The Department of Computer Science is seeking to hire student advocates for diversity and inclusion as part of its new action plan to increase diversity. The new hires are part of an administrative effort to address the department’s dearth of gender and racial diversity — just 8.7 percent of concentrators ...
Why be an administrator in higher education? Those at the helm of the school work long hours — often six days a week — and may sacrifice teaching positions and research opportunities to fulfill administrative responsibilities. Yet several Brown administrators, past and present, cited their commitment ...
Several days a week, Jacob Eichenbaum-Pikser ’10, owner of Sheikob’s Bagels, sets up his delivery bike on the sidewalks of Buenos Aires, Argentina to sell dozens of homemade bagels with cream cheese to passersby. In a place where many typical American breakfast staples are unfamiliar, Eichenbaum-Pikser ...
Members of the University Resources Committee spoke at the general body meeting of the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday, touting the committee’s priorities of maintaining financial sustainability, creating a diverse campus and fostering academic excellence in constructing the University’s ...
Just a week before Brown/RISD Hillel arrived in Israel for Birthright this January, two young Israelis were stabbed in Jerusalem, reflecting a trend of violence in the Old City that has kept several Birthright trips from visiting the area’s historic monuments. While it was not frequently mentioned, ...
Farewell, Buddy Cianci The city of Providence bid farewell to its longest-serving mayor, Vincent “Buddy” Cianci, Jr. with a funeral service Monday. Despite the snowstorm, a crowd of around 100 gathered to watch the procession where Cianci’s casket was carried from City Hall to the Cathedral of ...
While Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, and Donald Trump may have won their respective primaries Tuesday night in New Hampshire, the many campaigns on both sides could not have been run without the support of student volunteers — including many from Brown — who spent their weekends canvassing through the ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza gave his annual State of the City address Tuesday night, focusing his speech on educational reform and business development. Thirty major construction projects in Providence totaling almost $500 million in expenditures are expected to break ground in 2016, Elorza said. These developments ...
Providence saw 5,889 crimes in total during the University’s fall semester, from Sept. 10 to Dec. 22, according to a crime statistics map released by the Providence Police Department. Crime experts confirm that a closer look reveals numerous trends related to the times of day, season and locations ...
The Office of Campus Life and Student Services will double its Emergency Fund in response to feedback from high-need students regarding the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. The fund supports “a vast array of unexpected needs that come up for students who ...
On a break from coding during last weekend’s Hack@Brown event, students found themselves overwhelmed with free food, t-shirts and photo booth images paid for by a number of tech companies vying for students’ attention. Among the t-shirts decorated with the names of sponsoring companies and the slices ...
Jan. 27, Rep. Aaron Regunberg ’12, D-Providence, introduced a bill with several other representatives in the Rhode Island House of Representatives that, if passed, would establish a single-payer health system in Rhode Island. Representatives Regunberg, Gregg Amore, D-East Providence, Teresa Tanzi, ...
Pre-medical students wrote a petition last week calling for the University to expand the offerings of certain chemistry courses in order to allow students who take CHEM 0100: “Introductory Chemistry” to finish their requirements earlier in their academic careers. The petition, which has accumulated ...
Dean of the College Maud Mandel will lead the search for a new dean of admission, announced Provost Richard Locke P’17 in a community-wide email Friday. This announcement follows the news that Jim Miller ’73, the current dean of admission, will retire at the end of this academic year after more ...
With the Class of 2020 admission cycle, the University’s early decision acceptance rate continued to climb, jumping to 22 percent from 18.5 percent for the Class of 2017. Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 credits the higher acceptance rate to the deep pool of talent applying early to Brown. The quantity ...
Warren Alpert Medical School students now have the opportunity to undertake extracurricular studies in lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer healthcare and advocacy as part of the school’s scholarly concentration program, thanks to the efforts of two undergraduates. Morgan Cheatham ’17 ...
Over 450 students from across the world filed into Sayles Hall Saturday, introducing themselves to one another and buzzing with excitement as they awaited the opening ceremony of the third annual Hack@Brown. The hackathon brings students and professionals together to “hack” at projects and problems ...
Updated Feb. 8, 2016 at 1 a.m. The University has raised over $1 billion of the $3 billion it hopes to secure in the BrownTogether capital campaign, announced President Christina Paxson P’19 in a community-wide email Saturday following a meeting of the Corporation, the University’s highest governing ...
“Racism equals a societal cancer,” said author Lawrence Ross as he opened his lecture, “Blackballed: The Politics of Race on America’s Campuses,” Saturday evening. Ross discussed the presence of black students on university campuses and student activism with regard to social justice across ...
Two days ago, high school athletes around the world fulfilled their dreams of signing to competitive colleges. It was National Signing Day. For athletes fortunate enough to be recruited, a whole high school may gather while local TV crews wait to get the breaking news of a student’s choice between ...
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