J. Michael Kosterlitz, professor of physics, was named a winner of the 2016 Nobel Prize in Physics Tuesday morning. Kosterlitz shares his half of the prize with Frederick Haldane, professor of physics at Princeton. The other half of the prize was awarded to David Thouless, professor of physics at the ...
The University’s endowment fell by 1.1 percent to $3.2 billion over the 2016 fiscal year, according to a University press release. This is a marked departure from the previous fiscal year, when the endowment reached a record high of $3.3 billion after a 5.7 percent return, as The Herald previously ...
Updated Oct. 5 at 9:56 a.m. Provost Richard Locke P’17 announced historic changes to the University’s budget and business model at the faculty meeting Tuesday in Salomon 001. The plan outlined a significant shift in the structure of the University, freezing undergraduate admission and growing the ...
This year, faculty members are required to release syllabi with two new features: the estimated time that will be spent on the course — with a minimum total of 180 hours — and a statement about learning objectives, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. The University’s goal with this new policy ...
Graduate students raised several concerns over lack of community, an insignificant role in faculty hiring and few avenues for student feedback on advisors over the course of four student input sessions in September. Andrew Campbell, the new dean of the Graduate School, held these feedback sessions to ...
The Society for Progress, an organization concerned with promoting moral responsibility within capitalism, awarded Provost Richard Locke P’17 an inaugural progress medal, an award given to scholars for innovative research and leadership in addressing the moral dilemmas of today’s economy. Locke ...
Nancy Barnett, professor of behavior and social sciences at the School of Public Health, is launching a study called Squad2020 that examines how social connections and networks among first-years at Brown are related to different health behaviors, particularly alcohol and drug use. The study explores ...
Harvard and its endowment Harvard reported a $2 billion loss on its endowment, a steep drop for the nation’s richest university, according to an article published in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Though Harvard still commands an endowment of $35.7 billion, the university received sharp criticism ...
Earth is not the only planetary body with an ocean in our solar system, according to a new study released by a team led by Brandon Johnson, assistant professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences. Using data recently collected by the New Horizons spacecraft and models simulating the dwarf ...
The Brown Center for Students of Color is hosting its first-ever Southwest Asian and North African Heritage Series this year, with a welcome-back dinner held for SWANA students last week. The group’s increased visibility at the BCSC comes as SWANA-identifying students lobby for recognition at Brown. The ...
This fall, 33 out of 1,691 first-years stepped on campus with a relatively uncommon label: international students on University financial aid. About 15 percent of the international students who matriculated with the Class of 2020 received University aid, said Jim Tilton, dean of financial aid. The first-years ...
Final versions of departmental diversity and inclusion action plans for the majority of the University’s academic departments are now available on the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion’s website for the perusal of all members of the Brown community. Each academic unit at Brown is required ...
Lucrezia Sanes ’17 and Shavon Bell ’17, a former Herald senior staff writer, formed Women, Empowered., a multidisciplinary initiative and group focusing on political action and activism, this year. With the help of faculty advisors and a $10,000 collaboration grant from the Watson Institute for ...
Drawing on his experiences at Brown, Jordan Evans ’14 created Buoy, a mobile application designed to provide Brown students with a source of daily encouragement. The app made its debut Sept. 22. Buoy was created with the essence of its name in mind: “As a verb, buoy means to cause to become cheerful, ...
Situated on the second floor of J. Walter Wilson, the Brown Business Center will begin offering key business services at the heart of campus Oct. 3. These functions include I-9 verification, onboarding, foreign nationals processing, Bear Bucks deposits and notary services for undergraduate students, ...
Sitting at .500 with its first Ivy League matchup just seven days away, the men’s soccer team hoped to take the win over local rival University of Rhode Island Saturday to build momentum heading into a very important week. Bruno (5-3) did just that, edging URI (3-6-1) 2-1. The victory was powered ...
Updated Sept. 29 at 12:44 a.m. Chief Judge William E. Smith ruled in favor of an undergraduate, referred to as John Doe in court documents to protect his identity, in a case against the University yesterday. The case concerned a University disciplinary hearing that found Doe guilty of sexual misconduct. ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students filled seven leadership positions through internal elections at its meeting Wednesday night. The positions of chair of appointments and parliamentarian were hotly contested, with three students running for each post. Gabrielle Alcala ’19 secured the position of ...
In the 1990s, Brown’s campus was a hotbed of activism on behalf of Timor-Leste, the Southeast Asian island then occupied by — and subject to human rights violations committed by — Indonesia. Over 15 years later, the leaders of what is now the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste arrived in Providence ...
The Brown University Community Council met Tuesday afternoon for the first time this semester to discuss new projects and receive updates on major University affairs, including the reaccreditation process and progress on the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel began the ...
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