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JBU Nature Society plans garden

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John Brown University’s Nature Society, or JBUNS, will build a rain garden near the Balzer Technology Center Sept. 18 from 9 a.m. to noon. A rain garden is an area that collects runoff rainwater from sites, like parking lots, and filters the water before it contaminates local creeks and ponds. […]

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New center promotes unity in the church

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For hundreds of years, evangelicals, Catholics, and Orthodox Christians have been at odds over doctrine. Two professors want to make John Brown University a place where they can come together. The Paradosis Center for Theology and Scripture is a research center focused on fostering dialogue between different branches of Christianity. […]

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J. Alvin construction builds more than a dorm for students

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Resident life in John Brown’s oldest dorm looks a lot different this year. While one half of J. Alvin Brown Hall is under construction, the other half is occupied by more than a hundred students, mostly freshmen and sophomores. Other students, mostly upperclassmen, have been moved to the all-male townhouses. […]

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JBU best in value

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The U.S. News and World Report named John Brown University the Best Value College in the South for the second year in a row. The magazine rated colleges mostly by a ratio of quality to price, also taking to account need-based financial aid. The article cites the university’s diversity, small […]

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Exhibit gives faculty chance to express their talents

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On Sept. 3, eight John Brown University faculty members presented a collection of their artwork in a Visual Arts Department exhibit titled “Our Heads, Our Hearts, Our Hands.” This exhibit was designed by the faculty to celebrate the JBU Visual Arts Department and to demonstrate passion and skill professors have […]

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Northslope apartments offer unique resident life

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Now part of the elite “suburb-dwellers” of John Brown University’s campus, Northslope Apartment residents have bid farewell to regular college dorm life. Made up of 76 females and 12 males, apartment residents can still smell the fresh paint on the walls of the recently constructed residence halls. Each apartment is […]