Douglas Massey, professor of sociology at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton, gave a lecture Thursday about the implications of stereotyping on academic performance. Titled “How Race Matters in College Academic Performance,” Massey’s lecture is the third ...
Though it has only been three years since the School of Public Health opened its doors, it has already touched lives both locally and around the world. The school’s mission is “to serve the community, the nation and the world,” according to its website. Through translating research findings into ...
Open to students, faculty members and staff members, Healthcare in America is a lecture series and pre-clinical elective at the Alpert Medical School running through December. The lecture series is open to all community members, though medical school students can take the elective for a credit if they ...
Dressed in all black and bearing signs reading “Black Lives Matter,” “Stop deporting families” and “I stand with Standing Rock,” over 400 people descended on the Quiet Green Wednesday afternoon to call on the University’s administration to protect its most vulnerable community members ...
A former Providence College student filed a lawsuit Monday against Brown University and two deans who were both employed by the school at the time of her alleged sexual assault in November 2013. The suit claims that the University violated Title IX in its response to the complaints presented by the ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed two new initiatives focused on student-worker relations at its meeting Wednesday night. “The workers on campus play a very large role in student life and student happiness,” said Viet Nguyen ’17, UCS president. “But there is often this divide ...
Since administrative changes last year, the University has engaged in deeper discussions and negotiations with departments in their quests for funding. Departments across the sciences and humanities compete for resources that allow them to strengthen their programs, expand into new fields and attract ...
While food theft from campus dining halls is a persistent problem, different Brown Dining Services units approach training staffers to deal with stealing in different ways. “Training depends on the unit,” said Randy Biagas-Hill ’17, a supervisor for BuDS. Some trainings instruct workers not to ...
As sophomores and juniors seek housing off campus for next fall, the Office of Residential Life has shifted the lottery system for rising juniors. The off-campus lottery system has proven a pressure point in the ResLife experience. By February 2015, ResLife had granted off-campus permission to only ...
The Warren Alpert Foundation donated $27 million to the University to expand the MD/PhD program and endow a new professorship at the Brown Institute for Translational Science, the University announced Monday in a press release. The $27 million gift comes almost a decade after the foundation’s initial ...
The University hosted Robert Post, dean and professor of law at Yale Law School, as part of its Reaffirming University Values event series Monday. During the talk, which was titled “Freedom of Speech in the University,” Post explored important distinctions between the legal protections of speech ...
More than halfway through the semester, many Brown students scattered across the world are reaching the same realization: Living as an international student teaches unparalleled independence. Students in France, Spain, Ecuador, Denmark and Argentina all identified living alone, traveling alone and cooking ...
New research conducted by Associate Professor of Medicine and Health Services, Policy and Practice Amal Trivedi indicates that reduced drug costs for indigenous people in Australia are associated with a significant decrease in the rate of hospitalizations for chronic conditions. The study, published ...
Researchers at the university’s Climate and Development Lab have published a paper evaluating different financial options to pay for damages caused by climate change. The paper, “Financing options for loss and damage: a review and roadmap,” aims to provide an accessible framework to advance negotiations ...
The halls of Hope High School were silent Saturday night, save for the occasional echo of applause emanating from a packed school cafeteria. There, nearly 1,000 community members from around the Providence area gathered in mutual confusion and anger over the electoral victory of President-Elect Donald ...
Updated Nov. 14 at 6 p.m. American flags placed on the Main Green Thursday were torn, pulled out of the ground and thrown away. The flags were set up to line walking pathways in preparation for the annual Veterans Day ceremony sponsored by the Office of Student Veterans and Commissioning Programs. When ...
Joshua Oppenheimer, director of Academy Award-nominated films “The Act of Killing” and “The Look of Silence,” came to campus Thursday for the screening of his films at the Granoff Center for Creative Arts followed by a panel discussion. Friday he led a graduate master class and a teach-in on ...
A room of nearly 50 students at the University of Melbourne stood cracking jokes as they watched the electoral votes for President-Elect Donald Trump pile up Tuesday. But for Dara Storer ’18, who has studied there this semester and was one of few Americans in the room, the results of the presidential ...
Protests in opposition to the unexpected election of President-elect Donald Trump have sprouted up in cities across the nation since his victory Tuesday. While opposition to Trump is multifaceted, several demonstrators in Providence Wednesday specifically referred to Trump’s inability to secure the ...
While the lottery to attend Gina Rodriguez’s lecture opened just yesterday, the Brown Lecture Board has already begun preparations for next semester’s guest. The process is an extensive one, with each of the members of the general board working together to ultimately choose one person to bring to ...
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