After months of planning and testing, students are launching Souk, a new campus website that aims to connect students buying and selling used products. Last year, the start-up won Spark, a venture competition hosted by Brown Student Agencies that encourages students to identify a problem they see in ...
While online education initiatives have recently generated less talk than other University plans, progress on the issue is inching forward. Perhaps most notably, the University is offering faculty members course relief should they design online courses, and a number of online, full-credit courses will ...
On Thursday, homeowners and tenants from South Providence and Brown students gathered in front of the mayor’s office in City Hall to protest the EveryHome initiative. The initiative, announced in October 2015, aims to renew or demolish every abandoned home in Providence over the next six years. The ...
Following a month-long close for renovations over winter break, Thayer Street’s Skewers has been back in business for the past couple weeks, boasting a revamped menu replete with both Mediterranean and Mexican options. As Skewers’ windows were covered in brown paper in January, some students speculated ...
Ambassador Chas Freeman Jr., former American diplomat and senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, delivered his second lecture in a three-part series on U.S. foreign policy Thursday afternoon in the Watson Institute’s Joukowsky Forum. This lecture, “The United ...
J. Timmons Roberts, professor of environmental studies and sociology, and Guy Edwards, research fellow at the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society and co-director of the Climate and Development Lab, presented their recently published book, “A Fragmented Continent: Latin America and the Global ...
The Veritas Forum hosted a discussion-based event, titled “The American Dream?,” about morality, faith and the meaning of life in the Salomon Center De Ciccio Family Auditorium Wednesday night. Andrew Foster, professor of economics and director of population studies, asked questions and facilitated ...
The Department of Computer Science is seeking to hire student advocates for diversity and inclusion as part of its new action plan to increase diversity. The new hires are part of an administrative effort to address the department’s dearth of gender and racial diversity — just 8.7 percent of concentrators ...
Why be an administrator in higher education? Those at the helm of the school work long hours — often six days a week — and may sacrifice teaching positions and research opportunities to fulfill administrative responsibilities. Yet several Brown administrators, past and present, cited their commitment ...
Several days a week, Jacob Eichenbaum-Pikser ’10, owner of Sheikob’s Bagels, sets up his delivery bike on the sidewalks of Buenos Aires, Argentina to sell dozens of homemade bagels with cream cheese to passersby. In a place where many typical American breakfast staples are unfamiliar, Eichenbaum-Pikser ...
Members of the University Resources Committee spoke at the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday, touting the committee’s priorities of maintaining financial sustainability, creating a diverse campus and fostering academic excellence in constructing the University’s ...
Just a week before Brown/RISD Hillel arrived in Israel for Birthright this January, two young Israelis were stabbed in Jerusalem, reflecting a trend of violence in the Old City that has kept several Birthright trips from visiting the area’s historic monuments. While it was not frequently mentioned, ...
Farewell, Buddy Cianci The city of Providence bid farewell to its longest-serving mayor, Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, Jr. with a funeral service Monday. Despite the snowstorm, a crowd of around 100 gathered to watch the procession where Cianci’s casket was carried from City Hall to the Cathedral of ...
While Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and Donald Trump may have won their respective primaries Tuesday night in New Hampshire, the many campaigns on both sides could not have been run without the support of student volunteers — including many from Brown — who spent their weekends canvassing through the ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza gave his annual State of the City address Tuesday night, focusing his speech on educational reform and business development. Thirty major construction projects in Providence totaling almost $500 million in expenditures are expected to break ground in 2016, Elorza said. These developments ...
Providence saw 5,889 crimes in total during the University’s fall semester, from Sept. 10 to Dec. 22, according to a crime statistics map released by the Providence Police Department. Crime experts confirm that a closer look reveals numerous trends related to the times of day, season and locations ...
The Office of Campus Life and Student Services will double its Emergency Fund in response to feedback from high-need students regarding the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. The fund supports “a vast array of unexpected needs that come up for students who ...
On a break from coding during last weekend’s Hack@Brown event, students found themselves overwhelmed with free food, t-shirts and photo booth images paid for by a number of tech companies vying for students’ attention. Among the t-shirts decorated with the names of sponsoring companies and the slices ...
Jan. 27, Rep. Aaron Regunberg ’12, D-Providence, introduced a bill with several other representatives in the Rhode Island House of Representatives that, if passed, would establish a single-payer health system in Rhode Island. Representatives Regunberg, Gregg Amore, D-East Providence, Teresa Tanzi, ...
Pre-medical students wrote a petition last week calling for the University to expand the offerings of certain chemistry courses in order to allow students who take CHEM 0100: “Introductory Chemistry” to finish their requirements earlier in their academic careers. The petition, which has accumulated ...
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