On Wednesday, Mayor Jorge Elorza hosted an Interfaith Forum at the Providence Career and Technical Academy to discuss prejudice, community safety and policy changes. “Right now, the forces that are dividing us and separating us are stronger than they have been in any of our lifetimes. It’s important ...
As the sophistication of artificial intelligence continues to increase and AI moves further from the realm of science fiction, a philosophical question arises: When does the line between humans and robots fade away entirely? Questions along this line of thought were addressed in the Veritas Forum’s ...
Immediately following his inauguration, President Trump dismissed all foreign diplomats appointed by the administration of former President Obama. As the “number two” at the U.S. Embassy in Beijing, David Rank assumed the responsibilities of Ambassador. Rank spoke before an audience of about 40 ...
Updated Nov. 1, 3:47 p.m. Today, young girls who dream of becoming astronauts or space scientists will be able to literally hold their futures in the palms of their hands. Lego has released a new 231-piece set featuring figures based off of real women who worked for NASA, including Sally Ride, the first ...
After an extensive national search, Melissa Flowers has been appointed senior director for residential education and operation, wrote Mary Grace Almandrez, associate vice president for campus life and dean of students, in an email to Residential Life staff. “Melissa will provide innovative leadership ...
Updated Nov. 1 at 4:35 p.m. The Providence City Council will consider renaming Magee Street — named after slave-trader William F. Megee — to Bannister Street, commemorating the 19th-century local black activists Edward and Christiana Bannister. The council's Urban Redevelopment Committee passed ...
Studying economics doesn’t necessarily mean selling your soul. Jean Tirole, Nobel Prize winning economist and professor at the Toulouse School of Economics, visited the University Oct. 27 to discuss his new book, “Economics for the Common Good.” The panel, which was held in Salomon Center, saw ...
Built in the 1900s as a home for the Narragansett Electric Lighting Company, the South Street Landing has stood vacant in the Jewelry District since 1995. That is, until Monday, when five University administrative offices moved into the building. Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president ...
Since he was fired by President Trump’s administration, Preet Bharara is "doing fine." Or at least, that’s what the former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York said as he opened his lecture at the Taubman Center on Monday. "Everything is alright,” Bharara said, listing his current ...
With a focus on demographic disparities in STEM fields, several University faculty members and students spent Oct. 19 to 21 at the 2017 Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science conference in Salt Lake City. They joined a community of around 3,000 scholars, tied together ...
U.S. Congressman David Cicilline ’83, D-R.I., spoke about the United States’ relationship with the United Nations in honor of United Nations Day Friday. Cicilline was joined by Director of Peacekeeping Policy at the United Nations Foundation Chandrima Das and Director of the International Relations ...
During the 2018-19 academic year, the University will host a Sawyer Seminar on the subject of Race and Indigeneity in the Americas using a $225,000 grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. The grant will fund the enrollment of a post-doc and two graduate students, as well as the organization of two ...
In 2002, the University made a promise to become need-blind. Fifteen years later, the University is renewing its promise by eliminating loans from all undergraduate financial aid packages with the “Brown Promise” campaign. The University is not the first of its peers to implement such a policy. ...
Only two candidates, community activist Kobi Dennis and Mayor Jorge Elorza, have confirmed their candidacies for the 2018 Providence mayoral race. Meg Clurman, finance director for Elorza’s first campaign, confirmed to The Herald Oct. 18 that Elorza plans to run for reelection, but said the campaign ...
Gerrymandering — the redrawing of voting districts for political gain — has been a problem in the United States for over two centuries. However, with the Supreme Court’s hearing on Gill v. Whitford concerning a controversial redistricting plan in Wisconsin, the issue has once again emerged as ...
Ivor Chipkin, founding director of the Public Affairs Research Institute, based at both the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg and the University of Cape Town, delivered a lecture titled “Does Democracy Have a Future in South Africa” Thursday. He spoke about the current political turmoil ...
The percentage of English language learners in American public schools has increased in all but 15 states since 2004. When the 2014 school year began, at least 10 percent of K-12 students in nine states were English language learners, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.The programs ...
At Wednesday’s general body meeting, the Undergraduate Council of Students tabled voting on a proposal from the Undergraduate Finance Board that recommended that the University Resources Committee raise next year’s student activities fee by $21 per student. UCS will delay the vote until an emergency ...
Though scientists have long observed signs of water on ancient Mars, they could not explain how it came to exist in the frigid climate of those times. But in a paper published in “Icarus,” scientists have recently developed a model of ancient Mars that reconciles this conflict and explains the effects ...
During the weeks Professor of Physics Brad Marston was hiking the Pacific Crest Trail last year, he had ample time to contemplate the deflection of waves at the earth’s equator and the ways magnetic fields influence charged particles. “They both have a force that acts at right angles to the motions ...
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