Brown University News Archives

Brown University officials say a student who was studying in China has died after falling from the rooftop terrace of a Beijing apartment building.

October 30, 2009 'True Blood' actor, GW grad Sam Trammell visits home Chip Ellis Amy and Chris Dent of Charleston got to meet one of their favorite actors, Sam Trammell of HBO's "True Blood," at the West Virginia Culture Center on Friday.

The appointment of College President Jim Yong Kim was celebrated as a landmark for Asian Americans.

Letting children sleep late on weekends and holidays might help them avoid becoming overweight or obese, a new study suggests.

LEXINGTON - Carolyn Denard, associate dean for undergraduate education at Emory University, will give a talk at Washington and Lee University at 7:30 p.m. Nov.

Boasting charming historic scenery with modern flair and an artistic sensibility, Providence, Rhode Island, is a fine choice for a weekend getaway.

On a miserable day for attending a football game, 110,377 showed up for Michigan's game against Penn State Saturday, said Diane Brown, University of Michigan police spokeswoman.

Every seat in the Stephens Hall Auditorium was filled Monday night when just less than 700 students and faculty reached the fire code limit for the "I Heart Female Orgasm" event, a nationally popular sex education lecture.

While it is widely believed that promiscuity or overlapping multiple sexual partners are driving the HIV epidemic, Brown University researchers have found that there is not much scientific evidence to support the idea .

With the death of Theodore R. Sizer, precollegiate education has lost one of its most influential thinkers and a founder of the contemporary movement to improve schools.

The report found that more than 1,760 children died in 2007, a 35 percent increase from 2001.

The Creative Arts Guild will celebrate its second annual Arts Patron of the Year event by honoring its founder, past executive director, community leader and volunteer Bernice Spigel.

The political arm of the Democratic National Committee is working in Rhode Island and across the country today to dial up the pressure on Congress to adopt a health-care bill.

Join your colleagues for two exciting and timely symposia from the Association for Library Collections & Technical Services on Thursday, Jan.

Main Category: Arthritis / Rheumatology Also Included In: Bones / Orthopaedics Article Date: 20 Oct 2009 Medical researchers will report findings that demonstrate that injecting the protein lubricin into knee joints can dramatically reduce cartilage degeneration.

Prenatal substance exposure could lead to later behavioral problems in children through multiple pathways, according to research published online Oct.

Brown University officials have approved design plans for the school's new medical education building.

Providence - A businessman who may be the best hope for the Republicans for finding a candidate for next year's governor's race is drawing inevitable comparisons to current Gov.

Mediterraneo restaurant on Atwells Avenue was full, with a large private party upstairs.

Join the Delaware Humanities Forum for its annual lecture at 6 p.m., Monday, Oct.

This artist's rendering provided by NASA via Brown University shows the Centaur upper stage rocket separating from its shepherding spacecraft on a trajectory toward the moon.

Columbus Day has become a more nuanced holiday over the years, as more and more cities, states and school districts grapple with the controversy that has stemmed from historians' account of the explorer's treatment of Native Americans.

Students at Brown University are protesting a decision to strip Columbus Day from the school's calendar because of the explorer's reputed violence against Native Americans.

Chief Justice of the United States John G. Roberts Jr. wants to outlaw affirmative action, and his tenure will end up linked with the issue of race, CNN senior analyst Jeffrey Toobin predicted at Brown University.

A decision to strip Columbus Day from the Brown University calendar because of the explorer's violence against Native Americans sparks a protest at the Ivy League school.

Donate a dollar a week to keep someone warm. The WARM Center in Westerly has launched its Dollar Makes a Difference campaign to assist those in need with heating bills.

On June 14, 1950, Roland and Marguerite Guillet of Pawtucket, R.I., stood onstage in front of an NBC radio microphone and waited as Bert Parks, host of the national quiz show 'Break the Bank,' asked the jackpot question that would determine whether or not the couple would go home $4,070 richer.

On Monday, theatergoers in every state in America will - almost all at the same moment - hear the words of a convicted murderer.

The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has announced its selection of Rajiv Kumar, founder and chairman of Shape Up RI and a medical student at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, to receive a Community Health Leaders Award.

This artist's rendering provided by NASA via Brown University shows the Centaur upper stage rocket separating from its shepherding spacecraft on a trajectory toward the moon.

Officials at John Brown University in Siloam Springs made public Thursday a capital campaign that aims to raise $100 million.

Butler Hospital in Providence, R.I., is leading a clinical study evaluating the effectiveness and safety of deep brain stimulation for severe obsessive-compulsive disorder .

John Brown University officials say they'll have a major announcement about fund-raising for the private college.

President Obama has nominated a Rhode Island judge to serve on a federal appeals court.

Many experts were shocked by the recent discovery of water on the moon, which was long thought to be bone-dry. But not everyone was surprised.

Saying Congress lacks leadership and is more concerned with placating special interests than the American people, Elizabeth "Betsy" Dennigan resigned from the Rhode Island House of Representatives late last week to focus on her challenge to unseat Representative James Langevin in next year's election.

What do you scream when feeling pleasure? If you're Subject No. 14, "Victory for the forces of Democratic Freedom!" is the first thing that comes to mind.

The Supreme Court has refused to hear former Qwest CEO Joseph Nacchio's appeal of his insider trading conviction.

" City residents are almost unanimously gloomy about the condition of the local economy, and the majority have little hope it will get better between now and 2014, according to a new poll released Thursday.

Robot experts themselves are more worried about robot's human programmers than robots themselves, says computer scientist Chad Jenkins of Brown University.

The knowledge economy has been touted as one cornerstone of a recovery in recession-hit Rhode Island.

Christopher Savoie, with his son Isaac in August, is being held in Japan for trying to abduct his two children from his ex-wife who took them from Tennessee.

" Rhode Island-based medical researchers have been awarded more than $22 million from the National Institutes of Health - " 91 grants in total, including 52 for Brown University teams - " through money included in the economic stimulus law enacted in February, officials announced this week.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - Natural killer, or NK cells, are part of our innate immune system.

WASHINGTON: US Congressman Patrick Kennedy assured his total support for congressional measures to ease tariff and debt burden on Bangladesh through strengthening the lobbying in the American parliament, reports UNB.

The actress, who attends Brown University, Rhode Island, was at a game between the two schools on Saturday , but security guards had to surround her to protect her from harassment.

HARRY POTTER star EMMA WATSON was left "quite shaken" after students from rival U.S. university Harvard stalked her during a recent football match.