Profiles in Summer Research

Think summer is quiet at Brown? Not for the University’s undergraduate researchers working side-by-side with faculty through the University's Undergraduate Teaching and Research Award (UTRA) program.

Each week from early August through the beginning of September, we're profiling a 2017 UTRA project and participant.

Only a year into her studies at Brown, undergraduate Ellen Cola has spent her first semesters and summer on campus unearthing connections between the experiences of slaves and present-day movements to celebrate black women in America.
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Driven by a passion for computer vision, Gary Chien has learned new programming skills this summer to help make Brown’s “smart playroom” even smarter.
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Combining data collection in the field with work in lab, Michael Demanche is developing techniques for using satellites to monitor a key environmental indicator in Narragansett Bay.
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Urban studies concentrator Gray Brakke is using his technology know-how to shed light on the understudied subject of welfare services available to low-income residents in the suburbs.
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By merging learned experience with lived experience, Antonia Shann co-created a French studies course on refugees that will be offered this fall.
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