Common Sense Action held Rhode Island’s first statewide convention about the national debt and potential solutions in Alumnae Hall Saturday. President Christina Paxson, economist Steven Rattner ’74 P’10 P’13 P’15, Providence Chamber of Commerce President Laurie White, Mayor of Cranston Allan ...
Rainwater for Humanity, a student group that makes clean water available to a highly polluted area in southwestern India, will present its plans to become a nonprofit organization at a conference at Yale in April. Group leaders are attending the conference “to see what we need to do to go from a ...
A year after the debate over a controversial amendment that would have let the Undergraduate Council of Students determine its own budget without approval from the Undergraduate Finance Board, the issue has settled with no lasting damage to the groups’ relationship, said officials from both organizations. ...
The place of higher education in a rapidly changing world was the focus of a contentious debate between two speakers at a Janus Lecture Series event last night in MacMillan 117. Richard Vedder, professor of economics at Ohio University and director of the Center for College Affordability and Productivity, ...
The John Hay Library is set to undergo major renovations that will make the entire main reading room available to students as a study space. The planned renovations come after the Corporation approved an anonymous $3 million gift for the project last week. The renovations, which received a separate ...
In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Conn., universities across the nation have been called on to review their emergency response plans. Brown’s current emergency plan for hostile intruders has been in place since 2009 and is designed to provide “practical” guidelines for students in ...
The search committee for a new vice president for research has launched the selection process and expects to fill the position within the month, said Provost Mark Schlissel P’15. Five out of the seven faculty members on the committee, which Schlissel formed, work in math and the life and physical ...
Thirty-five juniors were elected to the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Feb. 12, Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley wrote in an email to The Herald. Founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and becoming ...
A crowd of nearly 50 performance artists as well as students and other community members gathered last night for a theater-oriented commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the fire at the Station nightclub. The club burned down in 2003, killing 100 and injuring an additional 200, according to the ...
The Undergraduate Finance Board elected a new representative to fill an open position during the Undergraduate Council of Students meeting last night. Dakotah Rice ’16 — who was selected from six candidates — will represent 10 student groups and aid in UFB’s spring budgeting process. “I ...
With the January passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, Congress pushed the original Jan. 1 deadline for the federal budget sequester — which includes potential cuts to higher education research and financial aid funding — to March 1. But even with the extended deadline, the higher ...
Rhode Island ranked fourth in the nation for accumulated undergraduate student debt according to an Oct. 2012 report from the Institute for College Access and Success. While over one-third of Brown students take out loans to finance their undergraduate educations, 69 percent of Rhode Island college ...
Student tax Rep. John Carnevale, D-Providence and Johnston, introduced legislation in the General Assembly that would require out-of-state college students in Providence to pay $50 per semester for three years to fund the development of the land cleared by the relocation of the I-195 highway. Carnevale ...
The most critical challenge of the 21st century is maintaining systems that support life for many generations while meeting the needs of today’s population, said Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, in a lecture yesterday. Matson’s talk, entitled “Transitions ...
Students looking for jobs beyond the finance, consulting or technology industries or just looking for ways to serve the “Common Good” after graduation have a new resource — the University is hosting the first annual Brown/Rhode Island School of Design Nonprofit Career Fair today. Thirty-eight ...
Thirty employers will gather in the Kasper Multipurpose Room for the Spring Career Fair today, an annual event held by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown that provides job, internship and networking opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students. “It’s a great resource and one of ...
The University is looking to strengthen and coordinate resources for student veterans, while increasing outreach in the military to develop a larger student veteran population. Following the Corporation’s approval of the University budget last week, a position will be created for a veteran to head ...
Over 250 early admitted students of the class of 2017 attended Early Admitted Students Day Monday, said Matthew Price, assistant director of admission and coordinator of the program. The number represents the largest group of early-admitted students to attend in the event’s three-year history, he ...
The addition of new sorority Kappa Delta will mark the first time in 30 years that a sorority has joined Brown’s Greek system. Originally small organizations within Pembroke College — the University’s former women’s school — sororities have a history that reaches almost as far back as Pembroke ...
For over 100 environmental student leaders within the Brown community, the long weekend was a break from classes — but not from advocating their cause. Living up to their activist image, Brown students traveled to the nation’s capital Sunday to march alongside an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 other ...
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