The Senate began confirmation hearings for President-elect Joe Biden’s cabinet Jan. 19, ushering in the new Biden administration and a cabinet set to be the most diverse in American history. Half of the 26 nominees to the cabinet are people of color and 12 are women. The Biden administration is set ...
In her Jan. 13 President’s Welcome to the Class of 2024, President Christina Paxson P’19 greeted the class of first-years beginning their first official semester at the University, while also addressing concerns surrounding public health, community engagement and recent political turmoil. Similar ...
Rhode Island School of Design President Rosanne Somerson will retire at the end of the academic year after serving five years in office, the school’s Board of Trustees announced in an email to the RISD community Dec. 22. “For over three decades, President Somerson has been an influential leader ...
“The Biden Administration: What to Expect,” a virtual panel held by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy on Jan. 12., initially aimed to present a “wide-ranging analysis and discussion of the potential policy and politics of the incoming administration.” Tuesday night, it shifted ...
When Igor Cerasa GS joined the Graduate Labor Organization, a student employee union that advocates for graduate workers’ needs and protections, he was optimistic. But his feelings about the union, which ratified its first contract with the University and elected its first executive board last year, ...
The Rhode Island School of Design canceled in-person commencement for the class of 2021, citing uncertainty around the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an email from President Rosanne Somerson to the student body Monday morning. “We do not have confidence that either the progression ...
President-elect Joe Biden has officially tapped Rhode Island Gov. Gina Raimondo for Commerce Secretary, calling her "one of the most effective, forward-thinking governors in America.” Raimondo’s nomination coincides with an economic crisis, which has caused 22 million Americans to lose their ...
U.S. Rep. David Cicilline ’83 of Rhode Island has co-authored an article of impeachment against President Trump in light of the pro-Trump insurrection at the U.S. Capitol Wednesday. The article of impeachment, which was co-authored by Reps. Ted Lieu of California and Jamie Raskin of Maryland, is ...
Margaret Thoren ’21 was out for a walk when she received an Emergency Alert that Washington, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser had issued a city-wide curfew beginning Wednesday at 6 p.m. Approximately three miles from downtown — where violent attacks incited by the president were starting to break out at ...
The University has leased rooms in the Omni Providence Hotel to house students during the spring semester, University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. The University selected the Omni to house students after announcing in early December that it would lease hotel rooms in ...
Following an insurrection in the U.S. Capitol, the Brown community, including groups across the political spectrum, united in condemning the Jan. 6 incident. “Disgusting is the word that keeps coming to mind,” Visiting Professor of the Practice of Political Science Richard Arenberg, who worked ...
Updated 12:49 a.m., Jan. 8, 2021 President-elect Joe Biden will nominate Rhode Island Governor Gina Raimondo for commerce secretary, according to a Friday announcement. A former venture capitalist, Raimondo would be the Biden administration’s top liaison with the business community. Lieutenant Governor ...
The University accepted a record-low 15.9 percent of early applicants to the class of 2025, down from 17.5 percent last year, according to Dean of Admissions Logan Powell. The number of accepted students and the number of applicants — 885 and 5,540, respectively — are the largest in University history. Of ...
Mark J. Porter, executive director and chief of Public Safety, will step down from his position at the end of June 2021 after 15 years of working with the University. He will continue to lead the Department of Public Safety until then, according to a Dec. 15 Today@Brown announcement. Porter joined ...
The University will lease hotel rooms in either the Hilton, Marriott or Omni properties in downtown Providence for all students on the housing waitlist who express interest in the option, according to a Dec. 4 email from the Office of Residential Life. Enough hotel rooms will be leased “for all students ...
The University filed a Nov. 23 amicus brief to encourage a federal court to block President Trump’s Sept. 22 executive order, which intends to combat “race and sex stereotyping and scapegoating.” The executive order prevents federal contractors — a category which includes colleges and universities ...
The new Rhode Island House of Representatives Task Force for COVID-19 Vaccine discussed vaccine distribution and prioritization in the state and the challenges that lay ahead during its first meeting Wednesday. Members of the task force, which was created in response to representatives receiving numerous ...
Some University students have taken to social media to denounce the Providence Police Department's conduct during the arrest of two Black city residents on Wickenden Street near campus last month. Germaine Bruce and Janelle Hazard, both of Providence, were arrested Nov. 8 for disorderly conduct and ...
Despite progress made on some Rhode Island environmental initiatives, the COVID-19 pandemic has caused legislative delays and funding concerns regarding climate policy. Dawn King, senior lecturer in environment and society at the University, believes that the pandemic has put climate policy in the ...
Former Federal Reserve chair and University alum Janet Yellen ’67 will be nominated to head the Treasury Department, President-elect Joe Biden announced Monday. During her time at Pembroke College, Yellen also served as a member of The Herald’s business team. Yellen, 74, will be the first woman ...
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