Many rising sophomores were unable to select housing in this year’s regularly scheduled housing lottery due to a lack of availability and will instead enter a secondary process the week of April 25, according to an email sent to affected students Tuesday by the Office of Residential Life. The shortage ...
This academic year marked a return to fully occupied on-campus residences for undergraduates after the University’s spring 2020 move to remote learning. But according to multiple employees from the Office of Residential Life, the return to full capacity brought a number of long-standing issues ...
The movement of people in and out of neighborhoods is a natural part of cities’ development. But an issue seen across Providence and the rest of the country is gentrification: the influx of new, often wealthier populations into an area in a way that negatively impacts its current members and the ...
The COVID-19 pandemic hit all members of the University community with a wave of uncertainty. But for many adjunct faculty, this sense of instability wasn’t new. “The stressor of COVID exposed the weaknesses in our society,” said Connie Crawford, adjunct lecturer in Theatre Arts ...
The Student Government Association, a group formed to foster better communication between the different branches of student government, hosted an open platform event for spring elections this Tuesday afternoon. The event allowed candidates for all three branches — the Undergraduate Council of Students, ...
The Brown/RISD Arab Society held a panel discussion Tuesday evening titled “Lebanon: A State in Collapse” in MacMillan Hall. Organized in collaboration with the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the event was moderated by Serena Fadel ’25, Tania Sawaya ’22 and Nader Maarouf ...
Four Democratic candidates who are running to be the mayor of Providence — Gonzalo Cuervo, Nirva LaFortune MA’19, Brett Smiley and Michael Solomon — explained their platforms and answered questions in a Jewelry District Association open forum Tuesday. The event was moderated by Dan McGowan, ...
Ronald Aubert, visiting professor of the practice of race and ethnicity at the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the School of Public Health, began his role as interim dean of the SPH on April 6. Aubert temporarily takes the place of Dean of the SPH Ashish Jha while Jha takes ...
A sea of admitted students clad in red lanyards and drawstring bags visited Brown on Friday for the Class of 2026’s first in-person admitted students’ day, also known as A Day on College Hill. 280 admitted students and 889 total attendees — including parents and family — visited College ...
From March 31 to April 6, 87 students and 21 employees reported positive COVID-19 test results, an increase of 55 student cases and 10 employee cases from the prior week, according to an April 8 Today@Brown announcement from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. ...
Social media, Ezra Klein and Jeff Orlowski-Yang agreed, has created many problems. It incentivizes content that makes users “really mad or really excited” and dials up the “intensity” of American politics, Klein said. Social media’s machine learning algorithms, Orlowski-Yang noted, isolate ...
Since its opening April 1, Japanese convenience store J Life Mart — located on 231 Thayer St. — has welcomed many eager students and customers to see its offerings. Upon entering, patrons are greeted by colorful shopping baskets to use as they peruse aisle after aisle of Asian snacks and goods. ...
The University released its Regular Decision application results March 31 at 7 p.m., admitting 1,651 students for a total of 2,546 students to the Class of 2026, The Herald previously reported.
This semester, the first cohort of students to complete a full academic year in the Wellness Center and Residence Hall will end their residence at 450 Brook Street.
The newly formed Student Government Association kicked off its first combined student government elections for the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Undergraduate Finance Board and the Class Coordinating Board with an information session Thursday night. All prospective candidates had to attend ...
Shankar Prasad PhD’06, vice president for academic innovation and deputy provost for strategic initiatives, was appointed as the next dean of the School of Professional Studies, according to a March 22 Today@Brown announcement from Provost Richard Locke P ’18. Prasad will succeed Leah VanWey, ...
Professor of Religious Studies Thomas Lewis ’90, known by the campus community as “Tal,” was appointed as interim dean of the Graduate School, according to an April 5 Today@Brown announcement from Provost Richard Locke P’18.
The Womxn Project and the Womxn Project Education Fund, a separate education-focused nonprofit formed by members of the Womxn Project, are grassroots organizations that fight for reproductive rights in Rhode Island. With worries among reproductive health advocates around the country that the Supreme ...
Dozens of graduate students and supporters of the Graduate Labor Organization gathered at the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center at noon Wednesday to protest cuts to “top-up” funds, or payments to graduate student workers on top of base funding, in the Department of Computer Science ...
At the Graduate Student Council’s monthly meeting Wednesday, graduate departmental representatives voted on commencement speakers for this year’s graduate student graduation ceremony. The meeting opened with several graduate students presenting a condensed version or summary of their speech. ...
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