On Wednesday evening, members of Jews for Ceasefire Now erected a “Gaza Solidarity Sukkah” on the Quiet Green to mark the week-long holiday of Sukkot, one of the Jewish High Holy Days.
International students at Brown now have access to Interstride, an online portal to assist in their career search.
The Underground Coffee Company, Brown’s only student-run coffee shop, received 10 violations from the Rhode Island Department of Health in an Oct. 3 report.
The approval rating for President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 climbed 8.5 points to 25.2% this semester, according to data from The Herald’s fall poll, which surveyed 1,177 students. Last semester, her approval ratings hit their lowest point since at least 2018, with disapproval rates soaring ...
A Herald poll found that female students are less likely to study the physical sciences compared to their male counterparts at Brown. 45% of female students study the physical sciences compared to 59% of men — a 14 percentage point gap.
On Oct. 7, 2023, Hamas militants invaded southern Israel in a surprise attack, killing around 1,200 people and taking around 250 hostages back to Gaza. The Israeli military responded by launching airstrikes and a ground invasion in Gaza, setting into motion an ongoing offensive that has killed more ...
It’s a seemingly age-old question: which of Brown’s general chemistry courses should first-semester pre-medical students take?
On Wednesday afternoon, students and faculty received a rare email from Brown’s Corporation. The email announced that the governing body voted in a special meeting to strike down a student-written proposal to divest from companies with Israeli military ties.
Pro-divestment activists want student representation in the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body.
With the 2024 presidential election fast approaching and the University considering changes to legacy admissions, The Herald polled 1,177 undergraduates about their opinions on the issues facing Brown students.
On Wednesday, the University announced that the Corporation will not divest from 10 companies with ties to Israel after an advisory body recommended against a divestment proposal.
A new proposed class action lawsuit filed Monday claims the University and 39 other elite colleges participated in a price-fixing scheme that increased the cost of attendance for students with separated or divorced parents.
After prodding his nostrils with an all-too-familiar nasal swab, Arnav Singhal ’26 started a 15-minute timer on his phone. Earlier that day, Singhal’s suitemate had tested positive for COVID-19.
Mary Wright, the executive director of the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning, will leave Brown in January, the University announced last week.
The week-long First-Year Orientation allows first-years to get acquainted with campus life ahead of the academic year. Led extensively by students themselves the program depends on collaboration and the incorporation of past-year feedback.
Brown’s Corporation struck down a proposal to divest from companies with Israeli military ties. A Herald poll conducted before the decision found that most Brown students supported the proposal.
A group of student-run councils created by the Office of Residential Life aims to give students more say over their dorm buildings.
The announcement caps months of organizing on campus, including the arrest of 61 pro-divestment activists during two sit-ins last fall, a hunger strike in February and an encampment in support of divestment in April.
Rashid Zia ’01, dean of the College, will go on sabbatical overseas at the end of this academic year, according to multiple people familiar with the matter.
“Did you know that so-and-so is PLME?” This is a question many Brown students may have heard. And unless the target of the question is enrolled in the Program in Liberal Medical Education themselves, there is a good chance the answer might be no.
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