The Undergraduate Council of Students has made financial aid a key priority this academic year, in part due to the results of its fall undergraduate poll and the campus dialogues spurred last spring by the formation of the student group Brown for Financial Aid. As President Christina Paxson develops ...
Though Spring Weekend will coincide with the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival for the third year in a row, Brown Concert Agency has booked and confirmed the acts that will be performing this year. Spring Weekend’s coincidence with the festival has caused booking complications in the past, ...
Rhode Island’s minimum wage increased from $7.40 to $7.75 Jan. 1, the first time the state has enacted an increase since 2007. Among the 10 states that instituted similar hikes this year, Rhode Island saw the largest increase. Rhode Island’s minimum wage increase was mandated by legislation passed ...
Rhode Island’s population has been steadily decreasing since 2004, according to a recent report from the U.S. Census Bureau. Sixteen of Rhode Island’s 32 cities and towns lost residents, according to data from the 2010 census. Middletown and Newport experienced the greatest population declines, ...
Legal pollution emissions increased in Rhode Island by nearly 0.5 percent in 2011, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency, while there was a 0.09 percent overall decrease in New England. The region emitted 18.96 million pounds of legal pollutants last year, according to the EPA. “The ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 proposed no tax increases of any kind in his State of the State address Jan. 17, despite having spent much of his first two years in office plagued by an ailing economy and confronting budget deficits. Toward the end of the speech, Chafee reiterated his desire to see ...
More than 50 students and faculty members gathered this weekend to discuss the value of a Brown education at a “Re-Orientation Boot Camp,” organized by the Brown Conversation. Through a series of two-hour discussion blocks with upperclassmen, faculty members and other community members affected ...
Despite the brisk winter weather, President Christina Paxson, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and more than 30 others gathered Wednesday morning for the topping-off ceremony of the Building for Environmental Research and Teaching. The ceremony took place outside of the renovated building, the former ...
The University Resources Committee is considering allocating more funds to the recently formed Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 said at Wednesday night’s Undergraduate Council of Students meeting. The center was a major initiative under former President Ruth ...
A new version of the website courses.brown.edu was launched this month, enabling students to access syllabus information from courses for which they are not registered. The remodeling of the website, which was launched by Computing and Information Services in conjunction with the Office of the Dean ...
Donald Hornig, the University’s 14th president, died Monday at the age of 92, according to a University press release. Hornig served as president from 1970 to 1976. Like his predecessor, Ray Heffner, Hornig presided over the University during tumultuous times. During his tenure, he faced campus-wide ...
The housing options fair and first-pick raffle originally scheduled to take place tonight at 7:30 p.m. has been cancelled. The change is a consequence of impending reforms to how students select housing, Residential Council chair Travis Spangler ’13 wrote in an email to The Herald. Starting next ...
Instances of crime on campus dropped 60 percent over the four weeks of winter break compared to the last four weeks of the fall semester, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety. The reduction resulted from two factors — cold weather and the absence of most students ...
The School of Engineering will expand the size of its faculty and student body following the completion of the new Building for Environmental Research and Teaching, which will take place in late 2013. President Christina Paxson has called the growth of the school — which was established in 2010 — ...
Deputy Dean of the College Stephen Lassonde will step down from his position at the end of March after serving six years at the University, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron wrote in an email to the community Jan. 14. Lassonde will take the post of dean of student life at Harvard later this spring, ...
A $4 million to $7 million donation to the University from the Irene Diamond Fund of New York will help fund a new initiative to study aging health, the University announced Jan. 8. The donation, which will be the largest public health gift the University has received, will launch curricular programs ...
The University received about 28,900 total applications this year, the third-highest number of applications in its history. The Admission Office had counted 28,733 total applications received as of Jan. 15 — 25,723 students applying in the regular decision process and 3,010 applying early decision ...
The University received about 28,900 total applications this year, the third-highest number of applications in its history. As of Tuesday, the Admission Office had counted 28,733 total applications received — 25,723 students applying in the regular decision process and 3,010 applying early decision ...
Family and colleagues remembered Laura Kibuuka MD’16, who was killed by an Amtrak Acela Express train Jan. 2, as a talented woman passionate about health and community service. Kibuuka was struck on the train track near South Attleboro, Mass. The MBTA Transit Police and the Bristol County District ...
An original version of this article included the name of the student who was involved in the altercation with the officers. His name has been redacted because the charges were dropped. A male sophomore was arrested Dec. 16 at Josiah's after a physical altercation with Department of Public Safety ...
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