In photos: Students break hunger strike, demonstrate outside Corporation gatherings
By Dana Richie | February 9At 5:13 p.m. Friday, 17 demonstrators ate dates to break their weeklong hunger strike.
At 5:13 p.m. Friday, 17 demonstrators ate dates to break their weeklong hunger strike.
The 17 students who remained on hunger strike in support of divestment concluded their now eight-day refusal to eat at 5 p.m. Feb. 9 at the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, along with around 200 other students who joined a 32-hour solidarity fast.
At 8 a.m. Friday, a group of around 150 protesting students — including the 17 students currently participating in a hunger strike — surrounded the Faculty Club building on Benevolent Street to urge the Corporation — the University’s highest governing body — to hear the Brown Divestment Coalition’s ...
In a Jan. 18 Today@Brown announcement, President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 introduced Brown 2026 — a faculty-led initiative celebrating the 250th anniversary of the United States’ independence. The milestone presents an “opportunity for critical inquiry and reflection on the values and ...
At a Wednesday night meeting, the Graduate Student Council voted to increase its funding for GSC recognized groups from $500 per semester to $650. After a club funding request is approved, the money can be used for any of their events and initiatives throughout the semester, explained GSC President ...
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The School of Engineering announced revisions to the curriculum of ENGN 0030: “Introduction to Engineering” in an email sent to students and reviewed by The Herald. The new curriculum will feature a module system from which students can pick from a selection of multidisciplinary mini-courses, according ...
45 pallet shelters — rapidly deployable temporary housing solutions — are set to be built in Providence to address Rhode Island’s housing crisis. The pallet shelters are expected to begin operating by the end of the first quarter of 2024, according to Emily Marshall, chief of information and public ...
Throughout history, people have grappled with imagining and defining “invisible” objects — from microscopic organisms to the cosmos and our galaxy. Two new courses, STS 1700F: “Visualizing the Invisible: Art, Science and Observation” and NEUR 1570: “The Non-Neural Brain” hope to help students ...
On Jan. 26, the Rhode Island Department of Environmental Management announced over $2.5 million in grants to support the remediation and redevelopment of brownfields.
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Student workers at the Brown Center for Students of Color announced plans to unionize as the Third World Labor Organization Wednesday afternoon.
Starting this semester, reusable takeout boxes at the Sharpe Refectory and Verney-Wooley dining halls have replaced disposable ones.
Last month, the Rhode Island Voting Access Coalition held a rally for its Let RI Vote for Same-Day Voter Registration campaign. Over 33 community groups and several state officials were in attendance, including Secretary of State Gregg Amore (D), Sen. Alana DiMario (D-North Kingstown, Narragansett, ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 discussed programming for the spring semester regarding Title VI, academic freedom and freedom of expression at Tuesday’s faculty meeting.
Students at Brown and other colleges participated in Brown’s tenth annual Hack@Brown overnight hackathon this weekend.
The Rhode Island Coalition to End Homelessness conducted their 2024 Point in Time count on Jan. 24. The PIT is a nationwide count, mandated by the Department of Housing and Urban Development, to assess the number of people experiencing homelessness on a single night of the year in the last two weeks ...
Preliminary recommendations developed by the Task Force for Faculty Compensation to address faculty concerns around salary and compensation were shared at a Tuesday faculty meeting by co-chairs Francis Doyle, university provost, and Kenneth Wong, professor of international and public affairs, political ...
Student protestors entered the fifth day of their hunger strike on Tuesday, with both the protestors and the University’s administration unflinching in their stances on divestment.
On Jan. 17, the Florida Board of Governors voted to replace “Principles of Sociology” with “Introductory Survey to 1877” on the list of approved core graduation requirements for public universities in the state. The new course focuses on a “historically accurate account of America’s founding.” ...