Professor of Africana Studies Tricia Rose is one of three people cited as providing the “first layer of academic inquiry” into hip-hop, termed “one of the most explosive subjects to hit academia in decades” in this article.
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Declaring that "the impact of slavery and segregation reaches into every facet of modern life," administrators at Brown University have announced several new institutional projects, including programs to assist local public schools and a possible new research center on slavery and its legacies.
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Steven Hamburg, associate professor of environmental studies and director of the Global Environment Program of the Watson Institute for International Studies, discusses how global warming will affect New Hampshire’s timber industry.
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Associate Professor of Africana Studies James T. Campbell, chairman of the University’s Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, highlighted key findings of the committee’s report at an alumni forum at the Ethical Culture Society.
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Warren Alpert, 86, owner of Xtra Mart convenience stores across the Northeast, died March 3 in New York City. He was the founder of the Providence philanthropy that recently donated $100 million to Brown University to enhance its medical school. The University issued a statement upon learning of his death. The statement can be read at http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-113.html
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See news release: www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/2006-07/06-088.html

A book review places "The Secrets of Happily Married Men" by Scott Haltzman, clinical assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior, on a “must-read list.”
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Coverage of Brown University’s 10th annual Entrepreneurship Forum includes reporting on the keynote address by John Sculley ’61, former chief executive officer of Apple Computer.
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Brown alumnus Russell Glenn, now at Cambridge University, will be the super-featherweight contender when Cambridge’s boxing team faces Oxford. In addition, Glenn is in line to be selected coxswain when Cambridge announces its Boat Race crew.