The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, which has been under construction since November 2019, is scheduled to open in fall 2023. Despite delays in construction, ...
Rhode Island has shut off its network of truck tolls after a district judge ruled that the program was unconstitutional Wednesday. In the ruling, U.S. District Judge William Smith wrote that the system — which levies tolls on truckers passing through certain Rhode Island bridges to raise ...
The annual Harvard-Brown football game took place Saturday at Brown Stadium — the first face off at home since 2018. The game alternates between Providence and Cambridge each year and was held at Harvard in 2019 and 2021. The 2020 matchup, which would have been held at Brown, was ...
Late on a Thursday night in March, Kamyar Mirfakhraie ’25 was walking to a pick-up soccer game when he felt something hit his jacket. He looked up to see four people in a black car shooting pellets at him — and then felt one strike his hand.
In a little more than a year, the internet will face a major wave of regulation mostly targeted to protect data and fight misinformation. With the Jan. 1, 2024 implementation of the European Union’s Digital Services Act and the United Kingdom working on the Online Safety Bill, social networks ...
When Pietro Pignatti Morano Campori ’26 arrived on campus this fall, he had only decided on two courses to take during his first semester. He knew for certain that he wanted to take courses in economics and math but felt unsure of what his other two classes would be. His Courses@Brown cart consisted ...
The University has begun planning to build a new integrated life sciences building in Providence’s Jewelry District as it runs out of space for research in its current facilities, according to Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Mukesh Jain.
The Rhode Island Public Transit Authority is experiencing a shortage of bus drivers, affecting those who rely on the transit system to get to school, work or around town. Issues with staffing have left many riders without their regularly scheduled buses, according to WPRI. This issue has been ...
New locations of Feed the Cheeks, a cookie shop, and Zinneken’s, which serves Belgian waffles, plan to open just off Thayer Street this semester. Both located on Angell Street, Feed the Cheeks will be next to DenDen Korean Fried Chicken, and Zinneken’s will be in the neighboring lot.
Three legal scholars and reproductive justice leaders discussed the negative implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision — which overturned the constitutional right to abortion this June — during a panel titled “Reproductive Justice after Roe v. Wade” hosted by the Pembroke ...
Schools in the Providence Public School District opened Aug. 29 for the first day of classes. Though some things are different — this is the first school year since the pandemic in which masks are no longer required in classrooms — teachers in the district still face many of the same challenges ...
James Tilton, who prefers to go by Jim, begins his mornings in a classic 1860 colonial farmhouse in Clinton, Conn. He then embarks on a one-hour journey to College Hill, where he works as the University’s dean of financial aid.
Johanny DiZoglio, who has rented in Providence since the age of 16, remembers the days she could rent a three-bedroom apartment for as cheap as $750 each month. Now, about two decades later, DiZoglio has been without housing for the past three months as she struggles to find an apartment for her ...
Miller wrote that he believes there is a potential for Rhode Island to adopt some regulations from Massachusetts, such as allowing outdoor cultivation and cafe-style dispensaries.
The Undergraduate Finance Board’s updated constitution — announced by Vice Chair Arjun Krishna Chopra ’25 at the Sept. 14 Undergraduate Council of Students town hall — delegates special elections to the Student Government Association rather than UCS, updates rules on self-funding and adds ...
The Center for Language Studies will sponsor a new Certificate in Intercultural Competence that will allow students to formally synthesize their language and experiential learning into a cohesive learning experience, according to a Sept. 7 Today@Brown announcement from Jane Sokolosky, director of ...
Two new committees — an outreach committee, led by Jung Haye To ’24, and a polling committee, led by Alexander Ávila ’23 — were announced at a Sept. 14 Undergraduate Council of Students meeting.
Hardly three weeks after setting up his dorm room in Marcy House for the start of the fall semester, Oliver Villanueva ’25 found himself moving many of his belongings for a second time after his roommate tested positive for COVID-19. When he learned his friend Eric Ma ’25 also had a COVID-positive ...
Primaries in Rhode Island for a number of local, state and federal races took place Sept. 13. That night, incumbent Dan McKee won the Democratic nomination for governor, while Republican candidate Ashley Kalus handily defeated her opponent.
This fall, Rhode Island will see its first election that garners widespread national attention since 2014’s gubernatorial contest between former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung and then-state Treasurer Gina Raimondo. On Nov. 8, Fung and current Treasurer Seth Magaziner ’06 will compete for the Ocean ...
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