At the Providence Public Library, rising sophomore Justin Dunn developed and taught a summer learning program, empowering local teens to strengthen their reading, writing and conversational skills.
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Science and Technology
Skye Rosario: Inspiring others to shoot for the Moon
Driven to inspire future space enthusiasts, Brown University student Skye Rosario is designing and installing a new lunar science exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and Planetarium this summer.
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The rising Brown University senior and biology concentrator is conducting hands-on research with snake specimens at natural history museums and in the lab at Brown to better understand biological diversity.
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Through a self-designed public health research project, the rising Brown University junior is spending the summer on a solo cross-country cycling trip, volunteering with nonprofits across the South.
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Arts and Humanities
Nathan Winoto: From Brown University to a big Broadway break
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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To better understand how bubbles behave in space, Brown University doctoral student Madeline Federle goes to perilous and occasionally nauseating lengths.
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Student Life
Nigel Evans: From Army boots to Arabic books
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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Health and Medicine
Frances Moriniere: Rising early to advance sleep research in dream job
This summer, Brown junior Frances Moriniere is training as a sleep scientist through the Sleep Apprenticeship program at the Warren Alpert Medical School and Bradley Hospital.
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Environment
Sophia Wu: Crab wrangler, ocean dreamer
Brown sophomore Sophia Wu is spending her summer at Save the Bay in Rhode Island, wrangling crabs, supporting summer camps for kids and exploring a future in marine science.
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Through everything from scavenger hunts to cooking demonstrations, the Brown undergraduate is connecting community members and local agriculture as an intern with Farm Fresh Rhode Island.
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Student Life
Kyle Kavully: From Brown to the big stage Down Under
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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Health and Medicine
Petranea Smith: Engaging with the community to help people get vaccinated
With a commitment to community engagement, the public health graduate student and aspiring physician is spending her summer helping underinsured Rhode Islanders access protective health care.
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Through a summer internship at the nonprofit organization Progreso Latino, the rising Brown sophomore is assisting local community members who are navigating questions related to immigration.
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Through a summer internship with Rhode Island Latino Arts and Trinity Rep, the rising Brown senior is helping to stage a free, outdoor bilingual performance series for Rhode Island communities.
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Through an internship with the Television Academy Foundation, the rising Brown University senior is learning the ins and outs of the TV industry while paving the way for a future generation of creatives.
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Science and Technology
Isabel Tribe: Examining ancient sediment to predict Earth’s future
Working with a 3-million-year-old Colombian sediment core in a research lab at Brown this summer, the rising sophomore is extracting ancient biological data to inform future climate models.
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Science and Technology
Ilija Nikolov: Bringing a quantum leap to Boston’s largest investment company
A condensed matter researcher and Brown Ph.D. student, Nikolov is spending his summer at Fidelity Investments, exploring how quantum-inspired neural networks could revolutionize financial analysis and security systems.
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From supporting environmental legislation to educating community members about sustainability, the rising Brown sophomore is taking a deep dive into local environmental advocacy this summer.
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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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Science and Technology
Kyle Paul: From Vienna, India and Providence, advancing understanding of amphibian behavior
The rising Brown University junior and pre-med concentrator was eager to dive into field research to study how frog species respond to stimuli in their environment.
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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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To acquire clinical experience as part of her journey to becoming a doctor, the rising Brown University senior is working as a medical scribe in Providence emergency departments this summer.
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The rising Brown University junior is making math fun for Providence Public School students through an AmeriCorps teaching fellowship this summer.
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The Brown University master of public health student is developing tools that first responders can use to de-escalate a mental health crisis and connect people to the resources they need.
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The rising Brown junior and aspiring doctor is in Busan for the summer to take intensive Korean language courses — and to investigate the surprising similarities between traditional medicine in Korea and her home country of Ghana.
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Science and Technology
Anoop Kiran: Helping to shed new light on the aerodynamics of drone flight
Inside Brown’s Prince Laboratory, the engineering Ph.D. student is delving deeper into his passion for flight and working to solve one of the biggest challenges of drone aerodynamics.
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Knee-deep in prairie grasses, the rising Brown University senior is collecting plant samples and bison waste to expand biologists’ understanding of animal nutrition in the wild.
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As an iProv summer fellow, the rising Brown sophomore led pop-up farmers markets with the Providence nonprofit to bring locally grown, affordable produce to communities where fresh foods are harder to access.
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As a research assistant in the Brown Community Noise Lab, Nina Lee has spent years monitoring noise levels across New England, advocating for environmental justice every step of the way.
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Science and Technology
Allen Dufort: Coding a cutting-edge space telescope
As a software engineer intern, Allen Dufort is supporting a Brown physicist’s NASA-funded project to help build a telescope that will enable the study of distant planets.
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Science and Technology
Rebecca Ward-Diorio: Diving deep into research in the Galápagos
In a culmination of her Brown biology education, the rising senior is studying the biodiversity of marine life in the Galápagos Islands for the effects of decreased human presence due to the pandemic.
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Under the shade of redwood trees, Victor Beck and other queer students of color from Brown are working with a Black and Indigenous land collective to restore and steward a 900-acre forest.
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As a summer research assistant in Brown’s Department of Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences, McClain is supporting research and building community connections.
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To fuel college access and readiness, Brown University and the Providence Public School District have expanded student outreach and support to recruit and enroll more Providence high school students in Pre-College Programs.
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As an iProv summer fellow, the rising Brown sophomore created a new coding class for local students attending summer day camp at Providence recreation centers.
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As a summer intern at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington, D.C., the rising Brown junior is combining his love for science with a driving interest to ensure that policy decisions on complex issues are evidence-backed.
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Health and Medicine
Parisa Afsharian: Translating research into actionable health advice
As a Hassenfeld Summer Scholar, Afsharian is researching the connection between language and health outcomes – and using her multilingualism to improve the health of families.
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As a summer research assistant, the rising senior is analyzing decades of data to investigate whether increasing spending on state public defender programs could lower America’s uniquely high incarceration rate.
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With dogs important contributors in everything from rescue operations to assisting people with disabilities, the rising senior is spending her summer in a Brown laboratory researching the reasoning abilities of man’s best friend.
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As a member of B-Lab — the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s summer startup accelerator — Terrill is developing the Reem Company, an insurance carrier that benefits the greater good, as outlined by her Islamic faith.
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Arts and Humanities
Halle Bryant: Indexing Rhode Island’s Indigenous history
The Class of 2021 graduate is working with Rhode Island’s Tomaquag Museum to index 1930s issues of a Native American magazine that sheds light on the lives of Indigenous people in New England and beyond.
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The first in-person Summer@Brown sessions since COVID-19’s arrival are welcoming nearly 800 high school students to campus this summer, while many others participate virtually from across the globe.
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Arts and Humanities
Jeremy Chan: Gamifying the scramble for Africa
As a teaching assistant in the history course African Experiences of Empire, Chan is designing board games that deepen students’ knowledge of everyday life in sub-Saharan Africa as European powers were seizing control.
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Brown-RISD dual degree student Justin Li led efforts to revive Pride Month activities in Rhode Island this year after challenges related to COVID-19 threatened to cancel the longstanding tradition.
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As part of the BrownConnect Summer Institute, Brown students and recent graduates considered the creative and practical challenges of transforming the bestselling novel “Wonder” into a Broadway musical.
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Health and Medicine
Cesar Orduña: Delivering free virus tests to Rhode Island’s underserved
Since May, a Brown senior and other students have played an instrumental role in providing COVID-19 tests to low-income, uninsured Rhode Island residents, many of whom are working on the front lines amid a global pandemic.
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With support from a Royce fellowship, two undergraduate students are teaching middle-schoolers in rural China how to express themselves and transform their communities through photography.
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Arts and Humanities
Ali Dipp: Building a platform for ‘borderlanders’ in the Southwest
Through digital marketplaces, murals and storytelling, the Brown-RISD dual degree student and El Paso, Texas, native seeks to celebrate the unique character of the Southwest.
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Science and Technology
Portia Tieze: Conducting science research from home in a pandemic
Novel coronavirus and its effect on University science laboratories has kept engineering student Portia Tieze from working on campus this summer — so she brought the lab to her apartment to continue her research.
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As a member of B-Lab — the Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship’s summer startup accelerator — Brown has developed Figured, a venture that offers customized natural hair care guidance to women with Afro-textured hair.
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