A Jan. 12 revision to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has prompted museums, including Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, to implement changes and undergo repatriation procedures in recent years.
The University is prepared to recognize the Third World Labor Organization — a union representing student workers at the Brown Center for Students of Color — pending the review of signed union authorization cards demonstrating majority support among student employees, the organization announced ...
The Graduate Labor Organization announced that it will spend the spring demanding that the University divest from companies facilitating the Israel-Palestine war in an Instagram post on Feb. 5.
On Feb. 5, the Undergraduate Council of Students elected Marlo Hulnick ’26 as the new equity and inclusion chair and Alan Xiong ’26 as the new treasurer. The special elections, announced on Jan. 24 UCS email, were held to fill vacancies left by former representatives currently studying abroad. ...
Sherrilyn Ifill, the former president and director-counsel of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, delivered the 2024 Martin Luther King Jr. Lecture Thursday at the Salomon Center. Hosted by the Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, the annual lecture celebrates the legacy of Martin Luther King Jr., ...
In January, several major tech companies — including industry giants Google, Amazon and Meta — announced a wave of layoffs in which over 20,000 workers lost their jobs, according to CNBC.
The remaining 21 of the 41 students arrested at a Dec. 11 University Hall sit-in for divestment and ceasefire were arraigned at 9 a.m. Wednesday. The other 20 students were arraigned on Monday. All 41 students pleaded not guilty to “willful trespassing within school buildings” and received a pretrial ...
Some graduate student workers have expressed frustration with the timeline for implementing back pay guarantees stipulated in the Graduate Labor Organization’s second union contract, which was ratified with the University last December.
Jonathan Greenblatt, the CEO and national director of the Anti-Defamation League, will speak at the University on Feb. 22, according to Sylvia Carey-Butler, the vice president for institutional equity and diversity.
As 22 students filed into a small classroom in Sayles on Monday for GISP 0010: “Addressing Stigma and Creating Conversations Around Mental Health,” facilitator Michael OuYang ’26 prepared the day’s opening exercise: class karaoke to “My Girl” by The Temptations. Within seconds, the room ...
On Feb. 6, the School of Public Health announced physician and public health expert Ateev Mehrotra as the next chair of its Health Services, Policy and Practice department starting July 1.
This year, students applying for financial aid using the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form were met with delays following significant changes to the form, leading Brown to extend its own FAFSA deadline to March.
The Class Coordinating Board plans to pursue monetary compensation for members’ work on campus, according to CCB Senior Co-Presidents Logan Torres ’24 and Becca Erdenebulgan ’24.
Bank of America CEO Brian Moynihan ’81 P’14 P’19 was announced as Brown’s 22nd chancellor in a Feb. 13 Today@Brown announcement. He will succeed Samuel Mencoff ’78 P’11 P’15 to lead the University’s highest governing body beginning July 1.
The Office for Civil Rights at the U.S. Department of Education opened a Title VI Shared Ancestry investigation into Brown on Jan. 9, according to the OCR’s website. The investigation follows a complaint filed by Zachary Marschall, editor-in-chief of conservative campus news site Campus Reform, which ...
Mattie Ji ’24 was recognized last November as the runner-up for the Alice T. Schafer Prize for Excellence in Mathematics by the Association of Women in Mathematics, an organization dedicated to fostering an inclusive and diverse community for women and girls to “thrive in their mathematical endeavors,” ...
Twenty of the 41 students arrested at a Dec. 11 University Hall sit-in for divestment and ceasefire were arraigned at 9 a.m. Monday. The students pleaded not guilty to “willful trespassing within school buildings” and received a pretrial conference date of March 5.
During the Brown Corporation’s meetings held last week, members of the University’s highest governing body approved a 4.75% tuition increase and a 4.5% salary pool increase. President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 wrote in her summary that members felt “moved” by student protests for divestment. ...
Members of the Brown Divest Coalition confronted President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 on her response to protesters’ calls for divestment at a Monday meeting of the Brown University Community Council attended by roughly 40 community members.
Mike Zamore ’93 — the former chief of staff for U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) — returned to Brown Feb. 12 to discuss the book he co-authored with Merkley, “Filibustered! How to Fix the Broken Senate and Save America,” at an event hosted by the Watson Institute for International and ...
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