John Maeda, the 16th president of the Rhode Island School of Design, will resign at the end of the semester, according to a RISD press release. Maeda will leave RISD to become a design partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer, a Silicon Valley venture capital firm, in January. He will also ...
Satirical candidate set to lead Harvard student council A Harvard junior who was elected vice president of the school’s Undergraduate Council after his joke ticket won a plurality of votes announced Monday that he would assume the council presidency instead of resigning as planned, the Harvard Crimson ...
Andrews Dining Commons, a new eatery, campus center and study lounge, is on schedule to open in Andrews Hall in January, Senior Associate Dean of Residential Life and Dining Services Richard Bova told The Herald. The new eatery will be a relocated and expanded version of the Gate, the only current ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students evaluated student groups’ appeals for recategorization Wednesday at its last general body meeting of the semester. Representatives from six student groups who were displeased with the UCS Student Activities Committee’s categorization decisions — including ...
The real-world impact and transparency of federal surveillance programs took center stage at a pair of panels presented Wednesday to a full Joukowsky Forum auditorium. The conference, titled “Big Transparency for the NSA: Perspectives on Spying and Privacy,” was hosted by the Watson Institute for ...
Brown will undergo an external review of undergraduate alcohol consumption this spring in response to a poll conducted by the Campus Life Advisory Board, said Margaret Klawunn, vice president for campus life and student services, at a faculty meeting Tuesday afternoon. Faculty members also discussed ...
Brian Torrey Scott GS, a doctoral candidate in theater arts and performance studies, died Nov. 29 after a prolonged battle with colon cancer. President Christina Paxson informed the campus of Scott’s death in a community-wide email Tuesday. “He was a gifted student, an incisive mind and a gentle ...
A Dean of the College initiative might grant Meiklejohn peer advisers access to their first-year advisees’ course carts on Banner, given the advisees’ consent, wrote Ann Gaylin, associate dean of the college for first-year and sophomore studies, in an email to The Herald. “In the past, we have ...
Department of Public Safety officers arrested three individuals in connection with a cell phone robbery on Manning Walkway Monday afternoon, said Paul Shanley, deputy chief of police for DPS. Around 4:35 p.m., an unarmed male suspect approached a student from behind and stole his cell phone, according ...
Attendance at President Christina Paxson’s office hours has increased moderately in the wake of the decision not to divest the University’s endowment from companies profiting from coal and the cancellation of a scheduled lecture by New York Police Commissioner Ray Kelly. Paxson has held 17 meetings ...
The college application process no longer relies solely on paper and pencil. With a digitized Common Application, virtual campus tours and outreach through social media, institutions across the country, including Brown, increasingly depend on online tools to promote themselves and to reach applicants ...
As the TRI-Lab’s inaugural project nears the end of its first semester, the pilot lab on childhood development is functioning as both a specific community engagement initiative and a forum for dialogue focused on improving and expanding the program into the future. The TRI-Lab, run by the Swearer ...
Though the graduates at the Midyear Completion Celebration Dec. 7 will not be sporting caps and gowns, they will still be celebrating a momentous rite of passage. The number of midyear graduates has risen 28 percent over the past five years, according to data provided by the Office of Institutional ...
Leaders of the Third World Center hope to propose a new name for the center to President Christina Paxson by July 2014, said Mary Grace Almandrez, associate dean of the College and the center’s director, at a Tuesday Brown University Community Council meeting. The group also discussed priorities ...
Brown Student Agencies launched the online version of a new digital application earlier this month, in the first step toward releasing an official University-run app that distributes news at Brown and information from the local community. BSA’s new app provides online users with links to events and ...
The Third World Center’s Minority Peer Counselor Program is celebrating its 40th anniversary on campus this year. Celebration festivities have included a “Back to Campus” weekend for former MPCs, which took place Oct. 18-20, and an oral history project on the program and student activism on campus. “The ...
Greek Council Chair Michael Coates ’14 and Treasurer Alexander Sherry ’15 laid out a plan at a Sunday meeting of the Council to halve Greek Council’s budget — cutting it from about $7,000 to $3,300 a semester — and require houses with more than 30 members to pay a flat rate of $300 rather ...
The University has reduced its carbon emissions by 30.6 percent since 2007, putting it ahead of the schedule laid out in its 12-year plan, according to a sustainability progress report released earlier this semester. “We’re supposed to be at 22 percent — we’re at 30.6, so that’s the good ...
Against all odds and after much struggle, The Brown Daily Herald’s staff successfully infiltrated a heavily guarded CAV restaurant Friday night for an evening of high-class cheese and cracker consumption. The event also featured a vital announcement made by the members of the 123rd Editorial Board: ...
Nirupama Rao, who finished her tenure as India’s ambassador to the United States earlier this month, has been appointed a visiting fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies for 2014, the University announced last week. Rao is the third recipient of the Meera and Vikram Gandhi Fellowship ...
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