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Alum killed in one-car accident during Reunion Weekend
By Alex Bell | May 27Laura Kavazanjian '06 was killed in a one-car accident at about 1:30 am Saturday on Route 95 in Groton, Conn., when a car driven by David Reidy '06 went off the road and rolled onto its hood, according to an article in the Providence Journal. Kavazanjian, the only passenger, was not wearing a seatbelt ...
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McLaughlin P'12 named dean of faculty
By Shefali Luthra | May 26Professor of English Kevin McLaughlin P'12, English department chair and interim chair of the German Studies department, will replace Rajiv Vohra P'07 as dean of the faculty starting in July, Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 wrote in an email to the community May 27. Though McLaughlin's term begins ...
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Dean to head Watson Institute for one year
By Shefali Luthra | May 13Carolyn Dean, senior associate dean of the faculty and professor of history, will become interim director of the Watson Institute for International Studies July 1.
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Simmons: No teams to be cut for next year
By Sahil Luthra | April 29The men's and women's fencing teams, men's wrestling team and women's ski team will be allowed to compete through next academic year, wrote President Ruth Simmons in an email to the Brown community Friday afternoon. Simmons' recommendations to the Corporation about potential cuts of varsity teams will ...
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Q&A with Sanjay Gupta
By Shefali Luthra | April 27Sanjay Gupta came to campus yesterday to speak about the relationship between media and medicine. After his lecture, he sat down with The Herald.
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Roth '77 to give 2011 Baccalaureate
By Jake Comer | April 27Kenneth Roth '77 P'12, human rights advocate and executive director of Human Rights Watch, will give the 2011 Baccalaureate address Saturday, May 28 at the First Baptist Church, the University announced yesterday. Per Brown's tradition, two seniors will speak at the Commencement ceremony May 29.
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Jarrett discusses gender, dispenses advice
By Nicole Boucher | April 27Valerie Jarrett, senior adviser to President Obama, discovered her passion for public service after moving from an elite Chicago law firm in the Sears Tower to a cubicle facing an alley in the mayor's office, she told a nearly full Salomon 101 yesterday afternoon. In her lecture, part of the Doherty-Granoff ...
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With looming team cuts, recruits face hard decisions
By Madeleine Wenstrup | April 27After making it to the Idaho state wrestling finals last spring, Ken Staub '15 was recruited by schools across the country, including Brown. "When I went to the Brown campus, I got a feeling that this was the place for me," Staub said. But with his decision already made and Brown's wrestling team ...
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UCS provides forum for student-athletes
By David Chung | April 27The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted administrators and student-athletes at its final general body meeting of the semester last night, providing a venue for them to exchange their ideas and concerns about the recommendations made last Thursday by the Athletics Review Committee to cut four varsity ...
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New TWC director to be announced this month
By Joseph Rosales | April 27The Third World Center's yearlong search for a new director is coming to a close, said Ricky Gresh, senior director for student engagement. The search committee hopes to make an official announcement before finals period ends May 20, Gresh said.
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Gov. Chafee '75 comes to campus to support wrestling team
By Tony Bakshi | April 27Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 and other alums, as well as players and coaches of the four varsity teams that were suggested for elimination by the Athletics Review Committee, met with committee members yesterday to pitch their teams' cases for survival.
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Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 reflects as term winds down
By Emma Wohl | April 27When Provost David Kertzer '69 P'95 P'98 steps down from his post June 30, his five-year term as the University's second-ranking administrator will draw to a close, though he will remain on the faculty as a professor. He leaves after a term marked by a national financial crisis, a heated tenure debate ...
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'Renaissance' reporter mixes media and medicine
By Shefali Luthra | April 27Sanjay Gupta is lucky, he says. He has always been good at telling stories.
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Project seeks to spark religious dialogue
By Daniel Sack | April 27Every Tuesday this semester, about 20 students gathered in J. Walter Wilson for the Brown Religious Literacy Project, a non-for-credit class designed to promote dialogue about world religions.
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Renovated Metcalf to open in October
By Greg Jordan-Detamore | April 27The Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory, currently under renovation, will reopen in October as the new home of the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences. The project's final completion is set for Sept. 30, and the department will move in the next week, said David LaPlante, ...
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To finance projects, U. to take on more debt
By Mark Raymond | April 27The University's debt has risen by almost $500 million over the past decade, largely to finance infrastructure improvements on campus, according to Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. The accumulation of debt is part of a broader trend in higher education, and ...
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Driver gets eight years for death of Schaefer '13
By Katrina Phillips | April 27Daniel Gilcreast, the driver who struck and killed Avi Schaefer '13 last February, was sentenced to eight years in the Adult Corrections Institution in an emotionally charged hearing yesterday.
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Suspects in two-night robbery spree detained
By Lucy Feldman | April 27Five armed robberies occurred on or near Brown's campus early Tuesday morning and yesterday morning. Two suspects, one male and one female, were identified by victims and arrested yesterday morning.
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$5.5 million grant to help fund labs
By Kristina Klara | April 26The University's Center of Biomedical Excellence for Cancer Signaling Networks was recently awarded a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence grant worth more than $5.5 million to be paid in annual $1.1 million increments for five years. The grant will be used to purchase and maintain new equipment ...
