At the final faculty meeting of the semester Tuesday, Professor of Biology Sohini Ramachandran, director of the Data Science Initiative, gave a presentation summarizing the initiative’s proposal to form a Data Science Institute at the University. Faculty members will vote on whether they support ...
The University added a provision to its nondiscrimination policy that explicitly prohibits caste-based discrimination, announced in a Dec. 1 press release. In fall 2022, the Corporation — the University's highest governing body — voted to adopt the amendment to its policy statement, which ...
A group of undergraduate computer science teaching assistants have announced their intentions to form a union, according to a press release from an organizing committee shared with The Herald Monday morning.
Brown’s reputation is undeniably queer, Lainey Bechta ’25 said. “Part of what drew me to Brown is that it’s a historically more-queer Ivy,” she said. “But now that I think about it, I don’t know where I heard that.” Bechta’s understanding of the perception of Brown as a particularly ...
Nearly 100 undergraduate students filed down the aisles of the Salomon Center’s DECI Auditorium to the instrumental tune of Katy Perry’s “Firework” Saturday night, preparing to walk across the auditorium’s stage as formal recognition for completing their degree requirements.
Four linguistic scholars discussed race, ethnicity, language and resistance at a roundtable discussion sponsored by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and the Cogut Institute for the Humanities Thursday evening. The event, titled “Liberatory Letters: Language ...
In an improvisation workshop Wednesday, jazz saxophonist and mathematician Marcus Miller engaged University students in a live saxophone performance and discussed the connections between physics, math and music.
If you take a look inside the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library this December, the lobby will look the same as ever, with tables, chairs, sofas and the entrance to administrative offices. But if you turn toward the corners of the foyer, you will be greeted by dozens of bright, colorful children’s ...
In February 2016, when University faculty members voted to rename the Fall Weekend holiday — known as Columbus Day until 2009 — to Indigenous People’s Day, members of the student organization Natives at Brown witnessed their advocacy efforts coming to fruition. This name change is one of the ...
A petition to initiate a recall election of Undergraduate Council of Students President Ricky Zhong ’23 has met the 300 signature requirement stipulated in the UCS Code of Operations, according to Chris Vanderpool ’24, who organized the recall — meaning the election will go forward.
Three years after promising to double its undergraduate student veteran population, the University has “nearly achieved” its goal, University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. On Veterans Day in 2019, the University announced that it aimed to double the undergraduate ...
In 2020, 68,630 people in the United States died of an opioid overdose. Opioid overdoses are “the leading cause of accidental death in Rhode Island,” according to the Rhode Island Department of Health, with more than 400 people dying from a drug overdose in 2021. The opioid epidemic continues ...
The University Financial Board met Tuesday evening to hear funding requests from various student organizations. Student organizations that applied were told that they would find out if their funding request was approved later that evening.
Growing up in Warwick, Deborah Spears Moorehead only knew one Indigenous family in the city other than her own. A member of the Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag Tribal Nation, she wrote in an email to The Herald that she distinctly remembers feeling curious about her ancestors who first made their ...
This fall, several major tech companies announced layoffs and hiring freezes. Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet have all slowed the pace of their hiring, while companies like Snap, Stripe and Lyft have either cut or have plans to cut between 13% and 20% of their staff, The New York Times reported. Amazon ...
Larry Larson, professor of engineering, will serve as the University's interim provost following the departure of Provost Richard Locke P’18 at the end of the 2022 calendar year, according to a University-wide announcement from President Christina Paxson P’19 Tuesday. “Larry is a well-known ...
With the signing of a memorandum of understanding Nov. 14, the University has committed to employing all-union labor for any construction project over $25 million for the next five years as part of an agreement with the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, according to a press release. ...
Gen Z is having less sex than prior generations, but for many young people at Brown, there remains a perception that everyone is participating in “hookup culture,” or casual sexual activity. “There’s this idea of ‘it's college,’ ” said monique jonath ’24. “Everyone is hooking ...
The most-watched event on the global sporting calendar — the FIFA World Cup — kicked off this Sunday, when host-country Qatar fell to Ecuador 2-0. Held every four years, the month-long soccer tournament brings together the national teams of 32 countries. This year’s tournament takes place in ...
The University has not disclosed campus recycling data since spring 2022 due to a misunderstanding concerning the data provided by Waste Management — the company responsible for the University’s trash and recycling — according to Jessica Berry, director of the Office of Sustainability.
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