The English Department is evaluating the effects of three recently introduced concentration requirements, ENGL 0210, ENGL 0410 and ENGL 0610, said Stephen Foley ’74 P’04 P’07, department director of undergraduate studies and associate professor of English. These requirements — established in ...
This year’s flu outbreak has been responsible for more deaths and hospitalizations in Rhode Island than any influenza virus within the past 10 years. Rhode Island recorded 90 cases of the flu during last year’s season but has reported 458 cases as of Jan. 17, said Dara Chadwick, chief officer of ...
After years of falling membership and decreasing member activity, Art House, a program house located in Harkness House on Patriots Court, will cease to exist as an organization at the end of this semester. Art House leaders chose to opt out of the housing process this year, making their space in Harkness ...
In response to this year’s particularly severe flu season, Brown has implemented several measures to prevent the spread of the flu and to care for those infected, Health Services administrators said. Health Services sent an email to all students last week about the recent outbreak, outlining how ...
Expanding the University’s financial aid to be need-blind for all students — a recommendation the Committee on Financial Aid is considering making — would be unsustainable under the current University budget, said Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. The ...
The Rhode Island House of Representatives will vote today on a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, marking the first time such a bill has been put to a floor vote in either chamber. Legislation to legalize same-sex marriage in Rhode Island has been introduced unsuccessfully for more than a decade. ...
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 — ...
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