Members of the Undergraduate Council of Students expressed concern at the council’s general body meeting Wednesday that the new voting system — Qualtrics — being used for this year’s student government elections could decrease voter turnout. Students will vote this week through a survey on ...
The recent recession in the United States has had a noticeably different impact across racial and gender demographics, said Margaret Simms, an economist and fellow at the Urban Institute in Washington D.C., at a lecture yesterday. Simms used economic data to address the Obama administration’s response ...
President Christina Paxson assembled an ad hoc committee of six Corporation members to discuss whether the University should divest from coal, Paxson wrote in a guest column slated to run in Monday’s Herald. The Advisory Committee on Corporate Responsibility in Investment Policies recommended to ...
The annual housing lottery’s first night saw scenes of both excitement and disappointment yesterday evening as rising juniors and seniors chose housing for the next academic year. The event began promptly at 6 p.m., with the goal of getting through 130 lottery numbers per hour. Students crowded the ...
The School of Engineering received gifts totaling $44 million, signaling the beginning of a $160 million campaign to expand the school, the University announced Wednesday morning. New engineering facilities will also be built adjacent to Barus and Holley, where the school is currently housed, said ...
Over two-thirds of students believe the University should offer minors, according to the Herald poll conducted in March. Roughly sixty-one percent of students would pursue a minor, while 6 percent said they would not pursue a minor but feel the option should be offered. Twenty-three percent of students ...
While an improvement in the United States’ mental health care system would be “amazing, ... we should be frank about what (reductions in violence) we’re going to see,” said Richard Friedman, Cornell professor of clinical psychiatry, director of the psychopharmacology clinic at Weill Cornell ...
As the semester nears its end, most students and faculty members said making up for the day of classes lost due to Winter Storm Nemo has not proved particularly inconvenient. After the storm caused classes to be canceled Friday, Feb. 8, the University chose to shorten reading period by one day to make ...
Cornell president rejects immediate divestment from coal Cornell President David Skorton said at a Student Assembly meeting Thursday that the university’s administration does not intend to immediately divest from the fossil fuels industry, the Cornell Daily Sun reported Friday. Skorton cited the ...
Professor of Computer Science Maurice Herlihy became the first Brown faculty member last month to win the IEEE Computer Society’s W. Wallace McDowell Award. The honor is given to individuals who make notable contributions to information technology fields and specifically for Herlihy, for making ...
April 10, 1997 Civil rights activist and Reverend Jesse Jackson delivered a speech the night before about the “the American Dream,” addressing a jam-packed auditorium. “Between black, white and brown, the gap is not as big as it is between have and have-not,” he said, The Herald reported at ...
Todd Harris ’14.5, Afia Kwakwa ’14 and Daniel Pipkin ’14 will compete to be president of the Undergraduate Council of Students in this year’s election. Sam Gilman ’15 is running unopposed for UCS Vice President. Leila Veerasamy ’15 and Alexander Sherry ’15 will face off for Undergraduate ...
Family members and friends have begun directing appeals toward Sunil Tripathi in hopes of encouraging him to return home, mother Judy Tripathi said Monday. Since the former member of the class of 2012 disappeared three and a half weeks ago, family members, friends and law enforcement officers have ...
Director Jeff Zimbalist ’00 delivered the 13th annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture Friday night in Salomon 101. The Herald spoke to Zimbalist about his inspirations, experiences as a director and the advice he has for undergraduates. Herald: What at Brown shaped your career moving forward? ...
Spring Weekend tickets will go on sale Monday, April 15 at 8 a.m., but in the event of a crash, sales might conflict with pre-registration for rising seniors the next morning, Tuesday, April 16. The Brown Marketplace website has crashed on the first day of ticket sales for the last three years. The ...
In a place that seems beyond repair, director Jeff Zimbalist ’00 sees a story. “I want to keep telling stories of communities overcoming the odds, doing positive things ... making lasting change in places that the media almost always portrays as falling apart,” he said in the 13th annual Casey ...
“We have to rely on you to pass on the word to your friends, your colleagues, to the next generation to make sure we never forget the Holocaust,” Steen Metz, a Holocaust survivor, told audience members Sunday evening at “Surviving the Unthinkable,” an event organized by the Holocaust Initiative ...
The sounds of karaoke and laughter filled Kasper Multipurpose Room Friday as students and faculty members gathered for “Heart Beats,” a mixer to promote Medical Equipment Donations International’s efforts in Zanzibar. The event was a “musical extravaganza” that sought to raise awareness about ...
Over roughly the past 20 years, neuroscience has steadily strengthened its presence at Brown, boasting consistently growing numbers of undergraduate concentrators and centering around the Brown Institute for Brain Sciences, a premier research framework. President Obama unveiled a plan this week to ...
Herald: How do you think your Brown education prepared you for your work at the State Department? Jacobson: It was quite useful. ... I did political science, but I also designed — because at the time it didn’t exist — a Latin American studies major, drawing from language and political science ...
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