The University will no longer require fully vaccinated students to undergo asymptomatic testing for COVID-19, according to an Oct. 25 email announcement, The Herald previously ...
For any recently hired faculty member, adjusting to a completely new work environment and connecting with their department and students are never easy tasks. And for anyone hired within the last year and a half, this transition has been made even more challenging by the pandemic, which has necessitated ...
The University’s Ad Hoc Committee on Promoting Financial Health and Sustainability released its final recommendations Oct. 1, providing guidance in five categories intended to give the University increased opportunities to make “strategic investments in academic excellence” and work to eliminate ...
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to Brown, after the program was discontinued on College Hill in 1969.
Cross-registered in the engineering and computer science departments, ENGN 1931U: “The Robots Are Coming! The Robots Are Coming!” is co-taught by Goetz and Professor of Computer Science and Engineering R. Bahar as a way to integrate engineering, computer science, art and ethics into a single ...
The Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America partnered with the Office of the Provost to host the first event of the year of the University’s “Race & in America” series Tuesday, a webinar titled “Race & Inequality in America.”
The number of students enrolled in both Korean language and culture courses at the University has increased in the past decade despite the small size of Korean studies and language staff. This trend is more pronounced among non-heritage students, who now outnumber the traditionally larger ...
The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, accepted $104 million in gifts and pledges during its October meeting, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced in Monday Today@Brown ...
Gordon Ernst ’89, a former tennis coach at Georgetown University who was offered a coaching position at Brown in 2016, pleaded guilty to accepting more than ...
“Technology has solved world-scale problems, existential problems,” University of Minnesota Chemical Engineering Professor and MacArthur Fellow Paul Dauenhauer said during a Monday evening lecture held in the Salomon Center. “And we’re on the verge of doing it again with energy.”
Fully vaccinated undergraduate students are no longer required to get tested weekly, according to a Monday email sent to the Brown community by Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey MA’06.
The University will cover the cost of tuition for most current and future students from families earning under $125,000 a year by removing home equity — which essentially describes the current market value of a property — from Brown’s calculations of family contribution and financial aid scholarships, ...
The University will begin moving toward need-blind admissions for international students over the next four years, according a Monday press release from President Christina Paxson P’19 that also included a broader suite of investments in financial aid and access to the University.
A new University initiative will aim to prepare Providence public school students to enter selective four-year institutions, in addition to bringing more PPSD students to the University, according a Monday press release from President Christina Paxson P’19 that also included a broader suite of ...
The University expects the endowment to contribute more to the operating budget in the coming years, as the portion drawn from the endowment is based on its average market value over the past three years, according a Monday press release from President Christina Paxson P’19 that also included a broader ...
Protesters gathered in Burnside Park in downtown Providence Saturday afternoon to call for action on evictions, homelessness and the housing crisis, all of which have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Friday Oct. 15 marked the launch of the COVID-19 Small Business Grant Program, which will provide Providence small businesses with microgrants of up to $2,500.
The Underground, a student-run coffee shop in the basement of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, reopened Oct. 12 for the first time since March 2020. The decision comes as the University continues its return to relative normalcy, following a pause on most in-person operations a year and a half ...
The University plans to renovate the Verney-Woolley Dining Hall next summer and recently purchased $300,000 in new equipment for dining halls, Vice President of Dining Services George Barboza wrote in a Friday
Vartan Gregorian, Brown’s 16th president and former president of the Carnegie Corporation, passed away last April and was honored in a virtual event yesterday for his commitment to diversity, peace and equal opportunity. “Fostering a More Just and Peaceful World — Vartan Gregorian and His Legacies ...
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