In an effort to combat the growing international water crisis, 54 scholars and scientists from across the globe recently signed the Geneva Actions on Human Water Security, a document backed by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization that stipulates clean water access as ...
Christina Phillips was appointed the new program director for the International Student Experience to serve both undergraduate and graduate students as an “adviser, programmer and advocate,” she wrote in a community-wide email June 23. For the class of 2021, about 17 percent of admitted students ...
Providence community members have been raising concerns in meetings and various local publications about Walter Bronhard, the owner of Walter L. Bronhard Real Estate, and his handling of his properties on the East Side. Bronhard owns approximately $50 million of property in the College Hill area, according ...
Bess Marcus, founder of the University of California at San Diego’s Institute for Public Health, was named the next dean of the School of Public Health. A member of the Brown faculty from 1990 to 2011, Marcus will be taking over the role from the school’s inaugural dean, Terrie Fox Wetle, Nov. 1. “I ...
Providence Board of Licenses called for the immediate closing of Whiskey Republic on Monday after a brawl outside of the bar turned violent, the Providence Journal reported. The Board, which dispenses and oversees liquor licenses, will hold a hearing today at 1 p.m. to discuss Whiskey’s license. Early ...
Throughout June, July and August, the Department of Public Safety recorded 25 crimes, according to records accessed by The Herald through the Clery Act. Most crimes were classified as larceny, though the deparment also recorded three instances of breaking and entering. Crimes were concentrated around ...
Susan Moffitt, associate professor of international and public affairs and political science, began her three-year role as director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy July 1. The search for a new director of the Taubman Center started well in advance of the term end of the previous ...
Two weeks ago, Mayor Jorge Elorza unveiled the Kennedy Plaza revitalization plan — a project to develop park and community space in Kennedy Plaza, which will require the redrawing of some public transit routes in downtown Providence. The Rhode Island Public Transportation Authority responded last ...
The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life hosted a community gathering Monday afternoon on the Main Green to buttress the essentiality and necessity of compassion, inclusion and justice during the school year. Janet Cooper Nelson, chaplain of the University, said that the event was partly in response ...
[gallery columns="1" size="medium" ids="2826556,2826557,2826558,2826559,2826560,2826561"] Local activists, elected officials and Brown students protested President Trump’s decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program Friday. Trump’s decision to allow DACA to expire next year ...
Providence’s central bus hub, Kennedy Plaza, will undergo another facelift, announced Mayor Jorge Elorza on Aug. 31. The announcement comes less than three years after the last renovations of Kennedy Plaza, which cost the city $1.7 million in bond money plus a $700,000 federal grant. The city estimated ...
Hundreds of people gathered on the State House lawn Saturday to eat foods from multiple cultures, purchase homemade crafts and speak with representatives from more than 20 different countries. It was the 40th Rhode Island Heritage Day Festival, an event that convenes each year to celebrate the many ...
The first-generation and low-income conference 1vyG announced Thursday its expansion into a new organization, EdMobilizer, which will work toward policy-driven initiatives and continue to organize the annual conference. The advocacy organization hopes to produce concrete policy reforms that benefit ...
At Thursday’s Providence City Council meeting, the city passed resolutions calling for a study of bike lanes as well as the removal of Confederate flags and monuments from public property. Providence’s decision follows similar resolutions passed in other U.S. cities in the wake of violence in Charlottesville ...
Over the summer, CareerLAB released Handshake — a replacement to the Brown Student Job and Internship Board, known as JIB — that aims to be a more integrated platform than its predecessor. Launched on June 15, Handshake acts as students’ entry point for most CareerLAB activities, such as making ...
After months of assessment, the University increased Residential Peer Leaders’ stipends for the 2017-18 school year. For the past year, the Office of Residential Life, Brown Center for Students of Color and Sarah Doyle Women’s Center have been discussing “if the compensation that we are providing ...
[gallery columns="1" size="medium" ids="2826504,2826506,2826505,2826503,2826502,2826501,2826500,2826499,2826498,2826497,2826496"] As students return from summer recess, they’ll find Thayer Street slightly altered from when they last left it. With a selection of new businesses both operational ...
Just days after the violence in Charlottesville this August, the Association of American Colleges and Universities announced that it had selected Brown as one of 10 schools that will receive a grant to tackle racial issues and work toward racial healing. Each site, or “Truth, Racial Healing and Transformation ...
A faculty panel discussed the existence of white nationalism in the United States in the wake of Charlottesville in front of a packed Salomon 101 Wednesday evening. The panel was moderated by President Christina Paxson P’19. The panel did not aim to discuss specifics of or the political response to ...
The Panhellenic Council will welcome the Delta Gamma Fraternity as a fourth sorority this spring, addressing a shortage in sorority spots available to potential new members. It will be one of four that the women’s fraternity opens this year, joining its 149 active collegiate chapters. The new chapter ...
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