The Ivy League school has faced a series of challenges related to protests and politics. Through it all, it has kept its gates open to the city and tried to heal divisions on campus.

As a manhunt for a gunman who killed two and injured nine at Brown University stretched into a third day, residents and officials alike were growing weary.

A gunman who killed two students at Brown University is still at large. There were no specific threats against other schools, but many are taking precautions.

MukhammadAziz Umurzokov, 18, was gentle and extroverted, his sisters and a friend said, and had dreams of becoming a neurosurgeon.

Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from Mountain Brook, Ala., was a gifted pianist and spoke fluent French, a classmate said.

Gunman ended students’ dreams of studying in Paris, becoming a neurosurgeon.

The Brown University campus has hundreds of cameras, but none caught the shooter’s face.

Alan M. Garber was appointed after his predecessor resigned under pressure. He has been in the role as Harvard fended off challenges from the Trump administration.

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Artificial intelligence is here to stay. Faculty members explain how to keep students engaged in their own learning and prevent them from relying on AI. Blue books made a comeback in 2025. In an effort to prevent students from feeding final essay prompts into ChatGPT, some professors asked their students to sit down and write in-person in the lined, sky-blue booklets that served as the college standard for written assessments in the pre-laptop era.

Battered by decades of disruption, they are now more frugal and more resilient than elite privates.