In a Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs, former Senator Lincoln Chafee criticized President George W. Bush's handling of the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, saying the president was bowing to a faction of evangelical Christians who oppose a Palestinian state.
www.projo.com/news/content/chafee_lecture_13_02-13-07_PQ4D53H.1961046.html
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-092.html

The Associated Press story about the Ogden lecture presented on campus by former Senator Lincoln Chafee was distributed worldwide to media affiliates of the wire service.
www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/13/america/NA-GEN-US-Former-Senator-Israel.php
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-092.html

In his plenary speech Monday morning at the American Council on Education Annual Meeting, author Ron Suskind detailed his experience chronicling the journey of Cedric Jennings from one of the worst performing high schools in the nation to Brown University. Suskind said many colleges that rely on SAT scores and AP credits fail to enroll talented but underprivileged students from “war zone” urban environments. Though Jennings graduated from Brown as a 3.3 GPA double major, he wouldn’t have had a chance if Brown had only relied on his incoming SAT score of 910 as a basis for admitting him.
www.diverseeducation.com/artman/publish/article_7001.shtml

In Brown University’s new history of Rhode Island’s old slavery ties, few of the sins hang directly on Brown. So the University’s wide reach for guilt and atonement is interesting and provocative. It is proposing many amends in the 106-page report, entitled “Slavery and Justice,” released in October.
Free registration: www.projo.com/opinion/contributors/content/CT_hop10_02-10-07_BP4A5F2.504b4d9.html
See news release: www.brown.edu/news/2006-07/06-037.html

The Providence Journal reports on an event hosted by Brown, titled "Restorative Justice in the American South: Exploring the Truth and Reconciliation Process in Greensboro, North Carolina." The three featured panelists are all part of Brown’s new Activist-in-Residence program, which brings together individuals who have played a major role in social-justice movements.
www.projo.com/news/content/truth_justice12_02-12-07_L54CJK7.1b13d13.html

Harvard University names Drew Gilpin Faust the first female president in the school's 371-year history. With Faust's appointment, half of the eight Ivy League schools now have woman presidents – Amy Gutmann of the University of Pennsylvania, Shirley M. Tilghman of Princeton University, and Ruth J. Simmons of Brown University.
www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/02/12/harvard_names_historian
_1st_female_president_in_schools_history/

Paul Barker calls Household Gods by Associate Professor of History Deborah Cohen, “entertaining” and “invigorating” in this Times Literary Supplement book review.
extras.timesonline.co.uk/tsl-pdfs/contents.pdf

The librarians recently opened the equivalent of a great-grandmother’s long-neglected chest in an attic at the John Hay Library and uncovered a treasure trove of maps � some older than 400 years � that open a window into a wide sweep of United States and world history. Many of the 1,000 mapswere donated by alumni or professors over the years.
www.projo.com/news/content/brown_maps13_02-13-07_B54CT3G.1a88bb6.html

Economics Professor Glenn Loury participates in a roundtable discussion about reports linking Iran to insurgents in Iraq and questions about racial profiling in New York City.
www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7363709

Research conducted by Brown faculty members Kenneth Breuer and Sharon Swartz reveals the extreme flexibility of bats’ wings, which allow the bats to generate and manipulate lift in unusual ways.
news.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2007/02/07/2007020700978.html