Jorge Palacios' (BRDD 2020, Astrophysics, Glass) "multimedia art that sits at the intersection of physics, ancestry, and legacy" is celebrated in a Maker Spotlight in American Craft, the magazine of the American Craft Council.

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Laura Jaramillo (BRDD 2020, Furniture Design, Gender and Sexuality Studies ) designs everyday objects and tools that speak to the human experiences of memory, belonging, identity, and love.  In her interview, Laura shares, "My goal is to capture memories with an object that already exists and then to make new objects that intensify that emotion." - Dwell

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Yunni Cho (BRDD 2021, Interior Architecture, Cognitive Neuroscience, and Urban Studies) is among nine RISD Maharam Fellows working virtually to bring the benefits of art and design to nonprofits around the world this summer.  

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Ali Dipp (BRDD 2022, Painting, English), a native of El Paso, Texas, engages digital marketplaces, murals and storytelling to celebrate the unique character of the Southwest.

"To dispel what she calls myths and mischaracterizations about the region, while also working to unite members of the “borderlander” community through a shared experience, Dipp is spending the summer creating Work Project, a digital platform for Southwestern self-representation."

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Kate Reed (BRDD 2021, Industrial Design, Independent Concentration in Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship) builds wearable biomimetic computers.  She is pursuing several summer projects that use cutting-edge technology to connect people to the natural world and to each other such as the sonic invisibility cloak (pictured above), which confronts issues surrounding privacy in the digital age.

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Glory SeungHee Lee (BRDD 2024, Apparel Design & Undeclared) is among 20 college students selected by fashion brand Gucci as an inaugural recipient of the Gucci North America Changemakers Scholarship program to investing in the education of designers and racial diversity within the US fashion industry. 

Kate Reed (BRDD 2021, Industrial Design, IC: Social Innovation and Entrepreneurship) is featured in The Indiependent for her biomietic wearable designs.  "'Today’s wearable computers, to compete with the exponential threat of digital intelligence of tomorrow, look like gadgets imagined in a Star Trek movie or an Arthur C. Clark novel. They look like computers, feel like computers, and act like computers. This is an unprecedented convergence crisis. Our human body has evolved for millions of years rooted in nature, while computers have evolved for a mere few hundred years, rooted in sci-fi. If humans and computers must converge to combat the rising threat of digital intelligence, we must look to nature for inspiration to build the next generation of wearable computers.'” ~ The Indiependent

Jiaju Ma (BRDD 2021, Industrial Design, Computer Science) a member of the Brown Engineering Design Seminar, is featured in Medium's article, "Towards a COVID-friendly AR Translator for Hotels: How COVID-19 derailed our Design Seminar, but directed us to an augmented reality translator window for hotels"

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Yukti Agarwal (BRDD 2024) is interviewed by Mary Murphy, Nancy L. Buc '65 Pembroke Center Archivist, about her experience as a BRDD international student from India during the COVID-19 pandemic.  You can read more about Yukti's experience and listen to the interview on the Pembroke Center Oral History website. 

Eli Silver (BRDD 2021, Furniture Design, Engineering and Physics) is among a team of faculty and students from Brown University’s School of Engineering that designed a do-it-yourself ventilator, that can be quickly assembled using 3D-printed and readily available parts.

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