Rajmohan Gandhi, grandson of one of the 20th century's most revered and peaceful activists, speaks about the links between Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr.

Nine environmental scholars and activists from Africa have arrived to work with Brown professors and undergraduates under the auspices of the Watson International Scholars of the Environment Program.

Matthew Gutmann, professor of anthropology and director of the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown, has been named vice president for international affairs.

“Emma is a born leader. In the time that I've known her, she has been the captain of the Brown equestrian team, one of the founders of the Social Innovation Initiative that fosters social entrepreneurship at Brown, and head of an international NGO in Rwanda.” – Alan Harlam, director of social entrepreneurship at Brown’s Swearer Center for Public Service

Currently director of the University of Michigan’s Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia and its Weiser Center for Emerging Democracies, Michael Kennedy will begin his new duties at the Watson Institute for International Studies in July.

A contingent of Brunonians will fan out around the world this coming year, performing original research and teaching English in countries from Ghana to the Kyrgyz Republic.

Michael Steinberg, director of Brown’s Cogut Center for the Humanities, is helping two of the world’s most prestigious opera houses, La Scala and the Berlin State Opera, stage a joint production of Richard Wagner’s epic “Ring Cycle.”

Romano Prodi, former prime minister of Italy, will be based at the Watson Institute of International Studies.