Professor Emerita Martha Sharp Joukowsky ’58 P’87, who held a double appointment as professor of anthropology and archaeology and the ancient world at the University, died Jan. 7 at 85 years old. During her professorship, Joukowsky conducted pioneering archaeological fieldwork in countries such ...
Wendell Pritchett ’86, an academic who has spent the majority of his career in the Philadelphia area, began his tenure as interim president of Penn Feb. 15. Penn’s Board of Trustees selected Pritchett to replace former Penn president Amy Gutmann as she prepares to step into her new role as the ...
For the next two weeks, various local food trucks will be parked outside of Josiah’s starting at 6 p.m. each night. The new schedule began yesterday with Gnarly Vines Farm serving “farm to table Brazilian/American food,” according to an Instagram post from Brown Dining Services.
As the COVID-19 pandemic nears its two-year anniversary, testing and quarantine protocols continue to change. This semester’s change in testing protocol has led to a reduction of staff working in the testing center from 125 at the start of the fall 2021 semester to just 10 this spring, according ...
This Valentine’s Day morning, over 2,000 Brown students received an email from Datamatch — an online matchmaking site catered to college students — notifying them about 10 potential love interests or friends based on lighthearted survey questions specific to student life at Brown.
The Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — approved a 2.85% increase in undergraduate tuition for the 2022-23 academic ...
The Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — appointed Pamela Reeves ’87 as vice chancellor at its February meeting, according to a University press release. At the meeting, members of the Corporation ...
While Rhode Island lifted its indoor mask mandate last Friday, the University’s COVID-19 mask mandate remains in place, requiring that students only enter indoor spaces with a high-quality ...
During the week of Feb. 3 to 9, 361 students and 10 employees reported positive COVID-19 test results, according to a Feb. 11 Today@Brown announcement. “The increase week over week is certainly something we’re monitoring very carefully,” said Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy ...
Brown Science Olympiad gathered volunteers, event supervisors and Executive Board members Feb. 12 to run an invitational tournament they had been planning since September. BSO’s invitational is an opportunity for Division C teams — students from ninth to 12th grade — to get practice ...
A rickety transport bus rolled to a fence’s edge at Kabul’s Hamid Karzai International Airport. Its creaking metal frame bore the scars of bullet holes, gashes inflicted just hours earlier by soldiers determined to halt the bus’s journey. But the bus moved on, churning up a cloud of dust in ...
Last month, a lawsuit alleged that the University and 15 other schools did not maintain the need-blind admissions policies required for a legal antitrust exemption and therefore fixed “the net price of attendance,” according to a Jan. 10 press release from the plaintiffs’ legal team. Court ...
The Brown Center for Students of Color held its annual Soul Food Night at the Sharpe Refectory Thursday afternoon. The event featured music, performances and a soul food-themed dinner menu. The event has been planned collaboratively between the BCSC and Brown Dining Services for the past 12 years ...
Next week, the 10 groups comprising the University’s Intergalactic Community of A Cappella will host their annual round of spring semester auditions. These spring auditions come after a tumultuous fall semester for the IGCAC community after racist and sexualizing comments made on audition ...
On Jan. 26, classes for the second semester of the 2021-2022 academic year officially began. The semester started amid uncertainty across the country about how universities should be operating in regards to the Omicron variant. The Herald spoke with multiple University faculty members about teaching ...
In the wake of the Jan. 29 blizzard that brought over 21 inches of snow to Rhode Island, students and professors experienced difficulty navigating campus on icy or blocked paths. For those with mobility impairments or mobility-related disabilities, the snowstorm merely compounded previous ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted special elections for the position of Undergraduate Finance Board at-large representative at its first general body meeting of the spring semester Wednesday evening. The majority of the UCS general body abstained from voting in favor or against ...
The U.S. Attorney Office agreed on a settlement with Brown Dermatology Jan. 20, resolving allegations that Brown Dermatology violated the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990 by failing to accommodate patients who are deaf or hard of hearing. Brown Dermatology, while able to use the ...
The Graduate Labor Organization and the University continued their annual contract reopener negotiations over stipend increases in their second bargaining committee meeting Feb. 9. At the meeting, GLO formally presented its proposal for increasing graduate student stipends, which entails a 25% raise ...
The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender announced its new director, Felicia Salinas-Moniz MA ’06 PhD ’13, Jan. 19. According to the Sarah Doyle Center’s newsletter, Salinas-Moniz worked as a graduate student coordinator for the center during her time as a doctoral candidate in American ...
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