Mayor Angel Taveras announced a partnership with Southside Community Land Trust and the Rhode Island Foundation Jan. 14 in a project aimed at renovating the vacant lots that sprinkle the city’s undeveloped land parcels and turning them into small farming plots. The Florida-based Local Sustainability ...
Entrepreneurship does not mean the desire to start a company but rather considering the world and creating the tools you think it needs, said Jack Dorsey, co-founder of Twitter and Square, during his talk, “Square: Designing Commerce to Feel Amazing,” Friday at the Rhode Island School of Design. “An ...
Rhode Island’s public education system was ranked fifth in the nation in a January report from StudentsFirst, the advocacy group founded by education reform proponent Michelle Rhee. While only receiving a grade of “C+,” Rhode Island scored higher than neighboring Massachusetts, New Hampshire ...
The Kappa Delta Sorority will join Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Chi Omega this year as the third sorority on campus in response to increasing student demand for another sorority, the Panhellenic Council announced Feb. 1. The year-long selection process to bring Kappa Delta to campus was spurred by unmet ...
“When your spouse or loved one or child asks you, ‘What did you do today?’, you probably don’t say, ‘I helped put a child through college,’ or ‘I supported first-rate, cutting-edge research for the common good,’” quipped President Christina Paxson Monday to a filled-to-capacity Salomon ...
Brown for Financial Aid released an online petition at the beginning of the semester calling for President Christina Paxson, Provost Mark Schlissel P ’15 and the Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, to commit to universal need-blind admission within the next 10 years. The petition ...
The Alpert Medical School’s new integrated primary care and public health curriculum will begin admitting 24 students per class starting in 2015, the school announced Jan. 28. The program may allow students to receive both a master’s degree in population health and a medical degree during their ...
The University will partner with local nonprofit Building Futures in all future construction projects valued over $5 million, administrators announced Jan. 23. The partnership was formalized as part of a memorandum released at the topping-off ceremony of the Building for Environmental Research and ...
About 100 college students from around the country gathered on campus for two days of motivational lectures and networking at the second annual Collegiate Consulting Group National Conference. The conference was held this weekend by the Collegiate Consulting Group, an undergraduate-run organization ...
Even in the days President Obama was in grade school, he was ingrained with modes of thinking about policy that would affect a nation. In a speech about modern-day urban planning and the rich history that shaped it, Thomas Sugrue, professor of history and sociology at Penn, illuminated the connection ...
The Continuing Education department shut down the Continuing Studies program at the end of last semester due to dropping enrollment, said Jodi Devine, associate director for executive education and adult programs. The program offered not-for-credit evening courses to adults in the community for five ...
Since the creation of the University’s Social Choice Fund in 2007 — the first in the Ivy League — the fund has struggled with a lack of donations and poor investment returns. The fund, which invests in companies based on their active commitment to promoting social change, has seen only one donation ...
Vice President for Research Clyde Briant will be stepping down from his administrative position at the end of the academic year, Provost Mark Schlissel P’15 wrote Wednesday in an email to faculty. Briant, who served as dean of engineering between 2003 and 2006 before joining the administration, will ...
Bernice King, CEO of the Martin Luther King, Jr. Center for Nonviolent Social Change, delivered a rousing speech to a packed De Ciccio Family Auditorium in the Salomon Center for the 16th annual Martin Luther King, Jr. Lecture yesterday afternoon. The talk, titled “Advancing the ‘Dream’: Addressing ...
Rhode Island’s Health Benefits Exchange — the health care marketplace mandated by the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act — received federal approval Dec. 20, placing it on track to meet the law’s October deadline for being available to the public. “The exchange will be ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students raised concerns about potential changes to the Diversity Perspectives course category and a proposed three-year undergraduate program while showing support for possible sophomore seminars and a five-year undergraduate program. The council discussed the ...
Gov. Lincoln Chafee ’75 P’14 P’16 received generally positive reactions from academics and officials for his proposals to cut the corporate tax rate and tentatively cap tuition at the state’s public colleges and universities in the Jan. 17 State of the State address. Presenting his third budget ...
The popular notion that Turkey is a model democracy is incorrect, Nukhet Sandal, postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies, argued in a research presentation Wednesday Sandal presented her research — concerning differential treatment of religious minorities in Turkey — ...
A woman who was convicted of injuring two students in a hit-and-run in spring 2011 was sentenced to one year in a minimum-security prison followed by two years of house arrest. Rhode Island resident Jessica Paden pleaded guilty to drunk driving among other charges. The students, Julia Unanue Banuchi ...
The U.S. Senate passed a bill Jan. 28 allocating $50.5 billion of aid to facilitate reconstruction in states affected by Hurricane Sandy last October. Three months later, the East Coast is still recovering from Sandy, which left wreckage and destruction in Rhode Island’s coastal areas. The state ...
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