Richard Locke, deputy dean of the Sloan School of Management and political science department chair at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will be the next director of the Watson Institute for International Studies, the University announced Friday. This appointment comes after a long period of ...
As the food truck scene's prominence on Thayer Street continues to grow, so does the dialogue among truck owners and Thayer restauranteurs as they seek to find their niche. Frustration among food truck owners has cropped up as some owners have accused other trucks of parking illegally or in a manner ...
Like Scandinavian warriors descending on the mead hall, The Brown Daily Herald's staff convened at popular "Antiques Roadshow" filming destination and sophisticated Providence eatery Cav restaurant Friday night. The paper's current leadership announced the 123rd Editorial Board, who will officially ...
The 2012 Achebe Colloquium on Africa, entitled "Governance, Security and Peace in Africa," will be held this Friday and Saturday at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Convened by celebrated Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe, professor of Africana studies, this year's colloquium ...
Frank D. Spaziano Elementary School recently became the only school in the Providence Public School District to vote in favor of becoming a district charter school. On Friday afternoon, the elementary school formally filed its application with the Rhode Island Department of Education, one day before ...
National college enrollment numbers dipped in 2011 for the first time in 15 years, but higher education experts do not believe lower total matriculation will have an immediate effect on Brown's admission process. Enrollment decreased by only one percentage point, but this is its first decline since ...
When did eating become so fun?
Students with the Brown Divest Coal Campaign called upon President Christina Paxson to divest the University from its alleged coal and fossil fuel investments at a rally outside University Hall Thursday.
Five previously neglected houses on Brown, Benevolent and Brook streets have been renovated and sold to faculty through the Brown to Brown Home Ownership Program over the past five years. Houses in the program, which are in states of disrepair or disuse, are sold to eligible faculty and staff for 80 ...
Providence is developing a plan for monitoring and increasing literacy among young children, earning the city one of 20 finalist spots in the Bloomberg Philanthropies' Mayors Challenge, Mayor Angel Taveras announced in a Nov. 5 press conference. The Mayors Challenge aims to "spread proven and ...
Just more than 58 percent of students oppose the University's consideration of race in student admissions decisions, while over 34 percent of students said they supported the policy, according to a recent Herald poll. Of the students who are opposed to the consideration of race, more than half support ...
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