Missouri protests spark president’s resignation Following months of student and faculty protests that reached a peak in the last week, the University of Missouri saw the resignation of President Timothy Wolfe and a promise from Chancellor R. Bowen Loftin to step down to a research position at the ...
This story is the first in a three-part series about mental health at Brown and students’ attempts to navigate the gaps in treatment and understanding. Allie couldn’t breathe. She had experienced panic attacks before but never like this. Though she had been battling depression since high school, ...
Click here to view correlations between questions. 1. Do you approve or disapprove of the way Christina Paxson is handling her job as president of the University? 9.2% Strongly approve 33.7% Somewhat approve 38.3% No opinion 15.7% Somewhat disapprove 3.1% Strongly disapprove 2. How many times have you ...
The Number — a campus delivery service designed by three undergraduates — went live Monday after weeks of extensive research and promotion. The new company’s premise is simple: Students can text a number and have anything within a specified radius delivered. The Number’s creators — Isabella ...
Six administrators and students grappled with the University’s presentation and circulation of information during times of crisis at a panel Monday evening. The panel marked the first installment in a two-part series centered on the University’s response to emergencies, tragedy, trauma and unrest. The ...
All militant organizations must make decisions about how to employ a number of tactics to most effectively achieve strategic objectives, said Philip Potter, assistant professor of politics at the University of Virginia and principal investigator for a Minerva Initiative project sponsored by the Department ...
When President Christina Paxson P’19 isn’t on campus, she could be anywhere between New York City and Hong Kong. Between July 2014 and June 2015 she traveled to 16 different cities, spending a total of 71 days on the road. “Travel is important because the Brown community is much larger than simply ...
Almost 1,000 suit-clad high schoolers came to campus this weekend, participating in the 19th annual Brown University Simulation of the United Nations. The conference, which began Friday and ended Sunday, was the largest BUSUN conference yet with about 950 students from across the United States and the ...
The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life, in collaboration with several other campus divisions, brought two distinguished alums to campus this week whose spiritual identities have shaped their careers. During the three-day “With Usefulness and Reputation” residency, the guests were honored ...
Male professors at Brown were paid on average $14,841 more than their female counterparts in the 2013-2014 academic year, according to aggregated data recently released by the Chronicle of Higher Education. It is “not incorrect to say that there is a gender gap,” said Dean of the Faculty Kevin McLaughlin ...
Next spring, the Rockefeller Library will undergo a renovation to add a graduate student study center, said University Librarian Harriette Hemmasi. The addition marks a change from the past 10 years, during which the libraries have undergone nearly a dozen renovations focused exclusively on undergraduate ...
Marginalized people such as the homeless, child evangelists and sex offenders have interesting stories to tell, said New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv ’04 at a lecture Wednesday evening. Her talk, which was part of the “Great Brown Nonfiction Writer’s Lecture Series,” surveyed her experiences as ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students reviewed its progress on the campus life and curricular improvements portion of its strategic plan at its general body meeting Wednesday. The discussion served as the first of three opportunities for UCS general body members to provide feedback on the council’s ...
Costumes and cultural appropriation
Updated Nov. 4, 2015 at 2:16 p.m. The campus climate around freedom of speech featured prominently in remarks from both President Christina Paxson P’19 and Provost Richard Locke P’17 at a faculty meeting Tuesday. Paxson underscored Brown’s complementary roles as a place of open inquiry and an ...
The University filed an amicus brief along with 12 other schools Monday in support of the University of Texas at Austin’s use of race in its admission decisions, which is to be challenged in an upcoming Supreme Court case. Oral arguments for the case, Fisher v. University of Texas at Austin, are ...
Innovate Winter Break, a program offering a two-week internship for students interested in working with social enterprises and nonprofit organizations, will expand this year to include opportunities in New York, Boston, San Francisco and Washington, D.C. This year, about 60 employers — including ...
The student group First-Gens@Brown will release a guidebook by the end of winter break aimed at helping first-generation students navigate some challenges of college. “We wanted to support all first-gen college students on campus,” said Brandon Le ’18, a leader of the project. Manuel Contreras ...
The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs has received a $50 million gift from three donors, the University announced Monday evening. The joint gift, which is part of the BrownTogether comprehensive campaign’s $3 billion early fundraising efforts, was awarded by Chancellor Thomas Tisch ...
The Department of Middle East Studies has introduced a new postdoctoral fellowship in Palestinian Studies as part of the new initiative “New Directions in Palestinian Studies.” The initiative seeks to “take stock of the scholarship produced on the Palestinians over the past generation,” said ...
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