In a nearly unanimous vote Tuesday night, Brown Dining Services employees authorized their bargaining committee to call a strike if today's negotiations on a new contract do not yield a satisfactory agreement.
With the ball at the 17-yard line and just seconds left in a 31-31 game against Holy Cross on Saturday, Brown Head Coach Phil Estes didn't turn to his kicker for the Bears' field goal attempt. He sent in a wide receiver instead.
With administrators scrambling to cut costs in a difficult financial climate, President Ruth Simmons is trying to do her part.
Brown is co-sponsoring an essay competition for local middle schoolers to write about Abraham Lincoln this year, part of its ongoing celebration of the 200th anniversary of the 16th president's birth.
With Fall Weekend behind them, Brown students can now turn to the exploration of a decidedly less controversial new world: outer space.
The University has hired Katherine Gordon to oversee the development and marketing of products based on faculty research.
Thousands of people from across the country, including a number of Brown students and Providence community members, gathered in Washington, D.C. over the long weekend for the inaugural National Equality March, an event calling for equal civil rights for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans. ...
"This is another example of political correctness, and it's wrong," local radio talk show host John DePetro said during Monday's rally for Columbus Day, a demonstration against the University's decision last spring to change the name of the holiday weekend to Fall Weekend.
The University spent nearly $160,000 on various lobbying activities, including direct contact with government officials to influence national, state and local legislation, in the 12 months ending in June 2008, according to its most recent publicly available tax filings.
The fate of a new contract for dining workers remains uncertain after workers and University officials negotiating over the long weekend agreed to extend a Monday deadline.
Brown and McGill University researchers have discovered an important relationship between cells of the immune system — a finding that might someday benefit patients receiving bone marrow and organ transplants.
Brown professors are among a team of researchers that recently received a $10.5 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health to study a new treatment for Obsessive Compulsive Disorder. Brown faculty will lead two of the study's six sub-projects.
Americans can expect conservative Supreme Court justices to practice their brand of "judicial activism" in the coming years, CNN senior analyst and author Jeffrey Toobin told a Salomon 101 audience Thursday night.
In recognition of National Cyber Security Awareness Month this October, Computing and Information Services will be hosting several events to promote cyber safety in the Brown community. Presented by the Information Security Group, the events are organized to educate and help protect students from cyber ...
Climate change is difficult to predict. But trying to deduce historical precipitation patterns may help us build a model for the weather patterns of the future, geologist Wallace Broecker told a full MacMillan 115 audience Thursday afternoon.
The Swearer Center's Social Innovation Initiative is creating a new blog aimed at promoting social innovation and entrepreneurship at Brown.
If you don't know much about Brown's Pre-Law Society, chances are you are not alone. Over the past few years, the society has had a relatively weak presence on campus, but that may change soon.
Queer Hillel, a new group for LGBTQ Jewish students, gathered for the first time on Tuesday.
With Dining Services workers' contract with the University set to expire Monday and negotiations on a new deal ongoing, public demonstrations in support of the workers intensified this week.
The government's role in the pharmaceutical industry — either highly regulative or uninvolved, leaving the industry to police itself through competition — was the subject of a Janus Forum-sponsored debate Thursday night before a half-full Salomon 001.
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