Today is Election Day, marking the end to an election season in Rhode Island that was full of memorable candidates, contentious debates, surprising endorsements and visits from national politicians. The gubernatorial election will result in either the state’s first non-white or non-male governor. ...
Today Rhode Island voters will head to the voting booths, where they will decide seven ballot measures — two constitutional amendments, one automatic ballot referral and four bond issues. Questions 1 and 2 The ballot’s first two questions will determine the future of gambling in Rhode ...
Yale School of Medicine faces criticism over sexual harassment case handling Faculty members at the Yale School of Medicine have voiced concern over the school’s handling of a sexual harassment allegation, the New York Times reported Saturday. The university announced last week that Michael Simons, ...
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 11:55 p.m. The University’s efforts to better comply with the federal Title IX act have been delayed, as the deadlines for a final report from the Task Force on Sexual Assault and the addition of a Title IX Program Officer have been extended. The task force, charged with ...
Before most Rhode Islanders reach for their morning coffee today, poll workers across the state will have begun feeding ballots into voting machines, which they will continue to do throughout the day, watching the number of votes cast tick upward in what could become a critical election year. These ...
President Obama emphasized the need for an economy that encourages more women to be active in the workforce during a speech at Rhode Island College Oct. 31. More than 1,000 attendees turned out to hear his pitch on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial nominee and General Treasurer Gina Raimondo. Obama ...
When Caitlin Trujillo ’12 disagreed with the way Kansas legislators were handling issues of concern to constituents, she knew she wanted to take matters into her own hands. Lawmakers “were advancing legislation that I felt was detrimental to the state of Kansas and overlooking issues that we really ...
The Jewelry District’s South Street Power Station, commonly known as the Dynamo House, will undergo an extensive renovation starting in December or January, the Corporation announced following its October meeting. In the following weeks, the University will sign a lease with private developer Commonwealth ...
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 ...
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