"Let's lift the beam!" President Ruth Simmons urged a crowd of about 150 yesterday at a "topping off" ceremony for the new fitness and aquatics center currently under construction. Moments later, the last piece of steel for the building's structure fell into place. "No longer will our cardio equipment ...
Ben Farber '12 and Ralanda Nelson '12 will face off next week in an election for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students. Farber is currently UCS vice president and Nelson is the UCS Student Activities Committee chair.
The faculty voted unanimously in favor of creating four new public health departments at its monthly meeting last night. The departments will be devoted to the study of health services, policy and practice; behavioral and social sciences; epidemiology and biostatistics.
"This is the decade of Latin America," President Juan Manuel Santos P'12 of Colombia told a packed Salomon 101 last night. In his talk, part of the Stephen A. Ogden '60 Memorial Lecture series, Santos urged the United States to look to Latin America as a strategic partner in the coming years. Santos, ...
Prescription drug use is the fastest-growing category of drug abuse on college campuses today. Just over 5 percent of Brown students take prescription stimulants once or twice a semester as academic aids, according to last month's Herald poll. More non-first-years, 6.4 percent, reported use than first-years, ...
President of Colombia Juan Manuel Santos P'12 gave the 84th Stephen A. Ogden '60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs yesterday. Before the lecture, he sat down with The Herald.
Due in part to expansion of research facilities, the rate the University applies to federal research grants for facilities and administration costs has increased from 55 percent in Fiscal Year 2006 to 62 percent this year. In 2010, the University received $89.2 million for federally funded research, ...
A nearly $30 million upgrade to Brown's central heating plant is well underway, part of a three-phase series of renovations totaling approximately $100 million. The upgrades began in 2005 with a phase that involved replacing seven miles of underground piping below the University and cost about $40 million, ...
While settling into its new home at the Medical Education Building downtown, the Alpert Medical School will also conduct a self-study over the next year to prepare for the upcoming Liaison Committee on Medical Education accreditation investigation in fall 2012. The committee, which requires participating ...
Just over 35 percent of undergraduates plan to attend medical, law, business or graduate school immediately following graduation, according to last month's Herald poll. About one-fourth of current students — 23.9 percent — indicated they plan to take up jobs after graduation, and 7.6 percent ...
Mark Schlissel, currently dean of biological sciences at the University of California at Berkeley, will replace David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 as provost beginning July 1.
Problems with an underground cable caused a blackout at some University buildings last night from approximately 5:15 p.m. to 7:15 p.m.
Last Wednesday, 2,115 applicants learned that they had been offered a spot in Brown's most selective class ever. Including the 577 students who were accepted in December through the binding early-decision program, a total of 2,692 students from 79 countries were accepted from a record-setting pool of ...
Though the possible reinstatement of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps at Brown has brought debate about the military's place on campus to the forefront this semester, the University has received research funding from the Pentagon for years without provoking such heated debate.
Student-conducted research at the University's Institute for Brain Science revealed that synthesis of the molecule putrescine during a seizure can protect the brain from recurrent episodes. Further research on the physiological effects of putrescine and other polyamines could ultimately lead to a treatment ...
The Meiklejohn Peer Advising Program saw a 5 percent decrease in the number of applicants this year, from 517 in 2010 to 492 this spring. Last year, the number of applications increased 38 percent over 2009.
Oludurotimi Adetunji embarks on his first day as Brown's director of scientific outreach today. The new position is "a recognition on the part of the University that we need to pay attention to outreach," said David Targan, associate dean of the College for science education. Dean of the College Katherine ...
Brown admitted 8.7 percent of applicants, accepting a total of 2,692 students from 79 countries for the class of 2015. The University received a record-high 30,946 applications — a 3 percent increase over last year. The 8.7 percent acceptance rate is the lowest in Brown's history.
Michael Kennedy, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, will step down at the end of the academic year, Provost David Kertzer ‘69 P'95 P'98 wrote in an email to faculty Friday.
NEW YORK — President Ruth Simmons spoke about remembering slavery and Brown's recognition of its historical ties to the slave trade in her keynote address at the United Nations General Assembly's fourth annual international slavery remembrance day March 25 in New York City.
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