By COLLIN BINKLEY AP Education Writer WASHINGTON (AP) — Brown University will pay $50 million to Rhode Island workforce development organizations in a deal with the Trump administration that restores lost federal research funding and ends investigations into alleged discrimination, officials said Wednesday. The university also agreed to several concessions in line with President Donald Trump’s political agenda. Brown […]
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Brown University to see half a billion in federal funding halted by Trump administration
By CHEYANNE MUMPHREY and SEUNG MIN KIM Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration is planning to halt more than half a billion dollars in contracts and grants awarded to Brown University, adding to a list of Ivy League colleges that have had their federal money threatened as a result of their responses to antisemitism, a […]
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Brown rejects calls to divest from companies in connection with pro-Palestinian protests on campus
By MICHAEL CASEY Associated Press BOSTON (AP) — Brown University has rejected a proposal to divest from 10 companies that protesters say were facilitating the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory. The vote Tuesday by the Corporation of Brown follows a committee report recommending against divesting partly because the university has little investment in them and the amount […]
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Lilly scores 23 as Brown knocks off Dartmouth 73-61
HANOVER, N.H. (AP) — Kino Lilly Jr. had 23 points and Brown beat Dartmouth 73-61 on Friday night. Lilly was 8 of 12 shooting (5 for 9 from distance) for the Bears (11-10, 4-4 Ivy League). Paxson Wojcik added 15 points while going 4 of 10 from the floor, including 3 for 7 from distance, […]
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Brown U. acquires trove of Mumia Abu-Jamal’s prison papers
PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — Brown University has acquired a trove of records, writings and artwork from Mumia Abu-Jamal, a political activist and journalist who spent decades on death row for the shooting death of a Philadelphia police officer in the 1980s. The Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, says the collection documents Abu-Jamal’s trial, prison and […]
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College Basketball: Brown denies Rhode Island’s challenge
Brown denies Rhode Island’s challenge