Current A Day On College Hill attendees belong to the most competitive class Brown has ever seen. But next year's College Hill visiters may not be able to say the same about themselves.
More than 700 prospective first-year students crammed into a large tent on the Main Green yesterday, chattering with excitement and anticipation as they waited for President Ruth Simmons and Dean of Admission Jim Miller '73 to give the opening speeches for this year's A Day On College Hill.
Andreas Kraemer illustrated the disparity between American and European approaches to climate change with a simple anecdote.
Thirty-seven years ago, Apollo 15 brought back 170 pounds of surface material from its lunar mission. But recently a Brown professor found something unexpected in the samples - water.
Dean of Engineering Gregory Crawford will leave Brown in July for the University of Notre Dame. Crawford, who has been at the University for 12 years, will take over as dean of the College of Science at the South Bend, Ind., university.
Rhode Island, a state with a prison population of about 3,800 men and women, has the highest cost per inmate for one year of imprisonment in the country, the New York Times reported Feb. 29.
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