Enrollment in the University’s biotechnology and biomedical engineering master’s programs has increased from 12 to 65 students since 2012, according to a University press release. The quintupling in enrollment over the past four years comes as the University has invested heavily in the programs, ...
Jared Diamond, Pulitzer Prize-winning historian and biologist, gave a talk Wednesday about his research on global development and inequality. The talk, titled “Why did history unfold in different ways on different continents for the last 13,000 years?,” filled the seats of the Salomon Center’s ...
“Hooking up with a professor during office hours. Using handcuffs during sex. Having partners of a particular race or ethnicity. Using urine or feces during sex. Pretending to be a little kid and calling (your) partner mommy or daddy. Having sex in the SciLi.” These were among the sexual fantasies ...
Though English language learners constitute 7 percent of the public school population in Rhode Island, the Ocean State is currently one of only four states that do not have designated funding for English language learners. Gov. Gina Raimondo submitted a revised education funding formula to the Rhode ...
The Department of Public Safety will face assessors from the Commission on Accreditation for Law Enforcement Agencies March 29, according to a University press release. The assessment will include a public information session and forum March 30, which is during the University’s spring break. Those ...
A student was assaulted and robbed March 21 while walking on Meeting Street between Prospect Street and Brown Street, according to a campus-wide email Monday from the Department of Public Safety. At around 8:45 p.m., the victim was approached by an unidentified male who demanded the student’s wallet ...
The BioMedical Center played host to “White Skin, Black Asks,” a dialogue on white supremacy culture facilitated by the White Noise Collective R.I. Tuesday night. “White Noise R.I. works at the intersection of gender oppression and whiteness to dismantle white supremacy and racism,” said Rachel ...
For students still undecided on a concentration, there is now a new option to consider: architecture. Though an architectural studies concentration has always been available within the Department of History of Art and Architecture, a new interdisciplinary concentration, simply called architecture and ...
Brown Unplugged: Do It in the Dark, an annual competition among university residence halls to save energy, finished its sixth run Monday. The competition ran from March 1 to March 21 and saw 964 students register to compete. By the end of the competition, students saved over 11,215 kilowatt-hours and ...
Sharing a room or suite with a near-stranger is a hallmark of a student’s first year at Brown. For some students, that experience resurfaces later in their college experience with a new roommate at the beginning of spring semester or even later in the midst of spring break. Tassos Sapalidis ’18 ...
First-generation students at Brown will have a space allocated for their needs when the University’s First-Generation Student Center opens this summer. The center will be located on the fifth floor of the Sciences Library. “When we envisioned the center, we saw it as a way to bridge resources … ...
The Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning has appointed Mary Wright, current director of assessment and associate research scientist at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, as its new director, wrote Dean of the College Maud Mandel in a community-wide email ...
The University boasts the second largest number of international students who have attended a United World College high school among all U.S. colleges, wrote Rebecca Zuck, senior development associate, in an email to The Herald. Founded in 1962 to bring together young people from different sides of ...
The Alpert Medical School gained its first gender-inclusive bathroom after prompting by medical students, wrote Associate Dean of Medical Education Allan Tunkel in an email to The Herald. Noticing there was a single-occupancy bathroom on the second floor of the Med School, Brian Leyva MD’18 and a ...
Police shootings and brutalization of black youths have become so commonplace in the United States that it can be difficult to imagine how to remedy the structural racism that allows for such injustices to occur, but difficulty is no reason to stand at the sidelines during times of crisis, said Opal ...
Updated March 21, 2016 at 12:01 a.m. Sam Rubinstein ’17 and Lainie Rowland ’17, a Herald opinions editor, entered their hallway in Marcy House close to 1 a.m. Friday to find anti-Semitic and homophobic messages scrawled on the walls. Upon seeing the graffiti, Rowland contacted the leaders of Beta ...
“Who has to have a soapbox when all you’ve ever needed is your voice?” asked Clint Smith in a video projected across the Martinos Auditorium at TedxBrownU. Brown University held its own TEDx event March 19, hosting 12 speakers and 100 audience members in the Granoff Center for Creative Arts. With ...
If science, technology, engineering and mathematics suffer from a deficit of interest, Brown’s Brain Fair in Sayles Hall proved otherwise. The March 19 event was attended by over 500 people ranging from faculty members to local children — many of whom sported purple and pink neurons painted on their ...
The Inter-Religious Working Group kicked off with a four-hour inaugural meeting Feb. 29, facilitated by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life. The IRWG is University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson’s attempt to delve deeper into issues surrounding religious tension and difference. The group ...
The Providence City Council voted unanimously March 3 to support efforts to memorialize victims of the transatlantic slave trade and their descendants. The resolution formalizes the council’s support of the work being done by the Rhode Island branch of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers ...
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