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The COVID Pod with Dr. Ashish Jha: Optimistic Outcomes and Overcoming Hurdles: Managing COVID-19 in March 2021

By Cate Ryan, Emilija Sagaityte and Rahma Ibrahim | March 3

In this episode of The COVID Pod with Dr. Ashish Jha, recorded Tuesday, March 2, Dr. Jha speaks to the importance of equitable vaccine distribution, ventilation over sanitation for public spaces and the promises of the recently authorized Johnson and Johnson vaccine amid the rise of new virus variants. ...

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Paxson and Locke look ahead to University “going back to normal” at faculty meeting

By Will Kubzansky | March 2

President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’18 further detailed the University’s plans for campus operations in the following months at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. The meeting, which comes nearly a year after the University canceled all in-person classes at the onset of the pandemic, ...

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U. Cancer Center pilot projects: investigating cancer connections

By Kathleen Meininger | March 2

[lwptoc skipHeadingLevel="h1,h2,h3,h5,h6"] Eight labs who were recipients of the University Cancer Center’s funding in December for projects advancing cancer research will use the funds to delve into cancer biology, cancer therapeutics and population science. Four of the eight projects are investigating ...

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United Way of Rhode Island pledges $100 million over five years to promote racial equity

By Sarah Ogundare | March 2

United Way of Rhode Island has pledged $100 million to promote racial equity through accessible education, affordable housing and unemployment for Black, Indigenous and People of Color in Rhode Island as part of the organization’s LIVE UNITED 2025 plan to help address systemic racism announced Jan. ...

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Socially Responsible Teaching Assistant program continues to expand

By Anne Wang | March 2

Almost two years ago, as part of a “Responsible CS” initiative, the Ethics Teaching Assistant position was created. Now, the program — which has since been rebranded as the Socially Responsible Teaching Assistant — continues to expand and work toward integrating ethics and social impact into ...

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University plans to return to two-semester, in-person learning model for 2021-22 academic year

By Benjamin Pollard | March 2

The University expects to return to a two-semester system where all undergraduate, graduate and medical students will be brought back to campus to take classes and conduct research in person for the 2021-22 academic year, according to a Monday Today@Brown announcement from Provost Richard Locke P’18 ...

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Jack Hayes departs Brown, leaving behind a changed athletics department and complicated legacy

By Will Kubzansky | March 1

It had been a “trying year,” a student-athlete explained to The Herald. That spring, a committee proposed cutting varsity sports teams to improve the athletics program’s competitiveness. A column in The Herald, he added, had suggested that athletics had “no part at Brown.” The year in question ...

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University increases frequency of follow-ups for student testing in spring semester

By Claire Liu | March 1

“Our records showed that, as of 8:00AM this morning, you had not completed a routine COVID-19 test through the Healthy at School program in the last four days.” This line is sent to thousands of student inboxes each week by the Student COVID-19 Testing Team, a group responsible for notifying students ...

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UCS, UFB kick off 2021 spring election season

By Shilpa Sajja | March 1

The Undergraduate Council of Students kicked off the first completely virtual UCS and Undergraduate Finance Board spring election process with an email to the student body last Tuesday. This year, students interested in running for UCS and UFB positions are required to watch a nine-minute video released ...

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U. Cancer Center pilot projects: developing cancer therapeutics

By Kathleen Meininger | March 1

[lwptoc depth="3" skipHeadingLevel=""] The Cancer Center at Brown University announced the funding of eight pilot projects that aim to innovate and pioneer in the field of cancer research last December. The intent of the funding was to “provide investigators with the opportunity to collect preliminary ...

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Filmmakers Alex Rivera, Cristina Ibarra discuss their docu-thriller film ‘The Infiltrators’ in CSREA event

By Stella Olken-Hunt | March 1

In 2012, activists with the National Immigrant Youth Alliance purposefully got arrested by the United States Border Patrol. They had planned to infiltrate the Broward Transitional Center in Florida and reveal the inner workings of the immigration system. “The Infiltrators,” a film by Alex Rivera ...

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The Bruno Brief: Brown students weather the Texas storm

By Ben Glickman | March 1

In this week’s episode of The Bruno Brief, we hear from students studying remotely in Texas about their situations on the ground in light of the winter storm which hit the state hard two weeks ago. We talk to senior staff writer Liza Mullett ’22, who spoke to three students who grappled with online ...

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VP Carey: Brown sees highest number of weekly positive cases in spring, but ‘not alarmed’ yet

By Claire Liu | February 28

The University saw its highest number of weekly positive COVID-19 cases for the spring semester so far from Feb. 21 to Feb. 28 after a steady decline in positive COVID-19 cases since students’ arrival this semester. This week, 58 University community members tested positive, a jump from the seven ...

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Center for Slavery and Justice awarded $4.9 million grant for study of racial slavery, Indigenous dispossession

By Esha Kataria | February 28

The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation awarded the University’s Center for Slavery and Justice a $4.9 million grant to conduct the project “Reimaging New England Histories: Historical Injustice, Sovereignty and Freedom” in collaboration with Mystic Seaport Museum and Williams College, according to a ...

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Students, faculty with disabilities face accessibility challenges on campus

By Caelyn Pender | February 28

Living with a disability on the University’s campus poses physical and emotional obstacles for many community members, who confront accessibility issues in campus buildings and in virtual accomodations alike. Providence was recently ranked as one of the worst cities for people with disabilities, ...

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University announces distribution of $5.4 million in COVID-19 aid

By Benjamin Pollard | February 26

The University will begin distributing $5.4 million to approximately 3,500 eligible undergraduate, graduate and medical students the week of March 8, according to a community-wide email from Provost Richard Locke P’18 Friday. Of the overall funding, $4.8 million comes from the federal Coronavirus ...

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’21 Rising study investigates social networks, alcohol use for class of 2021

By Claire Liu | February 25

’21 Rising, an ongoing social network study led by Principal Investigator and Professor of Behavioral and Social Sciences Nancy Barnett, enrolls members from the class of 2021 in biannual surveys to find out how social networks play a role in their health behaviors. Students participate in the study ...

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'Founded out of resistance': Brown’s oldest Black fraternity celebrates 100 years

By Caelyn Pender | February 25

On a Saturday night in February 1923, the brothers of the Alpha Gamma chapter of Alpha Phi Alpha held an initiation ceremony to welcome three new members to their ranks. With the addition of two active members and an honorary member — a renowned Black physician in Providence — the fledgling fraternity ...

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'The voice for the voiceless': PBS Newshour journalist discusses MLK’s legacy, transformative power of journalism

By Corey Gelb-Bicknell | February 25

In high school, American journalist Yamiche Alcindor learned about Emmett Till, a Black boy who was brutally murdered by a group of white men after a white woman falsely accused him of flirting with her. Alcindor also learned that Till’s mother saw her son’s disfigured body and decided to leave ...

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University expresses opposition to historic district ordinance at public hearing

By Katy Pickens | February 25

The University again came out against a proposed expansion to the College Hill historic district overlay at a public hearing held remotely Wednesday, while the majority of East Side residents present on the call supported the ordinance. The proposed ordinance would add 90 properties to the College ...