The Rhode Island affiliate of the American Civil Liberties Union is suing the Rhode Island Department of Health over new conditions in the state's medical marijuana policy. The lawsuit is brought on behalf of the Rhode Island Patient Advocacy Coalition, the Rhode Island Academy of Physician Assistants ...
NBA Math Hoops, a startup developed by Khalil Fuller '15 to promote math literacy in inner-city schools, has made it to the final round of MassChallenge, a global startup competition that awards between $50,000 and $100,000 to its winners each year. Out of an original pool of 1,200 applicants, Math ...
President Obama retains a slight lead in the polls against Republican challenger Mitt Romney. Romney saw a surge of support last week following a strong performance in the candidates' first debate two weeks ago. Some analysts credit Vice President Joe Biden's strong performance last week in his debate ...
Rhode Island voters will cast ballots Nov. 6 on a measure that would open state-operated full-scale casino gambling in Rhode Island's two casinos - Twin River Casino in Lincoln and the Newport Grand in Newport. The upcoming 2012 Rhode Island ballot measure will feature two separate questions for each ...
Inspired by the Occupy movement and Arab Spring, a Brown student and an alum launched the Providence-based startup LoveGov this spring with the goal of revolutionizing the political world. LoveGov CEO Joschka Tryba '12 said he devised a plan for an online network to promote meaningful discussion about ...
Following the lead of University library and janitorial workers, Brown Dining Services employees voted Thursday to switch their union representation from Service Employees International Union Local 615 to the United Service and Allied Workers of Rhode Island. USAW won by a 34-point margin in the run-off ...
Independent candidate Mark Binder is challenging Rhode Island House Speaker Gordon Fox, D-Providence, in the Nov. 6 election to represent District 4. This past month, House Majority Whip Patrick O'Neil has resigned from Fox's leadership team, and Fox's former consultant Jeff Britt is now running Binder's ...
About 40 students and community members gathered in Hillel's Chapel Thursday night to hear a series of speakers address the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and to celebrate the launch of J Street U Brown, an official chapter of J Street U, the student branch of a national movement dedicated to shifting ...
The National Immunization Survey, conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, recently recognized Rhode Island for having one of the highest rates of child immunization in the country. The state places highest for immunizing children aged 19-35 months with the measles-mumps-rubella ...
Ever wish you could print a three-dimensional object? MakerBot works with software to print 3-D plastic models of 2-D images. There is one MakerBot at AS220 Labs in Providence, two at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts and one in the Dunn Lab, a biology lab at the University. Plastic ...
Jose Antonio Vargas, a journalist who had been working in the U.S. for more than 10 years when he published an essay in the New York Times Magazine revealing his status as an undocumented immigrant, spoke to a full crowd in Metcalf Auditorium Monday night. Vargas discussed the oversimplification of ...
A student received non-life-threatening injuries following a knife assault near the intersection of Brown and Waterman streets at around 11:15 p.m. Thursday, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety. Providence resident Francisco Depina, 20, and a juvenile accomplice ...
Following recommendations made by former president Ruth Simmons last October, the University is in the process of implementing far-reaching changes within the athletics department, including a reduction in admission spots for recruited athletes, an increase in coaches' salaries and new fundraising efforts ...
The civil engineering track will no longer be offered for students in the class of 2017 and beyond. Prior to this decision, Brown was one of four Ivy League schools to still offer a civil engineering program.
Two-time Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author Nicholas Kristof sat down with The Herald after speaking in Salomon 101 Thursday night. The New York Times columnist discussed his bestselling book "Half the Sky," what issues are most important and what can constitute "leverage for change."
University employees have donated almost exclusively to President Obama in this election cycle. Forty individual donors have contributed a total of $37,872 to Obama's campaign. Only one donation of $500 was made by a former University employee to Republican presidential challenger Mitt Romney. Twenty-six ...
The public health program is making significant headway toward becoming an officially accredited school. The proposal has thus far been unanimously approved by the public health faculty, the Biomedical Faculty Council and the Academic Priorities Committee, wrote Terrie Wetle, associate dean of medicine ...
Cuts to federal funding for higher-education research and financial aid currently set to take effect Jan. 1 could pose a significant threat to University finances, officials said. The cuts are part of a mandatory $1.4 trillion overall reduction in spending outlined in the Sequestration Clause of the ...
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