New students fought intermittent downpours, flooded streets and echoes of thunder to celebrate the opening of the University’s 250th academic year yesterday on the Main Green. After officially commencing the new year, President Christina Paxson welcomed the 1,537 members of the class of 2017, 120 ...
Four armed robberies took place on campus this summer, leaving one student injured, according to Department of Public Safety crime alerts. Two students were robbed together by a male with dark skin armed with a knife on Waterman Street around 11 p.m. on June 24. One student was robbed at gunpoint by ...
The University may undertake an extensive renovation of the Dynamo House, a former power plant in the Jewelry District, in partnership with the nursing programs at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College and a private developer, President Christina Paxson announced in a school-wide email ...
After years of mounting investigations into alleged insider trading at his hedge fund, Corporation Trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16 took two big hits this summer when federal authorities filed a civil case against him and criminal charges against the fund, SAC Capital Advisors L.P. Administrators ...
Don Hasseltine, vice president for external relations at Carleton College, joined the University as the new vice president for development Aug. 1. Hasseltine will work alongside Senior Vice President for Advancement Patricia Watson on several fundraising initiatives, including an upcoming capital campaign ...
About 20 Brown students marched Monday to Old Navy at the Providence Place Mall, where they joined the Rhode Island Jobs with Justice coalition to mark Labor Day by rallying for workers’ rights both abroad and closer to home. Around 100 protesters — including members of the Brown Student Labor ...
In the final hours of the 2013 legislative session, the Rhode Island Senate and House of Representatives passed a joint resolution calling on the state Board of Education to stop a controversial high school graduation requirement developed by Education Commissioner Deborah Gist, set to take effect at ...
Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will leave the University to become president of Connecticut College beginning Jan. 1. She will continue her duties as dean this fall. Bergeron has been a prominent voice in President Christina Paxson’s strategic planning efforts and recently emerged as a major ...
Rhode Island became the 10th state in the country to begin offering marriage certificates to same-sex couples Aug. 1. Same-sex couples across the state celebrated the day with weddings and by trading in their “civil union” licenses for marriage certificates. The bill legalizing same-sex marriage ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’17 announced May 29 that he will join the Democratic Party, setting the stage for what analysts anticipate will be a heated three-way Democratic primary during the 2014 gubernatorial election. Chafee was the nation’s only independent governor during his first ...
Four members of the Westboro Baptist Church staged pickets across the state Aug. 1 to protest Rhode Island’s first day recognizing same-sex marriage. They protested at Cranston City Hall, Providence City Hall, the Rhode Island State House, Pawtucket City Hall and Brown, meeting crowds of counter-protesters ...
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Behavioral and Social Sciences Bruce Becker pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of procuring alcohol for a minor at his arraignment in Providence District Court Wednesday. Becker, a researcher at the University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, ...
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Federal officials announced an indictment Thursday of Corporation trustee Steven A. Cohen’s P’08 P’16 hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors L.P. for multiple counts of fraud. The indictment did not include any charges against Cohen himself. Prosecutors allege that multiple divisions and employees ...
Ravi Pendse, former vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Wichita State University, was named vice president for computing and information services and chief information officer in a University press release July 11. Pendse, who had been at Wichita State since he ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil case Friday against Corporation trustee Steven A. Cohen P’08 P’16 for “failing to supervise” managers accused of insider trading at SAC Capital Advisors L.P., the powerful hedge fund he founded and owns, federal regulators announced. The ...
Thomas Perez ’83 received Senate confirmation to be the new U.S. Secretary of Labor July 18, becoming the first Brown alum to hold a Cabinet-level position in 12 years. Richard Holbrooke ’62, a former Herald editor-in-chief, was the last alum to reach that level of the executive branch, serving ...
After a series of recent armed robberies, the Department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department have stepped up their security presence around campus, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The most recent incidents occurred July 1, when two students were robbed at gunpoint ...
Jack Elias, a physician and chair of internal medicine at Yale Medical School, assumed his role as the new dean of medicine and biological sciences Sept. 1. He replaced Provost Mark Schlissel P’15, who served as interim dean after former dean Edward Wing stepped down at the end of June. Wing had held ...
The University may undertake an extensive renovation of the Dynamo House, a former power plant in the Jewelry District, in partnership with the nursing programs at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College and a private developer, President Christina Paxson announced in a school-wide email ...
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