The Writing Center has suspended its second effort in its search for a new director as part of a wider rethinking of the University’s writing program, said Christopher Dennis, deputy dean of the College. After Kathleen McSharry, former associate dean of the College and interim Writing Center director, ...
Some single parents in Providence now have a source of steady income and economic opportunities through the venture Tink Knit, launched this semester and co-founded by Julia Xu ’17 and Julia Xu ’15. Tink Knit teaches single mothers how to knit products like hats and then sells those products, returning ...
Eleven students were elected to leadership positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Four of the eight elections for UCS leadership positions were uncontested. The night’s most hotly contested UCS race was for ...
President Obama’s proposal to designate three ocean canyons and four seamounts off the coast of Cape Cod as part of a marine national monument has proven somewhat controversial, eliciting both support from environmentalists and concern from fishermen and other stakeholders. The National Oceanic and ...
Researchers from the University and the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management are working to determine the causes of an increased number of dead fish in local waters this summer. Hundreds of dead menhaden fish washed ashore in the Providence River and Narragansett Bay this summer, prompting ...
Gov. Gina Raimondo announced a restructured and expanded need-based grant program for Rhode Island students attending college in-state, according to a Sept. 10 press release. Dubbed Rhode Island’s Promise, the grant program is intended to eliminate the gap between a student’s financial aid package ...
The University is currently searching for a new assistant dean for chemical dependency and junior and senior class following Kathleen McSharry’s departure from the position in August. The dean is responsible for issues of chemical dependency as they relate to students, faculty members and staff members ...
World-renowned English primatologist Jane Goodall will speak at Brown Oct. 19, representatives of the Brown Lecture Board told The Herald. “Jane has polled consistently highly in the past Lecture Board polls we’ve had, so we knew that there was a lot of student interest in bringing her to Brown,” ...
The University is considering implementing a boycott of the local Hilton Providence Hotel due to a labor dispute between employees and the hotel’s owners. Members of the Brown University Community Council discussed the potential boycott at a meeting Tuesday. The BUCC also touched on Counseling and ...
Brown students have been successful in securing jobs at top companies in the technology and finance sectors, according to data from LinkedIn. The three companies with the most Brown alums employed based on a survey of LinkedIn profiles are Google, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, with 386, 167 and 148 alums, ...
A new space for the Language Resource Center will open on the sixth floor of the Sciences Library by March 1 as part of a six-floor renovation of the library, said Ercan Balci, director for the Center of Language Studies. The new facility will provide a “flexible learning environment” and “cutting ...
Three miles off the coast of Block Island, Deep Water Wind is overseeing construction of the first offshore wind farm in the United States and is expecting the controversial turbines to begin producing electricity by fall 2016. The project will consist of five turbines connected to the mainland by ...
A special House commission held its first meeting to discuss the issue of sexual assault on college campuses in Rhode Island Sept. 28. The 13-member commission elected Rep. Mia Ackerman, D-Cumberland and Lincoln, as its chairwoman and Rep. Christopher Blazejewski, D-Providence, as its vice chairman. Ackerman ...
Georges St. Laurent III GS died Friday in Miami, Florida, announced Jack Elias, dean of medicine and biological sciences, and Peter Weber, dean of the Graduate School, in a campus-wide email Monday. A Ph.D. candidate in the molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry program, St. Laurent was preparing ...
Rep. Raymond Gallison, Jr., D-Bristol and Portsmouth, plans to reintroduce legislation to regulate drones in November, according to a Sept. 18 General Assembly press release. The bill would protect the privacy and safety of the general public by requiring aircraft to be registered with the Department ...
Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s benefits will have their food stamps matched one-for-one by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, allowing them to buy more fresh fruits and vegetables at “Food on the Move” mobile produce markets, said Gemma Gorham, director ...
The First Generation Low Income Partnership library, which launched at the beginning of the semester, aims to make textbooks accessible to those who are unable afford the cost of books, said coordinators Jonathan Jaramillo ’18 and Kevin Melendez ’16. The library, located in the Sorensen Family Reading ...
Brown students can now add a new friend on Snapchat: the University. The Office of Communications introduced its own Snapchat account last month, giving current students, prospective students and alums a firsthand glimpse of life at Brown in micro-video form. “Historically, user-generated video has ...
Updated Sept. 30 at 3:40 p.m. The University has revoked Bill Cosby’s honorary degree, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Monday night. He was awarded the degree in 1985. The Corporation’s Board of Fellows decided to revoke the degree following sexual assault allegations ...
Updated September, 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM In a partnership with the Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, the University will establish a new institute to advance children’s health, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced Monday at a joint press conference ...
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