PROVIDENCE – Brown University administrators said yesterday the school must cut its operating budget for the 2010-11 fiscal year by an additional 5.5 percent, or $30 million, on top of cuts that were already made for the fiscal year that begins tomorrow.
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For Jill Lazar and Allie Crowder-Schaefer, owners of Providence-based Everything Events, the flow of adrenaline from throwing a party is addictive – finding the right location, getting the right entertainment, working out the logistics. “I get such a rush,” says Lazar, who teamed up with Crowder-Schaefer in 2007 to launch their events-planning business. So far, they have been successful at assembling corporate gatherings and showcase expos that they say are one of kind, but haven’t broken the bank.
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Brown University and computing giant IBM have signed an agreement that will start a two-year pilot program to bring a new generation of high-performance computing to Brown and to Rhode Island. The arrangement should greatly enhance statewide research and collaboration, capitalize on interdisciplinary work, and increase funding opportunities for major research initiatives.
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PROVIDENCE — Brown University has given 12,000 graphing calculators to the city’s middle and high school students, the first part of the university’s commitment to pour millions of dollars into the Providence public schools.
In 2003, Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons commissioned a report to explore the connections between the slave trade in Rhode Island and the college’s early benefactors. The Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice was born from that investigation. At the time, Simmons said the report’s findings were a reminder that moral acts can have immense social and economic consequences.
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PROVIDENCE - Tricia R. Serio netted a coveted Research Project grant from the National Institutes of Health in 2006, helping her build a laboratory at Brown University to study the causes of mad cow disease and similar illnesses.
PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - Poet Michael S. Harper, University Professor and professor of English at Brown, has been named the recipient of the 2008 Frost Medal from the Poetry Society of America (PSA), which honors distinguished lifetime service to American poetry. Harper will receive the award and deliver the Frost Medal Lecture on Monday, April 21, 2008, during the PSA’s 98th Annual Awards Ceremony at the National Arts Club in New York City.
With the trappings of an international peace conference and the jovial atmosphere of a wedding reception, President Ruth Simmons and Rhode Island School of Design President Roger Mandle officially signed an agreement Friday afternoon to launch the new Brown/RISD dual degree program.
The two presidents met at the University Club on Benefit Street - neutral territory, of course - to swap friendly words and affix their signatures to an official memorandum of understanding at a brief ceremony attended by roughly 30 people from both universities.
The program - slated to bring its first students to campus in Fall 2008 - will enable a select group of up to 20 students per year to earn both a bachelor of fine arts from RISD and a bachelor’s degree from Brown. Their studies will be split evenly between the two campuses over the course of five years, with students taking all of their classes in a given semester on one campus in order to avoid conflict between the two schools’ differing calendars.
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PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island (Reuters) - Brown University offers a fine education for big money — almost $49,000 a year — but this exclusive school is below average in one way.
Needy students here graduate with an average of $17,000 in debt, lower than five years ago and below the fast-rising U.S. average of $22,000 for private four-year universities.