The new Campus Safety Working Group will direct a planning process to improve Brown’s approach to community safety, according to the charge of the group released Dec. 1 in a Today@Brown letter ...
Hospitals around the United States have been ravaged by the pandemic, and the Rhode Island hospitals near Brown University's campus are no exception. We spoke to Senior Staff Writer Neil Mehta ’25 about the additional strain that Brown student intoxication hospitalizations have put on these hospitals ...
Welcome to The Herald’s fall 2021 poll, conducted in person for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Here, you’ll find dozens of graphs that will allow you to explore the student body and the myriad identities, experiences and opinions present on campus.
The Black Student Union hosted its annual Black Excellence Showcase Saturday. According to a BSU Instagram post, the event, formally known as the BSU Pageant, was held to celebrate Black excellence at Brown.
From kindergarten to eighth grade, Grace Skavdahl ’23 spent each school day in the same building: a bright pink, one-room schoolhouse 11 miles east of the nearest town. In the days she spent traveling back and forth between the schoolhouse and her family’s cattle ranch, Skavdahl passed by friends ...
The University plans to offer a campus-based COVID-19 vaccination booster clinic the week of Dec. 13, Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 announced in a community-wide announcement Friday.
As COVID-19 restrictions are lifted, student performing arts groups and those involved with the Theatre Arts and Performance Studies department are returning to the stage. On October 1 and 2, theater group Shakespeare on the Green held their first 24 Hour Plays in person since the start of the pandemic. ...
New University Shuttle drivers will be required to complete 66 hours of cumulative classroom and road session training prior to starting their positions, an increase from the 54 hours currently required for the intensive training program for BUS drivers. The change, which will be finalized within ...
The University’s Advisory Committee on University Resources Management unanimously voted against recommending the removal of Thomas J. Watson Sr.’s name from the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Technology, according to a July 30 ACURM ...
When Madigan King ’25 saw peers carrying an intoxicated student into a dorm lounge, they immediately wondered whether Brown EMS had already been called to the location. “We were scared that (the student) needed medical care that we couldn’t provide,” King said. BEMS showed up ...
Actress Madelyn Cline visited Brown for a talk with Fashion@Brown Thursday evening. Cline, known most widely for her role as Sarah Cameron in Netflix’s “Outer Banks,” was met by a full house of eager, engaged and enthusiastic fans.
The School of Public Health recently hired former Florida Surgeon General Scott Rivkees as a professor of the practice in the Department of Health Services, Policy and Practice, according to a Nov. 22 University press ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students held internal elections for the recently vacated Undergraduate Finance Board vice chair position at its last general body meeting of the fall semester Wednesday evening.
Six weeks after work began on the site of two planned residence halls on Brook Street, demolition of existing properties on the sites is now underway.
When Providence students Eugenie Rose Belony and Demi Egunjobi met with Gov. Dan McKee earlier this year to advocate for the removal of school resource officers from district buildings, they both left feeling ignored ...
Jamall Pollock, who serves as the graduate student-focused Counseling and Psychological Services provider, encouraged graduate students to utilize University counseling resources at the final Graduate Student Council general body meeting of the semester Wednesday evening.
Ben Simon ’11 and Valentin Perez ’18, computer science alums, shared their experiences and processes of developing tech startups during an online forum hosted Tuesday by the Department of Computer Science’s Industry Partners Program.
Public health researcher and practitioner Sapna Desai ’99 spoke about the nuances of public health and development, public health degrees and the impact of COVID-19 in a Tuesday conversation with Ashish Jha, dean of the School of Public Health. The conversation was a part of Jha’s virtual ...
A group of faculty members in the literary arts department discussed how poetry can be a means of processing oppression and struggle while also expressing racial identity and optimism at a “Race & Poetry” webinar held Tuesday.
Despite the requirement for students to live on campus, not all University dorms are fully accessible to students with disabilities. For example, according to the campus accessibility map, ...
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