While interactive robots have been popularized by science fiction over the past century, Assistant Professor of Computer Science Stefanie Tellex and her research group are working to make them a reality. By focusing on robotic language, perception and action, Tellex hopes to create a robot that can ...
Professor of Economics and recipient of the fall 2016 Presidential Faculty Award Jesse Shapiro delivered the Presidential Faculty Lecture titled “How to Talk like a Republican, and Other Lessons from Using Text as Data” at the John Carter Brown Library Tuesday night. Shapiro walked the audience ...
Scott Warren ’09, social entrepreneur and co-founder of the nonprofit Generation Citizen, has been chosen as the Spring 2017 Taubman Fellow and Social Entrepreneur in Residence, a “semester-long residency program for experienced social change leaders,” according to the University’s website. ...
While the University has boosted its attention to the undergraduate advising system in recent years, advising is even more central to the academic experiences of PhD candidates. As the University looks to grow graduate programs across the disciplinary spectrum, it may have to devote additional attention ...
Updated Tuesday, Oct. 25 at 12:39 a.m. As the University aims to improve its faculty pipeline and diversify the faculty to match the diversity of the student body, many faculty members find the process of becoming a full professor fairly straightforward to navigate. Promotion from associate professor ...
This semester, Counseling and Psychological Services introduced an anonymous online self-screening tool for students to evaluate their mental health. Students can take one of several quizzes to determine if they should seek help for any mental health concerns. The quizzes cover a range of issues, such ...
In an effort to engage and connect the Brown community through social media, the Alumni Relations Office and the Brown Annual Fund launched BearShare, an incentive-driven program to share Brown’s various social media posts. The program, which launched this past April, boasts about 200 ambassadors ...
Minority Peer Counselors held their first workshop on sexism this semester titled “Ain’t I A Womxn? Women, Redefined” in Petteruti Lounge Monday night. The workshop, facilitated by MPCs Maryam Ahmad ’19, Shanzé Tahir ’19, Salina Tesfay ’19, Terrell Palmer ’19 and Julie Pham ’19, aimed ...
Harvard Dining Services strike heats up as it continues into third week About 1,000 employees, students and supporters from all around New England rallied and marched from Cambridge Common to Cambridge City Hall Oct. 22 in support of the Harvard University Dining Services employee strike, according ...
Though Family Weekend opened with rain and gloomy skies, the weather did not dampen the spirit of the festivities. This year, 1,740 families visited campus, a significant jump from about 1,400 last year, said Mikele St-Germain, assistant director of event and conference services. Over the weekend, ...
A student was robbed Friday while walking outside 172 Meeting Street near Andrews Commons and the Biomedical Center, according to a University-wide email Friday from the Department of Public Safety. Around 2:45 p.m., a male perpetrator grabbed the student’s cell phone out of his hands. The student ...
BWell Health Promotion has changed its signs and done away with collection tins: All safe sex supplies are now completely free on campus. In the past, signs asked for donations for safer sex supplies at cost — for example, one external condom cost $0.15 and a dental dam cost$0.50. Only a few hundred ...
Matt Perault ’02, head of the policy development team at Facebook, spoke at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Wednesday, answering a series of questions from audience members and Watson Institute Director Edward Steinfeld on issues including privacy, security and surveillance. Perault ...
Representatives from the Brown Center for Students of Color, the Sarah Doyle Women’s Center and the LGBTQ Center spoke about the intersection of identities and collaboration between their respective organizations at the Undergraduate Council of Students meeting Wednesday. The three centers work very ...
The University signed a new contract with the United Service and Allied Workers union — representing Facilities Management workers — that was approved by the union Monday night, said Karen McAninch, the union’s business agent. “Staff members from the Facilities Management bargaining unit play ...
Multiple students were allegedly harassed by an event security staff officer at a party co-hosted by Brown’s Organization of Multiracial and Biracial Students and Harambee House Oct. 14, according to a statement released by BOMBS Oct. 16 on its Facebook page. The security officer is employed by a ...
Updated Oct. 19, 2016 at 5:09 p.m. The Brown University Community Coalition met Tuesday afternoon to discuss the Title IX Oversight and Advisory Board’s review on the implementation of the Sexual Assault Task Force’s recommendations and general issues relating to sexual assault prevention and education ...
This is the first semester since the Vietnam War that the Naval and Air Force Reserve Officers’ Training Corps program is available for students at Brown because of new partnerships with the College of the Holy Cross for the Navy and Worcester Polytechnic Institute for the Air Force. Ben Chiacchia ...
As the University looks to increase the size and prestige of its graduate programs in coming years, some graduate students are concerned about the availability of housing near campus and the lack of community sparse real estate could cause. Campus housing is not guaranteed for graduate students, and ...
Jagoda Marinić, a German author of short stories, plays, essays and novels, engaged in a “transatlantic conversation” on questions of immigration and integration in the United States and Germany at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Monday night. Marinić’s work addresses ...
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