Thousands of miles may separate Providence from the epicenter of the Zika outbreak, but viruses have a way of making the globe seem small. “We do expect that we will have a case (in Rhode Island),” said Rebecca Reece, medical consultant for the Rhode Island Department of Health and assistant professor ...
Five Brown professors were named on Thomson Reuters’ list of “The World’s Most Influential Scientific Minds of 2015,” a compilation of nearly 3,000 researchers who have authored papers written from 2003 to 2013 that were highly cited in their publication year. This method “seeks out authors ...
This February, Evan Silver ’16 was chosen from a pool of 162 nominees and 45 finalists as one of 18 Luce Scholars. The Luce Scholars Program every year seeks to recognize potential leaders who have an interest in Asian culture but no extensive exposure to it, barring those who study disciplines relating ...
The Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy released two public opinion polls Feb. 25 about the 2016 Rhode Island presidential primaries, which will take place April 26. The polls found that Hillary Clinton holds a nine-point lead over U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and Donald Trump leads the ...
Members of the incoming class of 2020 will read “My Beloved World,” a memoir written by Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor, as their First Readings text, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. The goal of the First Readings program is “to give all incoming students a collective first engagement ...
Author and television producer Kevin Roose ’09.5 spoke about his experiences in media and journalism Wednesday at the Brown/RISD Hillel. As part of the emerging writers portion of the Great Nonfiction Writers Series, the talk, titled, “How to Write Nonfiction on the Internet Without Hating Yourself,” ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students unanimously approved a resolution that will create a new committee called the Student Wellness committee for the 2016-17 school year at its general body meeting Wednesday. The committee will oversee UCS affairs relating to Counseling and Psychological Services, ...
This story is the third in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown. Tarek was pulling up to his apartment building when he heard the missiles. There was no siren — just the sound of mortar shells soaring into the ground in front of his building and the dull thuds that followed. ...
SEC charges RICC with fraud The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed a complaint against the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation and underwriter Wells Fargo Securities, accusing them of willfully misleading investors when they offered bonds for video game company 38 Studios, the Providence Journal ...
Updated at 6 p.m., March 9, 2016 The Department of Public Safety officer accused of assaulting a visiting Dartmouth student participating in the Latinx Ivy League Conference in November has been fired, wrote Executive Vice President of Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 in a community-wide ...
Student activism over the last two years has contributed to substantial changes on campus, including the recently released final draft of the University’s Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, the renaming of Fall Weekend to Indigenous People’s Day and the University’s firing of a Department of ...
U.S. Rep. Elijah Cummings, D-MD, delivered the Noah Krieger ’93 Memorial Lecture with a mixture of passion, anger and humor Tuesday night. The speech moved students and community members alike, and as Cummings left the stage, the audience broke into the gospel song “This Little Light of Mine,” ...
The computer science department has hired Laura Dobler, academic program coordinator at the School of Professional Studies, to coordinate initiatives focused on diversity and inclusion. Dobler will work with student advocates in the department’s diversity committee and will be a resource to the CS ...
Last week, the Production Workshop held Performance Craft Week, a series of tech- and design-based crash courses facilitated by Brown students about lighting, directing, sound design, set building, costume design and dramaturgy. “We have noticed that the same people tend to design over and over again ...
In response to requests from Students for Justice in Palestine to boycott Sabra Hummus, Dining Services has recently begun offering Cedar’s Hummus in University eateries. Sabra is an American company partially owned by the Israeli Strauss Group, which has been a target of the Boycott, Divestment, ...
Logging into Banner just got a little bit harder. As of last week, all students, with the exception of those studying abroad, have been enrolled in the new two-step verification system that adds an additional layer of security to the Brown network, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for computing and ...
Following concerns from students with allergies, the organization Food Allergy Research and Education conducted a review Feb. 23 and 24 regarding how Brown Dining Services prepares and serves food and recommended changes to make the process more allergy-friendly. “When I first got on campus, I had ...
Martha Nussbaum, professor of law and ethics at the University of Chicago, delivered a lecture titled “Disgust or Equality? The Struggle over Sexual Orientation Law Outside the U.S.” Monday to a crowd of nearly 100 people in the Salomon Center. The event, sponsored by the Department of Philosophy, ...
Feminists at Brown hosted the Feminist Leadership and Mentorship for Equality Conference for the second year in a row, bringing students from Rhode Island high schools and faculty members together to learn and discuss issues related to feminism. FLAME was coordinated by a team of 13 Brown students headed ...
Haneen Zoabi, a Palestinian Arab member of Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, spoke at Brown Thursday evening at “Critical Conversations: Suffering Embrace? The Futures of Palestinians in Israel,” an event sponsored by the Department of Middle East Studies. Before Zoabi took the microphone an hour ...
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