Summer 2022 saw many developments in environmental news. Rhode Island made a number of advances in its transition to renewable energy and was hit by drought, while an invasive insect arrived in the state for the first time.
A new shop has joined the Thayer Street bubble tea scene: Tiger Sugar. With franchises across the country, Tiger Sugar found a new home at 288 Thayer in June and has found great success since, according to manager Xiang Chen.
Several campus buildings flooded Monday due to heavy rain, displacing roughly 35 first-year students from their rooms.
A lawsuit alleging that Brown was part of a group of colleges that ignored its commitment to need-blind admission policies can move ahead, a federal judge in Illinois ruled in late ...
Students who completed the Third World Transition Program, a four-day pre-orientation geared toward students of color, last Wednesday said they found a new community while completing workshops.
Routine testing and masking in most settings will remain optional for the fall semester, as University COVID-19 protocols remain largely unchanged from the spring.
Three Black former members of Brown Mock Trial said they left the team between summer 2020 and fall 2021 over a pattern of racist behavior by certain other members. In interviews with The Herald, the former members alleged that some members of the team made racist remarks about marginalized groups ...
Dean of Financial Aid Jim Tilton will retire at the end of 2022, Provost Richard Locke P'18 wrote in a Today@Brown announcement Thursday morning.
A swastika carved into a wall in Barus and Holley was reported to the Department of Public Safety on Thursday, the second incident of antisemitic graffiti on campus this summer.
Richard Locke P’18 will step down as provost after over seven years in the position to become the new vice president and dean of Apple University, according to a campus-wide email from President Christina Paxson P’19 on Thursday. Locke will remain at the University until the end of the 2022 calendar ...
The rumors are true — Trader Joe’s is coming to the East Side. After years of speculation about the grocery ...
On June 18, Rhode Island Pride celebrated its 46th annual Rhode Island PrideFest in Providence Innovation District Park, capping off its Pride Month mainstay with an illuminated night parade in downtown Providence later that evening. Many attendees eagerly awaited the return of
While discussions surrounding gender pronouns have circled around campus since Felicia Salinas-Moniz MA’06 PhD’13, director of the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, began at the University almost 10 years ago, they have grown more and more common in the past five years, she wrote in an ...
The University established an official land acknowledgment statement recognizing the University’s location “on lands that are within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe,” President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a Today@Brown announcement May 24.
One hundred forty-nine graduating seniors and 59 juniors were elected to the University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on May 26, according to Richard Rambuss, professor of English and chapter president.
For students that have been on Brown’s campus in the last four years, there have been two definitive eras: before the pandemic hit, and after.
During an average Thursday night dinner at the Ratty, Michelle Liu ’22 received an unexpected email that left her in shock. She had been chosen as one of the senior orators for the class of 2022, inviting her to join in a 254-year-old University tradition that allows select students to deliver speeches ...
During Commencement and Reunion Weekend from May 27 to 29, President Christina Paxson P’19 will confer honorary degrees on nine distinguished leaders: Dr. Nicole Alexander-Scott MPH’11, Dr. Seth Berkley ’78 MD’81, Guido Imbens MA’89 PhD’91, Stanley Nelson, Nancy Pelosi, Shaggy, Alice ...
Almost four years ago, nine first-year students — largely strangers at the time — formed a band to audition for the Gigs on the Green campus concert series. As an icebreaker, several of them wrote a song about Trader Joe’s.Today, that song, “TJ,” has more than 400,000 streams on Spotify. ...
Since early in the COVID-19 pandemic, as public health guidelines and University policies have shifted in response to the spread of an ever-changing virus, Brown community members have turned to University-wide communications as a critical resource.
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