The School of Professional Studies will offer five online undergraduate courses this summer, marking an uptick from last year’s two. Each course will last seven weeks and provide full semester credit. James Chansky, director of summer session and pre-college programs at the School of Professional ...
The University will likely have a site selected for its new performing arts venue by this summer, said Michael Steinberg, vice provost for the arts. Other key initiatives Steinberg is currently pursuing include better integrating the arts into the greater Brown curriculum and establishing a “global ...
Hundreds of students from 22 Rhode Island high schools conversed with Brown community members on College Hill Sunday and grappled with issues of feminism, gender identity and sexuality at the first annual Feminist Leadership and Mentorship for Equality Conference. The event was coordinated by Feminists ...
Many students have reacted with frustration and anger toward the University following new revelations in the date-rape drug and sexual assault cases. Several people expressed concern that the Phi Kappa Psi member accused of administering GHB to two female students Oct. 17 may have benefitted from his ...
The student accused of sexual assault by one of two female students who reported being drugged at an October party has been found not responsible by the University’s Student Conduct Board, according to a Feb. 20 letter reviewed by The Herald from Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel to the complainant. Meisel, ...
Individuals familiar with the case surrounding the alleged use of a date-rape drug raised concerns that the University may have unfairly handled the disciplinary proceedings due to the accused student’s family ties to the Corporation, according to sources and documents reviewed by The Herald. Charges ...
“When it comes to Palestine, the laws of physics do not apply. You cannot say that for every action there is an incurrent opposite reaction,” said Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestinian legislator, activist and scholar to a crowded Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Thursday evening. Ashrawi ...
Same-sex marriage is the “defining civil rights issue of the century,” said David Boies, one of the two lawyers who helped overturn Proposition 8, to a packed Starr Auditorium Thursday night. Boies and fellow lawyer Ted Olson first came to the public’s attention during the 2000 Supreme Court case ...
Jerome Sanes, professor of neuroscience, and Paul Williard, professor of chemistry, have won Fulbright Scholar Awards to conduct research in France, according to a Feb. 27 University press release. “It was a wonderful opportunity,” said Sanes, who will study Parkinson’s disease at the Brain and ...
Students protesting the University’s handling of cases surrounding the alleged drugging of two female students and sexual assault of one attended “Cracking the Glass Ceiling: Women Presidents and the Changing University” Thursday evening. The event’s roundtable discussion featured President ...
1962 Brown undergraduates were among 300 college students from Rhode Island traveling to Maryland to protest racial segregation through peaceful demonstrations and sit-ins, The Herald reported at the time. Roger Wilson ’62, treasurer of the Northern Student Movement — the group organizing the protests ...
As new details surrounding the Phi Kappa Psi case broke across campus Wednesday, many students reacted with frustration at what they perceived as the University’s lack of transparency. Others stressed the importance of respecting the two female students who reported being served a drink containing ...
“Asia’s rise is the opportunity of this century,” said Julia Gillard, Australian prime minister from 2010 to 2013, during the 90th Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs Wednesday. Attendees of the talk nearly filled the DeCiccio Family Auditorium in the Salomon Center, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students decided not to adopt a formal position on the new details surrounding the Phi Kappa Psi case revealed in The Herald this week, said UCS President Maahika Srinivasan ’15 at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Following extensive discussion amongst the UCS Executive ...
The University has assembled a search committee charged with hiring a dean of students for the next academic year, said Ricky Gresh, director of campus life projects and committee chair. The committee convened for the first time in late January and will meet again Tuesday, Gresh said. The position of ...
Faculty members unanimously supported the institution of a new Executive Master’s Program in Cybersecurity at a faculty meeting Tuesday. The proposal, presented by Roberto Tamassia, professor of computer science and chair of the department, will next be brought to the Corporation for approval at ...
Erskine College clarifies anti-gay statement Erskine College, a private Christian college in Due West, South Carolina released a follow-up statement Friday clarifying its controversial Feb. 20 statement decried same-sex and extramarital sexual relationships on campus, the Washington Post reported Friday. The ...
Within the next two weeks, all members of Greek organizations will sign a new zero-tolerance sexual misconduct policy mandating yearly bystander training for members and expulsion from Greek organizations for any student found responsible for sexual misconduct, Greek Council members said. Signing the ...
For the third consecutive year, Brown failed to make the list of the top 25 medium-sized colleges and universities to send graduates to the Peace Corps. Following more than a decade of maintaining steady placement in the ranking — with between 20 and 38 alums serving each year between 2002 and 2013 ...
The University will not proceed with a hearing against the Phi Kappa Psi member initially charged with serving a drink containing the date-rape drug GHB at a party held by the fraternity in October, according to multiple documents reviewed by The Herald. In a two-sentence letter dated Feb. 21, the University ...
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