Seven individuals will receive an honorary degree from the University at the 251st Commencement May 26. John Krasinski '01 will serve as the Baccalaureate speaker May 25. Sheryl Brissett Chapman ’71 Sheryl Brissett Chapman ’71 is the executive director of The National Center for Children and Families, ...
Amid the sunny celebration of the 50th anniversary of the open curriculum that took place earlier this month, it can be hard to remember how much controversy the original proposals for curricular reform brought to campus. Ira Magaziner ’69 and Elliot Maxwell ’68 laid the groundwork for the open ...
David Berson ’75, chair of neuroscience, studies how information travels from the eye to the brain. One of his recent projects examines the spidery forms of cells in the retina at the back of the eye, reconstructing their shapes and interconnections at a very fine scale. They’re shaped like spaghetti ...
This month, campus discussion surrounding ethical investment took center stage following a motion to replace the University’s Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies, the University body that considers “moral responsibility in ... investment policies,” The Herald ...
Faculty members discussed a proposed motion to replace the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies with a new committee that would have a broader scope at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. They also passed eight motions relating to the Academic Code, faculty committee membership ...
During today’s faculty meeting, faculty members will discuss a motion to replace the Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies with a new committee that would have broader responsibilities. The motion has received criticism from undergraduates and student coalition Brown ...
The Office of Title IX and Gender Equity released its Annual Outcome Report Friday, revealing an increase in reported incidents compared to the previous year. The report discloses statistics about the numbers and types of referrals and reports made to the office from July 1, 2017, to June 30, 2018. ...
In its last general body meeting of the semester Wednesday, the Graduate Student Council held elections for internal positions, heard presentations from guest speakers and received the executive board’s end-of-year report. The GSC elected first-year PhD student Melaine Ferdinand-King GS as vice president ...
Updated 10:15 p.m. May 1, 2019. The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs will officially merge its three undergraduate concentrations into a single International and Public Affairs concentration, the Institute announced Monday afternoon. The new single concentration, which has been ...
The Department of Economics is receiving a $25 million donation from Orlando Bravo ’92, according to a University press release. Of this total, $15 million will be allotted to founding the Orlando Bravo Center for Economics Research, and the remaining $10 million will be used to attract eight to ...
Approximately 160 students will receive on-campus housing for the 2019-20 academic year through the summer assignment process. Of these students, 130 are rising juniors, wrote Melissa Flowers, senior director of residential education and operations in the Office of Residential Life, in an email to ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 presented on divestment and the national admissions scandal at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ general body meeting Wednesday evening. The general body also discussed club categorization and re-activation at the end of the meeting. During her address, Paxson ...
Peter Rossi, director of Dining Services, is stepping down from his position after 20 years at the University. In his role, Rossi led the “strategic, tactical planning and execution” of Dining Services, according to his LinkedIn. He previously served as associate director of Dining Services before ...
Though Providence Public Schools serve lunch to tens of thousands of students each year, not every student can look forward to a school-provided meal. Students who keep halal — or only eat food that has been prepared in accordance to Islamic law as specified in the Quran — are unlikely to find acceptable ...
A report published Monday by the University coalition SPEAK found that 94.4 percent of speakers invited to Brown in 2018 who demonstrated an explicit political leaning leaned left. Of the 325 speakers evaluated by the report who spoke about United States politics, 200 — or 61.5 percent — demonstrated ...
Following graduate students’ vote to unionize in late November, bargaining committees representing Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees and the University began negotiations toward a collective bargaining agreement earlier this month. Brian Clark, the University’s director of news and editorial ...
The Department of Facilities Management has started a project to replace hot water tanks in dorms on Wriston Quad that have been emitting water discolored by rust. Facilities began working to address issues with the hot water tanks after plumbers “noticed the discolored water” while performing routine ...
An ordinance being considered by the City of Providence could make big house parties a thing of the past on College Hill. According to the proposed ordinance, off-campus single-family housing would be limited to three college undergraduates per residential unit. The amendment, which is now under consideration ...
As climate change contributes to a warming Providence, symptoms of already present urban inequality in Providence may worsen as a result. With longer and more severe heat waves and increased flooding already occurring, city officials and researchers say that low-income neighborhoods in the city will ...
The University’s Department of Education discussed its plans to implement widespread curricular changes across all of its undergraduate and graduate programs Monday in a forum with students. The proposal, which would go into effect over the next two years, is still in the development process, Chair ...
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