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UCS introduces Equity and Inclusion committee, discusses semester projects at first meeting of academic year

By Karlos Bautista | September 23

The Undergraduate Council of Students held an information session during its first general body meeting of the semester and discussed the new UCS Equity and Inclusion Committee, project updates and upcoming UCS elections. At Wednesday’s virtual meeting, members of the Council’s executive board, ...

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Five 70 Ship Street workers have tested positive for COVID-19 over past four weeks

By Olivia Burdette | September 22

Five individuals working in University labs at 70 Ship Street, a multi-lab research building, have tested positive for COVID-19 in the past four weeks, according to a Sept. 19 email to workers, reviewed by The Herald, from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey. Three ...

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Brown COVID-19 testing update: 16 total positive cases as of 9/22

By Katie Chen | September 22

The University maintains a positivity rate under 0.1 percent as the testing program proceeds, while Providence College reported an outbreak and greater Rhode Island remains at risk for an outbreak of its own. The University is working to ensure the safety of students, faculty and staff as online classes ...

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Brown and Rhode Island Department of Health use interviews, mobile app for contact tracing

By Claire Liu | September 22

From personal logs to phone applications and software, many methods of contact tracing are being put to use at the University, state and national levels to track COVID-19 infections. Contact tracing is a key strategy for preventing further spread of COVID-19 by individuals that have been exposed, according ...

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Brown’s FY21 deficit may reach $165 million

By Caelyn Pender | September 22

The University’s financial losses for Fiscal Year 2021 may range from $100 to $165 million due to the economic impacts of COVID-19 and adjustments made to the academic year, President Christina Paxson P ’19, Provost Richard Locke P ’18 and Vice President for Finance and Administration Barbara ...

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‘I just want my children to be safe’: Providence Public School District parents on school reopening

By Benjamin Pollard | September 21

As their children began school Sept. 14, Providence Public School District parents expressed concerns about what the year will bring. Whether instruction for the school year begins in person, online or hybrid differs by grade and follows the evolution of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. At the beginning ...

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RPLs plan for atypical dorm experience this fall semester

By Jack Walker | September 20

For Natalia Brown ’23, the decision to return as an in-person Residential Peer Leader was not an easy one. When the University announced its phased opening plan, she considered pulling out of the RPL program entirely. “It was almost too much stress,” Brown said. As the return of the University’s ...

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Student-athletes share reactions to reinstatement of women’s equestrian and fencing teams

By Peri Sheinin | September 20

The recent announcement that the University would reinstate the women’s equestrian and fencing teams to varsity status served as a relief from a disappointing year for the student-athletes on these squads. Both teams were transitioned to club status in May as part of the Excellence in Brown Athletics ...

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Brown agrees to reinstate women’s equestrian, women’s fencing in proposed settlement

By Li Goldstein | September 17

The University announced today that it has agreed to reinstate both the women’s equestrian team and the women’s fencing team to varsity status after both teams had been moved to club status in May. The partial reversal of a decision that originally demoted 11 varsity teams would end a legal standoff ...

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Comparing Brown’s COVID-19 positivity rate to other college campuses

By Rahma Ibrahim | September 17

Out of over 23,000 asymptomatic COVID-19 tests administered at the University since the beginning of its academic-year testing program Aug. 24, under 0.1 percent have come back positive. 14 total cases have arisen out of over 6,000 people enrolled in the testing program, yielding a prevalence rate of ...

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Brown suspends Alumni Interview Program for 2020-21 admission cycle

By Caroline Nash | September 17

The University will suspend its Alumni Interview Program for the 2020-21 admission cycle, Dean of Admission Logan Powell announced in a Sept. 10 email to past alumni interviewers. The AIP offers applicants to the University the opportunity to meet with an alum to gain a new perspective about Brown, ...

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Brown telehealth services here to stay

By Grace Park | September 17

Health Services will offer both in-person and virtual care during the fall semester, as many students begin returning to campus amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Health Services originally transitioned to remote operations in April in light of public health concerns, The Herald previously reported. Since ...

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Brown’s Healthy Fall 2020 Task Force members outline experience, challenges

By Aubrey Li | September 16

In April, Brown created the Healthy Fall 2020 Task Force: a 14-person committee charged with giving high-level administrators recommendations for developing a public health plan for reopening in the fall. Five core members of the task force, including faculty and students, spoke to The Herald about ...

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Brown gives students, staff, faculty Election Day off

By Ben Glickman | September 16

The University will suspend classes and offer a paid day off for faculty and staff on federal Election Days going forward and beginning this Nov. 3, making it the second Ivy League institution to do so. The new University holiday — which will occur every two years for both presidential and midterm ...

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Five students on a first week of school like no other

By Olivia George | September 15

Sparsely populated dorm buildings and classrooms not yet in use. Eyes glued to computer screens. Care packages filled with masks and hand sanitizer. On campus and off, students are embarking on an unusual first week of classes that would have been unthinkable a year ago. Students back on campus ...

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Brown COVID-19 testing update: 13 total positive cases as of 9/15

By Li Goldstein | September 15

As college students across the country face sudden evacuations of their schools and administrators scramble to modify reopening plans announced in the summer, one common metric underlies each decision: testing numbers. President Christina Paxson P’19 has emphasized that the decision to eventually ...

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Stacey Abrams, Liz Garbus to speak at Watson documentary screening, panel

By Sarah Martinez | September 15

The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs will host two screenings of a new documentary, All In: The Fight for Democracy, followed by a virtual discussion panel featuring the director, Liz Garbus ’92, and Stacey Abrams, the former minority leader in the Georgia House of Representatives ...

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Public health leader Ashish Jha begins as dean of Brown University School of Public Health

By Marlene Goetz | September 14

In his new role as the Dean of the School of Public Health, Dr. Ashish Jha will use his expertise to advance public health at Brown by building upon its strategic plan and ensuring academic excellence within Brown’s interdisciplinary environment. Jha began his role Sept. 1, and is the former faculty ...

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Pulling narratives from pages of COVID-19 health data

By Emilija Sagaityte | September 14

The numbers, labels and descriptions pertaining to medical patients and COVID-19 cases that are housed in electronic health records may seem to be nothing more than a track record — a jumble of information a physician updates, typing away as their patient sits down for a visit. But to public health ...

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André Leon Talley MA’72 speaks on racism in fashion industry

By Maisie Newbury | September 14

Updated 5:35 P.M., September 15, 2020 Fashion@Brown welcomed influential alum André Leon Talley MA’72 for a Sunday afternoon webinar and conversation on his many years of experience as a Black man in the fashion industry and his hopes for its future. Talley has worked with a number of influential ...