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The Herald's Fall 2021 Poll

Welcome to The Herald’s fall 2021 poll, conducted in person for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, you’ll find dozens of graphs that will allow you to explore the student ...

Students react to first post-COVID Thanksgiving

This year’s Thanksgiving registered as one of the busiest days for airports across the country, as individuals made their way home to see their loved ones. Unlike fall 2020, Brown students this year ...

Brown’s pandemic timeline

The University administered half a million tests over the 446 days the COVID testing program has been running. Routine asymptomatic testing for students, faculty and staff became a staple of life at college ...

Students celebrate Diwali across campus

Neil Shah ’25, a first-year from Edison, New Jersey, usually celebrates the South Asian festival Diwali at home with “fireworks, food and a whole lot of fun.” 

New design engineering concentration proposed

When it comes to studying design, students at Brown have historically had to try taking Rhode Island School of Design classes or to pursue Independent Concentrations. 

Paxson responds to Anti-Black Racism Task Force recommendations, elicits mixed reactions from members

As several million Americans protested for Black Lives Matter in June 2020, organizations, companies and schools alike published messages to show their support of the movement and set forth initiatives ...

BSU hosts fourth Black Convocation

The Black Student Union celebrated its fourth annual Black Convocation Sunday for the classes of 2024 and 2025. The event, themed “Rooted and Resting: Rebuilding Brick by Brick” this year, welcomed ...

Title IX suit plaintiffs detail path to legal action against Brown

After a group of current and recent University students accused Brown in a federal class action suit of systematically failing to protect students from sexual abuse and of intentionally deterring students ...

Students, alums file federal class action lawsuit against Brown claiming U. fails to protect students from sexual violence

Four women filed a federal class action complaint Aug. 6 against the University, claiming that it not only neglected to protect its students from sexual harassment and sexual abuse, but also “actively ...

Brown purchases River House to turn into graduate student housing

This is a developing story. Check back for updates.  The University has purchased River House, a 174-unit residential building located in the Jewelry District, with plans to turn the complex into housing ...

CNN’s Sara Sidner, New York Times’s John Eligon discuss reporting on race

Earlier this year in January, CNN correspondent Sara Sidner broke down crying on live television after reporting about COVID-19’s impact on minority communities from California. She had just been with ...

Vincent Harris to serve as new BCSC director

The University appointed Vincent Harris as associate dean and new director of the Brown Center for Students of Color, capping off a national search and campus-wide controversy spanning nearly two years.  In ...

Phi Beta Kappa elects 139 seniors

On May 5, three days after commencement, 139 graduated seniors were elected to the University’s Phi Beta Kappa chapter, wrote Julie Plaut, assistant dean of the college & director of Engaged Scholarship ...

Med school professors, grads look back on the past year of COVID-19

For some, the past year has felt like a decade. For others, it has gone by in what feels like a few days. For the professors and recent Alpert Medical School graduates who were drafted to work on the ...

Two seniors launch new buying and selling platform, Zaar

Two months ago, Kaitlyn Cook ’21 posted several of her unused household items — dresses, a toaster, a Brita filter, rugs and more — on the “Brown University Buying and Selling” Facebook page. ...

Teaching and quarantining under the same roof

When the University decided to send students home and make classes virtual back in March, not only did students have to adapt to new learning environments, but professors, particularly those married to ...

Faculty, students reflect on undergraduate certificate programs

Almost two years ago, the certificate program was introduced to the University’s curriculum. Since the start of this academic year, when the first two certificates opened, 20 certificates declared in ...