Each year the Graduate Student Council selects recipients for the Wilson-DeBlois and Bates-Clapp awards as a way to honor and thank staff members who have made outstanding contributions to graduate education at Brown. Marlina Duncan, Associate Dean of Diversity Initiatives and Assistant Vice President for Academic Diversity, receives the Wilson-DeBlois award. Carrie Nordlund,

One of the many ways graduate students connect to the broader Brown community is through teaching. The Excellence in Teaching Award acknowledges graduate students whose passion for teaching is recognized by their peers.

Lucas Baisch will receive the Master’s Award for professional excellence, Aakash Jhaveri will be recognized for his academic accomplishments, and Manuel Jiménez is honored for engaged citizenship and community service.

As the spring semester comes to a close, we wanted to write to express our continued commitment to support your health, safety, and personal and educational growth. As a community, we have joined together in virtual forums over the last two months to sustain connections and make new ones, and we have engaged in ongoing teaching and learning across time zones and geographic boundaries.

I hope you are well in this particularly challenging period. I first want to express my appreciation for your extraordinary efforts this semester. The move to remote teaching, research and learning has demanded of us all determination, ingenuity, and flexibility.

In her role, Jen Kim provides linguistic, cultural, and programmatic support for international and multilingual graduate students. Working remotely, her focus has been on individual consultations and workshops.

Eight doctoral students were recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship.

The 2020 cohort of Open Graduate Education students have chosen discipline pairings that range from Anthropology and Music to Computer Science and Philosophy.

Kate is originally from Shanghai, China. She attended Wake Forest University and received her bachelor’s degree in mathematical business.

The Graduate School is pleased to announce the 2020 Summer Proctorships, an important new opportunity for enhanced summer funding. Please see the information below.

A Message from the University Library to Graduate Programs and Students: Access to Scholarly Resources during Campus Closure

Ben is from Hunan province in China and received his bachelor's degree in Physics from Tsinghua University in Beijing.

“During my time at Brown, I was very excited to be on a campus with such great diversity. I met many outstanding people who shaped my views and thoughts to the world dramatically,” says Liu.

Our community is facing challenges unlike any we have seen before as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In the last few weeks, graduate students, faculty and staff have shown incredible resilience as research labs have had to ramp down, instruction has moved online, and scholarship has been forced to find new ways to continue under substantial constraints.

Communication to Doctoral Students from Provost & Dean of the Graduate School.

Long before the spring semester transitioned to remote learning, doctoral student Victoria Almansa-Villatoro had developed and implemented Brown’s first online Egyptology course for undergraduates.

As Initiative to Maximize Student Development (IMSD) manager, Taveras is responsible for helping to create and foster an inclusive community within the program, Brown's doctoral STEM programs, and external partners.

Danielle is currently a Senior Specialist in the division of World Wide Patient Safety at Bristol Myers Squibb in Jersey City, NJ. She has a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from Hamilton College with minors in Women’s Studies and Italian. She is also a licensed nurse and holds an advanced degree in public health.

Laura Perille ’15 PhD completed her doctoral degree in history and is now the Associate Director for the Office of Fellowships, Awards, and Resources at Georgetown University.

Gerardo Reyes is a first-year doctoral student in the Molecular Biology, Cell Biology and Biochemistry program.

We are in the midst of an extraordinarily challenging period, and I want to thank you for all that you are doing to promote the health and wellness of our communities.

You will have read in the letter that graduate students may continue to conduct on-campus research, including working in libraries and labs. Graduate student teaching assistants, fellows and instructors will be expected to continue with their teaching using remote learning. If you have not done so already, please read the president's email closely.

Alex is from Niskayuna, NY, a small town near the state capital of Albany and he graduated from Middlebury College with a bachelor of arts degree in computer science and history.

Joshua is a fifth-year master’s student from St. Lucia who completed his undergraduate degree at Brown in Biomedical Engineering.

Doctoral certificate programs are open to all PhD students and provide an opportunity to gain expertise in a second area beyond the home discipline. There are currently nine Certificate offerings in a variety of areas across the University.

William Goedel, a doctoral candidate in Epidemiology, first began working in HIV prevention research as an undergraduate at NYU and is passionate about advancing prevention technology and strategies.

Six recently completed doctoral candidates kick off the spring semester teaching their own, individually devised and crafted courses.

Sophie is from Philadelphia, PA and earned her bachelor’s degree in history with minors in government, Latin American studies and Spanish from Skidmore College.

Masatoshi is from Ichikawa city, Japan where he received a master of science in theoretical particle physics from Tohoku University.

Marco is originally from Beijing, China. He moved to Worcester, MA to attend high school, then completed his undergraduate degree at Boston University in Business Administration with a dual-concentration in finance and strategy.

Nathan Goff is a third-year doctoral Chemistry student and a Rhode Island native. He grew up in Cranston and completed his undergraduate studies at Rhode Island College in chemistry and physics.

Nine new Community Fellows have been chosen for the 2019-2020 academic year.

Wenbo is from Shanghai, China, and received his Bachelor of Science in theoretical and applied mechanics at the University of Science and Technology of China.

Welcome back to campus and to the start of the fall semester! As we begin to settle in to the academic year, I want to highlight some of our newest resources and initiatives related to graduate education.

Kevin is a fifth-year master’s student from North Kingstown, RI. He completed his undergraduate degree with honors in Comparative Literature in English and Spanish in May 2019.

“It is such a privilege to work with people who are beautiful human beings—on the inside and out—that I genuinely enjoy being around. I am especially grateful for the families in the Ola Tuputupua’e study who have welcomed us into their homes and trust us with their information to understand how children are growing up in Samoa,” she says of her experiences thus far.

The Graduate Student Council welcomes all graduate students to another productive and meaningful year. We are excited to continue our mission serving as the official liaisons between all graduate students and the University, as well as fostering a broader sense of community across programs.

Political Science PhD student Rob Grace was recently awarded the Peace Scholar Dissertation Fellowship for his research on the politics of humanitarian action, with a particular emphasis on humanitarian access obstruction.