Family members, friends and police officers are still searching for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. “Unfortunately, there are no leads yet,” wrote Tripathi’s mother Judy Tripathi in an email to The Herald, describing the search as “ongoing ...
Tom Steyer, billionaire and founder of the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management, urged the University to divest from coal companies in a letter presented Thursday to President Christina Paxson’s office by members of the Brown Divest Coal group. Steyer wrote that the choice to invest in coal companies ...
Flexible and accessible classroom space, graduate student facilities and expansion into the Jewelry District were among the most salient issues addressed by Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, in an open discussion about strategic planning Wednesday afternoon. About ...
Curt Schilling, former Red Sox pitcher and founder of 38 Studios, called earlier this month for the dismissal of a lawsuit filed against him by the Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation. The RIEDC filed the lawsuit last November, following 38 Studios’ bankruptcy. 38 Studios received a $75 ...
Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Kilmartin filed an amicus brief to the U.S. Supreme Court March 1 arguing the court should declare Section 3 of the Defense of Marriage Act unconstitutional. DOMA, which was signed into law in 1996, established the federal definition of marriage as a lawful union ...
A stomach bug spreading through campus was identified as a norovirus by the Rhode Island Department of Health yesterday afternoon, said Edward Wheeler, director of Health Services for the University. Since Sunday, one student has been admitted to the emergency room with the virus, and 18 others have ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to extend funding to service groups for the first time during its general body meeting Wednesday. Though the Undergraduate Finance Board funds Category 1, 2 and 3 student groups, it has historically refrained from funding groups dedicated to service. The ...
Immigration Sen. Juan Pichardo, D-Providence, and Rep. Grace Diaz, D-Providence, introduced legislation Wednesday that would make permanent a policy allowing undocumented immigrants who live in Rhode Island and attend state colleges to pay in-state rather than out-of-state tuition. The state’s Board ...
The Rhode Island Senate passed legislation March 12 that requires individuals convicted of first- or second-degree murder to serve at least half of their sentence — increased from the current one-third minimum — before qualifying for a parole hearing. The bill — sponsored by Sen. Leonidas Raptakis, ...
Plans for a riverfront park on land previously taken up by I-195 have been modified to allow for the development of a building with up to eight stories and 3,000 square feet of available space. The park area was originally designated to be six acres of green space, but new plans have carved out about ...
A joint resolution that could legalize same-sex marriage but allow religious organizations and small business owners to refuse marriage services to same-sex couples is scheduled for a hearing in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee today. Sen. Frank Ciccone, D-Providence, proposed the resolution ...
The Rhode Island School of Design received its largest-ever gift from an international donor — a $1 million donation to fund a new visiting scholar position in the painting department, according to a March 1 press release from the institution. Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar of Bangalore, India were ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to reelect Alexander Kaplan ’14 as Student Activities Chair at its general body meeting last night. The council voted for Kaplan over Chiemeka Omwuanaegpule ’14. Kaplan, a former Herald staff writer, was suspended from his role as Student Activities ...
“Because of globalization, the world experienced dramatic changes” in the past several decades, Min Zhu, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told an audience of about 50 students and community members in a talk at the Joukowsky Forum Tuesday evening. Zhu, whom Bill Rhodes ...
URI freezes tuition The University of Rhode Island announced Monday that it will freeze tuition rates for all students and increase the financial aid budget to a record-high amount for the 2013-14 school year. The move will maintain in-state annual tuition rates at $10,878 and out-of-state rates at ...
When promoting associate professors to full professors, the University must consider teaching, research and service, faculty members said at a faculty forum held Tuesday afternoon. The Faculty Executive Committee sponsored the forum to allow faculty members to discuss a proposal from the ad hoc Committee ...
Student members of the Brown Divest Coal Campaign urged the University to divest from all fossil fuels in the long run and maintained “divest(ing) from the 15 largest, most destructive coal companies in the world” as an immediate priority for the University at a Brown University Community Council ...
When President Christina Paxson’s capital campaign launches sometime within the next few years, it will take its place in a long history of major fundraising efforts at Brown and could set the tone for future University fundraising. While no official timeline has been set, Paxson’s campaign will ...
The Student Labor Alliance urged President Christina Paxson to immediately terminate the University’s contract with Adidas in a rally held Tuesday at noon. More than 50 students gathered on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, where Mariela Martinez ’14 kicked off the rally. Martinez ...
The Senate Judiciary committee will meet Thursday to hear two same-sex marriage bills, including one that would legalize same-sex marriage — the Senate version of the bill that passed the House in January. The committee is not planning to vote on the legislation at this meeting, said Greg Pare, director ...
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