Former U.S. Ambassador to Afghanistan and President of the American Academy of Diplomacy Ronald Neumann spoke to members of the Brown community Wednesday about the U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan and its implications.
The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed how to transition away from its virtual rules of operation at its first in-person meeting since the beginning of the pandemic Wednesday evening.
The University has further lifted COVID-19 restrictions following a continued drop in positive cases among students over the past ten days, according to a Wednesday email from Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy.
In the wake of the U.S. evacuation from Afghanistan, Brown and RISD have made plans to host Afghan scholars and students seeking refuge from the Taliban takeover.
Former City Council member and co-founder of the East Side Public Education Coalition Sam Zurier is one of five candidates running in the primary for Rhode Island State Senate District 3 Democratic primary, which includes College Hill and Fox Point.
After a year of virtual operations, the University’s transition to an in-person learning environment has necessitated adapting to a world neither fully in-person nor fully virtual. For Counseling and Psychological Services, the transition has posed additional challenges due to restrictions regarding ...
Aida Sherif ’22 recently won first place in the 2021 Rhode Island Press Association Editorial Awards in the spirituality/religion category, one of 24 writing award categories granted by the association annually.
The course of the COVID-19 pandemic on campus has been characterized by continual adjustments, with community members bracing themselves for the inevitable ...
Between waves of COVID-19 cases and a steady rise in the vaccination rate on College Hill, Brown’s campus was alive again in the summer of 2021. Rather than staying at home, the majority of the class of 2024 returned to school for a summer semester, a component of the University’s three-semester ...
Between waves of COVID-19 cases and a steady rise in the vaccination rate on College Hill, Brown’s campus was alive again in the summer of 2021. Rather than staying at home, the majority of the class of 2024 returned to school for a summer semester, a component of the University’s three-semester ...
A typical day for Chas Steinbrugge ’24 starts out like many others on campus — he goes to class, has meals with friends and studies in the library. But, unlike most students, Steinbrugge is often posting jokes about the University on his ever-growing Instagram page,
The class of 2025 elected Anaya Kaul ’25 and Semaya Robinson ’25 to serve on the Undergraduate Council of Students as first-year representatives, UCS President Summer Dai ’22 announced on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center last night.
As students settle into the rhythm of the first fully in-person semester in nearly two years, an unlikely population has also joined them in their return to Brown’s campus: Mephitis mephitis, or the striped skunk. Since the start of the semester, skunk sightings have spiked on College ...
Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies Sarah William discussed reproductive healthcare and midwifery on the Yucatán peninsula of Mexico in a Sept. 24 lecture titled “Always Already Vanishing: Midwifery, Indigeneity, and the Mexican State.”
Dr. Zeynep Tufekci, a sociologist who emerged as one of academia’s most prominent voices during the COVID-19 pandemic, joined Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the University’s School of Public Health, in a virtual conversation Wednesday afternoon.
Following the Sept. 13 halt of all in-person dining due to an uptick in COVID-19 cases at Brown, community members have noted excessive amounts of food waste and trash piling up outside major dining halls across campus.
In a Thursday evening conversation at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, Jeff Shesol ’91 discussed his new book, “Mercury Rising: John Glenn, John Kennedy, and the New Battleground of the Cold War,” which discusses the space race and its ties to the Cold War in relation ...
National Hispanic Heritage Month falls between Sept. 15 and Oct. 15 and celebrates the achievements, contributions and various cultures of Hispanic Americans in the United States.
After years of leading, teaching, listening and advising, Dean Gail Cohee is set to retire from her position of as director of the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender come December.
As several million Americans protested for Black Lives Matter in June 2020, organizations, companies and schools alike published messages to show their support of the movement and set forth initiatives to combat racial injustices.
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