The Mellon Foundation granted Assistant Professor of Classics Sasha-Mae Eccleston ’06 and Princeton Associate Professor Dan-el Padilla Peralta $1 million to establish a fellowship program to diversify and reimagine the Classics through a racial lens.
Earlier this year, the University announced that it would transition to need-blind admissions for international students starting with the class of 2029, becoming the eighth university in the United States to adopt the policy. The University has practiced need-blind admissions for domestic applicants ...
Historian Dominic Erdozain discussed the politics, culture and laws surrounding guns in the United States at a Wednesday talk for his book “One Nation Under Guns.”
At Tuesday’s faculty meeting, President Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 reaffirmed the University’s plans to pursue charges against the 41 Brown students who were arrested in a Dec. 11 sit-in. The students demanded Paxson to call for a ceasefire in the ongoing Israel-Palestine war and support divestment ...
The Labor Organization of Community Coordinators began their first contract bargaining session with the University on Feb.16.
Brown aims to seek approval from faculty and the Corporation in May to convert the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs into a school for international and public affairs, Provost Francis Doyle said at Tuesday’s faculty meeting.
Faculty approved a new standing committee to review gifts and grants for compliance with Brown’s Gift Acceptance and Openness in Research policies at Tuesday’s faculty meeting.
Justin Bolsen ’26 placed second in his appearance on “Jeopardy!” this Tuesday night with a final score of $9,958. Bolsen walked away from the show with a $5,000 prize.
Brown University will reinstate standardized testing requirements for most applicants to the College beginning with the class of 2029, according to University administrators.
On Monday night, the Student Government Association began its Spring 2024 election cycle for its three branches — the Undergraduate Council of Students, the Undergraduate Financial Board and the Class Coordinating Board — with two information sessions. The sessions were the first two of SGA’s ...
Inside Stephen Robert ’62 Hall, through the double doors on Brook Street, passers-by are immediately immersed in Mahnoor Hussain’s new exhibition “Digitizing the Miniature: Mahnoor Hussain and the Spirit of Feminism.”
Justin Bolsen ’26 will compete in this year’s ‘Jeopardy!’ Tournament of Champions, the first episode of which will air Tuesday night. Having won the ‘Jeopardy!’ High School Reunion Tournament last spring, Bolsen “knew the grand prize was the money and also the invitation” to return to ...
Edward Steinfeld, a professor of China studies, political science and international and public affairs, will end his term as director of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs on June 30, according to a Monday letter from University Provost Francis Doyle. Wendy Schiller, a professor ...
On Feb. 28, students at the School of Public Health delivered an open letter to the school’s Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion. The letter called on the SPH to speak out about “the genocide and public health disaster in Palestine.”
This article is the first in a series exploring tenure at Brown and in higher education.
On Friday afternoon, about 30 students and community members gathered in the Petteruti Lounge for the Department of English’s first-ever Inclusive Journalism Conference. Organized by Nell Lake, a lecturer in English non-fiction writing, the three-and-a-half-hour event featured a roundtable discussion ...
Imagine this: Shopping period is ending soon. After an hours-long search for another course to add to your schedule, you seem to have found the one. But how will you know whether it’s the best course for you?
The Institute at Brown for Environment and Society announced a holistic set of curriculum revisions to the Environmental Studies and Sciences concentration on Feb. 21, according to an email sent to all concentrators and affiliated faculty reviewed by The Herald.
Danielle Allen, a political scientist and professor at Harvard’s Kennedy School, spoke about her new book, “Justice by Means of Democracy” at a lecture hosted by Brown’s Democracy Project on Thursday. She also discussed social differences and the possibility of a more equitable economy.
BrownTogether, the University’s largest fundraising campaign, reached its $4 billion goal 10 months ahead of schedule, according to a letter to the community from President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 released Wednesday.
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