Ray Rickman, “The Civil Rights Kid” – Presentation TONIGHT

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Ray Rickman will be featured in a Special Presentation, “The Civil Rights Kid” TONIGHT, April 27th from 4-5pm. The ZOOM presentation is free and open to the public, with pre-registration. The presentation is part of the Lifetime Learning Series, Brown Bag Webinar Lecture Series for Spring 2022 Come Hear One Man’s Story – A True…

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Brown University names Francis J. Doyle, engineer and Harvard dean as provost

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The current dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences will take on the role of Brown’s chief academic officer, effective July 1, 2023. Francis J. Doyle III, an accomplished engineer and academic leader who serves currently as dean of the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied…

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Slavery and Justice – The second report of Brown University

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Fifteen years ago the first report, Slavery and Justice, was released by Brown University, having been three years in the making. This month, 2021, Brown University releases its revised report. The new report supplements the existing one. It is required reading of all Freshman before entering university study. The committee’s charge The president’s charge to…

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Title IX. Appeals Court approves plan to restore equal opportunities for women in Brown University athletics

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APPEALS COURT APPROVES SETTLEMENT RESTORING EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES FOR WOMEN IN BROWN UNIVERSITY ATHLETICS In an important victory for female student athletes, a federal appeals court today unanimously affirmed approval of a settlement agreement between Brown University and a class of women student-athletes at Brown which resolved a class-action court challenge to Brown’s decision in June 2020 to cut women’s…

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Brown University expands financial aid, international admissions, college-prep for talented Providence public high schoolers

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Brown University will make significant investments to expand financial aid and improve college access, bolstered by the extraordinary performance of the University’s endowment and the success of its BrownTogether comprehensive fundraising campaign. In a Monday, Oct. 25, letter to the Brown community following weekend meetings of the Corporation of Brown University, President Christina H. Paxson…

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Boosters begin at nursing homes. Brown Univ. gets $4.9M from CDC to study how immunity fades with age.

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Photo: Brown University Boosters begin at RI nursing homes. Brown University research showed the CDC how immunity fades with age, over time. It’s been approximately 8 or 9 months since most nursing home/long term care/congregate care residents received their second vaccination. Most having received their first and second shots from outside pharmacy/medical partners – a…

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MacArthur “Genius Grants” awarded – includes first Rhode Islander in 11 years – Jesse Shapiro.

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Shapiro, a professor of economics, won $625,000 in no-strings-attached funds to advance his innovative research using data to understand and confront complex social issues. The MacArthur Foundation has named Jesse Shapiro, a professor of economics at Brown University, one of 25 MacArthur Fellows from across the nation for 2021. The fellowship’s financial award of $625,000…

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History wins one on the East Side – David Brussat

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by David Brussat, Architecture Here and There, contributing writer on architecture For a year or more the vultures circled over an old cottage between Williams and John streets just off of historic Benefit Street. A developer’s plan to add an ultra-modernist addition to a historic cottage at 59 Williams, and then to plop a pair…

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