Techa, a small startup founded by Socrates Zouboulakis ’17, aims to revolutionize how users interact with their electronic devices and eventually their whole homes. “The dream is to have a home where there are no buttons, no switches, no levers — just an organic interaction between a user and ...
Sharon Swartz, professor of ecology, evolutionary biology and engineering, has been appointed interim director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. The previous director, Kathy Takayama, stepped down in July to join Columbia as associate provost, executive director of the Center for Teaching ...
The Brown University Community Council will discuss the possibility of an official boycott of the Hilton Providence at its next meeting Oct. 27, spurred by a labor dispute between workers and The Procaccianti Group — an investment firm the University has boycotted at two locations in the past. The ...
Brown undergraduate and graduate students have joined with community partners to launch a new app called Atbee that acts as a personal nutrition assistant. Atbee aims to “personalize health and nutrition to make your life easier” and make healthy food more accessible, said Alexandro Pando GS, a ...
Nimfa DeVecchis, a staff member in Computing and Information Services, died Wednesday, wrote Karen Davis, vice president for human resources, in a community-wide email. She was 55. DeVecchis served as computer operator I for CIS, reporting to Associate Director of the Data Center at CIS David Rollins. ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution encouraging the University to boycott the Hilton Providence amidst an ongoing labor dispute at its general body meeting Wednesday. Introduced by the Brown Student Labor Alliance, the resolution recommended that University events not be held at ...
Professor of Computer Science Shriram Krishnamurthi received a $1.5 million grant from the National Science Foundation for the study and expansion of Bootstrap — an online math program he helped develop that teaches algebra to middle and high school students nationwide by creating one-of-a-kind video ...
Three Rhode Island public schools — two elementary schools and one middle school — were among the 285 public and 50 private schools recognized by the U.S. Department of Education as National Blue Ribbon Schools for 2015. The honor recipients were announced by U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan ...
After getting taken out of the budget in the last legislative session, Gov. Gina Raimondo’s RhodeWorks proposal, which would use truck tolls to pay for investments in infrastructure, has once again come to the forefront of Statehouse political debates. Raimondo’s plan addresses the fact that Rhode ...
Abandoned homes Mayor Jorge Elorza has partnered with Rhode Island Housing to start a $3 million fund offering small loans to those renovating abandoned homes in Providence, according to a Tuesday press release. The fund is part of EveryHome, a larger program intended to help decrease the number of ...
After months of reviewing applications and negotiating contracts, the three firms tasked with rebranding Rhode Island and boosting tourism in the Ocean State will begin their efforts. The various responsibilities of the project will be split between Milton Glaser, Havas PR and Epic Decade. Milton Glaser ...
Most students fill their shopping carts and schedules with courses that meet during the morning and afternoon. But for a smaller group of students, classes continue after the sun sets. This semester, the University is offering nine courses that meet on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 6:40-8 p.m. These courses ...
Gov. Gina Raimondo promised on the campaign trail that she would support giving driver’s licenses to undocumented workers. She also promised that if legislation enacting this policy did not pass, she would issue an executive order to do so. But as of Oct. 13, no official plan has been put out by Raimondo’s ...
Anticipating a budget deficit this fiscal year, the Lifespan health care system will eliminate 200 full- and part-time positions at Rhode Island Hospital and will close the Hasbro Children’s Hospital’s early intervention program, which targets children under three years of age with developmental ...
Peers and family members remember Georges St. Laurent III GS as intellectually curious and extremely passionate about his life’s work in molecular biology. “He was a multifaceted person, extremely intelligent. No challenges were too big for him to undertake,” said his brother, William St. Laurent ...
For the first time in eight years, Brown’s campus saw an increase in greenhouse gas emissions, according to the fiscal year 2015 Sustainability Progress Report released Oct. 9 by the Office of Sustainable Energy and Environmental Initiatives. The report outlines green initiatives at the University, ...
The University’s arts programs are experiencing a season of expansion, with new initiatives such as a new performing arts venue, a potential study abroad program in Berlin and a six-year joint degree program in architecture with the Rhode Island School of Design on the agenda, said Michael Steinberg, ...
Michael Dell, CEO of Dell Inc., detailed his experience as an entrepreneur and discussed the future of information technology with students and faculty members Friday in Salomon 101. Dell spoke extensively about innovation within the information technology industry and survival in a rapidly evolving ...
Updated October 14, 2015 at 11:49 p.m. Over 300 students and Indigenous people from across the country gathered Monday on the Main Green to call upon the University to change the name of Fall Weekend to “Indigenous People’s Day.” The demonstration, organized by members of the student group Native ...
Nicole Alexander-Scott MPH’11, assistant professor of pediatrics and medicine at the Alpert Medical School and director of the Rhode Island Department of Health, stressed the need for health equity in Rhode Island in a speech at the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy Thursday. While ...
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