Brown named Sharon Pitt as its new vice president for information technology and chief information officer Tuesday, according to an email sent by Sarah Latham, executive vice president for finance and administration. Pitt, who currently works in the same role at the University of Delaware, ...
On Thursday, Jane Wang ’24, managing editor of the College Hill Independent, received a call from the paper’s printer. Their funding had been frozen, and Wang had no idea why.
After weeks of unprecedented monsoon rains that have left one-third of the country severely flooded, the Pakistani government declared a state of emergency on Aug. 26. The flooding has claimed the lives of almost 1,600 people and affected at least another 33 million. In addition to damaging ...
The Lindemann Performing Arts Center, which has been under construction since November 2019, is scheduled to open in fall 2023. Despite delays in construction, ...
The annual Harvard-Brown football game took place Saturday at Brown Stadium — the first face off at home since 2018. The game alternates between Providence and Cambridge each year and was held at Harvard in 2019 and 2021. The 2020 matchup, which would have been held at Brown, was ...
Late on a Thursday night in March, Kamyar Mirfakhraie ’25 was walking to a pick-up soccer game when he felt something hit his jacket. He looked up to see four people in a black car shooting pellets at him — and then felt one strike his hand.
In a little more than a year, the internet will face a major wave of regulation mostly targeted to protect data and fight misinformation. With the Jan. 1, 2024 implementation of the European Union’s Digital Services Act and the United Kingdom working on the Online Safety Bill, social networks ...
When Pietro Pignatti Morano Campori ’26 arrived on campus this fall, he had only decided on two courses to take during his first semester. He knew for certain that he wanted to take courses in economics and math but felt unsure of what his other two classes would be. His Courses@Brown cart consisted ...
The University has begun planning to build a new integrated life sciences building in Providence’s Jewelry District as it runs out of space for research in its current facilities, according to Dean of Medicine and Biological Sciences Mukesh Jain.
Three legal scholars and reproductive justice leaders discussed the negative implications of the Dobbs v. Jackson Supreme Court decision — which overturned the constitutional right to abortion this June — during a panel titled “Reproductive Justice after Roe v. Wade” hosted by the Pembroke ...
James Tilton, who prefers to go by Jim, begins his mornings in a classic 1860 colonial farmhouse in Clinton, Conn. He then embarks on a one-hour journey to College Hill, where he works as the University’s dean of financial aid.
The Undergraduate Finance Board’s updated constitution — announced by Vice Chair Arjun Krishna Chopra ’25 at the Sept. 14 Undergraduate Council of Students town hall — delegates special elections to the Student Government Association rather than UCS, updates rules on self-funding and adds ...
The Center for Language Studies will sponsor a new Certificate in Intercultural Competence that will allow students to formally synthesize their language and experiential learning into a cohesive learning experience, according to a Sept. 7 Today@Brown announcement from Jane Sokolosky, director of ...
Two new committees — an outreach committee, led by Jung Haye To ’24, and a polling committee, led by Alexander Ávila ’23 — were announced at a Sept. 14 Undergraduate Council of Students meeting.
Hardly three weeks after setting up his dorm room in Marcy House for the start of the fall semester, Oliver Villanueva ’25 found himself moving many of his belongings for a second time after his roommate tested positive for COVID-19. When he learned his friend Eric Ma ’25 also had a COVID-positive ...
This fall, Rhode Island will see its first election that garners widespread national attention since 2014’s gubernatorial contest between former Cranston Mayor Allan Fung and then-state Treasurer Gina Raimondo. On Nov. 8, Fung and current Treasurer Seth Magaziner ’06 will compete for the Ocean ...
Since its formation in 2004, the LGBTQ Center has been located on the third floor of the Stephen Robert ’62 Campus Center. But last year, the University announced plans to transition the center to Stonewall House, a newly renovated location at 22 Benevolent St., by fall 2022, The Herald previously ...
The idea of growing the Saxena Center for Contemporary South Asia’s endowment sprouted from a conversation.
When Olivia Booth ’24 returned to her dorm after her first day of classes with a sore throat, she took an at-home COVID-19 test as a safety precaution. Fifteen minutes later, two red lines appeared on Booth’s test, and she entered a period of isolation that would last through much of shopping ...
New York Times best-seller and University professor David Kertzer ’69 discussed his book about the role of Pope Pius XII during World War II and his sometimes controversial relationship with Hitler and Mussolini at a Thursday evening panel hosted by the Watson Institute for International and Public ...
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