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Humanities fund will open for faculty use

The University will use a $6.9 million fund containing multiple grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and an anonymous $3 million donation to promote collaborative teaching and research in the humanities and hire six faculty members, said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P'12.


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Ex-prof holds forth on gender gap in politics

The primary election was only three days away, so when a woman started running toward Jennifer Lawless in a grocery store parking lot yelling, "Don't worry," the then-candidate assumed it was an expression of good luck. Then the woman got close enough to finish her sentence. "Don't worry," she said, ...


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Course preview site restored

The course preview feature at courses.brown.edu is up and running for spring semester courses after Computing and Information Services discovered and fixed a glitch in the system yesterday. Next semester's course data had not been processed and uploaded onto the site as intended, wrote Jerrod O'Connor, ...


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Program could give alums JSTOR access

Alums may soon have access to the online journal database JSTOR, according to Steven Thompson, head of acquisitions and electronic resources for the Library. The University is looking to join a JSTOR pilot program that gives alums from affiliated institutions continued access to the database.


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Extinction more massive than thought

Two hundred and fifty million years ago an egg-laying mammal-like reptile the size of a German shepherd dominated land ecosystems. "It doesn't really look like the guy you would bet on for being the champion survivor," said Jessica Whiteside, assistant professor of geological sciences.


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Initiative to add study abroad options

A new initiative by the Office of International Affairs will foster student exchanges with universities across the globe  — sending Brown students to far-flung campuses and bringing more foreign students to College Hill. Though the program is not yet finalized, the University has already ...


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Brown leads Ivies in gov't language scholarships

This past summer, Brown led the Ivy League in the number of students awarded prestigious Critical Language Scholarships, winning 11 of the 600 total awards. The scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Government, provides students with the opportunity to immerse themselves for a summer in the study of one ...


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Mollusc family tree pruned

For over 160 years, the mollusc's evolutionary tree has remained ambiguous and incomplete. But after three years spent sampling genes, researchers Casey Dunn and Stephen Smith presented a firm new take on the relationship between eight major molluscan groups.


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