Google+ was not among the 10 Google Apps made available to Brown Gmail users by Computing and Information Services July 14. The social network is not yet available to Google Apps, the service through which Brown Gmail is run.
African music percolated with excited chatter as a crowd waited to hear Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe kick off the Department of Africana Studies 2011-12 Conversations in Africana Writing Series Monday. Achebe and other authors were featured in a panel titled "Voice and Memory in the Poetic ...
The University honored its 150-year-old Federal Depository Library yesterday with a ceremony and a cautionary talk on technology by former political science professor Darrell West.
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Once Via Via IV, then Cosa Nostra, the restaurant on Meeting Street is now claiming its third name in a year: Prince Cafe and Restaurant. Mohamed Badr, the restaurant's owner, changed its name Aug. 1 and expanded its cuisine to include Mediterranean dishes along with its traditional array of Italian ...
Sam Williams '12 wakes earlier this semester, knowing she will have to wait for machines at the Bears Lair satellite fitness center. Julie Rodriguez '14 has postponed her workouts on certain days because she cannot afford to waste time in line for one of the two remaining treadmills.
A majority of students rate their educational experience at Brown as "excellent," according to the 2011 enrolled student survey, whose findings were released Thursday. Two thirds of all undergraduates participated in the confidential electronic survey, which the Office of Institutional Research kept ...
Despite admitting a similar number of prospective students as in previous years, the Department of Geological Sciences matriculated 18 graduate students this year, a large increase compared to the average class of 12 students. Though the department had no trouble funding its incoming class, the ...
Brown plans to put more than 20 houses on the market to sell to faculty and staff at 80 percent of their assessed market value.
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Brian Zink was named an assistant dean for medical student career development at the Alpert Medical School Wednesday, a newly created position he will assume Oct. 1.
Arthur Horwich '73 MD'75 will receive the prestigious Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award today for his work on the mechanism by which primary amino acids refold to form their full protein structure.
Receiving $15,000 for a college class might sound like a laughable dream, but in SOC 1870A: "Investing in Social Change," a course offered by the Department of Sociology in conjunction with the Swearer Center for Public Service, that is exactly what happens. There is, of course, a catch — students ...
It has no building yet, but with a $15 million endowment and hundreds of soon-to-be affiliated researchers, the Norman Prince Neurosciences Institute promises to make its presence felt in the world of medical research.
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Adjunct Lecturer of Education Kolajo Afolabi '03 died from an accidental head injury sustained during a morning jog yesterday.
Four months after Commencement, Alex Morse '11 still has a ways to go before landing a job.
President Ruth Simmons received $656,683 in total compensation during the 2009 calendar year, down from $884,771 in 2008. Compensation figures for top officials in 2009, including salaries, bonuses, benefits and deferred compensation, are listed on the Internal Revenue Service's Form 990, which all ...
The hassle of abandoning wet clothing to refill a vending stripe in one of the University's oft-broken Card Value Center machines may become a thing of the past next semester. A system under review, which would make the vending stripes on Brown ID cards obsolete, would be "a revision and update of the ...
The University will make a major announcement within the next several weeks regarding the Humanities Initiative, a multidisciplinary effort launched last year to strengthen teaching and research in the humanities.
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