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April 25, 2018
Former Florida Governor John Ellis “Jeb” Bush will speak at Brown University Wednesday afternoon. According to the university, Bush will give an address followed by a question-and-answer session moderated by Brown President Christina Paxson. The former presidential candidate is expected to discuss the rebuilding ofÃâà...
The Providence Journal
April 23, 2018
PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — Retired Brown University President Ruth Simmons is being installed as president of Prairie View A&M University, making her the first female leader of the school in Texas. PRAIRIE VIEW, Texas — Retired Brown University President Ruth Simmons is being installed as president ofÃâà...
India West
April 22, 2018
An Indian American 18-year-old from Gainseville, Georgia, Dhruv Gaur, won the $100,000 “Jeopardy!” college quiz championship April 20. earning a berth in the next edition of the “Jeopardy! Tournament of Champions.” The first-year student at Brown University emerged the champion at the conclusion ofÃâà...
Diverse: Issues in Higher Education
April 3, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Providence officials have approved a Brown University plan to build two new buildings on campus.The City Plan Commission voted unanimously Monday night in favor of amendments to Brown's master plan that would add the new buildings. The Providence Journal reports the newÃâà...
Brown Political Review
March 29, 2018
On February 5, Providence community advocates, leaders, and residents gathered to encourage unity and condemn bigotry in response to racist flyers that were disseminated near Brown University's campus. The college's president, Christina Paxson, reacted to the flyers with a letter over two weeks later,Ãâà...
The Providence Journal
March 29, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — An area Ivy League school is seeing record-breaking applications. Brown University officials say the school had applications from 35,438 hopefuls for the Class of 2022— more than any other year. The school made offers to just 7 percent, or 2,566 students. The previous yearÃâà...
WatertownDailyTimes.com
March 1, 2018
Brown University in Providence, R.I., announced it will fully cover tuition for students in its master of fine arts program for acting and directing. The three-year MFA program is a partnership with Trinity Rep, a Providence theater, and provides students with professional acting and directing experience inÃâà...
Uprise RI (blog)
February 28, 2018
Morgan Stanley is a powerful financial services firm and one of the key financial backers off the Bayou Bridge Pipeline currently being resisted in Louisiana. On Tuesday evening Morgan Stanley was in Rhode Island, at the Brown Faculty Club on Magee St in Providence recruiting Freshmen and SophmoreÃâà...
Playbill.com
February 27, 2018
Beginning in the 2018–2019 academic year, Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, will provide scholarship funds to cover the full cost of tuition for all returning and future students enrolled in the Brown/Trinity Rep master of fine arts programs in acting and directing. The mission of the move is toÃâà...
Rhode Island Public Radio
February 21, 2018
Brown University's new proposal keeps the performing arts center on the East Side, which the school says will better serve undergraduates. But the new plan involves the relocation of just one historic structure, the Sharpe House, built in 1873. In a statement, university officials said that they recognize theÃâà...
Seattle Times
February 21, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Officials at Brown University say their men's swimming and diving team will not participate in this week's Ivy League Championships as the school continues to investigate allegations of hazing. The university, in a statement dated Tuesday, also says their investigation and theÃâà...
The Providence Journal
February 15, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Brown Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and wife Ann S. Mencoff have given Brown University's Warren Alpert Medical School $50 million intended to help transform biomedical research into cures and treatments for disease, the university announced on Thursday. A separateÃâà...
The Providence Journal
February 13, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Tuition, room and board and fees at Brown University will rise to $70,266 starting in fall 2018, an increase of 4 percent. But 45 percent of undergraduates receive financial aid, and Brown meets 100 percent of every undergraduate's demonstrated financial need through a combinationÃâà...
Seattle Times
February 1, 2018
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University says U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor will speak at the Ivy League school next week in an event that's open to the public. The university announced that the justice will speak Wednesday in a free but ticketed event on its Providence campus.
The Providence Journal
December 31, 1999
Dhruv Gaur, a Brown University freshman, has won the $100,000 grand prize in the "Jeopardy!" College Championship. Gaur, from Gainesville, Georgia, who is studying public health and economics, has earned a berth in the next edition of the game show's Tournament of Champions. He says he's not yetÃâà...
The Providence Journal
December 31, 1999
PROVIDENCE, R.I. — One of the largest gifts in Brown University history, from Brown graduate Robert J. Carney and his wife, Nancy D. Carney, is intended to quicken the pace of neuroscience research in R.I., with the potential to develop new treatments and cures for such devastating conditions asÃâà...
Deseret News
December 31, 1999
As Utah searches for solutions to a higher than average of teacher turnover, it may want to focus more on working conditions, a Brown University assistant ... can make a significant difference in rates of teacher retention, said John Papay, assistant professor of education and economics at Brown University.
WPRI 12 Eyewitness News
December 31, 1999
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University is providing scholarships to cover the tuition for all master's degree students studying acting and directing. The Ivy League university in Rhode Island announced the change Friday. It says it wants to ease student debt, diversify the pool of actors and directors inÃâà...
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