Sophia Tintori '09 was once scared of the idea of being a scientist.Perhaps this is why Tintori is contributing to CreatureCast, a blog created this past summer that seeks to make science more accessible to the general public through podcasts and posts.Recently, an animated video produced by Tintori ...
Two lawyers who litigated a landmark 2008 Supreme Court case debated the merits of firearm regulation and the role of the Second Amendment before a packed crowd in Salomon 101 Thursday afternoon.
As the nation's unemployment rate soars, a group of Brown students have come up with a response: start a job search company.
An article in Thursday's paper ("A Banner year for registration, despite bumps," Sept. 17) incorrectly stated that 70 percent of Brown courses are capped at 20 or fewer students. In fact, 70 percent of courses have an enrollment of 20 or fewer students, but are not necessarily capped courses. Roughly ...
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Plans are moving forward to establish a self-sufficient school of public health within the University, according to Fox Wetle, associate dean of medicine for public health and public policy.
No one in the Department of Political Science knows what a year at Brown is like without Alan Zuckerman."Anybody who is here — he had a hand in hiring," said James Morone, professor of political science and department chair. "When we had a faculty meeting about who we were going to hire, he would ...
Students returning to Brown from their summer vacations encountered change in a traditional bastion of stability and regularity: the Sharpe Refectory. The modifications are immediately visible to anyone walking into the Ratty. The salad bar has moved to a different location, a new station for soup ...
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gilad Barnea was recently awarded a EUREKA grant — $1.3 million in funding for scientific research over four years — by the National Institutes of Health.The NIH awards the EUREKA grant to scientists pursuing "high-risk, high-reward" research. In addition ...
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Ariel Hudes '11, squashed into a hotel room with six Honduran male actors, was already uncomfortable when the seventh member of the troupe barged in with news that would drastically alter Honduran history and her own summer.
Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar '87 MA'90 PhD'09 took over as President Ruth Simmons' new assistant in July, filling a position that had been without a full-time employee since 2008.
Ronald Vanden Dorpel MA'71, the senior vice president for University advancement who led the Campaign for Academic Enrichment, is retiring, he said yesterday.
Hazardous waste management inspections conducted in Sidney Frank Hall this summer uncovered violations in 10 biology and neuroscience laboratories, according to an Office of Environmental Health and Safety report, a copy of which was obtained by The Herald.The labs were found to be in breach of container-management ...
Efforts by Brown scientists to improve the structure of carbon nanotubes used to deliver drugs and repair cells may help cure central nervous system disorders such as epilepsy and Parkinson's disease.
Starting this semester, a new space on the second floor of J. Walter Wilson, known as Advising Central, is available weekday afternoons for students seeking advice from faculty and deans without prior appointments.The project, an extension of the Faculty Advising Fellows Program, brings together different ...
The Graduate School recently formalized ways to relieve the TA crunch that has plagued many departments at Brown, creating a new position for part-time TAs and encouraging related departments to work together.In a decision that has sparked debate between professors and the Grad School, departments that ...
Previously done by paper and pen, intramural registration and scoring have moved to the Web site imleagues.com. Because intramural sports are so popular, the change will ease administrative burden, according to Intramural Coordinator Diane Yee.The online system provides a central forum for team schedules, ...
Though more than 200,000 heroin addicts are incarcerated every year in the United States, many prisons still lack pharmaceutical treatment for opiate addiction, according to a new study by researchers from Miriam Hospital, Brown University and their cooperative Center for Prisoner Health and Human Rights.The ...
Administrators are gearing up for a tense semester of negotiating $30 million in cuts to next year's budget. But unlike last fall, when the University quickly eliminated approximately the same amount mostly through quick-fix measures such as a hiring freeze, this round of cuts will force decision-makers ...
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