Brown hosted the Ivy League men’s lacrosse tournament this past weekend, with the Bears taking on Penn. The No. 13 Quakers (9-4, 3-3 Ivy League) defeated No. 5 Brown (10-5, 4-2) 14-9 to move on to the championship game of the tournament, in which Penn beat Yale (11-4, 5-3) 16-9 to clinch the Ivy ...

Comeback effort falls short as top-seeded men’s lax falters against No. 13 Penn in Ivy League tournament semifinal

By Nicholas Miller | May 12 | Sports

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Kent Kleinman, provost of the Rhode Island School of Design, was appointed faculty director of the ...

Kent Kleinman appointed Brown Arts Institute faculty director

By Emily Faulhaber | May 12 | University News

Kent Kleinman, provost of the Rhode Island School of Design, was appointed faculty director of the ...

In response to an April 7 incident in which an employee at the Graduate Center Bar told Okezie Okoro ...

Following student boycott, Graduate Center Bar announces changes to diversity, inclusion policies

By Kaitlyn Torres | May 7 | University News

In response to an April 7 incident in which an employee at the Graduate Center Bar told Okezie Okoro ...

U. to introduce virtual Brown ID, mobile ordering in dining halls by start of fall semester

By Will Kubzansky | May 5 | University News

University community members will gain access to a virtual version of their Brown IDs by next fall that allows them to pay with meal credits, points or Bear Bucks at dining halls. They will also have access to recreational facilities and the Brown Shuttle, without needing their physical IDs, according ...

Faculty vote in favor of establishing new Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics

By Alex Nadirashvili | May 5 | University News

Members of the University's faculty and administration voted in favor of establishing a Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics effective July 1 at the final formal faculty meeting of the academic year Tuesday. The motion to establish the center passed with a 55% majority.

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Editors’ Note: A semester of firsts, in review

By 132nd Editorial Board | April 28

This semester marks Brown’s first full, in-person spring semester in three years –– and, for The Herald’s 132nd Editorial Board, the first full spring semester we have ever experienced. Since we began our tenure in January, much of our coverage has documented a return to the campus we remember ...

Rios-Galindo ’25: The Housing Lottery is in shambles. It demonstrates deeper problems within ResLife

By Angelina Rios-Galindo | April 27

Each spring, just after midterms, many Brown students enter perhaps the most stressful season of the year: housing selection. What should be a time of excitement in anticipation of the academic year to come is annually soiled by an inequitable cache of options, problematic power and resource dynamics ...

Editorial: At long last, Spring Weekend

By Editorial Page Board | April 27

Spring Weekend is back. This Friday and Saturday, for the first time since 2019, students will gather in person to hear performances from the likes of Flo Milli, Ari Lennox and Amaarae — screaming their hearts out to songs they may or may not know, taking a break from classes and work to hang out ...

McGrath ’24: From trendy to cheugy: the acceleration of TikTok fashion

By Sarah McGrath | April 27

In October 2021, trend forecaster and TikTok influencer Mandy Lee predicted the return of the so-called “indie sleaze” aesthetic: a call back to the hipster heydays of the mid 2000s and early 2010s. And this predicted 2010s resurgence may be quickly becoming a reality. In recent months, I’ve ...

Editorial: Broken elections, broken UCS

By Editorial Page Board | April 26

After years of apathy among students, this year’s student government election finally attracted attention — but for all the wrong reasons. On April 18, the Student Government Association announced that Chas Steinbrugge ’24 had won the race for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students. ...

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Ricky Zhong ’23 elected UCS president in runoff election

By Kathy Wang | April 27

Ricky Zhong ’23, current UCS chair of student activities, was elected the 2022-23 academic year president of the Undergraduate Council of Students in a runoff election that took place over Tuesday and Wednesday, announced UCS President Summer Dai ’22 and Vice President Sam Caplan ’22 in an ...

Brown accepts 13 Ukrainian students to class of 2026

By Swaraj Agarwal | April 27

Maksym Temnosagatyi ’26 remembered feeling “accomplished” when he opened his admission letter from Brown in a hotel room late at night. “It was, obviously, not like the reaction videos you see on YouTube because it was late at night and I was at a hotel so I could not jump around ...

‘Please go to Facebook:’ Facebook whistleblower Frances Haugen speaks at Brown

By Caleb Lazar | April 27

Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee who released documents revealing that Facebook was aware that the platform helped cause ethnic violence and mental health issues, spoke at the University Wednesday in a talk entitled “Reforming Social Media From the Inside.” The event was one of the ...

Brown community members reflect on life one year after Myanmar military coup

By Ishitaa Gupta | April 27

On Feb. 1, 2021, Myanmar citizens found their nation in a state of emergency. The military — led by Commander-in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing — staged a coup and overthrew the country’s democratically elected government. Over a year later, University community members said, the effects of the coup ...

UCS discusses election rule discrepancy at general body meeting

By Maisie Newbury | April 27

At its final general body meeting of the 2021-22 academic year, the Undergraduate Council of Students announced the results of its recent runoff election and passed alterations to its bylaws, presented by current Vice President Sam Caplan ’22.

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‘The Northman’ stuns to the very core

By Finn Kirkpatrick | April 26

Something about “The Northman” is a little unfair. As much as any filmmaker can try to make something intriguing and novel to strike a chord with the audience, little can match the intensity and excitement of a Viking revenge thriller. Director Robert Eggers clearly knew this when making the ...

Ita O’Brien discusses ‘Sex on Screen’ in hit shows

By Aalia Jagwani | April 24

On Friday, the Ivy Film Festival hosted a virtual conversation with Ita O’Brien, the intimacy coordinator for “Sex Education,” “Normal People,” “Brave New World” and “I May Destroy You,” among other productions. “An intimacy coordinator is somebody who brings a clear ...

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‘The magnitude of the community that we had': Fox Point, gentrification, urban renewal

By Katy Pickens | April 27

During the 20th century, Fox Point was a community of immigrants — Cape Verdean, Portuguese, Irish, Lebanese and more. But, in the latter half of the century, those residents were displaced by the impacts of urban renewal, the expansion of Brown University, students living off campus and gentrification. ...

Brown’s footprint today: Student housing, taxation

By Katy Pickens and Rhea Rasquinha | April 27

In the last century, the University’s campus boundaries and property ownership have increased significantly, The Herald previously reported. Today, the University still continues to grow, with recent projects such as the Brook Street Residence Hall and purchases such as River ...

An impending climate reality: Rising coastlines, inevitable housing relocation

By Julia Vaz | April 27

According to the January Rhode Island State Climate Summary, the northeastern United States is experiencing a faster rate of sea level rise than the global average. Even in the more conservative intermediate emissions projection, sea levels are expected to rise four feet by 2100, which would necessitate ...

State legislature considers bill to limit teaching of race, sexuality in schools

By Sam Levine | April 27

State lawmakers in the House Education Committee convened for a public hearing April 11 on H7539, a bill that seeks to restrict teaching about race, sexuality and gender identity in Rhode Island public schools. Hundreds of Rhode ...

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‘Turning jocks into nerds and nerds into jocks’: Club quidditch takes flight

By Linus Lawrence | April 27

As if by a levitation spell, the Brown club quidditch team soared across college leaderboards in its first season of competition, earning promotion to division one and finishing in the top 20 at the U.S. Quidditch Cup in Salt Lake City this past weekend.

Women’s sailing places 4th at inaugural Women’s Team Race National Championship

By Ellery Campbell | April 27

This weekend, the women’s sailing team hosted the Inter-Collegiate Sailing Association’s inaugural Women’s Team Race National Championship at the Edgewood Yacht Club in Cranston, placing fourth out of 12 teams with an 11-5 record at the event.

Baseball is swept by Penn in weekend series

By Gabriella Sartori | April 26

The baseball team (8-22, 3-12 Ivy League) kept it close in its three-game weekend series against Penn (26-9, 12-2 Ivy) but was unable to secure a win and was swept by the Quakers in Philadelphia.

No. 5 men’s lacrosse defeats No. 14 Cornell, wins third consecutive game

By Adam Remels | April 26

The men’s lacrosse team (8-4, 3-2 Ivy League) — ranked 14th before the game — defeated Cornell (10-3, 3-2) Saturday by a score of 13-8. The win on the road was the Bears’ third straight, after beating Penn and Yale in their previous two games. With the victory, the Bears jumped to No. 5 while ...

Women’s lacrosse triumphs over Cornell 12-11 on Senior Day

By Nicholas Miller | April 24

The women’s lacrosse team (6-7, 3-3 Ivy League) defeated Cornell (7-7, 3-3) 12-11 Saturday at Stevenson-Pincince Field, leaving 12 team members in the class of 2022 with a thrilling Senior Day victory. Attacker Maggie Fowler ’22 and midfielder Mia Mascone ’23 led the Bears with ...

Science & Research

Bolden Therapeutics pursues pharmaceutical research to combat neurodegenerative diseases

By Anna Kim | April 24

Bolden Therapeutics is a biotechnology company that develops therapeutics to promote the birth of new neurons in the adult brain for potential treatment ...

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Graduate students present research at annual ‘Research Matters’ event

By Kathleen Meininger | April 22

The Graduate School hosted an event entitled “Research Matters” Thursday evening in which ...

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