Column: 'Student impact fee' a covert way to tax non-profits
Taxing out-of-state students is a cowardly, backdoor attempt to remove universities’ non-profit status and shrink the city’s deficit.
Brown deans screened letters without telling students
Letters Brown University students wrote to their first-year advisers were used by administrators to assess writing ability in past years without students’ or advisers’ knowledge, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron and Associate Dean for Writing Kathleen McSharry said.
Brown prof. lands large NIH grant
Assistant Professor of Neuroscience Gilad Barnea was recently awarded a EUREKA grant — $1.3 million in funding for scientific research over four years — by the National Institutes of Health.


