The University has begun rolling out specific initiatives in President Christina Paxson’s recently approved strategic plan, taking steps in developing new sophomore seminars, moving toward new online education programs and instituting reforms in post-tenure sabbatical policy. Administrators will ...
The Brown Annual Fund hosted a Gratitude Night last Tuesday, inviting students to thank Annual Fund donors through letters or film cameos. An intermittent stream of students flowed into a side dining room in the Sharpe Refectory, where a buffet of class T-shirts and photos was laid out alongside a ...
In response to broad community frustration with the Brown-Secure wireless network, University Computing and Information Services will start work on expanding and improving wireless access across campus starting this week. “CIS has heard your feedback about wireless issues, including the coverage ...
In response to an ad hoc committee report, the University will increase tuition assistance for the children of employees by an amount proportional to percentage increases in University tuition starting July 1, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15. But some faculty members believe the change is insufficient. ...
What Would I Say website goes viral What Would I Say, a website created by Princeton students that uses text from a Facebook user’s previous posts to generate humorous statuses, has become a phenomenon, gaining more than 1 million total hits and being featured in media outlets like the New Yorker, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students elected two undergraduate representatives to the Committee on the Events of October 29th — a body tasked with evaluating protesters’ disruption of a lecture by New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly — at its general body meeting Wednesday night. Terra ...
“It ain’t what you don’t know that gets you into trouble. It’s what you know for sure that just ain’t so,” said N. Gregory Mankiw P’17, professor of economics and department chair at Harvard, quoting Mark Twain in a lecture to a full Salomon 001 Wednesday. His talk focused on problematic ...
Completing a thesis in a joint or independent concentration may offer greater flexibility in the honors process, but coordination difficulties across departments can pose obstacles for students seeking to graduate with honors in interdisciplinary fields. Students in joint concentrations — interdisciplinary ...
Three weeks after the body of Michael Dawkins ’13.5 was found in Peru, friends and family are still waiting for information from the Peruvian or American embassies about the details surrounding his death, said sister Erika Dawkins. Dawkins was last seen Oct. 17 at 7 p.m., and his Brown key was ...
Students who concentrate in the social sciences are significantly less likely to complete honors requirements than concentrators in other academic fields, a trend that could be linked to requirement constraints and to some concentrators’ concerns about the rigors of a social science thesis. About ...
Students in the life and physical sciences are the most likely to graduate with departmental honors of any academic disciplines, with many of the highest thesis completion rates across all concentrations. Some concentrations in these fields require students to complete capstone or research projects ...
Department of Public Safety officers arrested a Providence resident Nov. 5 in connection with a series of reported thefts at the Olney-Margolies Athletic Center, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The arrest came after several weeks of reported thefts from the basketball courts area ...
The Office of Admission has experienced Common Application system processing errors affecting an estimated 30 to 50 early decision applications to the class of 2018, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. The Admission Office’s current tally of early decision applicants stands at about 2,990. But ...
The number of students earning English degrees declined from 66 to 43 from the class of 2012 to the class of 2013, and the number receiving history degrees dropped from 141 in the class of 2004 to 62 last year, according to the Office of Institutional Research. This decline in humanities concentrators ...
The number of students studying abroad this semester has spiked 27 percent from last fall amid an improving economy and continued interest in overseas study programs, administrators said. Two hundred eighty-one students are enrolled in study abroad programs this semester, an increase from 206 participating ...
Brown University Dining Services will continue service at the Sharpe Refectory for students on meal plan through the Thanksgiving holiday for the first time this year, offering a Thanksgiving supper that will replace the meal traditionally hosted at the Third World Center. Other dining halls and eateries ...
Recent enrollment surges in computer science courses have put a strain on department resources, resulting in teaching assistant shortages and insufficient computing space, students said. Introductory courses such as CSCI 0150: “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science” and ...
The University’s current $4.3 million deficit remains a concern as administrators plan the next fiscal year’s operating budget, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 at an open forum hosted Thursday by the University Resources Committee. The University ended the last fiscal year with a deficit of ...
Evelyn Sanchez ’14 was not always sure whether her friends visited her room to see her — or her vibrator. A member of the Sexual Health Awareness Group at Brown, Sanchez won the group’s title of “Sexpert of the Month” earlier this year for excellence in responding to anonymous student texts ...
Members of Brown Divest Coal and other students gathered Thursday in University Hall to read a letter to President Christina Paxson and Corporation members and to stage a silent sit-in. Students convened on the Main Green at noon to organize before entering University Hall. About 60 students participated ...
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