The Rhode Island School of Design launched a new “brand identity” last month to better reflect the school’s “vision, values and priorities,” the culmination of a process that began last spring and involved input from hundreds of community members, according to a Sept. 28 press ...
The University donated $5 million to Care New England to support the building of a new labor and delivery center at Women and Infants Hospital, according to an Oct. 20 press release from the hospital. The new center, which is expected to begin construction in January 2023, will be named the Brown ...
Over 100 students crowded into the Kasper Multipurpose Room in the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center on Monday night to celebrate Diwali, a religious festival in Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism and Jainism. Dressed in a variety of traditional South Asian clothing such as kurtas, lehengas and shararas, ...
This morning, the University released the details of its Operational Plan for Investing in Research, which aims to increase University research output over the next five to seven years through investments in “space, faculty, staff and students,” according to a letter from President Christina ...
Latham Thomas, founder of maternity lifestyle brand Mama Glow, and Sarah Williams, visiting assistant professor of anthropology and gender studies, discussed their journeys with reproductive justice in a conversation hosted by Doulas@Brown in the Multipurpose Room of the Health & Wellness Center ...
University students can take their undergraduate education beyond the scope of single or double-concentrations with the Combined Degree Program or a triple concentration.
This winter marks the bear’s 119th year as a mainstay of Brown that has inspired songs, student names for art pieces and the four towering bear statues positioned throughout campus. The tradition of bringing live bears as mascots to represent the University at sporting events lasted from Helen’s ...
The University pledged in 2019 to reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2040 and cut its emissions by 75% by 2025, simultaneously unveiling multiple projects to reach these goals. While the University maintains that it is on track to reach its 2025 target with a new solar farm scheduled ...
Several students received incomplete or damaged deliveries of the items they stored with Campus Storage over the summer, according to students. Five students told The Herald that, when their belongings were delivered at the start of the academic year, they were missing boxes, received ...
In the 1960s, the women of Pembroke College were subject to strict rules. They adhered to curfews and conformed to dress codes under the parietal rules enforced at the time. But in 1965, one doctor in University health services made waves by doing what was unthinkable at the time — prescribing ...
When Caroline Sassan ’24 found out that the University was not offering its typical intramural soccer programming this fall, she began to look for alternate ways to still get on the field. Looking for “a pickup-type situation,” she came across an informal, queer soccer group led and participated ...
A class-action lawsuit filed in August 2021 claiming that the University fails to protect students from sexual violence can move ahead partially, a judge ruled on Tuesday. In March, the University filed a motion to dismiss the suit, The Herald previously reported. In May, the plaintiffs ...
The road to Jan. 6, 2021 began at an August 2016 rally in Columbus, Ohio for former President Donald Trump, according to Jonathan Lemire, POLITICO’s White House bureau chief and the host of “Way Too Early” on MSNBC.
After its dissolution in fall 2020, the Brown chapter of Sunrise Movement, a climate advocacy group, relaunched on campus last week. The chapter has already been active: Sunrise members have promoted a petition asking candidates to replace Provost Richard Locke P’18 to commit to the University’s ...
A unique blend of drums, keys, guitar, trumpet, bass and cello echoed throughout the hallways of T.F. Green Hall Friday night. Within one of the hall’s practice rooms, energy soared high as The Sundials rehearsed their set — they practiced certain verses over and over again, making sure to hit ...
The second cohort of a scholarship and leadership initiative for students from historically underrepresented backgrounds in the Master of Public Health program was announced Sept. 9, according to a Sept. 26 Today@Brown announcement. The Health Equity Scholars program is a two-year scholarship ...
The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, formally accepted over $91 million in gifts and pledges at its October meeting, according to a Monday Today@Brown announcement from President Christina Paxson P’19. These contributions, made since the Corporation’s last meeting ...
The Undergraduate Finance Board voted Sept. 16 to pass a budget that fully covers club sports costs, eliminating the prior requirement that club sports members fundraise a percentage of their budgets determined by the Athletics Department, according to UFB Chair Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23.
Last spring, as most students prepared for the end of the academic year, Thomas Varley went on strike. Along with the rest of the Indiana Graduate Workers Coalition at Indiana University Bloomington, Varley — a union representative for students in the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences ...
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