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 ...
The Trump administration announced Tuesday that it would end the Deferred Action on Childhood Arrivals program, a policy enacted by the Obama administration in 2012 that offers legal protections to individuals who entered the United States as children without documentation. The decision, which places ...
Members and supporters of the Pokanoket Nation marched Tuesday from Brown Street Park to the University demanding the reclamation of University-owned property in Bristol. Approximately 40 people attended the march and chanted next to the Van Wickle Gates as first-years entered for convocation. The protest ...
WBRU, the independent radio station run primarily by Brown students, has agreed to sell the rights to its terrestrial FM signal for $5.63 million in a deal announced Tuesday, WBRU spokesperson Art Norwalk confirmed in an email to the Herald. Norwalk confirmed that the buyer will be the Educational ...
Several representatives of the University, including staff from the Haffenreffer Museum, visited the Pokanoket encampment in Bristol Tuesday morning, bearing a peace offering and speaking with leaders of the gathering about access to the disputed land, said Neesu Wushuwunoag, director general of the ...
Updated on August 21 at 10:40 p.m. People of the Pokanoket Nation and allies joined together in Bristol Sunday afternoon to establish an encampment at Potumtuk, or Mount Hope, in a call for repatriation of the land from the University. The “long term encampment” follows legal action taken by the ...
The University, alongside nine other American institutions, was selected by the Association of American Colleges and Universities to receive a $30,000 grant to address racial justice and equality. The announcement arrives on the heels of last weekend’s violence in Charlottesville, VA, which has inflamed ...
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