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On Politics
6:57 am
Thu February 28, 2013

Brown U. President Paxson weighs in on history

Brown University president Christina Paxson was part of an interesting forum in the Atlantic Monthly’s March edition. The question asked of a group of intellectuals and academic historians was: What day  most changed the course of history?

Ken Burns, the documentary film maker, said it was June 28, 1914, the day Archduke Franz Ferdinand was assassinated, which started World War I. Yale history professor Paul Kennedy said  it was the day Thomas Newcomen invented the steam engine.

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Education
8:47 am
Tue February 26, 2013

Brown U Struggles with Tuition Rates

Credit courtesy of Brown University
Brown University President Christina Paxson
Education
4:37 pm
Mon January 28, 2013

Brown University sees its most diverse application pool

Brown University says it has received its third largest applicant pool in the school’s history.  Brown received close to 29,000 applications for 1,500 slots.

Admission offers will be made in late March.

The university says this is its most diverse pool ever with 38 percent of students identifying themselves as African American, Latino, Native American or Asian.

Sixty-eight percent of applicants are seeking financial aid, a number that has remained unchanged for the last three years.

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Morning News Podcast
10:53 am
Fri December 28, 2012

Morning News Podcast: December 26, 2012

The Rhode Island minimum wage goes up in 2013. Our Top Ten stories of 2012 continues with a look back when Brown University got a new president. These stories and more on the morning news podcast.

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