The BioMedical Center played host to “White Skin, Black Asks,” a dialogue on white supremacy culture facilitated by the White Noise Collective R.I. Tuesday night. “White Noise R.I. works at the intersection of gender oppression and whiteness to dismantle white supremacy and racism,” said Rachel ...
For students still undecided on a concentration, there is now a new option to consider: architecture. Though an architectural studies concentration has always been available within the Department of History of Art and Architecture, a new interdisciplinary concentration, simply called architecture and ...
Brown Unplugged: Do It in the Dark, an annual competition among university residence halls to save energy, finished its sixth run Monday. The competition ran from March 1 to March 21 and saw 964 students register to compete. By the end of the competition, students saved over 11,215 kilowatt-hours and ...
Sharing a room or suite with a near-stranger is a hallmark of a student’s first year at Brown. For some students, that experience resurfaces later in their college experience with a new roommate at the beginning of spring semester or even later in the midst of spring break. Tassos Sapalidis ’18 ...
First-generation students at Brown will have a space allocated for their needs when the University’s First-Generation Student Center opens this summer. The center will be located on the fifth floor of the Sciences Library. “When we envisioned the center, we saw it as a way to bridge resources … ...
The Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning has appointed Mary Wright, current director of assessment and associate research scientist at the Center for Research on Learning and Teaching at the University of Michigan, as its new director, wrote Dean of the College Maud Mandel in a community-wide email ...
The University boasts the second largest number of international students who have attended a United World College high school among all U.S. colleges, wrote Rebecca Zuck, senior development associate, in an email to The Herald. Founded in 1962 to bring together young people from different sides of ...
The Alpert Medical School gained its first gender-inclusive bathroom after prompting by medical students, wrote Associate Dean of Medical Education Allan Tunkel in an email to The Herald. Noticing there was a single-occupancy bathroom on the second floor of the Med School, Brian Leyva MD’18 and a ...
Police shootings and brutalization of black youths have become so commonplace in the United States that it can be difficult to imagine how to remedy the structural racism that allows for such injustices to occur, but difficulty is no reason to stand at the sidelines during times of crisis, said Opal ...
Updated March 21, 2016 at 12:01 a.m. Sam Rubinstein ’17 and Lainie Rowland ’17, a Herald opinions editor, entered their hallway in Marcy House close to 1 a.m. Friday to find anti-Semitic and homophobic messages scrawled on the walls. Upon seeing the graffiti, Rowland contacted the leaders of Beta ...
“Who has to have a soapbox when all you’ve ever needed is your voice?” asked Clint Smith in a video projected across the Martinos Auditorium at TedxBrownU. Brown University held its own TEDx event March 19, hosting 12 speakers and 100 audience members in the Granoff Center for Creative Arts. With ...
If science, technology, engineering and mathematics suffer from a deficit of interest, Brown’s Brain Fair in Sayles Hall proved otherwise. The March 19 event was attended by over 500 people ranging from faculty members to local children — many of whom sported purple and pink neurons painted on their ...
The Inter-Religious Working Group kicked off with a four-hour inaugural meeting Feb. 29, facilitated by the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life. The IRWG is University Chaplain Janet Cooper Nelson’s attempt to delve deeper into issues surrounding religious tension and difference. The group ...
The University launched Courses@Brown, a new website for course search and registration, Monday. Students can expect to use Courses@Brown in the next round of course registration for the 2016 fall semester. Already, 2,000 students have browsed the new site, and 1,000 potential course carts have been ...
Earlier this month, Gov. Gina Raimondo unveiled the Computer Science for Rhode Island Initiative — a goal to have a computer science class in every Rhode Island public school by December 2017, according to the initiative’s website. Among the five programs that schools can implement is Bootstrap, ...
The University has launched a search committee to fill the resident director position for the Paris study abroad program. The Office of International Programs is seeking out a permanent hire to replace the rotating Brown faculty members who filled the position in past years. The University decided to ...
Drop in humanities degrees The number of undergraduates receiving humanities degrees is dropping, according to Insider Higher Ed. A study conducted by the American Academy of Arts and Sciences reported that between the years 2012 and 2014, the number of students to receive “core” humanities degrees ...
Updated March 20, 2016 at 12:35 p.m. Janet Mock, a black, native Hawaiian trans woman and activist, announced Wednesday morning that she had canceled her campus talk, “Redefining Realness,” which was originally scheduled for March 21. Mock was invited to be a keynote speaker by Moral Voices, in ...
Eighteen of Brown’s 96 Fulbright scholarship applicants received the award for the 2015-2016 application cycle, placing the University among the nation’s top producers of Fulbright scholars, according to the Chronicle of Higher Education. Offering grants in over 140 countries, the U.S. government-sponsored ...
“One of my goals throughout my whole life (has been) to literally walk on another planet,” said Connor Lynch ’17. “It’s what I’ve always wanted to do.” Rather than a pipe dream, Lynch’s aspirations of becoming an astronaut are not so distant from reality. Lynch was recently accepted ...
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