As students at Brown urge the administration to take greater measures to address the lack of diversity and inclusion on campus, students and faculty members at other colleges in Rhode Island are also working to have their voices heard on their campuses. Such events represent students’ and faculty ...
Cathy Russell, U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, delivered a lecture titled “Why Empowering Women and Girls is Good for U.S. Foreign Policy” Tuesday in the Joukowsky Forum of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. The lecture discussed the importance of incorporating ...
Roland Fryer, professor of economics at Harvard, gave a lecture entitled “Understanding Racial Differences in Police Use of Force” in the Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall Monday. The talk, part of the “Economics in the Real World Symposium,” argued that though there are substantial racial ...
The fire at an off-campus house at 185 Angell Street Thursday morning was caused by the electrical system, wrote Lindsay Lague, public information officer for the Providence Department of Safety. The house is home to a number of players on the men’s hockey team, including Andrew Doane ’17, who received ...
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz delivered the 92nd Stephen Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs Monday. He discussed diplomacy, the Iran Deal, nonproliferation and climate change before a packed DeCiccio Family Auditorium, which seats around 600 people. Moniz emphasized the ...
The gears of the University’s strategic plan, Building on Distinction, are whirring everywhere, and no more so than in the arts departments. Tucked inside the metallic folds of the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts is the office of Anne Bergeron, who began her appointment as managing director of ...
Julia Gross ’18, Clayton Sanford ’18 and Geoffrey Kocks ’18 notched top performances in the Interdisciplinary Contest for Modeling, a mathematical competition that involved over 5,000 teams from across the world and took place earlier this semester. Results were announced April 11. The team received ...
Jennifer Klein ’87, senior advisor to Hillary Clinton and adjunct professor of law at Georgetown Law Center, spoke at the School of Public Health Thursday, delivering a lecture titled “Women’s Health and Rights: A Matter of National Security?” The women’s rights movement remains in the national ...
As of the fall 2016 semester, the University will have implemented composting programs across all dining halls, a development that follows a pilot program launched in spring 2015 in Andrews Dining Commons. The revitalized composting program will be introduced in the Sharpe Refectory, the Blue Room ...
Updated at 12:40 p.m., April 18, 2016 Despite a written promise to cancel the event in response to student concerns, Brown Entrepreneurship Program will sponsor a speaking engagement April 21 featuring Joe Lonsdale, an entrepreneur and co-founder of tech company Palantir and venture capital firm Formation ...
Michael Wilson, a member of the Department of Public Safety, died April 8, according to a community-wide email Friday from Karen Davis, vice president for Human Resources. Wilson was a “model employee,” wrote Deputy Chief of Police Paul Shanley in an email to The Herald. “He was someone who was ...
After a week of campaigning, an engaging and competitive debate, and a two-day voting process, the candidates for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students stood at the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Thursday night, eagerly awaiting the announcement of the winner. For President-elect ...
Spring Weekend kicked off Friday evening with clear skies, minimal wind and Funkinevil DJ-ing as students in the line stretching down George Street slowly inched their way onto the Main Green. Funkinevil’s set did not seem to do much for the crowd, but their graphics featured cascading dollar bills ...
In preparation for Rhode Island’s primary April 26, former President Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd of students and community members at a rally for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus in Warwick Thursday. Bill Clinton spoke ...
1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 8.3% Strongly approve 37.8% Somewhat approve 34.2% No opinion 17.4% Somewhat disapprove 2.2% Strongly disapprove 2. How informed do you feel about events on campus? 16.7% Very informed 63.2% ...
Screen Shot 2016-04-13 at 3.23.13 PM The Herald’s spring undergraduate poll, conducted April 6, 7 and 11 in J. Walter Wilson, the Faunce Campus Center and the Sciences Library, found that about half of students polled disagreed that Brown/RISD Hillel should not have sponsored a talk by Janet Mock, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students debated the effectiveness of the Diverse Perspectives in Liberal Learning course designation in a discussion with members of the Task Force on Diversity in the Curriculum at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Dean of the College Maud Mandel, Associate Professor ...
Two faculty members, Alberto Saal, professor of earth, environmental and planetary science, and Wendy Chun, professor of modern culture and media and chair of the department, have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced April 6. The organization was ...
The Engaged Scholars Program — a collaborative initiative between the Swearer Center for Public Service, the Dean of the College and multiple academic departments — will expand to encompass 12 concentrations, an increase of seven from the previous year. The new concentrations will include business, ...
A team of first-years has launched an app called Eat@Brown that allows students to check the menus at the Sharpe Refectory, Verney-Woolley Dining Hall and Andrews Commons from their phones. The app is a more convenient way of accessing menu offerings and dining hall hours than the Brown Dining Services ...
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