The Brown University Community Council focused on financial concerns such as the budget deficit and revenue growth, as well as policy related to sexual assault and faculty diversity, as its meeting Wednesday. President Christina Paxson P’19 presented major fiscal decisions made at the February Corporation ...
About 75 undergraduates and community members gathered on the Main Green Friday to mourn three Muslim students at the University of North Carolina who were murdered Feb. 11. Deah Barakat, Yusor Mohammad and Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha were fatally shot in their apartment by a neighbor. Vigil attendees ...
Iranians barred from some UMass Amherst programs The University of Massachusetts at Amherst will cease admitting Iranians to certain programs in the fields of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, Inside Higher Ed reported Monday. The university based its decision on U.S. sanctions imposed ...
The Rhode Island Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission is currently working with the Rhode Island Black Heritage Society as part of a new $25,000 grant to research black history in the College Hill Historic District. The state was one of 13 to receive a grant through the National Park Service’s ...
Falling in love with your work occasionally takes on a whole new meaning for academics. Married professors are not a rarity, said Kevin McLaughlin P’12, dean of the faculty. “It happens a lot.” “Sometimes I’m surprised and will learn couples are married in places such as holiday parties,” ...
For some students looking for love on Valentine’s Day, Tinder, the popular mobile dating app, seems an unlikely source. “Most people think Tinder is just for hooking up,” said Mary Martha Wiggers ’18. “I usually use it as a joke,” sometimes sending strange messages to see how people will ...
Valentine’s Day — the heart- and cherub-filled holiday that inspires love, dread and excuses for chocolate — is just around the corner. From planning romantic getaways to buying tickets to “Fifty Shades of Grey,” Brown students are prepared for Feb. 14. Though people have celebrated Valentine’s ...
A “right to try” bill introduced to the General Assembly Feb. 3 proposes allowing terminally ill patients in Rhode Island to have access to experimental drugs not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. As of 2014, five states had passed similar legislation: Arizona, Colorado, Louisiana, ...
A bill introduced in the General Assembly last month would increase funding for new full-day kindergarten programs beginning next fall. Seven Rhode Island communities — Cranston, Johnston, Warwick, Coventry, East Greenwich, North Kingstown and Tiverton — do not offer full-day kindergarten programs ...
Rep. David Bennett, D-Warwick, introduced legislation Jan. 28 that would require nurses in public middle and high schools to be trained in the use of naloxone, marketed and sold as Narcan. The substance, which is already used by state police, can temporarily relieve potentially fatal respiratory depression ...
The international search for the Rhode Island School of Design’s 17th president — which began following the sudden departure of President John Maeda in December 2013 — has reached the preliminary interview process. More than 100 members of the RISD community have been nominated, some of whom will ...
As sophomores prepare to declare their concentrations by the April 1 deadline, those considering environmental studies or environmental science will need to take into account the concentrations’ new requirements, which were implemented in July as part of the formation of the Institute at Brown for ...
LGBTQ Center Program Director Kelly Garrett led an identity workshop for the Undergraduate Council of Students at its general body meeting Wednesday, highlighting campus resources and issues of gender expression and sexual orientation. Though the University is “ahead of the curb” regarding many ...
The roof of the Paul Bailey Pizzitola Memorial Sports Center collapsed under accumulated snow around 12 a.m. Wednesday, said Court Attendant Chelsie Churchill ’16, who witnessed the cave-in. The collapse occurred shortly after members of the men’s and women’s club tennis teams left the courts ...
Rep. arrested for misappropriation Rep. Joe Almeida, D-Providence, the House deputy majority whip for the General Assembly, was arrested Feb. 10 for misappropriating campaign contributions, the Providence Journal reported. The former police officer has been proactive about strengthening relations between ...
Believing in God makes practicing science more fulfilling, said Hans Halvorson, professor of philosophy at Princeton, at a debate Wednesday night on the fraught relationship between religion and science. The event, which drew a few hundred attendees to Salomon 101, pitted Halvorson against David Rand, ...
The Office of Residential Life granted off-campus permission to 324 rising juniors and 1,163 rising seniors for the next academic year, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean for Residential Life and Dining Services. Of the 537 rising juniors who applied, 168 were placed on a waitlist and 45 have ...
Administrators plan on conducting a survey from the Association of American Universities to measure campus attitudes toward sexual assault this April, despite criticism from researchers studying sexual assault over the survey’s perceived ethical violations. The University paid $87,500 to the AAU, ...
A record 207 female undergrads participated in the sorority recruitment process this year, marking an approximately 48 percent increase from the 140 students who sought bids last year, said Maggie Johnson ’16, vice president of the Panhellenic Council, public relations chair for Greek Council and ...
Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, is one of six nominees for the I-195 Redevelopment District Commission, Gov. Gina Raimondo announced last week. The commission recommends and implements new strategies for developing 19 acres of vacant land in Providence previously ...
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