The Rhode Island School of Design announced Tuesday that its Wintersession courses will begin remotely from Jan. 6 to 13, RISD Spokesperson Jaime Marland wrote in an email to The Herald. Currently, RISD plans on resuming in-person Wintersession classes Jan. 14.
The University will suspend a proposed Administrative Support Network — which would consolidate administrative support staff between multiple similar departments — in response to faculty discontent, Provost Richard Locke P’18 announced in a Monday email to faculty that was reviewed by The Herald. ...
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Doctoral certificate programs are available to PhD students and “are designed to extend expertise into interdisciplinary areas and to certify training beyond the home PhD discipline,” according to the Graduate School website. The programs, offered at no additional charge, require PhD students ...
When entering graduate school, Arielle Nitenson ScM’15 MAT’16 PhD’17 wanted to make sure that she was choosing a community that would support her as she started her family. During her application process, she felt that the culture of support created by other graduate student parents at Brown ...
Associate Dean of Student Development Vanessa Ryan, who chaired a rapid planning group that recommended policy changes to better support student parents, said that as a result of the group’s recommendations, Brown greatly expanded parental support in 2016. This included making all support programs ...
The Graduate Labor Organization, Brown’s graduate student union, filed three unfair labor practice charges against the University with the National Labor Relations Board Oct. 5.
Since fall 2020, the Graduate Student Council has provided free local produce to graduate students on a weekly basis in an effort to address food insecurity in Brown’s graduate student community.
Graduate Orientation returned with in-person events running from Aug. 31 to Sept.1 after a fully virtual orientation last year. This year’s programming was open to first-year and second-year students to accommodate second-year students who had missed out on in-person orientation last year. On top ...
Lightning struck a chimney on the Benevolent Street side of Everett-Poland House during a thunderstorm Tuesday afternoon, according to an email from the Office of Residential Life. All students living in the vicinity of the damage were relocated from their dorm rooms as the building undergoes repairs. ...
Ash Wednesday occurred just before St. Stephen’s Episcopal Church reopened its doors for in-person services on March 1, but Reverend Benjamin Straley modified his church’s service to give parishioners a sense of normalcy. “We livestreamed the main liturgy, but I also sat outside for a few hours ...
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