The Trump administration plans to announce a freeze on $510 million worth of federal funding, a White House official told The Herald. This makes Brown the fifth Ivy League school to face cuts. The $510 million exceeds the $400 million in funding cut at Columbia in early March.
Camila Salinas, a sophomore studying painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, has amassed 1 million followers and 87.7 million likes on TikTok.
Akashleena Mallick GS and Melaine Ferdinand-King GS will speak at master’s and doctoral commencement, respectively.
Faculty and graduate students reflect on the impact of the March 13 ban on nonessential travel.
On Tuesday evening, Carla Liesching, a South African artist, gave a guest lecture at the Metcalf Auditorium at the Rhode Island School of Design. The event was open to the RISD community as part of the RISD Photo Gary Metz lecture series.
For the first time since at least 2002, Brown has enlisted two firms, one of which is staffed by operatives who have almost exclusively worked in the Republican Party, to lobby Congress and the Trump administration on its behalf.
The lawsuit challenges federal actions threatening funding received during the Biden administration.
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Fabian Schmidt was hospitalized after allegedly being subjected to “violent interrogation.”
At Tuesday’s faculty meeting, faculty members raised concerns about the draft of Brown’s institutional values, which was released on March 18. Multiple speakers criticized the timing of the draft process, as well as the draft’s distinction between the community and institution and policy surrounding ...
On Tuesday afternoon, approximately 70 Rhode Island School of Design students rallied outside 20 Washington Place — a RISD administrative building known as Prov-Wash — in response to the RISD administration’s request to relocate a pro-Palestine art exhibit on campus.
At Tuesday’s faculty meeting, faculty members voted to change the titles of “lecturer,” “senior lecturer” and “distinguished senior lecturer” to “assistant teaching professor,” “associate teaching professor” and “teaching professor,” respectively.
The Rhode Island House Judiciary Committee held a hearing for the Rhode Island Assault Weapons Ban Act of 2025 on March 26, offering a forum for debate on a bill that restricts the manufacture, sale, purchase and possession of assault weapons, which include AK- or AR-style rifles and certain shotguns. ...
Plaintiffs argued that the grants have more uses, although provisioned during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In March, the Providence Place Mall instituted an updated code of conduct and a Youth Guidance Program.
Patricia Poitevien ’94 MD ’98 will be Brown’s next vice president for campus life effective June 1, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 announced in a campus-wide message on Tuesday morning. Poitevien will replace Interim Vice President for Campus Life Russell Carey ’91, who was appointed ...
The ACLU R.I. filed a lawsuit against the NEA, alleging that the agency’s recent changes to funding requirements are unconstitutional.
The Herald spoke with students and professors in classes where students have the opportunity to learn in a work-based setting.
Friedman’s book explores the nature of carceral violence and its impact on marginalized communities.
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