Do you approve or disapprove of the way Ruth Simmons is handling her job as president of the University? Strongly approve: 41.1% Somewhat approve: 31.4% Somewhat disapprove: 11.4% Strongly disapprove: 6.9% Not familiar enough to answer: 7.4% No opinion: 1.7% Do you approve or disapprove ...
President Ruth Simmons' approval rate among faculty is about 10 points above the most recent student approval rate, according to a Herald poll conducted among the faculty. About 73 percent of faculty members stated they either "strongly" or "somewhat" approve of how she handles her job. About 41 percent ...
A federal judge ordered the University Friday to hand over to William McCormick all records of donations and fundraising by the father of the woman who accused McCormick of rape in 2006.
As the window of opportunity to be part of the Campaign for Academic Enrichment was closing in the fall of 2010, Kay Warren knew she had to act fast to launch a fundraising effort for the Pembroke Center. Warren, who had been named director of the center that October, had only two months to come up ...
"A lot of the things that have happened that seemed to be important to people, I missed," said President Ruth Simmons of her accomplishments at Brown. "I was here, I was doing it — and now somebody defines it as having been important."
Since committing $400,000 to University research in January, Medtronic — Fortune 500's top medical product and equipment company — has provided support for three engineering research projects, according to Brian Sheldon, a professor of engineering who has been directing the collaboration. ...
All-night construction on Thayer Street to complete renovations to the Metcalf Chemistry and Research Laboratory Sept. 29 left angry and tired students in its wake. "At the completion of the Metcalf renovation project, Thayer Street was cold planed and re-paved," Stephen Maiorisi, vice president of ...
Four years after signing off on a $68 million executive bonus at the height of the economic boom and two years after parting ways with Goldman Sachs amid a recession, President Ruth Simmons said she does not feel her decade-long tenure on Goldman's board has negatively impacted the University.
Rhode Island School of Design public safety officers will soon assume the power to search, detain and arrest criminal suspects on College Hill.
Crime on or near campus decreased in 2010, according to the 2011 Annual Security Report released this month. Robbery and motor vehicle theft on and near campus were the only crimes to increase last year, and all other categories decreased or remained the same. The report includes statistics for nine ...
Most homeowners don't worry about their houses' foundations unless their basements flood.
When the United Nations designated 2011 the International Year of Chemistry, Lee Pedersen immediately posted the news to the bulletin board in her office. Pedersen, a physical sciences librarian with a background in chemistry, set out with Holly Snyder, curator of the History of Science Collections ...
Newly discovered links between a plant's genetic variations and climate change may reduce the agriculture industry's reliance on pesticide use, according to a paper by researchers in the University's Schmitt Lab published yesterday in the journal Nature.
Yesterday's negotiations between Facilities Management and the University on a new labor contract ended with a promise of a "good faith effort" from the University to maintain Facilities Management workers' jobs in buildings that are only used by the University, said Karen McAninch '74, business agent ...
Timothy Flanigan, professor of medicine, recalled the enthusiasm of a Ghanian priest he met at the Sept. 20 launch of the University's new HIV education initiative, which was born from a partnership between three American universities and the University of Ghana.
A new method for testing the genetic makeup of an egg may provide clues as to why some develop after fertilization and others do not, a finding with possible implications for in vitro fertilization, according to a paper published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry.
Hundreds of demonstrators gathered in front of the State House yesterday afternoon to protest a policy approved by the Board of Governors for Higher Education last week that would make undocumented students in Rhode Island eligible for in-state tuition. The rally, organized by Rhode Islanders for Immigration ...
Though shopping period was riddled with overcrowding and classroom shuffling, the Office of the Registrar has now solved all known space constraint problems.
For the second day in row, the Occupy College Hill movement mustered a presence on the Main Green. Roughly 40 supporters of the movement assembled at noon to discuss how to ensure that the interests of 99 percent of Americans will no longer be subverted by the interests of the wealthiest 1 percent.
Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 traveled to Pittsburgh Tuesday on a fact-finding mission to learn more about options for developing the Knowledge District in downtown Providence.
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