Nine killed in Oregon community college shooting Eight Oregon community college students and one teacher were killed, and nine were wounded Oct. 1 after a 26-year-old male gunman opened fire on classrooms at Umpqua Community College, the New York Times reported. Students were evacuated to Douglas County ...
The University is creating a new website for scheduling courses that will replace the current online course scheduler tool. The new system will be ready by summer 2016 and will make it easier to search and register for courses, have a mobile design and feature a modern, user-friendly interface, said ...
Working with the Institute of International Education’s Scholar Rescue Fund, the University is launching an initiative to potentially bring four or five scholars displaced by conflicts in the Middle East to Brown, said Provost Richard Locke P’17 at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Locke chaired the meeting, ...
The Brown Center for Students of Color is operating under new leadership this semester at the midway point of its five-year restructuring plan. Joshua Segui assumed the role of interim director of the BCSC Aug. 1. The leadership change resulted from administrative reshuffling this summer. Former Vice ...
The partnership between Brown and Tougaloo College, a historically black college located near Jackson, Mississippi, continues to advance exchange programs and research opportunities for undergraduate students and faculty and staff members, said Maitrayee Bhattacharyya ’91, associate dean of the College ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza joined three other panel members, including University of Chicago Professor of Surgery Dana Suskind, to discuss Providence Talks — a 2013 initiative designed to improve children’s vocabularies — at a policy forum in Petteruti Lounge Monday. The panel members focused on the necessity ...
Features of student financial aid packages, including outside scholarship reporting and summer earnings requirements, can cause financial and logistical challenges for students. The Office of Financial Aid is working with the Undergraduate Council of Students to address these challenges through the ...
Dean of the College Maud Mandel and Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin P’12 will present an initial proposal for a winter term at Tuesday’s faculty meeting, Mandel said. The proposed Winter Session will feature “a handful of intense, creative experimental courses in January” that span three ...
Updated October 7, 2015 at 10:30 p.m. The University has clarified the designation of Residential Peer Leaders, Brown University Dining Services student supervisors and Meiklejohn Peer Advisors as “responsible employees,” dictating that they must report any knowledge of cases of sexual misconduct ...
Over 100,000 people came to Providence last weekend for the 10th annual “Flames of Hope: A Celebration of Life” event held by the Gloria Gemma Breast Cancer Resource Foundation. The downtown gathering featured a variety of programs and speakers Saturday and races Sunday. In past years, the weekend ...
Brown and more than 80 other institutions have joined a new coalition that aims to provide high school students with an alternative to the Common Application. The Coalition for Access, Affordability and Success will offer applicants a set of online tools starting in January 2016 in the hopes of “leveling ...
The University and the U.S. Naval War College have continued to strengthen their partnership established last June, focusing on greater collaboration in research and teaching as well as the creation of a new fellows program. Since the partnership formed, both institutions have hosted panels and lectures ...
Through a live concert, speakers and a conference this weekend, student environmental group emPOWER worked to raise awareness of environmental issues related to climate change and social justice. The concert, hosted in partnership with the national organization Know Tomorrow, was held in Salomon 101 ...
Student and Employee Accessibility Services recently launched a new program this semester that connects first-years with disabilities to sophomore, junior and senior mentors. The Bob and Charlie Poole Program was created to “build a community … with an enhanced level of support,” said Jonathan ...
Seventy-eight percent of potential new faculty members who were offered positions at the University during the 2014-15 academic year accepted their positions, said Associate Dean of the Faculty Joel Revill. The percentage, known as the faculty yield rate, is calculated by taking the number of faculty ...
The University boasts a geographically diverse student body, with students hailing from all 50 states and 71 countries. Yet a portion of this community has developed a deep familiarity with the neighborhood before attending Brown: 14 to 16 undergraduates from Providence matriculate each year, wrote ...
The Alpert Medical School’s new MD-ScM dual-degree program in Primary Care-Population Medicine — the first of its kind in the United States — enrolled 16 students to its first class, said Paul George ’01 MD’05, assistant professor of family medicine and director of the program. The PC-PM ...
The number of forcible sex offenses reported on campus in 2014 doubled since 2013 and nearly tripled since 2012, according to the University’s Annual Security Report released Wednesday. Forty-three cases of forcible sex offenses were reported last year compared to 21 cases in 2013 and 16 in 2012. Disciplinary ...
The University’s endowment reached a new high of $3.3 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, earning a 5.7 percent return, according to a University press release. This year’s return falls far short of the 16.1 percent mark the endowment posted last year. But this year was a less profitable ...
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