A special House commission held its first meeting to discuss the issue of sexual assault on college campuses in Rhode Island Sept. 28. The 13-member commission elected Rep. Mia Ackerman, D-Cumberland and Lincoln, as its chairwoman and Rep. Christopher Blazejewski, D-Providence, as its vice chairman. Ackerman ...
Georges St. Laurent III GS died Friday in Miami, Florida, announced Jack Elias, dean of medicine and biological sciences, and Peter Weber, dean of the Graduate School, in a campus-wide email Monday. A Ph.D. candidate in the molecular and cellular biology and biochemistry program, St. Laurent was preparing ...
Rep. Raymond Gallison, Jr., D-Bristol and Portsmouth, plans to reintroduce legislation to regulate drones in November, according to a Sept. 18 General Assembly press release. The bill would protect the privacy and safety of the general public by requiring aircraft to be registered with the Department ...
Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program’s benefits will have their food stamps matched one-for-one by a grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture, allowing them to buy more fresh fruits and vegetables at “Food on the Move” mobile produce markets, said Gemma Gorham, director ...
The First Generation Low Income Partnership library, which launched at the beginning of the semester, aims to make textbooks accessible to those who are unable afford the cost of books, said coordinators Jonathan Jaramillo ’18 and Kevin Melendez ’16. The library, located in the Sorensen Family Reading ...
Brown students can now add a new friend on Snapchat: the University. The Office of Communications introduced its own Snapchat account last month, giving current students, prospective students and alums a firsthand glimpse of life at Brown in micro-video form. “Historically, user-generated video has ...
Updated Sept. 30 at 3:40 p.m. The University has revoked Bill Cosby’s honorary degree, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a community-wide email Monday night. He was awarded the degree in 1985. The Corporation’s Board of Fellows decided to revoke the degree following sexual assault allegations ...
Updated September, 29, 2015 at 12:15 AM In a partnership with the Hasbro Children’s Hospital and the Women and Infants Hospital of Rhode Island, the University will establish a new institute to advance children’s health, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced Monday at a joint press conference ...
When Gregory Pennisten coated the facade of 29 Manning Walk with bright graffiti Friday, he didn’t have to work under cover of night or worry about University backlash. In fact, the local artist was invited in to help publicly commemorate the relocation of the Department of Urban Studies. Surrounded ...
The former Periodicals Reading Room in the Rockefeller Library is being renovated to become a new facility that will feature space for collaboration and an audio and video production space, wrote University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi in an email to The Herald. The renovation is part of a larger plan ...
In spite of G.O.P. presidential candidates and congressional bills threatening Planned Parenthood funding, Center for Reproductive Rights President and CEO Nancy Northup ’81 P’16 is working to ensure reproductive rights are not up for debate. Reproductive rights have emerged as a politically divisive ...
Students seeking to master Adobe Photoshop or learn Java basics have a new resource at their fingertips. Two hundred sixty-one Brown community members have earned certificates on Lynda.com — a site that provides video tutorials on thousands of programs — since the University began offering free ...
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 ...
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