Every year, departments face the task of finding professors to teach their large introductory courses. Department chairs say they often try to enlist professors who can skillfully teach a large body of material to a great number of students in an attempt to both attract potential concentrators and engage ...
With planning for the Walk underway, the University is currently designing new buildings as well as studying reports on traffic and pedestrian flow in an effort to ease congestion on College Hill.
The University is currently renovating a house on Charlesfield Street to be used as a residence for graduate students, as part of the Plan for Academic Enrichment's goal to increase available grad student housing.
Brian Casey moved out of his University Hall office in early January to become associate dean for academic affairs in another University Hall - at Harvard University. He now sits in the former office of Vincent Tompkins '84, who left his position at Harvard to come to Brown and who, coincidentally, ...
Following concerns raised by several members of the faculty, administrators have slowed their efforts regarding the proposed Integrative Science and Engineering Program, formerly named the Science Cohort. A new faculty committee will oversee future work on the program and will focus on developing its ...
Film crews from the hit Fox show "The OC," which has featured Brown throughout its current season, were on campus in the past two weeks to shoot footage for an episode airing this Thursday.
Though her name is increasingly familiar to fashion followers across the country, Lauren Merkin '96 never anticipated her career as a designer. But after several years at an engineering consulting firm in California and business school at Columbia University, Merkin launched her eponymous handbag line. ...
Brown students from Israel and Lebanon were able to arrive safely on campus this semester despite ongoing conflict between the two countries, according to University officials.
One of the central tenets of Brown's Plan for Academic Enrichment is to improve undergraduate education. As we see the plan beginning to be executed, it seems the university will make most of its academic changes in interdisciplinary areas. Brown has made clear its intent to focus on interdisciplinary ...
What originally started as an initiative involving primarily post-doctoral research associates has expanded in recent years, spawning a variety of programs for undergraduate and graduate students as well as an independent concentration that may eventually get formal approval from the College Curriculum ...
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