One hundred and four seniors were elected this week to the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, the nation’s oldest undergraduate academic honor society, Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley wrote in an email to The Herald. Since the College of William and Mary founded the first Phi Beta ...
Two versions of history were recounted Thursday afternoon, as students and faculty members packed into Salomon 101 to contemplate the role of the United States in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But determining which version of history was correct was a question on which Noam Chomsky, professor emeritus ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted unanimously to establish a fifth subgroup called the Outreach and Advocacy Committee tasked with working on student group resolutions at its last general body meeting of the semester Wednesday night. The committee was formed from a working group comprising ...
Winners of the 2014 Alfred H. Joslin Award were announced Wednesday. The award is given annually to 10 to 12 seniors to recognize their contributions to the quality of life of Brown through their leadership and involvement, according to the Office of Campus Life and Student Services’ website. The ...
The Admission Office welcomed 767 admitted applicants from as far away as Brazil to A Day on College Hill Tuesday, a two-night event to present prospective students with a comprehensive idea of Brown’s academic and student life. This year’s schedule included more events than in previous years, ...
Undergraduates are divided on President Christina Paxson’s proposal in her strategic plan to increase the total student and faculty population by approximately 1 percent each year over the next decade, according to a Herald poll conducted April 14 - 18. Almost 34 percent of respondents approved of ...
Teaching Associate in Music Charles Sherba died Saturday morning, according to a statement on the Department of Music’s website written by Paul Phillips, director of orchestras and chamber music. Sherba had battled cancer for two years. Sherba, 62, began his time at Brown as a teaching associate ...
Out of 655 candidates, Hannah Duncan ’15 was selected last week as one of 59 nationwide undergraduate recipients of the Truman Scholarship. Duncan, who is studying abroad at Oxford University for the entire academic year, is the first Brown student in three years to receive the scholarship since ...
The University named Assistant Professor of English Vanessa Ryan an associate dean of the Graduate School in January despite evidence of alleged plagiarism in her published work, according to multiple sources and documents reviewed by The Herald. A University inquiry committee tasked with looking into ...
The day after Lena Sclove ’15.5 publicly revealed the details of her alleged rape and experiences with the University disciplinary hearing process, students circulated a petition Wednesday urging the University to revise its sexual assault policies with more stringent penalties for students found ...
About 80 graduate students picketed in front of President Christina Paxson’s house Wednesday evening to protest the denial of funding to some grad students seeking to complete a sixth year at the University. The roughly 80 students who submitted Dissertation Completion Proposals for sixth-year funding ...
After an almost semester-long selection process, Caroline Bologna ’14 and Josh Block ’14 have been chosen as the class of 2014’s student commencement speakers. Nominated by their fellow seniors in January, Bologna and Block were informed of their selection Friday, following a final audition last ...
Though a record 18 percent of students accepted into the class of 2018 will be the first in their families to attend college, the University does not plan on increasing its funding for first-generation student support, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services and interim ...
Supreme Court upholds Michigan’s affirmative action ban The Supreme Court issued a decision Tuesday allowing Michigan’s ban on the use of race in public university admission to continue, multiple news outlets reported. The Supreme Court voted 6 to 2 in Schuette v. Coalition to Defend Affirmative ...
Just over half of faculty members approve of President Christina Paxson’s job performance, while the share of faculty members who disapprove has increased from last spring, according to the results of a Herald poll conducted April 14-18. Almost 20 percent of the faculty disapproves of Paxson’s ...
The summer after her first semester as a transfer student, Lena Sclove ’15.5 was strangled and raped by another Brown student, she said at a press conference Tuesday. Within two weeks, Sclove reported the incident to the Office of Student Life. Eight months later, following three months of hearings, ...
Biology topped the list of most popular concentration declarations — submitted by sophomores April 1 — for the second consecutive year, while computer science displaced economics, which witnessed a significant drop in declarations, for second place in this year’s declaration process. With 97 ...
With his blunt rhetoric, spirited hand gestures and puffs off an electronic cigarette, Adam Michnik gave over 50 people a taste of his rebellious nature at a lecture Monday in the Joukowsky Forum at the Watson Institute for International Studies. At the talk, entitled “The Traps of Democracy after ...
At some point in their undergraduate careers, Brown students may have snacked on an oatmeal-raisin cookie while waiting in line for their salad at Jo’s. Or maybe they’ve grabbed a few granola bars on their way out of the Blue Room. Or a banana or two as they leave breakfast at the Ratty. But according ...
The Undergraduate Finance Board has met 82 percent of student groups’ funding requests for the upcoming academic year, marking an increase from 70 percent this year. UFB leadership provided The Herald with the numbers, which have not yet been publicly released. The board allocated $1.15 million ...
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