The Native American Heritage Series at the Brown Center for Students of Color and Natives at Brown hosted the 19th annual Spring Thaw Powwow at the Pizzitola Sports Center Saturday. The event included dance performances, food and booths selling jewelry, clothing and other handmade goods. This ...
The Rhode Island Department of Education presented its new proposal of readiness-based graduation requirements for public comment on March 7, which would expand the number of requirements to graduate high school in the state. Since then, state arts associations have opposed the proposal, claiming ...
Urban development in Providence has historically led to displacement of minority communities, The Herald previously reported. ...
The Student Government Association will host a runoff next week after last week’s spring elections, in which Chas Steinbrugge ’24 was elected president of the Undergraduate Council of Students for the 2022-23 academic year. The runoff will be held between candidates for both the UCS president ...
Entering the 2022-23 academic year, all students and employees will be required to remain up to date with Centers of Disease Control and Prevention guidelines for COVID-19 vaccination and booster shots, according to a Today@Brown announcement ...
The matriculation rate for Brown students attending medical and other health professional schools has been consistently at or near double that of the national average since 2012, according to the Health Careers Advising website. Yet despite feeling generally supported by HCA, current students and ...
Students see dining hall working conditions, mental health and problems with residential halls as the most pressing issues on campus, according to the results of the Undergraduate Council of Students’ fall poll released this week. UCS administers a poll every fall to get insights into student ...
After a virtual commencement and a canceled reunion weekend in 2020, as well as a virtual reunion weekend in 2021, the University plans to host both events on-campus next month for the first time since May 2019. This year’s commencement and alumni weekend — both of which will take ...
President Joe Biden signed the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act and the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act into law on April 8, 2022. These laws strip Russia of its preferential trade status — allowing the United States to impose higher tariffs on Russian goods — ...
Award-winning, bestselling author John Green addressed the student body last night at the Salomon Center in an event organized by the Brown Lecture Board. As the author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska” and “Turtles All the Way Down,” Green is widely considered ...
This isn’t Brett Smiley’s first campaign for mayor — after running in 2014 and ultimately withdrawing to support the current mayor Jorge Elorza, Smiley didn’t run for office again for several years and instead went to work in city and state government, he told The Herald.
As neighborhoods in Providence have evolved over the years, businesses have felt the effects of increasing prices and changing customer demographics as a result of gentrification and displacement, The Herald previously reported. Thayer Street is one area that “has changed immensely,” ...
In an April 15 Today@Brown announcement, the Department of Public Safety announced the appointment of John Vinson as its new deputy chief. Vinson will work with Vice President for Campus Safety Rodney Chatman, according to the announcement. He will also work with community engagement, manage responses ...
The landscape of College Hill has undergone tremendous change in the last century. Between urban renewal, the impact and expansion of the University, off-campus student housing and the burgeoning field of historic preservation, complex factors contributed to a dramatic transformation, The Herald ...
This pre-registration, students will have access to a new student-created website, Burnt Out @ Brown, which lists the weekly time commitment for various University courses to help students evaluate which would be a good fit for them. The project, led by co-founders Leyton Ho ’24, Jared Dunn ’24, ...
The Watson Institute hosted a panel titled “Race, Racism and Palestine” on Tuesday night where leading scholars of race, law and political economy discussed Palestinian racial ideologies as well as anti-Blackness and legacies of slavery in the Middle East.
Chas Steinbrugge ’24, the student behind the BrownUMemes Instagram account, was elected president of the Undergraduate Council of Students after receiving a plurality of votes, while Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23 was elected as chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board, the Student Government Association ...
The Graduate Labor Organization filed three unfair labor practice charges against the University with the National Labor Relations Board in response to its cuts to top-up funds — payments to graduate student workers above their base stipends to ensure competitive compensation — in the Department ...
The Wellness Residential Experience at Sternlicht Commons on 450 Brook St., which includes both student dorms and the University’s health resources — has been open for nearly a full year to students and for nearly two full semesters to the staff who work in the building. Counseling and Psychological ...
After the University filed a motion last March to dismiss Soenen et al. v. Brown — the class-action lawsuit filed August 2021 that claims that the University fails to protect students from sexual violence — plaintiffs in the case expect to file their response in early May, lawyers for the plaintiffs ...
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