Of the $30 billion promised to developing nations by developed nations to combat climate change at the 2009 United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, only $7 billion has definitely been given, according to research compiled for a September report on countries' transparency levels in committing ...
Cynthia Frost, the University's vice president and chief investment officer, netted a total of $1,011,351 in compensation for 2009 — the highest amount for any University official. The figure represents an increase of over 13 percent in Frost's annual earnings from the 2008 calendar year, according ...
City officials met last night to review a proposal to overturn Providence's long-standing overnight parking ban, currently in effect between the hours of 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. Officials plan to vote on the issue in upcoming months.
At the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students last night, Mary Grace Almandrez, newly appointed director of the Third World Center and assistant dean of the College, laid out her vision for the center.
About 250 Brown and RISD students have signed up for MunchCard — a student-created restaurant discount program — a month into its launch. The MunchCard, billed by its creators as an off-campus alternative to University meal plans, is now being accepted at 20 College Hill eateries, with more ...
When journalists interview Professor of Anthropology and International Relations Catherine Lutz about the Costs of War study she directed, she notices a difference in the conclusions U.S. and foreign reporters draw. While U.S. journalists have tried to contextualize the study's findings on the U.S. ...
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Off the main entrance looms the work of famous Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang. A student's hiking journey is memorialized on the walls upstairs. And in the basement, a virtual chef can make you a pizza modeled after the globe. Every once in a while, he is shot dead.
Since her first visit to Mexico's Gulf of California in 1996, Heather Leslie, assistant professor of environmental studies, has seen the fish stock decline first-hand. The gulf, which supplies more than half of Mexico's seafood and three-fourths of its shrimp, is changing rapidly.
Fall brings out the beauty of trees. But in many cities, including Providence, there is not enough foliage to compete with the concrete and asphalt.
Corrections appended. They do not know his name, but some students have had disturbingly close encounters with him. He often comes up in conversation and has become the subject of jokes and songs. The man, an infamous naked masturbator, has been spotted in the yards of at least three off-campus student ...
Former Chilean president and Professor-at-Large Ricardo Lagos addressed a packed Joukowsky Forum last night about the "two epochal changes" facing Latin America — income distribution inequalities and a rapidly growing middle class — as it emerges relatively unscathed from the 2008 ...
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Behind the purple doors of a sixth-floor Barus and Holley Lab, Thomas Webster, associate professor of engineering, works small but thinks big. His work with nanomaterials, tiny devices implanted into the human body, has led to a potential breakthrough in cancer research.
Graduating from college and getting into law school used to be a sure path to a lucrative job. But with thousands of law school graduates entering a shrinking labor market each year, job prospects are growing dimmer.
Only 200 students have activated their free voicemail boxes this year, though around 4,000 are eligible to do so, said Kathy D'Aguanno, director of finance and administration for Computing and Information Services. Individual voicemail accounts are provided to each student living on campus through their ...
Google+ was not among the 10 Google Apps made available to Brown Gmail users by Computing and Information Services July 14. The social network is not yet available to Google Apps, the service through which Brown Gmail is run.
African music percolated with excited chatter as a crowd waited to hear Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe kick off the Department of Africana Studies 2011-12 Conversations in Africana Writing Series Monday. Achebe and other authors were featured in a panel titled "Voice and Memory in the Poetic ...
The University honored its 150-year-old Federal Depository Library yesterday with a ceremony and a cautionary talk on technology by former political science professor Darrell West.
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