The University joined eight other private research universities Tuesday to file an amicus brief — a document by non-participating but interested parties — urging the National Labor Relations Board to continue recognizing graduate assistants as students rather than paid employees. The NLRB is a federal ...
Republican leadership of the Senate Finance Committee and the House Ways and Means Committee sent letters to 56 universities, including Brown, Feb. 8, asking about how the universities finance and spend their endowments with a response deadline of April 1. The purpose is to learn about how universities ...
The Office of Residential Life is re-forming a program house council for the eight program houses, said ResLife Associate Director Kate Tompkins. The last program house council was created in 2005 when Residential Council, a student advisory board for ResLife, enacted new program house guidelines that ...
Students rushed the stage as Viola Davis left Salomon Center after her presentation, sponsored by the Brown Lecture Board, Monday evening. The excitement and emotion of her words hung in the air. Davis’s speech elicited laughter, cheers, applause, snaps, murmurs of assent and three standing ovations. Over ...
The John Hay Library is displaying a pair of slave shackles, on loan from the International Slavery Museum, in a glass case at the entrance of the first-floor reading room. The iron shackles are a type that were used on board slave ships during the brutal journey across the Atlantic Ocean from the west ...
Neuroscience concentrator Pu-Ning Chiang ’16 is one of the 182 international students in her class year. Hailing from Taiwan, Chiang will rely on the Department of Homeland Security’s Optional Practical Training program to continue living in the United States legally following her graduation in ...
On Feb. 18, Erika Edwards, associate professor of ecology and evolutionary biology, received the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers, the U.S. government’s highest award for engineers and scientists in the early stages of their independent research careers. Edwards was acknowledged ...
When temperatures dipped to -9 degrees Fahrenheit earlier this month, the Department of Facilities Management responded to 40 student calls of cold rooms and broken heaters, said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management. Facilities Management, anticipating the freeze, tripled its weekend ...
The Mental Health Community Council and Title IX Oversight and Advisory Board will debut a pilot program for research funding this semester. Students serving on those committees will receive an hourly wage for committee-related projects. Members of the MHCC and Title IX OAB will be given the opportunity ...
After an initial vote to evict the Environmental Program House from one of its two locations, North House at 111 Brown Street, the Residential Council decided to allow the EPH to stay for one year, wrote Chair of the Residential Council Sam Rubinstein ’17 in an email to The Herald. The original decision ...
Kenneth Miller '70 P'02, professor of biology, spoke at the Feb. 13 annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Washington D.C., where he reviewed the 2005 Kitzmiller v. Dover case, in which he testified as an expert witness. The historic ruling condemns the teaching ...
Last week’s low temperatures and snowfall brought new challenges to Facilities Management and University Transportation. While the University closed Feb. 8 and students did not attend class, staff members and administrators came in to clear the snow and maintain University operations despite the cold. ...
Presidential donations by Brown affiliates Create bar charts Campaign donations from Brown faculty members, administration and students heavily leaned toward Democratic candidates, with more campaign donations supporting Hillary Clinton than Sen. Bernie Sanders, D-VT, according to data from the Federal ...
The University held an open house Wednesday at 93 Benevolent Street, known as the “Bannister House,” to celebrate its completed renovation. The house is the former residence of famous African-American painter Edward Mitchell Bannister, a nationally recognized painter and co-founder of the Providence ...
High school senior Matt Sarafa posted a video on YouTube Feb. 9 claiming his Brown alumni interviewer used racist and homophobic language during his interview. Sarafa subsequently withdrew his application to the Class of 2020 because of the experience. In the video, which now has over 62,000 views, ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students released details Tuesday on new University policies and programs affecting students receiving financial aid. These revisions mark the culmination of a process that began with a Corporation focus group in May and continued with the debate, revision and release ...
More than 500 people filled Salomon 101 to celebrate the achievements of staff members at the annual Brown Employee Appreciation and Recognition Day Monday. President Christina Paxson P’19 gave awards to 12 individuals and three teams from 14 different departments for excellence in the categories ...
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs welcomed Carrie Nordlund MA’01 PhD’06 as the new associate director of the Public Policy Program and senior administrator of the Master’s of Public Affairs Program earlier this month. Nordlund arrived at Brown fresh out of her position ...
This story is the first in a three-part series about Syrians in Providence and at Brown University. Students and community members gathered at the State House Monday to protest the non-profit organization Americans for Peace and Tolerance, which assembled to ask Gov. Gina Raimondo to rescind her welcome ...
The University will review a judge's decision regarding a lawsuit filed against it in April after a judge ruled Monday to allow the case to proceed. A former member of the Class of 2017 filed the case against the University and alleges that he was discriminated against due to his gender in a sexual ...
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