Summer Experiences

Health and Medicine

Petranea Smith: Engaging with the community to help people get vaccinated

August 29, 2024

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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Social Sciences

Jasmin Elias Contreras: Supporting immigrant communities in Rhode Island

August 22, 2024

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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Arts and Humanities

Natan Rodrigues Ferreira: Taking to the stage to broaden access to bilingual community theater

August 15, 2024

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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Student Life

Maiya Jannah: Making waves in media for a more inclusive Hollywood

August 8, 2024

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

July 29, 2024

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

July 25, 2024

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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Environment

Yuna Yang: Protecting Rhode Island’s water resources through advocacy and education

July 18, 2024

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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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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Science and Technology

Kyle Paul: From Vienna, India and Providence, advancing understanding of amphibian behavior

August 31, 2023

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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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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Health and Medicine

Gabriella Vulakh: Serving the local community, gaining experience through medical scribing

August 16, 2023

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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Student Life

Angel Arrazola: Building a positive learning environment for middle school students in Providence

August 10, 2023

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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Health and Medicine

Liz Gledhill: Helping law enforcement officers respond more meaningfully to mental health crises

August 3, 2023

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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Student Life

Della Tsivor: Connecting language, food and medicine in Korea

July 27, 2023

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

July 20, 2023

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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Environment

Eliza Atwood: Researching wildlife nutrition and migration patterns in Yellowstone

July 13, 2023

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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Social Sciences

Michael Ochoa: Growing food and building community with the African Alliance of Rhode Island

September 1, 2022

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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Environment

Nina Lee: Investigating the impact of noise pollution on children’s health outcomes

August 30, 2022

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

August 25, 2022

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

August 22, 2022

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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Environment

Victor Beck: Healing forests and underserved communities in northern California

August 18, 2022

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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Environment

Olivia McClain: Exploring hyperlocal air pollution in Providence

August 17, 2022

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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Arts and Humanities

Brown’s Pre-College Programs welcome increasing share of students from Providence

August 8, 2022

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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Arts and Humanities

Lynda Umuhoza: Teaching coding to local campers and inspiring the next generation of women in tech

August 4, 2022

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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Science and Technology

John Michael Slezak: Researching the risks, impacts of nuclear war with the Nuclear Threat Initiative

July 28, 2022

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

August 18, 2021

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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Social Sciences

Josh Bricker: Investigating whether low public defender spending explains high incarceration rates

August 12, 2021

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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Student Life

Sarah Zylberfuden: Making connections in canine cognition

July 28, 2021

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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Student Life

Whitney Terrill: Aligning personal insurance with collective good

July 21, 2021

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

July 14, 2021

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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Student Life

Pre-college programs at Brown offer high school students the chance to learn on campus or online

July 8, 2021

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

July 7, 2021

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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Student Life

Justin Li: Keeping Pride alive in Providence during a challenging year

June 30, 2021

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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Student Life

BrownConnect Summer Institute: Adapting a beloved novel into a Broadway play

August 20, 2020

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

August 12, 2020

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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Student Life

Emily Ma and Liyuan Ao: Helping rural teens find their voices

August 7, 2020

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

August 6, 2020

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

July 30, 2020

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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Student Life

Lauren Brown: Simplifying the hair care journey for Black women

July 23, 2020

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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Student Life

HOPE at Brown: Battling discrimination against Rhode Islanders experiencing homelessness

July 16, 2020

This summer, members of HOPE at Brown, a student-run Swearer Center program that combats homelessness, are contributing to community-based research that identifies discrimination against housing-insecure individuals.

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Arts and Humanities

Kate Reed: Finding a niche in biomimetic design

July 9, 2020

The Brown-RISD dual degree student is pursuing several summer projects that use cutting-edge technology to connect people to the natural world and to each other.

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Health and Medicine

Investigating plant growth with CRISPR gene-editing technology

August 28, 2019

On a quest to unearth insights about ethylene production and plant growth, Adrian Lee spent his summer applying the revolutionary genetic engineering tool alongside Brown faculty.

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Social Sciences

Using data to spark creativity

August 22, 2019

In a summer internship at the Swedish advertising firm NORD DDB, rising junior Harshita Agarwal unearthed surprising insights that revealed decision-making patterns and biases among Swedes.

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Health and Medicine

Modeling hurricane effects on Rhode Island

August 14, 2019

Working with the Rhode Island Department of Health, Brown MPH student Joyce Pak is interviewing hospital and other critical facility managers to inform a real-time computer model of storm consequences.

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Science and Technology

Undergraduate research team builds robotic arm for a pint-sized satellite

August 8, 2019

With a passion for space and space engineering, two engineering students spent the summer working to design a robotic arm that may fly on Brown’s next student-built satellite.

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Social Sciences

Translating philosophy into political action in Chile

August 1, 2019

One semester after Bleeding Heart Libertarianism, four Brown students are working with political scientist John Tomasi to make connections between political philosophy and conditions on the ground in Chile.

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