The U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit in Boston upheld the settlement agreement reached in Cohen v. Brown in December 2020 in a continuation of legal battles between the University and a group of women student-athletes.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency awarded the University a roughly $15 million Public Assistance Grant to reimburse the cost of COVID-19 test kits, according to an Oct. 27 press release. The funding, which totals $14,998,269, will cover the cost of nearly 220,000 COVID-19 tests ...
In many ways, the University’s application process looks different than it did just a few years ago: Subject tests have gone by the wayside, other standardized tests ...
In their new book “Today’s Health Care Issues: Democrats and Republicans,” co-authors Robert Hackey, an adjunct lecturer in international and public affairs, and Todd Olszewski, an associate professor of health policy and management at Providence College, provide what they describe as a nonpartisan ...
Last week, the University announced that it would add nearly $25 million to its annual financial aid budget by the 2024-25 academic year. That expansion includes the elimination of tuition for most families earning
The Papitto Opportunity Connection will invest $1 million into realizing the idea of the first place winner. The Papitto Opportunity Connection is a non-profit private foundation that works to empower individuals in BIPOC communities in Rhode Island.
Construction on the South Water Street bike lane recently concluded, ending a saga of tensions and legal back-and-forth between the City of Providence, the Rhode Island Department of Transportation and local groups and businesses, including the University.
Visiting Lecturer in Vietnamese Trang Tran joined the University this fall to offer Brown’s first beginning and intermediate level Vietnamese language classes. There are nine students enrolled in the beginning level and seven in the intermediate, including two students from Princeton.
Alex Cannon is running for Rhode Island State Senate in the special election for District 3, which is scheduled to take place Nov. 2. Cannon is the first Republican to run for State Senate in District 3 in the past 15 years. The seat became vacant after the resignation of Democrat Gayle Goldin joined ...
Governor Daniel McKee signed a bill into law to create safe injection sites for drug users in order to combat the opioid crisis July 7. Now, plans to open such sites are underway. The sites would allow those with an addiction to use drugs such as heroin and methamphetamine in a supervised, ...
The University has further lifted masking requirements for certain settings, Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 announced in a community-wide email Oct. 28.
The University has invited 16 female Afghan student applicants from the Asian University for Women to join the fall 2021 semester on humanitarian parole as non-degree students.
Gov. Dan McKee and Lt. Gov. Sabina Matos released the Rhode Island 2030 plan Oct. 15, outlining their vision for Rhode Island’s future in the coming decade.
Since moving to campus at the beginning of the fall semester, some first-year students have cited issues with their residential experience at Brown. The issues range from lack of communication to insufficient support to being assigned to forced triples — rooms that are normally occupied by two ...
$10 worth of coal-fired electricity can cause $16 worth of damage to the rest of society. While simple, this anecdote illustrates precisely what Harvard’s Natty McArthur University Professor Rebecca Henderson believes are the fundamental flaws in modern capitalist economies.
The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed funding a health and wellness initiative and conducting its annual fall poll at its general body meeting Wednesday evening.
The University will no longer require fully vaccinated students to undergo asymptomatic testing for COVID-19, according to an Oct. 25 email announcement, The Herald previously ...
For any recently hired faculty member, adjusting to a completely new work environment and connecting with their department and students are never easy tasks. And for anyone hired within the last year and a half, this transition has been made even more challenging by the pandemic, which has necessitated ...
The University’s Ad Hoc Committee on Promoting Financial Health and Sustainability released its final recommendations Oct. 1, providing guidance in five categories intended to give the University increased opportunities to make “strategic investments in academic excellence” and work to eliminate ...
This year marks the 10-year anniversary of the return of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps to Brown, after the program was discontinued on College Hill in 1969.
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