Brown University News

With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition.

A 22-year-old Brown University student has been charged with disorderly conduct following an incident in which a Brown basketball player was assaulted and suffered severe head injuries.

Danny Warshay recalls a time when people in Rhode Island who wanted to create their own companies from scratch were considered oddballs, or even "mutants." He was one of them, back when he graduated from Brown University in 1987 and was developing a software start-up here.

A Connecticut man accused of assaulting a Brown University basketball player over the weekend is expected to make his first appearance in a Rhode Island court.

You can forgive a 95-year-old with a history of heart problems for having a hard time getting around.

Evidence that Europe's austerity policies are not working was in ample supply this morning.

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] - With obesity reaching epidemic levels in some parts of the world, scientists have only begun to understand why it is such a persistent condition.

Tory Lussier, 25, was arrested Wednesday in connection with an assault on a Brown University basketball player in Providence, Rhode Island.

The farmers themselves might have reason for concern themselves. Check out this Mother Jones article on the unexplained fecal foam that develops in manure pits and has caused explosions.

THE notion that Earth's water was delivered by asteroids has taken a hit. Analysis of lunar rocks suggests that our planet was born wet, and was even able to give some water to the moon.

John Brown University officially opened its Little Rock Center at a ceremony today at the 8114 Cantrell Rd.

A Brown University basketball player who was punched in an apparently unprovoked attack Sunday remains in critical condition Wednesday at Rhode Island Hospital, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Brown University's Multimedia and Electronic Music Experiments program sits on the second floor of a brick building on Power Street in Providence.

According to Bob O'Connor, principal at Park City High School, as the leader of the school it is always a special moment seeing students leave with success.

The schoolchildren piled into the rail car in downtown Washington and looked up and down as the lights flickered and the floor rumbled.

Chandler Buckingham , a student at Rogers High School in Rogers, Ark., is one of eight high school seniors around the world who are blogging about their college searches.

Somewhere in the caves of France there is probably an undiscovered depiction of the earliest version of Romeo and Juliet .

Since 1969, Donald Kagan has been an admired scholar and sought-after professor at Yale University, but a consistently contentious figure, too.

According to a report from the Providence Journal, police said a 21-year-old college basketball player from Brown University is in critical condition after he was assaulted in Rhode Island over the weekend.

Police say a freshman basketball player at Brown University is in critical condition after being punched in the head in what appeared to be an unprovoked assault on Providence's East Side.