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UCS votes to increase activities fee by $8
By Suzannah Weiss | November 4Correction appended.
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New Watson director looks to institute's future
By Dana Teppert | November 4Michael Kennedy, the new director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, picked up a book from a shelf in his office and opened it to a page featuring a black-and-white photograph.
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Auditors evaluate Brown
By Nicole Friedman | November 4An extensive report on the University's strengths and weaknesses was made available online to the campus communityWednesday. The report — written by a team of 10 faculty members and administrators from peer institutions — will serve as the basis for Brown's re-accreditation from the New ...
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Field stops declined sharply, DPS data trove shows
By Ellen Cushing | November 3Instances of Department of Public Safety officers stopping people on campus have declined by more than half since early 2008, according to detailed field-stop reports from DPS. The reports, which the department began releasing in 2007, also suggest that officers have not been conducting stops in a racially-biased ...
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Accreditation report comes out today
By Nicole Friedman | November 3The results of a major external audit of the University and its policies will be made public Wednesday morning, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 announced at a monthly faculty meeting Tuesday. A team from the New England Association of Schools and Colleges visited this past spring to launch the widescale ...
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'Peeping tom' suspect awaits trial
By Ben Schreckinger | November 3Editor's note: This case was dismissed in January 2010 by the 6th District Court in Providence. The man was not found guilty of any of the three charges, and his name has been removed from the article. A Woonsocket man arrested in September for allegedly trespassing on University property is being ...
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Unpaid balances will not hinder pre-registration
By Mark Raymond | November 2The University expects about 300 students to benefit from the recent extension of a policy that will allow students to pre-register for classes next semester even if they have large unpaid tuition balances, according to Elizabeth Gentry, assistant vice president for financial and administrative services. ...
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Condom report places Brown near the top
By Alex Bell | November 2Trojan Condoms released their annual Sexual Health Report Card last week, ranking Brown ninth among 141 schools across the nation.
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Ethicist challenges man-animal 'speciesism'
By Sydney Ember | November 2The animal liberation movement is a "far-reaching revolution," philosopher and animal rights advocate Peter Singer told a packed MacMillan 117 Tuesday night. In his lecture, titled "Ethics and Animals: Where we've come from, and where we need to go," the world-renowned ethicist shared his controversial ...
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Poet kicks off Asian American history month
By Warren Jin | November 2What if the world were tailored toward five-foot-two, tattooed Asian females?
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Simmons discusses her experience in higher education on PBS
By Ellen Cushing | November 2President Ruth Simmons appeared on The Tavis Smiley Show on PBS last Thursday night to discuss higher education and the challenges of leadership, basing her comments on her experiences as a black woman in a leadership position.
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Downtown, big ideas are soon to be tested
By Brigitta Greene | November 2In fewer than two years, Brown's new Medical Education Building will welcome its first class of students. But looking at the building now, it is hard to tell. The block-long former factory sits waiting, its 165 windows staring blankly out onto Richmond Street. And though the Med Ed building sits just ...
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Student dies in rooftop fall while abroad
By Sydney Ember | November 1Arun Stewart '11, a student whom professors and friends described as "brilliant," "passionate" and "incredibly hip," died Friday in Beijing, where he was studying abroad.He was attending a rooftop gathering with friends near Tsinghua University when he lost his footing, according to an e-mail from President ...
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Researchers awarded over $12 million to study obesity
By Samer Muallem | November 1The Weight Control and Diabetes Research Center at Miriam Hospital recently received six research grants worth a total of more than $12 million from the National Institutes of Health. The money will be used to research weight-gain prevention and the benefits of losing weight.Though the research center ...
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Youth alcohol abuse may stem from gene mutation
By Sarah Mancone | November 1A Brown-led study has identified a genetic variant that indicates an increased risk of alcohol abuse in adolescents. The study, led by Robert Miranda P'04, assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior for research, focused on a receptor gene previously tied only to adult alcohol abuse. The mutation ...
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Faculty missing ombudsperson to manage conflicts
By Nicole Friedman | November 1A staff position responsible for hearing and addressing the concerns of faculty and postdoctoral students will remain vacant this year after a failed search to fill the spot coincided with a hiring freeze instituted last year.For the past three academic years, the University employed a part-time ombudsperson ...
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Researchers question prevailing HIV wisdom
By Kristina Klara | October 29Current beliefs about the spread of HIV in sub-Saharan Africa may be unfounded, according to a paper published recently by two Brown researchers.
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New URI pres. making overtures to Brown
By Alex Bell | October 29Just four months into his presidency at the University of Rhode Island, David Dooley has big plans for his school — plans he hopes will include Brown.
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Living next door, but a world apart
By Anne Speyer | October 29It can be easy to forget while hurrying from class to class that not everyone on College Hill is a student.
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Watson program facing elimination
By Claire Peracchio | October 28An almost decade-old program that brings scholars from developing nations to the Watson Institute is in danger of ending after this semester if it does not find future funding.
