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  • World Class? Yes. Cutthroat? No.

    World Class? Yes. Cutthroat? No.

    'We bounce ideas off each other,' says Jennifer Whitten, a PhD candidate studying Mercury’s surface, shown (right) with Leah Cheek, a peer in the Geological Sciences program. 'I have never felt competition here. It’s a friendly place and people are willing to help.'

  • ‘Keys to Your Destiny’

    ‘Keys to Your Destiny’

    Brown students are in charge of their own future, says David Stout.  A doctoral candidate focused on cardiovascular engineering, he also studies public health under the Open Graduate Education program. ‘I get to mold myself into the researcher I want to be.’

  • Intelligence, Hard Work Aren't Enough

    Intelligence, Hard Work Aren't Enough

    Your mentality is important in graduate school, says Peng Guan. ‘You need real passion for what you are doing,’ adds the student working on computer vision and graphics. Mental fortitude helps when a paper is rejected or it takes months to solve a problem.

  • Good Colleagues Make a Difference

    Good Colleagues Make a Difference

    We try to improve each other’s grant proposals, says PhD candidate Sohini Kar, pictured at the Cogut Center for the Humanities with doctoral candidates Chiwook Won and Clinton Bruce.

  • Faculty Foster Approach, not Agenda

    Faculty Foster Approach, not Agenda

    You can do whatever you want as long as you are intellectually honest, says Jennie Ikuta, a PhD student in Political Science.

  • Historic Setting

    Historic Setting

    University Hall was built in 1770.  For a time, this building served as troop hospital and barracks, beginning in 1776. It now houses administrative offices.

  • Creative Thinking

    Creative Thinking

    Diana Davis employed choreography to explain what 'math research' really means, and won the first-ever 'Dance Your Ph.D.' prize in pure mathematics from Science Magazine. Diana studies the geodesic flow on regular polygons. See her dance video.

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News and Announcements

Twin Plays House & Garden Open at Trinity Rep with MFA Students

Brown/Trinity MFA students Catherine Dupont, Steven Jaehnert, Ted Moller and Bridget Saracino will perform in two interconnected plays that will be performed at the same time in both both theaters at Trinity Rep. Both comedic plays tell a day in the life of the same set of twenty characters. The shows open on May 16 and run through June 30.

Horace Mann Medalist Announced

Karen L. King, the Hollis Professor of Divinity at Harvard University, is the 2012-13 Horace Mann Medalist.

Given annually at Commencement, the Horace Mann Medal honors a Brown Graduate School alumnus or alumna who has made significant contributions in his or her field, inside or outside of academia.

Dr. King, who received her Ph.D. in Religious Studies from Brown University in 1984, is a highly respected scholar of early Christianity, known nationally and internationally.

Advance in Tuberous Sclerosis Brain Science

Timing is everything:

By manipulating the timing of disease-causing mutations in the brains of developing mice, Brown University researchers, including neuroscience graduate student Elizabeth Normand, have found that early genetic deletions in the thalamus may play an important role in course and severity of the developmental disease tuberous sclerosis complex. Findings appear in the journal Neuron.

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