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Musicians in Hospitals (MIH) was founded in the fall of 2000 as a partnership between Brown's Swearer Center for Public Service and Rhode Island Hospital. Volunteers play instruments ranging from guitar to fiddle to flute to harp in the Jane Brown Cancer Center inpatient floors, radiation and chemotherapy areas, and a cafeteria waiting area.

MIH operates under the theory that music can soothe and heal. By bringing music into the hospital environment, MIH seeks to improve the atmosphere of the hospital for patients, visitors and staff,a nd to promote the use of the arts as an agent of healing.

Students volunteering in MIH for the fall of 2000 are: Joy Wu, Stephanie Krejcarek, Michael Kurtz, Ayumi Nagai, Philip Lederer, Neel Shah, Mike DiBenedetto, James Scott Davidson, Dan Rosenbaum, Elyne Kahn, Amy Paretti, Karen Iny, Olivia Geiger, Ben Kintisch, Brooke MacDonald, Dilini Fernando, Audrey Patten, Nick Bayard, Demetrious Harrington, Dennis Daniel, Suzanna Elkin, Robert Hennis, Courtney Harrison Naliboff, Alexa LaFaunce, Michelle Wong, Cayce Harness, Tanja Manners, Megan Kocher, Hilary Gerstein, Rachel Insler, Jonah McBride, Liz Starin, Jennifer Mitnick, Rebekka Weinstein, Ilana Scherer, Anna Mays, Peter Buchak, Griffin James, Inho Kim, Daniel Calarco, James Coburn, Colin Harris, Erwin Chan