Using a video camera attached to a robot in San Francisco, Jack Dorsey, a co-founder of Twitter and the mobile payment company Square, took the audience at his Salomon 101 lecture yesterday on a tour of the headquarters of Square, where he serves as CEO. “What’re you doing?” Dorsey asked a pair ...
See accompanying article. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? (Circle one.) 7.2% Strongly approve 34.7% Somewhat approve 33.1% No opinion 20.6% Somewhat disapprove 4.4% Strongly disapprove 2. Do you ...
“It is not easy to kill without repercussions,” said Ashis Nandy, an Indian political psychologist, while speaking about the 1947-48 partition of India to a crowded room in Pembroke Hall. “Even though the participants of the partition say they do not feel guilty about their action, their bodies ...
Though Brown celebrated its 250th anniversary last weekend, the University is a baby compared to some of its peer institutions. Princeton commemorated its 250th in 1996, while Harvard kicked off its 375th anniversary festivities in 2011. The University studied and learned from its peers’ past birthday ...
White House seeks to boost federal aid applications The White House will redouble its efforts to ensure more students complete the Free Application for Federal Student Aid, President Obama announced Friday, March 7. The new initiative expands a Department of Education pilot program launched in 2010 ...
See full results and methodology. A Herald poll of undergraduates conducted March 3-4 found both approval and disapproval of President Christina Paxson’s job performance have each declined since November. A plurality of undergraduates endorsed providing financial aid for middle-income students ...
Undergraduate Council of Students members raised issues regarding Psychological Services’ commitment to student confidentiality, the hiring of minority staff members and student outreach at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday featuring Sherri Nelson, director of Psychological Services, Maria Suarez, ...
“The fraction of the As is getting pretty high — too high for comfort,” said President Christina Paxson, adding, “It’s clear that there has been grade inflation” at Brown and its peer institutions. Across the Ivy League, university administrators are grappling with skyrocketing grades. Harvard ...
With the number of high school students taking Advanced Placement courses more than doubling over the last 10 years, some of Brown’s peer institutions have stopped accepting AP and International Baccalaureate test scores for course credit. And while the University does not grant course credit for ...
A new position in the Graduate School — the associate dean of master’s education, created last month — is seeking to improve master’s students’ experiences as this segment of the Brown student body becomes its fastest-growing. Don Operario, associate professor of public health and director ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students is set to consider another resolution in support of Brown Divest Coal, said Todd Harris ’14.5, UCS president. After Council leaders attended a Divest Coal meeting earlier this month, Divest Coal members are drafting a resolution to present to a UCS “working ...
Prince Karim Aga Khan IV ’96 hon. P’95 said during a lecture Monday that the hardest part of speaking at Brown again since delivering the baccalaureate address in 1996 was “that you have to explain what you got wrong the first time.” It was hard to imagine that the thorough, well-spoken 49th ...
The dean of the College search committee completed its first phase of interviews with nine applicants out of a pool of 53 and is currently re-interviewing a subset of the original interviewees, wrote Marisa Quinn, vice president of public affairs and University relations, in an email to The Herald. The ...
Eight students are currently enrolled in MGRK 0400: “Intermediate Modern Greek,” taught by Senior Lecturer in Modern Greek Studies Elissavet Amanatidou, but only seven of them live on College Hill. The eighth student is a graduate student at Cornell, Eilis Monahan, who joins the class by video conference ...
“It’s like magic, right?” Eve Ornstedt, executive director for the Office of the 250th Anniversary, reflected as she stood in the center of the Main Green Friday afternoon watching years of celebration-planning unfold in front of her. The weekend’s celebrations marked the 250th anniversary of ...
“I didn’t have any idea that I was going to become the Secretary of Labor someday, … but what I did have an idea of was that I wanted to make a difference,” said U.S. Secretary of Labor Thomas Perez ’83 in his keynote address, part of Saturday morning’s opening celebration of Brown’s 250th ...
“If you are here today, and if you graduate from Brown, you are ready to tackle just about anything — don’t be fearful,” said World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim ’82 in a lecture delivered Friday afternoon to a packed Salomon 101. Kim’s talk, part of the Stephen A. Ogden ’60 Memorial ...
The noontime Sharpe Refectory rush was especially crowded Friday, as around 300 seventh and eighth graders from middle schools throughout Rhode Island swarmed campus for the “250+ Day of Academic Discovery.” The program kicked off with a welcome from student leaders, including Undergraduate Council ...
Deborah Willis, chair of the department of photography and imaging at the Tisch School of the Arts at New York University presented the 2014 Debra L. Lee Lecture on Slavery and Justice to a half-filled Smith-Buonano 106, entitled “Visualizing Freedom: Photography and Emancipation.” Willis has been ...
The University will distribute a survey in the coming months to assess Brown’s reputation with scholars, students and others both abroad and within the United States. The survey is meant to provide a “full and complete baseline assessment of the awareness and perceptions of Brown among various ...
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