Frontiers of Healthcare
Regional and national experts will gather at Brown on Monday, June 8, 2009, to discuss the challenges and opportunities of health care reform and its implications for Rhode Island and the nation. The event is part of the annual Frontiers of Healthcare Conference, organized by Brown University and Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.). The conference runs from 8:30 a.m. to noon in the Salomon Center for Teaching and is open to the public without charge.
(Distributed May 29, 2009)
Taubman Center for Public Policy
Most Rhode Islanders would support a law legalizing same-sex marriage according to a new Brown University survey of registered Rhode Island voters. The poll was conducted May 18-20, 2009.
(Distributed May 27, 2009)
Senior Orations 2009
(Distributed May 24, 2009)
Senior Orations 2009
Juliana Thorstenn of Garden City,
N.Y., delivered this senior oration to her classmates at the
University’s 241st Commencement Ceremony Sunday, May 24, 2009, on
The College Green.
Noor Najeeb also delivered an oration.
Meeting of the Corporation
The Corporation of Brown University formally accepted a gift of $30 million today, bringing the total raised for undergraduate financial aid through the Campaign for Academic Enrichment to $285 million. The Corporation also elected 12 new trustees and fellows and authorized the administration to proceed with capital projects for the Mind Brain Behavior program and the Alpert Medical School.
(Distributed May 22, 2009)
Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons, presiding at the University’s 241st Commencement exercises Sunday, May 24, 2009, conferred 2,157 degrees, from bachelor’s to honorary doctorates.
(Distributed May 22, 2009)
A milestone, not the finish line
Chancellor Thomas J. Tisch has informed members of the Corporation that “Boldly Brown: The Campaign for Academic Enrichment” has reached its overall goal of $1.4 billion. Campaign fund-raising efforts will continue through Dec. 31, 2010, to meet goals for individual priorities, including student financial aid and endowed faculty positions.
(Distributed May 22, 2009)
Meeting of the Brown Corporation
At its regular Commencement Weekend meeting Friday, May 22, 2009, the Corporation of Brown University elected three new fellows and nine new trustees. The University’s 54-member governing body also modified its rules to allow election of “young alumnus trustees” — recent Brown graduates who will serve three-year terms.
(Distributed May 22, 2009)
May 20, 2009
The University has been notified by the Rhode Island Department of Health (RIDOH)
of one Brown student with a laboratory-confirmed case of H1N1
influenza. This individual is
recovering well, and none of the individual’s close contacts is sick.
RIDOH has indicated
there is no need to adjust any plans for
Commencement and Reunion events this weekend. University administrators sent the following e-mail
communication to the campus community today.
(Distributed May 20, 2009)
Brown University will hold a ceremonial groundbreaking for its new Creative Arts Center on Friday, May 22, 2009. The ceremony will be held at the building site, 154 Angell St., adjacent to the Brown Office Building, at 3:15 p.m.
(Distributed May 20, 2009)
Update and News Advisory
Due to a family emergency that will keep her from traveling to Providence, recording artist Aretha Franklin will not be able to participate in Brown University’s 241st Commencement on Sunday.
(Distributed May 19, 2009)
Michael D. Kennedy has been appointed director of the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown University. Currently director of the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and its Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Kennedy will begin his new duties at the Watson Institute in July 2009.
(Distributed May 15, 2009)
Scientists from Brown University, the University of Texas and elsewhere have developed a computational computer model that tracks brain tumor growth virtually and can be matched to real tumors. The new computer model could lead to specific, targeted treatments for individualized therapy. Details are in the May 15 edition of the journal Cancer Research.
(Distributed May 14, 2009)
The 241st Commencement
The Brown University Graduate School Commencement Ceremony will begin at 10:30 a.m. on Sunday, May 24, 2009, on Lincoln Field, with Dean Sheila Bonde presiding. Dhiraj Catoor, a doctoral candidate in engineering, will deliver the student address, titled “Scholarship Within and Beyond the Ivory Tower.” Several prestigious awards will also be presented.
(Distributed May 13, 2009)
The 241st Commencement
Noor Najeeb of Mequon, Wis., and Juliana Thorstenn of Garden City, N.Y., will deliver senior orations to their classmates at the University Commencement Ceremony Sunday, May 24, 2009, at 12:45 p.m. on The College Green. Najeeb's address is titled “Facing Fear” and Thorstenn’s address is titled “Singing.” The full texts of
Najeeb’s “Facing Fear” and
Thorstenn’s “Singing” are available online.
