President Ruth Simmons, the first black president in Ivy League history, will step down at the end of the academic year, she announced Thursday morning.
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Brown and Cornell share the worst U.S. News and World Report ranking in the Ivy League this year, according to the 2012 rankings released online Monday.
The reinstatement of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps and the possible elimination of several athletic teams were the two hot issues at Tuesday's meeting of the Brown University Community Council in a standing-room-only Kasper Multipurpose Room.
Planning for next year's housing overhaul is well underway. Administrators are moving forward with the creation of clustered first-year residential communities on Pembroke campus and in Keeney Quadrangle. Existing singles in Miller and Metcalf halls will be converted to doubles to accommodate more ...
Four rarely studied concentration tracks have been re-categorized as pre-approved independent concentrations as of this academic year.
The University hopes to name a director of the center for the study of slavery and justice this fall, five years after the Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice recommended doing so. The decision should be announced within four to six weeks, according to Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughin P'12. ...
While most of Providence was still asleep yesterday morning, people across China were celebrating the arrival of the full moon and the festival it announces with dancing, theater, storytelling and pastries called mooncakes. As the same moon brightened over campus that evening, the University kicked ...
Many students facing graduation struggle with the question of whether to apply to graduate school or brave the workforce. Now, thanks to a new partnership between the Graduate School and Teach for America, some graduate students in Rhode Island will be able to do both.
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Brown has formed a partnership with the University of Granada, adding a fourth option for students wishing to study in Spain. The University already has an existing program in Barcelona and two approved alternative programs in Madrid, and students will be able to study in Granada as early as the spring ...
After failing to preregister for two newly capped advanced economics courses, Bradley Silverman '13, facing unexpected barriers to entry, decided to circumvent the regulations governing seats in those classes. Standing in Lecturer in Economics Maria Carkovic's class ECON1540: "International Trade," ...
It was a day no one wanted to remember, but one the Brown community gathered to commemorate nonetheless. People gathered across campus to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Sept. 11 attacks Sunday, sharing their experiences and paying their respects. They walked through a labyrinth on the Main ...
The Office of Student Life has revised its sexual assault disciplinary process to allow both complainants and accused students to appeal decisions. The revision comes in response to a letter sent in April by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Civil Rights. Previously, only accused students ...
Once a bustling jewelry factory, then an office complex, 222 Richmond St. now houses state-of-the-art anatomy classrooms and a bookless digital library. Its new role as Brown's Medical Education Building has made it something of a celebrity in the city. Surrounding properties are slowly being snatched ...
Student and Employee Accessibility Services — formerly Disability Support Services — will ramp up its campaign to tag bikes this year in an effort to educate students on the dangers of locking their bikes to railings and benches.
Emergency Medical Services received 10 calls during the first weekend of first-year orientation this year, the most since 2007.
Stephen Houston, a professor of anthropology, received the Order of the Quetzal in the rank of Grand Cross from the president of Guatemala in July in recognition of his extensive work on the Maya civilization. The award is the most prestigious the Guatemalan government can grant.
Emily Harrison, clinical professor of family medicine and executive director of Shoulder to Shoulder, a nonprofit organization that works with poor rural Honduran communities, spearheaded the project.
Competitions are not usually the place for second chances, and runners-up are not usually given $5,000 to improve their projects for resubmission. But 15 college students, semifinalists from the Dell Social Innovation Competition — an international competition that focuses on social entrepreneurship ...
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