The Faculty Executive Committee will be expanded to include either a full-time lecturer or senior lecturer, following a faculty vote approving the proposal Tuesday night. The FEC, which manages faculty governance, will now include 10 members instead of the previous nine.
Nearly 84 percent of students said they feel at least as happy as their peers on average, according to a poll conducted by The Herald earlier this month. About half the students polled reported feeling equally as happy as their peers. More than 35 percent reported feeling happier, while only around ...
Democrat Maggie Hassan '80 P'15 won the governorship of New Hampshire last night with 54 percent of the vote, defeating her Republican opponent Ovide Lamontagne, who garnered 43 percent. With her victory, Hassan will join Republican Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal '91.5, Independent Rhode Island Gov. Lincoln ...
Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students spoke to representatives from the Student Athletic Advising Committee, Ryan McDuff '13 and Lindsay Nickel '13, as well as Director of Athletics Jack Hayes, at their weekly meeting. The guests presented an agenda to promote the greater integration of ...
Rhode Island voters approved Question One by a margin of 71 percent to 29 percent at press time, backing a ballot measure that will pave the way for state-operated casino gaming at the Twin River casino in Lincoln. Question Two, a referendum on state-operated casino gaming at the Newport Grand casino ...
Americans talk a lot about First Amendment rights. But how much do we really stop to think about its punctuation and the specially chosen words that give it meaning? Not enough, says Michael McConnell, director of the Constitutional Law Center at Stanford Law School and a senior fellow at the Hoover ...
Democrat Rep. David Cicilline '83, D-R.I., won his re-election bid in Rhode Island's first congressional district, overcoming an aggressive challenge from former Colonel of the Rhode Island State Police Brendan Doherty. The race received national attention for its close polling numbers leading up to ...
Most students on campus have no opinion on how President Christina Paxson is handling her job in her first year, according to a Herald poll conducted earlier this semester. Of the students polled, 69.3 percent had no opinion, 17.5 percent somewhat approve, 10.9 percent strongly approve, and 2.3 percent ...
In the wake of Hurricane Sandy, James Harper, director of Biology and Medicine, was deployed to Brooklyn, N.Y., to serve with a hurricane relief disaster unit. Harper is a paramedic on a Disaster Medical Assistance Team currently providing care at a special needs center in the Rockaway neighborhood. The ...
Renovations to replace elevators and mechanical systems in Barus and Holley will begin later this month, said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management. The $12 million renewal project is expected to last around a year and will make it possible for the buildings to undergo a larger-scale ...
Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences, will step down from his post at the end of the academic year, President Christina Paxson announced in a community-wide email Monday afternoon. Wing plans to return to as a faculty member after taking a sabbatical. Wing brought "admirable leadership ...
Three stone Easter Island heads drawn in the likeness of Mitt Romney look sternly toward the ocean in an Oct. 8 New Yorker cartoon. Nearby, a tourist asks for an explanation from a man in a tie holding a clipboard. The caption reads, "They keep watch on the offshore accounts." The caption was penned ...
Luis Mendonca filed a $7 million lawsuit against the Providence Police Department, the Rhode Island School of Design and the city Oct. 12. Mendonca, a Rhode Island resident, is filing the civil suit following a failed criminal lawsuit after he was beaten by former Providence Police Officer Robert ...
All U.S. citizens who are at least 18 years of age are eligible to cast their vote for the president of the United States in today's general election.
A sculpture created by artist Tom Friedman will be installed on campus within the next month. The "Circle Dance" sculpture was donated to the University by an anonymous donor and approved as a gift by the Corporation last month. The sculpture will likely be placed on the Walk between Angell and Waterman ...
A Herald poll conducted in October found that 65.6 percent of respondents said they planned to vote for President Obama this Tuesday, while 16 percent of students reported that they did not plan to vote, and only 7.1 percent said they planned to support Republican candidate Mitt Romney. A majority of ...
Solutions by The State News
