Brown community members who seek to access material from libraries at peer institutions now have that ability, following the launch of the BorrowDirect Plus initiative last month. An extension of the BorrowDirect program, the new initiative allows Brown students, faculty and staff to borrow items ...
Hundreds of eyes in the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex gymnasium in Providence turned toward the podium, where First Lady Michelle Obama spoke in support of gubernatorial Democratic nominee Gina Raimondo Thursday afternoon. With the race for governor entering the final sprint, the entire Rhode ...
As he trekked mountains in northern Vermont with his family 27 years ago, John Reckner chanced upon a bright idea. The brilliant display of hundreds of jack-o-lanterns set up along the mountainside was “impressive,” he remembered, and inspired him to create his own version of the jack-o-lantern ...
About 43 percent of the student body has received University-provided flu shots this year, said Unab Khan, medical director of Health Services, and no cases of the flu have been confirmed so far on campus. Over the last three weeks, Health Services provided free flu-shot clinics at the Stephen Robert ...
Counseling and Psychological Services is considering signing on to the Jed and Clinton Health Matters Campus Program, a four-year commitment to reducing substance abuse and preventing suicides among college students, said CAPS Director Sherri Nelson. Since the program’s launch in June, 56 colleges ...
The shutdown of former New York City Police Commissioner Ray Kelly’s guest lecture by student and community member protesters cemented the events of Oct. 29, 2013 in Brown’s collective memory. The discourse that followed shook the foundation of the campus, pushing many to reassess and verbally ...
Sara Overstreet ’16 has died, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Thursday afternoon. Paxson’s email did not specificy a cause of death. A native of San Jose, California, Overstreet was an international relations and English double-concentrator. She was interested in ...
See accompanying article. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 8.5% Strongly approve 33.4% Somewhat approve 35.5% No opinion 18.1% Somewhat disapprove 4.4% Strongly disapprove 2. Do you approve ...
On Nov. 4, Rhode Island voters will decide on a ballot measure that would authorize the state government to issue $35 million in bonds to improve public transportation infrastructure across the state, with some of the potential funds going to transit renovations near the Amtrak station in downtown Providence. Advocates ...
The University received approximately twice the number of applicants for the number of spots available in the 2015 TRI-Lab by the Oct. 19 deadline, a statistic consistent with past semesters, said Allen Hance, director of the TRI-Lab. Spring 2015 will mark the start of the third iteration of the TRI-Lab, ...
Moses Brown School received an anonymous $1.5 million donation to a new Sailing and Marine Education Center in Cranston at the site where the historic Edgewood Yacht Club is being rebuilt, the school announced Oct. 17. The Edgewood Yacht Club, whose clubhouse burned down in 2011, invited Moses Brown ...
Please click the picture to view the matrix. A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted last week found that about 82 percent of the student body supports some form of student representation on the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, while undergraduate opinion of President Christina ...
Amidst the peaceful glow of electric candlelight, images of victims of the Ebola epidemic and health care workers in West Africa were projected on a screen outside the Statehouse as a crowd of over 100 people gathered at a vigil last night to commemorate those affected by the disease. The lights flickered ...
Updated Friday, Oct. 31 at 2:29 a.m. As a crowd of students huddled near bare mattresses and others joined the group outside Faunce, one enflamed candle began to light another. As students helped their neighbors ignite their wicks, an evening vigil Wednesday to display solidarity with sexual assault ...
Less than a week before the Nov. 4 general election, gubernatorial candidates Democrat Gina Raimondo and Republican Allan Fung are in a statistical tie for the lead, according to a Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions poll released Tuesday. This newest poll comes just five days ...
UNC academic fraud scandal increased students’ athletic eligibility, report reveals Administrators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill released a report Oct. 22 that revealed new information about a two-decade-long academic fraud scheme involving the university’s varsity athletes. ...
The University’s deficit and progress in meeting its sustainability goals took center stage Tuesday at the Brown University Community Council’s second meeting of the semester. The Student Labor Alliance also delivered a presentation reflecting on the University’s decision to outsource mail operations, ...
Travel and Leisure Magazine named Providence “America’s Favorite City” in their annual rankings, which were compiled from the results of a 50,000-vote online survey about 38 cities across the country and are included in the magazine’s November issue. Providence also ranked first in three subcategories ...
A fatal shooting last Wednesday in the North End’s Chad Brown housing development revived memories of the neighborhood’s history of gun violence. Terry Robinson, a 22-year-old Providence resident, was fatally shot after attending the arraignment hearing of Justice Andrade, a suspect in the murder ...
As a recent national study predicts that job opportunities for the graduating class of 2015 will increase by 16 percent, CareerLAB has seen signs of a strong hiring cycle for Brown seniors, administrators said. There have been more job postings on the Job and Internship Board and more technology companies ...
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