Brown campus legend has it that if you pass through the Van Wickle Gates’ main door more than twice, you will be cursed. This middle gate only opens three times a year: convocation, mid year ...

The Van Wickle Gates stand at the edge of the main campus of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, U.S., August 16, 2022. (photo credit: REUTERS/BRIAN SNYDER) ...

Akayla Brown, the 18-year-old winner of the Gates Scholarship, ... Brown has chosen Howard University as the school of choice she will be attending in the fall.