"That whisper in your heart has strength," Salman Ahmad told the audience in the Underground Friday evening. The Pakistani star of Sufi rock combined songs in Urdu and Punjabi with conversation about his experiences growing up in America and Pakistan in a presentation entitled "Rock and Roll Jihad." ...
Civil liberties are "nothing more than the list of things the government is not allowed to do," said Glenn Greenwald, a former constitutional law and civil rights lawyer, in his lecture before a full Salomon 001 last night. The best-selling author discussed the characteristics of civil liberties and ...
Candidates for Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board leadership positions echoed one another as they called for increased communication, pointed to their experience and accomplishments and answered questions from the crowd at a debate in a largely empty MacMillan 117 last ...
Matthew Strickland, who was enrolled as an undergraduate from 2005 to 2009, was found dead in his Alabama apartment Tuesday. Strickland was on leave from Brown and was studying full-time at the University of Montevallo during the 2010-11 academic year.
The first 460 housing groups arrived yesterday in Sayles Hall to select their rooms for next year during the first night of this year's housing lottery. The lottery began a few minutes after 6 p.m., kicking off a two-night event that promised to deliver tension, panic and elation.
The University does not intend to make any further budget cuts in response to the economic decline of 2008 and is moving forward with a number of initiatives including expansion of the School of Engineering and improvement of student residences, President Ruth Simmons told the Undergraduate Council ...
After an aberration last year, the Alpert Medical School jumped 21 spots to 28th in the U.S. News and World Report primary care rankings. Except for last year, when it ranked 49th, the Med School's primary care ranking has hovered in the 20s for the past several years.
Now in its second year, the University's subsidized care program for family of faculty and staff members has received overwhelmingly positive feedback, according to Drew Murphy, director of benefits for human resources. About 340 — or 7.5 percent — of employees are registered for the program. ...
Malicious outside software may have interfered with the Brown Concert Agency's ticketing website Wednesday morning. BCA made Spring Weekend concert tickets available for sale at 8 a.m., but students were unable to access the website until 8:30 a.m.
"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, ...
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