Brown Degree Days
Brown Degree Days events will help you learn firsthand how concentrations lead to real world opportunities. Throughout the year, departments will bring their alumni to campus to discuss how their concentrations led to a variety of career paths. Find out how they got started and what they are doing now.
Brown Degree Days is sponsored by the Dean of the College in collaboration with the academic departments, the Office of Alumni Relations, and CareerLAB. Contact BDD@brown.edu for more information.
Click here to see a list of last year's events.
Past Events
Friday, February 10, 2012
Environmental Studies M.A. Career Meet, Greet, and Eat - Friday, February 10th
Panelists:
Ellie Leonardsmith
Eugenia Marks
Rachael Moeller Gorman
Celia Riechel
Paul Shea
Paul Shea
Time: 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm
Location: UEL (135 Angell Street), Classroom 106
Brown's Center for Environmental Studies is welcoming local-area M.A. alums to speak with current students about their careers and discuss their experiences while at Brown. Food and drinks will be served following a Q&A session. This is a great opportunity to see the breadth of local work being done by Brown grads in the environmental field.
All undergraduate and graduate students are encouraged to attend!
Please contact Adam Kotin, Jim LaChance, or Deanna Talerico with any questions.
Ellie Leonardsmith (class of )
Grassroots Campaing Organizer
Clean Water Action RI
Degrees: M.A. Environmental Studies
Eugenia Marks (class of )
Senior Director for Policy
Audubon Society of RI
Degrees: M.A. Environmental Studies
Rachael Moeller Gorman (class of )
Science & Health Journalist
Scientific American, Eating Well, Boston Globe
Degrees: M.A. Environmental Studies
Celia Riechel (class of )
Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs
Degrees: M.A. Environmental Studies
Paul Shea (class of )
Scientist
Independent Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Degrees: M.A. Environmental Studies
Paul Shea (class of )
Scientist
Independent Environmental Consultants, Inc.
Degrees: M.A. Environmental Studies
Concentrations represented at this event: Environmental Studies
Career fields represented at this event: Communications/Media, Government, Law, Non-profit or NGO, Scientific Research
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Engineering Networking and Career Fair
Panelists:
Caitlin Ashley-Rollman
Francois Baldassari
Theo Doukakis
Brian Fisher
Time: 10:00 am to 6:00 pm
Location: Barus and Holley Building
Engineering will be hosting an event for alumni and current undergraduate students on Feb 4th, 2012. The morning will focus on faculty interactions with recent alumni, to gather information on the strengths and weaknesses of the undergraduate program in engineering. The afternoon will be a chance for alumni and undergraduates to network. We will offer alumni panels, company presentations, student presentations, and networking/social time.
Caitlin Ashley-Rollman (class of )
Engineer at Microsoft
Francois Baldassari (class of )
Engineer at Oracle
Theo Doukakis (class of )
Engineer at Accenture
Brian Fisher (class of )
Engineer at Bioprocess Algea
Concentrations represented at this event: Engineering
Career fields represented at this event: Engineering
Wednesday, December 7, 2011
Brent Ginna on His Experiences in Finance and as a Start-up Founder
Panelists:
Brent Ginna
Time: 6:00 pm to 7:00 pm
Location: Lubrano
Brent Ginna (class of )
CEO
EverTrue
Concentrations represented at this event: Cognitive Science
Career fields represented at this event: Finance/Banking, Information Technology
Thursday, November 17, 2011
Talk on Web Security for Internet Gambling by Noah Stephens-Davidowitz
Panelists:
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Lubrano, CIT
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz ('08) is a former professional poker player, explains web security on internet gambling sites. Using basic math and computer science, he's worked with and against online poker sites to expose security vulnerabilities, catch cheaters, and design security methodology to make this strange world safe. In a November 17th talk for the CS DUG, Noah will tell a cautionary tale of computer security done wrong and describe his own efforts to clean up the online poker world.
Noah Stephens-Davidowitz (class of )
Founder
Subject: Poker
Concentrations represented at this event: Mathematics
Career fields represented at this event: Information Technology
Thursday, November 10, 2011
What Can You Do With An Anthropology Degree?
Panelists:
Geoffery Burns
Katie Goetz
Sheila Hogg
Time: 12:00 pm to 1:30 pm
Location: Giddings House (Corner of Power and Hope)
Not quite sure what you can or want to do with your anthropology degree? Sick of eating food from meal plan? Come to Giddings 212 Thursday, November 10th (corner of Power and Hope St) at 12:00 PM where the ANTHDUG will be holding a degrees day event featuring an alumni panel. There will be FREE LUNCH!!
Geoffrey M. Burns, M.D. (Family Physician at Newton-Wellesley Hospital)
Sheila Hogg (Senior Library Associate at Orwig Library)
Katie Goetz (Sales Division at E.H. Ashley)
Geoffery Burns (class of )
Physician
Degrees: M.D.
Katie Goetz (class of )
Sales
Sheila Hogg (class of )
Senior Library Associate
Concentrations represented at this event: Anthropology
Career fields represented at this event: Business/Consulting, Health/Medicine, Higher Education
Wednesday, November 9, 2011
English Nonfiction: Emerging Writers
Panelists:
Brian Christian, '06
Lindsay Harrison, '08
Kevin Roose, '09
Time: 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm
Location: Hillel
Brian Christian, '06 (class of 2006 )
Author, Poet
Christian, who recently appeared on The Daily Show, is author of "The Most Human Human."
Lindsay Harrison, '08 (class of 2008 )
Author
Harrison is author of the memoir, "Missing."
Kevin Roose, '09 (class of 2009 )
Author
Roose's book, "The Unlikely Disciple: A Sinner's Semester at America's Holiest University," is about his semester undercover at the Rev. Jerry Falwell's Liberty University.
Concentrations represented at this event: Computer Science, English, Literary Arts, Philosophy
Career fields represented at this event: Arts, Communications/Media
Monday, November 7, 2011
CS-EP Mixer
Panelists:
Andres Douglas
Charlie Kroll
Time: 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Location: 3rd floor atrium, CIT
A mixer to encourage connections between the Computer Science and Entrepreneurial communities at Brown. Talks are given by alumni and a professor as well.
Andres Douglas (class of )
CEO
Bakodo
Charlie Kroll (class of )
Founder
Andera
Concentrations represented at this event: Computer Science
Career fields represented at this event: Business/Consulting, Information Technology
Friday, November 4, 2011
What am I going to do with an Independent Concentration? What will Employers Think?
Panelists:
Steve Daniels '10
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:30 pm
Location: Faunce/Campus Center 229
Steve Daniels '10 (class of 2010 )
Entrepreneur and research engineer
IBM
Steve's concentration was entitled "Technology for Emerging Markets." He founded Better World by Design, and co-founded Revolution x Design.
Concentrations represented at this event: Independent Concentration
Career fields represented at this event: Arts, Information Technology, Non-profit or NGO
Tuesday, November 1, 2011
East Asian Studies Degree Day Featuring Ben Taylor of Goldman Sachs
Panelists:
Ben Taylor
Time: 4:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Location: Faunce Memorial Room
Ben Taylor will present on his experience with EAS and how the degree prepares you for any of a broad variety of careers, including those in finance. Free food will be served and open discussion with Ben will follow the presentation.
Ben Taylor (class of '99)
VP
Goldman Sachs
Concentrations represented at this event: East Asian Studies
Career fields represented at this event: Finance/Banking
Saturday, October 15, 2011
Career Options with a Brown History Degree
Panelists:
Jonathan Ebinger, '84
Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm
Location: Peter Green House
Jonathan Ebinger, '84 (class of 1984 )
Media consultant and educator
After doing politics and related work, he worked behind the scenes in TV news.
Concentrations represented at this event: History
Career fields represented at this event: Communications/Media
Friday, October 14, 2011
After MCM: a panel of MCM Alumni and dinner
Panelists:
Toddy Burton
David Walker
Time: 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm
Location: 155 George Street, Room 106
Burton is an Assistant-Professor in film and video production at Gordon College whose work explores the comedy of teenagers, outer space and supernatural powers.
Walker works at R2integrated, a digital marketing agency, where he develops business in new territories by producing marketing materials in various media.
Topics include: how did/does MCM inform our panelists current work? how did they get from here to there? what opportunities came and went? and any other questions you dare to ask
Toddy Burton (class of )
Assistant Professor
Her films have been screened at SXSW and Tribeca and her feature script was a semi-finalist in the 2010 Austin Film Festival Screenplay Competition.
David Walker (class of )
R2integrated Intern
His personal work consists of narrative shorts, experimental or non-narrative practices, and video installation.
Concentrations represented at this event: Modern Culture and Media
Career fields represented at this event: Arts, Communications/Media, Higher Education