Short answers, pulled from the story.
Brown University was established through a charter adopted on the 3rd of March 1764 in East Greenwich. Ezra Stiles, William Ellery Jr., and Josias Lyndon drafted the initial petition to the colony's General Assembly in 1764 to create the institution.
Nicholas Brown Jr. named the college after himself because he donated five thousand dollars within one year as required by a September 1803 corporation vote. His letter dated the 6th of September 1804 committed this sum to Rhode Island College which led to the official renaming on that same day.
The New Curriculum was voted into existence on the 7th of May 1969 following proposals by Ira Magaziner and Elliot Maxwell. Key features included Modes of Thought courses for first-year students and an ABC/No Credit grading system that eliminated pluses minuses and D grades.
Brown University addressed its historical ties to slavery when President Ruth Simmons launched a steering committee in 2003 to research eighteenth-century connections. The resulting Slavery and Justice report released in October 2006 detailed how the university benefited from the transatlantic slave trade and enslaved labor.
The engineering program at Brown University was established in 1847 making it the oldest in the Ivy League. It became the third oldest civilian engineering program in the country before being elevated to School of Engineering status in 2010.