Thirty-five juniors were elected to the Rhode Island Alpha chapter of Phi Beta Kappa Feb. 12, 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 becoming ...
The Undergraduate Finance Board elected a new representative to fill an open position during the Undergraduate Council of Students meeting last night. Dakotah Rice ’16 — who was selected from six candidates — will represent 10 student groups and aid in UFB’s spring budgeting process. “I ...
With the January passage of the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012, Congress pushed the original Jan. 1 deadline for the federal budget sequester — which includes potential cuts to higher education research and financial aid funding — to March 1. But even with the extended deadline, the higher ...
The most critical challenge of the 21st century is maintaining systems that support life for many generations while meeting the needs of today’s population, said Pamela Matson, dean of the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, in a lecture yesterday. Matson’s talk, entitled “Transitions ...
Students looking for jobs beyond the finance, consulting or technology industries or just looking for ways to serve the “Common Good” after graduation have a new resource — the University is hosting the first annual Brown/Rhode Island School of Design Nonprofit Career Fair today. Thirty-eight ...
Thirty employers will gather in the Kasper Multipurpose Room for the Spring Career Fair today, an annual event held by the Center for Careers and Life After Brown that provides job, internship and networking opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students. “It’s a great resource and one of ...
The University is looking to strengthen and coordinate resources for student veterans, while increasing outreach in the military to develop a larger student veteran population. Following the Corporation’s approval of the University budget last week, a position will be created for a veteran to head ...
Over 250 early admitted students of the class of 2017 attended Early Admitted Students Day Monday, said Matthew Price, assistant director of admission and coordinator of the program. The number represents the largest group of early-admitted students to attend in the event’s three-year history, he ...
The addition of new sorority Kappa Delta will mark the first time in 30 years that a sorority has joined Brown’s Greek system. Originally small organizations within Pembroke College — the University’s former women’s school — sororities have a history that reaches almost as far back as Pembroke ...
For over 100 environmental student leaders within the Brown community, the long weekend was a break from classes — but not from advocating their cause. Living up to their activist image, Brown students traveled to the nation’s capital Sunday to march alongside an estimated 35,000 to 50,000 other ...
The University will not be affected by the U.S. Postal Service’s announcement earlier this month that it plans to cease Saturday letter delivery. USPS first raised the possibility of ending Saturday letter delivery about a year ago. At the time, Manager of University Mail Services Fred Yattaw was ...
Adam Ringguth GS died early Wednesday morning under hospice care after spending months in intensive care. Ringguth, who was 32, had been transitioning in and out of consciousness since late November, when he was found unconscious on the floor of his apartment, said Tim Harris P’03, professor of history ...
The Corporation approved a 4 percent hike in undergraduate tuition and fees — the largest increase in three years — and an accompanying 5.6 percent increase in financial aid, President Christina Paxson announced in a campus-wide email Thursday morning. The operating budget for fiscal year 2014 ...
Valentine’s Day doubled as a day of awareness as students around campus participated in the One Billion Rising campaign’s events intended to “Strike. Dance. Rise!” against violence directed at women around the world. The campus group represents one chapter of the global campaign, which includes ...
The Corporation approved the creation of a School of Public Health in a conference call Wednesday, President Christina Paxson wrote in a community-wide email Thursday. The current Program in Public Health will become a separate school in July, at which point its leaders will begin working to get it ...
President Christina Paxson invited all students, staff members and faculty members last Wednesday to participate in the MyCampus survey prepared by design firm Sasaki Associates. The survey marks a key component of data collection for the Committee on Reimagining the Brown Campus and Community, one ...
Nine Barus and Holley classrooms and laboratories are currently being cleared of asbestos, said Stephen Maiorisi, vice president for Facilities Management. Asbestos is a naturally occurring mineral fiber that is found in rock and soil, according to the Environmental Protection Agency. The fiber was ...
2003 In the aftermath of the Columbia space shuttle tragedy, students and professors mourned the fallen astronauts while expressing optimism for the nation’s space program. But letters Americans sent to various national newspapers contained “cynical, even hateful” tones, The Herald reported ...
Around 610 courses have switched from MyCourses to Canvas, according to data released by Hong Chau, instructional technologist for the academic technology division of Computing and Information Services. The University is in the final semester of a two-year transition from MyCourses to the new course ...
When the New Curriculum was created, its progenitors “envisioned independent study as a cornerstone of the Brown academic experience,” according to the Curricular Resource Center’s website. More than 40 years later, though the College Curriculum Council approved only eight Independent Study Projects ...
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