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Higher Ed Roundup: Buyer of stolen Harvard Medical School human remains pleads guilty
By Herald Staff | September 14Buyer of stolen Harvard Medical School human remains pleads guilty
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How Gabe Amo won the special primary and what it might mean for 2024
By Jacob Smollen | September 14On Sept. 5, Gabe Amo, a former White House aide under the Obama and Biden administrations, won the special primary election for Rhode Island’s 1st U.S. Congressional District.
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Housing challenges remain despite progress, according to Housing Secretary
By Emma Gardner | September 14Rhode Island’s housing challenges remain stark and will take significant time to improve, Secretary of Housing Stefan Pryor told the Special Legislative Commission to Study Housing Affordability Tuesday afternoon.
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63% of students admitted to class of 2027 accept spot at Brown
By Owen Dahlkamp | September 14This story was initially published in The Herald’s Guide to Brown earlier in September.
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‘Every poem has its own ancestry’: Poet Kwame Dawes talks teaching, mortality
By Anisha Kumar | September 13Poet Kwame Dawes read a collection of his recent poetry for an audience of University students and faculty Wednesday evening.
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Hurricane Lee heads northward, heavy winds, rainfall expected
By Sofia Barnett | September 13Hurricane Lee is expected to bring heavy rain through New England as the Category 2 storm expands in size, potentially sparking flash flood warnings and shelter-in-place recommendations. The third major hurricane of the 2023 Atlantic hurricane season, Lee formed on Sept. 5 from a tropical depression ...
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Lawsuit by Brown undergraduate alleges University mishandled Title IX complaint
By Samantha Chambers, Julia Vaz and Neil Mehta | September 13Content Warning: This article includes references to sexual assault. A University undergraduate has filed a lawsuit against Brown for allegedly mishandling a Title IX complaint following alleged sexual assault by a now-former lacrosse player.
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Clubs face lowered budgets after UFB spends full surplus
By Kathy Wang | September 13The University’s Undergraduate Finance Board faced a $1.5 million gap between the funding requested by student groups and the money it could disperse to them this year, UFB President Arjun Krishna Chopra ’25 told The Herald. UFB, the student government branch that allocates student ...
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Health Services now offers free, over-the-counter emergency contraception
By Aniyah Nelson | September 13Health Services is now offering free, over-the-counter emergency contraception at the on-campus pharmacy, according to a Sept. 7 Today@Brown announcement to the University community.
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School of Engineering launches design engineering concentration
By Ryan Doherty | September 13The School of Engineering added a new design engineering concentration to their degree offerings, according to a press release from late August. The new concentration connects to a variety of subject areas — from data science to graphic design — and will allow students to apply engineering principles ...
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Curricular Resource Center hosts workshop on tackling incomplete courses
By Ryan Doherty | September 13The workshop is the second hosted by the Curricular Resource Center in a Fall 2023 series that covers topics such as preparing for exams and scheduling coursework.
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No decision on new voluntary payment agreements at City Council committee meeting
By Rhea Rasquinha | September 12The Providence City Council Committee on Finance did not vote on two proposed voluntary payment agreements between the city and four private higher education institutions.
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Ruth J. Simmons: From Brown to Now
By Natalie Villacres | September 12Former Brown University President Ruth J. Simmons details her journey since stepping down in 2012.
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Startup run by Brown students, alums prepare for $500K prize competition in D.C.
By Neil Mehta | September 12U. alum startup Wingspans will head to Washington, D.C. next week to compete for the U.S. Department of Education Future Finder Challenge.
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Brown, GLO continue contract negotiations
By Katie Jain | September 11The Graduate Labor Organization continued renegotiating its contract with the University through the summer, tentatively agreeing on four articles.
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SGA kicks off first-year elections with unified timeline
By Indigo Mudbhary | September 11The positions up for election include two UCS First-Year Representatives, two UFB First-Year Representatives and the full First-Year CCB board.
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IMPACT Magazine makes campus research accessible to more than 45,000 readers
By Julia Vaz | September 11Founded in 2018, IMPACT magazine is dedicated to highlighting top faculty and student research engagements at the University.
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Flooding, leakages strike campus following flash flood warning
By Kathy Wang and Neil Mehta | September 10Several campus buildings faced flooding and leakages following a flash flood warning in some parts of Providence County Sunday afternoon.
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PVDFest returns in full-swing post-pandemic, unites community through art
By Avani Ghosh | September 10This past weekend, the City of Providence hosted PVDFest in collaboration with the Department of Art, Culture and Tourism and FirstWorks, a non-profit organization. The festival had performers, vendors and other events across three days at the 195 District Park.
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‘The power in people’: Second Activist Coalition Conference brings together student organizers
By Katie Jain | September 10The Brown Activist Coalition hosted its second Activist Coalition Conference on Saturday, creating a space for progressive campus organizations to share their missions with interested students and discuss inter-club collaborations.
