After a week of campaigning, an engaging and competitive debate, and a two-day voting process, the candidates for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students stood at the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Thursday night, eagerly awaiting the announcement of the winner. For President-elect ...
Spring Weekend kicked off Friday evening with clear skies, minimal wind and Funkinevil DJ-ing as students in the line stretching down George Street slowly inched their way onto the Main Green. Funkinevil’s set did not seem to do much for the crowd, but their graphics featured cascading dollar bills ...
In preparation for Rhode Island’s primary April 26, former President Bill Clinton spoke to a crowd of students and community members at a rally for presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s campaign at the Community College of Rhode Island’s Knight Campus in Warwick Thursday. Bill Clinton spoke ...
1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 8.3% Strongly approve 37.8% Somewhat approve 34.2% No opinion 17.4% Somewhat disapprove 2.2% Strongly disapprove 2. How informed do you feel about events on campus? 16.7% Very informed 63.2% ...
Screen Shot 2016-04-13 at 3.23.13 PM The Herald’s spring undergraduate poll, conducted April 6, 7 and 11 in J. Walter Wilson, the Faunce Campus Center and the Sciences Library, found that about half of students polled disagreed that Brown/RISD Hillel should not have sponsored a talk by Janet Mock, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students debated the effectiveness of the Diverse Perspectives in Liberal Learning course designation in a discussion with members of the Task Force on Diversity in the Curriculum at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. Dean of the College Maud Mandel, Associate Professor ...
Two faculty members, Alberto Saal, professor of earth, environmental and planetary science, and Wendy Chun, professor of modern culture and media and chair of the department, have been awarded Guggenheim Fellowships, the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced April 6. The organization was ...
The Engaged Scholars Program — a collaborative initiative between the Swearer Center for Public Service, the Dean of the College and multiple academic departments — will expand to encompass 12 concentrations, an increase of seven from the previous year. The new concentrations will include business, ...
A team of first-years has launched an app called Eat@Brown that allows students to check the menus at the Sharpe Refectory, Verney-Woolley Dining Hall and Andrews Commons from their phones. The app is a more convenient way of accessing menu offerings and dining hall hours than the Brown Dining Services ...
“The Swearer Center and Brown have a reputation of treating Providence as their playground,” said Olivia Veira ’17, one of facilitators of the workshop “Providence is Not Our Playground” at 85 Waterman Street Tuesday. The workshop, also facilitated by Christine Blandhol ’17, Arria Lhaka ...
In the latest edition of the U.S. News and World Report 2017 Best Medical Schools rankings, the Alpert Medical School maintained its rank as the 35th-best research school and rose to the 32nd-best primary care school — up from 57th place last year. The rise in Alpert’s primary care ranking can be ...
Rhode Island Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea joined the Brown Democrats Tuesday for a forum on the new Rhode Island legislation that allows voters to register to vote or update their information online. Gov. Gina Raimondo signed the bill March 30, according to a press release. As a result of the new ...
Growlers Wing Bar opened above English Cellar Alehouse April 4. Previously, the restaurant above Alehouse was an Italian bistro, Coco Pazzo. The management team of both Alehouse and Coco Pazzo felt that the bistro could not compete against bigger Italian restaurant chains on Federal Hill, said Sean ...
Running on a platform of environmental sustainability, clean energy and educational reform, Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16 is campaigning for a seat representing the Third Hampshire District, which includes Amherst, in the Massachusetts legislature. Winning a seat as state representative while at school ...
In December 2015, Visiting Scholar in Physics Stephon Alexander PhD’00 was arrested by the Coventry and West Greenwich Police for his involvement in a prostitution sting. Alexander was one of seven men charged with the procurement of sexual conduct for a fee, and his faculty appointment to the University ...
“Brown was an intellectual playground, and sometimes my job feels like that,” said Ivan Watson ’97, a senior international correspondent based in Hong Kong for CNN. As an experienced journalist, Watson has covered breaking news across the globe since the ’90s. He has covered Hong Kong’s Umbrella ...
Vice Provost for the Arts Michael Steinberg has been elected the new president of the American Academy in Berlin for a five-year tenure. Steinberg, a professor of history, music and German studies, was the director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities prior to becoming Vice Provost. The American Academy ...
On his sixth night at Brown, Andrew Brown ’15 was sexually assaulted. He’s spoken about his assault in a Huffington Post piece, the recent Oscar-nominated documentary “The Hunting Ground” and now again in the book, “We Believe You: Survivors of Campus Sexual Assault Speak Out,” to be released ...
The work of the Rhode Island Justice Reinvestment Working Group, assembled by Gov. Gina Raimondo to improve the state’s criminal justice system, seems poised to come to fruition as the anniversary of its July 2015 inception draws nearer. According to the Council of State Governments Justice Center’s ...
Students, faculty members and policy experts gathered at BrownThink 2016, an undergraduate public policy competition, to discuss immigration policy reform this past weekend. The competition aims to provide Brown undergraduates who are not necessarily public policy concentrators with an opportunity to ...
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