This fall, the first urban greenhouse in Providence will be built on a vacant lot at 433 Prairie Ave., according to a press release from the City of Providence’s Office of Sustainability and Healthy Communities Office. The project was funded by the Lots of Hope program, which transforms empty city-owned ...
As shopping period kicked off Wednesday with a sunny start, the Main Green came to life with clusters of students catching up and sprawling out between classes. “The weather is nice,” Carlin Smith ’18 said while sitting in a circle on the grass with a group of fellow first-years. The group had ...
A year after Rhode Island implemented Common Core across its public school systems, some parents and stakeholders in the debate have raised concerns about the initiative’s efficacy and interference with local control of education. But as activists in some school districts call for the ability to opt ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will focus this year on improving sexual assault policy, mental health services and student resources such as financial aid and technology access, UCS leaders said. Many efforts that began last spring to reform the University’s sexual assault policy will continue ...
President Christina Paxson and Mayor Angel Taveras will cut a ribbon to symbolize the official opening of the “new and improved” Thayer Street commercial district on Sept. 28 during the Festival Fete Thayer Street art festival, said Donna Personeus, executive director for the Thayer Street District ...
A committee is currently reviewing applications from across the country for the role of director of the CareerLAB, in the wake of former CareerLAB Director Andrew Simmons’ assumption of the role of associate dean for graduate student career advising. Jim Amspacher, career adviser for Careers in the ...
Free speech, diversity and research emerged as key issues for faculty during this academic year at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. President Christina Paxson took the podium to speak about both financial and campus life issues — touching most specifically on diversity and freedom of speech on campus. “These ...
A new generation of first-years marched through the Van Wickle Gates and onto the Main Green to mark the start of Brown’s 251st academic year yesterday afternoon. President Christina Paxson kicked off the ceremony, declaring the academic year officially in swing and inviting applause for the students ...
“I love talking to students; so do my two poodles. So please stop and say hello,” President Christina Paxson said in her welcome address to first-years and parents Sunday. Paxson spoke to a crowd assembled on the Main Green beneath a muggy, overcast sky. Besides urging students to approach her ...
A grand jury this week chose not to indict two Brown undergraduates accused of sexually assaulting a female Providence College student last November, news outlets reported Monday. The two Brown students, who were both first-years at the time of the alleged incident, were asked to leave campus in late ...
Stephen Rodrigues’ loved ones remember him in many ways: as a lover of the Earth, a thoughtful poet, a late-night conversationalist and, in the words of friend Michaela Lewis ’13, a “gentle soul.” “Stephen was an exuberant and creative spirit with an amazing laugh, tremendous curiosity, a ...
Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, will retire in February after more than 12 years in the position, President Christina Paxson announced in a campus-wide email Wednesday. Huidekoper came to Brown in October 2002 after serving as Harvard’s vice president for ...
Updated July 30 at 8:00 p.m. Stephen Rodrigues, an undergraduate on leave from the University, has died, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Saturday. He was 26. Rodrigues, originally from Encinitas, California, was living in Providence at the time of his death, Paxson wrote. ...
Mark St. Louis ’15 was an asker of questions and a seeker of answers. “He was always excited about everything, about learning so many different things,” Maris Jones ’15 said. “It didn’t matter if it wasn’t his area, because obviously if you were interested in it, then there was something ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation of the University’s handling of sexual assault cases July 10, adding Brown to a list of 68 colleges and universities currently under federal investigation for Title IX violations regarding sexual assault. The department ...
More than 40 students, staff members and community members gathered on the Faunce House steps Thursday to protest the University’s decision to outsource mailroom operations to office technology company Ricoh USA, a change set to take effect Aug. 1. Through Facebook posts and flyers, the protest’s ...
Updated Thursday, July 24 at 11:15 p.m. Mark St. Louis ’15 died on Friday, July 18. President Christina Paxson first announced his death in a community-wide email Sunday morning. St. Louis, 21, was a neuroscience concentrator from Atlanta. He graduated from the United World College of the Adriatic ...
Rebecca Molholt Vanel, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, strongly believed in engaging with an object’s historical context. Lying on the floors of exalted art galleries, she would often risk a scolding from a security guard in her quest to see an ancient Roman mosaic from the ...
A supporter of former Mayor Vincent "Buddy" Cianci filed Cianci’s declaration to run for the office again Wednesday, 17 minutes before the deadline, the Providence Journal reported. Cianci served as mayor of Providence between 1975 and 1984 and again between 1991 and 2002, during which he was convicted ...
Beginning Aug. 1, the University will work with office technology company Ricoh USA to improve mail delivery operations on campus, wrote Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, in an email to The Herald. As a result of this decision, current Mail Services employees ...
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