Updated: Jan. 22 at 2:39 a.m. The Senate confirmed Janet Yellen ’67 as chair of the Federal Reserve Jan. 6, making her the first woman to lead the nation’s central bank. Yellen, who was nominated by President Obama in October, will take office Feb. 1 after serving as the Fed’s vice chair since ...
Six days after Dana Dourdeville ’15 did not return from a duck-hunting trip off the Massachusetts coast, friends and family members have joined police search efforts, and officials are considering an underwater search. About 250 friends and family members scoured the coastline of West Island in ...
Updated Wednesday, Jan. 22 at 3:00 a.m. Approximately 30,320 students applied to the class of 2018, the second-largest applicant pool in University history and about a 4 percent increase from last year, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Roughly 27,100 students applied through the regular decision ...
Article updated 1/3/14 at 1:25 pm. Law enforcement officials suspended their search Thursday afternoon for an undergraduate who went missing Tuesday, as a winter storm descended on Massachusetts. Dana Dourdeville ’15, an engineering concentrator, was last seen leaving his Marion, Mass., home alone ...
Updated Jan. 22 at 2:14 a.m. Federal prosecutors secured a conviction against former SAC Capital Advisors L.P. portfolio manager Michael Steinberg on insider trading charges last month, national news outlets reported — the latest development in the government’s investigation of Corporation ...
Updated Jan. 22 at 1:33 a.m. Suzanne Stewart-Steinberg, professor of comparative literature and Italian studies, will assume the post of director of the Pembroke Center for Teaching and Research on Women beginning July 1, the center announced last month. Stewart-Steinberg will replace the current ...
Updated Jan. 22 at 2:28 a.m. The University admitted 18.9 percent of early decision applicants to the class of 2018, extending offers of admission to 583 out of a record-high pool of 3,088 applicants, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. Early decision applicants were notified online of ...
Nineteen students have reported symptoms of gastrointestinal illness since Saturday night, said Edward Wheeler, medical director of Health Services. Three students have visited the emergency room, but none were admitted, he said. The outbreak has been concentrated in Goddard House, where 13 of the ...
The visiting graduate student charged with murdering his ex-girlfriend in Urbana, Ill., pled not guilty and will be evaluated by a psychiatrist, according to the Champaign County Circuit Clerk’s website. Yongfei Ci allegedly drove from Providence to Urbana Sept. 27 and stabbed Mengchen Huang to death ...
The new Graduate Student Council executive board, elected Nov. 6 to take office next semester, articulated a platform that emphasizes improving outreach to the graduate student body and advocating for their constituents’ priorities related to the rollout of President Christina Paxson’s strategic ...
Implementation of the Affordable Care Act could potentially cost the University millions of dollars in taxes on health insurance expenditures, though the University has experienced few consequences from the legislation so far, said Director of Benefits Drew Murphy. Because the University is self-insured ...
With the newly created Service Group Funding Board nearing one semester of existence, leaders of the Undergraduate Council of Students are grappling with how to elect the next chair of the board. Council leaders are deciding whether to fill the position this spring — through an appointments process ...
The ad hoc working group on digital technology formed last October has not met this semester, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 wrote in an email to The Herald. Vice President for Public Affairs and University Relations Marisa Quinn told The Herald in September that the working group would “review potential ...
Rhode Island School of Design President John Maeda’s resignation, announced Wednesday, has drawn mixed reactions from RISD students and faculty members as they reflect on how his leadership influenced the school and what RISD’s future may hold. Maeda’s presidency was marked by a perceived tendency ...
Bill Nye, best known for his PBS educational science show targeted toward youth called “Bill Nye The Science Guy” gave a lecture last night to a packed Salomon Hall. Prior to the lecture, the “science guy” sat down with The Herald to talk about science education, his time on television and some ...
“You can change the world!” was the anthem of the night as bow-tied and elbow-padded Bill Nye spoke to a packed Salomon 101 Thursday in a Brown Lecture Board event. A childhood hero for many of the ’90s babies who dominated the crowd, Nye was welcomed onstage by the chanting of his name and a ...
The University plans to increase the portion of its endowment that it invests directly, limiting its reliance on intermediary financial managers in an effort to enhance the University’s flexibility with its assets and grow its cash holdings, wrote Chief Investment Officer Joseph Dowling in an email ...
Activism boils down to the “creation of tension,” said Kenneth McDaniel ’69 P’13, a participant in the 1968 protests over Brown’s diversity, during a Wednesday teach-in on student activism throughout the last 50 years. The teach-in, attended by about 75 people in Barus and Holley 168, was ...
John Maeda, the 16th president of the Rhode Island School of Design, will resign at the end of the semester, according to a RISD press release. Maeda will leave RISD to become a design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, in January. He will also ...
Satirical candidate set to lead Harvard student council A Harvard junior who was elected vice president of the school’s Undergraduate Council after his joke ticket won a plurality of votes announced Monday that he would assume the council presidency instead of resigning as planned, the Harvard Crimson ...
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