Students react to first post-COVID Thanksgiving
By Gaya Gupta | November 28This year’s Thanksgiving registered as one of the busiest days for airports across the country, as individuals made their way home to see their loved ones.
This year’s Thanksgiving registered as one of the busiest days for airports across the country, as individuals made their way home to see their loved ones.
As the holiday season approaches, stores across the country are preparing for a month of increased commercial demand while also navigating public health concerns.
For more than two-thirds of applicants to the class of 2025, applying to the University also meant applying for financial aid — filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid and the College Scholarship Search profile.
Rhode Island’s two largest health care systems Lifespan and Care New England saw their Hospital Conversions Act application deemed complete and accepted for review by Rhode Island Attorney General Peter F. Neronha and Director of Rhode Island Department of Health Nicole Alexander-Scott, according ...
At that point already a grandfather, Steiner took one or two classes a semester until he accrued the over 20 required credits necessary for graduate school, and then decided to pursue a Ph.D. in physics. This September, after a roughly 20 year journey toward his most recent degree, Steiner successfully ...
With the dream of ultimately enrolling in medical school at stake, many pre-med students navigate a uniquely stressful undergraduate experience as they fulfill medical school course prerequisites and participate in extracurricular activities that can demonstrate a passion for medicine.
Providence Public School District educators and stakeholders shared cautious optimism about Brown’s recently-announced initiative to help prepare local students for selective four-year institutions and to increase PPSD enrollment at the University.
The University Library’s partnership with the Historically Black Colleges and Universities Library Alliance was recently awarded a $100,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to establish the program “Stronger Together, Leading Through Community.” The initiative will prepare ...
The University will hold its annual midyear completion ceremony Dec. 11, with the ceremony being in-person for the first time since the pandemic began, according to Assistant Dean of Curricular Programs Janet Peters. The number of students participating in the ceremony, which celebrates those completing ...
Student-run organization Period Equity at Brown is working to increase access to menstrual products on campus and across the state by holding period product drives and advocating for legislative change. Currently, the organization is hosting an on-campus drive to collect pads and tampons to distribute ...
Due to Thanksgiving break, the COVID-19 testing sites at Alumnae Hall and One Davol Square will be closed from noon on Wednesday, Nov. 24 through Friday, Nov. 26, according to a Thursday email to the Brown community written by Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. ...
Students, parents and scholars gathered Thursday night at Brown RISD Hillel to celebrate the launch of a guidebook created by Brown students which unpacks and confronts the issue of antisemitism.
Doctoral certificate programs are available to PhD students and “are designed to extend expertise into interdisciplinary areas and to certify training beyond the home PhD discipline,” according to the Graduate School website. The programs, offered at no additional charge, require PhD students ...
Vice President of Dining Programs George Barboza responded to questions from undergraduate students about staffing, food options and health and safety conditions within dining halls at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ general body meeting Wednesday evening.
EmpowerU, a startup founded by Elvia Perez ’22 and Meera Kurup ’23, seeks to address educational disparities by providing first-generation college students still in high school with resources, all housed in one app, to navigate the college process.
Piazza, an online discussion platform that allows students to ask questions about class material, was a popular service at Brown used in numerous classes, particularly in STEM courses, up until recently. But in April, the Digital Learning and Design office told professors that the University would ...
In 2011, the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission was created to develop dozens of acres of land that were previously occupied by Interstate 195 in Providence’s Jewelry District and Fox Point neighborhoods. Ten years later, the commission has already completed several developments.
Student writers created a new publication, The Black Star Journal, to connect Black voices at the University and create a “better informed community” on campus, the publication announced in a Nov. 10 post on its Instagram @theblackstarjournal.
Several members of the Brown community attended the 26th United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties in Glasgow over the course of the past two weeks. These activists and researchers shared their experiences and perspectives on the outcomes of the conference in interviews with The Herald. ...
Watson Senior Fellow Keith Harper, the first Native American to be named a U.S. ambassador, discussed political advocacy for Native American communities at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Tuesday afternoon.