Updated Wednesday Sept. 9 at 12:30 a.m. Mathew Johnson will assume the roles of director of the Swearer Center for Public Service and associate dean for engaged scholarship effective Jan. 1, 2016, Dean of the College Maud Mandel announced in a Sept. 1 campus-wide email. Johnson currently serves as director ...
The Ocean State began operating under a new state budget July 1, after it was passed unanimously by the Rhode Island House of Representatives and confirmed by all but three state senators. The $8.7 billion budget embraces many of Gov. Gina Raimondo’s suggested steps for improving the state’s economic ...
Kathy Takayama, executive director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, will leave the University to become associate provost, executive director of the Center for Teaching and Learning and adjunct professor of biological sciences at Columbia, she told The Herald. At Columbia, Takayama ...
Check back for updates. Adrien Deschamps, an undergraduate student on leave from the University, has died. Dean of the College Maud Mandel notified the community of his death in a campus-wide email Friday morning. Deschamps came to Brown from New Paltz, NY, where he graduated from New Paltz High School ...
Updated on Monday, June 22 at 3:50p.m. After nearly two decades at the University, Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, will leave to become vice chancellor for student affairs at the University of California at Santa Barbara, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote ...
Updated Sept. 15 at 2:30 p.m. A Superior Court judge approved the Aug. 25 sale of Shark Bar and Grill to Carlos Silva, owner of Silver Linings Restaurant, Inc., for $300,000. Gordon Fox, Rhode Island’s former speaker of the House, is serving a three-year prison sentence for federal charges including ...
Updated June 2, 2015, at 11 p.m. Richard Locke, director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, will become the University’s next provost July 1. He will succeed Vicki Colvin, whose sudden resignation was announced May 19 after only one year in the position. Locke’s selection comes ...
Armando Carvalho, a member of the Department of Facilities Management for 18 years, died Thursday. He was 51. President Christina Paxson P’19 notified the Brown community of his death in a campus-wide email Friday morning. An immigrant from the Azores in Portugal, Carvalho is survived in Rhode Island ...
Updated June 1, 2015 at 3 p.m. Corporation members held informal discussions with undergraduates about socioeconomic issues and science, technology, engineering and mathematics courses at their meeting this week, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Friday. The Corporation ...
Updated May 19 at 8:30 p.m. Vicki Colvin will step down as provost June 30 after just one year in the position, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced in a campus-wide email Tuesday afternoon. Colvin elected to leave her post as provost in order to pursue research in greater depth. “I have ...
The Deficit Reduction Working Group proposed recommendations for achieving $7 million in savings over the next three to five years, focusing on utilities, employee benefits and information technology, Provost Vicki Colvin wrote in a community-wide email Friday. The working group formed in October to ...
Michelle Bailhe ’15 and Lucas Johnson ’15 have been selected as the student speakers for the 2015 commencement ceremony. The two seniors said they hope to use their orations to critically examine the meaning of a Brown education and inspire classmates as they embark on life beyond the Van Wickle ...
One hundred and five seniors were inducted this week into the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, “the oldest and most prestigious academic honors organization in the nation,” Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley wrote in an email to The Herald. Brown is one of 283 higher education institutions ...
The Undergraduate Finance Board met 80 percent of student group requests for funding this semester, a slight decrease from the 82 percent during the 2013-2014 academic year. Student groups collectively requested $1.75 million, and the UFB allocated around $1.4 million, said UFB Chair Alex Sherry ’15. The ...
On the night she defeated Republican challenger Allan Fung to win the Rhode Island governor’s race, Gina Raimondo proclaimed, “It’s time for new people, a new direction, a culture that includes everyone and not a culture that favors insiders.” One hundred days later, Raimondo has taken preliminary ...
The rate of babies being born with neonatal abstinence syndrome in Rhode Island has doubled between 2006 and 2013 according to Rhode Island Kids Count’s 2015 Factbook. Babies are born with NAS when exposed to opioids, such as vicodin, oxycontin and heroin, in the womb. “For a state our size, the ...
Marisa Quinn, director of communications and outreach at the Watson Institute for International Studies, was appointed by Gov. Gina Raimondo to the Rhode Island Ethics Commission earlier this month. “Building upon my ongoing commitment to uphold the highest standards of integrity and ethical conduct ...
As students enjoy the sunny weather, this year’s Earth Week aims to celebrate sustainability efforts at Brown and educate community members about how to contribute. With events such as a solar panel demonstration, trash sorting, composting, bike rides, panel discussions and film screenings, the Earth ...
A March 2-3 Herald poll revealed that students who identify as LGBTQ experience greater feelings of inadequacy than their counterparts in a variety of categories. Respondents answered the question “Do you feel inadequate relative to other Brown students?” Among the undergraduates surveyed, 32.6 ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 discussed issues of Corporation accountability, mental health and faculty diversity, among other topics, in her State of Brown address in Metcalf Auditorium Wednesday. With the support of other senior administrators and faculty members, Paxson said she is focused on ...
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