Nearly a thousand medical residents at Brown-affiliated hospitals are gearing up for bargaining after unionizing earlier this month. The residents announced plans to unionize in November, pushing for higher compensation and better working conditions to mitigate “rampant burnout.”
They hope school will bring opportunities for increased faculty involvement from a variety of departments.
The tentative agreement caps a year of negotiations and follows a three-day strike during first-year move-in.
On Dec. 17, Brown announced plans to expand its online master’s programs in the hopes of reducing its $46 million structural budget deficit. The University hopes to raise its number of online learners to 2,000 students within the next five years, according to the announcement.
Students from Sunrise Brown discuss their plans and fears following the presidential inauguration.
Reverend Janet Cooper Nelson, Brown’s chaplain, will retire at the end of this academic year.
A new identity program house for Latine students is forming this semester. The new house will be a merger of La Casita — the University’s Latine student house — and Casa Machado, the Spanish language program house.
Richard Locke P’18 will assume his new position as dean of MIT’s management school this July.
The Herald interviewed the professors of four courses that offer one-of-a-kind academic and interactive experiences this semester.
The Herald spoke with six students who were accepted to Brown in December.
President and CEO of the Rhode Island Quality Institute Neil Sarkar, who is also an associate professor of medical science and health services, policy and practice, has been accused of using unauthorized patient data for his research at Brown.
Shankar Prasad PhD’06 will step down from his role as dean of the School of Professional Studies, effective Jan. 31, University officials announced Thursday.
Facing a structural deficit of $46 million, Brown is looking for solutions.
Eric Gottlieb ’25 was one of 36 students awarded the 2025 Marshall Scholarship, the British government announced Monday. The scholarship funds up to three years of graduate study in any academic discipline at any institution in the United Kingdom.
On Friday afternoon, Brown University welcomed 906 of its 5,048 early decision applicants to the class of 2029 — the highest acceptance rate in over half a decade.
When Brown reached a three-year contract with Teaching Assistant Labor Organization in late October, the union’s members became the first undergraduate student workers to secure a long term contract with the University.
“Over the past several semesters, we have experienced an increasing demand for classroom space across all our curricular endeavors,” Provost Francis Doyle wrote in September. This demand has “placed considerable strain on our classroom facilities,” Doyle said.
Graduate Student Council members cited cost of living and a lack of affordable stores as key risk factors contributing to graduate food insecurity.
In its first class of the fall semester, CSCI 150: “Introduction to Object-Oriented Programming and Computer Science” drew a crowd of 510 students who flooded into the Salomon Center auditorium.
Just over half of Brown undergraduates described their courses as very difficult or somewhat difficult, The Herald’s fall 2024 poll found. But 63% of grades were an A in the last academic year.
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