Hundreds of community members packed into Salomon DECI auditorium Tuesday night to hear political activist Angela Davis discuss social movements, history and Palestine at an event hosted by the Brown Center for Students of Color. The talk, titled “No one is free until we are all free: discussion on ...
Provost Francis Doyle sent an email to community members about University policy surrounding encampments on Tuesday afternoon. The email comes amid a series of national protests calling for a ceasefire in the war between Israel and Hamas and on universities to divest from weapons manufacturers and companies ...
This article is part of an Earth Month series exploring environmental issues, climate initiatives and community stakeholders throughout Providence and Rhode Island.
Panelists ranging from Brown researchers to former public school students spoke Monday evening about state and school accountability at the R.I. Senate Education Summit, an event hosted by the Community College of Rhode Island and moderated by State Senators Sandra Cano (D-Pawtucket) and Hanna Gallo ...
Following an uptick in sixth-year PhD students reporting that their requests for a yearlong COVID-related funding extension had been partially denied by the University, Graduate Labor Organization leaders are accusing the University of violating “the spirit” of a clause in a 2023 side letter to ...
R.I. House Speaker Joseph Shekarchi (D-Warwick) spoke at a Politics and Policy Lunch hosted by the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy in Stephen Robert ’62 Hall on Monday.
A swath of admitted students paraded Brown’s campus during A Day on College Hill last Friday. The annual event was hosted twice — April 12 and April 19 — and saw a turnout of over 1,000 students, according to a University press release.
On Friday, around 100 students rallied in support of the 113 pro-Palestinian demonstrators arrested at Columbia University on Thursday.
Brown Students for Israel organized an installation on the Quiet Green to pay tribute to the approximately 130 hostages believed to be held in Gaza during the ongoing Israel-Hamas war.
The University is set to continue its expansion into Providence’s Jewelry District with the creation of a seven-story lab building on Chestnut Street. The Providence Downtown Design Review Committee greenlit the building designs in December and construction is slated to commence this summer.
Earlier this month, the Brown Concert Agency received widespread criticism for its lineup selection and poster design for this year’s Spring Weekend, which is set to occur on Sunday.
After the City announced plans to remove the South Water Street bike lane in early April, City Councilor John Goncalves ’13 MA ’15 (Ward-1) introduced an ordinance that would require the City Council to authorize the removal of any bike lanes within the city. At a City Council meeting this Thursday, ...
Brown is allegedly in “advanced talks” to invest in Fortress Investment Group with Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund Mubadala Investment Co. and BTG Pactual, a Brazilian financial company, Bloomberg previously reported.
This year, student groups faced restricted budgets after the Undergraduate Finance Board aggressively spent its $1.2 million surplus in the 2022-23 academic year — leaving a $1.5 million gap between requested and received funding.
Providence Mayor Brett Smiley announced a $598.6 million budget proposal for fiscal year 2025 at his Wednesday budget address to the Providence City Council. This is Smiley’s second budget proposal as mayor.
On April 2, faculty approved a motion to create a School of International and Public Affairs, marking the next step in a continued push to develop Brown’s graduate program. The Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — is expected to vote on the motion this May, according to a ...
The University’s Task Force on the Status of Women Faculty’s April 2023 report found that women faculty feel their service to the Brown community is “undocumented and, as a consequence, underappreciated.” Service responsibilities include informal student mentorship, advising and serving on departmental ...
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On Tuesday, the Brown University Lecture Board hosted Metro Boomin for a talk at Salomon DECI.
Alexandra Mork ’25 and Jay Philbrick ’24.5 won the Harry S. Truman scholarship this year, making the University one of six institutions in the United States with multiple recipients of the scholarship. Truman Scholars receive a $30,000 scholarship for graduate school and gain access to special programming ...
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