Sazzy Gourley ’16 won the Undergraduate Council of Students presidency, while Alana Bhatla ’16 claimed the vice presidency, announced UCS Elections Board Chair Heather Sabel ’17 just after midnight Friday on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. With 50.5 percent of the vote, Gourley ...
Following the closure of Manning Hall over spring break due to unstable supports, several student groups have been forced to relocate their activities from the non-denominational chapel on the second floor. Engineers with the Department of Facilities Management found the unstable secondary supports ...
Last month, XOI Juice, founded by Myron Lam ’15 and Linh Tran ’15, earned one of the Swearer Center for Public Service’s three Embark Fellowships, which support ventures founded by graduating students, said Alan Harlam, director of the Swearer Center’s Social Innovation Initiative. XOI is a ...
Travel and Leisure Magazine readers ranked Providence second on a list of America’s Best Cities for Sweet Tooths released April 1, as determined by an online survey of 38 cities in a variety of culinary categories. Besting nearby neighbors New York City and Boston by three and 18 spots, respectively, ...
Chancellor Thomas Tisch ’76 P’18 accepted a position Wednesday on the six-person external advisory board of Point72, the investment firm founded by emeritus Corporation Trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16 almost two years after his former hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors L.P. faced five counts of ...
Students will have free access to the entire Adobe Creative Cloud Suite on their personal computers in two to four weeks, said Ravi Pendse P’17, vice president for computing and information services and chief information officer, at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday. ...
The student group Liberation in North Korea is holding its first-ever Choco Pie gram fundraiser Tuesday through Thursday to spread awareness about the country’s political corruption and raise money for North Korean refugees. Choco Pie grams are small bags stuffed with candies and a Choco Pie — a ...
Rhode Island continues to have one of the highest unemployment rates in the nation as a result of education levels, household wealth and extension of unemployment benefits, according to a recent report by the College and Research University Collaborative of Rhode Island. The Collaborative released its ...
Students presented their first forays into international reporting as part of their academic spring break trip to Nicaragua at the Watson Institute for International Studies Wednesday. Led by former New York Times correspondent Stephen Kinzer, a journalist in residence at the Watson Institute, the trip ...
The status of auto insurance coverage for drivers employed by Transportation Network Companies such as Uber and Lyft faced scrutiny at the State House Tuesday, as a joint legislative commission reevaluated the state’s Public Motor Vehicle Act, which passed in 2013. The congressional committee was ...
Rutgers temporarily bans Greek parties Rutgers University barred all of its 86 fraternities and sororities from holding parties for the rest of the spring semester, the New York Times reported Tuesday. The ban follows “a number of alcohol-related incidents” tied to Greek life this semester, Rutgers ...
Undergraduates, graduate students and faculty members gathered at a reception in the Sciences Library Tuesday to commemorate the life of Hyoun Ju Sohn GS, who died after jumping from the building’s 12th floor one week ago. “The more I learn about him, the sadder I am that he is no longer with us,” ...
At Tuesday’s faculty meeting, faculty members voted to change University policies on postdoctoral hiring and concentration declarations to more accurately reflect current practices. The faculty also rejected proposed changes to the final exam grading timeline. For several years, a contradiction has ...
In its final report released Tuesday, the Task Force on Sexual Assault proposed implementing a unified policy on sexual and gender-based violence, creating a Title IX Office and developing a clear trial process led by a Title IX Committee rather than the Student Conduct Board, President Christina Paxson ...
“The right to speech should not go to whoever shouts the loudest,” said Brian Hasegawa ’18, one of about 60 students present at the Brown Political Forum’s discussion on hate speech and safe spaces Monday night. The event, titled “Who Has the Right to Speak? Hate Speech and ‘Self-infantilization’ ...
A Brown-sponsored pre-college summer program on the Greek island Naxos has been “paused” due to low enrollment, said Rosario Navarro, director of language area studies and international programs. Other international pre-college programs in Rome, the Spanish city of Segovia and Costa Rica will continue ...
Karen Sibley MAT’81 P’07 P’12 P'17, dean of the School of Professional Studies, has been appointed vice president for strategic initiatives, Provost Vicki Colvin announced in a campus-wide email Thursday. A newly created role, the vice president for strategic initiatives is responsible for “creating ...
Technicians reach settlement with RISD After a five-day strike led by Rhode Island School of Design technicians that began Thursday, RISD administrators and President of the RISD Technical Association Tucker Houlihan reached an agreement Monday that includes a stipulation maintaining the tech workers’ ...
Over the past several years, Rhode Island’s infrastructure, especially its roads and bridges, have face chronic problems, which have been exacerbated by harsh winter weather and are proving difficult to address due to funding limitations. Such issues, though not unique to the Ocean State, have put ...
Forty-four Rhode Island School of Design technicians have been on strike since Thursday, shutting down many of the school’s studios and impeding access to certain buildings. The strike is a result of breakdowns in contract negotiations that have been ongoing between the technicians and the administration ...
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