In the wake of Hurricane María, random housing assignments were taken to a whole new level. Nine students from the University of Puerto Rico who enrolled at the University in late October are currently living in the homes of faculty and staff, said Chief of Staff to the Provost Marisa Quinn. Katerina ...
LGBTQ+ applicants may need to decide whether or not to come out to potential employers before having gauged the inclusivity of a particular workplace. “I was advised not to disclose my identity,” wrote Jennifer Nykiel ’10 MD’14 in an email to the Herald. “I was told it would limit my options.” Instead, ...
Women, people of color and first-generation college students are less confident in their abilities to find a job in their chosen field in comparison to male, white and non-first-generation students, respectively, according to The Herald’s Fall 2017 poll. While 8 in 10 male students reported feeling ...
The University’s engaged scholarship pilot program TRI-Lab, a Swearer Center initiative that focused on bringing together students, staff and community partners around specific social issues including childhood development, healthy food systems, climate change and prisoner health, saw its last lab ...
At the last faculty meeting of this calendar year, faculty members discussed changes to course evaluations and provided an update on the University’s response to the Republican tax bill. A committee to evaluate the University’s instruments of assessment, and specifically course evaluations, is working ...
The University launched an investigation into alleged hazing of new members on the men’s swimming and diving team Nov. 29, according to Director of News and Editorial Development Brian Clark. Hazing is a violation of University policy and Rhode Island state law, Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. The ...
Earlier this year, the College Curriculum Council put forth a proposal to alter the course drop date deadline from the day before finals to the middle of October. The Herald’s 2017 Fall Poll results revealed that a slim majority of students — 51.1 percent — oppose the CCC’s proposal to move ...
Shontay Delalue stepped into her role as vice president for institutional equity and diversity Dec. 1, following a nationwide search. Delalue, an experienced administrator, educator and scholar, had served as the interim vice president since June 2017. In an email sent Nov. 28, President Christina Paxson ...
In her first month on College Hill, Rachel Souza ’21 was catcalled for the first time in her life. “I was just walking back to my dorm, and, out of the blue, a car drove by and (someone) howled at me,” she said. “It was just shocking.” Souza’s experience is not unusual among University students. ...
Work hard in high school, get into your dream school — that was the journey for many Brown students. But in an admissions process that favors the wealthy, the path is not so straightforward for low-income and first-generation students. A 2016 Herald poll found that while a third of students whose ...
Computer science students can schedule meetings with tech company recruiters who pay to meet them, while humanities students may occasionally get job announcements in their inbox. With such different recruiting efforts, it may be no surprise that The Herald’s fall 2017 poll found that humanities concentrators ...
Ninety-two students marked the completion of their studies in this year’s Midyear Completion Ceremony Saturday in the Salomon Center. These students have had the opportunity to participate in multiple celebrations, as many of the students who participated also walked in the May 2017 Commencement. ...
Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen ’67 announced her decision to resign from the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors Nov. 20 in a letter to President Trump, following his Nov. 2 decision to nominate Jerome Powell, a current governor on the board, for the position of chair rather than grant her ...
Updated Dec. 5 at 1:55 p.m. Shiru Cafe, part of an international chain that offers free drinks, is under construction at 165 Angell St. The cafe — which is slated to open this February 21 steps from CareerLAB — will be the first Shiru to open in the United States. Shiru works with sponsor companies ...
Updated Dec. 5 at 1:17 p.m. Members of the Providence community gathered at a Rhode Island Coastal Resources Management Council meeting Tuesday in protest of National Grid’s proposal to build a liquefied natural gas production plant at Fields Point. CRMC is the state entity that will ultimately decide ...
As rates of sexually transmitted diseases in Rhode Island hit a 10-year high, Brown student groups are working toward spreading sexual health awareness. University groups that work with Brown students, Providence high school students and Providence middle school students aim to not only educate students ...
Students worked with state-of-the-art tools to uncover patterns in a never-before analyzed neural data set at Brown’s first-ever Neurodatathon Nov. 28 to Dec. 2. Hosted by Brown Data Science and sponsored by the Brown Institute for Brain Science and the Brown Initiative for Computation in Brain and ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students operates under a budget of approximately $11,000 for the 2017-18 academic year. Its budget is small compared to those of student government organizations at peer schools. This year, for example, the Yale College Council operates on a $349,000 budget and Penn’s ...
The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society has launched a new undergraduate curriculum track that brings a social equity focus to the environmental studies and environmental science concentrations. The track, called environment and inequality, was first introduced in spring 2017 and follows ...
Travis Johnson GS, a student enrolled in the Brown/Trinity Master’s of Fine Arts in Acting program, died, wrote Dean of the Graduate School Andrew Campbell and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Eric Estes in a community-wide email Thursday. He passed away Sunday, according to his ...
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