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Dean Peter Weber to step down

Updated Jan. 15 at 10:30 a.m. Graduate School Dean Peter Weber will step down from his administrative position and return to teach full-time within the Department of Chemistry, wrote Provost Richard Locke in a community-wide email Wednesday. Weber, who has taught at the University since 1989, began ...


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Gleason leaves legacy of wisdom, trail of paint

Updated Jan. 21 at 10:45 a.m.  Abbott “Tom” Gleason, professor emeritus of history and Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs faculty member, is remembered by friends and colleagues as a man of many talents who touched the lives of countless colleagues and students. The definition ...


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Retired history professor Tom Gleason dies

Updated 12:15 a.m. on Dec. 31. Abbott “Tom” Gleason, professor emeritus of history and faculty member at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, died Friday, President Christina Paxson P’19 wrote in a campus-wide email Saturday. Gleason, who began his “long and productive” ...


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Brown admits 22 percent of early applicants

Updated Dec. 10 at 9:15 p.m. The University admitted 22 percent of its early decision applicants to the class of 2020, marking the largest early decision class — 669 students — in recent years, said Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73. “The pool is getting stronger,” Miller said. “We have ...


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Title IX board to issue progress report

Updated Dec. 10 at 9:20 p.m. The Title IX Oversight Board will focus on reforming orientation programming, drug services related to sexual assault and the complaint process for faculty and staff among other projects in the coming semester, according to a community notification released Wednesday afternoon. The ...


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Over 10 percent of students have been cheated on, poll reveals

Approximately 8 percent of undergraduates have cheated on a significant other, and about 13 percent have been cheated on by a significant other, according to a poll conducted by The Herald last month. Keiner Oliveira ’19, who has been cheated on, said he believes students who cheat on their significant ...


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Students of color release diversity demands

Students of color gathered outside President Christina Paxson’s P’19 office Thursday to serve as “diversity consultants” for the University after the release of a draft of the diversity and inclusion action plan Nov. 19. As part of the “Day of Reclamation,” they developed a list of demands ...


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Brown lacks resources, faculty in African studies

While many European and Asian countries take space in the University’s academic spotlight, a gap remains in students’ academic access to the world’s second largest continent: Africa. With the revamping of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, the University is looking to become ...


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Sanders’ supporters nearly double Clinton’s

As candidates for the 2016 presidential election debate and campaign for the nominations in their respective parties, Brown students remain strong supporters of Democratic candidates Sen. Bernie Sanders and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, according a poll conducted by The Herald last month. About ...


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New bus service offers weekend alternative to Uber, RIPTA

The Official Providence Party Bus — a bus service that aims to provide an alternative to transportation staples such as Uber and the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority — opened for business last week, said OPPB owner Kristina Grande. The bus has a route and a fare that distinguish it from other ...


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Brown kicks off structural racism lecture series

Tricia Rose MA’87 PhD’93, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and professor of Africana studies, delivered the opening presentation of a series of lectures and workshops titled “How Structural Racism Works” Wednesday evening. The series comes out of Rose’s ...


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Brown requests dismissal of gender bias hearing

The University asked a judge to dismiss a hearing brought by a former member of the class of 2017 who believes he was discriminated against due to his gender in a sexual misconduct case heard by the Student Conduct Board in fall 2014, according to a University press release Tuesday. The University argued ...




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