When Jorge Elorza announced he was stepping down as a judge on the Providence Housing Court, analysts across the city speculated he was planning a run for mayor. The seat will most likely be empty as the incumbent, current Mayor Angel Taveras, is widely expected to run for governor next year rather ...
President Obama will nominate Janet Yellen ’67, current vice chair of the Federal Reserve’s Board of Governors, for the Federal Reserve Chair position today, the White House announced Tuesday. If confirmed, Yellen would be the first woman to lead the bank in its 100-year history. Ben Bernanke, ...
The number of students entering employment immediately after graduation increased from 56 percent in 2009 to 65 percent in 2012, according to a survey conducted by CareerLAB. Of the 1,321 members of the class of 2012 who responded to the survey, 24 percent alternatively pursued full-time graduate or ...
Brown Concert Agency held its first of many open forums to inform the student body of the Spring Weekend planning process and solicit student opinions yesterday at 6 p.m. in Salomon 101. “We want to reach out to the student body, and we want them to understand the process of the concert planning ...
Skunks have been frequently sighted by students around residence halls and campus eateries this year, but University administrators said they have not dealt with any skunk incidents. Students said they have seen the animals on various campus quads and outside multiple buildings in recent weeks, and ...
Brown Dining Services officials said the program’s policy for to-go meals remains unchanged this year, despite some students’ perception that the office has recently implemented a stricter approach to take-out meals. Students taking to-go meals from University eateries must inform Dining Services ...
Director of the Rhode Island Division of Elderly Affairs Catherine Taylor called on students and local residents to boost local awareness about Alzheimer’s disease and other issues facing the elderly in a lecture Monday night. Stephen Gresham ’83, adjunct lecturer in public policy, urged those ...
Last week’s naming of an interim dean and the members of the search committee marks the start of the process to identify Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron’s long-term successor. Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn will serve as interim dean from January until ...
Talk of the government shutdown and American foreign policy dominated a Monday evening event that featured President Obama’s former adviser Thomas Donilon — with Donilon saying a prolonged government shutdown could severely damage the country’s economy and credibility. In a conversational format, ...
The Rhodes Scholarship program may expand to allow applicants from Brazil, China and Russia after receiving an almost $120 million donation last month, multiple news outlets reported. Rhodes Scholarships are currently restricted to citizens of the United States, some British Commonwealth nations and ...
Three Rhode Island libraries will receive $800,000 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services National Leadership Grants program, with the grants going to Providence Community Library, Providence Public Library and University of Rhode Island Library System. The initiatives funded by the grant ...
The following is an account of crime events that took place this weekend, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley: Between Friday evening and Saturday afternoon A MacBook Pro laptop was reported stolen from an Andrews Hall lounge Saturday afternoon. ...
The University has seen an escalation in cyber-attacks in recent months and is spotting thousands of attacks from foreign sources every day, said Chief Information Security Officer David Sherry. Though he declined to give a more precise estimate, Sherry said the number of attempts to breach the University’s ...
Student leaders from all eight Ivy League institutions gathered on campus this weekend to share ideas for improving their universities’ student governments at the 14th annual Ivy Leadership Summit. The two-day conference, which focused on a theme of “The Digital Future,” featured addresses by ...
The Meiklejohn Leadership Committee launched a Facebook page called “Brown Advisors” Aug. 30 in order to create a digital forum for students to ask their peers questions related to Brown academics, extracurriculars and social life. Brown Advisors allows students to ask questions anonymously and ...
The number of reported forcible sex offenses and robberies at Brown increased significantly from 2011 to 2012, while the number of reported burglaries fell by almost 50 percent, according to the 2013 Annual Security Report released by the Department of Public Safety last week. The number of total reported ...
A proposal addressing environment and society has been chosen as one of the University’s two Signature Academic Initiatives to be supported under the strategic plan, serving as major hubs of scholarship and research, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 wrote in an email to the faculty last month. The Humanity-Centered ...
The Office of Residential Life plans to remove gender-neutral signs outside restrooms in Keeney Quadrangle and reinstate gender-specific restrooms, a decision that has been met with pushback from some students. Gender-neutral signs outside the restrooms were mistakenly put up during renovations this ...
Responding to student and faculty feedback, President Christina Paxson said at an open forum Wednesday she will revise her strategic plan to use the term “university-college” and explicitly commit to advising. The forum was part of the Undergraduate Council of Students’ weekly general body meeting. Paxson’s ...
Visiting mathematics graduate student Yongfei Ci, arrested for allegedly stabbing his ex-girlfriend to death last Friday, was arraigned Monday. He will face a preliminary hearing Oct. 22, said Nedra Lafenhagen, clerk at the Champaign County Satellite Jail in Illinois, where Ci is currently in custody. Ci ...
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