The city of Providence has won a $375,000 federal matching grant for body cameras for the city’s police force, according to a Sept. 26 press release from the Department of Justice. The city must appropriate the funds to match the grant in order to outfit the entirety of the police force, said Providence ...
Final versions of departmental diversity and inclusion action plans for the majority of the University’s academic departments are now available on the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion’s website for the perusal of all members of the Brown community. Each academic unit at Brown is required ...
Lucrezia Sanes ’17 and Shavon Bell ’17, a former Herald senior staff writer, formed Women, Empowered., a multidisciplinary initiative and group focusing on political action and activism, this year. With the help of faculty advisors and a $10,000 collaboration grant from the Watson Institute for ...
Drawing on his experiences at Brown, Jordan Evans ’14 created Buoy, a mobile application designed to provide Brown students with a source of daily encouragement. The app made its debut Sept. 22. Buoy was created with the essence of its name in mind: “As a verb, buoy means to cause to become cheerful, ...
Situated on the second floor of J. Walter Wilson, the Brown Business Center will begin offering key business services at the heart of campus Oct. 3. These functions include I-9 verification, onboarding, foreign nationals processing, Bear Bucks deposits and notary services for undergraduate students, ...
Sitting at .500 with its first Ivy League matchup just seven days away, the men’s soccer team hoped to take the win over local rival University of Rhode Island Saturday to build momentum heading into a very important week. Bruno (5-3) did just that, edging URI (3-6-1) 2-1. The victory was powered ...
Updated Sept. 29 at 12:44 a.m. Chief Judge William E. Smith ruled in favor of an undergraduate, referred to as John Doe in court documents to protect his identity, in a case against the University yesterday. The case concerned a University disciplinary hearing that found Doe guilty of sexual misconduct. ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students filled seven leadership positions through internal elections at its meeting Wednesday night. The positions of chair of appointments and parliamentarian were hotly contested, with three students running for each post. Gabrielle Alcala ’19 secured the position of ...
In the 1990s, Brown’s campus was a hotbed of activism on behalf of Timor-Leste, the Southeast Asian island then occupied by — and subject to human rights violations committed by — Indonesia. Over 15 years later, the leaders of what is now the Democratic Republic of Timor-Leste arrived in Providence ...
The Brown University Community Council met Tuesday afternoon for the first time this semester to discuss new projects and receive updates on major University affairs, including the reaccreditation process and progress on the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. Deputy Provost Joseph Meisel began the ...
As the University’s Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan kicks into full gear, the diversity reflected in the faculty hovers just at the national average for most four-year colleges and universities. According to last year’s data from the University’s Institutional Research Factbook, ...
The University will launch a dual-degree program in which students earn a doctorate of medicine and a master’s of public affairs in four years in summer 2017. The integrated curriculum and program length make it the first of its kind in the United States. Beginning in the summer of 2017, students ...
College Republicans all split up over Trump College Republicans at universities across the country are struggling to remain united over Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump, according to a Sept. 23 New York Times article. When the chapter at Yale decided to endorse Trump, for example, four ...
This semester, the University is gearing up for its reaccreditation by the New England Association of Schools and Colleges, a process that will extend until spring 2018. Preparing the report for NEASC is a time- and people-intensive process that requires a steering committee and ultimately the entire ...
The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion is offering a variety of voluntary professional development opportunities this fall for faculty and staff members to “engage in discussions, interactive workshops and capacity-building activities around diversity and inclusion issues,” wrote Liza ...
1969 — the year the New Curriculum received approval — marked the first time a Brown student created an independent concentration, said Peggy Chang, director of the Curricular Resource Center and assistant dean for engaged learning. “If you think of the time back in ’68, ’69 — that was ...
Economist Branko Milanovic spoke at the Watson Institute Monday evening about the ideas behind his new book, “Global Inequality: A New Approach for the Age of Globalization.” The intimate, seminar-style lecture was attended by not only undergraduate students but also graduate students, community ...
The Brown Center for Students of Color — formerly known as the Third World Center — celebrated its 40th anniversary this weekend. The center chronicled its history, hosting a block party Saturday night and a panel of former BCSC directors Sunday afternoon. Celebrations began at the block party, ...
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea delivered a speech on voting policy and practice in Rhode Island at the Joukowsky Forum Monday. The lecture was the first hosted by Women, Empowered, a new student group funded by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Gorbea, a Puerto ...
Simone Giertz, affectionately titled “Queen of shitty robots” by fans of her YouTube videos, gave a GIF-laden presentation on her playful engineering work Friday afternoon in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Giertz’s videos have attracted a total of 15 million views, said Michael Littman, ...
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