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Brown university

BROWN

BASIC INFORMATION:

BRIEF HISTORY:

  • Located in Providence, Rhode Island

  • The school's motto is In Deo Speramus, which means ''In God We Hope''

  • The number of students attending is approximately 10,425

  • The student-faculty ratio is 6:1

  • In 1761 three residents of Newport drafted a petition proposing to open a literary institution or School

  • The coat of arms was created in 1834 after the president commissioned a committee to update a seal

  • In 2003 a steering committee was authorised to research the university's 18th century ties to slavery resulting in solutions such as the Center for the Study of Slavery and more

UNDERGRADUATE MAJORS AND MINORS:

  • Over 80 majors and minors

  • Majors - Applied Mathematics - Biology, Behavioral Decision Sciences, Biophysics, Cognitive Neuroscience, Geological Sciences, Statistics and more

  • Minors are not offered

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ALUMNI:

SOME FAMOUS ALUMNI:

  • Called Brunonians

  • 11 Nobel Prize laureates

  • 11 National Medals of Science

  • 7 National Humanities medalists

  • 23 MacArthur Fellows

  • Richard Benson (photographer)

  • John D. Rockefeller Jr. (philanthropist)

  • Emma Watson (actress) 

  • John Krasinski (actor)

  • Janet Yellen (1st woman to serve as Chair of the Federal Reserve, U.S. Secretary for the Treasury)

CAMPUS INFO:

  • The main campus consists of 235 buildings on 143 acres of the East Side neighbourhood

  • Van Wickle Gates 

    • West Edge​​

    • Convocation - procession of new students

    • Commencement - procession of graduates

  • John Hay Library - 2nd oldest library named after the private secretary of Abraham Lincoln

  • Pembroke Campus - established in 1891 as a Women's College in Brown University, later merged with the College of Brown University to create a larger Brown campus

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