Members of the University’s administration and student body discussed current safety practices, changes to dorm lockout policies and an external DPS review among other aspects of campus safety at a Brown University Community Council meeting Nov. 18. The meeting marked the first of what is intended ...
This year, BEMS adapted to COVID-19 by training all incoming staff for free over the fall semester through a virtual academy. The lessons are designed by current volunteers, approved by certified personnel and taught and “overseen by licensed instructor coordinators,” Director of Emergency Management ...
Updated 10:10 p.m., Nov. 23, 2020 The Graduate Labor Organization, Brown’s graduate student union, announced the election of its first 14-member executive board Nov. 8. Only the elections for GLO President and for GLO Coordinator for Social Justice and Accountability were contested. All uncontested ...
All undergraduate and graduate classes, with the exception of Warren Alpert Medical School classes, will resume online instruction effective Nov. 18, a week earlier than the scheduled end to in-person classes Nov. 25, according to an email this morning from President Christina Paxson P'19. This ...
The class of 2024 elected Mina Sarmas ’24 and Emma Amselem Bensadon ’24 to serve on the Undergraduate Council of Students as first-year representatives, the Council announced in a Nov. 12 email to first-year students. UCS introduced the first-year representative position last fall to connect first-years ...
As Rhode Island continues to report record rates of positive COVID-19 tests, Providence Mayor Jorge Elorza signed an executive order limiting social gatherings to five people. Additionally, Pfizer is set to test its new COVID-19 vaccine in Rhode Island. Meanwhile, several colleges and universities across ...
Protesters demanded JPMorgan Chase divest from fossil fuels during a demonstration outside the Chase Bank on Thayer Street Monday morning, the latest in a series of protests of the bank organized by activist organization Climate Action Rhode Island. Attendees of the protest, which began at 11:30 a.m. ...
When she was a psychiatry resident at Rhode Island Hospital and Butler Hospital, Audrey R. Tyrka noticed one common thread among her patients suffering from mood and substance disorders: childhood adversity. In a virtual lecture titled “Childhood Adversity, Race and Biological Mechanisms of Risk ...
Brown saw its greatest number of COVID-19 cases in a single week so far during the week starting Nov. 8, with a total of 26 cases reported from the asymptomatic testing program. With this increase from 17 positive asymptomatic test results the week of Nov. 1, administrators hope that students will take ...
Rhode Island House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello was defeated in an upset win by Republican Barbara Ann Fenton-Fung in the race for Cranston House District 15 on Nov. 3. Mattiello, a conservative Democrat long considered to be one of Rhode Island’s most influential political figures, had been in the ...
On Friday, Nov. 13, Dr. Ashish Jha joins The Herald’s COVID Pod team to discuss the aftermath of the 2020 Election and President-Elect Joe Biden’s announcement of a COVID-19 Task Force. Dr. Jha also walks us through news from Pfizer that the company may have a highly effective vaccine in the development, ...
For students like Renee Clairvoyant ’23, the uncertainty of last week’s election made it difficult to focus. “It was like my chest felt heavy,” Clairvoyant said. “I kept checking the maps every five minutes. I couldn’t really think about anything else.” As the election dominated thoughts, ...
A recent $20 million gift from Joseph P. Healey P’22 P’24 will create a permanent endowment for a scholarship for U.S. military veterans. The gift was announced at the University’s annual Veterans’ Day Ceremony on Nov. 11 by President Christina H. Paxson P’19. While the event normally takes ...
Logan Powell always admired Brown when he was in high school, but never viewed it as a realistic option for himself. He was raised by a single mother in a trailer park in Jacksonville, Florida, where very few people ever went to college at all, and he doesn’t think he would have known at the time ...
11 p.m. in Seoul, South Korea. As his family goes to bed, Joon Nam ’23 awakes and opens his laptop to prepare for his Zoom class. As he studies, the sun rises — and by the time he’s ready to end his day, the rest of the country has only just started theirs. Nam isn’t the only one who’s adopted ...
Since accepting the position in summer 2019 as the University’s first Transformative Justice Program Coordinator, Dara Kwayera Imani Bayer ’08 and her team have led a series of education and training initiatives for community members on campus and in Providence. Last year, under Bayer’s leadership, ...
Professor of Neuroscience Carlos Aizenman ’93 discovered his passion for neuroscience while studying on campus as a University undergraduate. Now, he plays an integral role in teaching students who share his same scientific interests and helping to increase diversity in the field. Aizenman has taken ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students introduced a resolution to rename the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Technology, continued discussion of the proposed Student Governance, Ethics and Accountability Board and approved the addition of an anti-discrimination clause to the Undergraduate ...
A group of University researchers, funded in part by the Environmental Protection Agency, are developing living filters to sanitize drinking water. The researchers focused on using bacteria to remove arsenic and lead from water in a selective and renewable manner, according to the principal investigator ...
For Brown students in Providence this semester, semi-weekly testing has become the norm: Scheduled online twice a week, booking and receiving a COVID-19 test has become as commonplace as checking a dining hall’s menus before picking up dinner. Before the semester began and these testing procedures ...
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