Employers say college graduates are unprepared for their careers, according to a study published by the Chronicle of Higher Education earlier this month. Brown’s curriculum and liberal learning equip students with broader skills that may not translate directly to a specific job, said Andrew Simmons, ...
“Firearms are an indelible element of U.S. culture,” said Craig Whitney, author and reporter for the New York Times, at “Guns in America: Cultural Legacy,” the second lecture in a three-part Janus Forum miniseries. Whitney explored the intersection of culture and gun violence in America alongside ...
Family members, friends and police officers are still searching for Sunil Tripathi, a former member of the class of 2012 who went missing Saturday morning. “Unfortunately, there are no leads yet,” wrote Tripathi’s mother Judy Tripathi in an email to The Herald, describing the search as “ongoing ...
Tom Steyer, billionaire and founder of the hedge fund Farallon Capital Management, urged the University to divest from coal companies in a letter presented Thursday to President Christina Paxson’s office by members of the Brown Divest Coal group. Steyer wrote that the choice to invest in coal companies ...
Flexible and accessible classroom space, graduate student facilities and expansion into the Jewelry District were among the most salient issues addressed by Russell Carey ’91 MA’06, executive vice president for planning and policy, in an open discussion about strategic planning Wednesday afternoon. About ...
A stomach bug spreading through campus was identified as a norovirus by the Rhode Island Department of Health yesterday afternoon, said Edward Wheeler, director of Health Services for the University. Since Sunday, one student has been admitted to the emergency room with the virus, and 18 others have ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to extend funding to service groups for the first time during its general body meeting Wednesday. Though the Undergraduate Finance Board funds Category 1, 2 and 3 student groups, it has historically refrained from funding groups dedicated to service. The ...
The Rhode Island School of Design received its largest-ever gift from an international donor — a $1 million donation to fund a new visiting scholar position in the painting department, according to a March 1 press release from the institution. Vikram and Geetanjali Kirloskar of Bangalore, India were ...
The Undergraduate Council of Students voted to reelect Alexander Kaplan ’14 as Student Activities Chair at its general body meeting last night. The council voted for Kaplan over Chiemeka Omwuanaegpule ’14. Kaplan, a former Herald staff writer, was suspended from his role as Student Activities ...
“Because of globalization, the world experienced dramatic changes” in the past several decades, Min Zhu, deputy managing director of the International Monetary Fund, told an audience of about 50 students and community members in a talk at the Joukowsky Forum Tuesday evening. Zhu, whom Bill Rhodes ...
URI freezes tuition The University of Rhode Island announced Monday that it will freeze tuition rates for all students and increase the financial aid budget to a record-high amount for the 2013-14 school year. The move will maintain in-state annual tuition rates at $10,878 and out-of-state rates at ...
When promoting associate professors to full professors, the University must consider teaching, research and service, faculty members said at a faculty forum held Tuesday afternoon. The Faculty Executive Committee sponsored the forum to allow faculty members to discuss a proposal from the ad hoc Committee ...
Student members of the Brown Divest Coal Campaign urged the University to divest from all fossil fuels in the long run and maintained “divest(ing) from the 15 largest, most destructive coal companies in the world” as an immediate priority for the University at a Brown University Community Council ...
When President Christina Paxson’s capital campaign launches sometime within the next few years, it will take its place in a long history of major fundraising efforts at Brown and could set the tone for future University fundraising. While no official timeline has been set, Paxson’s campaign will ...
The Student Labor Alliance urged President Christina Paxson to immediately terminate the University’s contract with Adidas in a rally held Tuesday at noon. More than 50 students gathered on the steps of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center, where Mariela Martinez ’14 kicked off the rally. Martinez ...
Allan Tunkel will succeed Phillip Gruppuso as associate dean for medical education at the Alpert Medical School, according to a statement released Monday by Edward Wing, dean of medicine and biological sciences. The associate dean will report to Wing until the search for a new dean of medicine and ...
The Department of Public Safety and the Providence Police Department are continuing to search for a former undergraduate student who disappeared Saturday morning. Sunil Tripathi, former member of the class of 2012, was discovered missing Sunday morning when a friend of Tripathi’s found a note suggestive ...
The Program in Liberal Medical Education will introduce two new interdisciplinary courses for undergraduates in fall 2014, said Associate Dean of Medicine Julianne Ip ’75 MD’78. The courses — which aim to approach medical education from an integrative, case-based angle — could put the University ...
The White House announced President Obama will officially nominate Thomas Perez ’83 today to serve as U.S. Secretary of Labor, Politico reported Sunday night. Perez, currently serving as the U.S. assistant attorney general for civil rights, will become the first Brown alum to serve in a cabinet-level ...
Corporation trustee’s hedge fund made national news again this weekend with an agreement to pay out a total of $616 million in settlements with the federal government over two cases of alleged insider trading. Traders connected to SAC Capital Advisors, founded and run by trustee Steven Cohen P’08 ...
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