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The number of early applications to the University rose about 4 percent over last year, while applications to the Program in Liberal Medical Education jumped 25 percent, according to Dean of Admission Jim Miller 73. Though the deadline was Nov. 1, not all early applicants have been able to submit their applications due to ongoing power outages in New England following a storm that hit two weeks ago, Miller said. Once all the applications have been received, he said he expects the number of early applicants to rise to just over 2,900, up from 2,796 last year. This increase is consistent with the trend over the past five years, and the applicant pool is likely to continue to grow in the following years, Miller said. In addition to the 25 percent rise in PLME applications, the proportion of minority applicants in that pool has risen 9 percent, he said. The Admission Office also noted a greater number of applications from the Midwest, a result of recent recruiting efforts in the region, Miller said. International students comprised about 12 percent of the pool for the third year continued on page 3
A 2008 change restricting Emergency Medical Service transports to Health Services has changed the calculus for students weighing the costs and benefits of calling EMS. Since the change, the number of intoxication incidents serviced by Health Services has decreased by 29 percent. Last year, the number of students who signed waivers declining EMS care reached its highest point since 2006-2007, the first year for which data is available.
In the summer of 2008, the Rhode Island Department of Health informed the University that without a physician present during nights and weekends, Health Services does not qualify as an emergency medical facility and would no longer be allowed to accept transports. Before then, students who were EMSd could be taken to Health Services to be treated by nurses on nights and weekends. Since the policy change, students EMSd during those times have been taken to hospitals and continued on page 5
Brown ranked 17th among top research institutions for 2011-12 Fulbright award recipients, falling 14 places from last year. Brown ranked third in 2009 and 2010, according to lists released by the Chronicle of Higher Education. The Chronicle released the list for the most recent cycle Oct. 23. Fourteen out of 76 applicants 18 percent received Fulbrights in the 2011-12 award cycle. During the 2010-11 cycle, 24 out of 96 applicants received awards, and during the 2009-10 cycle, 29 received awards out of 109 applicants. Its certainly something that has caught our attention, said
Linda Dunleavy, associate dean of the College for fellowships and pre-law. We are certainly concerned, and we want to make sure that Brown does as well as possible in these competitions. But the numbers published in the Chronicle account for both graduate and undergraduate applicants and do not accurately reflect undergraduate performance alone, Dunleavy added. The 14 award recipients reported in the Chronicles list were all undergraduates, she said. Still, Dunleavy acknowledged the decrease in the number of awards and applications, attributing it to a number of possible factors, including cuts to the Fulbright program.
Dunleavy also noted Browns continued success in the number of Fulbrights students receive compared to its peers. Were in good company, she said. Brown is tied with Princeton, Cornell and Penn this year. Weve been doing extremely well, and this past year we didnt do quite so well, but well be back on top, she added. Dunleavy said the University sent 81 applications to the Fulbright program for the 2012-13 cycle. Ranking is all relative, said Andrea Dillon 11.5, an international relations concentrator who applied in the fall for a Fulbright continued on page 3
Next spring, the mystery of a controversial historical figure, an aged tome and an undecipherable code will be solved not in Dan Browns next novel, but within the hallowed halls of the John Carter Brown Library. As part of a group independent reading project, a team of undergraduates will work to decode a mysterious shorthand thought to
be written by Rhode Island founder Roger Williams. The book containing the shorthand is part of the JCBs collection and is subtitled An Essay Concerning the Reconciling of Differences among Christians. The books author is unknown and it has no title page, but includes a letter identifying the shorthand as Williams. Simon Liebling 12 and Chris Norris-LeBlanc 13, who are both history concentrators and Herald opinions columnists, will head the
Coded language, putatively written in Roger Williams hand, appears in this book of unknown title and authorship. In the spring, the code may be broken.
project. Liebling said he learned through the Curricular Resource Center that the JCB had been interested in finding undergraduates to tackle the
shorthand. Upon seeing the book, Liebling was immediately transfixed. The continued on page 2
SafeRide implemented a number of changes yesterday to increase the efficiency of the BrownMed/Downcity and campus shuttle services. The BrownMed/Downcity shuttle route was changed, and the total number of stops were cut from 19 to 14. Stops that were close to other stops were eliminated to decrease wait times. A stop at the OlneyMargolies Athletic Center was also cut, making Angell Street the routes northernmost boundary. Students can now track the location of shuttles online through a service available on the SafeRide website or as a free smartphone application. The app provides a map of the three running shuttles locations and lists arrival times at individual stops. The SafeRide route also has new signs displaying a unique text ID number for each stop. To find out the location of the nearest shuttle, passengers can text the ID of the stop to 41411 and receive a response with the arrival time of the next two shuttles. The OnCall service has also moved online. Students can enter Brown ID numbers at shuttle.brown. edu to request or cancel rides. continued on page 4
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UCS statements spark dialogue again
By Katrina PhilliPS Senior Staff Writer
After a roughly decade-long absence, Undergraduate Council of Students statements are making a comeback this semester. A UCS statement, as stipulated in the councils Code of Operations, is issued when the council wants to formally comment on a University issue. They differ from UCS resolutions, which are passed to recommend a policy change, in that they are broader, are established as the councils ongoing opinion and do not expire. UCS has passed two statements so far this semester written by UCS Vice President David Rattner 13 and Campus Life Chair Michael Schneider 13 on the proposed athletics cuts and the state of campus housing. Michael Lin 14, chair of the Admissions and Student Services committee, said his committee is working on a statement on student concerns about the current vending system, which uses Card Value Center machines. This sudden upsurge in statement usage is no coincidence, Rattner said. He began trying to reinstate statements after finding old records of their widespread use during a UCS archival project
he started with former UCS President Diane Mokoro 11 last year. Rattner said his archival search over the summer led him to discover UCS statements written during the organizations early years in the 1980s. He uncovered a statement authored during the Cold War supporting the plan for a campus stockpile of suicide pills in case of nuclear attack. Rattner said he hopes the current UCS statements will carry more weight and that he wants to use them as a way to reflect student opinion on major issues facing the University. Rattner wrote the recent statement condemning the proposed athletics cuts and approached Schneider about co-authoring a statement expressing student dissatisfaction with housing. Both statements were well-received by the council. When UCS was deliberating his statement on housing, Schneider said there was a lively discussion on the council listserv about the specifics of the statement, but that council members generally agreed on the sentiment. Rattner said consensus is an important aspect for any issue under consideration for a statement. A statement is supposed to reflect the opinion of the student body as a whole and requires a two-thirds
majority vote. These requirements have led to an avoidance of controversial issues when overall agreement could not easily be reached such as the return of the Reserve Officers Training Corps to campus. Rattner and Schneider both expressed optimism about the progress of the two statements passed so far and said they thought the statements allowed student voices to be heard. The athletics debate ended with the result they hoped for, and while no Corporation decision on housing has been made public, Schneider said the statement gave more credibility to widespread student dissatisfaction. Though the idea of statements is not new to UCS, Rattner said they are a new tool for the current council. We dont want to just release statements for the sake of releasing statements, he added. When an issue can be resolved with direct communication with administrators, UCS will not use statements to express an opinion, Rattner said. Statements are available as a useful alternative for larger issues that need to reach the Corporation or are not handled by a specific administrator. We want something that actually carries weight and has teeth, he said.
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SafeRide Bears take Ivy title, look to Eastern Championships technology updated
The No. 17 mens water polo team has had two exhilarating weekends, beginning its postseason play with positive results. The team won the Ivy League Championships Oct. 29 and 30 at Harvard and finished second in an agonizing defeat to No. 20 St. Francis College in the finals of the Northern Division Championships Nov. 5 and 6 at MIT. After suffering a slow start to the season, the team is putting together the pieces to make the final push in tournament play. The Bears trounced No. 15 Princeton 16-5 in the Ivy finals following a 15-5 win over Harvard in the semifinals. It was definitely huge for us to win, said Cyrus Mojdehi 12. Weve come so far from the first time we played. To come out and win in a convincing fashion, it was a great step forward. The championship victory, the first for any player currently in Browns program, was an avenging win against a Princeton team that edged out Brown by one goal in last years finals. Play by Svetozar Stefanovic 13 (five goals, two steals, eight ejections drawn) and Henry Fox 15 (five goals, three assists, seven steals) led to the crooked final score. James McNamara 14 (three goals, one assist, one steal), Chris Culin 14 (one goal, two steals) and Nick Deaver 15 (four assists) also contributed to the victory. Brunos stingy defense in the finals was anchored by the impressive play of goalkeeper Walker Shockley 14, who made eight saves. After celebrating the win, the team had a quick turnaround and moved on to the Northern Division Championships. The team cruised through the first two rounds, dismantling Connecticut College 17-3 and Harvard again 18-9 en route to the championship game. The teams opponent in the finals, St. Francis, was a familiar foe, and the Bears were hungry to avenge an early season loss to the Terriers. We lost to St. Francis earlier in the season by nine, said captain Toby Espinosa 12. At the end of the game, it wasnt really a game anymore. But the teams second meeting was far from the previous onesided matchup. The sides played evenly through regulation and four periods of overtime play, but the Bears fell in an epic game in the fifth overtime frame 10-9. The game was an hour and a half long. Three of our starters fouled out, Espinosa said. It was a testament to the team as a whole. When something like that happens to a team, regularly the team implodes, and the game is over. The Bears relied on their defense to erase a three-goal firsthalf deficit, leaving the two teams notched at nine heading into overtime. The first two quarters ended without any scoring, leading to sudden-death play. In the fifth overtime period, the Terriers finally snuck one past Shockley for the win. No one thought we were going to lose until that last goal crossed the line, Mojdehi said. Guys who usually dont work together played together. It was disappointing, but we learned a lot. Weve been training all season incredibly hard. You could see it in our defense the last half of the game, Espinosa said. Our defense is our pride. Our offense then comes from that. The final score does not fully reflect the strength of Browns play against a perennial powerhouse, he said. It was hard losing, but it gives us the chip on our shoulders, Espinosa said. It gives us the emotional backing to say we have two weeks until Easterns. The Northern Championships determined seeding for the CWPA Eastern Championship Nov. 1820, the winner of which receives a berth to the NCAA Water Polo Championships. Brown will be the No. 2 seed behind St. Francis. We put together a nice string of wins, Espinosa said. They were all kind of stepping stones to Easterns and an automatic berth to the final four. At the Eastern Championship, Brown has been placed in a bracket with No. 19 Bucknell University, Princeton and No. 16 Navy. The Bears could get a rematch against St. Francis in the championship. The proximity of this years Eastern Championship at Harvard lends a sense of comfort to a team that is without a home pool and is always stuck on the road. Were road warriors, Mojdehi said. Were always on the road getting cheered against, but we use that to our advantage. But having support and a fan base there will be crucial for us. continued from page 1 When the Alpert Medical School opened in the Jewelry District this summer, the Transportation Office recognized that the shuttle service needed to be modified for the expansion, said Beth Gentry, assistant vice president of financial and administrative services. Brown hired consultants to identify problems with the system and modernize SafeRides tracking software. Frankly, the system had not been looked at and evaluated in that way with a professional in quite a few years, Gentry said. It was time. With these modifications, the shuttle program is expected to be more efficient and user-friendly. I never use SafeRide because I feel like in the time it takes to wait for a shuttle I could have walked to my destination and back, said Liz Kelley 13. But now that I can see exactly where the shuttles are, Ill probably use it more. Im lazy. These updates are particularly timely as colder temperatures hit Providence. I mainly use SafeRide in the winter because I hate walking in the cold, said Annika Havnaer 13.
The states public higher education system though enjoying strong student demand is feeling the squeeze of insufficient state funding and bracing for a possible new round of tuition hikes. At 43,499, enrollment in Rhode Island public colleges and universities is at nearly its highest point ever, and tuition costs stand at record levels. The demand for public higher education has increased nationally due to its relatively low cost, said Jane Fusco, spokeswoman for Rhode Island College. Even though our tuition has increased over the last several years, it is still far lower than many other New England states, she said.
The University of Rhode Island enrolled 16,562 students for its fall 2011 semester. Enrollment has increased over the last several years, with a peak enrollment of 16,628 in 2009. At RIC, 9,044 students are enrolled this semester, according to data from RICs Office of Institutional Research and Planning. This figure represents a 1.2 percent decrease from the previous year, though enrollment this semester is at its fourth highest level in the past decade. The college saw its highest enrollment in 2009. With a current enrollment of 17,893 students, the Community College of Rhode Island is seeing its second highest semester of fulltime enrollment, according to the colleges website. A lot of our students and
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EDIToRIAL Bikes burst the College Hill bubble
Despite the hostile looks that some student bikers report receiving from Providence drivers, we find it hard to believe that there are many people who truly think biking is a bad thing. Biking is an environmentally friendly alternative to motor vehicle usage and is well-suited to student travel. It is more efficient than walking, and bikes can be used to carry schoolbags and groceries. Its health benefits are also significant, and these benefits contribute to lower costs: A recent Environmental Health Perspectives study estimates that nearly $4 billion could be saved if just half of all short trips were made on bike, rather than by car, in the Midwestern United States. But why is biking important at Brown, where only about 10 percent of students have cars on campus, and transporation alternatives are more likely to be walking or using public transit? On an individual level, many students find that bikes are a great way to cut out travel time from off-campus housing and while running errands. Biking at Brown can also create habits that stay with students beyond their university years. But bikes at Brown play a more discrete function as well: They get students out of the bubble. Dan Rejto 12 is a member of Bikes at Brown, a student group that offers free repair assistance, workshops and two-day-at-a-time bike rentals to the Brown community. He said most students who rent bikes seem do so for trips, such as group trips to museums off College Hill. I think Brown students should travel more off campus, he said. And I think the best way to do that is by bike. Brown students are proud to have everything we need within walking distance and more than enough going on around campus to occupy us year-round. But there are some real benefits to seeing more of the city: great restaurants, arts events, beautiful trails, farmers markets and volunteer and internship opportunities around Providence may seem a world away to students whose Providence experience is limited to the occasional College Hill-Providence Place mall commute. By purchasing bikes or making use of resources like the Bikes at Brown rental services, students can broaden their experiences of Providence and help increase the visibility of bikes on campus and in the city. A bike share program would make bikes even more widely accessible. And as Providence considers the possibility of a city-wide bike share program a recent Providence Bike Share Feasibility Study suggests that, despite barriers like the steep ride up College Hill, a bike share could be implemented in Providence we hope students and administrators will be among the first to support continued research and commitments to encouraging a bike-friendly Providence. Finally, we offer a friendly reminder to wear those helmets, stop for stop signs and know the rules of the road. editorials are written by The heralds editorial page board. Send comments to editorials@browndailyherald.com.
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into the significance of the initiatives that have been formed. From a male bastion that was highly opposed to coeducation of male and female students at such an inflammable age, to use the words of University President Ezekiel Robinson 1838 in 1886, the University transformed into an institution that truly accepts that, as Sarah Doyle so eloquently put it, The womans sphere is one of infinite and indeterminate radius. As are the radii of all groups that have found themselves in a marginalized position. cial, postethnic and postgender are thrown around like faits accomplis, it is tempting to forget that not 50 years ago Pembroke College was only integrated into Brown in 1971 the Universitys landscape was entirely different. Perusing the archives results in astonishing looks into a world of constrained feminine movement that seems so far removed from the current situation it is almost foreign. The songbook for the Womens College, published in 1928, featured songs like Get Me a Man for Prom and Poor Old Senior. outfits of a dozen women in a fashion that would not be out of place on E!s red carpet shows. Juliette Bignet of Providence, chairman of the Ivy Night committee, was described as attractive in black chiffon with a bright colored modernistic flower design while Eleanor Murphy 37 P64 of West Warwick, president of the senior class, stood at the end of the line gowned in St. James rose marquisette with very full skirt and tiny puff sleeves. Other articles showed the women practicing a dance for the May festival, having a pageant for inanimate pets. One particularly entertaining headline reads Pembrokers go Sleighing 16 on Ride Take Advantage of Snow as Excuse to Consume Hamburgers. A photo that does show young women browsing an academic schedule is accompanied by the title Study But Mostly in Expression, and the subscript typifies them as nonchalant, plainly worried and fairly bewildered. Any positive reference to academic attainment is erased. The initiatives of the marginalized groups themselves and the willingness of the University to cooperate in founding organizations to address difference have to be credited with the radical change reflected in these articles and the situation today. Happy 30th to the Pembroke Center! Suzanne Enzerink GS is a masters student in the American studies program. All sources used here can be found in the archives of the Sarah Doyle Womens Center.
Perusing the archives results in astonishing looks into a world of constrained feminine movement that seems so far removed from the current situation it is almost foreign.
Of course, there are still areas that need to be addressed for example, the male-to-female or white-to-people-of-color ratio but the advance has been enormous. This goes for all categories of difference and helps to explain why the Pembroke Center has been able to broaden its focus. On a leaflet that was distributed prior to its opening in 1981, the center is introduced as a facility that will address questions relating to sex roles and the status of women and men in society. Currently, the center dedicates itself to the exploration of all categories of difference across disciplines and in transnational context. In this time where words like postraThe latter laments the fate of the senior women who cannot find a man because boys like em young and traded their girls for younger models. The most interesting line is perhaps that the girls at home / they laugh and crow / She got an education / but she couldnt get a beau. The song illustrates the ideology that domestic bliss was incompatible with participation in the public sphere. This also extends to newspapers, in which Pembroke women were continuously cast in traditional feminine roles. A 1937 article centered on a ball that had taken place, and the article exclusively discussed the physical appearance of the women by summing up the
But to complain of a university run by forces outside our control, while at the same time failing to take advantage of existing opportunities to influence university decision-making, is disingenuous. The blame for abdication of duty lies at our doorstep, not Browns.
The issue of how to properly balance the Universitys research and teaching, for example, was a major focus of the discussion. Though panel members pushed back some against students concerns, they were nonetheless receptive to fears that undergraduates might become increasingly marginalized. It is not that students are indifferent about such campus issues. These very opinion pages bristle constantly with criticisms of everything from Browns residential facilities to its advising to its military involvement to its investments. More informally, we have all had conversations in which we or our impassioned friends have raged against a professor ly thorough application in hopes of attaining one of two undergraduate spots on the Campus Advisory Committee. Sitting in the basement of Salomon on a Wednesday afternoon certainly offers less cachet, and no one is going to give you a pat on the back for your participation. But unglamorous as it may be, it is nonetheless a meaningful way to demonstrate our passion for our school and take part in shaping its future. We are understandably wary of a University run by a Corporation that seems distant and removed from student interests. And the seriously disproportionate representation of science faculty at the expense of those from
New website Rock to house Digital E-book monitoring Scholarship computer lab speeds Library growth builds
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The University is moving ahead with plans to install a Digital Scholarship Lab in the Rockefeller Library by next fall. The idea for the lab stemmed from a 2010 collaborative project between Professor of Italian Studies Massimo Riva, Professor of Computer Science Andy Van Dam and University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi called Garibaldi on the Surface. The project, which involved a digitized form of the 1860 Garibaldi Panorama painting on a touchscreen surface, was the genesis of this whole idea, Hemmasi said. The project centers around a wall, roughly 16 feet by seven feet and constructed from at least 12 high-definition panels totaling 25 million pixels. While the computers controlling the panels will be touch screen, the main panels will not be. The wall is easily four times higher resolution than the best projector said John Huffman, manager of the Center for Computation and Visualization user services and applications. Huffman also said the wall will have high pixel density roughly five times that of a projector, even on the large surface area it will cover. The labs room will serve multiple functions. Several computers will be able to be plugged into the wall at one time to allow for collaborative work that can be shared and compared internationally. A screen of such size and quality will make it easier to view large images such as a photo of a planet by limiting panning and zooming, Huffman said. The lab will also be able to display detailed maps with layered information. Hemmasi said the Rock is an ideal location for the lab because the library is open 18 hours a day and not owned by any department. Students and faculty will both be encouraged
to use the room, which could be used for classes but, like other small workrooms in the library, will also be open for individual work. The lab will be in the Serials Workroom, which will be slightly expanded to fit at least 20 people. Huffman developed many of the labs technical aspects. He described the big high-definition wall as a natural fit for the libraries, adding that it will complement other technology on campus such as the Cave, the Universitys virtual reality lab. Provost Mark Schlissel P15 called the proposal for the lab a fantastic extension of the capabilities of the library, adding that he had never in his life seen something like it. A dozen faculty members from various fields were interviewed over the summer and agreed the possibilities for collaboration through this space were significant, Hemmasi said. This project is one way in which the University Library is working with Computing and Information Services to remain an effective workspace in light of new technologies. The nature of the Library is really changing, and this new room is one of the ways the library is changing, Schlissel said. Its reimagining itself from a place people go to touch things with their hands and assimilate them with their eyes to a place to access and manipulate information. Funding came in large part from the family of Sidney Frank 42 and other anonymous donors. The total cost is not yet known but will come primarily from the cost of equipment and not from construction, Hemmasi said. Now, if you go to a computer lab on campus, mostly youre going to find what you have in your dorm, Hemmasi said. This is definitely beyond what you have in your dorm.
Unbeknownst to most users, the University Library has been monitoring the use of e-books since January and purchasing only those that are most popular. The pilot program, run in conjunction with ebrary, an e-book vendor, aims to expedite the process of growing the librarys collection. The program allows the University to gather data on how people use e-books whether users flip through pages, print full books or read texts online cover to cover, said David Banush, associate University librarian for access services. The Library pre-loaded over 1,000 titles into the Josiah catalog in January, Banush said. Though these e-books are available to users, the library does not purchase them until a user performs certain actions, such as continuously interacting with the text for over 10 minutes or printing material from it. As of Nov. 4, 1,092 of the 1,150 titles available have been viewed. Thirty percent of those viewed were purchased. Titles are added to ebrary every day, but the library pre-sorts through them before offering titles that a library like Brown would collect, Banush said. Within the confines of the pilot program, selections have been made available to four disciplines, including anthropology the only department informed of the program. Faculty and students in the three other disciplines received no direction or information about the program. Banush requested that the names of those disciplines not be published because the pilot program is ongoing. The Library is interested in the different types of data it will collect by controlling
the experiment, he said. Andrew Scherer, assistant professor of anthropology and archeology, directly requests books for the library to purchase, a lengthy affair because all purchases must pass through the librarys budget process. He said he tries to order books in the e-book format even when ordering them through the traditional system. Its a much better format because students can access the books more rapidly, he said. But there is a managed risk involved with the program, Banush said. Currently, the library processes requests for new texts on a case-by-case basis, but this step is cut from the e-book program, where purchases are automatic. Banush said the Library is well within its budget. The program allows the Library to collect data not made available by the analysis of traditional services. The reports show when someone has looked at an e-book, a statistic that cannot be measured for regular books, Banush said. Ebrary has been providing the library with weekly usage reports since January. The reports also reveal use by department, finding that most purchases are made in the anthropology department, Banush said. While anthropologists are more likely to be tied to the print, members of the other sciences rely more heavily on webbased journal articles, not books, he said. The Library wants to let the program run its course before making any decisions about continuing the service, Banush said. The nature of the Library is changing, he said. Were very much in a transition phase of uncertain duration where well have to provide some mix of traditional and new services.
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No students applied for the spring semester of a new study abroad program at the University of Cantabrias School of Engineering by the Oct. 24 deadline, according to Kendall Brostuen, director of international programs and associate dean of the College. The University announced the program, the first designed specifically to accommodate engineering concentrators, at the start of the semester. Despite the initial lack
of interest, there has been significant enthusiasm for the fall 2012 semester. The fall program spans a full academic year from late August to early June while the spring program begins in early February and lasts until June. The program, located in Santandar in the Cantabria region of Spain, is open to declared engineering concentrators who have completed HISP 0110: Intensive Basic Spanish or HISP 0200: Basic Spanish II or who can demonstrate equivalent profi-
ciency. Students must have a grade point average of 3.0 or higher, and priority is given to applicants to the full-year program. The program is appropriate for students who are in civil engineering, environmental engineering and even mechanical engineering, Brostuen said. Students in the program will be required to take four engineering courses in English and one mandatory Spanish language course each semester. Students will receive four course credits upon successful completion of the semester.
Upon completion of the fall or spring programs, students are eligible for a six- to eight-week summer engineering internship in the Cantabria region. The University of Cantabria will place students at a number of Spanish firms or public works projects. The internship aspect of the program gives students the opportunity to work for a small stipend. Students looking ahead to next year should really give it some thought, Brostuen said. Every student that is qualified well work to accommodate.
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The Brown Entrepreneurship Program launched a new website this fall to build the entrepreneurship community at Brown and help form relationships between start-up companies and students. Browninnovation.org, spearheaded by Aaron Clayton-Dunn 13, is a resource for students as well as local and alumni entrepreneurs. The Student Venture section of the site allows students to share projects and recruit helpers. The Internship and Jobs section displays positions offered by local and alumni startups. The site also provides a database of entrepreneurs information and profiles. Start-ups dont usually have resources to find people and reach out to them, Clayton-Dunn said. Clayton-Dunn added that he wants the site to show students that entrepreneurship is a feasible career path, he said. The best way to learn about creating a startup is to work for one, said Shahid Mallick 14, co-president of the entrepreneurship program. There is an ever-growing need to connect with entrepreneurs, he added. While affiliated with the Brown Entrepreneurship Program, browninnovation.org is an independent site, Mallick said. In the future, it may be embedded on the programs website. Clayton-Dunns site differs from BRUnet.com, a networking site for students and alums, because it connects students with each other as well as with local entrepreneurs, Mallick said. Clayton-Dunns site also facilitates personal relationships, while the entrepreneurship programs website lists events but isnt effective at connecting person to person, said Elizabeth Weber 14, the programs co-president. The site will really develop a hub of entrepreneurship community, Weber said. Dylan Field 13 co-founded CourseKick, a new application for Brown students that integrates the course registration process with social media. He has used ClaytonDunns site to publicize open positions for the venture. Field has also used computer science department listserves to publicize Coursekick, but he said browninnovation.org provides a directory for all students at Brown, not just CS students. Currently the site is focused on cornering the Brown market and connecting students before expanding to local entrepreneurs, Mallick said. Clayton-Dunn said he hopes to make the site searchable with an improved design by next fall. I really want to see it expand to New England and other universities, Mallick said. The site has a lot of potential. It could become big across the country.