. Two years later, he decided to take action, founding Medical Equipment Donations International — a nonprofit that aims to donate unused medical equipment ...
The MunchCard, a restaurant discount created by four Brown students as an alternative to University-provided meal plans, has been gaining popularity since its initiation last September. This spring, about 700 undergraduates are participating in the program, compared to 530 last semester. Steven Tran ...
The referendum on an amendment that would allow the Undergraduate Council of Students to determine its own funding without the approval from the Undergraduate Finance Board failed to receive the two-thirds majority it required to pass, according to a statement sent to The Herald by UCS Communications ...
Forty-seven organizations — representing industries including technology, education and marketing — will attend the spring Career Fair next Wednesday, a smaller version of the fall counterpart intended to introduce students to companies that recruit at the end of the school year.
Holyoke Mayor Alex Morse '11, the youngest mayor in Holyoke's history, called The Herald from his City Hall office last week to talk about his first five weeks as mayor. As an undergraduate, Morse worked at Providence City Hall for three years under the tutelage of then-Mayor David Cicil- line '83. ...
Now in its third semester, the Brown Bookstore's textbook rental program is an increasingly popular cost-saving tool among students. About 1,400 students used the program last semester, compared to roughly 300 students who used it in spring 2011, according to Mike McDade, the bookstore's textbook department ...
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