Complementing the support within academic departments and from primary faculty advisors, the Graduate School fosters a robust array of programs and activities that contribute to personal and professional development. PhD360 organizes student development into six intentional areas of impact. These areas are meant to promote and catalyze the work that happens in centers, institutes, schools, departments, programs and the Graduate School.
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The PhD360 Experience
Brown’s PhD360 Experience represents a comprehensive approach to student development. Brown offers high-touch doctoral education that balances disciplinary depth with an integrative approach that leverages the vast resources of the broader University.
The PhD360 Experience
Brown’s PhD360 Experience represents a comprehensive approach to student development. Brown offers high-touch doctoral education that balances disciplinary depth with an integrative approach that leverages the vast resources of the broader University.
Areas of Impact
The PhD360 Experience at Brown provides opportunities across six key areas: collaborative research, teaching and mentoring, communicating research, career exploration, travel and grant opportunities, and community and leadership. Curated by the Graduate School, the PhD360 Experience connects doctoral students to a rich network of opportunities offered by a wide range of University partners, each with their own areas of expertise.
Brown’s graduate programs lead students into many different and exciting career pathways within academic, government, nonprofit and private sectors.
Brown is known for its emphasis on collaboration among people and across areas of study to address opportunities, challenges and areas of inquiry ripe for discovery and innovation. At Brown, we defy traditional boundaries between areas of study, and this philosophy is part of the PhD360 Experience.
Members of the Brown community are committed to taking the knowledge they gain in classrooms, laboratories and libraries to further the public good, and using it to address the world’s most pressing and complex challenges. To do this most effectively, students must be able to translate the importance of their research to many different audiences, including specialists in their fields and the public.
Brown’s programs enable students to create community around common academic interests, identities and values. The Graduate School’s goal is not only to identify and bring together a broad range of exceptionally talented students, faculty and staff to Brown, but also to support that diversity to advance the University’s core mission of education and discovery.
At Brown, graduate students become members of a teaching and learning community. Under the guidance of faculty who are committed to fueling the curiosity, creativity and intellectual joy of their students, graduate students have opportunities to develop their own knowledge and understanding of teaching practices.
One of the many benefits of choosing to study at Brown is access to a vast array of resources to help in the pursuit and sharing of knowledge. The Graduate School and its campus partners offer a variety of funding opportunities to support doctoral students as they travel for study and fieldwork, participate in professional conferences and engage in other activities related to their research and career development.