The University will distribute a draft of President Christina Paxson’s strategic plan and solicit feedback from faculty members and students later this month, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 said during Tuesday’s faculty meeting. The draft was compiled last week after a special New York meeting ...
The housing lottery may move out of Sayles Hall and onto the Internet later this academic year. The proposal for this change is under review by Richard Bova, senior associate dean of residential and dining services, and Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services. A decision ...
New students fought intermittent downpours, flooded streets and echoes of thunder to celebrate the opening of the University’s 250th academic year yesterday on the Main Green. After officially commencing the new year, President Christina Paxson welcomed the 1,537 members of the class of 2017, 120 ...
Four armed robberies took place on campus this summer, leaving one student injured, according to Department of Public Safety crime alerts. Two students were robbed together by a male with dark skin armed with a knife on Waterman Street around 11 p.m. on June 24. One student was robbed at gunpoint by ...
After years of mounting investigations into alleged insider trading at his hedge fund, Corporation Trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16 took two big hits this summer when federal authorities filed a civil case against him and criminal charges against the fund, SAC Capital Advisors L.P. Administrators ...
Don Hasseltine, vice president for external relations at Carleton College, joined the University as the new vice president for development Aug. 1. Hasseltine will work alongside Senior Vice President for Advancement Patricia Watson on several fundraising initiatives, including an upcoming capital campaign ...
About 20 Brown students marched Monday to Old Navy at the Providence Place Mall, where they joined the Rhode Island Jobs with Justice coalition to mark Labor Day by rallying for workers’ rights both abroad and closer to home. Around 100 protesters — including members of the Brown Student Labor ...
Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron will leave the University to become president of Connecticut College beginning Jan. 1. She will continue her duties as dean this fall. Bergeron has been a prominent voice in President Christina Paxson’s strategic planning efforts and recently emerged as a major ...
Four members of the Westboro Baptist Church staged pickets across the state Aug. 1 to protest Rhode Island’s first day recognizing same-sex marriage. They protested at Cranston City Hall, Providence City Hall, the Rhode Island State House, Pawtucket City Hall and Brown, meeting crowds of counter-protesters ...
Professor of Emergency Medicine and Behavioral and Social Sciences Bruce Becker pleaded not guilty to the misdemeanor charge of procuring alcohol for a minor at his arraignment in Providence District Court Wednesday. Becker, a researcher at the University’s Center for Alcohol and Addiction Studies, ...
Federal officials announced an indictment Thursday of Corporation trustee Steven A. Cohen’s P’08 P’16 hedge fund SAC Capital Advisors L.P. for multiple counts of fraud. The indictment did not include any charges against Cohen himself. Prosecutors allege that multiple divisions and employees ...
Ravi Pendse, former vice president for information technology and chief information officer at Wichita State University, was named vice president for computing and information services and chief information officer in a University press release July 11. Pendse, who had been at Wichita State since he ...
The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a civil case Friday against Corporation trustee Steven A. Cohen P’08 P’16 for “failing to supervise” managers accused of insider trading at SAC Capital Advisors L.P., the powerful hedge fund he founded and owns, federal regulators announced. The ...
Thomas Perez ’83 received Senate confirmation to be the new U.S. Secretary of Labor July 18, becoming the first Brown alum to hold a Cabinet-level position in 12 years. Richard Holbrooke ’62, a former Herald editor-in-chief, was the last alum to reach that level of the executive branch, serving ...
After a series of recent armed robberies, the Department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department have stepped up their security presence around campus, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The most recent incidents occurred July 1, when two students were robbed at gunpoint ...
Jack Elias, a physician and chair of internal medicine at Yale Medical School, assumed his role as the new dean of medicine and biological sciences Sept. 1. He replaced Provost Mark Schlissel P’15, who served as interim dean after former dean Edward Wing stepped down at the end of June. Wing had held ...
The University may undertake an extensive renovation of the Dynamo House, a former power plant in the Jewelry District, in partnership with the nursing programs at the University of Rhode Island and Rhode Island College and a private developer, President Christina Paxson announced in a school-wide email ...
University administrators reacted positively to Monday’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling in a landmark affirmative action case, saying the decision is unlikely to influence Brown’s admission policies. The Court remanded Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin back to the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...
Christopher Dennis, associate vice provost at Temple University, will be the new deputy dean of the College, Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron announced in a community-wide email June 14. Dennis’ selection marks the end of a semester-long search that began in February after Stephen Lassonde ...
Nearly a month after an assault on campus left a male then-sophomore in critical condition, the student is now medically stable but faces lingering problems, Providence Police Detective Commander Michael Correia told The Herald. The student was assaulted in the early morning of May 12 at the corner ...
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