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Celebrating ten years

The President’s Staff Advisory Committee will hold a garden party Aug. 27 at the Nightingale-Brown House to celebrate SAC’s first decade of service.

Published on August 18, 2008
Andrew Feinberg ’11

Sophomores boost Team USA to world U-19 lacrosse championship

Defenseman Peter Fallon and attackman Andrew Feinberg brought their game, big-time, to the championship match with Canada.
READ MORE August 10, 2008
Architect’s rendering of the J. Walter Wilson Hall renovation.
On the move

Thirteen campus offices are relocating this week

Find out what student services departments are moving to the newly renovated J. Walter Wilson Hall between now and August 16.
READ MORE August 6, 2008
Quarterback Michael Dougherty ’09

Brown football picked third in Ivy League preseason poll

Harvard and Yale may have tied for first, but the Bears were ranked next in line and will play both favorites at Brown Stadium.
READ MORE August 12, 2008
Professor Warren Prell, incoming freshman Andrea Weber, and research technician Joe Orchardo aboard the Bear Cub on Narragansett Bay.

Researchers and volunteers take summertime pulse of Narragansett Bay

A group of faculty, researchers, and students hop aboard the Bear Cub to check the health of Rhode Island’s most valuable resource. What’s going on under the bay’s sparkling waves?
READ MORE July 29, 2008
Students got up close to examine the fuel-efficient car.

Hot wheels: Hydrogen cars wow Brown scientists and students

Hydrogen is the latest alternative fuel being developed for U.S. vehicles. When two General Motors cars visited Brown on August 1, faculty and students gathered to ogle – and test-drive.
READ MORE August 5, 2008
Patrick Corey ’10 and Kelly Glaser ’10 install a high-efficiency compact fluorescent light bulb in a house on Larch Street in Providence.

How many students does it take to install 7,000 lightbulbs?

Twenty Brown students are working for Project 20/20, installing high-efficiency bulbs in some 350 low-income Providence households. And they’re far from done.
READ MORE July 22, 2008

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DISCOVERIES

The Breslau Bear: The world’s only true copy of Ernest Moritz Geyger’s Bärenbrunnen (Bear Well, 1902) was commissioned and given to the University by T.F. Green in 1931. The original, now lost, had been installed outside the town hall of Breslau, Germany, in 1904.
Discoveries

The Breslau Bear:
T.F. Green’s Bärenbrunnen

The Breslau Bear, currently installed north of the Faculty Club entrance on McGee Street, was a gift to the University from Theodore Francis Green, Class of 1887, former governor, state representative, U.S. senator and lots more. The statue also has a long and colorful history.
READ MORE June 5, 2008
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