The University will partner with local nonprofit Building Futures in all future construction projects valued over $5 million, administrators announced Jan. 23. The partnership was formalized as part of a memorandum released at the topping-off ceremony of the Building for Environmental Research and ...
About 100 college students from around the country gathered on campus for two days of motivational lectures and networking at the second annual Collegiate Consulting Group National Conference. The conference was held this weekend by the Collegiate Consulting Group, an undergraduate-run organization ...
Even in the days President Obama was in grade school, he was ingrained with modes of thinking about policy that would affect a nation. In a speech about modern-day urban planning and the rich history that shaped it, Thomas Sugrue, professor of history and sociology at Penn, illuminated the connection ...
The Continuing Education department shut down the Continuing Studies program at the end of last semester due to dropping enrollment, said Jodi Devine, associate director for executive education and adult programs. The program offered not-for-credit evening courses to adults in the community for five ...
Since the creation of the University’s Social Choice Fund in 2007 — the first in the Ivy League — the fund has struggled with a lack of donations and poor investment returns. The fund, which invests in companies based on their active commitment to promoting social change, has seen only one donation ...
Vice President for Research Clyde Briant will be stepping down from his administrative position at the end of the academic year, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 wrote Wednesday in an email to faculty. Briant, who served as dean of engineering between 2003 and 2006 before joining the administration, will ...
Bernice King, CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, delivered a rousing speech to a packed De Ciccio Family Auditorium in the Salomon Center for the 16th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture yesterday afternoon. The talk, titled “Advancing the ‘Dream’: Addressing ...
Rhode Island’s Health Benefits Exchange — the health care marketplace mandated by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — received federal approval Dec. 20, placing it on track to meet the law’s October deadline for being available to the public. “The exchange will be ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students raised concerns about potential changes to the Diversity Perspectives course category and a proposed three-year undergraduate program while showing support for possible sophomore seminars and a five-year undergraduate program. The council discussed the ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’16 received generally positive reactions from academics and officials for his proposals to cut the corporate tax rate and tentatively cap tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities in the Jan. 17 State of the State address. Presenting his third budget ...
The popular notion that Turkey is a model democracy is incorrect, Nukhet Sandal, postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, argued in a research presentation Wednesday Sandal presented her research — concerning differential treatment of religious minorities in Turkey — ...
A woman who was convicted of injuring two students in a hit-and-run in spring 2011 was sentenced to one year in a minimum-security prison followed by two years of house arrest. Rhode Island resident Jessica Paden pleaded guilty to drunk driving among other charges. The students, Julia Unanue Banuchi ...
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Jan. 28 allocating $50.5 billion of aid to facilitate reconstruction in states affected by Hurricane Sandy last October. Three months later, the East Coast is still recovering from Sandy, which left wreckage and destruction in Rhode Island’s coastal areas. The state ...
Same-sex marriage The Rhode Island House overwhelmingly approved a bill last Thursday that would make Rhode Island the tenth state to legalize same-sex marriage. The bill now goes to the Senate — the branch of the General Assembly historically less supportive of same-sex marriage — where its ...
The numbers of law school applicants and total applications submitted nationwide decreased for the second year in a row, according to a Law School Admissions Council report released last year. The percent of individuals applying for fall 2013 admission to law school fell by 13.7 percent nationwide. ...
The School of Engineering is exploring options, including sites off College Hill, for a new building to accommodate the ongoing expansion in the size of its faculty and student body, said Dean of Engineering Lawrence Larson. Some students expressed concern that a building in a different location could ...
One-third of United Nations sanctions in the last 20 years have been successful in influencing their targets, according to research presented in a panel Tuesday at the Watson Institute for International Studies. The panel of three members of the Targeted Sanctions Consortium spoke to a small audience ...
Harry Belafonte — ‘the King of Calypso’ — was greeted with a standing ovation upon taking the stage last night to deliver the Rhode Island School of Design’s annual the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. keynote address, part of a larger celebration of Dr. King’s work. The crowd’s enthusiasm ...
Mayor Angel Taveras outlined Providence’s past fiscal struggles and indicated the beginning of an economic recovery at the annual State of the City address Tuesday night at City Hall. Providence faced a $110 million structural deficit when Taveras assumed office in 2011. He embarked on a campaign ...
The student activities endowment, a fund that has historically been a priority for the Undergraduate Finance Board and Undergraduate Council of Students, has recently been eclipsed by student interest in expanding financial aid. “It’s been really hard because there’s been a big push for financial ...
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