35 Facts About Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island.

Brown University is the seventh-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations.

Brown University is one of the nine colonial colleges chartered before the American Revolution, and among the most prestigious universities in the world.

At its foundation, Brown University was the first college in North America to accept students regardless of their religious affiliation.

In 1969, Brown University adopted its Open Curriculum after a period of student lobbying.

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In conjunction with the Rhode Island School of Design, Brown University offers undergraduate and graduate dual degree programs.

At the time of its creation, Brown University's charter was a uniquely progressive document.

Brown University family was involved in various business ventures in Rhode Island, and accrued wealth both directly and indirectly from the transatlantic slave trade.

In 1966, the first Group Independent Study Project at Brown University was formed, involving 80 students and 15 professors.

Brown University has since completed a number of these recommendations including the establishment of its Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, the construction of its Slavery Memorial, and the funding of a $10 million permanent endowment for Providence Public Schools.

Brown University is the largest institutional landowner in Providence, with properties on College Hill and in the Jewelry District.

Exhibition galleries of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University's teaching museum, are located in Manning Hall on the campus's main green.

The walk is bordered by departmental buildings as well as Brown University's Performing Arts Center and Granoff Center for the Creative Arts.

Women's College in Brown University, known as Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891.

Brown University's sailing teams are based out of the Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion at the Edgewood Yacht Club in adjacent Cranston.

Brown University has committed to "minimize its energy use, reduce negative environmental impacts and promote environmental stewardship.

Between 2007 and 2018, Brown reduced its greenhouse emissions by 27 percent; the majority of this reduction is attributable to the university's Thermal Efficiency Project which converted its central heating plant from a steam-powered system to a hot water-powered system.

In 2020, Brown University announced it had sold 90 percent of its fossil fuel investments as part of a broader divestment from direct investments and managed funds that focus on fossil fuels.

Kuchler U S potential natural vegetation types, Brown would have a dominant vegetation type of Appalachian Oak with a dominant vegetation form of Eastern Hardwood Forest (25).

Six Brown University graduates have received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama; Alfred Uhry '58, Lynn Nottage '86, Ayad Akhtar '93, Nilo Cruz '94, Quiara Alegria Hudes '04, and Jackie Sibblies Drury MFA '04.

Alumni authors take their degrees across the spectrum of degree concentrations, but a gauge of the strength of writing at Brown University is the number of major national writing prizes won.

Brown University began offering computer science courses through the departments of Economics and Applied Mathematics in 1956 when it acquired an IBM machine.

Brown University added an IBM 650 in January 1958, the only one of its type between Hartford and Boston.

In 2009, IBM and Brown University announced the installation of a supercomputer, the most powerful in the southeastern New England region.

Since 2009, Brown University has developed an Executive MBA program in conjunction with one of the leading Business Schools in Europe; IE Business School in Madrid.

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Brown University introduced graduate courses in the 1870s and granted its first advanced degrees in 1888.

Brown University has invested in MOOC development starting in 2013, when two courses, Archeology's Dirty Little Secrets and The Fiction of Relationship, both of which received thousands of students.

In January 2018, Brown University published its first "game-ified" course called Fantastic Places, Unhuman Humans: Exploring Humanity Through Literature, which featured out of platform games to help learners understand materials, as well as a story-line that immerses users into a fictional world to help characters along their journey.

In 2021, Brown University received a record 948 applications for roughly 90 spots in its Master of Public Health Degree.

Brown University is accredited by the New England Commission of Higher Education.

Brown University is a member of the Association of American Universities since 1933 and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very High Research Activity".

Brown University Center for Students of Color is a space that provides support for students of color.

Brown University is a member of the Ivy League athletic conference, which is categorized as a Division I conference of the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA).

The Brown University women's sailing team has won 5 national championships, most recently in 2019 while the coed sailing team won 2 national championships in 1942 and 1948.

Companies founded by Brown University alumni include CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Searchlight Pictures, Netgear, W Hotels, Workday, Warby Parker, Casper, Figma, ZipRecruiter, and Cards Against Humanity.