A task force will convene next semester to consider the implementation of a January academic term at the University, said Provost Vicki Colvin at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Faculty members and administrators also discussed a new U.S. Navy ROTC partnership, a faculty motion on free speech and the merging ...
A national search is underway for an additional health careers adviser, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. The University currently does not employ an adviser solely for students interested in health careers — George Vassilev, assistant dean of the College and director of pre-professional advising, ...
December 2, 1898 A “college athlete” penned a column concerning “the great growth of interest” in football since its inauguration in the United States. As of the close of the 1897 football season, between 25,000 and 30,000 people played football in the country, the athlete wrote, adding that ...
In an effort to increase interaction between students and the administration, President Christina Paxson is preparing to hold virtual office hours next semester. The virtual access will provide an additional opportunity for “students to engage with President Paxson using a different platform,” said ...
Around 200 community members gathered on the Main Green Monday for a “die-in” protest in response to a grand jury’s decision last week not to indict police officer Darren Wilson, who shot and killed Michael Brown Aug. 9 in Ferguson, Missouri. Alpha Phi Alpha, a historically black fraternity, also ...
Mayor-elect Jorge Elorza sat on stage with crossed legs for just under two hours at the One Providence Listening Forum Monday at Nathan Bishop Middle School, taking note of Providence residents’ concerns on a range of topics including education, public safety, housing and transportation.
Despite cold and rainy weather, more than 100 community members gathered Monday night at Burnside Park in downtown Providence to join a nationwide movement protesting police violence. The event, advertised on Facebook as a “March Against Police Violence in Solidarity with Ferguson and Mexico,” ...
After almost five months of construction, the redesign of Kennedy Plaza is coming to a close. The $2.4 million renovation — funded by the Rhode Island Public Transit Authority and city bond money — is estimated to be completed by the end of December, said Robert Azar, Providence director of current ...
Fevers, runny noses, body aches, coughing classmates — these are all signs of the flu season descending on the country. In Rhode Island, health officials are taking measures to provide last-minute vaccinations. As of the latest update from the state Nov. 22, there was no reported influenza activity ...
SDSU Greek life social events suspended after sexual harassment reports Greek life leaders announced Tuesday that 14 fraternities and sororities at San Diego State University have voluntarily suspended social events until their members complete a training program to prevent sexual assault, U-T San ...
When Evan Stites-Clayton ’11, Walker Williams ’11 and Anthony Staehelin ’10 founded the custom apparel company Teespring, they never thought they would receive $35 million in venture capital and find themselves at the helm of a successful startup. Teespring recently gained this new funding in ...
As the international community grapples with the Ebola epidemic in West Africa, 50 community members from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design have partnered to design safety equipment that protects workers treating the disease. Students, professors and alums from both schools came together ...
About 100 Brown community members gathered Friday to commemorate the life of Marjorie Thompson ’74 PhD’79 P’02 P’07 P’09 P’12 P’14 P’16, late associate dean of biological sciences, at a public memorial service in the First Unitarian Church of Providence. The service drew a crowd of ...
Documents unsealed by a R.I. Superior Court judge last week reveal new details about a case between a Providence College student and the two Brown undergraduates that she alleges sexually assaulted her last fall. Judge Alice Gibney allowed the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office to release dozens ...
Two undergraduates and one recent alum were awarded the prestigious Rhodes Scholarships Saturday, marking only the second year since 1970 that more than one Brown applicant was chosen and the second year ever with more than two. David Adler ’14, Abi Kulshreshtha ’15 and Kate Nussenbaum ’15 are ...
“Contemplative studies satisfies an urge that everyone has — to investigate what it means to be experiencing, to be alive,” said Henry Langton ’16, one of the first Brown students who will officially concentrate in the new degree. The College Curriculum Council approved the concentration in ...
David Greer, former dean of medicine at Alpert Medical School who co-founded an anti-nuclear organization that received the 1985 Nobel Peace Prize, died Nov. 18 at his home in Fall River, Massachusetts, at the age of 89. Throughout his tenure as dean of medicine from 1981 to 1992, Greer introduced ...
A sprinkler head that was broken on the fourth floor of Chapin House Saturday night resulted in some flooding and subsequent water damage, said Richard Hilton, associate director of residential life. No students were injured, and Facilities Management, aided by a private contractor, is working on cleaning ...
Tara Torabi ’15 was named one of 12 recipients nationwide of the George J. Mitchell Scholarship, a competitive fellowship that offers one year of graduate study in Ireland, this weekend. Torabi, a neuroscience concentrator originally from Granville, Ohio, who now resides in Sedona, Arizona, said ...
Updated Monday, Nov. 24 at 2:41 a.m. Michael Steinberg, director of the Cogut Center for the Humanities and professor of history, will become the University’s first vice provost for the arts starting Jan. 1, Provost Vicki Colvin announced in a community-wide email late Friday afternoon. The mid-year ...
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