Swearer Sparks, a student-run website that shares stories about social innovation in the Brown community and beyond, was formally recognized with the Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award at a conference Saturday. Alex Braunstein, communications and outreach manager at the Swearer Center for Public Service ...
Though the Ocean State’s homeless population decreased nearly 10 percent in the last year, government and community organizations continue to make efforts to ease the burden faced by the approximately 4,000 people who still have no place to live. Rhode Island’s homeless population shrank by 8.5 ...
David Ellerbe, a Brown Dining Services staff member of 18 years, died Feb. 8. Ellerbe, a food service worker, was 57. President Christina Paxson P’19 notified the Brown community of Ellerbe’s death in an email yesterday. Ellerbe began working full-time at Brown in 1996, spending most of his time ...
The University’s public policy program will expand to include two new graduate dual-degree programs and a restructured undergraduate concentration, following the merger of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and the Watson Institute for International Studies, said James ...
This series will explore the racial dynamics of Rhode Island’s school-to-prison pipeline. This story, the first of three, will look at the racial disparities present in the disciplinary decisions of R.I. public schools. Stumbling late into class and hurriedly sliding into her seat, the high school ...
HIV transmission bill faces backlash The House heard discussion Tuesday on a bill that would criminalize sexual activity, blood donation and the sharing of needles by those who knowingly are infected with HIV. The bill also prohibits individuals with an HIV infection from engaging in the already-illegal ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will facilitate a virtual question-and-answer session Friday with President Christina Paxson P’19 for the first time, UCS leaders said at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. The session will take place at 2:30 p.m. through the UCS Facebook page, said UCS Media ...
Provost Vicki Colvin is leading the charge toward a digitalized educational experience at Brown, focusing on flipped classrooms and online courses as ways of realizing a major initiative in President Christina Paxson’s P’19 strategic plan. Colvin said she will reach out to faculty members in March ...
Podophilia, or foot fetishism, is the most common type of fetish. This was the first of many sex-related facts presented at a BDSM workshop Wednesday hosted by the Sexual Health Awareness Group in the Underground. Facilitated by SHAG members including Kayla Tyrrell ’15 and Deborah Pomeranz ’18, ...
Two bills introduced this month in the state legislature call for substantial changes to wage minimums. One bill would hike the state minimum wage from $9.00 to $10.10, while another would gradually increase the subminimum wage for tipped workers to equal the regular minimum wage by 2020. If passed, ...
Two professors at the Alpert Medical School were ranked in the top 10 percent of reviewers for the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, according to a Feb. 24 press release from Women and Infants Hospital. Rebecca Allen and Brenna Hughes, professors of obstetrics and gynecology, were recognized for their ...
Drug overdoses at Wesleyan put 12 in hospital A surge of apparent overdoses on the drug Molly swept across Wesleyan University’s campus Sunday, with ten students and two guests being hospitalized, the Wesleyan Argus reported. Five students were still being treated at Hartford Hospital and Middlesex ...
If Lauren Pierce ’15 gets her way, daily hamburgers at the Sharpe Refectory will soon be a thing of the past. Pierce’s passion for animal rights led her to apply for a fellowship with Mercy for Animals, a nonprofit that advocates just treatment of farm animals and promotes vegetarianism and veganism. ...
The owners of the food trucks Mama Kim’s, Lotus Pepper and Buddha Belly said a sudden surge in police enforcement of parking laws has restricted their operations on Thayer Street and in the downtown area. Food trucks were previously allowed to park and operate freely as long as they had proper licenses, ...
Mary Grace Almandrez, director of the Brown Center for Students of Color and assistant dean of the College, has engaged with multicultural affairs and issues of social justice since her days as an undergraduate. Since then, she has dedicated many years to overseeing issues surrounding life and culture ...
The off-campus house where Christine Mullen ’16 and David Weinberger ’16 live was packed with over 100 people Feb. 14. They were hosting a party that overflowed from the building, with people gathering outside the house and in the street in front of it, Weinberger said. The party was advertised ...
The Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa elected 32 juniors Thursday, wrote Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley in an email to The Herald. Phi Beta Kappa was founded in 1776, and Brown’s chapter became the organization’s seventh in 1830. To be eligible for induction to the nation’s oldest ...
With admission notification dates on the horizon, international applicants to medical school likely have more to worry about than their domestic counterparts. Need-aware admission processes, high tuition costs and individual medical school policies toward accepting international students can restrict ...
A man suspected to have assaulted a Brown alum near the intersection of Waterman Street and Gano Street last Wednesday night has been apprehended by the Providence Police Department, the Providence Journal reported Monday. The accused — 47-year-old Salvatore Romano — is a convicted felon recently ...
Whether humanitarianism occupies a “shrinking space” in the contemporary world was the question Unni Karunakara, former international president of Medecins Sans Frontieres and senior fellow at the Jackson Institute for Global Affairs at Yale, posed to a crowd of about 40 in the Watson Institute ...
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