The University’s endowment reached a new high of $3.3 billion in the fiscal year ending June 30, 2015, earning a 5.7 percent return, according to a University press release. This year’s return falls far short of the 16.1 percent mark the endowment posted last year. But this year was a less profitable ...
Across campus, programs like the Gender, Power and Sexuality workshop — formerly FemSex — and Sexual Assault Peer Education foster conversations to help students examine issues of identity and gendered violence. Amongst these discussions, the new Men’s Story Project takes a novel approach. Formed ...
As students settle into their dormitories for the semester, those residing in Buxton, Chapin, Harkness, Sears and Wayland Houses are benefitting from renovations completed this summer. These five dorms saw the introduction of new carpets, furniture and paint, as well as updates to kitchens and lounge ...
The Writing Center has suspended its second effort in its search for a new director as part of a wider rethinking of the University’s writing program, said Christopher Dennis, deputy dean of the College. After Kathleen McSharry, former associate dean of the College and interim Writing Center director, ...
Some single parents in Providence now have a source of steady income and economic opportunities through the venture Tink Knit, launched this semester and co-founded by Julia Xu ’17 and Julia Xu ’15. Tink Knit teaches single mothers how to knit products like hats and then sells those products, returning ...
Eleven students were elected to leadership positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Four of the eight elections for UCS leadership positions were uncontested. The night’s most hotly contested UCS race was for ...
The University is currently searching for a new assistant dean for chemical dependency and junior and senior class following Kathleen McSharry’s departure from the position in August. The dean is responsible for issues of chemical dependency as they relate to students, faculty members and staff members ...
World-renowned English primatologist Jane Goodall will speak at Brown Oct. 19, representatives of the Brown Lecture Board told The Herald. “Jane has polled consistently highly in the past Lecture Board polls we’ve had, so we knew that there was a lot of student interest in bringing her to Brown,” ...
The University is considering implementing a boycott of the local Hilton Providence Hotel due to a labor dispute between employees and the hotel’s owners. Members of the Brown University Community Council discussed the potential boycott at a meeting Tuesday. The BUCC also touched on Counseling and ...
Brown students have been successful in securing jobs at top companies in the technology and finance sectors, according to data from LinkedIn. The three companies with the most Brown alums employed based on a survey of LinkedIn profiles are Google, Microsoft and Goldman Sachs, with 386, 167 and 148 alums, ...
A new space for the Language Resource Center will open on the sixth floor of the Sciences Library by March 1 as part of a six-floor renovation of the library, said Ercan Balci, director for the Center of Language Studies. The new facility will provide a “flexible learning environment” and “cutting ...
Georges St. Laurent III GS died Friday in Miami, Florida, announced Jack Elias, dean of medicine and biological sciences, and Peter Weber, dean of the Graduate School, in a campus-wide email Monday. A Ph.D. candidate in the molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry program, St. Laurent was preparing ...
The First Generation Low Income Partnership library, which launched at the beginning of the semester, aims to make textbooks accessible to those who are unable afford the cost of books, said coordinators Jonathan Jaramillo ’18 and Kevin Melendez ’16. The library, located in the Sorensen Family Reading ...
Brown students can now add a new friend on Snapchat: the University. The Office of Communications introduced its own Snapchat account last month, giving current students, prospective students and alums a firsthand glimpse of life at Brown in micro-video form. “Historically, user-generated video has ...
Updated Sept. 30 at 3:40 p.m. The University has revoked Bill Cosby’s honorary degree, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Monday night. He was awarded the degree in 1985. The Corporation’s Board of Fellows decided to revoke the degree following sexual assault allegations ...
Updated September, 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM In a partnership with the Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, the University will establish a new institute to advance children’s health, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced Monday at a joint press conference ...
When Gregory Pennisten coated the facade of 29 Manning Walk with bright graffiti Friday, he didn’t have to work under cover of night or worry about University backlash. In fact, the local artist was invited in to help publicly commemorate the relocation of the Department of Urban Studies. Surrounded ...
The former Periodicals Reading Room in the Rockefeller Library is being renovated to become a new facility that will feature space for collaboration and an audio and video production space, wrote University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi in an email to The Herald. The renovation is part of a larger plan ...
In spite of G.O.P. presidential candidates and congressional bills threatening Planned Parenthood funding, Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup ’81 P’16 is working to ensure reproductive rights are not up for debate. Reproductive rights have emerged as a politically divisive ...
Students seeking to master Adobe Photoshop or learn Java basics have a new resource at their fingertips. Two hundred sixty-one Brown community members have earned certificates on Lynda.com — a site that provides video tutorials on thousands of programs — since the University began offering free ...
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