The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, in collaboration with several other campus divisions, brought two distinguished alums to campus this week whose spiritual identities have shaped their careers. During the three-day “With Usefulness and Reputation” residency, the guests were honored ...
The Providence Board of Licenses met Monday to discuss the fate of El Tiburon, a sports bar that closed after an Oct. 17 shooting there injured three people. At the meeting, officials looked at crime scene photos of the incident. The suspect, Michael Stokes, is still at large. The board did not make ...
Male professors at Brown were paid on average $14,841 more than their female counterparts in the 2013-2014 academic year, according to aggregated data recently released by the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is “not incorrect to say that there is a gender gap,” said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin ...
Next spring, the Rockefeller Library will undergo a renovation to add a graduate student study center, said University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi. The addition marks a change from the past 10 years, during which the libraries have undergone nearly a dozen renovations focused exclusively on undergraduate ...
Marginalized people such as the homeless, child evangelists and sex offenders have interesting stories to tell, said New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv ’04 at a lecture Wednesday evening. Her talk, which was part of the “Great Brown Nonfiction Writer’s Lecture Series,” surveyed her experiences as ...
In an effort to curb illegal trash dumping — a crime that costs the city around $300,000 a year — Providence installed eight security cameras throughout the city this fall. “Almost as soon as they went up,” the cameras were “remarkably effective in preventing the dumping,” said Evan England, ...
Murals celebrate color, cleanliness On Kinsley Street in Providence, students of the MET — a network of six small public high schools in Providence and Newport — are painting storm drains to raise awareness of the importance of maintaining the cleanliness of the Woonasquatucket River into which ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students reviewed its progress on the campus life and curricular improvements portion of its strategic plan at its general body meeting Wednesday. The discussion served as the first of three opportunities for UCS general body members to provide feedback on the council’s ...
Costumes and cultural appropriation
Political posturing is responsible for the Syrian refugee crisis, said Stephen Kinzer, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs, beginning a discussion of the crisis with an overview of the tensions that led to the international sociopolitical turmoil. The hour-long ...
Updated Nov. 4, 2015 at 2:16 p.m. The campus climate around freedom of speech featured prominently in remarks from both President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’17 at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Paxson underscored Brown’s complementary roles as a place of open inquiry and an ...
The University filed an amicus brief along with 12 other schools Monday in support of the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its admission decisions, which is to be challenged in an upcoming Supreme Court case. Oral arguments for the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, are ...
Steven Brown, executive director of the Rhode Island chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote a letter to the Pawtucket School District urging it to reconsider the presence of school resource officers in its schools, as well as the current Memorandum of Understanding between the school district ...
Innovate Winter Break, a program offering a two-week internship for students interested in working with social enterprises and nonprofit organizations, will expand this year to include opportunities in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. This year, about 60 employers — including ...
The student group First-Gens@Brown will release a guidebook by the end of winter break aimed at helping first-generation students navigate some challenges of college. “We wanted to support all first-gen college students on campus,” said Brandon Le ’18, a leader of the project. Manuel Contreras ...
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has received a $50 million gift from three donors, the University announced Monday evening. The joint gift, which is part of the BrownTogether comprehensive campaign’s $3 billion early fundraising efforts, was awarded by Chancellor Thomas Tisch ...
The Department of Middle East Studies has introduced a new postdoctoral fellowship in Palestinian Studies as part of the new initiative “New Directions in Palestinian Studies.” The initiative seeks to “take stock of the scholarship produced on the Palestinians over the past generation,” said ...
With municipal elections Tuesday and the race for the Democratic and Republican presidential nominations gaining steam with a series of debates in recent weeks, faculty members in public policy weighed in on this year’s election cycle. There are three candidates seeking the Democratic nomination and ...
Amazon.com, Inc. is building a 1 million-square-foot fulfillment center in Fall River, Massachusetts, that will open in roughly one year. Workers broke ground on the center — which will receive, process and fill incoming orders from Amazon — on Oct. 19. Amazon hopes to accomplish as much construction ...
As part of a statewide economic development strategy, Gov. Gina Raimondo and the Rhode Island Commerce Corporation launched a website specifically aimed at empowering Latino entrepreneurs, according to an October press release. The website features a resource directory with information on Latino-run ...
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