Awards and Fellowships

Science and Technology

NASA fellowship to fund Brown physicist’s work on groundbreaking lunar telescope

August 10, 2022

Jonathan Pober, an assistant professor of physics, was one of six early-career researchers from across the U.S. to receive NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Technology Fellowship in Astrophysics.

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News and Events

Recent Brown alumni, current graduate students awarded 28 Fulbright Scholarships

June 16, 2022

In Fall 2022, 28 awardees of the Fulbright U.S. Student Program will begin teaching assignments or independent research projects in 16 countries across the world.

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News and Events

Brown economist named one of TIME’s 100 Most Influential People of 2022

May 23, 2022

Professor of Economics Emily Oster received the distinction for her work in translating data into simple, rational guidance for parents worldwide.

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News and Events

Brown junior John Lin named one of the nation’s 58 Truman Scholars for 2022

April 15, 2022

With a commitment to reducing inequities in health care, Lin will use funding from the Truman Scholarship to seek degrees in medicine and health policy to drive change to the U.S. health care system.

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Social Sciences

Brown social scientist wins prestigious Bradley Prize

March 25, 2022

The Bradley Foundation’s $250,000 award to Glenn Loury, a professor at Brown, recognizes the scholar’s influential role in promoting viewpoint diversity in academia.

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News and Events

Next-generation data storage start-up takes first-place Venture Prize

March 24, 2022

Seven student teams vied for $50,000 in prize money at the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s Venture Prize pitch night, the fifth annual event but the first held in-person since 2019.

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News and Events

Brown is nation’s top Fulbright-producing university, U.S. State Department data shows

February 28, 2022

With 29 grants offered to students and recent alumni for the 2021-22 academic year, Brown earned the No. 1 spot as the country’s top producer of Fulbright winners, marking the fourth time the University earned the distinction.

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News and Events

Faculty at Brown earn prestigious awards, distinctions

January 27, 2022

From late 2020 to early 2022, many of Brown’s faculty received prominent awards, fellowships and other recognition for their path-breaking scholarship and bold ideas.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown senior studying issues impacting migrant communities wins prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

November 22, 2021

One of just 32 Rhodes Scholars from the United States, Alexandra Ali Martínez will pursue a doctoral degree in migration studies at Oxford University.

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Social Sciences

Brown Class of 1991 Ph.D. graduate wins Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences

October 11, 2021

Guido Imbens, a Stanford University economist who received his Ph.D. from Brown in 1991, was recognized for his major role in analyzing causal relationships in the social sciences.

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Social Sciences

Brown economist Jesse Shapiro wins MacArthur ‘genius grant’

September 28, 2021

Shapiro, a professor of economics, won $625,000 in no-strings-attached funds to advance his innovative research using data to understand and confront complex social issues.

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Social Sciences

$3.4 million NIH grant to bolster population science at Brown

July 28, 2021

A five-year award from the National Institutes of Health will advance research at the Population Studies and Training Center, which confronts health inequities, economic divides and other major societal problems.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown alumna captures Pulitzer Prize for study of McDonald’s franchises in Black America

June 11, 2021

Marcia Chatelain, who graduated from Brown with a master’s and Ph.D. in American civilization, won the 2021 prize for the history category for her book “Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America.”

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Arts and Humanities

Brown MFA students win prestigious Kennedy Center playwriting awards

June 9, 2021

Graduate student playwrights Nkenna Akunna, Seayoung Yim and Christopher Lindsay were recognized with national awards for writing creative scripts that tackle difficult subjects such as racism, misogyny and “fatphobia.”

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Arts and Humanities

With U.S. National Parks grant, Brown graduate students to unearth stories from Japanese American internment camps

June 7, 2021

A project by two Ph.D. candidates in American studies was awarded $220,000 from the U.S. National Park Service to shed light on the stories of lesser-known Japanese American internment camps from New Mexico to Alaska.

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Student Life

Rainbow Chen: Equitable, ethical education through international experience

June 7, 2021

To advance education equity and policy, the Class of 2021 graduate and newly named Fulbright scholar will spend a year as an English teaching assistant in the Netherlands.

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Student Life

Tara Srinivas: Examining the causes of a rare neurodevelopmental condition

June 7, 2021

After postponing her plans for a year due to the pandemic, recent Brown graduate and Fulbright fellow Tara Srinivas will travel to Spain to research how epigenetic factors may influence neurodevelopment in Rett syndrome.

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News and Events

Brown students, recent graduates earn 27 Fulbright scholarships

June 7, 2021

This year’s student Fulbright winners will begin teaching and research assignments in 17 countries around the world in fall of 2021.

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News and Events

Brown faculty confers highest honor on public health, dance scholars and educators

May 2, 2021

At the University’s Commencement 2021 celebration, the Brown faculty presented their peers Vincent Mor and Julie Strandberg with Rosenberger Medals of Honor, awarded just 33 times in more than a century.

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News and Events

In socially distanced Graduate School ceremony, speakers call on peers to ‘show up’ and ‘do good work’

May 1, 2021

With an eye toward lives and careers that make an enduring and positive impact, 763 master’s and Ph.D. graduates earned Brown degrees in a Saturday afternoon Commencement ceremony on the College Green.

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Student Life

Hossam Zaki: Innovating medical care through artificial intelligence

April 13, 2021

The Brown University junior was recently awarded a Goldwater scholarship for his contributions to research that uses AI technology to improve medical care.

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Student Life

Thomas Usherwood: Better health care through biomedical engineering

April 13, 2021

The Brown undergraduate and newly named Goldwater Scholar draws from multiple math and science disciplines to help devise innovative ways to improve health care through biomedical engineering.

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News and Events

Three students win prestigious Goldwater scholarships for excellence in science

April 13, 2021

Joseph Cavanagh, Thomas Usherwood and Hossam Zaki each received Goldwater scholarships, which support students who plan to pursue research careers in the sciences, mathematics and engineering.

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Student Life

Joe Cavanagh: Exploring big questions through tiny matter

April 13, 2021

Brown undergraduate Joe Cavanagh researches the principles governing the tiniest elements of matter — work that recently earned him a prestigious Goldwater Scholarship.

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News and Events

Research Achievement Awards honor early-career and accomplished Brown scholars

March 31, 2021

In recognition of high-impact research and fundamental discoveries, the University will celebrate the work of six researchers with achievement awards presented at this spring’s 2021 Celebration of Research.

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News and Events

Brown student who co-founded Farmlink named National Medal of Honor Service Act winner

March 25, 2021

The founders of the Farmlink Project, including Brown senior Aidan Reilly, received the award for collecting surplus food from farmers and distributing it to food banks around the country during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Arts and Humanities

Digital scholarship initiative brings new life to research topics in the humanities

March 1, 2021

With new Mellon Foundation grant, Brown will advance its foray into digital scholarship, starting with 'Furnace and Fugue.'

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News and Events

Brown ranked No. 2 nationally for 2020-21 Fulbright scholarship winners

February 18, 2021

For the fifth consecutive year, the University is among the top producers of Fulbright winners, with 38 grants awarded to Brown students and recent alumni.

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News and Events

Four students, recent alumni awarded prestigious Marshall and Schwarzman scholarships

December 7, 2020

Class of 2020 graduate Frishta Qaderi will study at Oxford as a recipient of the Marshall scholarship, while three others will pursue graduate degrees at Tsinghua University in Beijing as Schwarzman Scholars.

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News and Events

Class of 2020 Brown graduate awarded prestigious Rhodes Scholarship

November 22, 2020

Mneera Abdullah Saud, a native of Saudi Arabia and Bahrain who earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at Brown, will pursue graduate studies at Oxford through the world’s oldest international scholarship program.

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Health and Medicine

Early-career biostatistics scholar from Brown wins prestigious Packard fellowship

October 15, 2020

Brown School of Public Health faculty member Lorin Crawford will receive $875,000 over five years to pursue research in statistics, genomics and applied mathematics.

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News and Events

Brown researcher, global health physician nominated for Nobel Peace Prize

October 1, 2020

Dr. Ruhul Abid and his nonprofit organization, Health and Education for All, are among the nominees for this year’s prize for their work to deliver medical care to garment factory workers and refugees in Bangladesh.

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News and Events

Brown named among world’s top universities in national, international rankings

September 14, 2020

The University was ranked No. 14 in U.S. News and World Report and earned high marks in a range of higher education rankings focused on academic experience, undergraduate research, return on investment and more.

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News and Events

Brown professor wins prestigious Fulbright award

September 2, 2020

Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and Assistant Provost for Sustainability Stephen Porder will study and teach in Paris next year as a De Tocqueville Distinguished Chair.

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News and Events

Brown earns national recognition for commitment to diversity, inclusion

September 1, 2020

The Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award recognizes the University’s campus-wide commitment to advancing diversity and inclusion across all facets of its community.

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News and Events

Brown faculty members earn prominent awards, distinctions

July 14, 2020

In recent months, prestigious national and international organizations have recognized Brown faculty for their research, scholarship and leadership.

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News and Events

Graduate students, recent Brown alumni earn 36 Fulbright scholarships

July 1, 2020

With COVID-19 complicating international travel, this year’s student Fulbright winners will begin their teaching and research assignments across the globe at the start of 2021.

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Science and Technology

Brown physicist earns prestigious Early Career Grant from U.S. Department of Energy

June 23, 2020

The five-year, $750,000 award will help Kemp Plumb study exotic states of matter that emerge in certain magnetic materials.

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Health and Medicine

For underrepresented scholars, fellowship will fund Brown MPH to train new generation of leaders

June 15, 2020

A new Health Equity Scholars fellowship program from Brown’s School of Public Health and Tougaloo College is aimed at expanding diversity among public health leaders and addressing racism as a public health problem.

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Environment

Brown scholar will use Carnegie fellowship to explore nature, politics in the Yukon

May 12, 2020

The fellowship will allow Bathsheba Demuth, an environmental historian, to use the Yukon watershed as a case study for how different societies manage, protect and plunder their natural resources.

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News and Events

Brown junior wins prestigious Udall Scholarship for environmental science

May 8, 2020

As a Udall Scholar, Melissa Lopez will examine ways to predict — and prevent — the effects of climate change upon city environments.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown alumnus captures Pulitzer Prize for Susan Sontag biography

May 5, 2020

Benjamin Moser, a Class of 1998 graduate, won a 2020 Pulitzer Prize for the authorized biography “Sontag: Her Life and Work" — and a team led in part by Brown alumnus Ira Glass captured the first ever prize for audio reporting.

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News and Events

Three Brown professors elected to American Academy of Arts and Sciences

April 24, 2020

With their election to the prestigious honor society, Carl Kaestle, Diane Lipscombe and Susanna Loeb join the nation’s leading scholars in science, public affairs, business, arts and humanities.

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News and Events

Three professors win Guggenheim fellowships to advance research interests

April 17, 2020

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation has awarded fellowships to Brown faculty members Josh Pacewicz, Kavita Ramanan and Daniel Jordan Smith.

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News and Events

Brown junior wins prestigious Truman Scholarship for public service

April 15, 2020

As a Truman Scholar, Marysol Fernandez-Harvey plans to pursue a law degree to help her impact the political landscape in her native Puerto Rico.

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News and Events

Brown undergraduates, recent alum win prestigious scholarships

April 15, 2020

Four current undergraduates and one recent alumnus have been awarded national scholarships, which collectively recognize excellence in academic fields including the arts, humanities, social sciences and STEM.

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News and Events

National Science Foundation awards support promising work by early-career faculty

April 2, 2020

The awards for early-career faculty will support research in nanotechnology, education research, computer graphics modeling and anti-fungal therapies.

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Arts and Humanities

Brown University architectural historian awarded esteemed New Directions Fellowship

April 1, 2020

A $245,000 award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation will allow Itohan Osayimwese, an architectural and urban historian at Brown, to pursue additional studies in historical archaeology.

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Science and Technology

Sloan Foundation awards early-career fellowships to two Brown scientists

February 27, 2020

Two assistant professors at Brown, in chemistry and ecology and evolutionary biology, are among the 126 early-career scholars named as Alfred P. Sloan Foundation fellows for 2020.

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Arts and Humanities

Shahzad Bashir to deliver Presidential Faculty Award Lecture at Brown

February 17, 2020

Bashir, director of the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown, will discuss the cultural pervasiveness of poetry in Iran, Central Asia and South Asia.

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