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 ...
As the Class of 2016 walked out of the Van Wickle Gates last weekend, Brown was preparing for the classes of 2021 and beyond to walk through them. Logan Powell has been named the next dean of admission, according to a community-wide email from Provost Richard Locke P’17 sent Tuesday. The appointment, ...
Updated June 1, 2016 at 6:35 p.m. The fate of an anonymous John Doe remains unclear after a federal district court judge rejected the University’s decision to suspend him for two years for sexual misconduct in April, according to court documents. Though the University found Doe responsible for ...
In the week since the death of Victor Yoon Chul Chang ’16, it seemed that echoes of his hearty laugh can still be heard across campus. “If something made him chuckle and he was on the other side of the house, it would echo throughout the entire house,” said Greg Chang, Victor’s brother. Victor, ...
Corporation members joined faculty members, students, staff members, neighbors and Mayor Jorge Elorza Wednesday to celebrate the topping off of the new School of Engineering at the May meeting of the Corporation, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a campus-wide email Friday. The Committee on ...
Updated May 16, 2016 at 3:15 p.m. This story is breaking and will be updated with further details as we receive them. Victor Yoon Chul Chang ’16 has died, wrote Dean of the College Maud Mandel, Associate Dean of the College and Interim Assistant Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services ...
The University recently announced its selection of eight scholars and intellectuals to be given honorary degrees this May during the 248th commencement ceremony, according to a University press release. Among them are a surgeon, a Nobel Prize-winning economist and a leading Shakespeare expert, all to ...
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