Senior Staff Writer Sophia Wotman is a Senior Staff Writer covering the Affinity & Activism beat under University News. She is a sophomore from Long Island, New York studying Political Science and Music with an interest in women’s rights. She is a jazz trumpet player, and you’ll often find her performing on campus and around Providence.
Next month, students and scholars will gather on campus to discuss social justice, inequality and activism at a conference celebrating W.E.B Du Bois, a prominent African-American scholar and founder of the NAACP.
This article is part of an Earth Month series exploring environmental issues, climate initiatives and community stakeholders throughout Providence and Rhode Island.
Liz Cheney — former U.S. representative for Wyoming’s at-large congressional district from 2017 to 2023 — addressed issues of democracy, Donald Trump’s influence on the Republican party, the Jan. 6 insurrection and the war in Israel and Palestine at the 103rd Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial ...
Evan Mandery, an educational equity activist and critic of legacy admissions at elite universities, discussed community engagement and higher education at a Thursday talk hosted by the Class Coordinating Board and Students for Educational Equity.
Brown produced the second-highest number of Fulbright scholars in the nation for the 2023-2024 program year, according to data from the Fulbright Program. The 36 scholarship winners — including both recent alumni and current graduate students — are teaching or conducting research in more than two ...
A Jan. 12 revision to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act has prompted museums, including Brown’s Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, to implement changes and undergo repatriation procedures in recent years.
The Center for Philosophy, Politics and Economics hosted a Wednesday evening event at which panelists addressed affirmative action and anti-discrimination policies in the college admissions process. Titled “After Affirmative Action: Democracy and the University,” the event constitutes another component ...
On Jan. 20, three members of Brown’s chapter of Sunrise — an environmental activist organization — staged a series of interruptions at the New Hampshire Republican primaries to protest the climate policies of Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley.
Founded in September 2023, the Brown Latine Leadership Council is a new club dedicated to uniting the Latine community on campus.
Overdose prevention centers are not associated with increased crime or disorder, despite safety concerns surrounding the sites, according to a recent study co-led by a Brown researcher.
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