The University has appointed Mukesh Jain, a physician-scientist who specializes in cardiovascular medicine, as dean of medicine and biological sciences, President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’18 announced Wednesday in a community-wide email.
Amid Providence’s growing vegan scene, 28 restaurants will soon participate in the third annual Providence Vegan Restaurant Week, which aims to celebrate vegan cuisine and showcase innovative plant-based options.
The Undergraduate Council of Students shared updates from Vice President of Dining Programs George Barboza about understaffing in University dining halls and discussed how the student body can support Dining Services workers at its general body meeting Wednesday evening.
Senior Associate Dean for Medical Education Allan Tunkel will step down from his position May 22, 2022 after 8 years at the University, according to an email announcement made by Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Jack Elias.
For the first time in a year and a half, the University is returning to in-person exams, whether it be project presentations, essays or written tests.
A coalition of 18 student groups on campus urged the University administration to increase wages for Brown Dining Services workers and invest in hiring and new equipment, in a statement ...
The Graduate Labor Organization, Brown’s graduate student union, filed three unfair labor practice charges against the University with the National Labor Relations Board Oct. 5.
The University’s record endowment growth for Fiscal Year 2021 — which generated a 51.5% return and brought the overall endowment to $6.9 billion — ...
The University launched its new Engaged Scholarship Certificate for students to declare beginning this semester, according to the website of the Swearer Center for Public Service. ...
Wendy Schiller, professor of political science, professor of international and public affairs and director of the A. Alfred Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, was recently been named the recipient of the Barbara Sinclair Lecture Award by the American Political Science Association. ...
As the sun set Saturday, hundreds of visitors and Providence residents gathered at the Providence River to watch WaterFire, a community gathering and fire-lighting performance routinely held from summer to the end of fall. The Oct. 16 performance was the first WaterFire to celebrate Black, Indigenous ...
The University’s Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science awarded its 2021 Graduate Awards in Brain Science to seven graduate students, according to a Sept. 28 University announcement.
Seven graduate students received the 2021 Graduate Awards in Brain Science from the Robert J. and Nancy D. Carney Institute for Brain Science in recognition of the merit of their research projects, as well as their research contributions, independence and productivity, according to the award criteria. ...
The City of Providence saw in June the return of an electric bike rental program, this time operated by the electric bike- and scooter-sharing company Spin. The orange bikes have become an increasingly common sight around College Hill, but the Spin program, which aimed to put 400 bikes on Providence ...
White tents and cloth-covered cocktail tables were set up across campus on Friday as families arrived for Family Weekend 2021. Music played on speakers while parents and students picked up refreshments and lined up at photo booths on the Main Green. Last year, the usual Family Weekend events could ...
When it comes to studying design, students at Brown have historically had to try taking RISD classes or pursue Independent Concentrations. But soon, the University may offer an option to study design through the engineering department. The Design Engineering Committee — a group of ...
It is not often that a coffee shop is also an art gallery and a safe haven for the queer community — but walk down to 335 Wickenden St., and you’ll find that warmth and innovation converge at Small Format.
Around lunchtime on Waterman Street on any given weekday, a cluster of students crowd the sidewalk, all of them awaiting the same thing: a meal from the Lotus Pepper food truck. Since 2013, the family-run eatery on wheels has been bringing Vietnamese home cooking to Providence’s East Side. ...
Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and chairman of the board of Moderna and founder and CEO of Flagship Pioneering, joined Ashish Jha, dean of the University’s School of Public Health, in a virtual conversation Thursday afternoon.
Visited by the likes of Edgar Allen Poe, Sarah Helen Whitman and Ralph Waldo Emerson, the Providence Athenæum, founded in 1836, is one of just 21 member-funded libraries still open in the U.S. The Providence Library Company and original Providence Athenæum combined their collections and dissolved ...
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