Mary Jo Callan was appointed as Vice President for Community Engagement and Stark Family Executive Director at the University’s Swearer Center for Public Service, effective September 1, according to an August 31 campus-wide ...
Thayer Street has continued to see high turnover, with several closings and some new openings since 2020. Four separate storefronts have shuttered in the past few months alone, with the street still feeling effects of economic difficulty caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
President Christina Paxson P’19 will lead a search committee for the next provost, according to a Tuesday Today@Brown announcement. The search follows an Aug. 11 announcement that Provost Richard Locke P’18 will depart from his role at the end of the 2022-23 academic year. Locke will assume a ...
The Verney-Woolley Dining Hall underwent more than $3 million in renovations over the summer, adding new seating, food storage and amenities, according to dining and construction employees involved with the project.
The Graduate School Council hosted Bryant Ford, the new director of Counseling and Psychological Services, in its first meeting of the semester Wednesday. During the meeting, the council discussed the fall budget and elected a new president and chair of communications.
The Meiklejohn Peer Advising Program will pay peer advisors a $500 stipend this semester, one of several changes made to the role for this academic year.
Summer 2022 saw many developments in environmental news. Rhode Island made a number of advances in its transition to renewable energy and was hit by drought, while an invasive insect arrived in the state for the first time.
A new shop has joined the Thayer Street bubble tea scene: Tiger Sugar. With franchises across the country, Tiger Sugar found a new home at 288 Thayer in June and has found great success since, according to manager Xiang Chen.
Several campus buildings flooded Monday due to heavy rain, displacing roughly 35 first-year students from their rooms.
A lawsuit alleging that Brown was part of a group of colleges that ignored its commitment to need-blind admission policies can move ahead, a federal judge in Illinois ruled in late ...
Students who completed the Third World Transition Program, a four-day pre-orientation geared toward students of color, last Wednesday said they found a new community while completing workshops.
Routine testing and masking in most settings will remain optional for the fall semester, as University COVID-19 protocols remain largely unchanged from the spring.
Three Black former members of Brown Mock Trial said they left the team between summer 2020 and fall 2021 over a pattern of racist behavior by certain other members. In interviews with The Herald, the former members alleged that some members of the team made racist remarks about marginalized groups ...
Dean of Financial Aid Jim Tilton will retire at the end of 2022, Provost Richard Locke P'18 wrote in a Today@Brown announcement Thursday morning.
A swastika carved into a wall in Barus and Holley was reported to the Department of Public Safety on Thursday, the second incident of antisemitic graffiti on campus this summer.
Richard Locke P’18 will step down as provost after over seven years in the position to become the new vice president and dean of Apple University, according to a campus-wide email from President Christina Paxson P’19 on Thursday. Locke will remain at the University until the end of the 2022 calendar ...
The rumors are true — Trader Joe’s is coming to the East Side. After years of speculation about the grocery ...
On June 18, Rhode Island Pride celebrated its 46th annual Rhode Island PrideFest in Providence Innovation District Park, capping off its Pride Month mainstay with an illuminated night parade in downtown Providence later that evening. Many attendees eagerly awaited the return of
While discussions surrounding gender pronouns have circled around campus since Felicia Salinas-Moniz MA’06 PhD’13, director of the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender, began at the University almost 10 years ago, they have grown more and more common in the past five years, she wrote in an ...
The University established an official land acknowledgment statement recognizing the University’s location “on lands that are within the ancestral homelands of the Narragansett Indian Tribe,” President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a Today@Brown announcement May 24.
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