A house fire broke out in an off-campus apartment at 284 Ives Street Wednesday shortly before 1:00 a.m., wrote Deputy Chief of Police Paul Shanley in an email to The Herald. The apartment was occupied by graduate students who were not injured in the fire, though the house suffered minor damages, wrote ...
Local and national leaders in the prison education movement convened Friday morning to discuss their experiences, ideas and challenges as they sought to strengthen and create programs that provide higher education to incarcerated populations. “He who opens a school door closes a prison,” quoted ...
Students animatedly discussed ideas in lecture halls, whiteboards overflowed with colorful ink, and groups practiced their product pitches. It wasn’t just an ordinary day at the Warren Alpert Medical School — it was the inaugural run of Hack Health. Hack Health is a hackathon with a mission to “improve ...
At the University’s annual Constitution Day lecture, Greg Lukianoff, president of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, and Stanley Fish, visiting professor of Law at Yeshiva University’s Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law, explored the question: Should free speech be limited on college ...
Tricia Rose, director of the Center for the Study of Race and Ethnicity in America and professor of Africana studies, and James Morone, director of the Taubman Center for American Politics and Policy, spoke on the unpredictable, yet historically consistent, role of race in the 2016 presidential election ...
The Office of the Dean of the College and the Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning are launching a semester-long study with the help of the Undergraduate Council of Students to determine the reasons why students drop courses, said Dean of the College Maud Mandel. From the end of shopping period ...
This fall, the LGBTQ Center welcomed its newest staff member, Program Coordinator Je-Shawna Wholley. Wholley describes herself as “unapologetically” black, queer and a feminist. She felt Brown would allow her to draw on those identities in the course of her work. “Being a first-generation college ...
Updated Sept. 15, 2016 at 7 p.m. The Undergraduate Council of Students discussed new initiatives to improve the accessibility of various campus resources, including a plan to translate crucial documents for students into multiple languages, at its general body meeting Wednesday. “There are a lot ...
Provost Richard Locke P’17 announced the new “Reaffirming University Values: Campus Dialogue and Discourse” event series coming to campus this year in a community-wide email Sept. 2, adding to the ongoing national conversation regarding open discourse on college campuses. Locke began planning ...
The Council on Education for Public Health approved the School of Public Health’s application for accreditation June 18. CEPH, an “independent agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education,” has accredited just 59 schools of public health in the United States and its territories, according ...
As a part of its continuing sustainability efforts, the University compost initiative is now present in most on-campus dining establishments, said Jessica Berry, sustainability program manager. The initiative is a revival of the pilot program launched spring 2015 at Andrews Commons. With the expansion, ...
Gérard Araud, ambassador of France to the United States, spoke on French secularism and the growing issue of right-wing populism in Western Europe and the United States in a lecture titled “French Foreign Policy in an Unstable World” held at the Watson Institute’s Joukowsky Forum Tuesday. Araud ...
“The message space exploration sends to the rest of the human race is that when you get a bunch of people together who love what they do and put their talent together, you can do almost anything,” said Michael Genest, a key member of the Mission Control Center for the International Space Station ...
For the fall 2017 admission cycle, undocumented applicants and students who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be considered as domestic applicants, meaning they will be admitted via a need-blind admission policy, the University announced in a press release today. “We ...
After a potentially stressful summer including national and global tragedies, the Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life hosted a gathering yesterday evening on the Main Green featuring several administrators and students as well as members of the faculty and staff. The event was held on Eid al-Adha, ...
The environmental studies and science concentration is creating a new track devoted to studying the injustices and inequalities embedded within environmental issues, to be approved this spring, according to multiple sources. Last semester, the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society convened ...
The National Science Foundation awarded a four-year grant of $6 million to 14 researchers Aug. 22 for research into the neuroscience of attention. The scientists include three professors from the University: David Sheinberg, professor of neuroscience and director of the neuroscience graduate program; ...
For the fall 2017 admission cycle, undocumented applicants and students who qualify for the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program will be considered as domestic applicants, meaning that they will be admitted via a need-blind admission policy, the University announced in a press release ...
As Brown graduates, Jimmy Pedro ’94 and Luke McGee ’01 could have pursued any number of successful career paths. But both ended up coaching at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil this year. The U.S. judo team brought home one silver and one gold medal, and rowers in the men’s coxed eight ...
The Office of Counseling and Psychological Services has removed its seven-session limit on appointments in order to increase flexibility and accessibility, said Steven Rasmussen ’74 MD’77 P’13, chair of the Mental Health Community Council as well as a professor of psychiatry and human behavior ...
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