The University’s Ad Hoc Committee on Promoting Financial Health and Sustainability recommended that the undergraduate class size expand by “5-10% through careful enrollment management” and increased participation in study abroad and experiential learning programs, according to a report released ...
On Feb. 2, the Climate Literacy Act was introduced in the Rhode Island House of Representatives. Bill H7275 proposes that K-12 students receive education on climate change "and understand key environmental, climate and sustainability principles," according to the text of the legislation. The ...
Faculty across various departments discussed the complex intersections of climate and race during the “Race & Environment in America” webinar Tuesday. This was the penultimate webinar of the school year in the “Race & in America” series, which is sponsored by the Center for the Study ...
The Graduate School appointed Maija Hallsmith as the inaugural assistant director of graduate academic diversity, according to a Feb. 16 news ...
The School of Public Health will offer a new, fully-online master of public health starting in fall 2022, according to Jennifer Nazareno, inaugural associate director for the online MPH and assistant professor at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and School of Public Health. This marks the University’s ...
The anticipated completion date for goals set after the 2019 state takeover of the Providence Public School District, which include meeting specific test score thresholds and attendance levels in the district, has been pushed by two years until the 2026-27 school year, R.I. Education Commissioner ...
On March 1, State Sen. Bridget Valverde and nine other senators introduced the Equality in Abortion Coverage Act, which would allow state employees and Medicaid recipients to use their insurance to cover the cost of abortions. ...
In April 2020, Tara Wheelwright GS received a Fulbright Dissertation Fellowship. Wheelwright, who is working toward her PhD in Slavic Studies, planned on traveling to Russia in the same year to complete archival research, but she was unable to do so because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Elizabeth Hortense Leduc, affectionately nicknamed “Dukie” by colleagues and students alike, was the first woman full professor in a teaching position at Brown University. Beginning as a professor in 1964 after working at Brown for several years, Leduc helped shape the University for its ...
On Sunday night, The Underground’s floor and tables were littered with free condoms, chocolates and various other pastries. Students gathered in the cafe in the basement of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center to partake in the Sexual Health Awareness Group’s “Sex and Chocolate in the Dark” ...
The University shifted today to optional masking for fully-vaccinated community members in most locations on campus and optional testing for fully-vaccinated undergraduate students, The Herald previously
Masking in most settings and testing for COVID-19 will become optional for undergraduates who are fully vaccinated starting Monday, according to an email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. The new optional asymptomatic testing policy applies to undergraduates ...
Bryant Ford was announced as the new director of Counseling and Psychological Services in a Feb. 25 Today@Brown announcement written by Vanessa Britto MSc’96, executive director of health and wellness. Ford, who previously served as associate dean for community life and inclusivity and associate ...
Community members have become hooked on the wonders of Wordle, and many place it as a consistent checkbox on their daily to-do lists. Students with a variety of interests have been able to unite under the shared joy of the newest Wordle release when the clock strikes midnight.
A school resource officer allegedly physically assaulted 16-year-old Mount Pleasant high school student Jay-Juan Guillen-Watson Feb. 1, according to a live video posted on Facebook by the boy’s mother, Evelyn Guillen Rincón.
The tables at the Underground Coffee Co. were full Thursday night as community members came to listen to “Stories @ The Underground: Metamorphosis,” a storytelling performance. The event featured six panelists: Ronnie Shashoua ’25, Caleb Stutman-Shaw ’25, Lara Jacobowitz ’25, Zach Harris ...
Ana Navarro, a Republican political analyst and commentator who co-hosts ABC’s “The View” and frequently appears on CNN and Telemundo, spoke with Director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy and Professor of Political Science Wendy Schiller at the Taubman Institute’s annual ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 announced five recommendations developed by the Land Acknowledgement Working Group on Thursday, according to a Today@Brown letter. The group was formed last year to develop new ways the University can acknowledge Brown’s history with local Indigenous groups, The ...
Twenty nine Brown undergraduates, graduate students and recent alumni were offered Fulbright awards for the 2021-22 academic year, making the University the top producer of Fulbright winners for the fourth time, according to a Feb. 28 press release. These grants, awarded by the U.S. State Department, ...
On March 2, a Wednesday evening no different from any other, a scream echoed through the halls of Churchill House, the home of the Rites and Reason Theatre. The scream came from the George Houston Bass Performing Arts Space, referred to as the BassPAS by the theater’s staff. Eight actors stood ...
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