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Staff List, Spring 2019
By Anna Kramer | January 21
CORPORATEEmily DaviesPresident, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc.Editor-in-Chief, The HeraldPriyanka PoduguVice President, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc.Managing Editor, The HeraldRavi BetzigTreasurer, The Brown Daily Herald, Inc.General Manager, The HeraldPhil MasiakowskiSecretary, The Brown Daily Herald, ...
Rashid Zia '01 named Dean of the College
By Anna Kramer | June 24
When Rashid Zia '01 graduated from the University with degrees in both English and engineering, he could not have known that he would one day become Dean of the College. But as students return to campus for the fall semester, they will find the engineering professor and former assistant provost at ...
Corporation approves new site for performing arts center
By Anna Kramer | June 2
The Corporation, the University's highest governing body, approved a new site for the proposed performing arts center and discussed environmental and climate initiatives, including paths to net zero emissions, at the Corporation meetings May 24 and 25. The Corporation approved the new performing ...
Students talk mental health at town hall
By Anna Kramer | April 20
At a mental health town hall yesterday, five student panelists praised reforms to mental health and disability services on campus while also vocalizing their discontent with a continued lack of transparency and systemic limits to resource accessibility. Students shared their stories as part of a larger ...
Film screening details attacks on hospitals as part of humanitarian crisis
"The New Barbarianism" opens with panning shots of shelled rubble, all that remains of the once-thriving city of Aleppo, Syria. The camera moves from overhead pictures to zoom in on destroyed medical facilities and dispirited doctors. The scenes in this documentary belie the lesson its creators ...
Men's swim, dive team barred from Ivy Champs
By Anna Kramer | February 20
The men's swimming and diving team will not participate in the Men's Ivy League Championships scheduled to begin today, following an investigation into hazing allegations first reported by The Herald, according to a University press release. In addition, the team's schedule no longer lists the ...
Rubin '80 discusses morality, challenges of journalism
When Alissa Rubin '80 left Brown with a degree in renaissance studies and a hunger to travel, she did not foresee a future in journalism. But after a brief stint in academia, a transformative trip to apartheid South Africa launched a career that would take her to the Balkans, Afghanistan, Iraq and ...
Endowment Managing Director McCollum leaves University
Endowment Managing Director Daniel McCollum has left the University and has accepted a position as Deputy Head of Investments at the investment management firm Hirtle, Callaghan and Co. McCollum was one of two managing directors for the $3.5 billion endowment under Chief Investment Officer Joseph Dowling. ...
CS graduate student charged with felony
Providence Police charged Shishuai Li GS with obtaining money by false pretenses yesterday, according to Providence 6th District Court records. Under the ruse of fundraising for children in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Li tricked a woman from Florida into giving him $30,000, according to the U.S. News ...
BrownTogether campaign eclipses midpoint fundraising goal
By Anna Kramer | January 5
The University's BrownTogether fundraising campaign surpassed its halfway point with $1.64 billion raised before the end of 2017, wrote President Christina Paxson P'19 in a University-wide email yesterday. The campaign is now projected to end by 2022, but that time frame is "a conservative estimate," ...