The Global Brown Center for International Students and the Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender hosted an International Women’s Day celebration Tuesday afternoon. The event was dedicated to promoting “community and celebration centered around the revolutionary lives of international women,” ...
The International House of Rhode Island is a nonprofit organization that serves as a community space for Rhode Island’s international students, scholars and visitors alongside their families, according to the organization’s website. Located ...
On Feb. 21, Tougaloo College announced a $10 million donation from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and producer Patty Quillin. The husband and wife intended the donation to bolster the Brown-Tougaloo partnership and strengthen ...
In a line stretching from Sayles Hall all the way down George Street, scores of eager and hungry students waited patiently to enter the Brown Taiwan Society’s Night Market on Sunday. Normally an annual event, the market took a two-year hiatus due to COVID-19 restrictions. This year, however, the ...
The University and a defendant identified by the pseudonym Jane Roe face charges of anti-transgender discrimination against student Lois Lane, who is also identified using a pseudonym in the suit, according to court filings filed March 2 in the U.S. District Court for the District of Rhode Island. ...
On Feb. 3, the Division of Campus Life announced the creation of the Disability Justice Student Initiative, a student-driven effort that aims to raise disability justice awareness and create community for students with disabilities. The Initiative is accessible to and supports undergraduate, graduate ...
Chairing an academic department at the University is a multifaceted task in normal times. But with the pandemic as an added stressor, department chairs at the University say that they have had to adapt unlike ever before to support their departments’ faculty and students.
The University and Graduate Labor Organization continued their negotiations regarding fiscal year 2023 stipend increases for graduate student workers in a March 2 meeting. In response to GLO’s proposal for a 21% stipend increase at a meeting last month, the University offered a 4.25% raise ...
Positive COVID-19 cases among students have declined for the third week in a row, according to a March 4 COVID-19 Campus Safety Update from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. Eighty students reported positive COVID-19 test results from Feb. ...
The University is currently working with partner organizations such as Scholars at Risk and the New University in Exile Consortium “to provide a safe academic ...
On Tuesday, President Christina Paxson P’19 announced that the BrownTogether campaign was extended to Dec. 31, 2024 with a new $4 billion ...
The University’s Advisory Committee on University Resources Management released its recommendations on a proposal by Scholars at Brown for Climate Action to revise the University’s gift acceptance policy and business ethics policy, according to a March 2 Today@Brown announcement from President ...
In March 2019, the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs announced plans to combine its Development Studies, International Relations and Public Policy concentrations into a single concentration called “International and Public Affairs,” The Herald previously reported. ...
As the spring semester presses on and University students scramble to secure summer and postgraduate opportunities, international students face particular logistical challenges in seeking employment in the U.S. “International students, especially those studying on F-1 student visas, have unique ...
Students, parents and University faculty crowded into the Salomon Center on Wednesday to listen to a lecture from the 2021 Co-recipient of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences Guido Imbens MA’89 PhD’91. Imbens won the prize for his work with Massachusetts Institute of Technology ...
A series of Title IX changes and proposals since the Biden administration took office in January 2021 has sparked discussion among policy experts and student activist groups on campus. Key changes include implementing protections against discrimination based on sexual orientation or gender identity ...
The Graduate Student Council hosted Andrew Campbell, dean of the graduate school, and Zhichun Lin, assistant director of career counseling, in its general body meeting on Wednesday.
The Undergraduate Council of Students presented its spring 2022 elections timeline at its general body meeting Wednesday evening. The timeline was written by the Student Government Association — which consists of UCS, the Undergraduate Finance Board and the Class Coordinating Board — and discussed ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 spoke on the Russia-Ukraine conflict at the March 1 faculty meeting, detailing how the University is taking a “personalized” approach to supporting its students. “These are truly harrowing experiences for affected members of our community, and it’s ...
The University announced new loosened masking restrictions in certain settings for individuals who are up to date with COVID-19 vaccines in a community-wide email Wednesday from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. Individuals who have “received all recommended ...
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