Updated at 9:30 p.m. Oct. 27, 2020. President Christina Paxson P’19 was elected chair of the Association of American Universities’ Board of Directors Tuesday, according to an AAU press release. The AAU is composed of 65 research universities dedicated to promoting higher education and academic ...
Part 1 in a 2-part series “Welcoming Students Back to Brown: A Conversation with Dr. Jha and VP Carey. Part 2 can be found here. Between monitoring the statewide and national numbers, securing adequate and timely testing and ensuring ample space for quarantining and isolating community members, the ...
Part 2 in a 2-part series “Welcoming Students Back to Brown: A Conversation with Dr. Jha and VP Carey. Part 1 can be found here. Although the University has decided to welcome more students back to College Hill and classrooms amid the coronavirus pandemic, it is continuing to monitor the situation ...
The Corporation, the University’s highest governing body, voted to approve a $1.3 billion base budget for the 2021 fiscal year during its May meeting, but this budget may be revised once the format of the fall semester is decided. Expenses and potential losses Because the budget was drafted from ...
Onésimo Almeida, professor of Portuguese and Brazilian Studies, said he has requested a test for COVID-19 coronavirus following a trip to Portugal during which Almeida was near someone recently diagnosed with the virus.Alemeida told The Herald that the Rhode Island Department of Health did not give ...
The Department of Public Safety has launched an active, ongoing hate crime investigation into more than 15 incidents of homophobic graffiti inside Hegeman Hall dormitory. The homophobic graffiti was first seen in late November 2019, when a group of students noticed “gay room” written on the door ...
Assistant Provost for Sustainability Stephen Porder presented several long-term goals for sustainability during yesterday’s Brown University Community Council meeting. The drafted sustainability plan looks to achieve a 15 percent reduction in the University’s nitrogen and phosphorous footprint by ...
This past week, Today@Brown celebrated its two-year anniversary of bringing campus news to the Brown community in the form of a daily email. What began as an attempt to correct problems caused by Morning Mail — the University’s previous daily distributor of campus news — has become a staple for ...
For the first time in its history, the University has published its official policies for gift acceptance and the naming of University spaces and positions. The Oct. 27 announcement, which followed the annual fall Corporation meeting, comes as universities nationwide face pressure to increase transparency ...
Timothy Edgar, senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and former associate general counsel at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, has filed a First Amendment lawsuit against the directors of several federal agencies. Edgar and four other former government ...
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