Following weeks of protest and negotiations, the University is taking steps to address Summer@Brown student employee concerns regarding compensation and alleged racial bias from the Office of Residential Life. The University has significantly increased the stipends of Summer@Brown staff after meetings ...
Hans Edwardsen, assistant director of systems and technology for the Department of Public Safety since 2010, died May 31, wrote Vice President for Human Resources Karen Davis in a community-wide email Thursday. Edwardsen had collapsed May 28 and was unable to regain consciousness even after emergency ...
Updated June 2 at 10:41 p.m. The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, approved the controversial site along the Walk for the new performing arts center and selected architecture firm REX to design the center during its meetings May 25 and May 26. It also approved the creation of ...
Rene Davis will serve as the University’s Title IX program officer starting July 17, wrote Russell Carey '91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, in a community-wide email May 18. Davis will replace former Title IX Program Officer Amanda Walsh, who stepped down in January after ...
For the past 10 years, Brown alums have consistently been nominated the Pulitzer Prizes for Drama. This April, Lynn Nottage ’86 P’20 won her second Pulitzer Prize in this category, continuing the decade long trend with her play “Sweat,” which explores economic stagnation and the lives of steel ...
Women who have played a critical role in shaping Brown on and off campus will be celebrated early May. The 125 Years of Women at Brown Conference will bring around 700 alums back to campus May 5 and 6 for a series of lectures, panels and events. Speakers include Chair of the Board of Governors of the ...
Lynn Nottage ’86 won her second Pulitzer Prize in Drama this April for her play “Sweat,” which explores the stories of a group of steelworkers in Reading, Pennsylvania. Nottage spoke to The Herald in an exclusive interview on her way to Reading. Herald: How does it feel to just have won a Pulitzer ...
In an April 25 meeting with leadership of at least eight publications, the Undergraduate Finance Board clarified its decision to not approve funding for student publications’ printing expenses for spring 2018. Chair of UFB Jordan Ferguson ’17 said UFB will not cut spring 2018 printing budgets entirely, ...
As President Trump approaches his 100th day in office, still adamant on tightening immigration policy, undocumented students and students targeted by Trump’s immigration bans still face an uncertain future. However, Ivy League schools have taken action through public and private measures to support ...
In response to recommendations made by the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced plans to create a task force to address climate change and environmental concerns in University business and investment practices as well as ...
[caption id="" align="alignright" width="292"] Anyone can submit a name using Brown Survivors Speak's anonymous Google Form. But users must also add a non-Brown email now, after the name of one student was removed from the list.[/caption] The names started appearing at the end of fall semester. Some ...
[gallery ids="2826316,2826317,2826318,2826319,2826320"] Two months after the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, authorized the construction of a new performing arts center in the middle of campus, the undergraduate student body is split on whether the center should be built in ...
Ninety-four members of the class of 2017 were elected to the University’s Phi Beta Kappa Society April 26, wrote Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley in an email to The Herald. The University’s Rhode Island Alpha Chapter of Phi Beta Kappa is the seventh oldest out of 286 chapters in the nation, Foley ...
The Rhode Island Student Climate Coalition will host a sister march April 29 at 11 a.m. at the Rhode Island State House as hundreds of protesters gather for the People’s Climate Movement in Washington. The march follows the 2014 People’s Climate March in New York City, which called on world leaders ...
The University honored six faculty members for their research with the inaugural Brown Research Achievement Awards April 19. Various departments nominated a total of several dozen candidates and a panel of faculty members narrowed down the list. The winners, which included both senior and early-career ...
The true nature of fire may come as a surprise, said Stephen Pyne, author of many books detailing fire’s history in the evolution of our planet and the modern United States. Many people today lack experience with fire beyond birthday candles and fireplace flames, but Pyne has investigated the powerful ...
After months of designing, surveying and analyzing students’ reasons for dropping courses, a study conducted by the Office of the Dean of the College, the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning fall 2016 revealed that only a small number of students dropped ...
When a staff member gave birth and returned to Brown a few weeks later, international students from countries with mandated paid maternity or parental leave, “were shocked” to see her on campus again so quickly, she said. The United States remains one of the few countries in the world without national ...
Julio Reyes ’12 will be the inaugural program director for the First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center starting June 15, wrote Assistant Vice President and Dean of Students Mary Grace Almandrez in a community-wide email Monday night. Reyes is currently at Oberlin College and Conservatory, ...
A newcomer will be joining the ranks of Thayer Street businesses after a Providence Board of Licenses meeting Monday granted tentative approval for the opening of a U Melt on College Hill. The approval came the same day the owners received keys for their new location: the space at 267 Thayer formerly ...
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