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A federal judge has approved an order that requires Brown University to pay more than $1 million to cover attorneys’ fees and other expenses related to a legal case brought by several student-athletes who challenged the school’s plan to drop several women’s varsity sports. The women said the plan to reduce the varsity sports to club status in 2020 violated...

Five New England colleges — three in Massachusetts, one in Rhode Island and one in New Hampshire — were named among the most expensive in the U.S., according to a new ranking by Wealth of Geeks. Using data from the National Center for Education Statistics, the website ranked the top 10 most expensive four-year institutions, taking into account the schools’…

A Rhode Island man appeared in a Massachusetts court Monday to answer to charges of child rape. Police in Hanson said 23-year-old Jared Soltys, a Connecticut native who lives in Providence and attends Brown University, was arrested early Saturday morning after posting a video on social media recorded in the area of Pleasant Street. In court Monday, prosecutors explained that…

As the omicron surge begins to subside across the United States, people are now wondering if the COVID-19 pandemic will ever end. And if not, what’s next? Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of the Brown University School of Public Health, addressed those questions in a Twitter thread on Sunday where he gave an update on the state of the pandemic...

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The world remains on high alert as the new potentially more contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus continues to pop up in more countries across the globe. The variant was identified days ago by researchers in South Africa, and much is still not known about it, including whether it is more contagious, more likely to cause serious illness or more…

Brown University has expanded its 2006 report on its own historical ties to the transatlantic slave trade amid renewed national conversation on slavery’s legacy. But the Ivy League university in Providence, Rhode Island, says it has no plans currently to pay reparations to descendants of enslaved people who worked on campus. Brown released its expanded second edition of the report…

An 89-year-old man in Rhode Island has earned his Ph.D. and became a physicist after working toward it for two decades and thinking about it for a lifetime.

Shortly before 5 p.m. Sunday, school officials said the threats were not deemed credible and evacuated buildings were cleared for reentry.

While the COVID-19 delta variant surge is abating across much of the United States, some areas are still experiencing high infection rates, and they share some things in common, according to Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s School of Public Health. Alaska, Montana, North Dakota and Wyoming all are reporting, more than 75 new COVID cases per 100,000 people…

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s Public School of Health, laid out four tools to tame the coronavirus pandemic. Jha broke it down in a thread on Twitter this weekend, noting that, “We have all the tools we need to end this pandemic.” The four tools Jha outlined are vaccines, rapid tests, improving indoor air and masks, and...

School districts across the country need to follow four rules to ensure that students and their teachers remain protected from the coronavirus this fall, pandemic expert Dr. Ashish Jha said. They are: Vaccinations for all who are eligible; proper ventilation and related mitigation measures in buildings; regular testing; and masks, he said Thursday in the latest edition of the “COVID:…

Brown University has systematically and repeatedly failed to protect women from rape and other sexual misconduct, according to a federal class action lawsuit filed recently by four current and former female students. The suit, which was filed last Friday in Providence federal court, alleges the Ivy League school in Rhode Island actively prevented the reporting of incidents of sexual violence…

Dr. Ashish Jha, dean of Brown University’s Public School of Health, is warning that 1,700 Americans could die each day from COVID-19 by the end of the month if more isn’t done to curb the spread. Jha broke it down in a thread on Twitter this weekend, noting that nearly all of the deaths currently attributed to COVID are...