President Joe Biden signed the Suspending Normal Trade Relations with Russia and Belarus Act and the Ending Importation of Russian Oil Act into law on April 8, 2022. These laws strip Russia of its preferential trade status — allowing the United States to impose higher tariffs on Russian goods — ...
Award-winning, bestselling author John Green addressed the student body last night at the Salomon Center in an event organized by the Brown Lecture Board. As the author of “The Fault in Our Stars,” “Looking for Alaska” and “Turtles All the Way Down,” Green is widely considered ...
In an April 15 Today@Brown announcement, the Department of Public Safety announced the appointment of John Vinson as its new deputy chief. Vinson will work with Vice President for Campus Safety Rodney Chatman, according to the announcement. He will also work with community engagement, manage responses ...
This pre-registration, students will have access to a new student-created website, Burnt Out @ Brown, which lists the weekly time commitment for various University courses to help students evaluate which would be a good fit for them. The project, led by co-founders Leyton Ho ’24, Jared Dunn ’24, ...
The Watson Institute hosted a panel titled “Race, Racism and Palestine” on Tuesday night where leading scholars of race, law and political economy discussed Palestinian racial ideologies as well as anti-Blackness and legacies of slavery in the Middle East.
Chas Steinbrugge ’24, the student behind the BrownUMemes Instagram account, was elected president of the Undergraduate Council of Students after receiving a plurality of votes, while Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23 was elected as chair of the Undergraduate Finance Board, the Student Government Association ...
The Graduate Labor Organization filed three unfair labor practice charges against the University with the National Labor Relations Board in response to its cuts to top-up funds — payments to graduate student workers above their base stipends to ensure competitive compensation — in the Department ...
The Wellness Residential Experience at Sternlicht Commons on 450 Brook St., which includes both student dorms and the University’s health resources — has been open for nearly a full year to students and for nearly two full semesters to the staff who work in the building. Counseling and Psychological ...
After the University filed a motion last March to dismiss Soenen et al. v. Brown — the class-action lawsuit filed August 2021 that claims that the University fails to protect students from sexual violence — plaintiffs in the case expect to file their response in early May, lawyers for the plaintiffs ...
In the two years since the onset of the pandemic, the number of applicants to Brown’s Master of Public Health programs have more than doubled. The number of applicants rose from 437 in the 2020–2021 academic year to 948 applicants this 2021-2022 academic year and 889 for the 2022-2023 ...
From April 7 to 13, 134 students and 37 employees reported positive COVID-19 test results, according to an April 15 Today@Brown announcement from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. “We feel we’re seeing a continuation of what we expected … after ...
The Brown China Summit — an annual conference that brings academics, business leaders and policymakers to the University to discuss critical issues relating to China — wrapped up its weekend lineup of events on Sunday. This year’s conference, which began on Friday, April 17 with a keynote ...
The Global Brown Center for International Students, in collaboration with Storytellers@Brown, hosted its annual International Festival on the Main Green Saturday afternoon. The International Festival “is an opportunity to gather cultural student organizations around campus … and ...
Briahna Joy Gray, former national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign and host of the “Bad Faith” podcast about progressive politics, joined Professor of the Social Sciences and Economics Glenn Loury on Friday at the Watson Institute for International and Public ...
There were just 44 submissions of independent concentration proposals by students in the 2020-21 academic year, marking a 52% decrease from the 92 submissions made during the pre-pandemic 2018-19 academic year, according to Peggy Chang ’93 MA’13, associate dean of the College and director of ...
When Paulina Duda, visiting assistant professor of Polish cinema and culture, arrived on campus this spring, she aimed to revive the University's formerly inactive Polish Program.
Thursday marked the start of the housing lottery for the 2022-23 academic year. On Tuesday, as some rising sophomores were scheduled to select their housing, the StarRez portal no longer listed any available beds, The Herald previously reported. Students have expressed their discontent with the housing ...
Election polls opened yesterday for the Undergraduate Council of Students, Undergraduate Finance Board and Class Coordinating Board elections. UCS Chair of Health and Wellness Emma Amselem ’24, Chas Steinbrugge ’24 and UCS Student Activities Committee Chair Ricky Zhong ’23 are competing ...
Current Undergraduate Finance Board Representative Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23 is running unopposed for UFB chair, while UFB First-Year Representative Arjun Krishna Chopra ’25 and UCS-UFB Liaison Johann Dizon ’24 are competing in the race for vice chair. The voting period for UFB, ...
In spring 2021, a group of University faculty and administrators came together with the task of developing a proposal for a potential Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine. Over a year later, a motion to establish the Institute — referred to as I-BEAM — effective July 1 was passed at ...
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