With it came the usual flurry of free-agent signings and trades that often accompany the first wave of the NFL offseason. Plenty of big names were already off the board thanks to handshake deals made during the NFL's legal tampering period.

Brown University is adopting new austerity measures as it works to tackle its structural budget deficit and plan for the worst amid uncertainty from the Trump administration. Brown on Wednesday joined Harvard and MIT in instituting hiring freezes to address “potential significant impacts of federal government actions and ongoing shifts in the national economic landscape.

Brown University is the latest school to announce a hiring freeze amid concerns about federal funding cuts. In a letter from Provost Francis J. Doyle III and Executive Vice President Sarah Latham, the university said it was instituting a temporary hiring freeze,