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Humanities & Social Sciences

Humanities students cite more concern about post-grad employment than other concentrators

By Baylor Knobloch | December 5

Computer science students can schedule meetings with tech company recruiters who pay to meet them, while humanities students may occasionally get job announcements in their inbox. With such different recruiting efforts, it may be no surprise that The Herald’s fall 2017 poll found that humanities concentrators ...

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Midyear Completion Ceremony celebrates ’17.5ers

By Allie Reed | December 4

Ninety-two students marked the completion of their studies in this year’s Midyear Completion Ceremony Saturday in the Salomon Center. These students have had the opportunity to participate in multiple celebrations, as many of the students who participated also walked in the May 2017 Commencement. ...

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Yellen ’67 to step down from Fed

By Cate Ryan | December 4

Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen ’67 announced her decision to resign from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors Nov. 20 in a letter to President Trump, following his Nov. 2 decision to nominate Jerome Powell, a current governor on the board, for the position of chair rather than grant her ...

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Cafe to connect students with sponsor companies

By Allie Reed | December 4

Updated Dec. 5 at 1:55 p.m. Shiru Cafe, part of an international chain that offers free drinks, is under construction at 165 Angell St. The cafe — which is slated to open this February 21 steps from CareerLAB — will be the first Shiru to open in the United States. Shiru works with sponsor companies ...

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Community members protest gas plant

By Coral Murphy | December 3

Updated Dec. 5 at 1:17 p.m. Members of the Providence community gathered at a Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council meeting Tuesday in protest of National Grid’s proposal to build a liquefied natural gas production plant at Fields Point. CRMC is the state entity that will ultimately decide ...

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U. groups spread sexual health awareness

By Mia Pattillo | December 3

As rates of sexually transmitted diseases in Rhode Island hit a 10-year high, Brown student groups are working toward spreading sexual health awareness. University groups that work with Brown students, Providence high school students and Providence middle school students aim to not only educate students ...

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Science & Research

Neurodatathon premiers in four-day event

By Kendrick Tan | December 3

Students worked with state-of-the-art tools to uncover patterns in a never-before analyzed neural data set at Brown’s first-ever Neurodatathon Nov. 28 to Dec. 2. Hosted by Brown Data Science and sponsored by the Brown Institute for Brain Science and the Brown Initiative for Computation in Brain and ...

News

IBES creates environmental justice track

By Jeff Demanche | November 30

The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society has launched a new undergraduate curriculum track that brings a social equity focus to the environmental studies and environmental science concentrations. The track, called environment and inequality, was first introduced in spring 2017 and follows ...

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Community mourns death of grad student

By Mia Pattillo | November 30

Travis Johnson GS, a student enrolled in the Brown/Trinity Master’s of Fine Arts in Acting program, died, wrote Dean of the Graduate School Andrew Campbell and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Eric Estes in a community-wide email Thursday. He passed away Sunday, according to his ...

Science & Research

Researchers measure masses of material distributed in Earth’s mantle

By Jonathan Douglas | November 29

The Earth is a dynamic system, constantly in motion both above and below its surface. The movement of layers below the surface that compose the Earth’s mantle influence the movement of several rigid plates on the surface. This churning mixes different materials within the mantle, generating unique ...

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UCS committees review semester goals, initiatives

By Eduard Muñoz-Suñé | November 29

At its general body meeting Wednesday evening, the Undergraduate Council of Students summarized the work its completed over the semester and members of the group voted in confidence of UCS President Chelse-Amoy Steele ’18. Chair of the Campus Life Committee Camila Pelsinger ’20 described the committee’s ...

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Prof talks gender development, mental health

By Liora Morhayim | November 29

Kristina Olson, associate professor of psychology at the University of Washington, shed light on her team’s recent research on gender development and the mental health of transgender and gender non-conforming children Wednesday. Her talk, “When Sex and Gender Collide: Early Childhood Gender ...

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Former Tel Aviv professor lectures on Israel’s first prime minister

By Emily Davies | November 29

Anita Shapira, former Professor in the Study of Zionism at Tel Aviv University and head of the Rabin Center, led a discussion on the life and legacy of Israel’s first prime minister David Ben-Gurion Wednesday afternoon at the Watson Institute of International and Public Affairs. Shapira opened her ...

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Members of U. gather to protest GOP tax bill

By Baylor Knobloch | November 29

In solidarity with graduate students across the country organizing similar demonstrations, close to 100 graduate students gathered outside of University Hall to protest the proposed GOP tax bill, which would increase income tax on graduate student stipends and tuition waivers, effectively cutting their ...

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Climate and Development Lab attends COP23 in Germany

By Jackson Wells | November 29

Nations from across the world congregated in Bonn, Germany to discuss climate agreements and how they could battle climate change for the United Nations Climate Change Conference 23rd Conference of the Parties. Among the delegates, organizations and other attendees were members from the Climate and ...

University News

Five bikes stolen on Nov. 15 alone

By Alex Skidmore | November 29

Five bicycles were stolen from the north side of campus Nov. 15, according to the Department of Public Safety crime logs. Only one other bicycle was reported stolen during the month. Two of the bikes were stolen from the Jonathan Nelson ’77 Fitness Center and the three others were on Pembroke Green, ...

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Paxson denounces tax plan in community-wide email

By Eduard Muñoz-Suñé | November 29

President Christina Paxson P’19 outlined the University’s response to the GOP tax plan in a community-wide email Monday morning, criticizing the bill and explaining its negative impacts on the University. She wrote that the University has made substantial efforts to address “a number of alarming ...

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University expands ADOCH to include early decision admits

By Sarah Wang | November 28

When the class of 2022 reflects on their A Day on College Hill experience, they’ll have to clarify which one they’re talking about. ADOCH 2018 will be split into two programs, and for the first time in recent history, students admitted through early decision will be invited. ADOCH is set for April ...

Events

Panel talks Asian, Asian American identity

By Eric Choi | November 28

Panelists discussed the implications of the invisibility of Asian and Asian American men for mental health and well-being at an event Tuesday. “We really wanted to address identity as a salient factor … in wellness,” said Aleta Bok Johnson, a coordinator of the event and a CAPS staff member. Identity ...

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University named best in nation for Brazilian studies

By Lydia Defusto | November 28

Growing up in the United States, Fernando Guimaraes ’18 was never able to connect with U.S. history like his peers, many of whom had personal and familial ties to America’s past. Born in Brazil, “I could never find that emotional connection to what I was studying,” Guimaraes said. Yet Brazilian ...