This winter break was my last time home as a college student and my first time holding an American phone number in Spain. More than needing to be available to my classmates on College Hill, my 401 number signified a transition that would have seemed insurmountable to my first-year self.
Five out of 5,400 COVID-19 test results of Brown community members were positive as of Sept. 1. 6,375 members of the Brown community who are studying, living or working on campus were enrolled in the University’s testing program, which began Aug. 24, according to a community wide email from Executive ...
As protests against anti-Black police brutality have swelled across the country after George Floyd was killed by a white police officer on May 25, many University students from St. Paul, Minnesota to Atlanta, Georgia are among the tens of thousands taking action. The demonstrations, beyond calling ...
Scattered across three continents, Jonathan He '20 and his friend group tuned in to watch Sunday's Virtual Degree Conferral ceremony together. They were expecting the event, which began at 1 p.m. EST, to last hours. It ran for just over 20 minutes. His friend Dorian Charpentier '20, who believed that ...
When Jenny Huang’s ’23 acting class transitioned to remote learning after the University canceled in-person classes and evacuated campus in March, her professor asked students to switch to performing monologues telematically. But for Huang, performing via Zoom from her apartment in Beijing, where ...
After the Providence Public School District moved to remote learning March 23 in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Jessica Jennings, a parent at Asa Messer Elementary School, received a text message from the school's reading coach: "I'm delivering materials for your daughter's classroom," the text ...
Artist, writer and scholar Darnella Davis grew up in a family of Indigenous, Black and white descent. “My family included everybody,” she told the audience of a Tuesday evening lecture called “Why Untangling Our Red, White and Black Heritage Matters,” hosted by the University’s Center for ...
Dr. Sarah Rhoads MD’16 RES’20, a University practitioner who is a resident at Hasbro Children’s Hospital, has several tricks up her sleeve for helping children who come into the hospital with asthma exacerbations. When young patients’ exacerbations begin to subside, Rhoads asks them to blow ...
In November 2018, Mónica Huertas’ daughter, a pre-school student, was discharged from Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence after spending two days in the pediatric intensive care unit for asthma exacerbations. The girl’s chronic asthma has sent her to the hospital seven times in her short ...
After a months-long search for a turnaround Superintendent of the Providence Public School District, Rhode Island Education Commissioner Angélica Infante-Green announced Jan. 27 that Harrison Peters would be filling the role. Peters’ hiring is a critical step in the Rhode Island Department of Education’s ...
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