Federal authorities arrested a former portfolio manager at SAC Capital Advisors Friday on charges of fraud, the latest in a string of similar insider-trading indictments against former employees of the hedge fund founded and owned by University trustee Steven Cohen P’08 P’16. The allegations against ...
The University admitted 9.2 percent of applicants to the class of 2017, the second-lowest acceptance rate in Brown’s history. A total of 2,649 out of 28,919 applicants received acceptance letters to the University’s 250th incoming class, according to a University press release. This year’s acceptance ...
Family members, friends and law enforcement officers have identified surveillance camera footage possibly depicting Sunil Tripathi walking south, away from his apartment, in the early morning of March 16, according to a Friday statement from the family. The footage, pulled from Department of Public ...
The Alpert Medical School and Johnson and Wales University’s new Center for Physician Assistant Studies will share resources, including some faculty and facilities, according to a March 27 University press release. JWU’s physician assistant program, which is in its final stages of development before ...
Renowned Nigerian writer and Professor of Africana Studies Chinua Achebe died the evening of March 21, multiple national news sources reported. He was 82. Achebe died in Boston, according to a University press release. The author of “Things Fall Apart” and other literary works, Achebe joined the ...
The FBI has joined the search for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. An agent met with family members Thursday night to discuss the case and move forward in conjunction with the Providence Police Department and the Department of Public Safety, Tripathi’s ...
Employers say college graduates are unprepared for their careers, according to a study published by the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. Brown’s curriculum and liberal learning equip students with broader skills that may not translate directly to a specific job, said Andrew Simmons, ...
“Firearms are an indelible element of U.S. culture,” said Craig Whitney, author and reporter for the New York Times, at “Guns in America: Cultural Legacy,” the second lecture in a three-part Janus Forum miniseries. Whitney explored the intersection of culture and gun violence in America alongside ...
Family members, friends and police officers are still searching for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. “Unfortunately, there are no leads yet,” wrote Tripathi’s mother Judy Tripathi in an email to The Herald, describing the search as “ongoing ...
Tom Steyer, billionaire and founder of the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management, urged the University to divest from coal companies in a letter presented Thursday to President Christina Paxson’s office by members of the Brown Divest Coal group. Steyer wrote that the choice to invest in coal companies ...
Flexible and accessible classroom space, graduate student facilities and expansion into the Jewelry District were among the most salient issues addressed by Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, in an open discussion about strategic planning Wednesday afternoon. About ...
A stomach bug spreading through campus was identified as a norovirus by the Rhode Island Department of Health yesterday afternoon, said Edward Wheeler, director of Health Services for the University. Since Sunday, one student has been admitted to the emergency room with the virus, and 18 others have ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to extend funding to service groups for the first time during its general body meeting Wednesday. Though the Undergraduate Finance Board funds Category 1, 2 and 3 student groups, it has historically refrained from funding groups dedicated to service. The ...
The Rhode Island School of Design received its largest-ever gift from an international donor — a $1 million donation to fund a new visiting scholar position in the painting department, according to a March 1 press release from the institution. Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar of Bangalore, India were ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to reelect Alexander Kaplan ’14 as Student Activities Chair at its general body meeting last night. The council voted for Kaplan over Chiemeka Omwuanaegpule ’14. Kaplan, a former Herald staff writer, was suspended from his role as Student Activities ...
“Because of globalization, the world experienced dramatic changes” in the past several decades, Min Zhu, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told an audience of about 50 students and community members in a talk at the Joukowsky Forum Tuesday evening. Zhu, whom Bill Rhodes ...
URI freezes tuition The University of Rhode Island announced Monday that it will freeze tuition rates for all students and increase the financial aid budget to a record-high amount for the 2013-14 school year. The move will maintain in-state annual tuition rates at $10,878 and out-of-state rates at ...
When promoting associate professors to full professors, the University must consider teaching, research and service, faculty members said at a faculty forum held Tuesday afternoon. The Faculty Executive Committee sponsored the forum to allow faculty members to discuss a proposal from the ad hoc Committee ...
Student members of the Brown Divest Coal Campaign urged the University to divest from all fossil fuels in the long run and maintained “divest(ing) from the 15 largest, most destructive coal companies in the world” as an immediate priority for the University at a Brown University Community Council ...
When President Christina Paxson’s capital campaign launches sometime within the next few years, it will take its place in a long history of major fundraising efforts at Brown and could set the tone for future University fundraising. While no official timeline has been set, Paxson’s campaign will ...
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