Sarah Schuster ’11 can still vividly picture Arlene Cole, assistant professor of the practice of music, playing the piano in one of Orwig Music Building’s many practice rooms. She distinctly remembered how Cole would perform without looking at the keys, instead studying her students with “a ...
As election night results trickle in, Rhode Island residents have decided several elections for state-level positions. Tuesday’s results demonstrated strong support for Democrats in the Ocean State, as the party swept all major state-level positions and successfully defended against a Republican ...
While many Brown students come to the University from afar, only a small percentage are from the Ocean State. According to the University’s Office of Institutional Research 2021-2022 Common Data Set, 94% of undergraduates are from out of state. The Herald spoke with four undergraduates who fall ...
Today’s midterm elections include tight House and Senate races across the country. Polls predict that Republicans will take control of the House, as over a year of high inflation weighs on voters’ minds. Meanwhile, the Senate remains a toss up, with key races in Arizona, Pennsylvania and Georgia. ...
When Rhode Island residents head to the polls today, they will be asked to vote on three statewide ballot measures requesting funding for environmental, recreational and educational projects. Among these measures is Question 1, which asks if the state may borrow $100 million in bonds to fund the ...
The University installed new washers and dryers in its residence halls over the summer, The Herald previously reported. During the transition, the Office of Residential Life told students that they would not have to pay for laundry due to supply chain issues that prevented the installation of point-of-sale ...
Tomorrow, Rhode Island residents will head to the polls. Along with a gubernatorial election, a tightly-contested U.S. House race and contests for local and state representatives, voters will decide on three state bond referenda. Meanwhile, development remains ongoing downtown: The Providence ...
Daylight saving time ended Sunday, which means that the sun will set over Providence before 5 p.m. each evening until February. When the time changes and it is “darker than normal,” community members change their routines slightly, including their commute and “day-to-day activities,” ...
On Thursday, The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs’s Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Studies hosted a visiting scholars panel that discussed key issues facing humanitarian crises in contemporary politics, specifically in Syria and Ukraine. The event was ...
In November 1990, Brown’s “rape list” made national headlines, and women started a movement to redefine how the University handles sexual assault. In 2007, a protest by the student-run Sexual Assault Task Force called attention to the issue of sexual violence on campus after the ...
The Providence Police Department arrested a suspect in the case of an antisemitic note being left at Brown RISD Hillel, wrote Executive Director and Rabbi Josh Bolton in an email to the Hillel community Thursday afternoon. “I am encouraged to report (that) the Providence Police Department ...
Following years of speculation and an official announcement last week, Trader Joe’s held a grand opening ceremony Thursday morning for its new Fox Point location that was attended by over 100 shoppers. The new location — the first Trader Joe’s in Providence — is a welcome addition ...
Before teaching Persian at the University, Michelle Quay, visiting lecturer in language studies, spent several years working on a Persian poetry group at the University of Cambridge alongside Annabel Keeler, an affiliated researcher at Cambridge. Hoping to recreate this experience on College Hill, ...
When Michelle Lee ’23 first joined Brown Consulting Club, she “had no idea what consulting was,” she said. Now she is the president of the club. BCC, which consists of 40 to 50 members each year, is made up of two subgroups: projects and committees. The former works with professional ...
Ami Kuan Danoff P’23 does not think dorms need to be fancy. But when she attended her first family weekend on College Hill alongside her husband, William Danoff P’23, the subject of dorms came up repeatedly. Her daughter lived in Wayland House — which did not have a water bottle filler or water ...
The Brook Street dorms currently under construction will feature new communities focused on themes of sustainability, religious and spiritual life and civic engagement, according to a Wednesday email to students from Brenda Ice, senior associate dean and senior director of residential life.
Members of the University and greater Providence community gathered at the North Burial Grounds for an annual celebration of Día de los Muertos Wednesday evening. This year’s event was hosted by Rhode Island Latino Arts, the North Burial Ground and the Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted a town hall meeting with Student Activities Office staff and Undergraduate Finance Board student representatives on Wednesday to address student questions about the funding of campus groups. Joie Steele, senior associate dean and director ...
The monthly Graduate Student Council meeting began with a presentation by guest speaker Thomas A. Lewis ’90, interim dean of the Graduate School and professor of religious studies, on the September report issued by the Task Force on Doctoral Education. Lewis was the chair of the task force, which ...
At the Nov. 1 faculty meeting, University faculty members expressed support by an informal show-of-hands vote for a plan under which the first and last faculty meetings of the semester would be held in person, indicating the potential end of years of the group formally meeting exclusively on Zoom. According ...
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