community service

 Fifth graders from Vartan Gregorian Elementary School learn to identify rocks at a display in Brown’s Geosciences Building.
Brown and the public schools

Planets and metals and rocks – oh my!

Elementary students from Providence’s Vartan Gregorian School had close encounters with some sophisticated university laboratory equipment this week.
READ MORE October 1, 2009
 Emma Clippinger: ‘Poised to make her mark on the world.’

Clippinger ’09 wins grand prize in Youth Social Entrepreneur competition

Brown senior Emma Clippinger and Emily Morell of Yale were chosen from among 100 applicants for their work as co-founders of Gardens for Health International, which provides nutritional support and economic empowerment to HIV-positive people in Rwanda.
READ MORE November 23, 2008
 Peter Boyer, left, and Riaz Gillani, both ’09, outside the Swearer Center for Public Service,.
Community service

Two seniors bring hope and help to children at the John Hope Settlement House

Engineering concentrators and volunteer mentors Peter Boyer and Riaz Gillani have gotten off the Hill and into the lives of inner-city children. In the process, they’ve learned a thing or two themselves.
READ MORE September 23, 2008
 Cohen and a friend in Mali

Tonight: Med student Caitlin Cohen ’08 vies for $100K ‘Do Something Award’ on television

Caitlin Cohen went to West Africa to do research, but she became a healthcare activist when she saw conditions in Mali’s slums. Tonight, August 4, she stands to win $100,000 for her cause.
READ MORE June 24, 2008
Community Engagement

Brown volunteers help spiff up Providence’s School One

Some 85 staff and student volunteers spent a day renovating School One, an alternative high school. Were you there? Read the article; see the video.
READ MORE May 24, 2008
 Alpha Delta Phi auctioneers solicit just one more bid on a handbag.
Spring Weekend

Going once... going twice...

Student auctioneers from the Alpha Delta Phi Society drum up bids for nearly 100 items and services at Thursday's Bizarre Bazaar on the Green.
READ MORE April 10, 2008
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