Seven University students and one from the Rhode Island School of Design were accepted into the Venture for America Class of 2016. The two-year fellowship program places graduating seniors in startups with the goals of cultivating fellows’ aptitudes for entrepreneurship and jumpstarting the growth ...
Over spring break, the Department of Facilities Management updated how people on campus can get rid of their trash, installing 60 new BigBelly solar compactors across campus, said Grounds Superintendent Patrick Vetere. With traditional trash cans or recycling bins, the grounds crew responsible for ...
Andrew Campbell, associate professor of medical science, has been appointed as the next dean of the Graduate School, wrote Provost Richard Locke P’17 in a community-wide email Monday. Campbell will begin his term July 1, succeeding current Dean of the Graduate School Peter Weber. “I chose to accept ...
Roberta Jacobson ’82 delivered a speech Monday about anti-corruption in the Western hemisphere for the 91st Stephen Odgen, Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs. The lecture, entitled “Why People are Mad and Why It’s a Good Thing,” focused on civilian responses to government corruption ...
Celebrating its annual DNA Day, SciToons, a University initiative, presented three videos Monday celebrating the wonders of the double helix in the Granoff Center for the Arts. SciToons is a program “combining art, animation, high-quality multimedia and storytelling to engage a broader audience in ...
The University accepted 2,250 applicants for the Class of 2020 through regular decision Thursday, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. This year’s application cycle saw a regular decision rate of about 7 percent and an overall admission rate of about 9 percent, Miller said. The overall admission ...
An anti-Semitic flyer was discovered on an office printer in Barus and Holley Thursday afternoon. The University employee who found the flyer contacted the Department of Public Safety, which responded to the scene and assigned a detective to investigate, wrote Brian Clark, director of news and editorial ...
The Swearer Center for Public Service is set to experience a number of changes to its practical goals and policies, according to the strategic plan draft released by the center March 2. The plan is the first to be released by the Swearer Center in over 10 years and was announced months after Mathew ...
Brown graduates enter the nonprofit sector at higher rates than graduates from peer institutions, according to data from the CareerLAB. Twenty-nine percent of 2015 graduates entering the workforce joined the nonprofit sector upon leaving Brown, and another 5 percent entered positions in government and ...
Over the past year, the Brown University Response Committee to Host Displaced Scholars and Students has brought one scholar and accepted one master’s student displaced by the crisis in Syria. The committee is working with partners to identify more students and scholars from Syria and possibly others ...
In the coming weeks, high school students across the country will receive college acceptance or rejection letters. Among this mass of expectant young scholars is a handful of University employees. Through a partnership with the Providence charter school Academy for Career Exploration — located just ...
Rhode Island will use a $13 million federal grant to finance a new Enhanced Transit Corridor in downtown Providence, announced Gov. Gina Raimondo, Mayor Jorge Elorza, the congressional delegation and Rhode Island Public Transit Authority March 14. The corridor will provide buses every five minutes along ...
Swearer Center for Public Service staff members detailed new initiatives designed to integrate community service work into the University curriculum in a presentation of a draft of its strategic plan to the Undergraduate Council of Students at its general body meeting Wednesday. Swearer Center Director ...
While the trek from Perkins to class may seem unbearable to some students, professors who live outside Providence may contend with morning commutes hours longer. The University does not collect information on the number of faculty members who commute from outside Providence, said Dean of the Faculty ...
August 2013, the month before she came to Brown, Stefanie Kaufman’s ’17 now-national nonprofit organization Project Let’s Erase the Stigma became incorporated. Today, the organization has chapters in middle schools, high schools and colleges across the United States and supports people all over ...
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 ...
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