The Inter-Religious Working Group kicked off with a four-hour inaugural meeting Feb. 29, facilitated by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life. The IRWG is University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson’s attempt to delve deeper into issues surrounding religious tension and difference. The group ...
The Providence City Council voted unanimously March 3 to support efforts to memorialize victims of the transatlantic slave trade and their descendants. The resolution formalizes the council’s support of the work being done by the Rhode Island branch of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers ...
The University launched Courses@Brown, a new website for course search and registration, Monday. Students can expect to use Courses@Brown in the next round of course registration for the 2016 fall semester. Already, 2,000 students have browsed the new site, and 1,000 potential course carts have been ...
Earlier this month, Gov. Gina Raimondo unveiled the Computer Science for Rhode Island Initiative — a goal to have a computer science class in every Rhode Island public school by December 2017, according to the initiative’s website. Among the five programs that schools can implement is Bootstrap, ...
The University has launched a search committee to fill the resident director position for the Paris study abroad program. The Office of International Programs is seeking out a permanent hire to replace the rotating Brown faculty members who filled the position in past years. The University decided to ...
Drop in humanities degrees The number of undergraduates receiving humanities degrees is dropping, according to Insider Higher Ed. A study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reported that between the years 2012 and 2014, the number of students to receive “core” humanities degrees ...
Updated March 20, 2016 at 12:35 p.m. Janet Mock, a black, native Hawaiian trans woman and activist, announced Wednesday morning that she had canceled her campus talk, “Redefining Realness,” which was originally scheduled for March 21. Mock was invited to be a keynote speaker by Moral Voices, in ...
Eighteen of Brown’s 96 Fulbright scholarship applicants received the award for the 2015-2016 application cycle, placing the University among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright scholars, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Offering grants in over 140 countries, the U.S. government-sponsored ...
Over 100 Rhode Islanders gathered at a Statehouse hearing Tuesday evening to demonstrate support for a bill that would allow undocumented immigrants to obtain driving privilege licenses, which would grant driving permission but not serve as a state ID. The bill aims to increase road safety and ameliorate ...
“One of my goals throughout my whole life (has been) to literally walk on another planet,” said Connor Lynch ’17. “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Rather than a pipe dream, Lynch’s aspirations of becoming an astronaut are not so distant from reality. Lynch was recently accepted ...
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs hosted a discussion Tuesday titled “The 2016 Presidential Election and the Hispanic Vote” on the growing importance of Hispanics and Latinos in U.S. politics. While speakers addressed most of the questions in the context of the current elections ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 and other University administrators emphasized the progress made in the fields of diversity and inclusion at the annual State of Brown address and public forum hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students Tuesday. UCS President Sazzy Gourley ’16 welcomed Paxson ...
A total of 32,280 students applied for admission to the University for the Class of 2020, according to data sent to The Herald by Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. This is the highest number of applications in the University’s history, Miller wrote in an email to The Herald. The data encompasses ...
Broaching subjects like health policy and women’s issues, Jennifer Klein ’87 has been an advisor to the Clinton family since President Bill Clinton’s first administration. Klein’s career has been multifaceted and at times “accidental,” she said. Klein sat down with The Herald to discuss ...
Researchers at some universities have become dependent on illegal sources for journal articles because of how expensive subscriptions have become, Heather Joseph, an advocate for legal open access, told National Public Radio last month. “When there is a journal article I need but Brown does not ...
The Corporation authorized a 4.1 percent tuition hike for the 2016-2017 academic year last month. This increase is consistent with past years — after a 4.4 percent increase for the current academic year and a 3.8 percent increase for the previous year — as the cost of higher education continues ...
As diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba normalize, students have expressed increasing interest in studying in the communist country. Last month, President Barack Obama announced that he would be the first sitting U.S. president in 88 years to visit Cuba. “You could feel the excitement ...
The University has recently filled two senior-level roles in communications. Brian Clark began his position Feb. 22 as the director of news and editorial development, and Albert Dahlberg was promoted to assistant vice president of government and community relations after serving for seven years as director ...
As exam turmoil hits its peak mid-semester, students may find themselves strapped for time to do their laundry. Most of them do their own laundry using dormitory laundry machines. For an additional fee, some choose to use the laundry service provided by Brown Student Agencies. The washers and dryers ...
While all applicants to the University’s undergraduate program can expect regular decisions to be released online March 31, the University’s 51 departments with doctoral programs review and select applications in varied ways behind the scenes. For fall 2016 admission, the Graduate School received ...
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