Brown University facts for kids
Latin: Universitas Brunensis | |
Motto | In Deo Speramus (Latin) |
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Motto in English
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In God We Hope |
Type | Private |
Established | 1764 |
Academic affiliations
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Endowment | US $3.5 billion (2017) |
President | Christina Paxson |
Provost | Richard M. Locke |
Academic staff
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731 (2015–16) |
Students | 9,380 (Fall 2017) |
Undergraduates | 6,580 (Fall 2017) |
Postgraduates | 2,255 (Fall 2017) |
Other students
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545 (medical) |
Location |
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U.S.
41°49′34″N 71°24′12″W / 41.8262°N 71.4032°W |
Campus | Urban 143 acres (579,000 m²) |
Colors | Brown, White, and, Cardinal |
Nickname | Bears |
Sporting affiliations
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NCAA Division I – Ivy League ECAC Hockey, EARC/EAWRC |
Mascot | Bruno the Bear |
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Brown University is an American private research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States and is a member of the Ivy League. It was founded in 1764 as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, early in the reign of King George III (1760–1820) and before American independence from the British Empire. It was founded by the Brown brothers, who were slave traders. Brown is the third oldest institution of higher education in New England and seventh oldest in the United States.
Brown is ranked as the 14th national university behind Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, MIT, University of Pennsylvania, Caltech, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, and Northwestern. Brown was the first college in the country to accept students of any religion.
It is the second last ranked Ivy League University with Cornell being the last.
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Slavery Memorial was designed by Martin Puryear and dedicated in 2014
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The Van Wickle Gates stand at the crest of College Hill
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The John Carter Brown Library is one of the world's leading repositories of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the colonial Americas
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The galleries of Brown's anthropology museum, the Haffenreffer, are located in Manning Hall
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The List Art Center, built 1969–71, designed by Philip Johnson, houses Brown's Department of Visual Art and the David Winton Bell Gallery
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The Brown Computing Laboratory, designed by Philip Johnson
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Ladd Observatory, built 1890–1891, is used by Brown Space Engineering, a student group focused on Aerospace engineering
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The 1879 Brown baseball varsity, with W.E. White seated second from right. White's appearance in an 1879 major league game may be the first person of color to play professional baseball, 68 years before Jackie Robinson
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Horace Mann, class of 1819, regarded as the father of American public education
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Samuel Gridley Howe, class of 1821, abolitionist and advocate for the blind
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John Hay, class of 1858, private secretary to Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Secretary of State
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Charles Evans Hughes, class of 1881, Chief Justice of the United States and U.S. Secretary of State
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John D. Rockefeller Jr., class of 1897, philanthropist and developer of Rockefeller Center
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Lois Lowry, class of 1958, Newbery Medal-winning author of The Giver and Number the Stars
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Ted Turner, class of 1960, founder of CNN, TBS, and WCW and philanthropist
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Janet Yellen, class of 1967, first woman to serve as Chair of the Federal Reserve and U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
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André Leon Talley, class of 1972, former editor-at-large and creative director of Vogue
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Brian Moynihan, class of 1981, chairman and CEO of Bank of America
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Ira Glass, class of 1982, radio personality and host of This American Life
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Jim Yong Kim, class of 1982, 12th Pres. of the World Bank, 17th Pres. of Dartmouth
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Dara Khosrowshahi, class of 1991, CEO of Uber, former CEO of Expedia Group
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John F. Kennedy Jr., class of 1983, lawyer, journalist, and magazine publisher
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Davis Guggenheim, class of 1986, Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker
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Laura Linney, class of 1986, actress, recipient of 4 Emmy Awards and 3 time Oscar nominee
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Julie Bowen, class of 1991, actress, six time Emmy Award nominee
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Tracee Ellis Ross, class of 1994, actress, model, comedienne, and television host
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Andrew Yang, class of 1996, businessman and U.S. presidential candidate
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John Krasinski, class of 2001, actor, director, producer, and screenwriter
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A. G. Sulzberger, class of 2003, publisher of The New York Times
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Emma Watson, class of 2014, actress, model, activist