The Sustainability, Strategic Planning and Advisory Committee released its interim report earlier this month, with several recommendations it hopes will be incorporated into the University’s upcoming strategic plan, said Chris Powell, chair of the committee and director of sustainable energy and environmental ...
The Brown-India Initiative awarded nearly $75,000 to fund summer projects for students and faculty members this spring, marking the first time the initiative has distributed funding for summer projects. Eight undergraduates, seven graduate students and two faculty members received funding to pursue ...
The Department of Public Safety brought the Providence Police Department’s canine bomb squad to Spring Weekend events in response to the recent bombings at the Boston Marathon, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. The police dogs, which are trained to detect the scent of a variety of ...
Since he was beaten and robbed Jan. 27, a male first-year has faced hospital tests, court proceedings and accusatory rumors. That night, three men — playing a game called “Victim” — followed, assaulted and robbed the student behind the Gate around 4:30 a.m. Hit and run The student ...
Introductory courses English courses ENGL 0210, ENGL 0410 and ENGL 0610 — renamed ENGL 0300, ENGL 0500 and ENGL 0700, respectively — will no longer be required for English concentrators starting this fall, said Department Director of Undergraduate Studies and Associate Professor of English Stephen ...
Warning: This article contains graphic material regarding sexual assault. Walking past the place where she was raped, Emily still suffers anxiety attacks. Emily, whose name has been changed to maintain confidentiality, said that in the months after her assault, she battled depression, felt ...
Students expressed much higher levels of uncertainty and ignorance than did faculty members in their appraisals of President Christina Paxson’s job performance in The Herald’s undergraduate poll and faculty poll, both conducted this semester. A plurality of students, just under 49 percent, reported ...
Artists, scientists and college presidents are among the six individuals selected to receive honorary doctorates at this year’s Commencement ceremony May 26 . The group comprises actor and director Benjamin Affleck, writer Junot Diaz, bacteriologist Stanley Falkow PhD’61, Tougaloo College President ...
The identification of a body found Tuesday evening in the river by India Point Park will likely be delayed, the Providence Journal reported Wednesday. Deputy Police Chief Thomas Oates III told the Journal that members of the state medical examiner’s office will be unable to examine the body until ...
A majority of faculty members find first-year students prepared for college-level academics, with 23 percent responding that first-years were “very prepared” and 50 percent responding that they were “somewhat prepared” in a Herald faculty poll conducted earlier this month. Professor ...
The Corporation will likely not vote to divest from coal at its meeting in May, “as it will be the first time they will discuss the issue,” said President Christina Paxson at a Brown University Community Council meeting Tuesday. Trevor Culhane ’15, along with two other members of the Brown Divest ...
Most residents of Jameson House in Keeney Quadrangle remain displaced from their rooms after a fire in the dorm Monday evening. While no injuries were reported, there was smoke and water damage to the residence hall, The Herald previously reported. The cause of the fire remains under investigation, ...
One hundred and two seniors were elected April 17 to the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, Chapter Administrator Mary Jo Foley wrote in an email to The Herald. Founded at the College of William and Mary in 1776, Phi Beta Kappa is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and ...
Princeton’s provost to succeed Tilghman as president Princeton Provost Christopher Eisgruber will take office July 1 as the university’s 20th president, presidential search committee leaders announced Sunday. Eisgruber, who has served as the school’s provost for nearly nine years, will succeed ...
Two leading experts on marijuana legalization squared off Thursday on the implications, merits and economic effects of legalizing the substance in a debate hosted by the Janus Political Union Debates, a sub-group of the Janus Forum. Alex Friedland ’15, fellows director of the Janus Forum, moderated ...
The University will grant all unionized staff members access to the ombudsperson, reversing a previous Faculty Executive Committee proposal from last month, wrote Paul Mancini, University director of labor and employee relations, in an email made available to The Herald. “I have been informed that ...
Warning: This article contains graphic material regarding sexual assault. Peter, a 2011 graduate of the University, saw his life turned upside down when a woman he had dated filed a sexual assault complaint against him with the Department of Public Safety in fall 2008. “I knew the relationship ...
Academic experts and religious leaders debated the legalization of same-sex marriage at a heated forum sponsored by The Herald and the Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions Tuesday. Speakers from both the pro- and anti-same-sex marriage perspectives shared the stage with scholars ...
A student was struck when a portion of the ceiling in her dorm room collapsed on her as she slept last week, but she was not seriously injured. At 7:30 a.m. Friday, the ceiling facade of Slater Hall 403 fell onto Ramya Mahalingam ’14. The rubble, which was composed of plaster and sheetrock, fell ...
Nearly half of faculty members would like to see the Graduate School as the University’s top-priority project in the coming years, according to a poll conducted by The Herald earlier this month. Over 45 percent of faculty members chose the Grad School in the poll. Around 16 percent of faculty members ...
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