Since early March, the conditions created by the COVID-19 pandemic have forced the University to reconsider important aspects of campus life and the student experience. The following is a timeline of the University’s historic moments and administrative decision-making, as it was announced to the Brown ...
Eleven students take their seats in a lecture hall meant for more than 100 people, each staggered among the rows and wearing a mask. A professor stands at the front of the room, 50 feet away from the closest student. On a projector screen are seven faces: the students who are attending class virtually. ...
When Brown University students woke up on the morning of Oct. 8, 1918, they learned they had two choices: pack up and return home or remain on campus indefinitely. A campus-wide quarantine was being imposed, due to the growing threat of a raging strain of influenza. Armed guards were stationed at the ...
When the University shuttered its doors in March along with gyms and recreational facilities across the country due to the coronavirus pandemic, many students found themselves forced to adapt how they work out and reflect on the significance of their exercise. Before the Jonathan Nelson ‘77 Fitness ...
To Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.), Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s legacy comes most notably from her persistence. “While many things are won through great battles that suddenly shift everything at once,” he said, “some things are won with small, determined, continued demonstrations of persistence, ...
With the weather getting colder, flu season is rapidly approaching. To best prepare for potential flu outbreaks within the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, Health Services is hosting multiple flu vaccine clinics for students this October. Health Services will offer 12 flu vaccine clinics in the Olney-Margolies ...
All study abroad programming for the Spring 2021 semester has been canceled, Brown’s Office of International Programs announced Wednesday morning. The decision took into account factors such as student safety, disruptions in visa processing and persisting travel restrictions due to the novel coronavirus ...
Although University plans for the spring semester are not yet “set in stone,” President Christina Paxson P’19 announced at a faculty meeting Tuesday that she hopes to make an initial decision by late October. Paxson said at the meeting that the University is now preparing “as if all students ...
The struggles of those who survive epidemics do not end when they leave the hospital, said Adia Benton ’99, an associate professor of anthropology at Northwestern University. At a talk hosted by the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice Tuesday, Benton discussed her experiences with survivors ...
The difficulties experienced by Rhode Island’s homeless population have only intensified in recent months, said Laura Jaworski, executive director of House of Hope Community Development Corporation. “In the early days of COVID-19, (the virus) was identified as a great equalizer,” Jaworski said, ...
Professor Stephen Porder received the Fulbright-Tocqueville Distinguished Chair Award to conduct research and teach at the Institut de Physique du Globe de Paris next year. During his stay in Paris, Porder, who is a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology and environment and society and assistant ...
The University’s asymptomatic testing program returned eight confirmed positive test results in the week of Sept. 27, constituting one third of the total positive results since the start of the asymptomatic testing program on Aug. 24. University Health Services also conducted 12 symptomatic tests ...
The University is set to transition into Campus Activity Status Level two Monday, lifting some restrictions on mask wearing and in-person learning and gathering, according to a community email from Executive Vice President of Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91. Similar to Level 1 regulations, ...
Each week, the University and its testing partners process over 10,000 samples, most of which are collected on campus, then shipped beyond the state to laboratories in Massachusetts. Despite the distance, results circle back to students in about a day. University administrators and organizations involved ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students elected Ricky Zhong ’23 as the UCS/Undergraduate Finance Board Liaison and Elli Lee ’22 as UCS Treasurer, according to a Saturday email from the Council. UCS originally meant to tally votes and release results earlier but was delayed following a revote prompted ...
Facing an uncertain semester, many students decided to declare leave this fall, and some have decided to live in Providence. But amid the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, their leave status has precluded them from enrolling in the University’s COVID-19 testing program. “Students on leave are not actively ...
The University’s endowment has reached an all-time high of $4.7 billion, seeing a 12.1 percent return for fiscal year 2020. The endowment returns place the University within the top fifth percentile of growth for FY20 among 143 peer colleges and universities, according to Cambridge Associates Preliminary ...
In the rush to transition many aspects of our daily lives online — attending virtual lectures, working a full-time job from home and communicating over social media — one issue has risen to the forefront of local and global concerns: cybersecurity. “We’re facing a tipping point in terms of ...
As Brown Dining Services has transitioned to-go meals in order to prioritize safety amid the COVID-19 pandemic, and non-reusable packaging has increased alongside it. Dining Services and the Office of Sustainability wrote in a joint email to The Herald that they have worked closely to “implement ...
Rhode Island Hospital has teamed up with researchers at Johns Hopkins University to test the effectiveness of convalescent plasma therapy as a potential early treatment for COVID-19. These multicenter clinical trials have commenced in Rhode Island to investigate whether this therapy could help reduce ...
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