Changing America, a Smithsonian Institution traveling exhibit, explores the 1863 Emancipation Proclamation and the 1963 March on Washington. The exhibit, at Brown/RISD Hillel, is hosted by Brown’s Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice from May 7 through June 10, 2015.
Atul Pokharel, a postdoctoral fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies at Brown, will lead a discussion on “Relief, Recovery and Rebuilding in Nepal: Understanding and Addressing the Challenges” on Friday, May 1, 2015, at 12:30 p.m. in the Watson Institute's Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer St.
In 23 papers in the June issue of Academic Medicine, medical educators and students discuss how guided reflection, coursework and mentoring can foster the “professional identity formation” process needed for doctors to become and remain committed, ethical, and humanist physicians during a career with many challenges and stresses.
With individual motivation to work for social justice, senior orators Michelle Bailhe and Lucas Johnson didn’t sit idly by at Brown. In their four years they worked in Rhode Island prisons and schools to learn how to effect change. That experience, as well as their lives on campus, will inform their 2015 senior orations titled “I Don’t Know” and “School Spirit.”
Brown’s Office of Global Engagement is providing information about charities, global relief organizations, and government agencies that are building support for recovery efforts in Nepal, as well as local resources for persons concerned about friends or relatives in Nepal.
During its 247th Commencement Sunday afternoon, May 24, 2015, Brown University conferred honorary doctorates on Robert A. Corrigan, president emeritus of San Francisco State University; Louise Lamphere, distinguished professor emerita of anthropology at the University of New Mexico; David E. McKinney, civic leader and former IBM executive; Tracee Ellis Ross, actress and performance artist; Susan Solomon, atmospheric chemist; and Kathryn D. Sullivan, astronaut and geoscientist.
An exhibition of Shakespeare’s First Folio will begin a national all-state tour in January 2016. Brown will host the Rhode Island visit April 11 to May 1, 2016, with a variety of programming on campus and beyond.
Sophomore Felege Gebru now has a national third-place College Television Award for a freestyle rap video, Brown Cypher 2014. He hopes the award will spark similar projects on many campuses, building a tradition of creative self-expression.
Really Big Numbers, a mathematics book for children, written and illustrated by Richard Schwartz, has received the inaugural “Mathical: Books for Kids from Tots to Teens” award from the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute and the Children’s Book Council.
