One year ago today, President Joe Biden was voted into office, ousting incumbent President Donald Trump. Biden inherited a country faced with a deadly pandemic and
Democrat Sam Zurier captured 90.08% of total unofficial votes to defeat Republican Alex Cannon in the State Senate District 3 special general election Tuesday, according to the Rhode Island Board of Elections. An attorney and former City Council member, Zurier won by an overwhelming ...
Members of Brown’s administration and faculty discussed the University’s financial position, the plan to host Afghan students who were granted asylum and COVID-19 updates at Tuesday’s faculty meeting.
Over 90% of adult Rhode Islanders have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine, according to an Oct. 25 announcement from Gov. Dan McKee and ...
Rhode Islanders chose Biden en masse. Now, nearly one year later, some residents have their share of concerns. A significant portion of the over 150 residents interviewed for this story said that they had not kept close tabs on the Biden administration in the news. Still, many expressed a wide array ...
The Herald asked four faculty members about their thoughts on the current state of the nation one year into the Biden administration. They praised some of Biden’s policy efforts but called for more dramatic action in certain areas.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston upheld the settlement agreement reached in Cohen v. Brown in December 2020 in a continuation of legal battles between the University and a group of women student-athletes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the University a roughly $15 million Public Assistance Grant to reimburse the cost of COVID-19 test kits, according to an Oct. 27 press release. The funding, which totals $14,998,269, will cover the cost of nearly 220,000 COVID-19 tests ...
In many ways, the University’s application process looks different than it did just a few years ago: Subject tests have gone by the wayside, other standardized tests ...
In their new book “Today’s Health Care Issues: Democrats and Republicans,” co-authors Robert Hackey, an adjunct lecturer in international and public affairs, and Todd Olszewski, an associate professor of health policy and management at Providence College, provide what they describe as a nonpartisan ...
Last week, the University announced that it would add nearly $25 million to its annual financial aid budget by the 2024-25 academic year. That expansion includes the elimination of tuition for most families earning
The Papitto Opportunity Connection will invest $1 million into realizing the idea of the first place winner. The Papitto Opportunity Connection is a non-profit private foundation that works to empower individuals in BIPOC communities in Rhode Island.
Construction on the South Water Street bike lane recently concluded, ending a saga of tensions and legal back-and-forth between the City of Providence, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and local groups and businesses, including the University.
Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese Trang Tran joined the University this fall to offer Brown’s first beginning and intermediate level Vietnamese language classes. There are nine students enrolled in the beginning level and seven in the intermediate, including two students from Princeton.
Alex Cannon is running for Rhode Island State Senate in the special election for District 3, which is scheduled to take place Nov. 2. Cannon is the first Republican to run for State Senate in District 3 in the past 15 years. The seat became vacant after the resignation of Democrat Gayle Goldin joined ...
Governor Daniel McKee signed a bill into law to create safe injection sites for drug users in order to combat the opioid crisis July 7. Now, plans to open such sites are underway. The sites would allow those with an addiction to use drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine in a supervised, ...
The University has further lifted masking requirements for certain settings, Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 announced in a community-wide email Oct. 28.
The University has invited 16 female Afghan student applicants from the Asian University for Women to join the fall 2021 semester on humanitarian parole as non-degree students.
Gov. Dan McKee and Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos released the Rhode Island 2030 plan Oct. 15, outlining their vision for Rhode Island’s future in the coming decade.
Since moving to campus at the beginning of the fall semester, some first-year students have cited issues with their residential experience at Brown. The issues range from lack of communication to insufficient support to being assigned to forced triples — rooms that are normally occupied by two ...
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