Rhode Islanders will vote this November on whether to allow the Newport Grand casino to open table games, a proposition that can only pass if a majority of Newport residents also vote in favor of it. The state’s voters will also vote to amend the Rhode Island Constitution to require that a vote be ...
Rhode Island could make history this year by electing its first female governor, as well as possibly its second female lieutenant governor and third female secretary of state, in November’s general election. There are three female candidates currently vying for various state-level positions — ...
“Let me take you to some planets I’ve visited and tell you some stories,” said Ken Auletta, long-time columnist for the New Yorker and author of 11 books, inviting his audience to travel with him to the Lehman Brothers offices and dinner dates with Rupert Murdoch. Auletta, who spoke Monday evening ...
Referencing the French economist and author of “Capital in the Twenty-First Century” at a forum Monday on the Scottish independence vote, Mark Blyth, professor of international political economy, described the campaign for independence as the world’s first “Pikettyesque referendum.” The themes ...
Former Director of the Swearer Center for Public Service Roger Nozaki MAT’89 has resigned and will remain in his role as a policy adviser at the U.S. Department of Education permanently, wrote Dean of the College Maud Mandel in an email to The Herald Friday. Kate Trimble, former deputy director of ...
In an effort to expand its offerings for medical students, the Writing Center is designing an extension of the Writing Fellows program that will reside at the Alpert Medical School, said Kathleen McSharry, associate dean of the College for writing and curriculum. The program is slated to begin next ...
In July, the Office of the Dean of the Faculty released the second edition of the Brown Sabbatical Research Newsletter, a publication showcasing research pursued by faculty members on sabbatical over the past year. Brown is the only university with a publication of this kind, said Dean of the Faculty ...
Colorful balloons dotted campus this weekend, guiding participants in the seventh annual A Better World by Design, a three-day conference at Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design that aims to bring together those interested in making an influence on the world. Known for short as “ABWxD,” ...
It was not cars, trucks and motorcycles but baby goats, peace flags and beanbags filling parking spots around Providence Friday as part of the reimagining of urban space during the city’s second annual celebration of Park(ing) Day. Organizers of Park(ing) Day have designated the third Friday in September ...
Reflecting on Marjorie Thompson ’74 PhD’79 P’02 P’07 P’09 P’12 P’14 P’16 this week, colleagues and friends repeatedly used a number of words and phrases: “Remarkable.” “Incredible.” “So dedicated to her students.” “A mother to everyone.” “A force to be reckoned with.” Remembered ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students has selected four undergraduate representatives to serve on the Task Force on Sexual Assault announced by President Christina Paxson in a May letter to the Brown community. The selections were announced at Tuesday’s BUCC meeting. Katherine Byron ’15, Justice ...
The speakers at the 10th annual Business Innovation Factory Summit all have one thing in common: They want to shake things up. The featured storytellers and audience members descended on the Trinity Repertory Company in downtown Providence Wednesday and Thursday, a congregation of “innovation junkies,” ...
The Brown University Community Council laid out plans Thursday for a sexual assault task force, as well as for programs that aim to promote discourse about privilege, power and oppression following the Ray Kelly incident last October, addressing two topics that sparked heated campus controversy last ...
Rhode Island’s capital city may be the safest it has been in decades. This year, there have been 186 fewer reports of burglary, 83 fewer reports of robbery and 65 fewer reports of aggravated assault with a firearm than last year, according to the Providence Police Department’s Weekly Crime Comparison ...
The Rhode Island Department of Health unveiled new numbers earlier this month on the rise of heroin and opioid overdoses in the state during the first session of a six-part seminar on addiction and recovery. As of Sept. 2, there have been 142 fatal overdoses reported this year in the state, the majority ...
As shopping period draws to a close, enrollment in some of the seven sophomore seminars being offered this semester remains low, with only two out of the seven seminars filling all 20 of their seats. Thirteen sophomore seminars are being taught in the 2014-2015 academic year as part of the updated ...
The Council on Elementary and Secondary Education voted Sept. 8 to hold public hearings on Rhode Island Education Commissioner Deborah Gist’s recommendation to delay the implementation of the standardized exam high school graduation requirement from 2017 to 2020. Gist’s recommendation — made in ...
Super PACs, access to government officials and donation caps emerged as critical points of discussion at a Janus Forum debate on campaign finance Wednesday evening. The event featured Lawrence Lessig, professor of law at Harvard, and Eugene Volokh, professor of law at the University of California at ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students filled eight leadership positions, including two positions on the executive board, during internal elections at its first general body meeting of the semester Wednesday night. Andrea Wistuba-Behrens ’16 was re-elected UCS secretary, a role on the executive ...
For the first time in state history, the next governor of Rhode Island will most likely not be a white man. With Gina Raimondo as the Democratic candidate and Allan Fung as the Republican candidate, the winner of November’s gubernatorial race almost certainly will be either the state’s first female ...
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