After the Providence Public School District saw levels of chronic absenteeism more than three times the national rate in the 2021-22 academic year, the district has posted a slight decline so far this year, according to Nicholas Domings, PPSD’s chief communications officer.
Several student clubs sponsored a conversation with two Rhode Island representatives centered around identifying local avenues for protecting abortion access on Wednesday at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs.
In an improvisation workshop Wednesday, jazz saxophonist and mathematician Marcus Miller engaged University students in a live saxophone performance and discussed the connections between physics, math and music.
Thayer Street is a popular spot for boba shops. With three bubble tea businesses calling the street home and a fourth situated nearby on Waterman Street, edging ahead of competition can be difficult for individual shops.
If you take a look inside the John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Library this December, the lobby will look the same as ever, with tables, chairs, sofas and the entrance to administrative offices. But if you turn toward the corners of the foyer, you will be greeted by dozens of bright, colorful children’s ...
In February 2016, when University faculty members voted to rename the Fall Weekend holiday — known as Columbus Day until 2009 — to Indigenous People’s Day, members of the student organization Natives at Brown witnessed their advocacy efforts coming to fruition. This name change is one of the ...
A petition to initiate a recall election of Undergraduate Council of Students President Ricky Zhong ’23 has met the 300 signature requirement stipulated in the UCS Code of Operations, according to Chris Vanderpool ’24, who organized the recall — meaning the election will go forward.
Three years after promising to double its undergraduate student veteran population, the University has “nearly achieved” its goal, University Spokesperson Brian Clark wrote in an email to The Herald. On Veterans Day in 2019, the University announced that it aimed to double the undergraduate ...
In 2020, 68,630 people in the United States died of an opioid overdose. Opioid overdoses are “the leading cause of accidental death in Rhode Island,” according to the Rhode Island Department of Health, with more than 400 people dying from a drug overdose in 2021. The opioid epidemic continues ...
The University Financial Board met Tuesday evening to hear funding requests from various student organizations. Student organizations that applied were told that they would find out if their funding request was approved later that evening.
On May 13, State Senator Meghan Kallman PhD’16 introduced a state senate bill proposing a public option for affordable housing in Rhode Island which would allow the state to directly fund ...
Residents discussed updated plans for one of two buildings to occupy Parcel 9 — an area just off South Main Street previously occupied by Interstate 195 — at a Monday community meeting hosted by Ward 1 Providence City Councilman John Goncalves ’13 MA’15.
Growing up in Warwick, Deborah Spears Moorehead only knew one Indigenous family in the city other than her own. A member of the Seaconke Pokanoket Wampanoag Tribal Nation, she wrote in an email to The Herald that she distinctly remembers feeling curious about her ancestors who first made their ...
Governor Dan McKee announced the authorization of $1.4 million in spending to expand Rhode Island’s homeless shelter capacity by 77 beds, according to a Nov. 23 press release. The expansion will bring the number of shelter beds in Rhode Island to over 1,000, according to the release.
This fall, several major tech companies announced layoffs and hiring freezes. Meta, Microsoft and Alphabet have all slowed the pace of their hiring, while companies like Snap, Stripe and Lyft have either cut or have plans to cut between 13% and 20% of their staff, The New York Times reported. Amazon ...
Larry Larson, professor of engineering, will serve as the University's interim provost following the departure of Provost Richard Locke P’18 at the end of the 2022 calendar year, according to a University-wide announcement from President Christina Paxson P’19 Tuesday. “Larry is a well-known ...
With the signing of a memorandum of understanding Nov. 14, the University has committed to employing all-union labor for any construction project over $25 million for the next five years as part of an agreement with the Rhode Island Building and Construction Trades Council, according to a press release. ...
Gen Z is having less sex than prior generations, but for many young people at Brown, there remains a perception that everyone is participating in “hookup culture,” or casual sexual activity. “There’s this idea of ‘it's college,’ ” said monique jonath ’24. “Everyone is hooking ...
The most-watched event on the global sporting calendar — the FIFA World Cup — kicked off this Sunday, when host-country Qatar fell to Ecuador 2-0. Held every four years, the month-long soccer tournament brings together the national teams of 32 countries. This year’s tournament takes place in ...
The University has not disclosed campus recycling data since spring 2022 due to a misunderstanding concerning the data provided by Waste Management — the company responsible for the University’s trash and recycling — according to Jessica Berry, director of the Office of Sustainability.
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