Tanks of luminescent jellyfish and rippling seaweed line the walls of an open space on the bottom floor of the Rhode Island School of Design’s Nature Lab. But a transformation is underway; by the end of 2018, the room will become a “maker space” inviting students to conceptualize and engineer ...
In a community-wide email sent yesterday, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced the University’s proposal to work with Prospect Medical Holdings — a California-based hospital chain — in merging with Care New England, the second largest health care system in Rhode Island. The University’s ...
The University admitted 21 percent of its early decision applicants to the class of 2022, selecting 738 students from the largest early decision applicant pool in the University’s history, wrote Dean of Admission Logan Powell in an email to The Herald. The University saw almost a 10 percent increase ...
The University has reached its $30 million fundraising goal to carry out “The Brown Promise: The Future of Financial Aid at Brown” — an initiative to eliminate all loans from undergraduate financial aid packages, according to a University press release. Now that the University has achieved this ...
The Brown Entrepreneurship Program will offer undergraduates from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design the opportunity to travel to New York City and meet with various start-up companies as part of its Synapse series from Jan. 21 to 23. “Synapse New York City is an opportunity for Brown and ...
As temperatures drop, University researchers continue studying the wintry climes of the North at the University’s renowned Circumpolar Laboratory. The lab is tucked away in the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology’s Collections Research Center in Bristol. Founded in 1973 by Douglas Anderson, the ...
In a 2016 Washington Post editorial, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote that we are living in a “time of fierce debate about whether institutions of higher education are becoming places that stifle speech in the interest of protecting students from ideas and perspectives they don’t want to ...
For some students, going out to eat can make or break a friendship. “The first time you say, ‘I can’t go,’ then it becomes five times, then eventually they don’t even call you anymore because they know you’ll say no,” said Aidea Downie ’18, a first-generation student. Small actions like ...
Though The Herald’s spring 2017 undergraduate poll found that 69 percent of Brown undergraduates never participate in religious activities at Brown, religious life remains active for the 31 percent who do. Interfaith dinners hosted by the Office of the Chaplains play a part in this. Tuesday night, ...
Varsity athletes use prescription painkillers nearly 3 times more than non-athletes, according to The Herald’s fall 2017 poll. While 3.1 percent of non-athletes reported using painkillers recreationally, 8.3 percent of polled athletes reported that they do. Researchers said athletes — who may overuse ...
In the wake of Hurricane María, random housing assignments were taken to a whole new level. Nine students from the University of Puerto Rico who enrolled at the University in late October are currently living in the homes of faculty and staff, said Chief of Staff to the Provost Marisa Quinn. Katerina ...
LGBTQ+ applicants may need to decide whether or not to come out to potential employers before having gauged the inclusivity of a particular workplace. “I was advised not to disclose my identity,” wrote Jennifer Nykiel ’10 MD’14 in an email to the Herald. “I was told it would limit my options.” Instead, ...
Women, people of color and first-generation college students are less confident in their abilities to find a job in their chosen field in comparison to male, white and non-first-generation students, respectively, according to The Herald’s Fall 2017 poll. While 8 in 10 male students reported feeling ...
The University’s engaged scholarship pilot program TRI-Lab, a Swearer Center initiative that focused on bringing together students, staff and community partners around specific social issues including childhood development, healthy food systems, climate change and prisoner health, saw its last lab ...
At the last faculty meeting of this calendar year, faculty members discussed changes to course evaluations and provided an update on the University’s response to the Republican tax bill. A committee to evaluate the University’s instruments of assessment, and specifically course evaluations, is working ...
The University launched an investigation into alleged hazing of new members on the men’s swimming and diving team Nov. 29, according to Director of News and Editorial Development Brian Clark. Hazing is a violation of University policy and Rhode Island state law, Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. The ...
Earlier this year, the College Curriculum Council put forth a proposal to alter the course drop date deadline from the day before finals to the middle of October. The Herald’s 2017 Fall Poll results revealed that a slim majority of students — 51.1 percent — oppose the CCC’s proposal to move ...
Shontay Delalue stepped into her role as vice president for institutional equity and diversity Dec. 1, following a nationwide search. Delalue, an experienced administrator, educator and scholar, had served as the interim vice president since June 2017. In an email sent Nov. 28, President Christina Paxson ...
In her first month on College Hill, Rachel Souza ’21 was catcalled for the first time in her life. “I was just walking back to my dorm, and, out of the blue, a car drove by and (someone) howled at me,” she said. “It was just shocking.” Souza’s experience is not unusual among University students. ...
Work hard in high school, get into your dream school — that was the journey for many Brown students. But in an admissions process that favors the wealthy, the path is not so straightforward for low-income and first-generation students. A 2016 Herald poll found that while a third of students whose ...
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