An original version of this article included the name of the student who was involved in the altercation with the officers. His name has been redacted because the charges were dropped. A male sophomore was arrested Dec. 16 at Josiah's after a physical altercation with Department of Public Safety ...
The early decision admission rate dropped to 18.5 percent for the class of 2017, with 558 out of 3,010 applicants receiving offers to enroll, according to University admission officers. Early applicants were notified of their admission decisions 5 p.m. Dec. 12. The slight dip from last year’s 19 ...
The University is currently looking to fill the position of chief investment officer, after Cynthia Frost, who previously held the position, retired at the end of 2012. Frost was the first and only person to have held the position of University CIO, serving since the position was created in July 2000. ...
The Department of Public Safety arrested a Brown student on charges of disorderly conduct and resisting arrest at the men's ice hockey game in Meehan Auditorium Friday night, Deputy Chief of Police for DPS Paul Shanley wrote in an email to The Herald.
A new food-ordering website called Crunchbutton launched at Brown last week, allowing students to order take-out or receive deliveries from their favorite local restaurants and Josiah's. Crunchbutton offers the most popular items from each of the restaurants it features, said Judd Rosenblatt, its co-founder ...
About 56 percent of students oppose the University considering race when hiring faculty members, while 35 percent support the policy, according to a Herald poll conducted this fall. The remaining 60 percent of students said the University should not consider demographic factors in faculty decisions. ...
The Herald sat down with Nigerian -German singer Nneka, who is visiting campus as part of this year's Achebe Colloquium. The Colloquium, which will take place today and tomorrow, features panels and discussions centered on the theme "Governance, Security and Peace in Africa." Nneka will perform 8:30 ...
"The president has shown himself to be an administrator careful in his choice of words and slow in his choice of actions," The Herald wrote May 9, 1969, the day Ray Heffner, the University's 13th president, announced his resignation. Heffner, who died last week at the age of 87, presided over three ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students doubled the budget for its recently-created New Initiatives Fund to $1,000 this semester. UCS started the grant last semester to support newer Category I groups that have "feasible, interesting" plans, said UCS Treasurer Stacy Bartlett '14.
Amnesty International at Brown is participating in the international 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence campaign from Nov. 25 to Dec. 10 to end violence against women across the world. Sponsored by the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women, the U.N. branch dedicated ...
The University spent $36,253 on congressional lobbying in the first three quarters of 2012 on issues including higher education, biomedical research, science issues and health care issues, according to Senate lobbying disclosures. The University lobbied institutions including the National Institutes ...
The University is sponsoring the first-ever "Brown Shops Local!" event today as part of a larger city initiative to support local merchants. A free shuttle service will take students, faculty and staff to four different shopping locations around Providence from 4 to 8 p.m.
Brown students took home six out of 10 cash prizes, including first place, at the seventh annual Rhode Island Elevator Pitch Contest last night.
The University's net assets decreased to $3.16 billion at the end of fiscal year 2012, a decrease of about 2 percent from last year's total of $3.23 billion, according to financial statements released last month. Implying that the tough national economic climate is continuing to have an effect on elite ...
Across the country, the number of international students has increased significantly in the last few years, contributing additional revenue to colleges and state economies, according to a November report by the National Association for Foreign Student Affairs. Rhode Island was no exception - in the ...
MunchCard, a student-owned Thayer Street restaurant discount program, went inactive when it was bought by a Chicago-based company earlier this semester. With the acquisition now complete, the new ownership plans to enact a series of changes to the MunchCard system before reactivating it. "There's no ...
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