On Feb. 9 Gov. Dan McKee announced his plan to lift indoor masking requirements in Rhode Island schools on March 4 and allow masking policies for restaurants and businesses to be determined at the local level beginning Feb. 11, The Herald
The Let RI Vote Act, co-sponsored by House Majority Whip Katherine Kazarian, D-East Providence, and Senator Dawn Euer, D-Newport, Jamestown, aims to make the temporary changes put in place during the pandemic that made voting safer and easier permanent.
Rhode Island lifted the executive order that required indoor masking or proof of vaccination in restaurants or businesses Feb. 11, The Herald previously reported. Now, ...
Joao Neves and Pablo Ortega were just teenagers when they were sentenced to life in prison. Under a law passed last July called the Youthful Offenders Act, colloquially known as “Mario’s Law,” they are entitled to a parole hearing after serving 20 years, according to American Civil Liberties ...
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha rejected Lifespan and Care New England’s application to merge their health systems Thursday. The merger would create an integrated health system with control of 80% of Rhode Island’s market for inpatient care, as well as establish an academic health ...
The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity named Ebony Manning the new University Title IX coordinator, according to a Jan. 26 Today@Brown announcement.
In December, Mayor Jorge Elorza granted $495,000 in federal emergency COVID-19 response funding to Crossroads RI, a service provider for people experiencing housing instability across the state. The decision followed 16 consecutive nights of a sleep-out protest at the Rhode Island State House organized ...
Escalating tensions along the Russia-Ukraine border have led to worldwide worries of an imminent Russian invasion. University professors and Ukrainian students ...
Over the weekend of Nov. 20, 2021, Max Niles ’22 had a secret. Telling his friends that he was taking an early Thanksgiving break to visit his Washington, D.C. home, he turned off his location on FindMyFriends and hopped on a plane to Los Angeles. He would spend the next several days there, conducting ...
Governor Dan McKee’s budget proposal for fiscal year 2023 includes over $150 million in funding for measures intended to fight climate change and further develop the state’s green economy, according to a Jan. 19 press release. The funding will go towards initiatives such as installing electric ...
The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship hosted a discussion Thursday afternoon titled “Each One, Teach One,” which looked into the best practices for finding a mentor and cultivating a relationship with them at the University and beyond.
Rhode Island’s two largest health care systems’ application to form an integrated health system has entered a 120-day review period following the completion of the application in November.
After University administrators proposed the creation of a new Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics at the December faculty meeting, students have expressed conflicting opinions regarding the mission and funding of the potential new center. At the February faculty meeting, faculty ...
Thirty-five undergraduate students accepted bids to the University’s four nationally recognized sororities following the first in-person recruitment since the onset of COVID-19 public health restrictions in March 2020.
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted special elections for Undergraduate Finance Board at-large representative at its general body meeting Wednesday evening. This special election comes after the majority of the Council abstained when sole candidate Richard Dong ‘23, a copy editor for The ...
With COVID-19 still raging across the world, Rhode Island has reached a 95% one-dose vaccination rate, currently making it tied for the state with the highest percentage of residents partially vaccinated. Public health experts say the achievement demonstrates Rhode Islanders’ commitment to softening ...
A surge in positive COVID-19 tests has sent hundreds of Brown students into isolation in the first month of a semester that was designed to include almost entirely in-person instruction. With 361 positive tests last week, how does it feel for students to be in isolation while the rest of campus continues ...
Nearly two years ago, the University recorded its first COVID-19 case on campus. The response was swift: Students received instructions to leave campus as soon as they could. Graduate students learned that libraries would soon close. All faculty and staff, save for “essential personnel,” were ...
As part of the question and answer portion of the annual Martin Luther King Jr. lecture, Elfred Anthony Pinkard, president of Wilberforce University, asked the audience to stand up if they have a relative, colleague or important member from their community who attended a Historically Black College ...
Professor Emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 P’87, who held a double appointment as professor of anthropology and archaeology and the ancient world at the University, died Jan. 7 at 85 years old. During her professorship, Joukowsky conducted pioneering archaeological fieldwork in countries such ...
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