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Frankie811, on Apr 10 2009, 09:54 PM, said:

The school, in the middle of a 10-year master-planning project that included new laboratories, walkways and infrastructure.

Is that how they wrote it?  It's a total sentence fragment.

[Frankie811]

Brown sells Old Stone Bank for $2.1M. The former Old Stone Bank building, a South Main Street landmark topped by a signature gold-leaf dome, has been sold. A spokesman from Brown University could not be reached for comment.

http://www.pbn.com/detail/41748.html

Edited by Frankie811, 22 April 2009 - 06:50 AM.

[Frankie811]

Brown donates 12,000 graphing calculators to Providence’s middle, high school students.

Brown University has given 12,000 graphing calculators to the city’s middle and high school students, the first part of the university’s commitment to pour millions of dollars into the Providence public schools.

http://www.projo.com...18.39989ec.html

Edited by Frankie811, 14 May 2009 - 05:23 AM.

[mental757]

PBN:  "Brown to build new arts center"

http://pbn.com/detail/42417.html

[Frankie811]

Brown will turn Jewelry District building into headquarters for medical school. The university’s governing board voted Friday to renovate an 81-year-old building it already owns in the Jewelry District, at 222 Richmond St., to serve as headquarters for the Warren Alpert Medical School.

http://www.projo.com...17.3dbe0b0.html

[mental757]

PBN:  "Brown raises $1.4B, plans construction"

http://www.pbn.com/stories/42494.html

[frymasterspeck]

I've been doing more reading about this whole technology commercialization thing that the new RI-CIE is doing, and it's getting me HOT! I went to their opening workshop and blogged it on the New Commons site. Quick take: It's Brown U + EDC = RI Nexus for the Bio/Med cluster.

The idea is to create a conduit between the research institutions and companies that want to commercialize new technology. Since it's about the local research cluster, it tends to be in bio/med just because that's what they've got. Other similar places have different targets like aerospace or nanotechnology. This kind of center is even more important to the research folks than it is for the tech cluster because academic researchers and venture capitalists could not be more differenter. RI-CIE helps academics manage the way their work gets put into the market, and it helps the VCs feel more secure approaching super-genius inventors who may or may not have mad scientist tendencies.

RI-CIE is in Davol Square hard by 222 Richmond, so the "Knowledge Economy" district seems to be taking shape. Now all we need is those biotech companies to, you know, happen...

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Brown, Johnson & Wales, seek Route 195 land"

http://www.projo.com...28.40489d3.html

[Frankie811]

Brown slips in world university rankings

Brown University slipped four places on an annual list of the world’s 200 best universities. Brown fell to No. 31, down from No. 27 in 2008. http://www.pbn.com/detail/45410.html

[Frankie811]

Brown plans a $ 45 mil renovation of an historic building at 222 Richmond Street for the new Alpert Medical School building. The expansion highlights Brown’s aggressive push into the downtown area.

http://www.browndail...times-1.2026219

[mental757]

PBN:  "Brown OKs new $45M medical school HQ"

http://pbn.com/detail/45580.html

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Brown seeks support for medical school building in downtown Providence"

http://www.projo.com...32.3a65d22.html

[mental757]

PBN:  "Brown breaking ground on medical school"

http://www.pbn.com/s...38b7df45bf287d3

[mental757]

PROJO:  "Brown medical school seen as vital stimulus"

http://www.projo.com...30.3ce8f47.html

[mental757]

PBN:  "Brown starts work on Metcalf labs"

http://www.pbn.com/s...842c78ea51bf0bb