https://www.scmp.com/rss/522240/feed The latest news and top stories on Brown University. A prominent Providence, Rhode Island based private Ivy League research university, Brown University is dedicated to discovering, communicating and preserving knowledge through free inquiry. Established in 1764, it is one of the United States' oldest higher education institutions. Its main areas of activity include comprehensive undergraduate and graduate programmes, medical education and extensive research in fields such as health, science,... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Amber Wang Amber Wang Whether the US-Israeli war on Iran wraps up quickly or drags on, the repercussions will be felt for years, reshaping warfare, geopolitics and energy security as well as how the world sees the United States and its tactical and strategic capabilities. In the final instalment of a three-part series, we look at the move away from precision strikes on limited military assets. When Iran’s South Pars gas field was hit at the start of the US-Israeli war on the country, Tehran retaliated with attacks on... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3349430/iran-war-us-shifting-away-its-strategy-precision-strikes?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3349430/iran-war-us-shifting-away-its-strategy-precision-strikes?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 08 Apr 2026 22:00:12 +0000 Alex Lo Alex Lo “T he United States has become a rogue state.” That’s the title of a recent column in the Foreign Policy magazine. I generally agree with the author, but would dispute the title. The US has always been a rogue state. And yet, something does seem to have changed fundamentally under Donald Trump, especially with his second term in office. So what gives? “The United States is now acting like a predatory hegemon, exploiting positions of leverage built up over decades to exploit allies and... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3349185/america-has-always-been-rogue-state-and-even-more-so-under-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/article/3349185/america-has-always-been-rogue-state-and-even-more-so-under-donald-trump?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 06 Apr 2026 13:15:08 +0000 Amber Wang,Alcott Wei Amber Wang,Alcott Wei The Chinese defence minister has signalled strategic caution with his call for the country to “shape” a stable environment for Beijing’s broader political and diplomatic agenda, according to analysts. Dong Jun made the call on Friday during a group discussion involving military and armed police lawmakers at the country’s annual legislative gathering in Beijing. According to meeting minutes released to the media, Dong stressed four times in his fewer than 400-word remarks that the military’s... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3346113/stability-comes-first-chinese-defence-chief-signals-beijings-strategic-caution?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3346113/stability-comes-first-chinese-defence-chief-signals-beijings-strategic-caution?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 10 Mar 2026 10:00:32 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Three people, including the suspect, were fatally shot during a Rhode Island youth hockey game on Monday, authorities said. Pawtucket Police Chief Tina Goncalves told reporters that three other victims are hospitalised in critical condition. “We have three deceased. The suspect, and then we have two victims, and then we have three at the hospital,” said Goncalves. “It appears that this was a targeted event, that it may be a family dispute,” she said. Goncalves did not provide details about the... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343779/3-killed-including-suspect-shooting-during-rhode-island-youth-hockey-game?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3343779/3-killed-including-suspect-shooting-during-rhode-island-youth-hockey-game?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 16 Feb 2026 23:54:30 +0000 Associated Press,Reuters Associated Press,Reuters The Pentagon is cutting ties with Harvard University, ending all military training, fellowships and certificate programmes with the Ivy League institution. Friday’s announcement marks the latest development in the Trump administration’s prolonged stand-off with Harvard over the White House’s demands for reforms at the Ivy League school. Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said in a statement on Friday that Harvard “no longer meets the needs of the War Department or the military services”. “For too... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342747/pentagon-ditches-harvard-hegseth-declares-university-too-woke?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3342747/pentagon-ditches-harvard-hegseth-declares-university-too-woke?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Feb 2026 04:23:41 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The man identified by law enforcement as the shooter who killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor had been planning the attack for at least six semesters, according to information released on Tuesday by the US Department of Justice. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead in a New Hampshire storage facility after he killed two students and wounded nine others in an engineering building on December 13. He also killed MIT professor... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338976/brown-university-shooter-left-video-confession-says-he-planned-attack-months?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3338976/brown-university-shooter-left-video-confession-says-he-planned-attack-months?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 06 Jan 2026 23:12:56 +0000 Tribune News Service Tribune News Service Public calls are growing for the FBI to give its promised US$50,000 reward to a homeless man who provided information essential to leading authorities to the gunman they say killed two Brown University students and an MIT professor. Authorities say they received a tip from an anonymous source on Tuesday about a Reddit post on the Providence subreddit, according to a law enforcement affidavit from the Rhode Island Attorney General’s Office. That post eventually led investigators to a New... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337206/brown-shooting-will-homeless-man-who-helped-fbi-find-gunman-get-us50000-reward?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337206/brown-shooting-will-homeless-man-who-helped-fbi-find-gunman-get-us50000-reward?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 20 Dec 2025 23:46:55 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse Officials in the US state of Rhode Island have denounced misinformation that they said complicated their multi-day search for the gunman who killed two students and wounded others at Brown University. Law enforcement identified the suspect as Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a Portuguese national who attended the Ivy League institution decades ago. They said he acted alone and was found dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a New Hampshire storage unit. But throughout the week, anonymous and... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337140/brown-university-shooting-how-right-wing-misinformation-hurt-investigation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337140/brown-university-shooting-how-right-wing-misinformation-hurt-investigation?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2025 19:18:43 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press US President Donald Trump suspended the green card lottery programme on Thursday that allowed the suspect in the Brown University and MIT shootings to come to the United States. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem said in a post on the social platform X that at Trump’s direction she is ordering the United States Citizenship and Immigration Services to pause the programme. “This heinous individual should never have been allowed in our country,” she said of the suspect, Portuguese national... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337017/trump-suspends-us-green-card-lottery-after-brown-university-mit-shootings?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3337017/trump-suspends-us-green-card-lottery-after-brown-university-mit-shootings?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Dec 2025 06:01:35 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press A frantic search for the suspect in last weekend’s mass shooting at Brown University ended at a New Hampshire storage facility where authorities discovered the man dead inside and then revealed he also was suspected of killing a Massachusetts Institute of Technology professor. Claudio Neves Valente, 48, a former Brown student and Portuguese national, was found dead on Thursday night from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, said Colonel Oscar Perez, the Providence police chief. Investigators believe... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336976/brown-university-shooting-suspected-identified-us-reports-say?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336976/brown-university-shooting-suspected-identified-us-reports-say?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 18 Dec 2025 22:26:19 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A manhunt for the mass shooter who opened fire in an exam room at one of America’s top universities stretched into a fifth day on Wednesday with no apparent police progress in identifying a suspect or a motive. The only new information from police at a media briefing on Wednesday was an appeal for a witness believed by investigators to have come close to the suspected gunman on the grounds of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island. The shooting happened Saturday, when a man with a rifle... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336837/brown-university-shooting-police-seek-witness-who-came-close-gunman?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336837/brown-university-shooting-police-seek-witness-who-came-close-gunman?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 17 Dec 2025 23:05:06 +0000 Reuters Reuters The man held as a “person of interest” in the Brown University shooting that left two students dead and nine injured will be released from custody, authorities said on Sunday night. Providence Police Chief Oscar Perez said earlier at a midday news conference that a man in his 20s had been taken into custody in connection with Saturday’s gun violence but gave no further details. But at a late-night news conference hours later, Providence Mayor Brett Smiley and other state and local officials told... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336445/hunt-brown-university-shooter-continues-police-release-person-interest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336445/hunt-brown-university-shooter-continues-police-release-person-interest?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 15 Dec 2025 05:58:31 +0000 Agence France-Presse Agence France-Presse A suspect in Saturday’s shooting at Brown University that left two people dead and nine injured has been arrested after an extensive manhunt, NBC said. The shooting took place in a classroom on Saturday, on the second day of final exams for the autumn term at the Ivy League institution, which has a student population of about 11,000. Surveillance footage released by authorities showed the alleged shooter walking away from the Providence, Rhode Island campus. In the brief clip the person, whose... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336360/active-shooter-reported-brown-university-rhode-island?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3336360/active-shooter-reported-brown-university-rhode-island?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 13 Dec 2025 22:39:56 +0000 Sylvie Zhuang Sylvie Zhuang Grass-roots enthusiasm has played the main role in shaping China’s online nationalist narrative and has pushed celebrities to follow, according to a study published in the American peer-reviewed journal Science Advances last week. Contrary to the common perception that nationalism on Chinese social media space is more top down and that Beijing uses such platforms to influence or control public opinion, the study jointly done by researchers from leading universities in the United States and... https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3332870/are-chinas-stars-leading-fans-be-more-nationalist-or-other-way-round?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/china/politics/article/3332870/are-chinas-stars-leading-fans-be-more-nationalist-or-other-way-round?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 15 Nov 2025 04:00:14 +0000 Bernard Chan Bernard Chan Few moments in US history have tested academic freedom as much as the present, with US President Donald Trump’s administration releasing a 10-point Compact for Academic Excellence in Higher Education. What started as bureaucratic proposals have hardened into a national doctrine tying federal funding to political conformity. It is changing the nature of US universities and reshaping international education options. The plan, initially sent to nine universities, proposed conformity with certain... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3330793/how-hong-kong-can-capitalise-trumps-attacks-us-universities?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3330793/how-hong-kong-can-capitalise-trumps-attacks-us-universities?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 31 Oct 2025 01:30:09 +0000 Andrew Sheng Andrew Sheng Last week, two economists and one economic historian were awarded the Nobel Prize in economics for explaining innovation-driven economic growth. Northwestern University professor Joel Mokyr was commended “for having identified the prerequisites for sustained growth through technological progress” and French economist Philippe Aghion and Brown University’s Peter Howitt were jointly honoured “for the theory of sustained growth through creative destruction”. It was noble (no pun intended) of the... https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3330102/amid-us-china-rivalry-nobel-prize-winners-oeuvre-offers-food-thought?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/opinion/world-opinion/article/3330102/amid-us-china-rivalry-nobel-prize-winners-oeuvre-offers-food-thought?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 24 Oct 2025 08:30:08 +0000 Associated Press Associated Press The United States under the Biden and Trump administrations has provided at least US$21.7 billion in military help to Israel since the start of the Gaza war two years ago, according to a new academic study published on Tuesday, the second anniversary of the October 7, 2023, Hamas attacks in Israel that provoked the conflict. Another study, also published by the Costs of War project at Brown University’s Watson School of International and Public Affairs, said the US has spent roughly US$10... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3328088/us-gave-over-us21-billion-military-aid-israel-gaza-war-began-report?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/middle-east/article/3328088/us-gave-over-us21-billion-military-aid-israel-gaza-war-began-report?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 07 Oct 2025 04:39:18 +0000 Reuters Reuters US President Donald Trump said on Tuesday that his administration was close to a deal with Harvard University that would include a US$500 million payment by the Ivy League institution, after months of negotiations over school policies. The administration has been wrangling with several prestigious universities, threatening to withhold federal funds over issues including pro-Palestinian protests against Israel’s war in Gaza, campus diversity and transgender policies. “We are in the process of... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327449/trump-says-harvard-pay-us500-million-deal-administration?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3327449/trump-says-harvard-pay-us500-million-deal-administration?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 30 Sep 2025 21:08:27 +0000 Sumnima Kandangwa Sumnima Kandangwa Amazon Prime’s beloved series The Summer I Turned Pretty is almost coming to an end – the final episode of the series will be released on September 17. Adapted from Jenny Han’s teen romantic drama trilogy of the same name, the show follows Isabel “Belly” Conklin and her love triangle with brothers Conrad and Jeremiah Fisher. The show’s messy romance storyline and equally messy characters quickly grabbed fans since its first season premiered in 2022, with the internet often divided on which... https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3324719/where-was-tsitp-filmed-cousins-beach-irl-north-carolina-jenny-hans-alma-mater?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/magazines/style/lifestyle/leisure/article/3324719/where-was-tsitp-filmed-cousins-beach-irl-north-carolina-jenny-hans-alma-mater?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 10 Sep 2025 10:00:10 +0000 Bloomberg Bloomberg Harvard University has signalled it is willing to pay US$500 million for workforce training programmes as part of a settlement with the White House to restore more than US$2 billion in frozen federal funds, according to a person familiar with the negotiations. The administration is open to Harvard and other colleges paying penalties in the form of contributions to workforce training programmes, the person said. Last month, Brown University agreed to pay US$50 million over ten years for such... https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321663/harvard-mulls-paying-us500-million-job-training-scheme-end-trump-feud?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/3321663/harvard-mulls-paying-us500-million-job-training-scheme-end-trump-feud?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 Aug 2025 04:30:08 +0000