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Activists, scientists and the Queen of Soul: Honorary Degree Recipients

Mary ElmendorfAnthropologist and peace activistDoctor of Humane Letters (L.H.D.)Mary Elmendorf, a peace activist and an anthropologist, is well known for her studies of Mayan women in Mexico.She has launched projects that help improve the daily quality of life in emerging countries.Elmendorf completed ...

Year after year, helping New Orleans

Four Januarys ago, Josh Morrison '09 flew from Seattle, Wash. to Louisiana. He had never been to New Orleans before, and the city was still reeling from Hurricane Katrina that devastated the city six months earlier, while Morrison and his classmates were heading to College Hill for freshmen orientation. ...

Reflecting on 50 years of Brown sports

When the Brown and Pembroke classes of 1959 graduated, we left having experienced the beginnings of a half century of profound transformation for Brown athletics. Two major events had occurred during our time on College Hill: the formal beginning of Ivy League competition in 1956 and the University's ...

Senior Orators

Noor Najeeb '09

Rakim Brooks

After learning in November that he had won a prestigious Rhodes Scholarship, Rakim Brooks '09 decided to go back to his home in the Bronx to avoid the cascade of congratulations he faced on campus."Looking back, I probably should have stayed to enjoy the moment a bit more," he said with a laugh. But ...

A troubled past

In a campus-wide e-mail to the Brown community on Jan. 27, President Simmons announced the University stood to lose $800 million from its endowment, reducing its safety net by 30 percent to $2 billion. The e-mail marked the first mass University communication since September 2008 when the economy took ...

How many ways can the U. say 'recession'?

In October of 1975, amid cuts to the faculty and financial aid, then-President Donald Hornig sat down with the Herald for an hour, his typical method for releasing information to the community.

Nicholson, panel give behind-the-scenes insight

A star-studded panel featuring actor Jack Nicholson P'12, producer Robert Evans and Paramount CEO Brad Grey P'10 P'12 spoke to a full Salomon 101 on Saturday to discuss the roles of individuals in the movie-making process.Between questions from producer and panel moderator Peter Bart, several lengthy ...

Awesome Blossoms

Wertheimer '10 wins UCS presidency

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Program welcomes minority students

Though most prospective first-years finished their preview of Brown on Wednesday, some are still on campus for one more day on College Hill. About 140 admitted students are staying for Third World Welcome, the Admission Office's program for minority students, according to Natasha Go '10, the program's ...

More active writing enforcement in store

Plans to more actively enforce the undergraduate writing requirement are moving forward, according to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron.

Faunce overhaul headlines summer construction

Initial construction on the Stephen Robert '62 Campus Center in Faunce House is now underway, according to Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management.

Mock trial team makes it to nationals

Ten members of Brown Mock Trial earned a place at the American Mock Trial Association National Championship last weekend.

Zakaria will be graduation speaker

Journalist and political scientist Fareed Zakaria will deliver the baccalaureate address at Commencement next month, the University announced Thursday.

Tougaloo exchange opens eyes, doors

When Courtney Johnson MD'12 arrived on College Hill in the dead of winter last January, she had never seen snow before.

PLME applications drop 13 percent

The Program in Liberal Medical Education­­­ — which allows students to earn their undergraduate and medical degrees in a single eight-year program ­— admitted a total of 97 students this year, including 20 early decision candidates, Ip wrote in an e-mail to The Herald. Both ...

For visiting student, winding path led to Brown

Instead of venturing off to the jungles of South America or the cobblestone streets of Europe, Michael Riecken, an undergraduate at Catholic University in Washington, D.C., chose to spend his junior year "abroad" on College Hill.

Move to online evals aims to save on paper

Seventeen departments are using online course evaluations instead of in-class paper forms this semester, according to Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron.