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Maggie Foxx: Making history in the Women’s Pro Baseball League

As a player in the first women’s professional baseball league in the U.S. since the 1950s, Brown University student-athlete Maggie Foxx is living her diamond dreams this summer on the Los Angeles Queens.
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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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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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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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Student Life

Della Tsivor: Connecting language, food and medicine in Korea

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

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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Student Life

Sarah Zylberfuden: Making connections in canine cognition

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

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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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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