Enrollment in Judaic studies courses reached 199 students last year, compared with 160 students in the 2013-14 academic year and 280 students in the 2007-08 academic year., continuing a decade-long trend of fluctuation. The department currently has three concentrators, said Adam Teller, associate professor ...
While President Christina Paxson’s P’19 operational plan elaborates on a previously discussed intention to update the Sharpe Refectory, students should not expect construction to begin in the next year. The building was constructed in 1950, and the infrastructure has never been updated. The planned ...
Brown attendees who received federal financial aid have the lowest median earnings in the Ivy League 10 years after entering the University, and female Brown attendees make almost $20,000 less on average than their male counterparts, according to College Scorecard. College Scorecard, a new federal ...
Stuck at home plate, for now The proposal to build a new stadium for the Pawtucket Red Sox baseball team on I-195 land in Providence is officially dead. “This particular parcel of land had a series of challenges that we weren’t going to get through, and it was time to move on,” Gov. Gina Raimondo ...
The Office of the Dean of the Faculty has reduced the temporary teaching budget by $450,000 this fiscal year as part of the University’s efforts to reduce the structural deficit. The cuts to temporary teaching funds bring the Dean of the Faculty budget almost halfway to its $1 million reduction goal, ...
Issues related to the University’s updated Title IX policy, including the designation of “responsible employees” and the complaint process, surfaced as major topics of discussion at an open forum hosted by the Undergraduate Council of Students Wednesday. The open forum came on the heels of the ...
Yuri Tomikawa ’12 launched a new website this fall that aims to help students find local therapists and obtain long-term mental health care, she said. The launch of the website, Zencare.co, follows significant criticism of the seven-session limit for therapy at Counseling and Psychological Services. ...
More than 200 students obtained internships this summer through BrownConnect, the internship and networking site launched last year, according to a survey by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown. This marks a significant increase from the 90 hires that occurred during BrownConnect’s pilot phase ...
Students enrolled in some history courses this semester have found their professors using a surprising teaching technique — role-playing — as a means of engaging them in the material. Three history professors have incorporated Reacting to the Past, a role-playing game that originated at Barnard ...
A new pop-up inside the Brown Bookstore, Brown Shops Local, was launched earlier this month. The shop sells products ranging from jewlery to tote bags to greeting cards, all created by local artists. Situated next to the seating area of Blue State Coffee, the shop’s merchandise reflects themes such ...
Art installation’s ‘White Only’ and ‘Black Only’ signs ignite debate at SUNY Buffalo Graduate student Ashley Powell hung “White Only” and “Black Only” signs around bathrooms at the State University of New York at Buffalo Sept. 16, in what she later called an art piece intended to “expose ...
After getting their hands dirty juicing hundreds of pounds of ginger root, Max Easton ’16 and Nico Enriquez ’16 can now see their product — Farmer Willie’s Alcoholic Ginger Beer — at 40 retail locations on Cape Cod. Enriquez, a former Herald opinions columnist, and Easton used seed money from ...
Students have just one week left to decide on a meal plan before the Sept. 30 deadline for changing or canceling a meal plan. The eight primary meal plans — three “flex” varieties, four fixed meal varieties and an off-campus plan — are priced differently and offer dramatically different values. The ...
WaterFire organizers are facing an urgent need to refurbish the Providence River to ensure the popular event’s longevity, but financial limitations are preventing restorative action. “After 25 years of use and success there is now understandably a need to return our attention back to the river ...
“Black Lives Matter is not the substance of what we’re working for or arguing, it’s an assertion,” said Corey Walker, dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Winston-Salem State University and former associate professor and chair of the department of Africana studies at Brown, during a panel ...
Twenty-five percent of undergraduate women reported having experienced sexual assault — attempted or completed non-consensual penetration or non-consensual sexual touching by force or incapacitation — since enrolling at Brown, compared to a national average of 23 percent, according to a report released ...
It has been nearly a year since the date-rape drug and sexual assault cases following a party at the former Phi Kappa Psi fraternity ignited a campus-wide conversation on the University’s perceived mishandling of sexual misconduct cases. It has been six months since Act4RJ — a student organization ...
Mayor Jorge Elorza signed an ordinance into law Sept. 18 that limits the number of students allowed to live in single-family homes in R-1 and R-1A zones to three, wrote Emily Crowell, deputy director of communications for the mayor, in an email to The Herald. R-1 and R-1A zones include single-family ...
The University will spend more than $1 billion over the next decade on investments in people as it pursues the “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence,” said President Christina Paxson P’19 at an open forum Monday afternoon. The plan “focuses on investing in the people who make ...
In the first meeting of ECON 1530: “Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries” on Sept. 9, Professor of Economics Andrew Foster gave students access to all University course evaluations from the previous year to help them decide whether to take the course. For students trying to ...
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