After Brown’s decision this summer to strike a “deal” with the Trump administration, I unhappily predicted that Trump would soon return with more demands. It didn’t take long.
Today marks two years since the Oct. 7 massacre, and I feel angry. I feel angry at the horrors, the loss and the way it destroyed my sense of safety.
The world has lost a voice of extraordinary wisdom and hope with the passing of Jane Goodall. For many of us in conservation science, her life’s work was more than research — it was a compass pointing toward humility, curiosity and responsibility.
On Aug. 1, Ward 2 Councilwoman Helen Anthony announced her resignation from office, a year before her term’s expiration. To fill her now-vacant seat — which encompasses the majority of Brown’s campus and parts of College Hill — Providence will hold a special primary election on Nov. 4 and a ...
Having worked as a field organizer for U.S. Rep. Jared Golden (D-M.E. 2), one of the most conservative Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives, I often receive texts that criticize his recent votes and statements, asking how he could possibly be legislating in this manner. While many of his votes ...
Our country is living through a fragile time. The divisions we face cut deep. Seeping into families, neighborhoods and the spaces where we once found common ground. Every tragedy seems to be politicized. Every hardship is turned into fuel for outrage. And every cycle of mistrust leaves us more likely ...
For a while, gay people were all I knew. I have two gay dads and have lived in Miami Beach, Florida my whole life. Queer representation was a crucial part of my upbringing. My parents have countless gay and lesbian friends who are some of my greatest role models. But not all children have the opportunity ...
We write to you as researchers and students affiliated with the Brown Reproductive Justice Collaborative and as people whose work is grounded in the principle of bodily autonomy. Although the University’s voluntary resolution agreement with the U.S. government will allow many of us to return to some ...
At this year’s opening convocation, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 stated that Brown’s Open Curriculum is “an approach to education that’s designed to encourage intellectual exploration, which means taking risks.” With thousands of available courses, the ability to take classes ...
Every day, we ask AI what to eat for dinner, how to structure an essay and even how to navigate breakups. It is no surprise, then, that more and more people are turning to ChatGPT for something far more serious: medical advice. In fact, a 2024 KFF survey found that about one in six U.S. adults now use ...
You’re a few minutes into meeting someone new on campus. Names and hometowns have been exchanged, and you’re thinking of making the jump to ask for their contact information. But then a phone appears in your face, paired with the tantalizing question: “What’s your Instagram?” This instant ...
My first year at Brown was confusing. I arrived wide-eyed and disoriented by a mess of opportunities: clubs, parties, frats, sororities, classes, jobs. Each one told the same story: Happiness is contingent on achieving some material goal — getting into a competitive club, obtaining an override for ...
In one of the earliest stories of the Hebrew Bible, God asks Cain, “Where is Abel your brother?” Feigning ignorance, Cain responds, “I do not know. Am I my brother’s keeper?” But Cain did know what had happened — he and his brother had fought in jealousy, and Cain had killed him. It was ...
As a Jewish Brown alum and a practicing attorney, I feel compelled to respond to Professor Katharina Galor’s erroneous analysis of the University’s settlement with the federal government. Galor’s reading disregards federal regulatory interpretation of Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 that ...
As a Jewish-Israeli scholar, I feel compelled to voice my moral and political dissent from the agreement that Brown University signed with the federal government on July 30. While I recognize the extraordinary pressure our leadership faced, I cannot remain silent about the implications of what has been ...
I read with great regret the faculty’s decision last spring to eliminate the option of course performance reports, starting in the 2025–26 academic year.
We write today with sincere disappointment and disgust at the news that Brown has voluntarily reached a deal with the Trump administration to restore federal research funding and thereby open the University to federal compliance reviews.
On July 30, Brown announced an agreement with the Trump administration to end three spurious investigations into the University and reclaim over $50 million in unpaid federal research grants. In President Trump’s preferred parlance, they ‘made a deal.’ But a deal is a voluntary agreement ...
On Wednesday, July 30, President Christina Paxson P’19 PMD’20 announced the University had come to an agreement with the Trump administration. She struck a reassuring tone: “The agreement preserves the integrity of Brown’s academic foundation, and it enables us as a community to move forward ...
As another academic year comes to a close, it seems like only yesterday that I mailed my annual letter to incoming Brunonians. Maybe you remember receiving or reading it? Now, I send a final grateful goodbye through the pages of The Herald. Though in my retirement, the situation on College Hill will ...
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