There's a new way to get a taste of Brown that doesn't involve setting foot in Providence.After a pilot period starting in May, Brown plans to launch its own page on iTunes U this week, joining hundreds of other colleges that already post free audio and video of lectures, student performances and virtual ...
In April of 1843, Sophia Hawthorne scratched the phrase "Man's accidents are God's purposes" into a window of Ralph Waldo Emerson's Concord, Mass. home, which frequently hosted Hawthorne, her writer husband Nathaniel, Henry David Thoreau and Louisa May Alcott.
"Chris Adrian tries things."
Tired of reading Marx and Freud? Getting hand cramps from drawing benzene rings? This semester, nine students in a Group Independent Study Project on graphic novels are reading "Calvin and Hobbes" for class instead — and drawing their own multimedia masterpieces.
As it enters its second year, the International Scholars Program is in an unexpected position: it has more scholarships to offer and fewer applicants vying for them.The program, whose deadline was Oct. 5, will send 20 Brown students — six more than last year — abroad this summer for internships, ...
President Ruth Simmons, speaking at a faculty meeting Tuesday, reiterated the University's opposition to proposed state legislation levying fees on private universities for their out-of-state students and valuable real estate.She also emphasized the ways Brown already contributes to the local economy ...
Responsibility for monitoring students' writing competency will be centralized in concentration advising, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron said at a monthly faculty meeting Tuesday.
Rhode Island institutions will receive more than $22 million in federal stimulus funds to promote medical research beginning this month — and Brown is leading the charge. The University has procured 52 of 91 federal grants distributed to the state by the National Institutes of Health, adding $12 ...
The Jonathan Nelson '77 Fitness Center and a new aquatics center may be combined under one roof rather than being constructed as separate facilities, top administrators said recently. A combined and somewhat scaled-back facility would cost approximately $40 million, about $25 million less than the ...
After a dismal year for university finances nationwide, losses reported by peer schools have been on par with the Brown endowment's 26.6 percent decline.Harvard and Yale, the two wealthiest U.S. universities, both saw the total value of their endowments tumble by nearly 30 percent between July 2008 ...
Coming back to Brown after studying abroad usually means a return to more homework and a rekindled love for the Rock. But for those returning from a spring semester in France, it also means a return to a stable class schedule free from student-led strikes.At several universities in Paris and Lyon, student ...
The University's internationalization initiative — an effort to enhance Brown's profile abroad — has a new leader at its helm and is launching programs to encourage scholarly dialogue and global health research this year.Matthew Gutmann, the new vice president of international affairs, is ...
"It wasn't like one day we just had baseball," Rick Harris said to a modest audience at the Brown Bookstore on Saturday. "It's kind of like a folk song. Baseball has a long history."Harris is a social worker, but that's just his day job. His true passion is baseball, and when it comes to the history ...
When Faunce House re-opens next fall after intensive renovations, students will have more than just comfy chairs and focaccia sandwiches to feast their senses on. The new Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center in Faunce will become home to an original piece of art by a Brown alum.
A newly renovated Faunce House is on track to re-open by the time students arrive on campus next fall, earlier than originally planned, due to an unexpected surplus in net tuition income, administrators said.
With University Hall as their backdrop and repeated chants of "health care now," nearly 200 students, Brown Dining Services workers and local supporters rallied Thursday afternoon against proposed changes to the workers' health care contribution requirements.
Artists, academics and engineers from across disciplines will come together on College Hill this weekend to discuss the role of design in sparking social change.
Professor of Community Health and Anthropology Stephen McGarvey has researched the intersection of genetics and lifestyle in Samoa and American Samoa for more than 30 years. Now, armed with a $5.2 million National Institutes of Health grant that will enable him to map 1 million sites on the genome, ...
A new year-long series will examine contemporary South Asian political issues by hosting seminars in Providence and the Boston area.
Honduras's military coup this past summer was "clearly rooted in the struggle between classes," Shaun Joseph '03 told an overcrowded classroom at the Third World Center last night. Joseph, speaking alongside City Councilman Miguel Luna, described their week-long stay in Honduras after the coup at an ...
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