Editing Brown University (section)

== Campus ==
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Brown is the largest institutional landowner in Providence, with properties on College Hill and in the [[Jewelry District (Providence)|Jewelry District]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Levitz |first=Jennifer |title=Providence Urges Brown to Pay Up |url=http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204062704577221653128623004.html |access-date=2022-11-15 |website=The Wall Street Journal |date=February 13, 2012 |language=en-US |archive-date=November 9, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121109121749/http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204062704577221653128623004.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The university was built contemporaneously with the eighteenth and nineteenth-century precincts surrounding it, making Brown's campus tightly integrated into Providence's urban fabric. Among the noted architects who have shaped Brown's campus are [[McKim, Mead & White]], [[Philip Johnson]], [[Rafael Viñoly]], [[Diller Scofidio + Renfro]], and [[Robert A. M. Stern]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Chafee |first=Louisa |date=2013-09-09 |title='Starchitects' design cutting-edge buildings |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/09/09/starchitects-design-cutting-edge-buildings/ |access-date=2021-04-23 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423180818/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2013/09/09/starchitects-design-cutting-edge-buildings/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== Main campus ===
{{further|List of Brown University buildings}}Brown's main campus, comprises 235 buildings and {{cvt|143|acre|km2}} in the [[East Side, Providence, Rhode Island|East Side]] neighborhood of College Hill. The university's central campus sits on a {{cvt|15|acre|hectare|adj=on}} block bounded by Waterman, Prospect, George, and [[Thayer Street]]s; newer buildings extend northward, eastward, and southward. Brown's core, historic campus, constructed primary between 1770 and 1926, is defined by three greens: the Front or Quiet Green, the Middle or College Green, and the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle (historically known as Lincoln Field).<ref name="campus_heritage2">{{cite web |last=R. M. Kliment & Frances Halsband Architects |date=February 2006 |title=Campus Heritage at Brown University |url=https://www.brown.edu/facilities/sites/facilities/files/CampusHeritage2-06.pdf |publisher=Brown University |access-date=2007-12-06 |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411044815/https://www.brown.edu/facilities/sites/facilities/files/CampusHeritage2-06.pdf |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Rasmussen |first=Amy |date=2012-09-19 |title=From swamp to Simmons: Lincoln, the legacy |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2012/09/19/from-swamp-to-simmons-lincoln-the-legacy/ |access-date=2021-03-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=August 5, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805073800/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2012/09/19/from-swamp-to-simmons-lincoln-the-legacy/ |url-status=live}}</ref> A brick and wrought-iron fence punctuated by decorative gates and arches traces the block's perimeter. This section of campus is primarily [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Richardsonian Romanesque]] in its architectural character.<ref name="campus_heritage2" />

To the south of the central campus are academic buildings and residential quadrangles, including Wriston, Keeney, and Gregorian quadrangles. Immediately to the east of the campus core sit Sciences Park and Brown's [[Brown University School of Engineering|School of Engineering]]. North of the central campus are performing and visual arts facilities, life sciences labs, and the Pembroke Campus, which houses both dormitories and academic buildings. Facing the western edge of the central campus sit two of the Brown's seven libraries, the [[John Hay Library]] and the [[John D. Rockefeller Jr. Library]].

The university's campus is contiguous with that of the [[Rhode Island School of Design]], which is located immediately to Brown's west, along the slope of College Hill.

====Van Wickle Gates====
{{Main|Van Wickle Gates}}
[[File:The iconic Van Wickle Gates at Brown University, one of America's prestigious "Ivy League" colleges, in Providence, the capital of, and largest city in, Rhode Island.jpg|thumb|The [[Van Wickle Gates]] stand at the crest of [[College Hill, Providence, Rhode Island|College Hill]]]]
Built in 1901, the Van Wickle Gates are a set of wrought iron gates that stand at the western edge of Brown's campus. The larger main gate is flanked by two smaller side gates. At Convocation the central gate opens inward to admit the procession of new students; at Commencement, the gate opens outward for the procession of graduates.<ref>Mitchell, Martha. (1993). "[https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=V0020 Van Wickle Gates] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303171141/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=V0020 |date=March 3, 2016 }}." ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana''</ref> A Brown superstition holds that students who walk through the central gate a second time prematurely will not graduate, although walking backward is said to cancel the hex.

===John Hay Library===
{{Main|John Hay Library}}
[[File:John Hay Library (Brown).jpg|thumb|The [[John Hay Library]] is home to rare books, special collections, and the university archives.]]The John Hay Library is the second oldest library on campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ok |first=Katherine |date=2019-03-21 |title=Hay Library's Special Collections offer more than a human skin-bound book |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/03/21/hay-librarys-special-collections-offer-human-skin-bound-book/ |access-date=2021-03-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=September 26, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200926204901/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/03/21/hay-librarys-special-collections-offer-human-skin-bound-book/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Opened in 1910, the library is named for [[John Hay]] (class of 1858), private secretary to [[Abraham Lincoln]] and Secretary of State under [[William McKinley]] and [[Theodore Roosevelt]]. The construction of the building was funded in large part by Hay's friend, [[Andrew Carnegie]], who contributed half of the $300,000 cost of construction.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=J0080 |title=From Martha Mitchell's ''Encyclopedia Brunoniana'': John Hay Library |publisher=Brown.edu |access-date=April 1, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120217214933/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=J0080 |archive-date=February 17, 2012 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The John Hay Library serves as the repository of the university's archives, rare books and manuscripts, and special collections. Noteworthy among the latter are the [[Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection]]<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/ |title=The Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection :: Brown University Library |publisher=Dl.lib.brown.edu |access-date=February 22, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100219174610/http://dl.lib.brown.edu/libweb/collections/askb/ |archive-date=February 19, 2010 |url-status=live}}</ref> (described as "the foremost American collection of material devoted to the history and iconography of soldiers and soldiering"),<ref>{{Cite web |title=Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection – Brown University Library |url=https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=27 |access-date=2021-03-07 |website=library.brown.edu |archive-date=October 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211012135616/https://library.brown.edu/collatoz/info.php?id=27 |url-status=live}}</ref> the Harris Collection of American Poetry and Plays (described as "the largest and most comprehensive collection of its kind in any research library"), the Lownes Collection of the History of Science (described as "one of the three most important private collections of books of science in America"), and the papers of [[H. P. Lovecraft]]. The Hay Library is home to one of the broadest collections of [[Incunable|incunabula]] in the Americas, one of Brown's two [[First Folio|Shakespeare First Folios]], the manuscript of [[George Orwell]]'s ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four]],'' and three books [[Anthropodermic bibliopegy|bound in human skin]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Johnson |first=M.L. |date=January 7, 2006 |agency=Associated Press |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20060111&id=K-lYAAAAIBAJ&pg=5031,2157846 |title=Some of nation's best libraries have books bound in human skin |access-date=June 6, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151231204804/https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=861&dat=20060111&id=K-lYAAAAIBAJ&sjid=rVYMAAAAIBAJ&pg=5031,2157846 |archive-date=December 31, 2015 |url-status=live}}</ref>

=== John Carter Brown Library ===
{{Main|John Carter Brown Library}}
[[File:Entrance to the John Carter Brown Library (cropped).jpg|thumb|The [[John Carter Brown Library]] is one of the world's leading repositories of books, maps, and manuscripts relating to the [[European colonization of the Americas|colonial Americas]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=EBSCO Publishing and the John Carter Brown Library Join Forces to Offer Free Historical Database |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/EuropeanAmericana/EBSCOhost/prweb4526064.htm |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100920185938/http://www.prweb.com/releases/EuropeanAmericana/EBSCOhost/prweb4526064.htm |archive-date=September 20, 2010 |access-date=2021-05-01 |website=PRWeb}}</ref>]]
Founded in 1846, the John Carter Brown Library is generally regarded as the world's leading collection of primary historical sources relating to the exploration and colonization of the Americas. While administered and funded separately from the university, the library has been owned by Brown and located on its campus since 1904.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Encyclopedia Brunoniana {{!}} John Carter Brown Library |url=https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=J0070 |access-date=2021-04-11 |website=www.brown.edu |archive-date=July 10, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190710170906/https://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=J0070 |url-status=live}}</ref>

The library contains the best preserved of the eleven surviving copies of the [[Bay Psalm Book]]—the earliest extant book printed in British North America and the most expensive printed book in the world.<ref>BBC News, "Bay Psalm Book is most expensive printed work at $14.2m," [https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25115524 BBC] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180720185054/https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-25115524 |date=July 20, 2018 }}; [http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/the-bay-psalm-book-sale-n09039/The-Bay-Psalm-Book/2013/10/census-of-copies-of-.html Sothebys.com] {{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924121107/http://www.sothebys.com/en/auctions/2013/the-bay-psalm-book-sale-n09039/The-Bay-Psalm-Book/2013/10/census-of-copies-of-.html |date=September 24, 2015 }}</ref> Other holdings include a Shakespeare [[First Folio]] and the world's largest collection of 16th-century Mexican texts.<ref>{{Cite web |title=64 Mexican incunables and counting {{!}} John Carter Brown Library |url=https://jcblibrary.org/news/64-mexican-incunables-and-counting |access-date=2021-03-07 |website=jcblibrary.org |archive-date=August 12, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210812124943/https://jcblibrary.org/news/64-mexican-incunables-and-counting |url-status=live}}</ref>
[[File:Manning Hall, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island - 20091108 straighten.jpg|thumb|The galleries of Brown's anthropology museum, the [[Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology|Haffenreffer]], are located in Manning Hall.]]

===Haffenreffer Museum===
{{Main|Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology}}
The exhibition galleries of the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown's teaching museum, are located in Manning Hall on the campus's main green. Its one million artifacts, available for research and educational purposes, are located at its Collections Research Center in [[Bristol, Rhode Island]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Goldberg |first=Daniel |date=2019-03-07 |title=Haffenreffer Museum begins complete inventory of one million objects |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/03/07/haffenreffer-museum-catalog-entire-collection/ |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=March 7, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190307123519/http://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/03/07/haffenreffer-museum-catalog-entire-collection/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The museum's goal is to inspire creative and critical thinking about culture by fostering an interdisciplinary understanding of the material world. It provides opportunities for faculty and students to work with collections and the public, teaching through objects and programs in classrooms and exhibitions. The museum sponsors lectures and events in all areas of anthropology and also runs an extensive program of outreach to local schools.

=== Annmary Brown Memorial ===
{{Main|Annmary Brown Memorial}}
The Annmary Brown Memorial was constructed from 1903 to 1907 by the politician, Civil War veteran, and book collector General [[Rush Hawkins]], as a mausoleum for his wife, Annmary Brown, a member of the Brown family. In addition to its crypt—the final repository for Brown and Hawkins—the Memorial includes works of art from Hawkins's private collection, including paintings by [[Angelica Kauffman]], [[Peter Paul Rubens]], [[Gilbert Stuart]], [[Giovanni Battista Tiepolo]], [[Benjamin West]], and [[Eastman Johnson]], among others. His collection of over 450 [[Incunable|incunabula]] was relocated to the John Hay Library in 1990.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=A0370 |title=Encyclopedia Brunoniana {{!}} Annmary Brown Memorial |website=www.brown.edu |access-date=2019-02-01 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190123220353/http://www.brown.edu/Administration/News_Bureau/Databases/Encyclopedia/search.php?serial=A0370 |archive-date=January 23, 2019 |url-status=live}}</ref> Today the Memorial is home to Brown's [[Medieval studies|Medieval Studies]] and [[Renaissance studies|Renaissance Studies]] programs.

=== The Walk ===
The Walk, a landscaped pedestrian corridor, connects the Pembroke Campus to the main campus. It runs parallel to [[Thayer Street]] and serves as a primary axis of campus, extending from Ruth Simmons Quadrangle at its southern terminus to the Meeting Street entrance to the Pembroke Campus at its northern end.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Corey |first=Patrick |date=2008-02-01 |title=Straight Path on Walk opens to public |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2008/02/01/straight-path-on-walk-opens-to-public/ |access-date=2021-04-10 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024737/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2008/02/01/straight-path-on-walk-opens-to-public/ |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Geller |first=Sarah |date=2006-12-08 |title=Plans for the Walk begin to take shape |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2006/12/08/plans-for-the-walk-begin-to-take-shape/ |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=October 28, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211028221009/https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2006/12/plans-for-the-walk-begin-to-take-shape/ |url-status=live}}</ref> The walk is bordered by departmental buildings as well as the [[Lindemann Performing Arts Center]] and [[Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts|Granoff Center for the Creative Arts]]

The corridor is home to public art including sculptures by [[Maya Lin]] and [[Tom Friedman (artist)|Tom Friedman]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Rubinton |first=Noel |date=2017-10-20 |title=Where to See (Really See) the Art of Maya Lin |language=en-US |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/travel/where-to-see-really-see-the-art-of-maya-lin.html |url-status=live |access-date=2018-12-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181206001909/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/20/travel/where-to-see-really-see-the-art-of-maya-lin.html |archive-date=December 6, 2018 |issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

===Pembroke campus===
[[File:Brown University Pembroke campus.jpg|thumb|Three dormitories, Metcalf Hall (1919), Andrews Hall (1947), and Miller Hall (1910), formed the heart of Pembroke College and now serve as freshman residences.]]
The [[Pembroke College in Brown University|Women's College in Brown University]], known as Pembroke College, was founded in October 1891. Upon its 1971 merger with the College of Brown University, Pembroke's campus was absorbed into the larger Brown campus. The Pembroke campus is bordered by Meeting, Brown, Bowen, and Thayer Streets and sits three blocks north of Brown's central campus. The campus is dominated by brick architecture, largely of the [[Georgian architecture|Georgian]] and [[Victorian architecture|Victorian styles]]. The west side of the quadrangle comprises Pembroke Hall (1897), Smith-Buonanno Hall (1907), and Metcalf Hall (1919), while the east side comprises Alumnae Hall (1927) and Miller Hall (1910). The quadrangle culminates on the north with Andrews Hall (1947).

East Campus, centered on Hope and Charlesfield streets, originally served as the campus of [[Bryant University]]. In 1969, as Bryant was preparing to relocate to [[Smithfield, Rhode Island]], Brown purchased their Providence campus for $5 million. The transaction expanded the Brown campus by {{cvt|10|acre|m2}} and 26 buildings. In 1971, Brown renamed the area East Campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Wrenn |first=John |date=2021-03-18 |title=Wrenn GS: College Hill's Grim Reaper |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/03/18/wrenn-gs-college-hills-grim-reaper/ |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=March 18, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210318061020/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/03/18/wrenn-gs-college-hills-grim-reaper/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Today, the area is largely used for dormitories.

[[Thayer Street]] runs through Brown's main campus. As a commercial corridor frequented by students, Thayer is comparable to [[Harvard Square]] or Berkeley's [[Telegraph Avenue]]. [[Wickenden Street]], in the adjacent [[Fox Point, Providence, Rhode Island|Fox Point]] neighborhood, is another commercial street similarly popular among students.

Built in 1925, [[Brown Stadium]]—the home of the school's football team—is located approximately a mile and a half northeast of the university's central campus.<ref>{{Cite web |last1=Geh |first1=Victoria |last2=Li |first2=Evan |last3=Puma |first3=Patrick |last4=Du |first4=Hong Sen |title=The 'inescapable' effect of off-campus athletics: How the distance to Baker has shaped Columbia's recruiting, performance, and sports culture |url=http://columbiaspectator.com/sports/2020/12/09/the-inescapable-effect-of-off-campus-athletics-how-the-distance-to-baker-has-shaped-columbias-recruiting-performance-and-sports-culture/ |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=Columbia Daily Spectator |archive-date=June 20, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210620212336/https://www.columbiaspectator.com/sports/2020/12/09/the-inescapable-effect-of-off-campus-athletics-how-the-distance-to-baker-has-shaped-columbias-recruiting-performance-and-sports-culture/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Marston Boathouse, the home of Brown's crew teams, lies on the [[Seekonk River]], to the southeast of campus. Brown's sailing teams are based out of the Ted Turner Sailing Pavilion at the [[Edgewood Yacht Club]] in adjacent [[Cranston, Rhode Island|Cranston]].

Since 2011, Brown's Warren Alpert Medical School has been located in Providence's historic [[Jewelry District (Providence)|Jewelry District]], near the medical campus of Brown's teaching hospitals, [[Rhode Island Hospital]] and the [[Women & Infants Hospital of Rhode Island|Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island]]. Other university facilities, including [[molecular medicine]] labs and administrative offices, are likewise located in the area.<ref>{{cite news |author=Elizabeth Abbott |date=December 13, 2011 |title=Providence Puts Focus on Making a Home for Knowledge |work=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/realestate/commercial/providence-makes-itself-a-home-for-knowledge.html?_r=1 |url-status=live |access-date=12 June 2012 |archive-url=https://archive.today/20240526010114/https://www.webcitation.org/68NBrLu7S?url=http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/14/realestate/commercial/providence-makes-itself-a-home-for-knowledge.html%3F_r=2 |archive-date=2024-05-26}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Bai |first=Corrine |date=2019-01-30 |title=South Street Landing move improves staff experience |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/01/30/move-south-street-landing-improves-staff-experience/ |access-date=2021-04-07 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 10, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210410183846/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2019/01/30/move-south-street-landing-improves-staff-experience/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

Brown's [[Brown University School of Public Health|School of Public Health]] occupies a landmark modernist building along the [[Providence River]]. Other Brown properties include the {{cvt|376|acre|km2|adj=on}} [[Mount Hope (Rhode Island)|Mount Hope Grant]] in Bristol, Rhode Island, an important Native American site noted as a location of [[King Philip's War]]. Brown's [[Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology]] Collection Research Center, particularly strong in Native American items, is located in the Mount Hope Grant.

=== Sustainability ===
Brown has committed to "minimize its energy use, reduce negative environmental impacts, and promote environmental stewardship."<ref name="Brown's Energy and Environmental Mission">{{cite web |title=Department of Facilities Management, Energy and Environmental Advisory Committee |url=https://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Facilities_Management/energy_policy_recommendations.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080724042058/http://www.brown.edu/Facilities/Facilities_Management/energy_policy_recommendations.php |archive-date=July 24, 2008 |access-date=May 28, 2008 |publisher=Brown University |df=mdy-all}}</ref> Since 2010, the university has required all new buildings meet [[Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design|LEED silver]] standards.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Raymond |first=Mark |date=2010-11-12 |title=U. moves toward greener campus |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2010/11/12/u-moves-toward-greener-campus/ |access-date=2021-04-23 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423180817/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2010/11/12/u-moves-toward-greener-campus/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Between 2007 and 2018, Brown reduced its [[greenhouse gas emissions|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.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Reed |first=Allie |date=2018-09-13 |title=University on track to meet sustainability goals |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/09/13/university-on-track-to-meet-sustainability-goals/ |access-date=2021-04-23 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 23, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210423180816/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2018/09/13/university-on-track-to-meet-sustainability-goals/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2020, Brown 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]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pender |first=Caelyn |date=2020-03-04 |title=Brown sells 90 percent of fossil fuel investments |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/03/04/brown-sells-90-percent-fossil-fuel-investments/ |access-date=2021-04-23 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 27, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210427004840/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2020/03/04/brown-sells-90-percent-fossil-fuel-investments/ |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2021, the university adopted the goal of reducing quantifiable campus emissions by 75 percent by 2025 and achieving [[carbon neutrality]] by 2040.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Pender |first=Caelyn |date=2021-03-05 |title=University launches strategic sustainability plan |url=https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/03/05/university-launches-strategic-sustainability-plan/ |access-date=2021-04-10 |website=Brown Daily Herald |language=en-US |archive-date=April 11, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210411024735/https://www.browndailyherald.com/2021/03/05/university-launches-strategic-sustainability-plan/ |url-status=live}}</ref> Brown is a member of the Ivy Plus Sustainability Consortium, through which it has committed to best-practice sharing and the ongoing exchange of campus sustainability solutions along with other member institutions.<ref>name="Leadership Through Partnership">{{cite web|title=Leadership Through Partnership|url=https://sustainability.yale.edu/priorities-progress/leadership/leadership-through-partnership|access-date=November 17, 2023|publisher=Yale Sustainability}}</ref>

According to the [[A. W. Kuchler]] U.S. [[potential natural vegetation]] types, Brown would have a dominant vegetation type of Appalachian [[Oak]] (''104'') with a dominant vegetation form of Eastern [[Hardwood]] Forest (''25'').<ref name="Conservation Biology Institute">{{cite web |title=U.S. Potential Natural Vegetation, Original Kuchler Types, v2.0 (Spatially Adjusted to Correct Geometric Distortions) |url=https://databasin.org/datasets/1c7a301c8e6843f2b4fe63fdb3a9fe39 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190703145441/https://databasin.org/datasets/1c7a301c8e6843f2b4fe63fdb3a9fe39 |archive-date=July 3, 2019 |access-date=August 14, 2019}}</ref>