The Writing Center transitioned to a new online sign-up system this fall, allowing students to schedule appointments directly through the center’s website instead of by emailing the coordinators. The Writing Center collaborated over the past year with Applications Developer and Analyst Jason Orrill ...
The Third World Center will likely have a new name as early as September 2014, said Mary Almandrez, director of the Third World Center and assistant dean of the College. The name change was recommended in a program review, which combined results of both a March self-study by the center’s staff members ...
The Thayer Street Planning Study committee, several Providence city departments and a collection of private consulting firms have been working with the public over recent months to envision what the future may hold for a several-block area surrounding Thayer Street. The study is still in draft form, ...
The University’s School of Public Health received a $1.9 million grant to launch a teaching and research collaboration with the University of Cape Town in South Africa to explore innovative ways to manage the HIV epidemic, said Mark Lurie, assistant professor of epidemiology and co-principal investigator ...
Under the direction of new Chief Information Officer Ravi Pendse, the University may see increased emphasis on corporate funding in research. The University plans to expand all research at Brown, which includes research funded by corporations, said Vice President for Research David Savitz. Pendse, ...
After Chobani announced a voluntary recall of products made in its Twin Falls, Idaho plant earlier this month due to a mold contamination, Brown Dining Services pulled all cups of the Greek yogurt from its eateries, only to put them back on its shelves yesterday. At least 89 people across the country ...
Though the study to determine the future of Thayer Street’s infrastructure is still being developed, other changes centering around security and regulation in the area are now or may soon be in effect. The Thayer Street District Management Authority held a meeting in June attended by many safety ...
Under new proposals, Thayer Street could receive a facelift featuring new building guidelines, a hotel and beautification projects as stakeholders consider a variety of proposals to reinvigorate the area’s landscape and culture while preserving its character. Attendees of a public meeting held ...
As plans for a variety of changes to Thayer Street continue to develop, stakeholder members of the Thayer Street Planning Study committee have a range of ideas for the issues surrounding parking and transportation to increase access and bring more business to the area. Most community organizations ...
The University will soon launch a pilot program to expand Brown OnCall, the nighttime shuttle service currently available only to students living off-campus, President Christina Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Wednesday. A task force headed by Executive Vice President for Policy and Planning ...
Michigan State relieves professor of teaching duties after politically charged comments A creative writing professor at Michigan State University was suspended from his teaching responsibilities after making controversial statements on the first day of class. A student captured the remarks on a video ...
Twelve years ago today, students, faculty members, administrators and staff members were reeling from the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Below are some of their reactions. “We need to be enormously open to each other, and good to each other, and not traffic in stereotypes.” — University ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 announced Sept. 4 he will not seek re-election in the 2014 gubernatorial race, presumably marking the end of his 27-year career in Rhode Island politics. Having served on the Warwick City Council, as mayor of Warwick and in the U.S. Senate, Chafee told reporters ...
Nearly 11 months after President Christina Paxson announced the formation of two ad hoc working groups to focus on campus master planning and digital technology, the campus planning task force has completed its work, while the digital technology committee has been in a holding pattern, wrote Marisa ...
After 97 percent of potential hires who were offered tenured or tenure-track positions in the 2012-13 academic year accepted their positions at Brown, the University will try to curtail its hiring push in the coming year while looking to grow faculty diversity, a priority previously emphasized in President ...
The Office of the Dean of the College has launched a search committee to select a new English as a Second Language Coordinator in the Writing Center, said Douglas Brown, director of writing support programs in the Writing Center. The search comes in the wake of former ESL Coordinator Ashley Ferranti’s ...
Construction began on the state’s first capped-landfill solar field last month, the result of more than three years of planning. The former Forbes Street Landfill, which was in use from 1969 to 1979, will now house 13,000 solar panels and generate 3.7 megawatts of electricity — enough to power nearly ...
Rhode Island-based renewable energy company Deepwater Wind won the first federal auction for offshore wind development, paying $3.8 million for 164,000 acres of ocean on the Atlantic seaboard between Rhode Island and Massachusetts. The lease for the Deepwater Wind Energy Center has not been officially ...
Several cultural groups — that in recent years have felt underfunded by the Undergraduate Finance Board — are supplementing their official UFB funding with unreported cash to afford putting on festivals and events, The Herald learned from interviews with cultural group leaders. Though the board ...
Students who are children or legal dependants of same-sex couples may gain access to more generous federal financial aid in the wake of the Supreme Court’s June decision striking down the Defense of Marriage Act, though the University’s financial aid policy will not change. The Court’s decision ...
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