Dear Brown families,
College Hill is always humming with potential as students flood back to campus over Labor Day weekend, setting into motion multitudes of plans and preparations made over the summer.
Our first-year students – a remarkable, global group that defies easy summarization – officially began their Brown careers when they walked through the Van Wickle Gates onto the College Green. There, another Brown newcomer, Provost Vicki Colvin, addressed the community as part of the convocation of the University’s 251st academic year. In her speech entitled "Fresh Eyes," Provost Colvin counseled students to "learn the lessons and absorb the knowledge of the countless generations that have come before you…while always looking for your own perspective on old and new problems alike."
We hope that you can travel to campus October 24-26 for Family Weekend. Our faculty and deans look forward to inviting you into Brown’s vibrant intellectual life and highlighting the academic, research, and extracurricular resources available to our students as they shape their educational and career goals. No matter your child’s class year, there is something for everyone.
Brown’s 250th anniversary celebrations continue this year. Whether you yourself are a Brown graduate or you put the bumper sticker on your car for the first time this summer, we hope you feel a part of the University’s community and history – and an ever-greater sense of Brunonian pride!
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Ever true,
Rachel Spaulding ’00
Director, Brown Parents Program |
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Resource Highlight
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ASK and Focal Point – Online Advising Resources |
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As an important companion to our open curriculum, Brown emphasizes academic advising and provides resources to enhance the advising experience for each undergraduate student. ASK (Advising Sidekick) is a web site designed for students and their advisors, the front page of which is also accessible to families. ASK is a repository for many advising materials, and it is frequently updated with the informational emails students receive regarding advising at Brown. Students log into ASK to view a calendar of advising events, to record writing requirement actions, and to declare concentrations. |
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Focal Point is another important tool that can be indispensable when students are contemplating their choice of academic concentration. This site allows students to explore concentrations available at Brown and includes details on concentration advisors, requirements, and course descriptions. Families are often most intrigued by the listing of employment obtained by Brown alumni after graduating with a particular concentration; no matter the concentration, Brown alumni pathways are amazingly varied. Take some time to tour Focal Point today! |
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Campus News
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Career Fair Draws More Students, More Employers
As students left their rooms for another day of class Wednesday morning, many of them were preparing for something else entirely. Hundreds made their way to the College Green at noon to speak with employers at one of Brown’s largest–ever career fairs.
Read about the career fair |
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Summer Research on Display
This past August, Brown undergraduates presented their comprehensive summer research endeavors to the public. The projects covered a wide range of topics from the psychology of musicals to 3D–mapping and robotics.
Read about the projects |
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The John Hay Library Unveils Its New Look
Renovations are complete at the John Hay Library, including a remodeled 4,416-square-foot main reading room on the first floor.
Check out the upgraded space |
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Guantanamo Public Memory Project Comes to Brown
The traveling exhibit stops by College Hill for three weeks and will include a section co–curated by current Brown undergraduate and graduate students.
Learn more |
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Faculty and Research
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Professors of Influence
Four Brown faculty members have been named to the "Most Influential Scientific Minds 2014," a yearly list compiled by Thomson-Reuters that covers 21 scientific fields across the globe.
Details on the list |
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Understanding Brain Rhythms
Dr. Wael Asaad won the prestigious Clinical Scientist Development Award, which will fund a three-year study that aims to improve brain–rhythm therapy for sufferers of Parkinson’s disease.
Find out how |
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Med School Professors on the Frontlines in Liberia
Dr. Adam Levine and Dr. Tim Flanigan of the Alpert Medical School arrived in Monrovia this month to help combat the Ebola epidemic in sub–Saharan Africa.
Learn about their journeys |
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Fighting for Justice and Social Change in Brazil
The National Women’s Studies Association has selected associate professor of Africana Studies Keisha–Khan Perry as this year’s recipient of the Gloria E. Anzaldúa book prize for her latest publication.
More about the award |
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Brown Parents Program
 Brown parents are not only an important component of the Brown community – they also help us build and strengthen it through their generous volunteerism. Each year we are fortunate to have a number of parents open their homes (or other venues) to host members of the Brown family for events around the world. We’d like to offer a special thank you to those families whose recent or upcoming events have created opportunities for members of the extended Brown community to come together to celebrate and learn more about the University so far this academic year:
Ken ’86 and Katrina ’88 Carlson P’18
Perry P’92 and Martin Granoff LHD’06, hon. ’06 P’92
Yamile and Peter Jimenez P’16
Stephanie and Teiji Kawana P’16
Grainne and Robert MacAneney ’83, P’14, P’18
Lillian and Henry Parr P’16
Lorin and Mimi Reisner P’17
Andrea and Claude Stern P’16, P’18
Steven ’84 and Tina Price, P’18 |
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