Massive Open Online Courses, frequently called MOOCs, overwhelmingly fail to retain the vast majority of people who enroll in them, said Will Murphy ’17, who co-founded a new educational app called Py along with Yale student Derek Lo, who is also set to graduate in May. Py began as an app designed ...
October marks the fifth anniversary of the Occupy Providence movement, a protest that saw hundreds of the city’s residents gather in Burnside Park downtown in opposition to economic inequality and corporate greed. To mark the anniversary, a group of advocates for the homeless and other city residents ...
Washington Post columnist Glenn Kessler ’81 spoke with David Corn ’81, the Washington bureau chief for Mother Jones, at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Friday afternoon about the value and history of fact checking. Kessler, who writes the Post’s Fact Checker column, explained ...
screen-shot-2016-10-17-at-12-50-47-am The Herald’s fall undergraduate poll, conducted Oct. 5-7 in J. Walter Wilson, the Stephen Roberts ’62 Campus Center and the Sciences Library, found that about 85 percent of eligible voters intend to pull the lever for Hillary Clinton in the 2016 presidential ...
Updated Oct. 14, 2016 at 8:50 a.m. A former student, identified as Jane Doe in court documents, is suing the University with allegations that the investigations into her sexual assault case were improperly handled, the Associated Press reported. The case surrounds an Oct. 17, 2014 incident in which ...
Structural racism is a system “whose transformative properties have to be changed because we’re living in it; we’re not across the street from it,” said Ruth Wilson Gilmore, director of the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the City University of New York, Thursday night at an event ...
A visiting delegation from Guatemala City met with Providence officials Wednesday to sign an agreement that will formalize economic and cultural exchange between the two cities. The signing of the agreement on the first day of the summit marked the beginning of intensified efforts to increase trade ...
Luis Aponte, president of the Providence City Council, stands accused of illegally diverting assets from his campaign fund for personal use, according to a report released by the Rhode Island Board of Elections Sept. 29. The report acknowledges that Aponte reimbursed his campaign account for $15,642 ...
As temperatures drop, workloads increase, and the days get shorter, many students experience seasonal affective disorder. Seasonal affective disorder is a subset of depression that occurs when the seasons change, wrote Jackie Twitchell, interim co-director of Counseling and Psychological Services, in ...
Besenia Rodriguez ’00, senior associate dean for curriculum and a member of the Task Force on Diversity in the Curriculum, discussed the taskforce’s recommendations to help departments address issues of diversity and inclusion at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ general body meeting Wednesday. ...
While the trees may be just starting to change color, fall recruiting is already well underway for many students, especially juniors and seniors. For those interested in internships or jobs in finance, consulting or technology, recruiting can begin as early as the first day of classes. Twenty years ...
While the sudden arrival of fall has Brown students shivering, the Department of Facilities Management works to keep the student body warm and reduce Brown’s environmental impact. Some students have voiced concerns about the temperature in their rooms. Pranav Nagalamadaka ’20, a Keeney Quadrangle ...
Updated on Oct. 12 at 12:56 p.m. During Tuesday’s lecture titled “A Note From the Margin: The Unsafe Spaces of Democracy,” Jelani Cobb, professor of journalism at the Columbia University School of Journalism and staff writer for the New Yorker, shared a quote from his father, who was a boxer: ...
As of the start of the 2016 fall semester, students can buy vegan, cold-brew coffee at many of the a la carte eateries around Brown’s campus. Califia Farms coffee products are currently available at Josiah’s and the cafe carts in the Rockefeller Library and the Sciences Library. Califia Farms was ...
The University’s first domestic study program, Brown in Washington, D.C., will give students a chance to intern in the nation’s capital while taking three or four core classes on-site during the spring 2017 semester. The program will be run by the Swearer Center for Public Service along with the ...
On Brown’s inaugural Indigenous People’s Day Monday, Native Americans at Brown hosted a celebration on the Main Green that commemorated past activism and called for additions to current support structures for Native American and Indigenous students. Attended by students, faculty members, alums and ...
With resources like the newly opened Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship as well as programs such as Brown EP, Startup@Brown, Hack@Brown and independent studies in business, Brown students are well-equipped to develop innovative solutions to commercial and social problems through startups. ...
The Ivy Film Festival held an advance screening Wednesday night of “The Birth of a Nation,” which tells the story of Nat Turner’s 48-hour slave rebellion of 1831 in Virginia. Nate Parker, the star, producer, screenplay writer and director of the film, has come under scrutiny in recent months after ...
An annual security report released by the Department of Public Safety last week charted several notable trends in campus crime from the last three years, including a decrease in reported drug violations, burglaries, robberies and rape. The figures of reported drug violations plummeted by 71 percent ...
In an unusual election year, many College Republican clubs at universities across the country are hesitating or outright declining to endorse Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump. The Brown College Republicans find themselves divided as well. At a group meeting held Oct. 4, a poll of gathered ...
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