Students seeking to relieve stress and participate in a more intimate version of Heavy Petting can now take advantage of a new program. The Animal Assisted Therapy Program, launched by Peter Herrera ’16 and Lena Bohman ’18, allows students to sign up for 10-minute slots to pet and play with trained ...
The City Sports store on Thayer Street will close its doors by the end of October as part of the company’s Delaware Chapter 11 bankruptcy reorganization strategy, wrote Eve Bould, director of marketing for City Sports, in an email to The Herald. As part of its filing for bankruptcy, City Sports, a ...
California passes ban on concealed-carry firearms on campuses California Gov. Jerry Brown signed into effect a law banning concealed-carry firearms at state schools and higher education institutions into effect Oct. 10. Senate Bill 707, the bill’s official title, passed through the legislature at ...
History repeats itself Acelia Terrero, owner of Ada’s Creations on Broad Street, told the Providence Board of Licenses that she paid $29,000 in bribes, Turn to 10 reported Oct. 18. She did not specify to whom she paid the money or for what purpose. Ada’s Creations — which has been a bakery, a ...
Applicants hurrying to polish their early decision applications to Brown by the Nov. 1 deadline are among the last applicants who will be required to submit SAT or ACT essays. The Office of Admission will no longer require applicants to submit the essay portions of the SAT or ACT, starting in fall ...
Updated Oct. 21, 2015 at 2:26 a.m. Edward Steinfeld, director of the Brown China Initiative and professor of political science and China studies, has been named director of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Tuesday. Starting ...
Updated Oct. 22, 2015 at 6:03 p.m. Though same-sex marriage became legal nationwide in June, LGBTQ individuals still face a multitude of challenges including discrimination and violence — the subject of a Minority Peer Counselor workshop on heterosexism Tuesday. The interactive workshop was divided ...
In July 1960, Jane Goodall packed her bags and traveled from England to Gombe National Park in Tanzania, where she began what would become her lifelong project and passion: a 55-year study of social and family interactions of wild chimpanzees. Her observations redefined what we know about animal intelligence. ...
Jane Goodall took the stage Monday night wearing a bright purple shawl and a necklace bearing a symbol of the African continent. “I would like to start off by bringing into this space the voice of the being that I spent so many years learning about,” Goodall said. “Oooh oooh eeeh eeh ahhh. That’s ...
Mental health emerged as a larger priority than last year in the Undergraduate Council of Students Fall Poll, with nearly 40 percent of respondents citing expanding mental health services as their top concern. This marks a 10.8 percent rise from last year and moves mental health into second place among ...
In light of the national growth of the #BlackLivesMatter movement, the Washington Post published a database June 30 of every police shooting that has occurred this year. Currently, Rhode Island and Vermont are the only two states with no fatal police shootings. “I’m really proud we haven’t had ...
An opportunity fair for minority- and women-owned business enterprises in construction was held Friday at the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Providence. The fair, hosted by the University’s Office of Government Relations and Community Affairs, aimed to highlight opportunities with general contracting companies ...
Rhode Island has been awarded $235,737 by the Labor Department for its Temporary Caregiver Insurance Program, making it one of eight states to receive a portion of a larger $1.55 million grant. The TCI program started in January 2014, making Rhode Island one of only three states in the U.S. — along ...
“No one country is immune from the effects of climate change, but no one country can solve it,” said British Ambassador to the United States Sir Peter Westmacott to a crowd of students and faculty members Friday in MacMillan 115. His lecture, entitled “How Climate Challenges Are Impacting Security ...
A former member of the class of 2017 has filed a lawsuit against the University for violation of due process and gender-based discrimination in a sexual misconduct hearing, according to documents from the U.S. District Court for Rhode Island. The accused was removed from campus before the University ...
Eighty students, family members and faculty members gathered in Smith-Buonanno Hall Friday night to attend a Minority Peer Counselor workshop on the way society discriminates against women. The workshop, entitled “Squash Sexism,” was facilitated by MPCs Haley De La Rosa ’17, Waleed Nasir ’18, ...
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 ...
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