Students filled Salomon 001 to hear seven undergraduates give their “ideas worth spreading” at the TEDxBrownU conference Saturday. Gaining the Student Activities Office’s approval as an official student group this year has allowed TEDxBrownU to “solidify our own identity,” said Emma Milward ...
While many Brown students enjoyed a stereotypical sun-soaked spring break, 10 undergraduate and graduate students spent a week centered on the theme of “comparative modernism” in Berlin hosted by the Cogut Center for the Humanities. Led by Michael Steinberg, director of the Cogut Center and professor ...
Candidates for leadership positions on the Undergraduate Council of Students and the Undergraduate Finance Board used Thursday night’s debate to push their platforms and address a host of issues, such as the role of student government, mental health resources and adding a student representative to ...
Ninety Alpert Medical School fourth-year students opened letters containing “the culmination of years of hard work” the day before spring break, in a shower of giant red and white balloons, said Katrina Chu MD’14. On Match Day, held this year on March 21, medical students nationwide discover ...
For a man who once commanded the second-most profitable drug empire in American history, “Freeway” Rick Ross is disarmingly humble in appearance and manner. His blue sweatshirt, loose black jeans, genuine smile and 5’6” stature belie his past as the self-described “dictator” of a trafficking ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students passed a resolution in support of Brown Divest Coal, urging the University to divest its endowment from major coal and fossil fuel investments, at its general body meeting Wednesday. Divest Coal members originally presented the resolution to the Council before spring ...
About 7,000 Rhode Island students have participated in the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — a test slated to replace the New England Common Assessment Program evaluations as the official state assessment for grades three to 10 in Rhode Island next year — said ...
One week after the election of Nicholas Mattiello, D-Providence, as the new speaker of the House and the subsequent changes in leadership in the General Assembly, legislators proposed and considered bills on health insurance coverage for opiate addiction, the expansion of access to higher education ...
As Sgt. Benjamin Anthony of the Israel Defense Forces prepared to speak to an audience of around 40 invited students at Brown/RISD Hillel Wednesday night, about 70 students outside protested both his presence on campus and the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The protesters organized ...
Though the economy’s slow recovery is making it harder for students to land jobs, many sophomores rushing to declare their concentrations before Tuesday’s deadline were pursuing their passions without worrying about getting hired, according to the results of a Herald poll conducted March 3-4. Approximately ...
Students can look forward to late-night hours and a “secret menu” under Mama Kim’s Korean BBQ’s new leadership. Originally run and owned by Sook Kim P’01 and Hyun Kim ’01, the popular Thayer Street food truck was recently sold to the business’ sous chef, Don Fecher. The eatery caters ...
Faculty members unanimously passed a motion to rename the Department of Geological Sciences the Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Faculty members and administrators also voted to rename the Department of Slavic Languages, adopt the new title “professor ...
The race for president of the Undergraduate Council of Students will be a three-way contest between Asia Nelson ’15, Maahika Srinivasan ’15 and Jonathan Vu ’15, while the race for UCS vice president will feature Alex Drechsler ’15 and Sazzy Gourley ’16. After gathering signatures this week, ...
Wisconsin university bans student classroom videos The University of Wisconsin-Whitewater is expected to issue a policy this week banning students from recording and distributing footage of university classrooms, the Chronicle of Higher Education reported Friday. First-year student Kyle Brooks posted ...
Around 54 percent of students applying to be first-time Meiklejohn peer advisors were accepted into the program for the 2014-15 academic year, said Kayla Rosen ’14, a Meiklejohn Leadership Committee member, adding that this marks the lowest acceptance rate in years for which data is available. Approximately ...
The United States and Russia have “entered a new Cold War,” announced Robert Legvold, professor emeritus in the department of political science at Columbia, in a lecture Monday to an audience of approximately 50 students, faculty members and community members in the Watson Institute’s Joukowsky ...
Rhode Island enrolled roughly 20,000 individuals through its state insurance exchange, HealthSource R.I., as of midday Monday, the Providence Journal reported. Monday was the final day of the open enrollment period in Rhode Island, which did not extend its deadline as the federal government has done. Rhode ...
Providence will reapply for a federal grant by the end of this month to partially fund a streetcar starter line running between Upper South Providence and College Hill. The city applied for the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery discretionary grant from the U.S. Department of Transportation ...
About 30 students from a variety of campus groups gathered in the back of Flatbread Company Monday evening in the name of a cause they plan to support with great energy this month — prevention and awareness of sexual assault. The event was organized to kick off Sexual Assault Awareness Month with ...
Black and Hispanic students made up only about 30 percent of students in Rhode Island school districts during the 2012-13 school year but received over 50 percent of the state’s out-of-school suspensions, according to a report by the American Civil Liberties Union of Rhode Island released March 10. The ...
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