The Millenium Development Goals passed by the United Nations in 2000 have not progressed as far as publicized statistics indicate, said Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy and international affairs and the director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, in a lecture Wednesday night. Pogge’s talk, ...
Two state representatives proposed legislation in January to eliminate the master lever — a tool that allows voters to select every candidate from any party with a single mark on the ballot. The bill’s sponsors, Rep. Michael Marcello, D-Cranston, and Rep. Brian Newberry, R-North Smithfield, Burrillville, ...
The Department of Public Safety arrested and charged an employee March 6 with three counts of malicious injury to property for alleged graffiti. The case is currently pending in a Providence district court, said Darlene Trew Crist, director of news and communications at the University.
The MunchCard, a restaurant discount created by four Brown students as an alternative to University-provided meal plans, has been gaining popularity since its initiation last September. This spring, about 700 undergraduates are participating in the program, compared to 530 last semester. Steven Tran ...
A $7.5 million grant to Brown will fund a new Alcohol Research Center on HIV to study the effect of alcohol consumption in people with the virus. According to a University press release, the study will investigate the "physiological and behavioral" issues that arise from consumption of alcohol by individuals ...
John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago, predicted Monday night that "Israel faces a bleak future as a Jewish state."
On Sept. 20, students in the first-year seminar ETHN 0090A: "The Border/La Frontera" got a closer look at the impact of the border issues they study in class. They attended the play "La Casa Rosa" — performed by Soame Citlalime, a group of 30 women from San Francisco Tetlanohcan, Mexico — ...
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