Brown University News

This is not a normal DKE diary. Rather, it's just some suggestions of things to do around Providence for those of you who will be attending Netroots Nation.

This past Mother's Day, Americans spent approximately $18.6 billion on gifts for mom.

Sanlikol is the director of DNYA, a nonprofit organization concerned with developing and learning about world music.

I've been spending the week before commencement, while my college officials decide which students get degrees and prizes, enjoying a week of mathematics events up and down the east coast.

Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.

Numbers, even the ones in college-level pre-calculus, make sense to Edgar Garcia, 17, because they look the same in English and Spanish.

Brown graduates Arianna Ahiagbe, Ezinne Ihenachor, Tyler Rogers and Gavriel Cutipu-Zorn lead fellow graduates through the Van Wickle Gates during Sunday's commencement.

Rep. John Lewis will receive the last of five prestigious honorary degrees Sunday, this one coming from Brown University.

Brown University is set to hand out more than 2,400 degrees at its last graduation ceremonies under the leadership of Ruth Simmons this weekend.

Academy Award-nominated actress Viola Davis was honored at Monday's Pell Awards at Trinity Repertory Company's Dowling Theater and Pell Chafee Performance Center in Providence, R.I. Davis received the 2012 Pell Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Arts.

Fifteen DeKalb students will be going to college this fall on full ride Gates Millennium Scholarships amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars.

More than 1,300 students graduated from Essex County College yesterday during the school'sA 43rd annual commencement.

Using only her thoughts, a Massachusetts woman paralyzed for 15 years directed a robotic arm to pick up a bottle of coffee and bring it to her lips, researchers report in the latest advance in harnessing brain waves to help disabled people.

It's a long path from Louisville, Ky., to Saint-Jean-de-Minervois in Southern France.

The woman is one of two patients in the ongoing trial of BrainGate neural interface, an experimental brain-computer interface technology that may one day give paralyzed individuals more mobility.

Bristol Community College honors the work of more than 1,000 graduates at the 45th commencement ceremony, on Saturday, June 2, at 11 a.m. on the Elsbree Street Campus.

Harvard University wasn't a top choice for Westerville Central High School senior Taylor Reneau.

After playing a variety of sports as a kid, Margiotta focused on football and starred at Monsignor Farrell High School, where he was a hard-blocking tight end, and Brown University, where he was an undersized nose guard, and later for the Fire Department team and in the Staten Island Touch Tackle League.

Jeffrey Frederick Harper, 60, passed peacefully in the early morning of May 18, 2012 from complications of kidney cancer.

On Monday, 30 performers from Broadway and television took the stage at American Airlines Theatre to participate in the third annual Born for Broadway benefit.