Shivering students gathered Wednesday on the Faunce steps for an evening of prayer and reflection on the murders of Muhannad Adam Tairab, Adam Kamel Mekki and Mohamedtaha Omar in Fort Wayne, Indiana Feb. 24. The vigil was organized by Adrian Wood-Smith, associate university chaplain, and the Muslim ...
Providing a broad picture of the Putin regime and the Russian populace’s feelings about it, “Vladimir Putin’s Time of Troubles?” a lecture given yesterday by Linda Cook, professor of political science and Slavic studies, addressed the American public’s fragmented understanding of contemporary ...
Each night at 8:30 p.m., a security guard at the Sciences Library shines a bright flashlight from the 14th floor to say goodnight to the children at Hasbro Children’s Hospital in Providence. The flashlight blinks four times, once for each syllable in the phrase, “goodnight, Hasbro.” Several other ...
In July, Brown’s Leadership Institute will collaborate with the Berklee College of Music on a creative entrepreneurship and leadership program for high school students. The program is a subset of Berklee’s Institute for Creative Entrepreneurship, a curricular program that teaches Berklee students ...
Medical marijuana patients and advocates gathered at the State House Feb. 23 to protest the new “tagging fee” for medical marijuana included in Gov. Gina Raimondo’s recent budget proposal, unveiled Feb. 2. Though state officials argue that the proposal provides better access for Rhode Island’s ...
The lineup for Spring Weekend 2016 will include Fetty Wap, Tinashe, Mac DeMarco, Tink, Thundercat, Funkinevil and the What Cheer? Brigade, the Brown Concert Agency announced at its annual Lineup Release Party at midnight Wednesday. Spring Weekend will take place April 15 and 16. Tickets, which will ...
The University joined eight other private research universities Tuesday to file an amicus brief — a document by non-participating but interested parties — urging the National Labor Relations Board to continue recognizing graduate assistants as students rather than paid employees. The NLRB is a federal ...
The Rhode Island American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against the City of Providence over a zoning law prohibiting more than three college students from living in a single-family home together, according to a Feb. 23 press release. The suit was filed on behalf of four Johnson and Wales ...
Republican leadership of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee sent letters to 56 universities, including Brown, Feb. 8, asking about how the universities finance and spend their endowments with a response deadline of April 1. The purpose is to learn about how universities ...
The Office of Residential Life is re-forming a program house council for the eight program houses, said ResLife Associate Director Kate Tompkins. The last program house council was created in 2005 when Residential Council, a student advisory board for ResLife, enacted new program house guidelines that ...
Students rushed the stage as Viola Davis left Salomon Center after her presentation, sponsored by the Brown Lecture Board, Monday evening. The excitement and emotion of her words hung in the air. Davis’s speech elicited laughter, cheers, applause, snaps, murmurs of assent and three standing ovations. Over ...
This story is the second in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown. A crowd of anti-regime protesters started to gather around the Sunni Al-Fawaz Mosque in Al-Raqqah, Syria. Yazen Alani ’18 watched from his bedroom window as the group swelled. Years before, his great-grandfather ...
The John Hay Library is displaying a pair of slave shackles, on loan from the International Slavery Museum, in a glass case at the entrance of the first-floor reading room. The iron shackles are a type that were used on board slave ships during the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the west ...
Neuroscience concentrator Pu-Ning Chiang ’16 is one of the 182 international students in her class year. Hailing from Taiwan, Chiang will rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s Optional Practical Training program to continue living in the United States legally following her graduation in ...
On Feb. 18, Erika Edwards, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest award for engineers and scientists in the early stages of their independent research careers. Edwards was acknowledged ...
When temperatures dipped to -9 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this month, the Department of Facilities Management responded to 40 student calls of cold rooms and broken heaters, said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management. Facilities Management, anticipating the freeze, tripled its weekend ...
The Mental Health Community Council and Title IX Oversight and Advisory Board will debut a pilot program for research funding this semester. Students serving on those committees will receive an hourly wage for committee-related projects. Members of the MHCC and Title IX OAB will be given the opportunity ...
After an initial vote to evict the Environmental Program House from one of its two locations, North House at 111 Brown Street, the Residential Council decided to allow the EPH to stay for one year, wrote Chair of the Residential Council Sam Rubinstein ’17 in an email to The Herald. The original decision ...
Kenneth Miller '70 P'02, professor of biology, spoke at the Feb. 13 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., where he reviewed the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover case, in which he testified as an expert witness. The historic ruling condemns the teaching ...
Last week’s low temperatures and snowfall brought new challenges to Facilities Management and University Transportation. While the University closed Feb. 8 and students did not attend class, staff members and administrators came in to clear the snow and maintain University operations despite the cold. ...
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