Nearly two years after Jason Pleau shot, killed and robbed gas station manager David Main outside a Woonsocket bank, Gov. Lincoln Chafee '75 P'14 P'16 petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court in August to return Pleau to state custody. In federal custody since his arraignment in late May, Pleau is on track ...
From the German-inspired Oktoberfest to a historical Colonial Harvest Festival, Little Rhody is about to catapult itself into a celebration of autumn. The abundance of upcoming festivals offer the perfect opportunity to combine a love of fall with the chance to venture off College Hill. Most fall festivals ...
Residence hall renovations next summer will include the installation of two elevators in Keeney Quadrangle as part of the next stage of a University effort to extend campus-wide elevator access. The elevators will simplify the move-in process, provide relief for students living on upper floors and ...
There was a decrease in the number of students transported by Brown Emergency Medical Services during orientation and the first weekend of classes compared to the same period last year, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president of campus life and student services. The drop comes in the wake of new initiatives ...
Despite an email last March from Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron describing changes made to the University's writing requirement, many students remain unaware of the new policies.
The Brown Bookstore has expanded its textbook selection to include Rhode Island School of Design course books this semester and will also expand its rental program to include books not designated for courses, said Steven Souza, director of the bookstore. RISD books currently take up almost 20 percent ...
Plans for a new upscale apartment complex on Thayer Street between Euclid Avenue and Meeting Street are moving forward after the outlines for the complex, set to be built by Gilbane Development, were approved by the Providence City Council Aug. 1. Construction on the 257 Thayer building is slated to ...
Amanda Anderson, a new professor of English, will be speaking at the TEDxBrown event this October on the value of a liberal arts education. Anderson, a literary scholar who received a Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on research into liberal philosophy in America, served as the chair of the English ...
Prominent Syrian journalist Samar Yazbek fled from Syria at the height of the violence following the recent civilian uprisings and has since risked her life to return to the unstable country and document its ongoing unrest. Yazbek, an activist and screenwriter, spoke to a packed audience at the Watson ...
Though the University receives "consistent reports" from students expressing concerns about their peers, few cases have required drastic intervention by threat assessment teams, said Senior Associate Dean for Student Life Jonah Ward and Director of Psychological Services Belinda Johnson. Administrators ...
The Supreme Court upheld the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, President Obama's signature health care legislation, this summer following a national debate over the law's ramifications for patients and doctors. With the law's provisions remaining intact after the court's ...
An iPhone application mapping the architectural history of the University is nearing completion and is slated to be released in late October. The elaborately named app, FACADES - Facts About Campus Architecture, Design, Environment and Spaces - provides information about 125 structures related to the ...
The University's transition from MyCourses to Canvas as its primary online course management platform is in full swing. This semester, 457 courses will use the site, up from 70 last semester, said Dean of the College Katherine Bergeron. Around 7,000 students - graduate, undergraduate and medical - are ...
About a dozen audience members attended President Christina Paxson's first Brown University Community Council meeting as president yesterday in the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts. Along with Paxson, nearly half of the members of the BUCC were new. Discussion of a new strategic ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students filled vacant positions, and its committee chairs outlined initial goals for the year during the council's first general body meeting of the semester Wednesday night.
Joe Royo '14 and Xavius Dorego, a Providence resident with no University affiliation, were arrested early Saturday morning after allegedly stealing a student's laptop and cell phone from her Marcy House room, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for the Department of Public Safety.
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