Alex Shieh, a student reporter for The Brown Spectator, is being investigated by Brown University. His alleged crime? Asking administrators about their jobs. On March 18, Shieh emailed each of Brown's ...

A sophomore at Brown University is facing disciplinary action after he sent a DOGE-like email to non-faculty employees asking them what they do all day to try to figure out why the Ivy League’s ...

Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh had a good idea. Inspired by Elon Musk’s efforts to reduce supposed staffing inefficiencies in the federal government, Shieh wondered if there were a way to ...

Shieh is facing discipline from the university over questions of violation of law or policy. Shieh has received national attention, including a tweet from Elon Musk. Soon after sending the email, ...

Brown University sophomore Alex Shieh wants to take a Department of Government Efficiency-style chainsaw to the college’s bureaucracy — and he started by emailing thousands of school administrators to ...

A sophomore at Brown University is facing the school's wrath after he sent a DOGE-like email to non-faculty employees asking them what they do all day to try to figure out why the elite school's ...

A Brown University student got into trouble with the administration after sending an Elon Musk-style email to gather information for an article in his college paper. The New York Times reported that ...

A Brown University student journalist says administrators threatened him with disciplinary action for sending a Department of Government Efficiency-inspired email asking them to explain what they do.

Brown University has opened an investigation into a student for sending emails to administrators asking them what they do in a day. The 20-year-old sophomore at the university, Alex Shieh, sent emails ...

Brown University eliminated 103 positions months after Alex Shieh, a sophomore at the time, used a combination of AI and public data to launch Bloat@Brown, a website that listed the names and titles ...