The Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board have unveiled BearSync, a new online platform for student groups to replace the previous software, MyGroups. UCS and UFB worked in tandem with the Student Activities Office, led by Timothy Shiner, director of the Stephen Robert ...
Updated Thursday, Jan. 22 at 12:08 p.m. Following the University’s ban on alcohol service at residence hall parties announced Monday, many students have expressed support for the administration’s emphasis on ensuring student safety and preventing sexual assault. But others have reacted with frustration ...
Updated January 25, 2015 at 9:09 p.m. Approximately 30,360 students applied to the class of 2019, marking a slight increase from previous years, according to a University press release. This constitutes the second-largest applicant pool in University history, exceeded only by the class of 2015, which ...
Only hours after the Providence City Council elected Councilman Luis Aponte as its president on Jan. 5, Mayor Jorge Elorza was inaugurated on the steps of City Hall. Each elected for a four-year term, these two men will work together to govern Providence on issues from the budget to education reform. Elorza ...
Updated January 21, 2015 at 1:50 a.m. Registered events with alcohol will be banned in residential areas, including Greek and program houses, while the Division of Campus Life and Student Services reviews the University’s alcohol policies this semester, wrote Margaret Klawunn, vice president for ...
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University a $1.3-million grant to support the digital scholarship initiative in President Christina Paxson’s P’19 strategic plan, according to a Jan. 12 press release. The funds will help Brown return to the “original mission of the University during ...
Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ, a food truck mainstay on Thayer Street, will no longer operate along its normal route in 2015, wrote CEO Don Fecher in an email to The Herald. The business, which was founded by Hyun Kim ’01 and his mother, may have some evening hours on weekends but its future in the area ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will focus on sexual assault and mental health resources, Corporation accountability and faculty diversity this semester, UCS leaders told The Herald. Following the Sexual Assault Task Force’s release of its interim report at the end of last semester, UCS aims ...
In the first month of Gov. Gina Raimondo’s term, plans for statewide economic recovery have and will continue to dominate discussion in both chambers of the General Assembly and in the Office of the Governor. The new governor inherits a budget deficit of nearly $200 million and a structural deficit ...
Following nearly three months of negotiations, unionized library workers unanimously agreed to the University’s proposed contract earlier this month, said Karen McAninch, business agent for the library workers’ union, United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island. The old contract expired Sept. ...
Cass Cliatt, vice president for communications at Franklin and Marshall College, will come to Brown as vice president for communications April 1, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced in a community-wide email Friday. Cliatt will succeed Marisa Quinn, vice president for public affairs and University ...
The Task Force on Sexual Assault released an interim report with short-term recommendations for improving the University’s sexual assault and prevention policies, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Wednesday. The report — compiled by a group of 17 administrators, ...
Private sector leaders gathered with federal, state and municipal officials in a ceremony Monday to kick off renovations to the Jewelry District’s South Street Power Station, popularly known as the Dynamo House. The revamp — expected to be complete by the fall of 2016 — will result in a nursing ...
Barbara Chernow ’79 will succeed Beppie Huidekoper as the next executive vice president for finance and administration effective March 1, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced in a community-wide email Friday. The appointment concludes a search that began in August, when Huidekoper announced ...
Updated Dec. 11 at 8:45 p.m. The University accepted 20 percent of early decision applicants to the class of 2019, admitting 617 students to the largest early decision class since the program was instated for the class of 2006, wrote Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 in an email to The Herald. The ...
Rhode Island Lt. Gov. Elizabeth Roberts ’78 was nominated as Secretary of the Executive Office of Health and Human Services, Governor-elect Gina Raimondo announced at a Dec. 7 press conference. The appointment is pending confirmation from the General Assembly in January. “The lieutenant governor’s ...
Just over 150 students graduated in the Midyear Completion Celebration Saturday afternoon, marking the 25th year that the University has honored students set to graduate at the end of the fall semester. Enthusiastic students, parents and alums packed Salomon 101 to cheer on the graduates. A smaller ...
The Meiklejohn Peer Advising program will expand next semester to include the Code Advising Meiklejohn Program, an initiative aimed at helping advisees navigate the disciplinary process. The subprogram will “deal directly with issues related to the Student Code of Conduct and the Academic Code,” ...
City activists and law enforcement officials are considering the steps needed to address local concerns over police officers relations with people of color in the wake of the Michael Brown and Eric Garner cases. Protests responding to the national debate over police brutality and racism in the criminal ...
Riffing on facial hair, bread and his penis, Nick Offerman — known for his role as meat-eating, libertarian woodsman Ron Swanson on the NBC comedy “Parks and Recreation” — didn’t stray too far from his well-known character in his Lecture Board talk Thursday night. Offerman spoke to a full ...
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