Peter Balakian PhD’80 was recently awarded the Pulitzer Prize in poetry for “Ozone Journal,” a collection of his poems published in 2015 by the University of Chicago Press. Balakian first received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Bucknell University and a Master of Arts degree from New York University ...
Kathryn Schulz ’96, a staff writer for the New Yorker, won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for feature writing for “The Really Big One,” a piece that uncovers the geological history — and ultimately the future — of the Pacific Northwest. In the award-winning story, she pieces together the 2011 Japan ...
President of Planned Parenthood Cecile Richards ’80 spoke on campus Friday to advocate for former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in her presidential campaign, highlighting Clinton’s support for women’s rights and health. Hosted by Brown Students for Hillary, the rally was held in MacMillan ...
Actress Shailene Woodley encouraged a crowd of about 150 students to vote and volunteer in support of U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders’, D-VT, presidential campaign in a talk hosted by Brown University Students for Bernie Saturday night. Addressing the crowd, Woodley said “Our country is not thriving. This ...
A student was reportedly assaulted at an off-campus apartment by an unidentified man posing as a driver for a ride-sharing service, wrote Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06 in a community-wide email Saturday. The man offered a ride to the student at a club in ...
After being presented with four gigabytes worth of data — the equivalent of roughly 1,000 songs or 1,740 pictures, according to the Huffington Post — competitors at Brown’s first DataFest were afforded just a day and a half to extrapolate something meaningful from them. DataFest was organized ...
Approximately 29 percent of the class of 2015’s graduates have entered the nonprofit sector, and though it has been less than a year since their graduation, some alums are already making a far-reaching impact. This winter, Victoria Leonard ’15, who studied political science and religious studies, ...
Brown greeted a record number of 915 admitted students to its campus Tuesday through Thursday for A Day on College Hill, the University’s welcome event for students admitted through regular decision. This marks the first year that ADOCH did not overlap with other Ivies’ admitted student events. ...
A group of about 15 students protested a performance by Carrie Grossman ’00, entitled “An Evening of Devotional Music” Thursday night. The performance was held in Smith-Buonanno Hall and was advertised as an “intimate evening of inquiry, music and meditation,” according to the description ...
Updated April 24, 2016 at 8:25 p.m. Joe Lonsdale, founder of Palantir Technologies, Addepar and 8VC, spoke about his business experience and professional philosophy in a talk hosted by the Brown University Entrepreneurship Program Thursday afternoon in MacMillan Hall. An event titled “Healthy Relationships ...
Richard Park ’16 and Bella Okiddy GS are spearheading a biotech startup that aims to improve rape kit testing for victims of sexual assault. The pair received funding from the Swearer Center for Public Service’s Embark Post-Graduate Fellowship, a one-year stipend to pursue altruistic business ventures, ...
Brown Dining Services is investigating partnerships with national contracting firms in the areas of management and professional development, Executive Vice President for Finance and Administration Barbara Chernow ’79 told the Undergraduate Council of Students at its general body meeting Wednesday. The ...
Students concentrating in business, entrepreneurship and organizations or economics were less likely to indicate passion for the subject as the reason behind their concentration choices than students in the humanities, social sciences other than these two concentrations, life sciences and physical sciences, ...
An exhibit on mental health and substance abuse, organized by students in PHP 1520:“Emergency Medical Systems: An Anatomy of Critical Performance,” opened Wednesday in Faunce. The exhibit includes artwork, poems and data collected from fellow students. The exhibit’s curators aim to provide opportunities ...
Library staff and students are voicing concerns about a plan to reduce staffing and services at the Friedman Study Center in the Sciences Library. University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi announced the planned changes April 15 in an email to all undergraduates. The changes All course reserves, which are ...
As students at Brown urge the administration to take greater measures to address the lack of diversity and inclusion on campus, students and faculty members at other colleges in Rhode Island are also working to have their voices heard on their campuses. Such events represent students’ and faculty ...
Cathy Russell, U.S. ambassador-at-large for global women’s issues, delivered a lecture titled “Why Empowering Women and Girls is Good for U.S. Foreign Policy” Tuesday in the Joukowsky Forum of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. The lecture discussed the importance of incorporating ...
Roland Fryer, professor of economics at Harvard, gave a lecture entitled “Understanding Racial Differences in Police Use of Force” in the Starr Auditorium in MacMillan Hall Monday. The talk, part of the “Economics in the Real World Symposium,” argued that though there are substantial racial ...
The fire at an off-campus house at 185 Angell Street Thursday morning was caused by the electrical system, wrote Lindsay Lague, public information officer for the Providence Department of Safety. The house is home to a number of players on the men’s hockey team, including Andrew Doane ’17, who received ...
U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz delivered the 92nd Stephen Ogden Jr. ’60 Memorial Lecture on International Affairs Monday. He discussed diplomacy, the Iran Deal, nonproliferation and climate change before a packed DeCiccio Family Auditorium, which seats around 600 people. Moniz emphasized the ...
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