Women’s rugby Head Coach and U.S. Rugby Hall of Fame Inductee Kathy Flores died at age 66 Oct. 21 after a year-long battle with cancer. During her 45-year career as a player and coach, Flores left an indelible mark on the sport of rugby and pioneered the growth of women’s rugby at Brown. The ...
Brown has reduced the locations and hours of its on-campus asymptomatic COVID-19 testing program, according to an email from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 to the Brown community Thursday.
Neil Shah ’25, a first-year from Edison, New Jersey, usually celebrates the South Asian festival Diwali at home with “fireworks, food and a whole lot of fun.” But this year, he joined students across campus in celebrating Diwali, also known as the festival of lights, on Thursday ...
Associate Dean of Student Development Vanessa Ryan, who chaired a rapid planning group that recommended policy changes to better support student parents, said that as a result of the group’s recommendations, Brown greatly expanded parental support in 2016. This included making all support programs ...
Alex Jordon GS was elected president of the Graduate Student Council Wednesday evening after current GSC President Kathryn Thompson GS decided to step down after holding the role for the past two years.
Rhode Island received $8.5 million in September from the sale of emission permits as a result of its participation in the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a cap-and-trade program that includes 11 northeastern states.
The Undergraduate Council of Students listened to a presentation by the Office of Information Technology about the BrownU app and myBrown portal at its general body meeting Wednesday evening.
Members of the Brown community react to recent news that peer institutions have done away with the criterion of legacy status in their college admissions decision-making. Some students see the policy change at schools like Amherst College as an important step toward a more inclusive admissions protocol ...
Members of Brown’s administration and faculty discussed the University’s financial position, the plan to host Afghan students who were granted asylum and COVID-19 updates at Tuesday’s faculty meeting.
The Herald asked four faculty members about their thoughts on the current state of the nation one year into the Biden administration. They praised some of Biden’s policy efforts but called for more dramatic action in certain areas.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston upheld the settlement agreement reached in Cohen v. Brown in December 2020 in a continuation of legal battles between the University and a group of women student-athletes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the University a roughly $15 million Public Assistance Grant to reimburse the cost of COVID-19 test kits, according to an Oct. 27 press release. The funding, which totals $14,998,269, will cover the cost of nearly 220,000 COVID-19 tests ...
In many ways, the University’s application process looks different than it did just a few years ago: Subject tests have gone by the wayside, other standardized tests ...
In their new book “Today’s Health Care Issues: Democrats and Republicans,” co-authors Robert Hackey, an adjunct lecturer in international and public affairs, and Todd Olszewski, an associate professor of health policy and management at Providence College, provide what they describe as a nonpartisan ...
Last week, the University announced that it would add nearly $25 million to its annual financial aid budget by the 2024-25 academic year. That expansion includes the elimination of tuition for most families earning
Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese Trang Tran joined the University this fall to offer Brown’s first beginning and intermediate level Vietnamese language classes. There are nine students enrolled in the beginning level and seven in the intermediate, including two students from Princeton.
The University has further lifted masking requirements for certain settings, Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 announced in a community-wide email Oct. 28.
The University has invited 16 female Afghan student applicants from the Asian University for Women to join the fall 2021 semester on humanitarian parole as non-degree students.
Gov. Dan McKee and Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos released the Rhode Island 2030 plan Oct. 15, outlining their vision for Rhode Island’s future in the coming decade.
Since moving to campus at the beginning of the fall semester, some first-year students have cited issues with their residential experience at Brown. The issues range from lack of communication to insufficient support to being assigned to forced triples — rooms that are normally occupied by two ...
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