In 2015, New Jersey鈥檚 Star-Ledger published an obituary for Vishal Bokka Reddy 鈥�12, 鈥渁 software engineer, a neuroscientist, a linguist who spoke four languages, a flutist and a humanist.鈥� Reddy鈥檚 life came to an end when he was "hit by a car while jogging," just three years after graduating ...
Israeli historian Benny Morris addressed a packed room at the Joukowsky Forum Wednesday as part of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs鈥� new Israel-Palestine Distinguished Lecture Series. The Israel-Palestine Distinguished Lecture Series is the brainchild of Professor of History ...
This is the second of a two-part series that explores how students and faculty members engage with the Israel-Palestine conflict in their work and social lives on campus. Last semester, a petition asking Janet Mock to disaffiliate her talk from Brown/RISD Hillel characterized Hillel as a pro-Israel ...
Updated on Dec. 8, 2016 at 2:06 a.m. This is the first聽of a two-part series that explores how students and faculty members engage with the Israel-Palestine conflict in their work and social lives on campus. The U.S. Senate unanimously passed the Anti-Semitism Awareness Act Dec. 1. The bill aims for ...
Dressed in all black and bearing signs reading 鈥淏lack Lives Matter,鈥� 鈥淪top deporting families鈥� and 鈥淚 stand with Standing Rock,鈥� over 400 people descended on the Quiet Green Wednesday afternoon to call on the University鈥檚 administration to protect its most vulnerable community members ...
The University鈥檚 endowment fell by 1.1 percent to $3.2 billion over the 2016 fiscal year, according to a University press release. This is a marked departure from the previous fiscal year, when the endowment reached a record high of $3.3 billion after a 5.7 percent return, as The Herald previously ...
The Brown Center for Students of Color is hosting its first-ever Southwest Asian and North African Heritage Series this year, with a welcome-back dinner held for SWANA students last week. The group鈥檚 increased visibility at the BCSC comes as SWANA-identifying students lobby for recognition at Brown. The ...
Final versions of departmental diversity and inclusion action plans for the majority of the University鈥檚 academic departments are now available on the Office of Institutional Diversity and Inclusion鈥檚 website for the perusal of all members of the Brown community. Each academic unit at Brown is required ...
The First-Generation and Low-Income Student Center held its opening reception Friday on the fifth floor of the Sciences Library. At the reception, President Christina Paxson P鈥�19 said the center, which is currently staffed by six paid undergraduates and one part-time graduate student, will be hiring ...
This fall, the LGBTQ Center welcomed its newest staff member, Program Coordinator Je-Shawna Wholley. Wholley describes herself as 鈥渦napologetically鈥� black, queer and a feminist. She felt Brown would allow her to draw on those identities in the course of her work. 鈥淏eing a first-generation college ...
