Students and faculty gathered Wednesday to discuss how generative AI can impact learning in an event hosted by the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning. Moderated by Mary Wright, the center’s executive director, the event included a panel featuring four students, followed by a Q&A.
The Teaching Assistant Labor Organization has ratified its first long-term contract with the University, the union wrote in an email to members Wednesday afternoon.
This election year, students rushed to register for POLS 1120: “Campaigns and Elections.” The class is taught by Richard Arenberg, a political science professor and a 34-year veteran of Capitol Hill.
For Cara Hutton ’26 and Talia Reiss ’27 — co-presidents of Planned Parenthood Advocates at Brown — abortion rights have been at the top of their minds during this election cycle.
Early Tuesday morning, members of Jews for Ceasefire Now were threatened with conduct violations by the Department of Public Safety for sleeping in a temporary structure that they had built to celebrate the week-long Jewish holiday of Sukkot.
Elizabeth Tobin-Tyler, an associate professor at the School of Public Health and the Warren Alpert Medical School, spoke about the legal future of reproductive rights and women’s healthcare at a Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs event on Tuesday.
After an era of take-home exams, primarily due to COVID-19, in-person exams are returning to campus. For some professors, suspected cheating and AI use is behind the shift.
The Rhode Island School of Design’s Board of Trustees will “share their thoughts” on a divestment proposal put forth by RISD Students for Justice in Palestine by March, according to Jaime Marland, a RISD spokesperson.
David Cicilline, a former U.S. Representative and Providence mayor, was one of seven new members received into Brown’s Corporation during its annual October meeting.
The University is investigating potential student conduct violations for demonstrators who attended a Friday protest of the Corporation’s recent vote against divestment from companies with ties to the Israeli military.
Rep. Josh Gottheimer (D-NJ) sent a letter to nine university presidents, including President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20, asking the universities to detail their plans to protect Jewish students on Oct. 4.
On Friday morning, as members of Brown’s governing Corporation convened for their October meeting, over 150 activists gathered to protest a recent decision against divesting from 10 companies with ties to Israel.
Transparency, campus dining and mental health services — in addition to divestment and democratization — are the top issues for the Undergraduate Council of Students this year, according to an email sent to all undergraduates on Oct. 7.
At a growing number of institutions, including Brown, student labor organizations allege that administrators’ crackdowns on their pro-Palestine demonstrations violate federal labor law that protects certain types of work-related protest activity.
Undergraduate students are voting on a referendum proposing student representation in Brown’s highest governing body, the Corporation.
Last week, the District Court of Connecticut dismissed a lawsuit alleging that Brown and the other Ivy League universities violated federal antitrust law by not offering scholarships to student athletes. Despite the setback, the plaintiffs plan to appeal the decision, further complicating the University’s ...
On Wednesday evening, members of Jews for Ceasefire Now erected a “Gaza Solidarity Sukkah” on the Quiet Green to mark the week-long holiday of Sukkot, one of the Jewish High Holy Days.
International students at Brown now have access to Interstride, an online portal to assist in their career search.
The Underground Coffee Company, Brown’s only student-run coffee shop, received 10 violations from the Rhode Island Department of Health in an Oct. 3 report.
The approval rating for President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 climbed 8.5 points to 25.2% this semester, according to data from The Herald’s fall poll, which surveyed 1,177 students. Last semester, her approval ratings hit their lowest point since at least 2018, with disapproval rates soaring ...
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