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Excellence in Graduate Education
To ensure Brown's excellence in graduate education, we must attract the best students and provide them with competitive levels of support. Through the Plan for Academic Enrichment, Brown offers more competitive fellowships, covers health insurance costs for doctoral students receiving financial support, guarantees summer funding for all incoming doctoral candidates in select programs, and provides for travel grants to conduct field research and attend conferences. With travel support, students are enabled to take their research to new levels and participate in academic conferences that enhance their professional development.
While at Brown, graduate students partner with faculty members in the production of new knowledge and in the education of our undergraduates. They leave prepared to assume positions of leadership in a wide range of academic and professional fields. Your gift to the Brown Annual Fund strengthens the Graduate School and the entire University by helping to attract and support the best graduate students.
“I chose to pursue my Ph.D. at Brown because the English Department guar-anteed funding for my first five years of study. This kind of support is crucial to the quality of graduate scholarship here, and I believe it is one of the reasons Brown’s English Department has an outstanding record of career placement for its Ph.D. students. It’s not easy for a university to provide support for the amount of time it takes to complete a Ph.D., particularly in the humanities, but this commitment is essential to superior graduate education.”
Gena Zuroski AM '00
Candidate for Ph.D. in English
"The travel research grant that I received enabled me to participate in a collaborative project with my adviser, Professor Peter Weber, and researchers at the Stanford Linear Accelerator. I performed computer simulations of the trajectories of ultrafast relativistic electron pulses. The simulations allowed us to find the optimal parameters for a time-resolved diffraction experiment that we plan to pursue."
Fedor Rudakov
Candidate for Ph.D. in Chemistry
"I work in the emerging field of food studies, so funding from the Graduate School to participate in meetings of the Association for the Study of Food and Society has been absolutely essential to my intellectual and professional development. It is there that I presented my first paper, organized my first panel, accepted a paper prize that led to my first publication, became a member of the board of directors, and developed a community of colleagues who understand, support, and challenge me."
Charlotte Biltekoff AM'00
Candidate for Ph.D. in American Civilization
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