This story is the third in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown. Tarek was pulling up to his apartment building when he heard the missiles. There was no siren — just the sound of mortar shells soaring into the ground in front of his building and the dull thuds that followed. ...
Updated at 6 p.m., March 9, 2016 The Department of Public Safety officer accused of assaulting a visiting Dartmouth student participating in the Latinx Ivy League Conference in November has been fired, wrote Executive Vice President of Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 in a community-wide ...
Student activism over the last two years has contributed to substantial changes on campus, including the recently released final draft of the University’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, the renaming of Fall Weekend to Indigenous People’s Day and the University’s firing of a Department of ...
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, delivered the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture with a mixture of passion, anger and humor Tuesday night. The speech moved students and community members alike, and as Cummings left the stage, the audience broke into the gospel song “This Little Light of Mine,” ...
The computer science department has hired Laura Dobler, academic program coordinator at the School of Professional Studies, to coordinate initiatives focused on diversity and inclusion. Dobler will work with student advocates in the department’s diversity committee and will be a resource to the CS ...
Last week, the Production Workshop held Performance Craft Week, a series of tech- and design-based crash courses facilitated by Brown students about lighting, directing, sound design, set building, costume design and dramaturgy. “We have noticed that the same people tend to design over and over again ...
In response to requests from Students for Justice in Palestine to boycott Sabra Hummus, Dining Services has recently begun offering Cedar’s Hummus in University eateries. Sabra is an American company partially owned by the Israeli Strauss Group, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment, ...
Logging into Banner just got a little bit harder. As of last week, all students, with the exception of those studying abroad, have been enrolled in the new two-step verification system that adds an additional layer of security to the Brown network, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for computing and ...
Following concerns from students with allergies, the organization Food Allergy Research and Education conducted a review Feb. 23 and 24 regarding how Brown Dining Services prepares and serves food and recommended changes to make the process more allergy-friendly. “When I first got on campus, I had ...
Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture titled “Disgust or Equality? The Struggle over Sexual Orientation Law Outside the U.S.” Monday to a crowd of nearly 100 people in the Salomon Center. The event, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, ...
Feminists at Brown hosted the Feminist Leadership and Mentorship for Equality Conference for the second year in a row, bringing students from Rhode Island high schools and faculty members together to learn and discuss issues related to feminism. FLAME was coordinated by a team of 13 Brown students headed ...
Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian Arab member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, spoke at Brown Thursday evening at “Critical Conversations: Suffering Embrace? The Futures of Palestinians in Israel,” an event sponsored by the Department of Middle East Studies. Before Zoabi took the microphone an hour ...
Amid the bustle of 3D printers and laser cutters, students bent over in concentration, working on prosthetics, tinkering with wires and experimenting with technology they hoped would change lives. The Brown science, technology, engineering, arts and math community hosted an assistive technology makeathon ...
Beginning with the Class of 2019, families who earn roughly $100,000 to $200,000 per year will receive between $3,000 and $5,000 more per year in grants, said James Tilton, director of financial aid. The increased aid is a component of the $3 billion BrownTogether fundraising campaign, which will allocate ...
Provost Richard Locke P’17 announced the creation of the Task Force on Diversity in the Curriculum Thursday in a community-wide email. The group is charged with evaluating how the University can stay true to commitments to inclusivity set forward in the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan unveiled ...
The rapidly expanding workforce in science, technology, engineering and mathematics industries faces what Mary Fernández ’85 ScM’89 P’16 P’19 described as “a critical deficit of talent” in her lecture Thursday afternoon on the significant underrepresentation of women, non-whites and first-generation ...
University officials shared details on the revamped sexual assault education program for incoming first-years and the Responsible Employee protocol determining which university employees have a responsibility to report incidents of sexual harassment or assault at the Undergraduate Council of Students ...
Shivering students gathered Wednesday on the Faunce steps for an evening of prayer and reflection on the murders of Muhannad Adam Tairab, Adam Kamel Mekki and Mohamedtaha Omar in Fort Wayne, Indiana Feb. 24. The vigil was organized by Adrian Wood-Smith, associate university chaplain, and the Muslim ...
Providing a broad picture of the Putin regime and the Russian populace’s feelings about it, “Vladimir Putin’s Time of Troubles?” a lecture given yesterday by Linda Cook, professor of political science and Slavic studies, addressed the American public’s fragmented understanding of contemporary ...
Each night at 8:30 p.m., a security guard at the Sciences Library shines a bright flashlight from the 14th floor to say goodnight to the children at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. The flashlight blinks four times, once for each syllable in the phrase, “goodnight, Hasbro.” Several other ...
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