Sunday, November 8, 2009

Brown University

Brown Transfer Applications Up 40 Percent

Officials partially attribute increase to a new online application system. more >>

Top Colleges See Record-Low Acceptance Rates

Number of applicants spike, forcing acceptance rates down, while schools expect yield rates to increase. more >>

MCAT Administrator Apologizes for Incorrect E-Mail

Message said exam at Rhode Island test site had been canceled. more >>

Brown Tuition Leniency Helps 360 Students

University allows students to register and enroll despite outstanding balances. more >>

More Madoff Victims: Columbia Law and Brown

Law school loses $3 million from endowment, while Brown benefactor folds. more >>

Brown's Chief Investment Officer Made $1.3 Million in 2007

It made her the university's top-paid administrator at the time. more >>

More Than Half of Brown Grades are A’s

The percentage has been steadily increasing for more than a decade. more >>

More Schools Impose Hiring Freezes

Cornell, Brown, and the University of Michigan Health System among institutions trying to save cash. more >>

At Brown, Friedman Pie-Thrower Suspended

University says her actions violated student conduct standards. more >>

Tom Friedman Gets Pied at Brown

New York Times columnist Tom Friedman—globalization's well-versed Joan of Arc—was pied in the face yesterday evening at Brown University. more >>

Firebombing of an Employee's Home Leaves Brown Shaken

Two molotov cocktails were thrown at the victim's off-campus apartment. more >>

Brown Med Students Feel Mistreated

Medical school students at Brown University are feeling especially abused, according to a med school survey. more >>

Brown Gets on Financial Aid Bandwagon

'Extraordinary endowment returns' make the increased aid possible. more >>

Who Needs Football When Your President's a Rock Star?

One Ivy League leader is so cool, she's "Ruth." more >>

Ruth Simmons | educator

More proof that mentors matter. more >>

Trail Mix

Brown housing authorities are doling out $100 fines for candles in dorms; Syracuse officials arrested a man dressed as a construction worker for stealing a laptop more >>

Brown Police Put It All on the Table. Students Not Hungry.

In an attempt to foster community, Brown University's Dept. of Public Safety held an open forum, but no students attended. more >>

Helmets That Study Head-on Collisions

Brown University football players are wearing special helmets to measure collision impact. more >>

Trail Mix

A Georgia bus accident, lead-contamination at Brown University, and the University of Michigan embraces between-class golf. more >>

If at First You Don't Succeed...

Ohio State University's former president is returning after stints at Brown and Vanderbilt. more >>

Trail Mix

*According to the Brown Daily Herald, Brown University prefreshmen say: Summer reading is fun! (They have to read How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton.). more >>

Trail Mix

The audience at a student play to debut at Brown University tonight will be very dazzled--and also swarmed by 30,000 fruit flies, the Brown Daily Herald reports. "There's not a lot of people who, if something happened to you, you would want them to raise your children," the Indiana University men's basketball coach, Kelvin Sampson, told the Daily Student. more >>

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