New exhibit of photographs and video performances addresses conflict in Turkey and the Turkish-Syrian border.

In a two-day event titled “Come Shining: In Tribute to C.D. Wright,” the University celebrated the work and influence of the late professor and poet, who died earlier this year.

With support from a Class of 1971 graduate and his wife, the department will pursue improvements in support of its scholarship on Jewish history, literature, language, politics and religions.

The University’s Public Art Committee will welcome artist Urs Fischer, the man behind ‘Untitled (Lamp/Bear),’ to campus for a public lecture.

Now in its 10th year, the program engages the entire campus community in selecting a common text that introduces first-year and transfer students to the pleasures and rigors of scholarly work at Brown.

A summer class, a transfer to Brown and an inspiring professor led rising senior Jacob Ihnen to an UTRA project focused on the rhetoric of Abraham Lincoln.

The rising sophomore took part in an intensive research project that not only piqued her interest in colonial-era history, but diversified her academic interests.

With a think-tank approach and a cohort of students from the visual and performing arts, Brown/RISD CoLAB, a new summer institute, gives students the tools and freedom to experiment with new forms of theatre and performance.

Brown’s summer program, known as B-Lab, showcased students’ ingenuity and pointed to an increasingly robust future for entrepreneurship at the University.

At a marquee stop in France on a broader tour playing venues in Germany throughout July, Mark Steinbach debuted new works by Brown music faculty members Eric Nathan and Lu Wang.

Members of the National Association of Professors of Hebrew participated in an intensive three-day program of scholarly inquiry hosted by the University’s Program in Judaic Studies.

Sculptures by Urs Fischer and Giuseppe Penone will be installed beginning June 14.

Peter Asimov and Emily Kassie, members of the Class of 2014, were awarded prestigious Gates Cambridge Scholarships to continue their studies in the fall at the University of Cambridge.

Born out of a unique coalition of supporters and Brown’s singular ethos, the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts is a force for new work and collaboration across disciplines.

Acclaimed poet Michael S. Harper, a beloved teacher to generations of Brown students, passed away on May 7.

As part of the First Folio exhibit at Brown University, graduate and undergraduate students join forces with middle-school kids to explore ‘Romeo and Juliet’ in English and Spanish.

The film is based on Brown faculty member David Kertzer’s 1997 book, a historical account of a Jewish boy abducted by the Papal Inquisitor and converted to Catholicism — a case that helped fuel the rise of the Italian secular state.

The actor participated in a panel discussion and took questions with students and others after screening a documentary on the life of his father, the artist Robert De Niro Sr.

On a trip to Berlin, Brown’s jazz band played two performances at the refugee camp home to some 7,000 refugees from Syria, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere.

The Singing Freedom Catalogue was launched today at a ceremony at the Iziko Museums of South Africa Slave Lodge.

With academic expertise in history, music and German studies, Steinberg earns prestigious appointment to lead organization committed to intellectual, cultural and political ties between the U.S. and Germany.

Actor joins filmmaker Perri Peltz and art advisor Megan Fox Kelly for a screening and discussion of a documentary about painter Robert De Niro Sr.’s art and life.

On Monday, April 11, Pulitzer Prize-winner Joe Morgenstern will present on ‘The Fate of Criticism and Movies in the Digital Age.’

ADLI creates resources for audiences, scholars and dancers to elevate the study, practice and consumption of American dance.

Henry Luce Foundation selects Evan Silver, a literary arts concentrator, as one of 18 scholarship recipients from an extensive pool of candidates representing a broad cross-section of American higher education.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project will visit Brown twice this semester for a residency that will include a public performance featuring faculty works, a lecture by its conductor, Gil Rose, and reading and recording sessions with Brown composition students.

The Brown University Orchestra is featured in a just-released CD of well-known American and British works in jazz and popular song recorded with pianist Jeffrey Biegel.