After a potentially stressful summer including national and global tragedies, the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life hosted a gathering yesterday evening on the Main Green featuring several administrators and students as well as members of the faculty and staff. The event was held on Eid al-Adha, ...
The environmental studies and science concentration is creating a new track devoted to studying the injustices and inequalities embedded within environmental issues, to be approved this spring, according to multiple sources. Last semester, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society convened ...
The National Science Foundation awarded a four-year grant of $6 million to 14 researchers Aug. 22 for research into the neuroscience of attention. The scientists include three professors from the University: David Sheinberg, professor of neuroscience and director of the neuroscience graduate program; ...
For the fall 2017 admission cycle, undocumented applicants and students who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be considered as domestic applicants, meaning that they will be admitted via a need-blind admission policy, the University announced in a press release ...
As Brown graduates, Jimmy Pedro ’94 and Luke McGee ’01 could have pursued any number of successful career paths. But both ended up coaching at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this year. The U.S. judo team brought home one silver and one gold medal, and rowers in the men’s coxed eight ...
The Office of Counseling and Psychological Services has removed its seven-session limit on appointments in order to increase flexibility and accessibility, said Steven Rasmussen ’74 MD’77 P’13, chair of the Mental Health Community Council as well as a professor of psychiatry and human behavior ...
In an effort to provide “a necessary and long-overdue service” and to set a standard of inclusiveness both at the University and at other institutions of higher education, the Undergraduate Council of Students began stocking non-residential men’s, women’s and gender-neutral restrooms with tampons ...
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America held an open house Thursday to celebrate the center’s new location at Lippitt House on 96 Waterman and its 2016-2017 art exhibit, “Rising/Uprising in Baltimore: A Beautiful Ghetto.” Prior to this semester, the center was housed in the Brown/RISD ...
Replete with colorful walls, classrooms and coffee machines, the upper levels of the Sciences Library are a far cry from the stacks of yesteryear. As students will discover during the SciLi Open House Sept. 19, floors five through nine have been renovated and are now home to campus resources, administrative ...
This summer, 38 students split into 16 teams flocked to the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts to participate in the Summer Breakthrough Lab, a program for entrepreneurship, said Jason Harry, associate professor of the practice of engineering. In the program, which launched last year, participants ...
As parents send their children off to school and policymakers gear up for the new fiscal year, the debate over the quality of primary and secondary education in Rhode Island is taking center stage once again. One of the more controversial facets of the discussion is whether families opt for charter ...
Under looming clouds, new students celebrated the opening of the University’s 253rd academic year on the Main Green Tuesday. The convocation welcomed a particularly large number of first-year undergraduates: 1,682. The uptick marks a step forward in President Christina Paxson’s P’19 plan to grow ...
The Department of Public Safety has altered its policy on racial descriptions for crime alerts over the past year, excluding suspects’ race in every campus alert since October 2015. In an email to The Herald, Chief of Police Mark Porter and Deputy Chief of Police Paul Shanley maintained that this ...
The University has launched a partnership with Bon Appétit Management Company to make dining services more sustainable and enticing, Brown University Dining Services announced on its website Sept. 1. The “collaboration will focus on expanding menu offerings, enhancing food … at retail locations, ...
The School of Professional Studies launched the Executive Master in Science and Technology Leadership program this summer, a 16-month program designed to prepare professionals to take on leadership roles in engineering, science and technology. The master’s will focus on four themes: leadership, strategy, ...
Over the summer, the School of Public Health and the Rhode Island Department of Health established a formal academic partnership. Terrie Fox Wetle, dean of the School of Public Health, and Nicole Alexander-Scott MPH’11, director of RIDOH and assistant professor of health services, policy and practice, ...
Despite a two-year suspension from the University, a student found responsible for sexual misconduct in a campus hearing this past spring will be allowed back on campus for the fall semester following an order issued from U.S. District Court Judge William Smith Aug. 23. The student, referred to as ...
Updated Aug. 24 at 10 p.m. The National Labor Relations Board ruled Tuesday that graduate students at Columbia qualify as employees of the institution and therefore have the right to unionize. “It’s definitely a celebration,” said Anne Gray Fischer GS and member of Stand Up for Graduate Student ...
Faculty members have approved a winter term, called Wintersession, that will feature 10 accelerated courses in January 2017. Spanning three weeks, the courses are not “standard semester courses,” but rather “innovative courses that can benefit from the intensive time structure that Wintersession ...
With the fall semester a mere two months away, four individuals will begin their positions as University administrators July 1. Tricia Rose MA’87 PhD’93, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and professor of Africana studies, will assume the part-time role of associate ...
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