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Photos and video: New academic year, new energy at Brown

September 2, 2025

A lively week of welcome events ushered in the Fall 2025 semester at Brown with spirit and celebration, setting the tone for a dynamic year ahead.

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Student Life

A fresh start at Brown: 127 transfer, visiting and resumed undergraduate students embrace orientation

August 29, 2025

Through the weeklong TRUE Orientation program, Brown’s newest nontraditional undergraduates connect, create and chart their course ahead as they arrive for their first semester on College Hill.

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Arts and Humanities

Nathan Winoto: From Brown University to a big Broadway break

August 27, 2025

Talent and tenacity landed a member of Brown’s Class of 2025 in New York, where he is co-producing the hit play “John Proctor Is The Villain.”

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Student Life

Nigel Evans: From Army boots to Arabic books

August 13, 2025

Inspired by his military service and driven by a desire to work internationally, the rising Brown University senior is spending the summer learning Arabic as a U.S. State Department Critical Language Scholar.

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Student Life

Equipped with new knowledge and experiences, Pre-College students reflect on their summer at Brown

July 31, 2025

As Brown’s summer Pre-College Programs conclude, five high schoolers shared their motivations for enrolling and the lessons they’ll carry into the next chapter of their lives.

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Arts and Humanities

In Pre-College course, students uncover new ways of writing through the forgotten and the familiar

July 25, 2025

Instructed by two Brown graduate students, Secondhand Writing encourages young writers to explore archives, museums and antique shops as a way to advance their own creative-writing practices.

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B-Lab 2025: Student entrepreneurs develop solutions in health care, tech, wellness and more

July 24, 2025

Through an eight-week summer accelerator focused on personal and commercial development, the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s Breakthrough Lab is supporting 13 student-led ventures.

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Student Life

Kyle Kavully: From Brown to the big stage Down Under

July 16, 2025

This summer, the rising Brown University junior and political science concentrator is performing on the Australian tour of “MJ The Musical.”

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News and Events

Kicking off a summer of discovery, Brown welcomes thousands of Pre-College students

June 30, 2025

Each summer, thousands of high school students study on campus and around the globe in Brown’s Pre-College Programs, which offer intensive academics, cultural immersion, research experiences and more.

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News and Events

Recent Brown alumni, current graduate students earn 37 Fulbright scholarships

June 30, 2025

This year’s 37 Fulbright awardees will begin teaching and research assignments in 24 countries across four continents in Fall 2025.

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Student Life

At Brown, independent concentrators pursue academic paths as unique as their ambitions

May 19, 2025

In this Q&A, four Brown students reflect on the experience of designing their own concentrations that defy conventional categories, from empathy in practice to computational neuroscience.

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Student Life

Ayoola Fadahunsi: Anchored by community at Brown, she leads with love, justice and joy

April 30, 2025

Informed by her Nigerian-American identity and guided by her spiritual compass, the Brown University senior is advancing migration-policy research, humanitarian law and public service.

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News and Events

In upcoming Commencement speeches, senior orators to reflect on resilience, responsibility

April 28, 2025

In keeping with a Brown tradition that dates back more than two and a half centuries, seniors Nkéke Harris and Aliza Kopans will address their fellow graduates on Sunday, May 25.

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News and Events

Brown students, recent alumni earn prestigious graduate scholarships

April 25, 2025

Three Brown University undergraduates and two recent alumni were named among this year’s classes of Goldwater, Truman, Gates Cambridge and Ellison scholars.

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Student Life

Photos: Quiet Green turns clamorous with ancient Egyptian battle reenactment at Brown

April 18, 2025

As the culminating project of Fighting Pharaohs: Ancient Egyptian Warfare, more than 90 Brown students participated in a student-led, live-action reconstruction of the 13th-century B.C.E. Battle of Kadesh.

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Student Life

Kanayo Duru: The Brunonian behind the baton has a heart that beats for music and medicine

March 4, 2025

The Brown University senior and head conductor of the Brown Band embraces a wide range of musical, academic and volunteer pursuits as he marches toward a career in medicine.

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News and Events

Brown University named nation’s top Fulbright-producing university

February 25, 2025

For the fifth time, Brown has earned the distinction of being the country’s top producer of Fulbright winners, with 40 grants offered to students and recent alumni for the 2024-25 academic year.

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News and Events

From College Hill to Cabo Verde, students connect history, heritage and health in global course

February 20, 2025

Supported by Brown’s Global Experiential Learning and Teaching program, 12 undergraduates traveled to Cabo Verde as part of a research course exploring the effects of diaspora on public health.

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News and Events

Three Brown seniors awarded prestigious fellowships for global learning opportunities

January 28, 2025

Through the Marshall Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholarship and Pickering Fellowship, three members of the Class of 2025 will depart Rhode Island for the global stage to pursue international graduate studies and careers.

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University Initiatives

Philanthropy made it possible: Brown celebrates its most successful fundraising campaign to date

January 28, 2025

Launched publicly in 2015, BrownTogether transformed Brown through a decade of unprecedented support that advanced excellence in teaching and research, financial aid, community impact and more.

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Arts and Humanities

From the Lab: Christelle Alvarez illuminates ancient Egyptian insights, encoded in hieroglyphs

December 19, 2024

A collaboration between an Egyptologist and data scientists at Brown aims to make the Pyramid Texts, the world’s oldest surviving corpus of religious texts, widely accessible to a modern audience.

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News and Events

Midyear Completion speakers will urge peers to embrace unique selves to uplift others

December 4, 2024

Brown’s annual Midyear Completion Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 7, will celebrate the achievements and paths of “.5ers,” who complete their degree requirements this month.

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Arts and Humanities

'Blue Moon': Student exhibition of cyanotypes featuring NASA lunar images lands at Brown

November 12, 2024

A collection of silk and cotton prints created by Brown University students and community members is on display at the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts through Nov. 16.

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Arts and Humanities

Student-led public art installation in Providence offers a new perspective on visual impairment

November 1, 2024

Following research, development and community collaboration, a team of Brown and RISD students unveiled “The Blind Urban Subject,” where passersby can experience the streetscape through common ocular conditions.

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Student Life

Photos: With cyanotype, Brown student uses the sun to visualize the moon

September 24, 2024

Inspired by Chinese handscrolls and NASA film of the moon’s surface, senior Logan Tullai used an 1800s technique to lead a community art project on campus on 60-foot-long swaths of silk.

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News and Events

Four Brown juniors awarded Obama-Chesky Scholarship for Public Service

September 23, 2024

Known as the Voyager Scholarship, the program aims to support future public service leaders through meaningful work-travel experiences, generous financial aid and a robust mentor network.

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News and Events

Brown launches digital hub to expand community, career exploration for students, alumni

September 17, 2024

The new BrownConnect+ network will broaden career development opportunities, mentorship and connections among more than 100,000 Brunonians worldwide.

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Student Life

Photos and video: A lively beginning to the academic year

September 5, 2024

During a week of welcome events, Brown’s campus buzzed with the unmistakable spirit of new beginnings as the Fall 2024 semester kicked off.

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News and Events

‘Wonder in their eyes’: Brown’s Pre-College Programs introduce teens to a collegiate experience

July 23, 2024

Each summer, thousands of high school students study on campus and around the globe in Brown’s Pre-College Programs, which offer intensive academics, cultural immersion, research experiences and more.

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News and Events

B-Lab 2024: Student entrepreneurs design innovative solutions for personal wellness, sustainability and more

July 1, 2024

Over the course of an eight-week summer accelerator focused on personal and commercial development, the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s Breakthrough Lab is supporting student entrepreneurs develop 11 different ventures.

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Student Life

The emperor’s new arm: Brown-RISD student reimagines art, monuments on campus

May 10, 2024

Senior Naya Lee Chang created five temporary public art installations that respond to existing works of art on Brown’s campus, including a monument of Caesar Augustus.

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Student Life

Daniel Solomon: Visualizing a more inclusive, accessible future through public art

April 30, 2024

Through the installation of educational public art in urban neighborhoods, the Brown sophomore hopes to inspire mutual understanding of the blind and visually impaired community.

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News and Events

Brown in Paris marks 30 years of innovative, immersive study abroad

April 26, 2024

Since 1993, more than 1,000 students have traded the familiarity of College Hill for the bustle of Paris in an unforgettable semester of language and cultural immersion.

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Arts and Humanities

Photos: Open studio event showcases creativity of Brown University artists

April 26, 2024

Students and faculty in Brown’s Department of Visual Art opened their studios and classrooms to display and converse about their creative work at an open-to-the-public event.

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Student Life

Five Brown students earn Truman, Goldwater scholarships

April 19, 2024

Brown’s two Truman scholars will pursue a future career in public policy, while three students will continue STEM research as Goldwater scholars.

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Student Life

Senior thesis exhibition at Brown explores ritual, decay of fishing industry

March 13, 2024

"Liturgy of the Shelf" draws on student Mick Chivers’ experiences as an artist, commercial fisherman, aspiring surgeon and advocate for sustainable food production.

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Arts and Humanities

Dual-degree students explore nostalgia, intimacy in wide-ranging art exhibition

February 2, 2024

The 16th annual Brown-RISD dual-degree student art exhibition, "While The Sap Flows," is on display at Brown’s Granoff Center through Feb. 25.

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News and Events

Brown offers overview of its place in college and university rankings

September 18, 2023

From U.S. News and World Report to Forbes and Princeton Review, Brown placed among top universities based on its distinctive student experience, high-impact teaching and research, and inclusive community.

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Social Sciences

Nathalia Klipp-Elias: From Brazil to College Hill, to the halls of the Rhode Island State House

September 7, 2023

The Brown University junior explored policymaking and governance through a hands-on internship with the office of the Rhode Island governor.

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Student Life

A Polaroid, a potato and a portrait: Class of 2027 members share treasured items from home

September 6, 2023

With their first day of classes in the books, Brown’s newest students are adjusting to living and learning on College Hill — and a few were willing to share comforts from home that they’d brought along.

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University Initiatives

Brown launches Center for Career Exploration, significantly expanding support for students developing career paths

August 30, 2023

Deepening the University’s legacy of student-centered learning, the center will expand career advising, resources, programs and partnerships to position students to achieve successful lives and careers.

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Student Life

Eric Sorge: Leveraging synthetic biology to clean arsenic-poisoned water

August 24, 2023

Building on a deep interest in synthetic biology, the rising Brown University senior spent his summer helping to develop a sustainable alternative to arsenic detection and removal methods.

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News and Events

‘Opening up horizons of curiosity’: Pre-College Programs offer a taste of the Brown experience

July 13, 2023

During the summer months, thousands of high school students are taking up residence on campus, studying across the globe and participating online in Brown’s wide-ranging Pre-College Programs, which offer intensive academics, research experiences and more.

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News and Events

With spring semester underway, Brown welcomes midyear arrivals

January 25, 2023

Whether they're undergraduates transferring from other institutions, students starting master's programs or visiting scholars committing to finishing their degrees on College Hill, nearly 200 students embarked on their Brown journeys in late January.

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News and Events

Midyear Completion students extol enthusiasm, empathy ahead of ceremony

November 30, 2022

At Brown’s Midyear Completion Celebration on Saturday, Dec. 3, three student speakers will aim to inspire fellow students while honoring the unique achievements of this year’s .5ers.

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Student Life

U.S. Navy veteran dives deep into Brown’s Open Curriculum

November 10, 2022

From environmental science and astrophysics to photography and mentorship opportunities, student veteran Terren Wise is charting a new course at Brown after nine years of military service.

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Student Life

Brown-RISD student launches upcycled fashion collaboration with University Bookstore

October 25, 2022

Missing Button, created by dual-degree student Glory Lee, transforms overstocked and damaged Brown University apparel into one-of-a-kind handmade garments.

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News and Events

Family Weekend brings together students, families from across the world

October 23, 2022

Parents, siblings and other family members joined students on College Hill to experience three days of Brown University’s distinct academic and extracurricular life.

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News and Events

Photos: From residence hall move-ins to Orientation activities, Brown celebrates Class of 2026

September 6, 2022

After a week of welcomes at Brown’s student dormitories and a wide range of events and programs to build connections among new students, the buzz on College Hill is back as the 2022-23 academic year gets underway.

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University Initiatives

Brown celebrates 40 years of Pre-College programs for high schoolers, locally and globally

July 25, 2022

Since the early 1980s, the University has offered a taste of college academics and extracurricular experiences — based on Brown’s distinctive strengths — through a diverse lineup of academic programs for young students.

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