Dual degree students forge their own path
Bringing together concentrations as varied as haute couture and computing, the first class of Brown-RISD Dual Degree program students will be graduating this May. After five years, these students will...
View ArticleScience students approach open curriculum with different attitudes
In her four semesters at Brown, Bettina Voelcker ’15 has taken only one class outside of the sciences — TAPS 1280T: “Contemporary Mande Dance.” A pre-med student concentrating in neuroscience,...
View ArticleR.I. universities weather storm complications
Except for occasional sledding injuries and brief power outages, many Brown students escaped unscathed from Winter Storm Nemo this weekend. But other universities in Rhode Island, especially those with...
View ArticleRISD library fuses modern style with old architecture
At first glance, the former Rhode Island Hospital Trust Bank building looks much like it did in the early 1900s. The same spherical clock hangs from the high domed ceiling, much like a similar clock...
View ArticleTechnology connects students abroad with life back home
Students studying abroad adapt to an array of changes, from the food they eat to the classrooms where they study. But for many students, the only technological habit that changes in a foreign country...
View ArticleSocial media sparks Valentine’s Day connections
The atmosphere around Valentine’s Day at Brown varies from students using web tools to meet matches to clubs planning events. For a generation that grew up on Facebook, Twitter and smartphones,...
View ArticleUndergrads protest Keystone XL pipeline in D.C.
For over 100 environmental student leaders within the Brown community, the long weekend was a break from classes — but not from advocating their cause. Living up to their activist image, Brown...
View ArticleScholars reflect on jobs, experiences before Brown
While it may feel like some teachers were born to lecture, not all who take up the lectern have spent their lifetimes climbing up the ivory tower. Some professors and lecturers pursued a variety of...
View ArticleUndergrad figure skaters host inaugural show
The sound of the Zamboni greeted spectators who arrived early to the ice rink Saturday night. Sipping hot chocolate while awaiting the skaters’ entrance, the members of the crowd at Meehan Auditorium...
View ArticleEarly cultures concentration draws four declared students
As one of four students currently concentrating in the Program in Early Cultures, Sarah Tropp ’15 belongs to one of the University’s smallest academic communities. “No one’s heard of it,” Tropp said....
View ArticleLegacy students explore campus life through historic lens
For some students, initial interactions with the University aren’t when they receive the fat letter in the mail, but through the photos in their parents’ old yearbooks or college anecdotes passed down...
View ArticleFamily-owned cinema evolves into intimate local fixture
The familiar scent of popcorn greets visitors to the Cable Car Cinema, but the movies are anything but typical blockbuster films. Facing South Main Street, the theater has welcomed moviegoers with...
View ArticleAdjunct professor named State Poet
Everyone deserves to experience poetry, “whether those people are 6 years old, or 90 years old, or incarcerated or getting their GED at the community center,” said Rick Benjamin, the newly appointed...
View ArticleConcussions leave impact on academics and athletics
In the fall of 2010, Vince Tumbleson ’13.5 suffered a concussion in a football game. “I took a hit in the first half, got kind of dizzy but didn’t think anything of it because I had never had a...
View ArticleAlum tests luck as contestant on ‘Millionaire’
Drew Kunas ’12 didn’t necessarily want to be a millionaire. But last October, he got his chance — stepping onto the “Who Wants to Be a Millionaire” television set to try his hand at scoring seven...
View ArticleLocals hooked by the chance to tell real stories
“What do you do?” was the question of the night. At AS220’s 95 Empire Black Box theater, participants from the community dropped slips of paper with their names into a jar before being selected at...
View ArticleClose to home: Nearby professors blend home, work lives
Though his office hours were ending in two minutes, Professor of Music David Josephson still had time to meet with the final student waiting outside his door. As a professor who lives close to campus,...
View ArticleElm seeds new life through repurposed wood
From 1905 to 2013, an elm tree spread its roots in the original yard of the John Brown House in Providence. Originally planted by owner Marsden Perry to create a “park-like setting” in his yard, the...
View ArticleFighting words: Student debaters spar in annual tourney
Co-coordinator of the Radcliffe Hicks Debate Samantha Sanders ’13 wrote a motion on the board in Wilson Hall 101. “This house would allow the government to use eminent domain on intellectual property.”...
View ArticleAlums help Boston students overcome disadvantages with Match Corps
It seems like an odd jump from the flexible anti-structure that gives Brown its laid-back reputation to a school where kindergartners are called “scholars” and get demerits for slumping. But for the...
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