As COVID-19 vaccines become increasingly available, the student-led organization Brown Boosts Immunity aims to counter vaccine hesitancy in Rhode Island through education, community partnerships and a “humanizing” approach, co-founder Rebka Ephrem ’21 said. Though the five-month-old organization ...
The Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — approved a 2.85 percent tuition increase for undergraduate and most graduate programs at a Feb. 5 meeting, marking the smallest annual tuition increase in more than a decade, according to a University press release. Undergraduate tuition ...
In this week’s episode of The Bruno Brief, we talk to staff writer Sophie Butcher about the Pawtucket School Committee’s decision to reject hybrid and in-person learning at the district’s schools this semester. Pawtucket is the only city in Rhode Island to continue teaching entirely remotely, ...
The University will transition into Level 2 Activity Status Monday, Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, announced in an email to the Brown community Sunday evening. All students are now permitted to socialize and eat unmasked with their pods, which consist ...
The Native American and Indigenous Studies Initiative is currently in the process of developing a new concentration, which it hopes to launch in Fall 2021 or Fall 2022, according to D. Rae Gould, associate director of the NAISI. The new concentration, tentatively named Critical Native American and ...
The Providence Preservation Society recently voted to place the City of Providence on its 2021 Most Endangered Properties list to call attention to the dangers that climate change poses to the city. Typically, the “Most Endangered Properties” list includes historic buildings, streets or neighborhoods ...
The Undergraduate Teaching and Research Awards will now fall under SPRINT’s purview in order to centralize funding opportunities, according to a Jan. 26 Today@Brown announcement. As a result, students will have to use a different application process to receive UTRA grants compared to past years. The ...
President Joe Biden has signed 28 executive orders within his first two weeks as president — more than most presidents in recent history have done in their first month in the Oval Office. On the cusp of Black History Month, Biden issued several orders related to ending racial inequity and discrimination. The ...
During the height of the Civil Rights Movement in May 1964, the Mississippi state legislature threatened to revoke the charter of Tougaloo College, one of the nation’s oldest historically Black colleges and universities, for “fostering 'agitation' rather than education.” Brown stepped in to help, ...
Sage Morgan-Hubbard ’05 strode through the Van Wickle Gates as a freshman in 2001, determined to join a campus poetry group at her new school. Fresh off A Day On College Hill filled with open-mic poetry and an encounter with a Providence slam poetry team, she had hoped to find similar opportunities ...
Celebrations of Black History Month will look different this year as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, but despite challenges posed by mostly-remote operations, organizations focused on Black, Indigenous and people of color plan on reaching more people this year than they have in the past. Though ...
First-year applicants to the class of 2026 will not have to submit a standardized test score with their applications, the Admissions Office announced Tuesday. The University initially announced its test-optional policy for applicants in the 2020-21 cycle last June — with the caveat that applicants ...
Local businesses across the country are struggling financially and adapting to new circumstances amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Restaurants in Providence are no exception. The owners of three Black-owned restaurants, The Glow Cafe & Juice Bar, The Afro-Indigenous Vegan and Island House, shared their ...
On a Wednesday in June 1877, a procession of hundreds of students, alumni and community members marched across the campus of Brown University. Led by a marching band and a Providence sheriff, they crossed College, Benefit, Waterman and Main streets on the way to the First Baptist Meeting House. The ...
In unprecedented times, Black identity student organizations have found ways to continue engaging with their communities through remote events and programming, along with collaboration between groups. With first-years unable to organically find out about different Black student organizations on campus ...
Pawtucket, which has Rhode Island’s highest population of Black students, remains the only city in the state without an in-person learning plan for the semester. The Pawtucket School Committee recently resolved to keep schools closed for in-person learning until September, despite calls from the ...
Vice President for Institutional Equity and Diversity Shontay Delalue will leave the University July 1 to become senior vice president and senior diversity officer at Dartmouth, according to a Thursday announcement from President Christina Paxson P’19. During her time at the University, which began ...
Providence experienced a significant increase in homicides and shootings in 2020, according to statistics released by the Providence Police Department. But the number of other violent crimes — such as robberies and sex offenses — have all seen declines. Compared to 2019, the number of homicides ...
In December, more than 40 interest groups and businesses — representing groups ranging from school bus drivers to librarians — wrote letters to the Rhode Island Department of Health regarding COVID-19 vaccine distribution, with many laying out reasons why they should be prioritized in the next phase, ...
Ward 2 Councilwoman Helen Anthony introduced two new environmental ordinances Jan. 21 to the Providence City Council that would promote Mayor Jorge Elorza’s Climate Justice Plan. The first ordinance would require all large buildings to record and report their energy usage, and the second would codify ...
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