When Marielle Segarra ’10 joined WBRU, the University’s radio station, at her RPL’s urging her sophomore year, a career in radio wasn’t on her radar. She wanted to be a journalist, but she thought she would end up working in print.
Rhode Island is holding primary elections Tuesday, Sept. 13, with competitive races for governor, mayor of Providence and General Assembly seats. So far, nearly 28,000 Rhode Islanders have cast their ballots through early voting or mail-in ballots. Election results are expected tonight.
A federal judge granted preliminary approval of a $1.5 million settlement in a class action lawsuit, which three students brought against the University seeking tuition and fee refunds for the Spring 2020 semester when the University sent students home and switched to remote learning at the start ...
Frances Haugen, a former Facebook employee who released documents revealing that Facebook was aware that the platform helped cause ethnic violence and mental health issues, spoke at the University Wednesday in a talk entitled “Reforming Social Media From the Inside.” The event was one of the ...
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.
President Joe Biden has selected Dean of the School of Public Health Ashish Jha as the next White House coronavirus response coordinator, according to a community-wide email from President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’18.
Graduate School Dean Andrew Campbell will step down from his role after six years and return to the faculty as a professor of medical science on June 30, according to a March 11 press release.
The University and a defendant identified by the pseudonym Jane Roe face charges of anti-transgender discrimination against student Lois Lane, who is also identified using a pseudonym in the suit, according to court filings filed March 2 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. ...
The University’s Advisory Committee on University Resources Management released its recommendations on a proposal by Scholars at Brown for Climate Action to revise the University’s gift acceptance policy and business ethics policy, according to a March 2 Today@Brown announcement from President ...
Lifespan and Care New England withdrew their application to merge into one integrated health system Feb. 23 after Rhode Island Attorney General Peter Neronha and the Federal Trade Commission decided to file a lawsuit to block the merger last week. The merged entity would have owned 80% of the state’s ...
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