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Simmons: No teams to be cut for next year

The men's and women's fencing teams, men's wrestling team and women's ski team will be allowed to compete through next academic year, wrote President Ruth Simmons in an email to the Brown community Friday afternoon. Simmons' recommendations to the Corporation about potential cuts of varsity teams will ...


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Roth '77 to give 2011 Baccalaureate

Kenneth Roth '77 P'12, human rights advocate and executive director of Human Rights Watch, will give the 2011 Baccalaureate address Saturday, May 28 at the First Baptist Church, the University announced yesterday. Per Brown's tradition, two seniors will speak at the Commencement ceremony May 29.


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Jarrett discusses gender, dispenses advice

Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, discovered her passion for public service after moving from an elite Chicago law firm in the Sears Tower to a cubicle facing an alley in the mayor's office, she told a nearly full Salomon 101 yesterday afternoon. In her lecture, part of the Doherty-Granoff ...


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UCS provides forum for student-athletes

The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted administrators and student-athletes at its final general body meeting of the semester last night, providing a venue for them to exchange their ideas and concerns about the recommendations made last Thursday by the Athletics Review Committee to cut four varsity ...


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Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 reflects as term winds down

When Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 steps down from his post June 30, his five-year term as the University's second-ranking administrator will draw to a close, though he will remain on the faculty as a professor. He leaves after a term marked by a national financial crisis, a heated tenure debate ...


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Renovated Metcalf to open in October

The Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory, currently under renovation, will reopen in October as the new home of the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. The project's final completion is set for Sept. 30, and the department will move in the next week, said David LaPlante, ...


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To finance projects, U. to take on more debt

The University's debt has risen by almost $500 million over the past decade, largely to finance infrastructure improvements on campus, according to Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. The accumulation of debt is part of a broader trend in higher education, and ...


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$5.5 million grant to help fund labs

The University's Center of Biomedical Excellence for Cancer Signaling Networks was recently awarded a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant worth more than $5.5 million to be paid in annual $1.1 million increments for five years. The grant will be used to purchase and maintain new equipment ...


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DPS arrest records go to FBI

Under a federal program recently activated by the state attorney general, anyone arrested by the Department of Public Safety will have their fingerprints and identity submitted to the Federal Bureau of Investigation to be run against federal law enforcement records.


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