In response to student complaints about the quality of the campus wireless network, Computing and Information Services installed a new wireless network this summer meant to replace Brown-Secure and Brown-EZ, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for computing and information services and chief information ...
As shopping period kicked off Wednesday with a sunny start, the Main Green came to life with clusters of students catching up and sprawling out between classes. “The weather is nice,” Carlin Smith ’18 said while sitting in a circle on the grass with a group of fellow first-years. The group had ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will focus this year on improving sexual assault policy, mental health services and student resources such as financial aid and technology access, UCS leaders said. Many efforts that began last spring to reform the University’s sexual assault policy will continue ...
A committee is currently reviewing applications from across the country for the role of director of the CareerLAB, in the wake of former CareerLAB Director Andrew Simmons’ assumption of the role of associate dean for graduate student career advising. Jim Amspacher, career adviser for Careers in the ...
Free speech, diversity and research emerged as key issues for faculty during this academic year at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. President Christina Paxson took the podium to speak about both financial and campus life issues — touching most specifically on diversity and freedom of speech on campus. “These ...
A new generation of first-years marched through the Van Wickle Gates and onto the Main Green to mark the start of Brown’s 251st academic year yesterday afternoon. President Christina Paxson kicked off the ceremony, declaring the academic year officially in swing and inviting applause for the students ...
“I love talking to students; so do my two poodles. So please stop and say hello,” President Christina Paxson said in her welcome address to first-years and parents Sunday. Paxson spoke to a crowd assembled on the Main Green beneath a muggy, overcast sky. Besides urging students to approach her ...
A grand jury this week chose not to indict two Brown undergraduates accused of sexually assaulting a female Providence College student last November, news outlets reported Monday. The two Brown students, who were both first-years at the time of the alleged incident, were asked to leave campus in late ...
Stephen Rodrigues’ loved ones remember him in many ways: as a lover of the Earth, a thoughtful poet, a late-night conversationalist and, in the words of friend Michaela Lewis ’13, a “gentle soul.” “Stephen was an exuberant and creative spirit with an amazing laugh, tremendous curiosity, a ...
Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, will retire in February after more than 12 years in the position, President Christina Paxson announced in a campus-wide email Wednesday. Huidekoper came to Brown in October 2002 after serving as Harvard’s vice president for ...
Updated July 30 at 8:00 p.m. Stephen Rodrigues, an undergraduate on leave from the University, has died, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Saturday. He was 26. Rodrigues, originally from Encinitas, California, was living in Providence at the time of his death, Paxson wrote. ...
Mark St. Louis ’15 was an asker of questions and a seeker of answers. “He was always excited about everything, about learning so many different things,” Maris Jones ’15 said. “It didn’t matter if it wasn’t his area, because obviously if you were interested in it, then there was something ...
The U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights launched an investigation of the University’s handling of sexual assault cases July 10, adding Brown to a list of 68 colleges and universities currently under federal investigation for Title IX violations regarding sexual assault. The department ...
More than 40 students, staff members and community members gathered on the Faunce House steps Thursday to protest the University’s decision to outsource mailroom operations to office technology company Ricoh USA, a change set to take effect Aug. 1. Through Facebook posts and flyers, the protest’s ...
Updated Thursday, July 24 at 11:15 p.m. Mark St. Louis ’15 died on Friday, July 18. President Christina Paxson first announced his death in a community-wide email Sunday morning. St. Louis, 21, was a neuroscience concentrator from Atlanta. He graduated from the United World College of the Adriatic ...
Rebecca Molholt Vanel, assistant professor of history of art and architecture, strongly believed in engaging with an object’s historical context. Lying on the floors of exalted art galleries, she would often risk a scolding from a security guard in her quest to see an ancient Roman mosaic from the ...
Beginning Aug. 1, the University will work with office technology company Ricoh USA to improve mail delivery operations on campus, wrote Beppie Huidekoper, executive vice president for finance and administration, in an email to The Herald. As a result of this decision, current Mail Services employees ...
Charged with the brutal murder of his ex-girlfriend last September, Yongfei Ci — at the time of the crime a visiting graduate student at Brown’s Institute for Computational and Experimental Research in Mathematics — was sentenced to 46 years behind bars last week, the News-Gazette in Champaign, ...
Two Brown undergraduates were asked to leave campus in late April amidst a criminal investigation by the Providence Police Department into an allegation that the students sexually assaulted a female Providence College student in November, the Providence Journal reported Friday. Both Brown students ...
Maud Mandel, professor of history and Judaic studies and director of the Program in Judaic Studies, assumed the dean of the College position July 1. Mandel’s selection as the University’s top academic officer for undergraduates concludes a national search that began last October, shortly after ...
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