In its final meeting of the academic year Friday, the Corporation heard arguments but did not reach a decision on whether the University will divest from coal companies targeted by activist group Brown Divest Coal. The Corporation also reviewed a draft of the University’s strategic plan and offered ...
A suspect is now in custody for the assault of a male sophomore on campus early Sunday morning, said Deputy Police Chief Thomas Oates III. The student has since remained in critical condition at Rhode Island Hospital. Connecticut police arrested suspect Tory Lussier at his house in Vernon, Conn. Wednesday, ...
Michelle Dardashti has been chosen as the next associate University chaplain for the Jewish Community, according to a Hillel press release. Dardashti currently serves as director of community engagement at Temple Beth El, a Conservative congregation in Stamford, Conn. She will start her new position ...
Approximately 60 percent of the University’s 2,649 admitted students have accepted their offers to join the class of 2017, wrote Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 in an email to The Herald. For the second year in a row, more students have committed to the University than expected, Miller wrote. ...
David Savitz, current professor of epidemiology and obstetrics and gynecology, will assume the position of vice president for research starting Sept. 1, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 announced in a community-wide email Tuesday. Savitz’s appointment marks the culmination of an extensive internal ...
The University named Joseph Dowling III, founder of the investment firm Narragansett Asset Management, as vice president and chief investment officer in a press release Thursday. Dowling will succeed interim CIO Kenneth Shimberg, who has served since Cynthia Frost left the position in December. Frost ...
Friends and family members remembered Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012, as principled and compassionate, celebrating his life in a memorial service in Manning Chapel Saturday afternoon and sharing remembrances in interviews with The Herald. Tripathi’s body was identified April ...
Todd Harris ’14.5 will be president of the Undergraduate Council of Students next year, winning 54 percent of the vote to defeat Afia Kwakwa ’14 in a run-off election. UCS President Anthony White ’13 announced the results on the Faunce steps Thursday evening. The run-off was employed because ...
The body found floating in the Providence River Tuesday afternoon has been identified as Sunil Tripathi, the former member of the class of 2012 who went missing over a month ago, said state Health Department representative Dara Chadwick. The Rhode Island state medical examiner’s office performed ...
Policymakers should focus on supporting economic development rather than participating in military action in the Middle East, said David Rohde ’90, a two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, at a lecture Wednesday. Rohde addressed the United States’ evolving relationship with the Middle East ...
President Christina Paxson and the Undergraduate Council of Students gave each other feedback on their respective past and future projects at the council’s last general body meeting of the semester Wednesday. The Student Labor Alliance’s call for the University to end its contract with Adidas emerged ...
About 33 percent of faculty members are somewhat or very dissatisfied with spouse support and about 30 percent are somewhat or very dissatisfied with childcare resources available to them from the University, according to the Herald faculty poll. Respondents who indicated they were satisfied or dissatisfied ...
About 72 percent of faculty members approve of the creation of the School of Public Health, while only 13 percent disapprove, according to a recent Herald poll of the faculty. The Faculty Executive Council voted unanimously to approve the school’s creation last November. “As an advisor, I see ...
The sportswear apparel company Adidas announced plans to compensate over 2,700 Indonesian workers who had not received their severance pay after a factory where they were employed by the company closed over two years ago, according a press release Wednesday from the Brown Take Adidas Down Coalition. Adidas’ ...
The Admission Office will relocate most of its staff and administrative functions to the second floor of the Office of Continuing Education’s current location in the Jewelry District next month in order to create more space on campus for academic departments, administrators said. The Admission Office’s ...
The Sustainability, Strategic Planning and Advisory Committee released its interim report earlier this month, with several recommendations it hopes will be incorporated into the University’s upcoming strategic plan, said Chris Powell, chair of the committee and director of sustainable energy and environmental ...
The Brown-India Initiative awarded nearly $75,000 to fund summer projects for students and faculty members this spring, marking the first time the initiative has distributed funding for summer projects. Eight undergraduates, seven graduate students and two faculty members received funding to pursue ...
The Department of Public Safety brought the Providence Police Department’s canine bomb squad to Spring Weekend events in response to the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The police dogs, which are trained to detect the scent of a variety of ...
Since he was beaten and robbed Jan. 27, a male first-year has faced hospital tests, court proceedings and accusatory rumors. That night, three men — playing a game called “Victim” — followed, assaulted and robbed the student behind the Gate around 4:30 a.m. Hit and run The student ...
Introductory courses English courses ENGL 0210, ENGL 0410 and ENGL 0610 — renamed ENGL 0300, ENGL 0500 and ENGL 0700, respectively — will no longer be required for English concentrators starting this fall, said Department Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of English Stephen ...
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