The Graduate Labor Organization filed three unfair labor practice charges against the University with the National Labor Relations Board in response to its cuts to top-up funds — payments to graduate student workers above their base stipends to ensure competitive compensation — in the Department ...
The Wellness Residential Experience at Sternlicht Commons on 450 Brook St., which includes both student dorms and the University’s health resources — has been open for nearly a full year to students and for nearly two full semesters to the staff who work in the building. Counseling and Psychological ...
After the University filed a motion last March to dismiss Soenen et al. v. Brown — the class-action lawsuit filed August 2021 that claims that the University fails to protect students from sexual violence — plaintiffs in the case expect to file their response in early May, lawyers for the plaintiffs ...
In the two years since the onset of the pandemic, the number of applicants to Brown’s Master of Public Health programs have more than doubled. The number of applicants rose from 437 in the 2020–2021 academic year to 948 applicants this 2021-2022 academic year and 889 for the 2022-2023 ...
From April 7 to 13, 134 students and 37 employees reported positive COVID-19 test results, according to an April 15 Today@Brown announcement from Executive Vice President for Planning and Policy Russell Carey ’91 MA’06. “We feel we’re seeing a continuation of what we expected … after ...
The Brown China Summit — an annual conference that brings academics, business leaders and policymakers to the University to discuss critical issues relating to China — wrapped up its weekend lineup of events on Sunday. This year’s conference, which began on Friday, April 17 with a keynote ...
The Global Brown Center for International Students, in collaboration with Storytellers@Brown, hosted its annual International Festival on the Main Green Saturday afternoon. The International Festival “is an opportunity to gather cultural student organizations around campus … and ...
Briahna Joy Gray, former national press secretary for Sen. Bernie Sanders’s 2020 presidential campaign and host of the “Bad Faith” podcast about progressive politics, joined Professor of the Social Sciences and Economics Glenn Loury on Friday at the Watson Institute for International and Public ...
There were just 44 submissions of independent concentration proposals by students in the 2020-21 academic year, marking a 52% decrease from the 92 submissions made during the pre-pandemic 2018-19 academic year, according to Peggy Chang ’93 MA’13, associate dean of the College and director of ...
When Paulina Duda, visiting assistant professor of Polish cinema and culture, arrived on campus this spring, she aimed to revive the University's formerly inactive Polish Program.
Thursday marked the start of the housing lottery for the 2022-23 academic year. On Tuesday, as some rising sophomores were scheduled to select their housing, the StarRez portal no longer listed any available beds, The Herald previously reported. Students have expressed their discontent with the housing ...
Election polls opened yesterday for the Undergraduate Council of Students, Undergraduate Finance Board and Class Coordinating Board elections. UCS Chair of Health and Wellness Emma Amselem ’24, Chas Steinbrugge ’24 and UCS Student Activities Committee Chair Ricky Zhong ’23 are competing ...
Current Undergraduate Finance Board Representative Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23 is running unopposed for UFB chair, while UFB First-Year Representative Arjun Krishna Chopra ’25 and UCS-UFB Liaison Johann Dizon ’24 are competing in the race for vice chair. The voting period for UFB, ...
In spring 2021, a group of University faculty and administrators came together with the task of developing a proposal for a potential Institute for Biology, Engineering and Medicine. Over a year later, a motion to establish the Institute — referred to as I-BEAM — effective July 1 was passed at ...
After beginning her new role on Jan. 1, Sarah Latham, executive vice president for finance and administration, has spent her first months in the position evaluating the departments she oversees and setting priorities, she said in an interview with The Herald. After former Executive Vice ...
With the spring semester drawing to a close in a few weeks, most seniors at Brown are busy enjoying their final stretch of the college experience. But for students in the class of 2022.5, one more semester of courses, deadlines, projects and exams still looms ahead.
Students Against Koch Influence presented to the Undergraduate Council of Students at the UCS general body meeting Wednesday evening. SAKI is an organization of students that seeks to push back against the influence of the Koch Foundation, a national donor network run by billionaire and conservative ...
Many rising sophomores were unable to select housing in this year’s regularly scheduled housing lottery due to a lack of availability and will instead enter a secondary process the week of April 25, according to an email sent to affected students Tuesday by the Office of Residential Life. The shortage ...
This academic year marked a return to fully occupied on-campus residences for undergraduates after the University’s spring 2020 move to remote learning. But according to multiple employees from the Office of Residential Life, the return to full capacity brought a number of long-standing issues ...
The COVID-19 pandemic hit all members of the University community with a wave of uncertainty. But for many adjunct faculty, this sense of instability wasn’t new. “The stressor of COVID exposed the weaknesses in our society,” said Connie Crawford, adjunct lecturer in Theatre Arts ...
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