The Millenium Development Goals passed by the United Nations in 2000 have not progressed as far as publicized statistics indicate, said Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy and international affairs and the director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, in a lecture Wednesday night. Pogge’s talk, ...
Graduate students suggested increasing involvement in the design and teaching of online undergraduate courses and observing and applying effective program techniques from the undergraduate level to graduate disciplines, during an open forum hosted by the Committee on Doctoral Education. The forum was ...
The strategic planning Committee on Financial Aid stressed the importance of lowering the summer earnings expectation and implementing need-blind admissions for international applicants at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ meeting Wednesday. Reducing the summer earnings expectation represents ...
Homecoming for soldiers State legislators have introduced several bills intended to aid Rhode Island’s veterans as they return home from overseas deployments. The bills come in response to the recommendations of the state’s “Rhode Back Home” report, which detailed the current state ...
Feb. 28, 1963 The Interfraternity Council fined the Brown chapter of Psi Upsilon $200 for serving alcohol to freshman pledges. The president of the IFC, James Seed ’63 P’02, told The Herald the fraternity had committed a “flagrant violation of rushing rules.” If the fraternity denied the claim ...
Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence and Johnston, introduced legislation in the General Assembly that would place a $50 fee per semester on every out-of-state student attending Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and Johnson and Wales University Feb. 14. The money raised from this fee would cover ...
Marion Orr, professor of public policy and political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, co-authored “Anxieties of an Ethnic Transition” in the Urban Affairs Review in October. The article deals with the tensions and increased anxieties regarding ...
Rhode Island led the nation in the gender gap for high school dropout rates in the 2009-10 academic year, according to a 2013 study by the Department of Education. The data showed that 5.5 percent of male high school students dropped out, compared to 3.8 percent of female students — a difference ...
In 1986, Students Against Testing submitted a referendum to the Undergraduate Council of Students urging the University to stop requiring applicants to submit SAT scores. Mark Safire ’87, co-founder of Students Against Testing, raised issues that still echo among applicants and students today. “It’s ...
Health care reform in Massachusetts in 2006 influenced both the success and politics of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act passed in 2010, said Nancy Turnbull, senior lecturer in health policy at the Harvard School of Public Health, who helped former Governor Mitt Romney create the ...
The United States needs to legalize marijuana, decriminalize drug possession and combat the black market for drugs to the greatest extent possible, said Ethan Nadelmann, executive director of the Drug Policy Alliance, to a crowd of close to 70 people at the Watson Institute for International Studies ...
Data from the MyCampus survey confirmed University hypotheses about how students and community members use and perceive the campus, said Russell Carey, executive vice president for planning and policy and chair of the Committee on Reimagining the Campus and Community, at Tuesday’s Brown University ...
In response to claims that the Ivy League uses quotas when admitting Asian American students, Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 said the University does not use quotas or discriminate against any ethnic group in determining who is admitted to Brown. Several commentators alleged that the constancy ...
The Community Research Needs Database is part of a new independent studies initiative launched this semester, aimed to match students with local nonprofit organizations and help them with research, according to the Curricular Resource Center website. “A lot of local nonprofits are short-staffed, ...
Being healthy isn’t about weight or eating a salad, University Nutritionist Annie Buffington said Monday night. Instead, students should listen to their bodies — and in listening, they can figure out what they need, rather than what society thinks they need. “It’s so sad that we live in a culture ...
Offering insight on big questions surrounding God, Life and the Pursuit of Happiness, John Lennox, professor of mathematics at the University of Oxford, led an interactive discussion Friday with students, faculty members and community members. The event was hosted by the Veritas Forum and co-sponsored ...
Following the release of their interim reports in January, President Christina Paxson’s six strategic planning committees are gathering faculty input through a series of discussions and forums that will continue through the semester. The committees will use the feedback as they finalize their reports ...
Forget greasy chicken fingers and day-old pizza — public school lunches in Providence are now nationally recognized by the U.S. Department of Agriculture for their healthier menu options. Sixteen Providence elementary schools were awarded bronze certification earlier this month in the USDA’s Healthier ...
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: Friday afternoon A student reported that his backpack, containing a laptop and other items, had been stolen from the ...
The search process for a new dean of the Alpert Medical School is progressing as Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences, prepares to step down from the position June 30. The dean’s job is “complicated and important,” said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15, as many responsibilities ...
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