Providence has set a 2014 start date for Providence Talks, the program for which it won a $5 million grant from Bloomberg Philanthropies in March. The city will work with a Brown research team to collect data, monitor the program’s progress and assess its effectiveness in improving the vocabulary ...
When Betty Anne Waters was 29, her older brother Kenny was wrongfully accused of murder and sent to prison. She spent the next 18 years fighting for justice, enrolling in community college and then going to law school so she could one day prove his innocence in court. Waters spoke to students about ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students expressed concern at the council’s general body meeting Wednesday that the new voting system — Qualtrics — being used for this year’s student government elections could decrease voter turnout. Students will vote this week through a survey on ...
The recent recession in the United States has had a noticeably different impact across racial and gender demographics, said Margaret Simms, an economist and fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C., at a lecture yesterday. Simms used economic data to address the Obama administration’s response ...
President Christina Paxson assembled an ad hoc committee of six Corporation members to discuss whether the University should divest from coal, Paxson wrote in a guest column slated to run in Monday’s Herald. The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies recommended to ...
The annual housing lottery’s first night saw scenes of both excitement and disappointment yesterday evening as rising juniors and seniors chose housing for the next academic year. The event began promptly at 6 p.m., with the goal of getting through 130 lottery numbers per hour. Students crowded the ...
The School of Engineering received gifts totaling $44 million, signaling the beginning of a $160 million campaign to expand the school, the University announced Wednesday morning. New engineering facilities will also be built adjacent to Barus and Holley, where the school is currently housed, said ...
Over two-thirds of students believe the University should offer minors, according to the Herald poll conducted in March. Roughly sixty-one percent of students would pursue a minor, while 6 percent said they would not pursue a minor but feel the option should be offered. Twenty-three percent of students ...
While an improvement in the United States’ mental health care system would be “amazing, ... we should be frank about what (reductions in violence) we’re going to see,” said Richard Friedman, Cornell professor of clinical psychiatry, director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell ...
As the semester nears its end, most students and faculty members said making up for the day of classes lost due to Winter Storm Nemo has not proved particularly inconvenient. After the storm caused classes to be canceled Friday, Feb. 8, the University chose to shorten reading period by one day to make ...
Cornell president rejects immediate divestment from coal Cornell President David Skorton said at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday that the university’s administration does not intend to immediately divest from the fossil fuels industry, the Cornell Daily Sun reported Friday. Skorton cited the ...
Professor of Computer Science Maurice Herlihy became the first Brown faculty member last month to win the IEEE Computer Society’s W. Wallace McDowell Award. The honor is given to individuals who make notable contributions to information technology fields and specifically for Herlihy, for making ...
April 10, 1997 Civil rights activist and Reverend Jesse Jackson delivered a speech the night before about the “the American Dream,” addressing a jam-packed auditorium. “Between black, white and brown, the gap is not as big as it is between have and have-not,” he said, The Herald reported at ...
The Rhode Island Economic Development Corporation responded last week to motions filed by defendants including Curt Schilling, former CEO of defunct video game company 38 Studios, to dismiss charges in an ongoing lawsuit. The EDC’s representation, led by attorney Max Wistow, issued a 200-page motion ...
The Rhode Island Senate will vote on same-sex marriage legislation before the end of April, Senate President Teresa Paiva Weed, D-Newport and Jamestown, told the Providence Journal Monday. “I feel very confident that the issue will be fully debated on the floor of the Senate at some point in April,” ...
Todd Harris ’14.5, Afia Kwakwa ’14 and Daniel Pipkin ’14 will compete to be president of the Undergraduate Council of Students in this year’s election. Sam Gilman ’15 is running unopposed for UCS Vice President. Leila Veerasamy ’15 and Alexander Sherry ’15 will face off for Undergraduate ...
Family members and friends have begun directing appeals toward Sunil Tripathi in hopes of encouraging him to return home, mother Judy Tripathi said Monday. Since the former member of the class of 2012 disappeared three and a half weeks ago, family members, friends and law enforcement officers have ...
Director Jeff Zimbalist ’00 delivered the 13th annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Friday night in Salomon 101. The Herald spoke to Zimbalist about his inspirations, experiences as a director and the advice he has for undergraduates. Herald: What at Brown shaped your career moving forward? ...
Spring Weekend tickets will go on sale Monday, April 15 at 8 a.m., but in the event of a crash, sales might conflict with pre-registration for rising seniors the next morning, Tuesday, April 16. The Brown Marketplace website has crashed on the first day of ticket sales for the last three years. The ...
In a place that seems beyond repair, director Jeff Zimbalist ’00 sees a story. “I want to keep telling stories of communities overcoming the odds, doing positive things ... making lasting change in places that the media almost always portrays as falling apart,” he said in the 13th annual Casey ...
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