The Third World Center emerged Wednesday from a period of strategic planning ongoing since last fall with plans for new initiatives, a new mission statement and a new name — the Brown Center for Students of Color. “The name, while powerful, was not accessible or easy to explain to people who needed ...
Under the new leadership of Director James Morone, professor of political science, public policy and urban studies, the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions plans to change its polling methodology in time for the November general election, said Shankar Prasad, the center’s new ...
A teach-in on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict grew tense Wednesday evening as opinions clashed in a MacMillan 117 filled to capacity. The event, entitled “Why Gaza Matters: The War and its Consequences,” featured a panel of five speakers followed by a question-and-answer session that continued ...
Since the University began offering the online language learning program Rosetta Stone to the campus community free of charge in the spring, it has quickly seen “the fastest adoption of any software package in the history of Brown University,” said Ravi Pendse P’17, vice president for computing ...
The popular Thayer Street restaurant Spats will soon close its doors, according to multiple reports from wait staff. The restaurant and pub, which has inhabited its location at 182 Angell St. since April 2006, is known for its affordable fare, late-night service and themed nights, including Sunday karaoke ...
Harvard gets record gift for School of Public Health Harvard has received a $350 million donation — the largest in its 378-year history — for its School of Public Health from a foundation managed partly by Harvard alum and billionaire investor Gerald Chan, the university announced Monday. The ...
Sixty-five percent of applicants offered faculty positions at the University accepted their positions during the 2013-14 academic year, a percentage known as the faculty yield rate, said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin. This figure represents a decrease from the previous year, which saw an unusually ...
Following a heated summer of campaigning — during which the candidates spent a combined total of more than $10 million — Rhode Island General Treasurer Gina Raimondo beat out Providence Mayor Angel Taveras and Clay Pell for the Democratic nomination for governor. With 42 percent of the vote, Raimondo ...
Former Housing Court Judge Jorge Elorza beat out City Council President Michael Solomon with 49 percent of the vote in a tight Democratic mayoral primary Tuesday night. Chris Young received 5 percent of the vote, while Brett Smiley — who dropped out of the race in August — received 3 percent. Elorza ...
Hundreds of snaps rang throughout Salomon 101 in support of speakers’ messages of directly confronting racial tensions during a teach-in Tuesday about the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri. The teach-in ...
Being first-generation is an “invisible identity,” said Stanley Stewart ’16. 1vyG, a University-based startup aimed at improving the first-generation college experience, is seeking to change that. Stewart, Manuel Contreras ’16 and Jessica Brown ’16 founded the group to create a lasting ...
The College Curriculum Council approved the English department’s revised concentration course requirements, the department announced Sept. 2. The new curriculum will apply to students who declare the English concentration this year and after, with students in the class of 2015 following previous course ...
Walking into Brown’s Ladd Observatory on a clear night is like stepping back to a time when the stars were new. In August, Ladd Observatory was nominated for inclusion in Providence’s new Landmarks District, an official collection of historic sites created to integrate historic properties not located ...
Brown slipped from 14th to 16th place overall and plummeted from 12th to 39th place in selectivity in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges rankings, released at midnight Sept. 9. University officials are attributing these drops to an administrative “oversight” in which ...
On November 16, 1964, the Rockefeller Library opened its doors, featuring signs of the times like smoking rooms and a pneumatic tube messaging system. In honor of the half-century anniversary of this cornerstone of the University, the Rock 50 Committee has developed a series of events, exhibits and ...
A year after the Undergraduate Council of Students announced its intention to revamp the voter registration process on campus, the University entered into a contract with TurboVote, an online tool that facilitates voter registration, this summer. TurboVote now allows students to register to vote in ...
In a significant uptick over the past two admission cycles, 42 students were admitted off the waitlist to the Brown class of 2018, Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 wrote in an email to The Herald. Two students were admitted off the waitlist for the class of 2017, while the Admission Office did not ...
Two of the three Brown undergraduates connected with allegedly committing a sexual assault of a female Providence College student last November remain enrolled at Brown and are on campus this semester, while the third has decided to withdraw from the University, the Providence Journal reported last ...
Students shopping courses may notice that some seminars are a bit longer this year. The Office of the Registrar has extended most late-afternoon seminar classes by 10 minutes this semester, so many courses that used to end at 5:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. now go until 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., respectively. The ...
The John Hay Library reopened Sept. 2 after being closed for renovations during the 2013-14 academic year. Several changes, including a complete overhaul of the main reading room, were made primarily to make the space more inviting for students, visitors and staff members, said University Librarian ...
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