“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 ...
Charged with the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend last September, Yongfei Ci — at the time of the crime a visiting graduate student at Brown’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics — was sentenced to 46 years behind bars last week, the News-Gazette in Champaign, ...
Two Brown undergraduates were asked to leave campus in late April amidst a criminal investigation by the Providence Police Department into an allegation that the students sexually assaulted a female Providence College student in November, the Providence Journal reported Friday. Both Brown students ...
Maud Mandel, professor of history and Judaic studies and director of the Program in Judaic Studies, assumed the dean of the College position July 1. Mandel’s selection as the University’s top academic officer for undergraduates concludes a national search that began last October, shortly after ...
Former visiting mathematics graduate student Yongfei Ci pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder in the fatal stabbing of his ex-girlfriend, Mengchen Huang, last fall, reported the News-Gazette in Champaign, Illinois. Ci faces a maximum sentence of 60 years in prison. Huang was found dead in her ...
Corporation members discussed the University’s sexual assault policies with students and reviewed ongoing efforts to implement President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and revamp the Third World Center during their meeting Friday. Academic planning, gift announcements and campus development ...
Amidst the celebration of Brown’s 250th anniversary, the University awarded 2,440 diplomas Sunday to the class of 2014, including 1,594 bachelor’s degrees. The ceremonies began Saturday with the Baccalaureate service held at the Meeting House of the First Baptist Church in America. The service ...
Increased resources for the Office of Institutional Diversity, new diversity benchmarks for undergraduate and graduate student support, and more targeted hiring practices were among the main recommendations released May 20 by the Committee on the Events of October 29 in its second and final report. The ...
Updated May 23, 2014 at 3:17 p.m. Legal Momentum, a nonprofit advocating for women’s legal rights, has filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Education against the University for alleged violations of Title IX and the Clery Act on behalf of Lena Sclove ’15.5, who was allegedly raped by another ...
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