In Fort Myers, Florida, the winter is over, and signs of the summer ahead have already appeared. In Scottsdale, Arizona, shopkeepers and restaurant owners are in the first days of a month of frantic excitement. And in Port St. Lucie, Florida, a small town has welcomed back its favorite long-time residents ...
Way back in September, I addressed MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred’s multiple proposals to cut down on game length, many of which I found either harmful to player safety or the integrity of the game. “Baseball, the national pastime, has been around since 1845 and has always been plenty exciting,” ...
Last year, 3,916 Americans died waiting for a kidney transplant. About 70,000 Americans are on the national waiting list for a kidney, and most of them undergo dialysis - a painful, invasive, continuous and time-consuming set of medical procedures that temporarily treat kidney disease. The federal government ...
At a faculty forum Tuesday sponsored by the Faculty Executive Committee, the Undergraduate Science Education Committee heard feedback from professors on its proposals for promoting undergraduate education in the fields of science, technology, engineering and math.
The increase in first-generation college students accepted to the College this year - 20 percent more than last year - can be attributed in part to the success of the Talent Quest program, University officials say.
Maremont, who writes for the Wall Street Journal, was a history concentrator at Brown and graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He then received a master's degree from the Columbia's Graduate School of Journalism. The Journal won the Pulitzer for its series on "options backdating," which Maremont helped report. ...
In line with a national trend, women outnumber men in terms of applicants to Brown, those accepted to the College and undergraduates enrolled.
While most regular decision applicants to Brown waited nervously for their admission decisions late last month, some students could rest easy in the knowledge that a fat envelope was headed their way.
In light of ongoing financial aid scandals at institutions of higher learning around the country, University officials say students need not worry about similar corruption at Brown's Office of Financial Aid.
Brown accepted 13.5 percent of applicants this year out of a record 19,044 applications - the "lowest admit rate in our history," said Dean of Admission James Miller '73.
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