Garrett named Cornell’s 13th president Elizabeth Garrett, provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at the University of Southern California, will be Cornell’s 13th and first female president, the Cornell Board of Trustees announced Tuesday. Garrett will succeed David Skorton on July ...
The number of burglaries reported to the Department of Public Safety in 2013 nearly tripled from 2012, and the number of forcible sex offenses reported saw a slight rise, according to DPS’s annual security report, released Tuesday night. There were 63 reported burglaries in 2013, up from 23 in 2012 ...
Maen Areikat, chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s delegation to the United States, delivered a lecture about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict on campus Wednesday. He sat down with The Herald to discuss the need for a two-state solution and the difficulties of current negotiations. Herald: ...
The University’s endowment saw a 16.1 percent return on investments for the fiscal year that ended in June, landing at a record high of $3.2 billion, the administration announced Wednesday. Brown’s endowment returns are consistent with a period of recent growth, said Chief Investment Officer Joseph ...
Dean of the College Maud Mandel and Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn discussed the initiatives they intend to pursue in the coming year at the Undergraduate Council of Students general body meeting Wednesday evening. Appearing before the council for the first time ...
Speaking to a packed Metcalf Auditorium Wednesday, Maen Areikat, chief representative of the Palestine Liberation Organization’s delegation to the United States, discussed how an “end to all historical claims in the region” can be achieved through a two-state solution. Organized by J Street U ...
The University ran a $8.7 million operating budget deficit for fiscal year 2014, according to Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration. This marks a roughly 58 percent increase from the $5.5 million deficit in the 2013 fiscal year. The deficit is more than double the ...
CEOs of information technology companies from around the country are set to descend on campus as part of a new lecture series hosted by Computing and Information Services entitled “Leadership in Technology.” Chairman and CEO of EMC Corporation Joseph Tucci kicked off the series Thursday, and two ...
Despite recent reports of Spats’ impending closure, the restaurant’s doors will remain open, owner Andy Mitrelis confirmed to The Herald Monday night. Though Mitrelis declined to provide specific information about management changes, a female employee at Spats, who declined to provide her name, ...
Students and alums gathered around three wire cages on the Main Green Sunday afternoon to enjoy yet another installment of the Class Coordinating Board-sponsored event, “Super Duper Heavy Petting.” This event, begun by the 2015 CCB in spring 2013, has quickly become tradition, according to Class ...
Some may say the art of a handwritten letter has been lost in a modern age saturated with Snapchats and Emojis. But the Brown Pen Pals are dedicated to keeping this fleeting art of letter writing alive. Through the club, student pairs exchange handwritten letters to form anonymous, yet surprisingly ...
“I write you with extraordinary news,” began a September 2004 email to the Brown community from then-President Ruth Simmons. Sidney E. Frank ’42 had made a $100 million donation — the largest in University history — to establish the Sidney E. Frank Endowed Scholarship Fund. The fund provides ...
Laughter and smiles of nostalgia lit up the faces of the roughly two dozen alums and students who gathered in the Brown Bookstore this Saturday afternoon. The source of these high spirits was a reading by five authors who have contributed to “The Brown Reader: 50 Writers Remember College Hill.” “The ...
For Ria Vaidya ’16 and Shreena Thakore ’16, summer break meant more than reuniting with friends and family. The pair launched No Country For Women, a nationwide campaign based in India dedicated to combatting rape culture. Using the $10,000 grant they received from the Projects for Peace fellowship, ...
Disruptions to journalism’s business model and media’s heightened polarization present challenges and potential conflicts of interest for the industry, two alum media veterans said at a panel Saturday. Mark Maremont ’80 P’11, senior editor at the Wall Street Journal, and Mara Liasson ’77, ...
Visitors to the Quiet Green can now view a new sculpture remembering and engaging with the University’s ties to the slave trade. President Christina Paxson dedicated the sculpture, entitled the Slavery Memorial, at a ceremony Saturday afternoon that drew more than 100 students, alums and community ...
Updated Monday, Sept. 29 at 1:52 a.m. After student pressure last semester to diversify its staff, Counseling and Psychological Services has made several new targeted hires and will offer a support group for students of color, Vice President for Campus Life and Student Services Margaret Klawunn announced ...
Creativity “starts with the belief that you’re actually a creative person,” said Sheila Bridges ’86, author and founder of Sheila Bridges Design, at the beginning of a panel discussion Saturday morning. The panel, called “Making ‘It’: Delving Into the Creative Process,” was one of the ...
Undergraduate enrollment in Hispanic studies courses has declined almost every year for the last decade, dropping from 1,024 students in the 2003-04 academic year to 682 students in the 2012-13 academic year, the most recent year for which official data is available, according to the Office of Institutional ...
Just weeks after a renovated John Hay Library reopened to the public, senior library staff members are commencing a search for a new library director. Previous Director of Special Collections and the John Hay Library Tom Horrocks officially resigned Aug. 1 after giving two weeks’ notice, said University ...
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