Hundreds of snaps rang throughout Salomon 101 in support of speakers’ messages of directly confronting racial tensions during a teach-in Tuesday about the events surrounding last month’s fatal shooting of unarmed black teenager Michael Brown by a white policeman in Ferguson, Missouri. The teach-in ...
Being first-generation is an “invisible identity,” said Stanley Stewart ’16. 1vyG, a University-based startup aimed at improving the first-generation college experience, is seeking to change that. Stewart, Manuel Contreras ’16 and Jessica Brown ’16 founded the group to create a lasting ...
The College Curriculum Council approved the English department’s revised concentration course requirements, the department announced Sept. 2. The new curriculum will apply to students who declare the English concentration this year and after, with students in the class of 2015 following previous course ...
Brown slipped from 14th to 16th place overall and plummeted from 12th to 39th place in selectivity in the 2015 edition of the U.S. News and World Report Best Colleges rankings, released at midnight Sept. 9. University officials are attributing these drops to an administrative “oversight” in which ...
On November 16, 1964, the Rockefeller Library opened its doors, featuring signs of the times like smoking rooms and a pneumatic tube messaging system. In honor of the half-century anniversary of this cornerstone of the University, the Rock 50 Committee has developed a series of events, exhibits and ...
In a significant uptick over the past two admission cycles, 42 students were admitted off the waitlist to the Brown class of 2018, Dean of Admission Jim Miller ’73 wrote in an email to The Herald. Two students were admitted off the waitlist for the class of 2017, while the Admission Office did not ...
Two of the three Brown undergraduates connected with allegedly committing a sexual assault of a female Providence College student last November remain enrolled at Brown and are on campus this semester, while the third has decided to withdraw from the University, the Providence Journal reported last ...
Students shopping courses may notice that some seminars are a bit longer this year. The Office of the Registrar has extended most late-afternoon seminar classes by 10 minutes this semester, so many courses that used to end at 5:20 p.m. and 6:20 p.m. now go until 5:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m., respectively. The ...
The John Hay Library reopened Sept. 2 after being closed for renovations during the 2013-14 academic year. Several changes, including a complete overhaul of the main reading room, were made primarily to make the space more inviting for students, visitors and staff members, said University Librarian ...
Updated Sept. 6 at 3:35 p.m. Amid the ongoing Ebola outbreak in West Africa, the University is encouraging community members to proceed carefully with travel to the region. Though there have not been any reported cases of current students or faculty members contracting the disease, Edward Wheeler, ...
The Corporation’s Committee on Facilities and Campus Planning has chosen architectural firm KieranTimberlake to design the School of Engineering’s new building. Located along Manning Walk, west of current engineering building Barus and Holley, the new structure is part of the School of Engineering’s ...
Gourmet Heaven will close both its New Haven, Connecticut, locations next summer after the chain’s owner was arrested in February for alleged wage theft, Yale announced last month. Despite the unrest in New Haven, as if March, no employees at either of the two Providence locations on Meeting Street ...
Four months after President Christina Paxson’s May 2 letter to the campus community announced plans to hire a Title IX coordinator, the University has officially begun the search to fill the position, with a Title IX Program Officer vacancy posted to the University’s Human Resources website Aug. ...
The Taubman Center for Public Policy and American Institutions will “be much more ambitious” going forward, James Morone, the center’s new director and professor of political science, public policy and urban studies, told The Herald as he prepared to introduce former President Bill Clinton at ...
In response to student complaints about the quality of the campus wireless network, Computing and Information Services installed a new wireless network this summer meant to replace Brown-Secure and Brown-EZ, said Ravi Pendse, vice president for computing and information services and chief information ...
As shopping period kicked off Wednesday with a sunny start, the Main Green came to life with clusters of students catching up and sprawling out between classes. “The weather is nice,” Carlin Smith ’18 said while sitting in a circle on the grass with a group of fellow first-years. The group had ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students will focus this year on improving sexual assault policy, mental health services and student resources such as financial aid and technology access, UCS leaders said. Many efforts that began last spring to reform the University’s sexual assault policy will continue ...
A committee is currently reviewing applications from across the country for the role of director of the CareerLAB, in the wake of former CareerLAB Director Andrew Simmons’ assumption of the role of associate dean for graduate student career advising. Jim Amspacher, career adviser for Careers in the ...
Free speech, diversity and research emerged as key issues for faculty during this academic year at Tuesday’s faculty meeting. President Christina Paxson took the podium to speak about both financial and campus life issues — touching most specifically on diversity and freedom of speech on campus. “These ...
A new generation of first-years marched through the Van Wickle Gates and onto the Main Green to mark the start of Brown’s 251st academic year yesterday afternoon. President Christina Paxson kicked off the ceremony, declaring the academic year officially in swing and inviting applause for the students ...
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