Last week, Rebecca Mears '15 collected more than the 150 signatures required to join the race to be a Rhode Island delegate to the Democratic National Convention, held the week of Sept. 3 in Charlotte, N.C.
It is possible that Brown students have been or are being targeted by unauthorized police monitoring efforts, though the University has not seen any evidence to suggest it, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn told The Herald.
Nearly 300 students pledged to participate in Meatless Mondays, a national initiative that asks students to avoid consuming meat one day per week. The commitment of the 287 current participants reduces the University's carbon footprint by about 59 kg of CO2 per week, according to the site.
The Undergraduate Council of Students proposed an amendment last month that would allow it to allocate its own budget rather than having its funding approved by the Undergraduate Finance Board. Though the amendment did not receive the required two-thirds majority necessary to pass, it raised wider questions ...
Chandan Reddy, associate professor of English at the University of Washington, questioned the idea of violence as "the antithesis of freedom" in his lecture "Precarity after Rights: On Queer of Color Critique" at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Monday afternoon. ...
Experts in North Korean affairs spoke about the Korean Peninsula's future in the aftermath of Kim Jong-il's death during a well-attended forum held in MacMillan 117 Sunday afternoon. Jin Sup Hong, president of the National Unification Advisory Council of the South Korean government in Boston, nicknamed ...
Correction appended. President Ruth Simmons and fellow successful businesswomen gave sound advice to all students - not just females - interested in entering the corporate world at a discussion yesterday. Besides Simmons, the panelists at the event, called "Women in the Corporate World: Breaking the ...
A bill was introduced last week in the Rhode Island House of Representatives that would prevent employers in the service industry from taking a cut of their employees' tips. The bill is sponsored by Rep. Christopher Blazejewski, D-Providence and East Providence, and has also gained the support of a ...
From a Quaker upbringing to her selection as Brown's president-elect, Christina Paxson has led a life marked by community involvement and strong leadership. She comes to Brown from Princeton with a reputation as a collaborator, an attentive listener and an efficient organizer. After graduating from ...
Faculty, administrators and student leaders pointed to Christina Paxson's scholarship and experience as indicators of her ability to continue the University's momentum as its 19th president. Specifically, they noted her leadership positions at Princeton and her background in public health and international ...
Throughout her career, President-elect Christina Paxson's research has spanned a wide range of economics-related issues, often bridging the social sciences and the sciences, friends and colleagues said. Much of her scholarship has examined matters of health, development and labor from an economic perspective, ...
Christina Paxson, dean of Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and a prize-winning economist, will serve as the next University president. The Corporation elected Paxson the 19th president in a special session Friday morning.
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