The University will kickstart an 11-week composting pilot program at Andrews Commons Tuesday, prefacing a collaborative effort by the Office of Energy and Environment, Brown University Dining Services and the Department of Facilities Management to bring mandatory composting to every dining hall by ...
Freezing cold temperatures and large accumulations of snow this semester have affected a number of University buildings, including Graduate Center E, Diman House and T.F. Green — the building that houses the Production Workshop. In January alone there were 110 snow-related issues reported to the Department ...
This series explores the racial dynamics of Rhode Island’s school-to-prison pipeline. This story, the second of three, examines disproportionate juvenile detention rates that black and Hispanic students encounter. Black males in Rhode Island were 9.3 times as likely to end up in juvenile detention ...
“You could reasonably have different views on the subject of inequality,” said Harvard Professor of Economics Raj Chetty in a lecture and panel discussion featuring his work Monday. The event — titled “Equality of Opportunity in America: Where Shall We Look?” — was part of an economics symposium ...
A meningitis study will take place on campus March 2-5, Medical Director of Health Services Unab Khan announced in a campus-wide email Feb. 27. Representatives from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Rhode Island Department of Public Health will swab students’ throats to test for ...
An unknown male opened the drivers’ door of a student’s car and displayed a firearm at about 9:40 p.m. March 1, according to a crime alert sent by the Department of Public Safety. The victim drove away unharmed, the email reported. The student was parked on Angell Street between Thayer Street and ...
“What is to be done to slay the dragon of modern racism?” asked Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, professor of sociology at Duke University and one of the many academics who spoke Friday at “Race Today: A Symposium on Race in America.” The event, organized by the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity ...
Two hundred fifty first-generation college students and 50 university administrators arrived on College Hill Friday for the first 1vyG Conference. The co-founders of 1vyG — a student group working to improve the college experience for first-generation students — shaped the weekend-long symposium ...
Swearer Sparks, a student-run website that shares stories about social innovation in the Brown community and beyond, was formally recognized with the Ashoka U-Cordes Innovation Award at a conference Saturday. Alex Braunstein, communications and outreach manager at the Swearer Center for Public Service ...
Though the Ocean State’s homeless population decreased nearly 10 percent in the last year, government and community organizations continue to make efforts to ease the burden faced by the approximately 4,000 people who still have no place to live. Rhode Island’s homeless population shrank by 8.5 ...
David Ellerbe, a Brown Dining Services staff member of 18 years, died Feb. 8. Ellerbe, a food service worker, was 57. President Christina Paxson P’19 notified the Brown community of Ellerbe’s death in an email yesterday. Ellerbe began working full-time at Brown in 1996, spending most of his time ...
The University’s public policy program will expand to include two new graduate dual-degree programs and a restructured undergraduate concentration, following the merger of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions and the Watson Institute for International Studies, said James ...
This series will explore the racial dynamics of Rhode Island’s school-to-prison pipeline. This story, the first of three, will look at the racial disparities present in the disciplinary decisions of R.I. public schools. Stumbling late into class and hurriedly sliding into her seat, the high school ...
HIV transmission bill faces backlash The House heard discussion Tuesday on a bill that would criminalize sexual activity, blood donation and the sharing of needles by those who knowingly are infected with HIV. The bill also prohibits individuals with an HIV infection from engaging in the already-illegal ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will facilitate a virtual question-and-answer session Friday with President Christina Paxson P’19 for the first time, UCS leaders said at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday. The session will take place at 2:30 p.m. through the UCS Facebook page, said UCS Media ...
Provost Vicki Colvin is leading the charge toward a digitalized educational experience at Brown, focusing on flipped classrooms and online courses as ways of realizing a major initiative in President Christina Paxson’s P’19 strategic plan. Colvin said she will reach out to faculty members in March ...
Podophilia, or foot fetishism, is the most common type of fetish. This was the first of many sex-related facts presented at a BDSM workshop Wednesday hosted by the Sexual Health Awareness Group in the Underground. Facilitated by SHAG members including Kayla Tyrrell ’15 and Deborah Pomeranz ’18, ...
Two bills introduced this month in the state legislature call for substantial changes to wage minimums. One bill would hike the state minimum wage from $9.00 to $10.10, while another would gradually increase the subminimum wage for tipped workers to equal the regular minimum wage by 2020. If passed, ...
Two professors at the Alpert Medical School were ranked in the top 10 percent of reviewers for the journal Obstetrics and Gynecology, according to a Feb. 24 press release from Women and Infants Hospital. Rebecca Allen and Brenna Hughes, professors of obstetrics and gynecology, were recognized for their ...
Drug overdoses at Wesleyan put 12 in hospital A surge of apparent overdoses on the drug Molly swept across Wesleyan University’s campus Sunday, with ten students and two guests being hospitalized, the Wesleyan Argus reported. Five students were still being treated at Hartford Hospital and Middlesex ...
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