Artificial intelligence is poised to revolutionize the way we work, learn and live our daily lives at a scale not seen since the Industrial Revolution. In the past year, Brown has taken numerous steps to advance the University’s preparation for this new era. Last December, the University announced ...
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 ...
Two weeks ago, as I sat on a rickety folding chair under the Main Green’s blue September sky, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 gave me and the rest of the incoming first-year class a piece of advice: Risk failure. It was amid this guidance that she herself, through the small, brave act ...
If you often find yourself doomscrolling on social media, it is likely you have encountered a new parodic trend on artificial intelligence: videos about “clankers.” In these videos, “clankers,” “wirebacks” and countless other phrases are used as slurs against AI, often within the context ...
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 October 2024, The Atlantic published a widely circulated article called “The Elite College Students Who Can’t Read Books.” Drawing on accounts from 33 professors, it argues that many students arrive at college unprepared to read complete novels. Some professors suggested potential causes, including ...
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 students decide between Brown’s nearly 1,400 course offerings this shopping period, one obstacle remains constant — a dearth of Critical Reviews.
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 ...
Last month, Texas Republicans approved a mid-decade redistricting plan that could give the party five additional congressional seats in the 2026 midterm elections. After months of unpopular policies spewing from the federal government, Trump-backed GOP representatives have decided to gerrymander their ...
What does it mean to be a good man? Masculine and dominant? Playful and caring?
Many of the restaurants on Westminster Street, the slightly shi-shi culinary stretch of Providence’s downtown, feel the same: mid-century modern tables and chairs, warm lighting and an affluent clientele. Amaryllis offers the same trappings, but a few critical details set this globally-inspired and ...
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.
A familiar buzz has returned to College Hill: the wheels of moving bins scraping against the pavement, families filing into stores and restaurants on Thayer Street, students ignoring traffic laws every time the campus bell rings. It’s almost like we never left.
After a resounding defeat in the 2024 presidential election, members of the Democratic Party — from high-level strategists to registered voters — have had nearly a year to lick their wounds and regroup ahead of the next series of elections. But I fear that such reflection and reckoning ...
After Hurricane Katrina, widespread flooding caused significant damage to roads, power lines and other utility systems across several states. Tasked with rebuilding American cities, many companies turned abroad. One company, Signal International, a marine and fabrication firm based in the U.S. Gulf ...
Last summer, Brown continued its expansion into downtown Providence, beginning construction on a seven-story lab with the approval of the Downtown Design Review Committee. This new construction, which followed several other Jewelry District projects, aligns with a greater vision that Providence leadership ...
Over the past few weeks, The Herald solicited reactions from community members — students, alumni, parents and staff — to show how those affiliated with Brown are feeling about the settlement.
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.
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