The Senate Judiciary committee will meet Thursday to hear two same-sex marriage bills, including one that would legalize same-sex marriage — the Senate version of the bill that passed the House in January. The committee is not planning to vote on the legislation at this meeting, said Greg Pare, director ...
Rhode Island lawmakers introduced legislation Feb. 28 targeted to improve how the state’s public colleges and universities offer academic credit to veterans for specific skills learned during their military service. The Education Assistance for Combat Veterans Act is designed to help veterans finish ...
Allan Tunkel will succeed Phillip Gruppuso as associate dean for medical education at the Alpert Medical School, according to a statement released Monday by Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences. The associate dean will report to Wing until the search for a new dean of medicine and ...
A new R.I. Department of Education policy that would require high school juniors to receive a grade of partial proficiency or higher on the New England Common Assessment Program to graduate has stirred heated debate, garnering opposition from Mayor Angel Taveras and several student advocacy groups. Under ...
The Department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department are continuing to search for a former undergraduate student who disappeared Saturday morning. Sunil Tripathi, former member of the class of 2012, was discovered missing Sunday morning when a friend of Tripathi’s found a note suggestive ...
The Program in Liberal Medical Education will introduce two new interdisciplinary courses for undergraduates in fall 2014, said Associate Dean of Medicine Julianne Ip ’75 MD’78. The courses — which aim to approach medical education from an integrative, case-based angle — could put the University ...
The White House announced President Obama will officially nominate Thomas Perez ’83 today to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor, Politico reported Sunday night. Perez, currently serving as the U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights, will become the first Brown alum to serve in a cabinet-level ...
Corporation trustee’s hedge fund made national news again this weekend with an agreement to pay out a total of $616 million in settlements with the federal government over two cases of alleged insider trading. Traders connected to SAC Capital Advisors, founded and run by trustee Steven Cohen P’08 ...
The Department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department are searching for an undergraduate student who has been missing since Friday evening. Sunil Tripathi, a member of the class of 2013 currently not enrolled in the University, was last seen at his residence at 204 Angell Street around ...
Since former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s death March 5, the country has been preparing for elections April 14 to elect a new leader after Chavez’s 14-year rule. The election will present opportunities for change in U.S.-Venezuelan relations, and some Venezuelan students and scholars said ...
Students voiced sharp disagreement against proposed changes to the environmental studies concentration at a public forum Friday. Approximately 40 students and three of the 10 faculty members who served on the Committee to Review the Environmental Studies Concentration attended the forum, which was held ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students sponsored five events to bolster awareness of student government projects during UCS Week. UCS officials attributed low attendance at events featuring administrators to students being busy with midterms. Multiple students said either they knew about UCS Week but ...
“The problem of the present time is that the future is not what it used to be,” said Sonia Hirt, professor of urban planning at Virginia Tech, at a conference at the Watson Institute for International Studies Friday. Professors of various disciplines from universities around the world gathered for ...
“Our image on campus might be different than our self-perception,” said Simon de Jesus Rodrigues ’15 of Phi Kappa Psi at a panel on Greek Life and Social Inequalities, a Minority Peer Counselor Friends Unity Day event Friday afternoon. “I came into Brown with a lot of negative stereotypes about ...
An unidentified woman walking with a Brown student was struck by a vehicle at the intersection of Thayer and Waterman Streets around 8 p.m. Friday. The Department of Public Safety arrived at the scene within “three to five minutes,” said Natasha Nguyen ’15, who witnessed the accident. The Providence ...
The parents of Ryan Sims ’11 have filed a lawsuit against the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, seeking surveillance footage that could reveal further details about the 23 year old’s death last December, according to a March 14 article in the New York Daily News. Sims’ parents hope to use ...
Homeless individuals in Rhode Island who have used emergency medical services feel they were treated like “non-persons” by medical staff, according to a 2010 survey conducted by the Rhode Island Homeless Advocacy Project. Members of student group Rhode Island Medical Advocacy Project, two members ...
Inperson, a recently launched student website, is giving new meaning to talking to strangers. The site, talktosomeonenew.com, facilitates conversations between students who may otherwise never meet, said Evan Schwartz ’13, its developer. Using the site is fairly simple — interested students can ...
President Obama’s proposal to increase the minimum wage from $7.25 to $9 per hour is unlikely to affect either student employment in college or financial aid packages, Brown administrators and professors told The Herald. “If federal minimum wage goes to $9, that would have no impact on Brown student ...
When Liza Gibbs ’16 enrolled in CHEM 0330: “Equilibrium, Rate and Structure” last semester, she quickly found herself lost. After the first exam, she was in danger of failing. “I realized I had no idea what was going on,” she said. “My first and only (Chem) 33 midterm was a horrifying ...
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