In a scholarly acknowledgment of the historic fall of the Berlin Wall 20 years ago, Brown’s German department organized five days of events examining the end of Communist dominance in Eastern Europe.
As a Royce Fellow in Sport and Society, Brown junior Abby Hein spent last summer establishing a kids’ soccer league in an African village. To her surprise, the experience restored her own athletic career.
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.
A new International Scholars program offers overseas research funding for 10 undergraduates each year, with the possibility of additional funding for a senior-year capstone project. It’s all part of the internationalization of Brown.
As part of a new program to increase interaction between faculty and students, the University has named its first 10 non-residential Faculty Advising Fellows.
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.
Ex-felon Andrés Idarraga ’08 is headed to Yale Law School later this summer. First, though, he joined Bill Cosby to address inmates at his former home, Rhode Island’s Adult Correctional Institutions.
