Imagination is a “life-simulator” that often poorly predicts what will bring us happiness, said Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and New York Times bestselling author, in a lecture Thursday afternoon. The talk marked the launch of the program for Ethical Inquiry, said Bernard ...
The Providence City Plan Commission approved final plans Tuesday for 257 Thayer Street, a luxury student apartment complex slated for construction in June 2013, the Providence Journal reported. The four-story complex is expected to house 270 tenants — mostly students — in furnished apartments with ...
The University’s senior administration ranked the second least racially diverse in the Ivy League in an analysis conducted by the Daily Pennsylvanian earlier this month. At 5.6 percent, or one out of 18 total senior administrators, the University’s proportion of minority senior administrators is ...
Professor of Computer Science Maurice Herlihy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a nonprofit organization composed of globally prominent engineers, Feb. 7. He is among 69 new members and 11 foreign associates inducted into the NAE this year, according to a press release from the organization. The ...
The University is looking to strengthen its existing ties and form new connections with Brazil as part of a multi-step process of engagement, said Matthew Gutmann P’14, vice president for international affairs. Gutmann highlighted the University’s commitment to new research initiatives in conjunction ...
The federal budget sequester that goes into effect tomorrow — unless Congress can agree on a way to tackle the national deficit by the March 1 deadline — will cut Rhode Island’s federal funding by more than $39 million in this fiscal year, according to a White House report. If the sequester ...
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, ...
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