Students, faculty members and policy experts gathered at BrownThink 2016, an undergraduate public policy competition, to discuss immigration policy reform this past weekend. The competition aims to provide Brown undergraduates who are not necessarily public policy concentrators with an opportunity to ...
Viet Nguyen ’17 won a commanding victory in the endorsements campaign for Undergraduate Council of Students president, capturing the support of 32 student groups in his bid to lead UCS for the 2016-2017 academic year. Among the groups pledging support for Nguyen were 1vyG: the Inter-Ivy First Generation ...
Complicated, controversial and misunderstood are words that could be used to describe a number of topics in higher education, but tenure, a title 76 percent of University faculty members garner, is perhaps the academic policy most defined by them. Tenure guarantees faculty members lifetime employment ...
One in five current undergraduate students will have taken a computer science course before graduation, said Ugur Cetintemel, professor of computer science and chair of the department. While enrollment in CS classes has seen record growth in recent years, many students end up in classes intended for ...
Scientists, humanitarian aid experts and scholars gathered to discuss stress and resilience in Syrian refugee children at this weekend’s fourth annual Engaged Scholarship Conference. The conference is hosted every year by Middle East Studies and was co-sponsored this year by the Brown Institute for ...
Over 200 students came to College Hill this weekend for the Latinx Conference, representing two different umbrella organizations, over 18 East Coast schools and the many Latinx groups — Afro and queer, multiracial and Spanish-speaking, Indigenous and trans* — to which they belong. The merging ...
France Córdova, director of the National Science Foundation, and U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-RI, came to campus Friday to tour several of the University’s science facilities supported by grants from the Foundation. The NSF has granted $221 million to Rhode Island in the past five years, according to a ...
Stand Up! sponsored a march against sexual assault and a keynote address by Sandra Kim, founder of Everyday Feminism, Saturday to mark the beginning of Sexual Assault Awareness Month on campus. Stand Up! is a student group that seeks to combat sexual assault at Brown and will be hosting a series of ...
Sex Week 2016: Generation Se(X), a week consisting of over 20 workshops devoted to sexual health education and empowerment, wraps up today, ending this year’s technology-themed installment of the annual series. The program, put on by the Sexual Health Education and Empowerment Council, focuses on ...
Candidates for the Undergraduate Council of Students presidency brought the role and mandate of UCS into focus as they squared off on social justice activism, the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, mental health, sexual assault and other hot-button campus issues at the debate Thursday night. UCS Campus ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 travelled to China during spring break to demonstrate the University’s commitment to building substantive and collaborative partnerships with Chinese universities, Paxson said. She spoke at Tsinghua University in Beijing and Fudan University in Shanghai during her ...
In just a few weeks, 12 students will be standing in the middle of a Greek colonial site — Empúries — founded in 575 B.C. in Spain, where they will examine artifacts as part of their fieldwork, said Peter Van Dommelen, professor of archaeology and anthropology. During reading period, the members ...
A large crowd of Rhode Island School of Design students and faculty members dressed in black braved the unseasonably cold April weather at Market Square Wednesday afternoon to join RISD student and demonstration organizer Tony Petit in chanting, “I am not your token!” The demonstration, Not Your ...
Rhode Island General Treasurer Seth Magaziner ’06 gave a lecture titled “Promoting a Clean Economy: The Policy and Legislative Process Behind the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank” in the Joukowsky Forum on Wednesday. The event focused on the Rhode Island Infrastructure Bank’s capabilities to ...
Members of the International Life Advisory Board detailed the need for a center for international life on campus and spoke on issues facing international students at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday. ILAB Co-Chair and Vice President for Computing and Information ...
In contrast to previous trends, the 2016 election cycle has seen online polling used more often than traditional telephone polls. But while online polling is cheaper than telephone polling and has produced more reliable results in certain recent contests, its methods have drawn skepticism from polling ...
Kevin Garcia ’18, Zachary Nelkin ’17 and Viet Nguyen ’17 will contest the election for President of the Undergraduate Council of Students next week. Tim Ittner ’18 will run unopposed for the position of vice president. Jordan Ferguson ’17 and Adwa Habtu ’17 will run unopposed for Chair ...
Professor of Neuroscience Diane Lipscombe has been named the executive director of the Brown Institute for Brain Science, according to a community-wide email from Provost Richard Locke P’17 April 5. Since Jan. 5, 2015 Lipscombe has served as interim director of the institute where she has “made ...
As marijuana sweeps to the center of public debate, protestors and progressives — like those who tried to inflate a 51-foot joint replica in front of the White House last week — have been at the forefront of the legalization movement. During Tuesday’s forum at the Warren Alpert Medical School, ...
Brown issued a response April 1 to an inquiry on endowment spending issued by members of the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives. The inquiry was sent to schools with endowments above $1 billion and aimed to determine how universities spend their record-level endowments in light of the rising cost ...
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