In its last general body meeting of the semester Wednesday, the Graduate Student Council held elections for internal positions, heard presentations from guest speakers and received the executive board’s end-of-year report. The GSC elected first-year PhD student Melaine Ferdinand-King GS as vice president ...
Updated 10:15 p.m. May 1, 2019. The Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs will officially merge its three undergraduate concentrations into a single International and Public Affairs concentration, the Institute announced Monday afternoon. The new single concentration, which has been ...
The Department of Economics is receiving a $25 million donation from Orlando Bravo ’92, according to a University press release. Of this total, $15 million will be allotted to founding the Orlando Bravo Center for Economics Research, and the remaining $10 million will be used to attract eight to ...
Approximately 160 students will receive on-campus housing for the 2019-20 academic year through the summer assignment process. Of these students, 130 are rising juniors, wrote Melissa Flowers, senior director of residential education and operations in the Office of Residential Life, in an email to ...
President Christina Paxson P’19 presented on divestment and the national admissions scandal at the Undergraduate Council of Students’ general body meeting Wednesday evening. The general body also discussed club categorization and re-activation at the end of the meeting. During her address, Paxson ...
Peter Rossi, director of Dining Services, is stepping down from his position after 20 years at the University. In his role, Rossi led the “strategic, tactical planning and execution” of Dining Services, according to his LinkedIn. He previously served as associate director of Dining Services before ...
A report published Monday by the University coalition SPEAK found that 94.4 percent of speakers invited to Brown in 2018 who demonstrated an explicit political leaning leaned left. Of the 325 speakers evaluated by the report who spoke about United States politics, 200 — or 61.5 percent — demonstrated ...
Following graduate students’ vote to unionize in late November, bargaining committees representing Stand Up for Graduate Student Employees and the University began negotiations toward a collective bargaining agreement earlier this month. Brian Clark, the University’s director of news and editorial ...
The Department of Facilities Management has started a project to replace hot water tanks in dorms on Wriston Quad that have been emitting water discolored by rust. Facilities began working to address issues with the hot water tanks after plumbers “noticed the discolored water” while performing routine ...
An ordinance being considered by the City of Providence could make big house parties a thing of the past on College Hill. According to the proposed ordinance, off-campus single-family housing would be limited to three college undergraduates per residential unit. The amendment, which is now under consideration ...
As climate change contributes to a warming Providence, symptoms of already present urban inequality in Providence may worsen as a result. With longer and more severe heat waves and increased flooding already occurring, city officials and researchers say that low-income neighborhoods in the city will ...
The University’s Department of Education discussed its plans to implement widespread curricular changes across all of its undergraduate and graduate programs Monday in a forum with students. The proposal, which would go into effect over the next two years, is still in the development process, Chair ...
At Commencement on May 26, President Paxson P’19 will confer honorary doctorates on seven individuals distinguished in their fields — Sheryl Brissett Chapman ’71, Ken Burns, John Krasinski ’01, Jennifer Anne Richeson ’94, David M. Rubenstein, E. Paul Sorensen ’71 MA’75 PhD’77 P’06 ...
This is the second of two stories in a series titled, “Far from Home: Navigating Brown,” which explores the experiences of international students at the University. Amid national attention to the fairness of the college admission process, calls have also increased to make the University more accessible ...
On an August night in 2018 in Portsmouth, RI, seven high school sophomores were playing video games and eating whipped cream in their friend’s basement, discussing how to write their suicide prevention proposals into law. Eight months later, their bill, which would require all school personnel in ...
Caliente Mexican Grill is set to open by the end of April as the most recent addition to Thayer Street’s restaurants. Replacing Thayer Street Deli, Caliente will be the fourth eatery to occupy the 267 Thayer address since August 2017, The Herald previously reported. Previously, 267 Thayer has housed ...
Monday evening, Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-HI, named the cost of war as the focus of her bid for the White House in 2020. Gabbard told the audience at an event hosted by the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs that as president, she would work to end American regime-change wars and what ...
This is the first of two stories in a series titled, “Far from Home: Navigating Brown,” which explores the experiences of international students at the University. For some students, coming to the University means traveling a few hours away from family to receive an Ivy League education. For others, ...
This is the second of two stories examining the workings of the University’s largest concentration — the computer science department — its value and its challenges. Like many computer science students, Chelsey Serrano ’22 is finishing up a two-part CS intro sequence with help from close friends, ...
Former Associate Dean and Director of Student and Employee Accessibility Services Catherine Axe ’87 left the University in March to “pursue a wonderful leadership opportunity” at Johns Hopkins University as its inaugural executive director of student disability services, wrote Eric Estes, the ...
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