Six new faculty members will join the School of Engineering this year as part of an ongoing expansion. The new hires will arrive following the University’s April announcement of a new $160 million campaign to grow the School of Engineering, which will include investments in personnel and building ...
Thirty-one graduates from the class of 2013 joined the Teach for America corps this year, compared to 36 members of the class of 2012 last year, according to data from TFA and CareerLAB. The number of Brown students entering TFA places Brown 10th among mid-sized schools, or institutions with between ...
A Brown student who was assaulted on Thayer Street in May has returned home and is recuperating after having spent nearly two months in the hospital with severe head injuries. Joseph Sharkey ’15 had been placed on life support at Rhode Island Hospital following the May 12 assault, which left him ...
The Syrian civil war “is not a clear-cut situation of right and wrong,” said Beshara Doumani, director of Middle East Studies and professor of history, Monday afternoon while introducing a teach-in on the crisis sponsored by the Middle East Studies program. The teach-in, designed to explain and ...
A partially naked male was allegedly seen masturbating on the lawn of a home on John Street near Brook Street by four students just before 10 p.m. Saturday, wrote Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety, in an email to The Herald. Shira Atkins ’14 was part of the ...
Employers in Rhode Island can no longer ask job applicants about their criminal backgrounds, following the implementation of a law Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 signed July 15. “This provides basic protections from discrimination for people with a criminal record,” said Rep. Scott Slater, ...
A bill that would have allowed Rhode Islanders to purchase license plates inscribed with “Choose Life” was vetoed by Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 in July. Part of the revenue generated by the plates’ sales would have been donated to CareNet, a faith-based pregnancy resource center that ...
Rhode Island’s Department of Education and Department of Labor and Training will split a $670,000 federal Workforce Investment Act grant, Gov. Linoln Chafee’s ’75 P’14 P’17 office announced earlier this month. The U.S Department of Labor allocates grants through the Workforce Investment Act ...
Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron’s planned departure from the University this December marks the latest in a spate of high-level administrative changes at the University. When Bergeron vacates the deanship this winter, 10 of 19 senior staff positions — including the presidency — will have ...
Two masked men robbed four students early Saturday morning near the intersection of Cooke and Benevolent streets, the Department of Public Safety announced in a community-wide email Saturday. Earlier the same night, the suspects allegedly stole a laptop from a student’s house. The crimes mark the ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will hold internal elections this fall to fill vacant executive board and liaison positions. The internal elections — which will take place Sept. 18 at the council’s first general body meeting — will allow first-years to gain key student leadership roles if ...
The decades-long saga of the University’s missing Civil War-era sword can finally be put to rest. The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia ruled June 4 that a sword that disappeared from the University’s archives in the 1970s be returned to campus. The ruling ended a two-year ...
The Providence Police Department has seen significant cuts to its federal funding in recent years, with grants decreasing by 92 percent — from $2.9 million in 2010-11 to $243,000 in 2012-2013. The department’s 2014 budget totaled $65.5 million, a $5 million increase over the previous year, but ...
Twenty-four classes were held without power, and 10 were moved from Sayles Hall to alternate locations between 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. Wednesday, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and University relations in an email to The Herald. Fifteen campus buildings lost power due to a damaged ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 will not seek re-election next year, he announced Wednesday. “After talking to my family over the course of the summer, I thought the time was good now to tell Rhode Islanders, ‘You’re going to see Linc Chafee devoting all his time and energy to the issues ...
Featuring sunshine and post-summer reunions, this year’s first day of classes presented an extra complication beyond the usual challenges of shopping period, as Wednesday evening marked the beginning of the Jewish holiday Rosh Hashanah. Because of the conflict between the first days of classes and ...
University administrators are slated to undergo a standard review the Student Code of Conduct. This comes in the wake of a large increase in code violations over recent years. The review process — which occurs every five years and examines the code’s rules governing students’ academic and social ...
The University launched its first executive education program last month with the new Executive Master of Health Care Leadership, a course of study focused on innovations and changes in health care. As Brown’s first executive education program, the EMHL comes amid administrators’ plans to consider ...
Rhode Island will completely eliminate the 7 percent sales tax on wine and spirits Dec. 1, though the state’s sales tax on beer will remain. The change was approved in June when the General Assembly passed the 2014 state budget. Rep. Jan Malik, D-Barrington, Warren, who owns a liquor store in the ...
Three years after winning a Race to the Top federal education grant, Rhode Island is in its last year of spending the $75 million award. As of August, Rhode Island has used $44.4 million of the grant, said Elliot Krieger, spokesperson for the Rhode Island Department of Education. Half of the grant ...
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