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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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2013 Joukowsky Dissertation Prize Profile: The Future of Democracy in Bolivia

Susan Ellison:

Susan H. Ellison, a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Anthropology, has won a Joukowsky Dissertation Prize in Social Science for Mediating Democracy in El Alto: The Politics of Conflict Resolution in Bolivia. She spent 17 months in Bolivia studying Alternative Dispute Resolution and other programs meant to encourage development of democracy.

2013 Joukowsky Dissertation Prize Profile: After Higgs, A Search for New Physics

The search for a heavy top-like quark:

In particle physics, not finding a particle can narrow the search and guide new theories. Michael Luk’s Joukowsky Prize-winning dissertation, The Search for a Heavy Top-Like Quark, describes the most comprehensive search ever carried out for a particle that could answer puzzling questions about the nature of the Higgs boson.

2013 Bernie Bruce Recognition Event

Twenty-two graduating master's and doctoral students were honored at the annual Bernie Bruce Recognition Event.

Bruce was an associate dean of the Graduate School for over 20 years and was "was instrumental in increasing the number of minority PhDs and served all the students with great devotion, great care, and great pride," said Vartan Gregorian, Brown University President Emeritus.

2013 Joukowsky Dissertation Prize Profile: Sounds of Swedish Nationalism

Benjamin Teitelbaum:

Benjamin Teitelbaum spent almost two years interviewing and getting to know members of the Swedish nationalist movement, sometimes finding himself in scary situations in his quest to understand the subculture's use of music. It was that perseverance in part that won him the 2013 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities for his study “Come Hear Our Merry Song:” Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism.

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