President Christina Paxson announced at a faculty meeting Tuesday that she aims to double the percentage of underrepresented minority faculty members within the next decade. Faculty members and administrators discussed faculty diversity at length during the meeting while also touching briefly upon ...
Attorney General Democratic incumbent Attorney General Peter Kilmartin won his reelection bid by more than 13 percentage points against his Republican challenger, two-term state Sen. Dawson Hodgson, R-R-East Greenwich, North Kingstown, South Kingstown and Narragansett. Kilmartin, a former Pawtucket ...
Davida Ross-Coulibaly, information and services specialist for the Office of Financial Aid, died Thursday, President Christina Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Tuesday. Ross-Coulibaly offered “guidance and common sense advice with warmth, humor and wisdom,” Paxson wrote, adding that her colleagues ...
Updated Nov. 5 at 2:45 a.m. In a tight race, Democrat Gina Raimondo beat out Republican Allan Fung and Moderate Robert Healey in Rhode Island’s gubernatorial race, making her the state’s first woman elected governor and the first Democrat elected to the seat since 1992. Raimondo, the state’s ...
Updated Nov. 5 at 2:45 a.m. The votes are in, the polls are closed and the city will be under the leadership of Mayor-elect Jorge Elorza beginning in January. After garnering 53.3 percent of the vote, Elorza, the Democratic nominee and a former housing court judge, will succeed Mayor Angel Taveras, ...
Get to the “turf,” whether through a walk to Wickenden, an Uber downtown or a trek to Bristol. Find the first target and walk up the drive. Knock. Probably no response — not home or not interested. Next target. Knock. This one establishes contact — immediately bringing the point-blank question, ...
Newport voters once again rejected the addition of table games to the Newport Grand casino by voting 57 percent to 43 percent to reject Question 1 on the ballot Tuesday, though statewide voters approved the measure by nearly the same margin. The measure could only pass if it was supported by a majority ...
Incumbents in the three seats in Rhode Island’s congressional delegation that were up for election Tuesday all handily won reelection. U.S. Sen. Jack Reed, D-R.I., U.S. Rep. David Cicilline ’83, D-R.I., and U.S. Rep. Jim Langevin, D-R.I., three of the four members of the state’s delegation, all ...
Today is Election Day, marking the end to an election season in Rhode Island that was full of memorable candidates, contentious debates, surprising endorsements and visits from national politicians. The gubernatorial election will result in either the state’s first non-white or non-male governor. ...
Today Rhode Island voters will head to the voting booths, where they will decide seven ballot measures — two constitutional amendments, one automatic ballot referral and four bond issues. Questions 1 and 2 The ballot’s first two questions will determine the future of gambling in Rhode ...
Yale School of Medicine faces criticism over sexual harassment case handling Faculty members at the Yale School of Medicine have voiced concern over the school’s handling of a sexual harassment allegation, the New York Times reported Saturday. The university announced last week that Michael Simons, ...
Updated Tuesday, Nov. 4 at 11:55 p.m. The University’s efforts to better comply with the federal Title IX act have been delayed, as the deadlines for a final report from the Task Force on Sexual Assault and the addition of a Title IX Program Officer have been extended. The task force, charged with ...
Before most Rhode Islanders reach for their morning coffee today, poll workers across the state will have begun feeding ballots into voting machines, which they will continue to do throughout the day, watching the number of votes cast tick upward in what could become a critical election year. These ...
President Obama emphasized the need for an economy that encourages more women to be active in the workforce during a speech at Rhode Island College Oct. 31. More than 1,000 attendees turned out to hear his pitch on behalf of Democratic gubernatorial nominee and General Treasurer Gina Raimondo. Obama ...
When Caitlin Trujillo ’12 disagreed with the way Kansas legislators were handling issues of concern to constituents, she knew she wanted to take matters into her own hands. Lawmakers “were advancing legislation that I felt was detrimental to the state of Kansas and overlooking issues that we really ...
The Jewelry District’s South Street Power Station, commonly known as the Dynamo House, will undergo an extensive renovation starting in December or January, the Corporation announced following its October meeting. In the following weeks, the University will sign a lease with private developer Commonwealth ...
Brown community members who seek to access material from libraries at peer institutions now have that ability, following the launch of the BorrowDirect Plus initiative last month. An extension of the BorrowDirect program, the new initiative allows Brown students, faculty and staff to borrow items ...
Hundreds of eyes in the Juanita Sanchez Educational Complex gymnasium in Providence turned toward the podium, where First Lady Michelle Obama spoke in support of gubernatorial Democratic nominee Gina Raimondo Thursday afternoon. With the race for governor entering the final sprint, the entire Rhode ...
As he trekked mountains in northern Vermont with his family 27 years ago, John Reckner chanced upon a bright idea. The brilliant display of hundreds of jack-o-lanterns set up along the mountainside was “impressive,” he remembered, and inspired him to create his own version of the jack-o-lantern ...
About 43 percent of the student body has received University-provided flu shots this year, said Unab Khan, medical director of Health Services, and no cases of the flu have been confirmed so far on campus. Over the last three weeks, Health Services provided free flu-shot clinics at the Stephen Robert ...
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