The Federal Emergency Management Agency will reimburse the University nearly $4 million for costs incurred in its response to the COVID-19 pandemic — namely expenses from its testing services — through FEMA’s Public Assistance Program, according to an Aug. 29 news ...
The Pawtucket Department of Planning and Redevelopment has proposed a commercial overhaul of Morley Field Park, located in the Woodlawn ...
Rhode Island public health officials are continuing the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic as a new threat of monkeypox emerges. Officials who spoke with The Herald expressed optimism about Rhode Island’s COVID-19 infection rates and shared preventative tips for monkeypox.
The Undergraduate Council of Students hosted its first town hall meeting of the 2022-23 academic year Wednesday, led by newly-elected President Ricky Zhong ’23 and Vice President Mina Sarmas ’24.
On Aug. 25, New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced that Rhode Island and Maine had joined Connecticut, Massachusetts, ...
Colonization and its effects are deeply entrenched in the field of archeology, said scholars at an event held Wednesday evening at the Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World.
Incumbent Gov. Dan McKee won the Democratic primary for governor Tuesday night, narrowly defeating opponents Helena Foulkes, former chief executive of CVS Health, and Secretary of State Nellie Gorbea.
Democrat Brett Smiley won the Democratic primary for Providence mayor Tuesday, defeating challengers Gonzalo Cuervo and Nirva LaFortune MA’19, The Boston Globe projects. No Republicans or Independents will appear on the ballot in November, meaning that Smiley’s ascension to the mayor’s office ...
The Office of Institutional Equity and Diversity, the John Hay Library and the Rhode Island Black Film Festival partnered to host a screening Tuesday of the documentary “Paul Laurence Dunbar: Beyond the Mask” made by filmmaker Frederick Lewis ’83.
In a virtual event entitled “Legacy of the ‘Dark Side’: The Costs of Unlawful U.S. Detentions and Interrogations Post-9/11,” Political Science Lecturer Nina Tannenwald moderated a discussion with Letta Tayler, associate director in the Crisis and Conflict Division of Human Rights Watch. Tayler ...
The University has not yet released official guidelines regarding the new boosters — and while it is unlikely to mandate the jab, as it did the first three shots, the University plans to run a vaccine clinic in the coming weeks, according to Associate Vice President for Campus Life and Executive ...
In May, the Graduate Labor Organization held elections for president, vice president and a number of other positions on the executive board, marking the first presidential turnover since GLO’s founding. Now, the new leadership group is looking ahead to contract renegotiations with the University ...
For the first week of the school year, Brown Dining Services required students to leave their Brown ID with a cashier to grab to-go boxes in certain dining halls. But as of Monday, students can once again receive a to-go box without leaving behind collateral, wrote Vice President of Dining Programs ...
Rhode Island is holding primary elections Tuesday, Sept. 13, with competitive races for governor, mayor of Providence and General Assembly seats. So far, nearly 28,000 Rhode Islanders have cast their ballots through early voting or mail-in ballots. Election results are expected tonight.
Students who were displaced by flooding from a storm Sept. 5 have now returned to their residence halls as the University investigates how to minimize flooding incidents in the future. The flooding displaced students in the basement of Archibald-Bronson in Keeney Quad. Several other ...
When Oleksii Shebanov ’26, an international student from Ukraine, received his admission offer from the University, he was also extended the option to arrive on campus early and attend Brown’s summer session. But due to delays with his visa application, which included traveling to the Czech Republic ...
Curious community members and passersby gathered at the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center Friday to attend the swearing-in ceremony of Brown’s newest employee: a one-and-a-half-year-old black labrador retriever named Elvy.
New washing machines and dryers were installed in every residence hall over the summer, Senior Associate Dean and Senior Director of Residential Life Brenda Ice wrote in an email to The Herald. CSC ServiceWorks, a laundry services contractor, replaced units that had “been on campus a number ...
Students, faculty and staff gathered on the Main Green to celebrate the start of the 259th academic year and welcome incoming undergraduate, graduate and medical students as part of its Opening Convocation Saturday morning. The convocation, which was rescheduled from Tuesday due to inclement ...
For many on campus, fall is marked by the onslaught of pumpkin spice-everything, the changing of the leaves and the swapping out of short sleeves for long ones as Providence weather takes a turn for the worse. But for politically active Brown students, fall 2022 means midterm elections are right ...
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