Three representatives from the University's chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union spoke about the possibility of implementing a student public defenders program at the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday night.
The Occupy movement returned to College Hill Monday afternoon, but neither protesters nor banners were in sight. Instead, about 20 students could be found in Wilson 101 discussing the social and economic grievances that sparked the movement last September.
Stanford professor and author Claude Steele knows first-hand the pressures of being an underrepresented minority on a college campus. At the 15th annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture Wednesday afternoon, Steele discussed the influence of negative stereotypes on minority academic performance and urged ...
The University will soon become the second American institution with a center devoted entirely to social sciences in India, due to an anonymous parent donation of $6 million made last year. The Brown-India Research Initiative will promote academic research and teaching on contemporary political, economic ...
After sitting vacant since 2009 due to a hiring freeze, the faculty ombudsperson position has been filled, according to an email sent to the faculty Friday afternoon. Ruth Rosenberg, currently director of student mediation in the Office of Student Citizenship at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, ...
Emily Eastlake never expected she would be forced to leave Brown.
Students, faculty and staff now have an easier way to connect to wireless Internet for free when visiting a select group of other colleges and universities.
At last night's housing options fair hosted by the Office of Residential Life, 755 students entered the first pick raffle for the housing lottery.
Taking PHP 1680J: "The Race To Inner Space: Conflating Science, Politics and Economics To Promote Brain Health" might be one of the most important things 24 Brown students ever do. At least, that's what Patrick Kennedy, former R.I. congressman and visiting fellow in brain science, suggested after the ...
With the national debate on health care and rising obesity in the U.S. raging on, Rajiv Kumar '05 MD'11 has decided to "disrupt the health care system" on his own terms.
Total applications to the University decreased slightly from last year, with international applicants making up a record 16 percent of the applicant pool. The 28,671 total applications for the class of 2016 — 25,744 regular decision and 2,927 early decision — represented a 7 percent decline ...
As the School of Engineering expands, racial and gender diversity will be a priority in hiring new faculty, said Lawrence Larson, dean of the school of engineering. Part of this effort will involve collaboration with the Diversity Advisory Board, he said.
More than 3,000 students this semester will use Canvas, Brown's new online course management system, before its slated replacement of MyCourses in spring 2013. Canvas, officially selected last spring after receiving positive feedback from student and faculty surveys and focus groups, had its first testing ...
Life after Brown may seem daunting, but alums who have braved this frontier returned to campus earlier this month to lend a hand to students starting their careers.
The lineup for the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, which will overlap with Spring Weekend for the second year running, eliminated two of students' favorite Spring Weekend contenders. The favorites were determined by a poll jointly conducted by the Undergraduate Council of Students and Brown ...
The Main Green bustled with activity the first days of classes, as scenes of students hurrying to class, throwing frisbees in the uncharacteristically warm weather and catching up with friends signalled a return to the familiar rhythms of University life. But for mid-year transfers beginning their Brown ...
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