Armine Barutyan still gets goose bumps as she recounts how Alicia Sacramone rallied the U.S. women's gymnastics team last September in the world championships in Germany. The team had buckled on the balance beam, with typically steady Shawn Johnson and Nastia Liukin committing blunders. The USA...
Here's what Brown does for you At a time when everybody is going green, we're tired of seeing red flags go up and we all want our facts spelled out in black and white, this somehow seems like a very brown time for the world of...
A few weeks ago, I learned Michelle Obama, wife of probable presidential nominee Barack Obama, has one sibling, a brother, Craig Robinson, and he was head basketball coach at Brown University in Providence, R.I. As of April 7, Robinson is head basketball coach at Oregon State University, in...
A student faces disciplinary action after two people threw green whipped cream pies at New York Times columnist and author Thomas L. Friedman as he began an Earth Day speech at Brown University in Providence, R.I. A video of the Tuesday incident posted on YouTube.com shows Friedman telling...
Rachel Estrella, A high-school senior in Barrington, R.I., gets into bed every night before 10, hoping to beat her insomnia. One frustrating hour later, she gets up. She reads. She writes. She waits. Finally, at 1 or 2 a.m., Estrella’s mind and body give in. On average, she gets four...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Brown University recently announced that students from families with incomes below $60,000 will not be expected to help pay for their child's education at the institution. Also starting this fall, families with incomes under $100,000 will no longer have loans as part of their financial aid...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Trisha Posey, assistant professor of history at John Brown University at Siloam Springs, has received a research fellowship from the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History in New York City.
Listen to the interview(34 minutes) David Kertzer, provost of Brown University, is also a professor of anthropology and Italian studies who writes accessibly about Italian history and culture -- six books so far and another on the way. The man is prolific even though he is only in...
Brian W. Casey, associate dean for academic affairs in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, will become the nineteenth president of DePauw University, effective July 1. The appointment of Dr. Casey will be announced this morning by R. David Hoover, chair of DePauw's Board...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Chuck Hyde, customer relations manager of the Soderquist Center for Leadership & Ethics at John Brown University in Siloam Springs, has been promoted to director of business development. Tony Hawk, the former director of business development, announced his departure from the center in January to accept a...
When David Gory injured his knee in the summer between his junior and senior years at California High, it put a major hiccup in a recruiting process that was just starting to heat up. A year and a half later, Gory can put that process to bed....
WASHINGTON AFP — Elderly black Americans in nursing homes get worse care than that enjoyed by their white counterparts, researchers at an elite US university have found. "If you're black, you're much more likely to get your care in a nursing home that's not so good, relative to nursing...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] We lost our long term friend and leader, Jay W. Fidler, on October 31, 2007. He was 85 years old, and died of complications from a fall. From humble origins in Brooklyn, New York, Jay was awarded a scholarship to...
Dillard University faced an uphill battle after Hurricane Katrina wiped out its Gentilly campus. Using help from as far away as Rhode Island meant the 77-year-old historically black university could survive. Three Dillard student housing buildings burned down during the storm and three more were destroyed and razed,...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] When Brown University released its landmark report on the institutions connections to slavery in the fall of 2006, academics and reparations advocates across the country praised the institution, but few universities have followed Brown's lead in examining their own history with slavery more than one year later....
To: MEDICAL EDITORSContact: Wendy Lawton of Brown University, 401-863-1862 or 401- 837-6055, wendy_lawton@brown.edu PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Heavy smoking and drinking are known to cause head and neck cancer. Infection with human papillomavirus type 16 (HPV16), a common strain of the sexually-transmitted HPV virus, is another known risk...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Caption: A $3.5 million residence hall expansion at John Brown University in Siloam Spring is aiming for a September 2008 completion. The new 18,500-SF wing to North Hall will house 80 students. Nabholz Construction Corp. of Conway is the general contractor. The Troyer Group of Mishawaka, Ind.,...
A groundbreaking public health study has found a connection between damp, moldy homes and depression. The study, led by Brown University epidemiologist Edmond Shenassa, is the largest investigation of an association between mold and mood and is the first such investigation conducted outside the United Kingdom. Shenassa said the...
Educators from Brown University, RISD and Bristol Community College to Highlight How Technology Is Transforming Teaching PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A prestigious art school, a private Ivy League university and an urban, public community college are at the forefront of education by using dynamic e-Portfolios to assess student learning and...
Not only is Delaware the first state, it is now also No. 1 when it comes to websites. Brown University's annual review of more than 1,500 state and federal but not legislative websites says Delaware state government is best at making information and services easily accessible...
