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Brown a win away from Ivy football title shot
Date: 11/21/2008 1:39:31 AM
(12 hours ago)
PROVIDENCE — Twenty-one Brown University seniors are one victory from making football history. If the Bears beat Columbia tomorrow at Brown Stadium, those seniors will win their second Ivy League championship, an unprecedented achievement for Brown ...
Obama Win Revives 1926 Brazil Novel on Black President(Correct)
Date: 11/21/2008 12:59:33 PM
(1 hour ago)
If people today are outraged, it's because they should be,'' said Alexandra Montague, a 32-year-old PhD in Brazilian literature from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, who's translating Monteiro Lobato's book into English. ``We know from ...
University President Pay Rose 7.6% at Public Schools (Update1)
Date: 11/17/2008 3:56:06 PM
(11/17/2008)
Simmons , Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, $775,718; Shirley M. Tilghman , Princeton University in New Jersey, $742,444; David J. Skorton , Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, $730,604; and James E. Wright , Dartmouth College in Hanover ...
Ice glaciers three times the size of Los Angeles discovered on Mars
Date: 11/21/2008 4:59:57 AM
(9 hours ago)
Dr James Head, from Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, US, believes the glaciers are preserved fragments of an ice age that occurred millions of years ago when the planet tilted on its axis. He said: "On Earth, such buried glacial ice in ...
Dartmouth, Stanford Slash Budgets as Endowment Income Withers
Date: 11/14/2008 7:12:56 PM
(11/14/2008)
Among the Ivy League of eight elite private schools, Cornell University, in Ithaca, New York, and Brown University, in Providence, Rhode Island, also have announced hiring freezes. Princeton University in New Jersey said it may postpone new ...
Scientists warm to possibility of moon ice
Date: 11/17/2008 9:39:42 PM
(11/17/2008)
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Researchers at Brown University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., say they're checking the lunar poles for evidence of ice. Carle Pieters , a planetary geologist at the Providence, R.I ...
Former GOP Sen. Chafee relishes Obama’s victory
Date: 11/15/2008 11:58:04 PM
(11/15/2008)
Lincoln Chafee outside his office at Brown University. The former Republican U.S. senator says his old party has swung too far to the right. The Providence Journal / Kathy Borchers The cameras focused on a tearful Jesse Jackson, and the reporters ...
R.I. hospitals make plans to stop surgical mishaps
Date: 11/17/2008 10:15:29 PM
(11/17/2008)
... they can verify they are performing the correct operation on the right patient. The Lifespan hospital chain was fined $50,000 last year after three wrong-side surgeries at Rhode Island Hospital in Providence, a teaching facility for Brown University ...
Latest News
Date: 11/21/2008 4:24:09 AM
(9 hours ago)
Silvia earned a bachelor’s degree and a Ph.D. in economics from Northeastern University in Boston and has a master’s degree in economics from Brown University in Providence, R.I. “We are delighted with the variety and quality of the forum ...
AS220 will take part in MIT’s FabLab project, bringing business ...
Date: 11/15/2008 11:58:04 PM
(11/15/2008)
PROVIDENCE — The first incarnation of the avant-garde art and music collective known as AS220 was in leased space on the ... Richard Fishman, director of Brown University’s Creative Arts Council, which represents the university’s arts departments ...
James Albert Cox
Date: 11/16/2008 11:56:53 PM
(11/16/2008)
He graduated from Washington State University and received a fellowship at Brown University in Providence, R.I. When World War II began, he was called to the Army in Chemical Warfare Service and while serving at the Chemical Warfare Development ...
NH eduators found NY school for at-risk students
Date: 11/15/2008 2:03:56 PM
(11/15/2008)
... by educators Dennis Littky and Elliot Washor, both formerly of the Thayer High School in New Hampshire and the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University. In 1996, they opened their first student-centered high school in Providence, R.I ...
NASA Spacecraft Detects Buried Glaciers on Mars
Date: 11/19/2008 11:53:20 PM
(11/19/2008)
Head of Brown University, Providence, R.I. "The tilt of Mars' spin axis sometimes gets much greater than it is now. Climate modeling tells us ice sheets could cover mid-latitude regions of Mars during those high-tilt periods. The buried glaciers ...
Rabbi's a stand-up guy
Date: 11/15/2008 11:55:05 AM
(11/15/2008)
He grew up in a Reform Jewish family in Providence, R.I., not far from Brown University, along the route where fans paraded before home football games. One Saturday, young Bob rushed back to tell his parents with excitement that Brown was playing a ...
UPI NewsTrack Health and Science News
Date: 11/17/2008 10:44:07 PM
(11/17/2008)
PROVIDENCE, R.I., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- Researchers at Brown University and the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., say they're checking the lunar poles for evidence of ice. Carle Pieters , a planetary geologist at the Providence, R.I ...
Physical activity after bariatric surgery improves weight loss ...
Date: 11/17/2008 4:24:44 PM
(11/17/2008)
The Miriam Hospital, established in 1926 in Providence, RI, is a private, not-for-profit hospital affiliated with The Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University. The Miriam Hospital offers expertise in cardiology, oncology, men's health, and ...
Art listings Nov.13
Date: 11/12/2008 11:54:28 PM
(11/12/2008)
David Winton Bell Gallery, List Arts Center, Brown University, 64 Cottage St., Providence. Mon.-Fri. 11 a.m.-4 p.m., Sat., Sun. 1-4 p.m. 401-863-2932 or www.brown.edu/Facilities/David_Winton_Bell_Gallery/ . NOW SHOWING: Elizabeth King: The Sizes of ...
For playwright, office work pays off
Date: 11/20/2008 10:11:56 PM
(16 hours ago)
The playwright has raced from his home in New York to watch his dark comedy "The Receptionist" take shape at Providence's ... The Canadian-born Bock, 47, lived in Rhode Island for 11 years after studying playwriting at Brown University under the ...
Providence Black Rep is Working to Stay Out of the Red
Date: 11/16/2008 3:57:17 PM
(11/16/2008)
The Providence Black Repertory Company's Artistic Director Don King sent out a mass email that stated in part "In order to ... Later today, Megan and I are meeting with folks from Brown University and Rites and Reasons Theatre. They have all expressed an ...
Slowdown spurs layoff plans at Shawmut construction
Date: 11/14/2008 3:31:01 PM
(11/14/2008)
... about 35 in-office staff and another five to 10 employees at job sites across the Providence metropolitan area, the company told PBN in June. ( READ MORE ) Shawmut is now working on several Rhode Island projects, including sites at Brown University and ...