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 ...
Danielle Holley-Walker, dean of Howard University School of Law, spoke at the “Examining Anti-Critical Race Theory Legislation” lecture on Wednesday evening as part of the Watson Distinguished Speaker Series. She began the lecture by sharing her decades of experience teaching classes about race ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students continued its debate from last week about the spring 2022 elections timeline at its general body meeting Wednesday evening. Ricky Zhong ’23, current UCS Student Activities Committee chair, updated the UCS general body on the Student Government Association's ...
The Global Brown Center for International Students and the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender hosted an International Women’s Day celebration Tuesday afternoon. The event was dedicated to promoting “community and celebration centered around the revolutionary lives of international women,” ...
The International House of Rhode Island is a nonprofit organization that serves as a community space for Rhode Island’s international students, scholars and visitors alongside their families, according to the organization’s website. Located ...
On Feb. 21, Tougaloo College announced a $10 million donation from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and producer Patty Quillin. The husband and wife intended the donation to bolster the Brown-Tougaloo partnership and strengthen ...
Luis Muñoz, a Democratic candidate for governor of Rhode Island, spoke at a meet-and-greet event hosted by the Brown Democrats Tuesday night. With a crowd of about a dozen, Muñoz discussed his positions on health care, economic development and education — among a number of other issues — ...
In a line stretching from Sayles Hall all the way down George Street, scores of eager and hungry students waited patiently to enter the Brown Taiwan Society’s Night Market on Sunday. Normally an annual event, the market took a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year, however, the ...
The University and a defendant identified by the pseudonym Jane Roe face charges of anti-transgender discrimination against student Lois Lane, who is also identified using a pseudonym in the suit, according to court filings filed March 2 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. ...
On Feb. 3, the Division of Campus Life announced the creation of the Disability Justice Student Initiative, a student-driven effort that aims to raise disability justice awareness and create community for students with disabilities. The Initiative is accessible to and supports undergraduate, graduate ...
In January, a group of seven state representatives introduced a bill to ban custodial sexual assault, which is sexual conduct between “peace officers” and people who are in their custody or who are detained. The bill was held for further study Feb. 10, with advocates hoping it will be passed ...
Chairing an academic department at the University is a multifaceted task in normal times. But with the pandemic as an added stressor, department chairs at the University say that they have had to adapt unlike ever before to support their departments’ faculty and students.
The University and Graduate Labor Organization continued their negotiations regarding fiscal year 2023 stipend increases for graduate student workers in a March 2 meeting. In response to GLO’s proposal for a 21% stipend increase at a meeting last month, the University offered a 4.25% raise ...
Positive COVID-19 cases among students have declined for the third week in a row, according to a March 4 COVID-19 Campus Safety Update from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. Eighty students reported positive COVID-19 test results from Feb. ...
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