PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 17 -- Brown University issued the following news release: In 2018, graduate students enrolled at Brown and engaged in research and teaching positions voted in favor of union representation. Subsequently, bargaining teams from the University and the union began negotiations toward a collective bargaining agreement on terms and conditions of employment for graduate teaching assistants, research assistants and proctors. On June 4, 2020, Brown reached a tentative thr more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 18 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Children of all economic and racial backgrounds who attend Massachusetts public schools are now more likely than ever to graduate from high school and attend college. But earning a college degree remains an elusive prospect for many low-income students and students of color in the state. That's according to a new report (http://www.liftingallboatsma.org/) released on Thursday, June 18, by scholars at Brown more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15 -- Brown University issued the following news release: In 1972, physicists J. Michael Kosterlitz and David Thouless published a groundbreaking theory of how phase changes could occur in two-dimensional materials. Experiments soon showed that the theory correctly captured the process of a helium film transitioning from a superfluid to a normal fluid, helping to usher in a new era of research on ultra-thin materials, not to mention earning Kosterlitz, a professor more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 18 -- Brown University issued the following news release: A team of Brown University researchers has found a way to double the toughness of a ceramic material used to make solid-state lithium ion batteries. The strategy, described in the journal Matter (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2590238520302368), could be useful in bringing solid-state batteries to the mass market. "There's huge interest in replacing the liquid electrolytes in current ba more PR

WARWICK, Rhode Island, June 19 -- The Community College of Rhode Island issued the following news: The Greater Newport Chamber of Commerce and the Community College of Rhode Island's Division of Workforce Partnerships have formalized a partnership that will bring valuable programming to the businesses of Greater Newport. The Chamber's partnership with CCRI was created to educate and empower local entrepreneurs and business owners by providing enriching skill-specific courses. Course topics inc more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 15 -- Brown University issued the following news release: Leaders from the Brown University School of Public Health and Tougaloo College, a historically black college in Mississippi, are joining forces on a new initiative to make the next generation of public health professionals more reflective of America's increasingly diverse population. On Monday, June 8, the School of Public Health launched a Health Equity Scholars (https://www.brown.edu/academics/public-hea more PR

PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, June 16 -- Rhode Island School of Design issued the following news release: Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) plans to open this fall with students on campus in a de-densified model. This decision comes after RISD, like many colleges and universities across the world, implemented a remote learning model for the latter half of the spring 2020 semester in response to COVID-19. Since the early stages of the pandemic, all institutional decision making has been--and will more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 18 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: The University of Rhode Island College of Business has named Sean Edmund Rogers to the newly created post of executive director of inclusive excellence to provide oversight for equity, diversity and inclusion programming and objectives for the College. Rogers, the Spachman Professor of Human Resources and Labor Relations and an associate professor of management, will collaborate with the University's O more PR

KINGSTON, Rhode Island, June 19 -- The University of Rhode Island issued the following news: A research team led by a University of Rhode Island ornithologist had birds fly in a wind tunnel to simulate migration and found that birds that consume dietary antioxidants before and during fall migration can reduce the endocrine stress response triggered by long-duration flights. The results, published this week in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B, emphasize the importance of protecting habita more PR