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After state primaries, races heat up in the Ocean State

New Protestant chaplain hopes to serve all students

Associate University Chaplain for the Protestant Community Rev. Kirstin Boswell-Ford joined the Office of Chaplains and Religious Life this summer after being hired in mid-May. 

New U. fund supports interdisciplinary efforts

Central Falls on track to emerge from bankruptcy

Student arrested for alleged theft

Joe Royo '14 and Xavius Dorego, a Providence resident with no University affiliation, were arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly stealing a student's laptop and cell phone from her Marcy House room, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety. 

Father-daughter dance ban sparks controversy

Providence's WaterFire to light up Rome

Almost 20 years after WaterFire's Artistic Director Barnaby Evans '75 first illuminated the Providence River, the renowned festival is traveling halfway across the globe. This weekend, Providence Mayor Angel Taveras will travel to Italy for the inaugural lighting of 30 braziers on the Tiber River in ...

Democratic primary results may bode well for marriage equality

In the hours after vote tallies for Rhode Island's Sept. 11 Democratic primaries started to pour in, political analysts and newspapers rushed to interpret what the results meant for the future of same sex-marriage in the state. 

UCS reps selected at first meeting

The Undergraduate Council of Students filled vacant positions, and its committee chairs outlined initial goals for the year during the council's first general body meeting of the semester Wednesday night.

Paxson discusses new strategic plan at BUCC meeting

About a dozen audience members attended President Christina Paxson's first Brown University Community Council meeting as president yesterday in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Along with Paxson, nearly half of the members of the BUCC were new. Discussion of a new strategic ...

Documentary explores Japanese internment

With new director, slavery center plans events

The newly formed Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice has begun planning several campus community efforts this year under the leadership of Anthony Bogues, professor of Africana Studies, who was named the center's director in May.   Former University President Ruth Simmons will serve as the ...

Nationwide search aims to identify new VP

The University is conducting a national search to find a new senior vice president for advancement after Steven King '91 resigned from the post in July. This turnover is one of several administrative changes over the last few months accompanying the University's presidential transition. 

Theses drop under new IR rules

Only three international relations concentrators in the class of 2013 are currently approved to complete a thesis this year, marking a drop from previous years.

Social justice finds a new home in Diman

RISD pilots graduate loan project to foster startups

A new organization being piloted at the Rhode Island School of Design this fall will help recent graduates raise capital in exchange for a percentage of their future income. Through the program, called Upstart, graduates can put the money towards starting a business, paying off student loans or other ...

Occupy rally marks one-year anniversary

One year ago, the first Occupiers set up camp in Zucotti Park in New York City to protest the greed of "the 1 percent," beginning a movement that quickly led to months-long encampments in major cities across the country and brought attention to issues like homelessness and the growing income disparity. ...

Republican Riley challenges six-term incumbent

A Republican has not represented Rhode Island's second congressional district since 1991, but Michael Riley, a businessman and consultant, hopes to break the Democrats' two-decade streak this November with his campaign to unseat six-term Rep. James Langevin, D-R.I. Last week, Riley defeated three other ...

Housing lottery revised for sophomores

The Office of Residential Life is adjusting the housing lottery system this year to better accommodate the needs of rising sophomores, said Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services. After the spring lottery, 260 sophomores did not know where they would be living this fall ...

Salciccioli GS wins first Simmons education scholarship

The first annual Ruth J. Simmons Urban Education Policy Scholarship, a full ride to the Urban Education Policy masters program, has been awarded to Maria Salciccioli GS, a Princeton graduate with experience training teachers to adapt to new curriculums in schools in Dallas.     "(Salciccioli) ...