Anthony Davids ’49, professor emeritus of psychology, died Tuesday morning, according to an email sent out to the Department of Cognitive, Linguistic and Psychological Sciences listserv by department chair William Heindel. Davids first came to Brown as an undergraduate in the fall of 1946, according ...
U. of Illinois dismisses professor over tweets The trustees of the University of Illinois voted last week to withdraw an offer of a tenured position to a Palestinian-American professor after reviewing his tweets about Gaza this summer, the New York Times reported Friday. Prior to the vote, a petition ...
Though the University and the U.S. Naval War College are only a 40-minute drive apart, the two institutions have had minimal interaction in the past. But on June 6, President Christina Paxson and former President of the Naval War College Walter Carter Jr. signed an agreement to collaborate on research ...
“Our beginnings have already been established, but our ends are nowhere in sight,” voiced performers from the College and Community Fellowship’s Theater for Social Change in a call for prison inmates to gain greater access to education at a symposium Tuesday. Addressing the cycles of incarceration, ...
The University will offer two massive open online courses through Coursera this semester: “The Fiction of Relationship,” taught by Arnold Weinstein, professor of comparative literature, and “Exploring Neural Data,” taught by Monica Linden and David Sheinberg, lecturer and professor of neuroscience, ...
Updated Tuesday, Sept. 16 at 10:50 p.m. Marjorie Thompson ’74 PhD’79 P’02 P’07 P’09 P’12 P’14 P’16, associate dean of biological sciences, died Monday afternoon while on leave from the University this semester, said Katherine Smith, who was appointed interim associate dean of biological ...
William Deresiewicz, a writer and former Yale professor, visited Brown Monday to promote his new book, “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life.” He sat down with The Herald to discuss his book and the surrounding controversy. So you went ...
As the semester kicks off, the University is promoting “Transformative Conversations@Brown,” a project launched by administrators in February and sponsored by the Office of Institutional Diversity. The project “strives to provide opportunities and spaces to engage respectfully and thoughtfully ...
The Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions will become a part of the Watson Institute for International Studies, administrators announced Monday. The integration of the two institutions will not take place immediately, but administrators and faculty members affiliated with each ...
The start of the semester inherently brings about changes: new roomates, new classes and new activities. Perhaps most important to students — a group infamous for thinking with their stomachs — are the new offerings in dining halls and eateries brought about due to student demand and the creative ...
A career fair hosted Wednesday by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown will bring over 90 employers to campus, while the Department of Computer Science has partnered with CareerLAB to host a separate technology career fair Tuesday. The stand-alone technology session marks the first time CareerLAB ...
Yolanda Rome assumed the role of assistant dean of the College for first-year and sophomore studies last Thursday. She is replacing Ann Gaylin, former associate dean of the College for first-year and sophomore studies, who left Brown Aug. 1 to become associate dean of undergraduate education for academic ...
Writer William Deresiewicz stoked controversy with his criticisms of elite education published in his book “Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life” and excerpted in the New Republic under the title “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League” this ...
Rhode Island will expand its vaccination requirements for students and child care workers beginning next August, though the changes will likely not affect Brown students, since Health Services’ current standards already meet the state’s new criteria. Rhode Island children will be affected by the ...
Students from Brown and the Rhode Island School of Design came together with Providence community members Friday to protest police mistreatment of people of color. Student leaders unanimously declared the demonstration a success, with over 100 people showing up to protest at Market Square — a location ...
A group of national and state politicians, bureaucrats, business leaders and community members gathered in the State Room at the Rhode Island Statehouse Friday afternoon to celebrate the press launch of the Rhode Island Alliance for Healthy Homes, a partnership of local agencies and organizations that ...
In a ceremonial groundbreaking Friday, the Smith Hill Community Development Corporation and Sojourner House unveiled a plan for Rhode Island’s first supportive housing project for domestic abuse survivors. The pilot program will house three families and is intended to be the first of many such ...
“There are still tons of questions” regarding sexual violence in the context of civil war, said Dara Kay Cohen ’01, assistant professor of public policy at Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, during a lecture at the Watson Institute for International Studies Thursday evening. The ...
Before arriving at the University, Stephen Kinzer, visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, worked as a foreign correspondent for the New York Times, reporting from more than 50 countries on five continents. Fresh off a book tour for his latest work, “The Brothers,” a biography ...
As summer fades into fall, the reconstruction of Kennedy Plaza — which began July 12 and necessitated route detours and temporary bus shelters — is continuing according to plan. The redesign, which is set to be completed this fall, is a collaborative effort between the Rhode Island Public Transit ...
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