What do Saddam Hussein and an octopus have in common? If you are stumped, Radiolab's Robert Krulwich could give you a clue.
Meiqing Zhang, a senior lecturer in East Asian studies who had taught Chinese since 1988, died Saturday after a long illness.
The Department of Public Safety e-mailed a crime alert to the campus community at 7:59 p.m. last night regarding the robbery of a male student. According to the alert, the robbery took place near the intersection of Barnes and Brown streets around 1 p.m. yesterday.
There are no new leads in the disappearance of Denis Chartier, an assistant coach of the women's soccer team, according to Lt. Kevin San Antonio of the Town of Burrillville Police Department Chartier, 56, was last seen Feb. 6.
The Writing Center hopes to hire a specialist in English as a Second Language by July 2011 to meet an increasing demand for writing support, especially among international students. This year, the center has already held 2,300 appointments, 34 percent of them requested by students who do not speak ...
Two students alleged they were physically abused by bouncers at the Colosseum nightclub around midnight last night. Michael Quinn '13 and Jonathan Smallwood '12 said they were dragged down a flight of stairs from the second-story club by their necks.
The Brown Concert Agency is test-driving a new ticket distribution system for Spring Weekend today in hopes of avoiding the long lines and lost tickets of years past. With the new system, students will purchase all Spring Weekend tickets online, including the extra tickets released if the concerts are ...
The Cogut Center for the Humanities has teamed up with a group of Israeli and Palestinian musicians to create a summer institute in Berlin. A pilot program will send Brown students to the German capital this spring break to collaborate with musicians from Nazareth, Israel.
This year, the Office of Residential Life approved nearly twice as many rising juniors to live off-campus as it did last year, though about 150 students remain on the waitlist, according to Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services.
Faculty will have more input on an October 2011 report on tenure and hiring practices than on an accompanying proposal to the Corporation for setting a ratio of tenured to non-tenured faculty, according to administrators charged with creating both documents.
Robert Addison, a communications technician at Computing and Information Services, died Monday after falling ill at work.
"Separate is not equal." At the end of the Janus Forum's panel on gay marriage last night, Jesse McGleughlin '14 — the daughter of two lesbian mothers — stood up to argue for the right of gay couples to marry, brandishing the familiar phrase to the applause of the audience in MacMillan 117. ...
Professor of Comparative Literature Arnold Weinstein read an excerpt from his new book "Morning, Noon, and Night" and discussed its creation in front of a small crowd of community members and students in the Brown Bookstore Thursday afternoon. The book of literary analysis touches on the same subjects ...
Denis Chartier, an assistant coach of the women's soccer team, has been missing since Feb. 6, according to Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University relations.
Your room is in complete disarray — clothes everywhere, books and notebooks scattered across your bed, old take-out containers littering the floor. You absolutely hate cleaning, but it has to be done — can magic help?
Distinguished diplomat Richard Holbrooke '62 was honored in a memorial ceremony at the United Nations on Thursday afternoon.
Assembling "Barbecuban" pork sandwiches at Josiah's, introducing a Belgian waffle station at the Blue Room and instructing workers in cooking techniques — Aaron Fitzsenry is making his mark as the university's first-ever culinary manager for retail operations. And now students can follow his Google ...
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The Undergraduate Council of Students elected a representative to the Campus Access Advisory Committee, reviewed potential changes to the UCS Code of Operations regarding student activities and discussed projects currently in progress at its meeting last night.
The International Writers Project can continue funding its fellowship after securing two substantial gifts this month.
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