The University will spend more than $1 billion over the next decade on investments in people as it pursues the “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence,” said President Christina Paxson P’19 at an open forum Monday afternoon. The plan “focuses on investing in the people who make ...
In the first meeting of ECON 1530: “Health, Hunger and the Household in Developing Countries” on Sept. 9, Professor of Economics Andrew Foster gave students access to all University course evaluations from the previous year to help them decide whether to take the course. For students trying to ...
The University has appointed undergraduates, graduate students and medical students to the newly formed Title IX Council and the Title IX Oversight Board. The move, recommended by the Task Force on Sexual Assault in its April final report, comes as part of a larger effort to improve campus sexual misconduct ...
The “Speak About It” sexual assault prevention program, a staple of first-year orientation for the last three years, may not return to the University following widespread negative student feedback since last spring. A group consisting of members of campus advocacy groups, Residential Peer Leaders, ...
“Equality must be won by every generation because it will never be freely granted,” New York Times columnist Charles Blow told a sold-out crowd of students, faculty and community members Thursday in Salomon 101. Blow’s lecture, entitled “The New Civil Rights Movement,” addressed the implications ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 offered a preview of the changes and initiatives that will shape the University’s next decade with the release of an operational plan Thursday. The plan, “Operational Plan for Building Brown’s Excellence,” identifies four key areas that will guide Brown’s ...
Depending on whom you ask, Brown may be the nation’s sexiest, smartest college. It might also be the best, smartest party school. It may even rank in the top ten U.S. colleges. But each ranking stacks the various factors differently and has its own idea of which should be taken into consideration, ...
Graduate students have been hired to patrol first-year residence halls and program houses to reduce disturbances and increase alcohol safety on weekend nights. This initiative was one of several recommendations from the Alcohol and Social Event Review committee’s report — released to the community ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students sought internal feedback on the thematic areas it plans to address this year at its first general body meeting Wednesday night. UCS President Sazzy Gourley ’16 said the council has struggled in the past with a lack of transparency and a retroactive confrontation ...
The University has discontinued the composting program in Andrews Commons following the end of the pilot program last semester. The Office of Energy and Environment is currently weighing strategies for proceeding with sustainability efforts in regards to composting. Brown is the only Ivy League institution ...
As part of the University’s efforts to reduce its structural deficit, a strategic sourcing manager will begin working at Insurance and Purchasing Services Monday, said Jeanne Hebert, purchasing director. Hebert declined to identify the new hire before Monday due to confidentiality concerns, though ...
Baruch students face murder charges for hazing death Five students from Manhattan’s Baruch College will face murder charges for the December 2013 death of Chun Hsein Deng, almost two years after a hazing incident for the fraternity Pi Delta Psi led to Deng’s fatal head injury, the New York Times ...
“It is better to live like a lion for one day than to live like a slave for 1,000 years,” Malala Yousafzai says over the beautiful opening sequence of, “He Named Me Malala.” The quote comes from Malalai, her namesake and a girl who led Afghani forces over the British Empire in 1880. This name ...
The University’s new online sexual assault prevention training for first-years was hacked last month. As a result, the website was taken down Aug. 26, and some first-years have not completed the program, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for Computing and Information Services. The program, called ...
The following is an account of crime events that took place this month, reported to The Herald by Deputy Chief of Police for the Department of Public Safety Paul Shanley: Nguyen ’16 finds home intruder Eric Nguyen ’16 intercepted an attempted robbery at his house Sept. 5 by tackling the burglar ...
“Iran could have had a bomb in a few weeks or a few months without this agreement,” said Leon Cooper, professor of physics, at a Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs teach-in Monday afternoon. The event focused on the controversial foreign policy agreement and featured five panelists: ...
The class of 2019 was the first to test out a new sexual assault prevention online training unveiled this summer by the Title IX Office and Health Services’ Health Promotion division. The program, Agent of Change, leads students through various scenarios and topics including sexual assault, sexual ...
As students returned to campus last week, familiar move-in routines like trips to pick up packages at Alumnae Hall, standing in line in the lobby of J. Walter Wilson and memorizing mailbox combinations were noticeably absent. The University mailroom, housed in J. Walter Wilson, was renovated this summer, ...
Students at the Alpert Medical School are breathing easy after the school’s administration approved a ban on tobacco products on the school’s premises this summer. The ban — which covers all tobacco products, including e-cigarettes — was a “no-brainer,” said Kris Cambra, director of biomedical ...
Mobile-app developers, fashion designers, engineers and Ph.D. candidates alike came together to participate in the University’s inaugural Summer B-Lab — known in full as the Breakthrough Lab — held at the Perry and Marty Granoff Center for the Creative Arts June 8–July 31. The program gave 17 ...
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