Recent financial gifts to the University demonstrate a trend of donors increasingly specifying what their contributions should fund, said Patricia Watson, senior vice president for University advancement. “There is a trend slowly moving to friends (of the University) wanting to support very specific ...
Rep. Scott Slater, D-Providence, introduced legislation in the General Assembly that would ban employers in the state from having a box on a job application that asks about the applicant’s criminal history and asking about criminal records in preliminary job interviews. The ‘ban the box’ legislation ...
Legislation proposed in the State Senate in February would expand the state’s temporary disability insurance program to cover workers who need to take time off work to care for family emergencies or a new family member. The legislation, proposed by Sen. Gayle Goldin, D-Providence, would broaden the ...
Seven years after initial plans were drafted to develop a park along the west waterfront of the Providence River, recent construction in the Jewelry District — including several University buildings — has altered those design plans. The new park will offer a grassy space with access to the river ...
President Obama signed an order enacting budget cuts — including some to discretionary funding for higher education programs — as part of the federal sequester Friday. The plan went into effect midnight March 2 after Congress and the president failed to reach an agreement by the March 1 deadline ...
The Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice continued its spring semester events series with a teach-in last night exploring the University’s Slavery and Justice report, released in 2006. The event, “Slavery, Justice and the University,” featured talks by Seth Rockman, associate professor ...
One year after her selection, President Christina Paxson has earned acclaim on campus for what faculty members and students called receptiveness to the community and decisive leadership. Paxson entered the University without a set agenda and with a willingness to listen, get to know people and respect ...
Imagination is a “life-simulator” that often poorly predicts what will bring us happiness, said Daniel Gilbert, professor of psychology at Harvard and New York Times bestselling author, in a lecture Thursday afternoon. The talk marked the launch of the program for Ethical Inquiry, said Bernard ...
The Providence City Plan Commission approved final plans Tuesday for 257 Thayer Street, a luxury student apartment complex slated for construction in June 2013, the Providence Journal reported. The four-story complex is expected to house 270 tenants — mostly students — in furnished apartments with ...
The University’s senior administration ranked the second least racially diverse in the Ivy League in an analysis conducted by the Daily Pennsylvanian earlier this month. At 5.6 percent, or one out of 18 total senior administrators, the University’s proportion of minority senior administrators is ...
Professor of Computer Science Maurice Herlihy was elected to the National Academy of Engineering, a nonprofit organization composed of globally prominent engineers, Feb. 7. He is among 69 new members and 11 foreign associates inducted into the NAE this year, according to a press release from the organization. The ...
The University is looking to strengthen its existing ties and form new connections with Brazil as part of a multi-step process of engagement, said Matthew Gutmann P’14, vice president for international affairs. Gutmann highlighted the University’s commitment to new research initiatives in conjunction ...
The federal budget sequester that goes into effect tomorrow — unless Congress can agree on a way to tackle the national deficit by the March 1 deadline — will cut Rhode Island’s federal funding by more than $39 million in this fiscal year, according to a White House report. If the sequester ...
The Millenium Development Goals passed by the United Nations in 2000 have not progressed as far as publicized statistics indicate, said Thomas Pogge, professor of philosophy and international affairs and the director of the Global Justice Program at Yale, in a lecture Wednesday night. Pogge’s talk, ...
Graduate students suggested increasing involvement in the design and teaching of online undergraduate courses and observing and applying effective program techniques from the undergraduate level to graduate disciplines, during an open forum hosted by the Committee on Doctoral Education. The forum was ...
The strategic planning Committee on Financial Aid stressed the importance of lowering the summer earnings expectation and implementing need-blind admissions for international applicants at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ meeting Wednesday. Reducing the summer earnings expectation represents ...
Homecoming for soldiers State legislators have introduced several bills intended to aid Rhode Island’s veterans as they return home from overseas deployments. The bills come in response to the recommendations of the state’s “Rhode Back Home” report, which detailed the current state ...
Feb. 28, 1963 The Interfraternity Council fined the Brown chapter of Psi Upsilon $200 for serving alcohol to freshman pledges. The president of the IFC, James Seed ’63 P’02, told The Herald the fraternity had committed a “flagrant violation of rushing rules.” If the fraternity denied the claim ...
Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence and Johnston, introduced legislation in the General Assembly that would place a $50 fee per semester on every out-of-state student attending Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and Johnson and Wales University Feb. 14. The money raised from this fee would cover ...
Marion Orr, professor of public policy and political science and director of the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions, co-authored “Anxieties of an Ethnic Transition” in the Urban Affairs Review in October. The article deals with the tensions and increased anxieties regarding ...
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