Birth By Us, a maternal health app co-founded by Ijeoma Uche ’21, is one of three winners of the 2024 Westly Prize for Young Social Innovators, the Westly Foundation announced Jan. 23 on X, formerly known as Twitter. Uche and co-founder Mercy Oladipo will be awarded $40,000 in unrestricted funding. ...
Founded in September 2023, the Brown Latine Leadership Council is a new club dedicated to uniting the Latine community on campus.
Last fall, Brown launched its long-awaited Brown Collegiate Scholars Program, which the University has promoted as a college preparatory program for Providence high school students. First announced by President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 in October 2021, the University will welcome students ...
Brown University has agreed to pay $19.5 million to settle an antitrust admissions lawsuit filed against the University and 16 other co-defendants, according to a Jan. 23 press release.
Maddie McCarthy ’24 was awarded the Kanders Churchill Scholarship, which covers tuition for one year of graduate research study in science and public policy at the University of Cambridge in England, according to a Jan. 23 University press release.
Higher education has found a new home in national headlines.
The Providence 6th Division District Court has postponed the court arraignment for the 41 arrested students to Feb. 12 and 14, according to a press statement from the Brown Divest Coalition. The students were previously scheduled to appear in court between Jan. 9 and 18.
The U.S. Department of Education Office for Civil Rights is investigating a former student’s allegations of discrimination and retaliation by Brown University on the basis of their disability status, according to a Jan. 4 letter reviewed by The Herald.
The court date for 41 arrested students affiliated with the Brown Divest Coalition will likely be postponed after the University agreed to requests from the students' legal team, according to University Spokesperson Brian Clark.
On Tuesday, the Graduate Labor Organization announced the ratification of its second union contract with the University after a 544-4 vote.
Two Jewish students received an anonymous threatening note that was left under their door at their off-campus apartment Tuesday, according to a statement sent to The Herald by the students who received the message, who asked to remain anonymous for safety concerns.
Roughly 35 University community members joined a Tuesday noon rally in front of Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center organized by the Brown Postdoc Labor Organization to celebrate the group’s unionization plans.
Providence Police Department and Brown Department of Public Safety officers arrested and booked all 41 students from Brown Divest Coalition who occupied University Hall this afternoon to demand that President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 support divestment from “Israeli military occupation” ...
Forty-one students staged a sit-in at University Hall Monday afternoon, demanding that the University adhere to the 2020 recommendation by the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies that Brown divest from “companies which profit from human rights abuses in Palestine.” ...
The University’s postdoctoral researchers and Dean’s Faculty Fellows announced their plans to unionize Friday afternoon, according to a press release shared with The Herald. If successful, the Brown Postdoc Labor Organization would become the third group to unionize on Brown’s campus this year, ...
77% of faculty voted to approve a motion to integrate the Committee of Grievance and the Procedural Integral Committee.
The Herald spoke with Nobel Prize-winning chemist Carolyn Bertozzi, who delivered a Lemley Family Lecture Wednesday, about her research, identity and life experiences.
The Herald explored trends in undergraduate student worker unionization and reasons for its rapid growth.
The Cogut Institute for the Humanities provides students, faculty and community members the opportunity to think about the humanities in a collaborative, interdisciplinary environment.
The Labor Organization of Community Coordinators is working to translate member demands into a first draft of a contract as organizers gear up for the start of negotiations with the University after winter break.
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