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UCS closes meeting to public to create safe space

The Undergraduate Council of Students closed its general body meeting “to the public and the press” Wednesday night, said UCS President Viet Nguyen ’17. “We wanted to provide a safe space for students to engage in difficult conversations without the media’s pressure there,” he added. The ...


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Recent alum wins primary for Mass state legislature

Solomon Goldstein-Rose ’16 won the Democratic state primary for the Third Hampshire District seat in Massachusetts Sept. 8. As he is running unopposed in the general election, Goldstein-Rose has effectively won the seat for Massachusetts State Legislature. The district is known for its young population, ...


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Watson reports put price tag on post-9/11 wars

The money flows out — from public and private coffers to military contractors, overseas partners and veteran hospitals. Territory is gained and lost, flags raised and lowered and bodies buried. The transactions —  financial, physical and human — add up. The total cost, determined by the Costs ...


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Warburg unpacks American solar energy potential

“Solar is a technology that most of us have very close proximity to in our daily lives, and, in that respect, it is very different from the traditional power technologies that we are accustomed to,” said author Philip Warburg in his lecture “From the Sidelines to Center-Stage: Opportunities and ...


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National trigger warning discussion comes to campus

Trigger warnings elicit both objection and support at universities across the nation. Students and faculty members at Brown have various attitudes towards their usage and implication. Maud Mandel, dean of the College, said the University does not have an explicit policy about the usage of trigger warnings, ...


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Banda talks moral leadership, development in Africa

On a rainy Monday evening, Her Excellency Joyce Banda, president of Malawi from 2012 to 2014, delivered the 93rd Stephen A. Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs to a crowded DeCiccio Family Auditorium. Banda’s lecture, titled “Moral Leadership: The Prerequisite for Economic ...


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Brown bolsters anti-flu programs with FluWeb

As the flu season begins, students can get vaccinated at Health Services' seventh annual flu vaccine clinic and use the program FluWeb, through which students with flu-like symptoms and illnesses can report missed class time to professors and have food delivered to their rooms, said Monica Kunkel, director ...


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Bloch’s graffiti research inspired by childhood

Where Postdoctoral Senior Research Associate in Urban Studies Stefano Bloch comes from, a Brown University sweatshirt means something else. It doesn’t mean the university where Bloch does groundbreaking urban studies research on subcultural identities, crime legislation or the lives of graffiti writers. Growing ...


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Brown trains faculty, staff on diversity, inclusion

The Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion kicked off a series of voluntary faculty and staff trainings last spring. The professional development trainings were informed by student feedback on the working draft of the Diversity and Inclusion Action Plan. Upon the working plan’s release last ...


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First-Gen, Low-Income Student Center unveiled

The First-Generation and Low-Income Student Center held its opening reception Friday on the fifth floor of the Sciences Library. At the reception, President Christina Paxson P’19 said the center, which is currently staffed by six paid undergraduates and one part-time graduate student, will be hiring ...


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Alum leads Dakota pipeline teach-in

Students gathered in Metcalf Auditorium Saturday afternoon for a teach-in on the Dakota Access Pipeline. Jennifer Weston ’97, who led the teach-in, spoke about the impact the pipeline has already had and could have in the future on the Native American land it would cut through. Weston, who concentrated ...


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Ives Street fire causes little damage

A house fire broke out in an off-campus apartment at 284 Ives Street Wednesday shortly before 1:00 a.m., wrote Deputy Chief of Police Paul Shanley in an email to The Herald.  The apartment was occupied by graduate students who were not injured in the fire, though the house suffered minor damages, wrote ...


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Students create healthcare solutions in Hack Health

Students animatedly discussed ideas in lecture halls, whiteboards overflowed with colorful ink, and groups practiced their product pitches. It wasn’t just an ordinary day at the Warren Alpert Medical School — it was the inaugural run of Hack Health. Hack Health is a hackathon with a mission to “improve ...


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Free speech debated for Constitution Day

At the University’s annual Constitution Day lecture, Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and Stanley Fish, visiting professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, explored the question: Should free speech be limited on college ...


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Political experts discuss race in election

Tricia Rose, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and professor of Africana studies, and James Morone, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, spoke on the unpredictable, yet historically consistent, role of race in the 2016 presidential election ...


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LGBTQ Center hire focuses on community

This fall, the LGBTQ Center welcomed its newest staff member, Program Coordinator Je-Shawna Wholley. Wholley describes herself as “unapologetically” black, queer and a feminist. She felt Brown would allow her to draw on those identities in the course of her work. “Being a first-generation college ...


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UCS introduces accessibility initiatives

Updated Sept. 15, 2016 at 7 p.m.  The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed new initiatives to improve the accessibility of various campus resources, including a plan to translate crucial documents for students into multiple languages, at its general body meeting Wednesday. “There are a lot ...


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U. hosts free speech series to promote open dialogue

Provost Richard Locke P’17 announced the new “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse” event series coming to campus this year in a community-wide email Sept. 2, adding to the ongoing national conversation regarding open discourse on college campuses. Locke began planning ...


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