The monthly Graduate Student Council meeting began with a presentation by guest speaker Thomas A. Lewis ’90, interim dean of the Graduate School and professor of religious studies, on the September report issued by the Task Force on Doctoral Education. Lewis was the chair of the task force, which ...
At the Nov. 1 faculty meeting, University faculty members expressed support by an informal show-of-hands vote for a plan under which the first and last faculty meetings of the semester would be held in person, indicating the potential end of years of the group formally meeting exclusively on Zoom. According ...
An antisemitic note was discovered in the reception area of the Weiner Center at Brown RISD Hillel Sunday evening, Executive Director and Rabbi Josh Bolton wrote in an email to the Hillel community Monday. Hillel staff immediately alerted the Department of Public Safety, Bolton added, ...
University faculty convened Nov. 1 for the second faculty meeting of the academic year to discuss possible revisions to the faculty sabbatical policy, changes in the endowment and campus infrastructure updates.
With 80 acres of grass and athletic fields, 11 acres of walkways, 13 acres of parking lots and nearly seven acres of shrubs and beds, maintaining Brown’s College Hill campus is no small task. But day and night, a dedicated team is on the job: the Department of Facilities Management Division 5, ...
In recent years, classes, clubs and organizations on campus have turned to the social media platform TikTok to engage with students and connect with the broader community. With TikTok becoming increasingly popular, some of these accounts have achieved unanticipated digital success.
In early April, Miraal Zafar ’23 joined a campus-wide student boycott of the Graduate Center Bar. Organized by Okezie Okoro ’22, the boycott was held in response to an April 7 incident in which a GCB employee told Okoro to leave the bar premises after the two had a disagreement. Lasting through ...
Alumni interviews for prospective students will not resume following their suspension at the outset of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to an email from the Office of College Admission sent to alumni on Oct. 11. Applicants will retain the option to submit a two-minute video introduction, the email ...
After Leona Hariharan ’23 received doula training from Mama Glow, a maternal health education organization, in September 2021, she began to consider how she could create similar opportunities for students interested in learning about reproductive justice on Brown’s campus. Last November, ...
If you’ve ever eaten a meal at Andrews Commons, then chances are you’ve encountered Chef Younes Haimoura. Charismatic and upbeat, Haimoura always chats with students as they make their way through the meal stations. But beyond his work as a culinary supervisor at Andrews, Haimoura is also the ...
The School of Public Health celebrated the launch of its Pandemic Center in a ceremony Oct. 12. Speeches from Jennifer Nuzzo, Pandemic Center director and professor of epidemiology, as well as Beth Cameron, Pandemic Center senior advisor and professor of the practice of health services, rang in the ...
On May 15, 1978, an exhibition titled “Private Parts” was set to debut at 128 Main St., organized by a group of RISD students. But the night before the opening, a Providence Police officer came to inspect the gallery. Though the officer didn’t personally take offense with the content of the ...
After over two years of efforts and a few surprising phone calls, the work of a man The New York Times once described as the “most visible” prisoner on death row is now at the John Hay Library. This past August, the University acquired the personal papers and items of Mumia Abu-Jamal, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted a sustainability town hall meeting Wednesday, during which members of
The University is in the process of inviting administrators, faculty, students and staff to join a new advisory group on issues related to transportation, traffic and parking.
The formerly vacant rooms of Andrews House, which were left empty when the University’s health services office moved to the Wellness Center and Residence Hall, are once again full of life. The various pharmacy, storage and office rooms in the building are now occupied by countless racks of colorful ...
When Caspar Schliemann ’25 logged on to Brown’s intramural sports website earlier this semester, he was expecting to sign up his 11-person team for intramural soccer. Instead, he saw basketball, volleyball and ultimate frisbee — but soccer wasn’t listed.
With recent rapid advancements in data technology, “what often gets lost is the human element,” said whistleblower and trans activist Chelsea Manning to a packed audience in the Granoff Center Tuesday evening.
In 1972, the University’s Urban Studies Program was born out of faculty volunteerism and a steadfast commitment to the principles of interdisciplinary exploration unique to Brown. Fifty years later, the program is celebrating half a century of community engagement, scholarship and development. Professor ...
The Rhode Island School of Design launched a new “brand identity” last month to better reflect the school’s “vision, values and priorities,” the culmination of a process that began last spring and involved input from hundreds of community members, according to a Sept. 28 press ...
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