Forty-two percent of students did not practice a religion before coming to the University and still do not practice a religion, according to a Herald poll conducted in March. Twenty-nine percent of students said they practice the same religion with the same commitment level as they did before coming ...
Online food-ordering service Crunchbutton, which delivered Josiah’s spicy chicken sandwiches with cheese for a short period at the end of last semester, is embroiled in a legal dispute with the University that may result in a lawsuit, Xconomy reported earlier this month. Crunchbutton, which is based ...
In this week’s Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board elections, Brown may battle historically low voter turnout compared to peer institutions. The University had the lowest voter turnout for student government elections in the Ivy League last year, the Daily Pennsylvanian ...
Applicant interest in the Resumed Undergraduate Education program has declined over the past few years, which University administrators and RUE students attributed to limited financial aid, a lack of name recognition for the program and changes in the expected course load. Approximately four RUE students ...
Undocumented students have been able to receive financial aid from the University for at least seven years. But this fact was not readily available online until March 21, when the Office of Financial Aid updated the frequently asked questions section of its website to include information for undocumented ...
A proposal to change the name of and requirements for the community health concentration is pending approval from the College Curriculum Council, a body that reviews undergraduate curricula, said Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences William Rakowski. This is an appropriate time to “align (the ...
Candidates for Undergraduate Council of Students and Undergraduate Finance Board leadership positions confronted questions of need-blind admission, student government transparency, community engagement and student activities funding at the candidate debate Thursday night. The UCS presidential candidates ...
Signaling the start of a $160 million campaign to develop the School of Engineering, the University announced Wednesday morning the school’s receipt of two gifts totaling $44 million. New engineering facilities will be built adjacent to Barus and Holley, where the School of Engineering is currently ...
Domestic violence Under legislation introduced in the House by Rep. Michael Marcello, D-Cranston, state courts would be permitted to order certain convicted domestic violence perpetrators “to wear an electronic monitoring device,” according to a General Assembly press release. Marcello’s legislation ...
Legislation decriminalizing marijuana in Rhode Island went into effect last week. First introduced in 2010 by Rep. John Edwards, D-Tiverton and Portsmouth, the bill passed in the General Assembly last year. Individuals possessing less than one ounce of marijuana will be fined $150 instead of facing ...
Providence has set a 2014 start date for Providence Talks, the program for which it won a $5 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies in March. The city will work with a Brown research team to collect data, monitor the program’s progress and assess its effectiveness in improving the vocabulary ...
When Betty Anne Waters was 29, her older brother Kenny was wrongfully accused of murder and sent to prison. She spent the next 18 years fighting for justice, enrolling in community college and then going to law school so she could one day prove his innocence in court. Waters spoke to students about ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students expressed concern at the council’s general body meeting Wednesday that the new voting system — Qualtrics — being used for this year’s student government elections could decrease voter turnout. Students will vote this week through a survey on ...
The recent recession in the United States has had a noticeably different impact across racial and gender demographics, said Margaret Simms, an economist and fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C., at a lecture yesterday. Simms used economic data to address the Obama administration’s response ...
President Christina Paxson assembled an ad hoc committee of six Corporation members to discuss whether the University should divest from coal, Paxson wrote in a guest column slated to run in Monday’s Herald. The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies recommended to ...
The annual housing lottery’s first night saw scenes of both excitement and disappointment yesterday evening as rising juniors and seniors chose housing for the next academic year. The event began promptly at 6 p.m., with the goal of getting through 130 lottery numbers per hour. Students crowded the ...
The School of Engineering received gifts totaling $44 million, signaling the beginning of a $160 million campaign to expand the school, the University announced Wednesday morning. New engineering facilities will also be built adjacent to Barus and Holley, where the school is currently housed, said ...
Over two-thirds of students believe the University should offer minors, according to the Herald poll conducted in March. Roughly sixty-one percent of students would pursue a minor, while 6 percent said they would not pursue a minor but feel the option should be offered. Twenty-three percent of students ...
While an improvement in the United States’ mental health care system would be “amazing, ... we should be frank about what (reductions in violence) we’re going to see,” said Richard Friedman, Cornell professor of clinical psychiatry, director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell ...
As the semester nears its end, most students and faculty members said making up for the day of classes lost due to Winter Storm Nemo has not proved particularly inconvenient. After the storm caused classes to be canceled Friday, Feb. 8, the University chose to shorten reading period by one day to make ...
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