The Corporation authorized a 4.1 percent tuition hike for the 2016-2017 academic year last month. This increase is consistent with past years — after a 4.4 percent increase for the current academic year and a 3.8 percent increase for the previous year — as the cost of higher education continues ...
As diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba normalize, students have expressed increasing interest in studying in the communist country. Last month, President Barack Obama announced that he would be the first sitting U.S. president in 88 years to visit Cuba. “You could feel the excitement ...
The University has recently filled two senior-level roles in communications. Brian Clark began his position Feb. 22 as the director of news and editorial development, and Albert Dahlberg was promoted to assistant vice president of government and community relations after serving for seven years as director ...
As exam turmoil hits its peak mid-semester, students may find themselves strapped for time to do their laundry. Most of them do their own laundry using dormitory laundry machines. For an additional fee, some choose to use the laundry service provided by Brown Student Agencies. The washers and dryers ...
While all applicants to the University’s undergraduate program can expect regular decisions to be released online March 31, the University’s 51 departments with doctoral programs review and select applications in varied ways behind the scenes. For fall 2016 admission, the Graduate School received ...
Each week, students taking the class ANTH 1301: “Anthropology of Homelessness” complete coursework one might expect from a typical anthropology class — they read and analyze books, prepare for exams and write papers, all about different aspects of homelessness. But in addition, students spend ...
Thousands of miles may separate Providence from the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, but viruses have a way of making the globe seem small. “We do expect that we will have a case (in Rhode Island),” said Rebecca Reece, medical consultant for the Rhode Island Department of Health and assistant professor ...
Five Brown professors were named on Thomson Reuters’ list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015,” a compilation of nearly 3,000 researchers who have authored papers written from 2003 to 2013 that were highly cited in their publication year. This method “seeks out authors ...
This February, Evan Silver ’16 was chosen from a pool of 162 nominees and 45 finalists as one of 18 Luce Scholars. The Luce Scholars Program every year seeks to recognize potential leaders who have an interest in Asian culture but no extensive exposure to it, barring those who study disciplines relating ...
The Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy released two public opinion polls Feb. 25 about the 2016 Rhode Island presidential primaries, which will take place April 26. The polls found that Hillary Clinton holds a nine-point lead over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and Donald Trump leads the ...
Members of the incoming class of 2020 will read “My Beloved World,” a memoir written by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as their First Readings text, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. The goal of the First Readings program is “to give all incoming students a collective first engagement ...
Author and television producer Kevin Roose ’09.5 spoke about his experiences in media and journalism Wednesday at the Brown/RISD Hillel. As part of the emerging writers portion of the Great Nonfiction Writers Series, the talk, titled, “How to Write Nonfiction on the Internet Without Hating Yourself,” ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students unanimously approved a resolution that will create a new committee called the Student Wellness committee for the 2016-17 school year at its general body meeting Wednesday. The committee will oversee UCS affairs relating to Counseling and Psychological Services, ...
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, ...
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