Associate Professor of Theater Arts and Performance Studies Sydney Skybetter was named the newest faculty director of the Brown Arts Institute.
On Monday, the Advisory Committee for University Resources Management will issue a recommendation to President Christina Paxson P’19 P’MD’20 on whether to approve a proposal to divest from 10 companies which student activists claim “facilitate the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territory.” ...
Groggy early morning classes are about to get a little less grim, as students can now turn to Hazel Origin Coffee — College Hill’s newest cafe on the edge of South Campus.
Less than three percent of Rhode Island’s food, beverage and alcohol expenditures are directed towards local and regional products, the recent Regional Food Count 2022 report revealed.
As the divestment push has stretched into the fall and a vote by the Corporation — Brown’s highest governing body — on whether to divest nears, climate activists have continued their original campaigns while intertwining their efforts with the movement on campus to divest from companies with ties ...
Pre-health students at Brown rely on Health Careers Advising for everything from first semester course selection to support during the application process to medical school and other health-related programs.
Brown faced the most new federal unfair labor practice charges in the Ivy League over the past year, according to a Herald analysis of National Labor Relations Board data.
The idea for 24cast.org began with a few friends trying to predict the outcome of the 2022 midterms on a whiteboard. Now, the group has dropped the whiteboard for something a bit more sophisticated: machine learning.
Brown’s Cogut Institute for the Humanities hosted a dedication ceremony for its new home in the renovated Andrews House this Thursday.
Brown’s Program in Liberal Medical Education stands out for allowing high school students to apply to the Warren Alpert Medical School for a combined undergraduate and medical school program, but that drastically impacts the composition of Brown’s medical school.
The City of Providence will invest $870,000 in overdose prevention as part of the City’s ongoing Overdose Prevention Strategy, Mayor Brett Smiley announced earlier this month.
Unlike pro-divestment encampments at peer institutions, Brown’s demonstration last April ended peacefully. But as negotiations between student participants and University administrators were underway, Brown and Providence’s police forces were drawing up contingency plans which included a mass arrest ...
The Student Government Association announced its 2024-25 first-year election winners on Tuesday evening after three days of voting. The voter turnout rate was 37% higher than last year.
Brown is looking for a new administrative leader for artificial intelligence.
Lifespan, the state’s largest employer and health care provider, laid off a fifth of its executive employees, the company’s leadership announced Friday.
On Tuesday evening, about 100 community and student activists — including approximately 50 Brown students led by the Brown Divest Coalition — gathered in front of Senator Jack Reed’s (D-RI) office to support Lebanon following recent Israeli military attacks on the country to target Hezbollah. ...
Since 2022, the Providence Redevelopment Agency has awarded $55.6 million in loans to projects that will build or restore affordable housing units. The loans will assist with a total of 2,114 units, according to city spokesperson Michaela Antunes. This August, a $12.7 million chunk of that money was ...
A memo from Brown’s diversity oversight board calls on Brown for transparency and public engagement on its reinstatement of test-mandatory policy, demographic data from admissions and anti-discrimination policies.
After a year of sitting in ninth place, Brown fell to 13th in the 2025 US News Best Colleges Rankings. It was the only school to fall out of the top 10 this year.
Many high schoolers whose top college choice is Brown apply under its binding early decision program, which has a higher acceptance rate.
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