One hundred forty-nine graduating seniors and 59 juniors were elected to the University’s chapter of Phi Beta Kappa on May 26, according to Richard Rambuss, professor of English and chapter president.
University community members will gain access to a virtual version of their Brown IDs by next fall that allows them to pay with meal credits, points or Bear Bucks at dining halls. They will also have access to recreational facilities and the Brown Shuttle, without needing their physical IDs, according ...
Since the 1990s, opioid deaths have skyrocketed, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. From April 2020 to April 2021, 75,673 Americans died of opioid overdoses. The opioid crisis has long been associated with white Americans in parts of the country undergoing ...
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 ...
Social media, Ezra Klein and Jeff Orlowski-Yang agreed, has created many problems. It incentivizes content that makes users “really mad or really excited” and dials up the “intensity” of American politics, Klein said. Social media’s machine learning algorithms, Orlowski-Yang noted, isolate ...
When students returned to College Hill in the fall of 1970, they quickly encountered fliers asking a list of questions. “Does it bother you that the secretaries at Pembroke earn less than the secretaries at Brown?”
In September 2019, an estimated 1,000 people gathered in downtown Providence and at the Rhode Island State House as part of a global climate strike. The protest was locally organized ...
Luis Muñoz, a Democratic candidate for governor of Rhode Island, spoke at a meet-and-greet event hosted by the Brown Democrats Tuesday night. With a crowd of about a dozen, Muñoz discussed his positions on health care, economic development and education — among a number of other issues — ...
Nearly two years ago, the University recorded its first COVID-19 case on campus. The response was swift: Students received instructions to leave campus as soon as they could. Graduate students learned that libraries would soon close. All faculty and staff, save for “essential personnel,” were ...
While Rhode Island lifted its indoor mask mandate last Friday, the University’s COVID-19 mask mandate remains in place, requiring that students only enter indoor spaces with a high-quality ...
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