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  • World Class? Yes. Cutthroat? No.

    World Class? Yes. Cutthroat? No.

    'We bounce ideas off each other,' says Jennifer Whitten, a PhD candidate studying Mercury’s surface, shown (right) with Leah Cheek, a peer in the Geological Sciences program. 'I have never felt competition here. It’s a friendly place and people are willing to help.'

  • ‘Keys to Your Destiny’

    ‘Keys to Your Destiny’

    Brown students are in charge of their own future, says David Stout.  A doctoral candidate focused on cardiovascular engineering, he also studies public health under the Open Graduate Education program. ‘I get to mold myself into the researcher I want to be.’

  • Intelligence, Hard Work Aren't Enough

    Intelligence, Hard Work Aren't Enough

    Your mentality is important in graduate school, says Peng Guan. ‘You need real passion for what you are doing,’ adds the student working on computer vision and graphics. Mental fortitude helps when a paper is rejected or it takes months to solve a problem.

  • Good Colleagues Make a Difference

    Good Colleagues Make a Difference

    We try to improve each other’s grant proposals, says PhD candidate Sohini Kar, pictured at the Cogut Center for the Humanities with doctoral candidates Chiwook Won and Clinton Bruce.

  • Faculty Foster Approach, not Agenda

    Faculty Foster Approach, not Agenda

    You can do whatever you want as long as you are intellectually honest, says Jennie Ikuta, a PhD student in Political Science.

  • Historic Setting

    Historic Setting

    University Hall was built in 1770.  For a time, this building served as troop hospital and barracks, beginning in 1776. It now houses administrative offices.

  • Creative Thinking

    Creative Thinking

    Diana Davis employed choreography to explain what 'math research' really means, and won the first-ever 'Dance Your Ph.D.' prize in pure mathematics from Science Magazine. Diana studies the geodesic flow on regular polygons. See her dance video.

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2013 Joukowsky Dissertation Prize Profile: Sounds of Swedish Nationalism

Benjamin Teitelbaum:

Benjamin Teitelbaum spent almost two years interviewing and getting to know members of the Swedish nationalist movement, sometimes finding himself in scary situations in his quest to understand the subculture's use of music. It was that perseverance in part that won him the 2013 Joukowsky Family Foundation Outstanding Dissertation Award in the Humanities for his study “Come Hear Our Merry Song:” Shifts in the Sound of Contemporary Swedish Radical Nationalism.

2013 Joukowsky Dissertation Prize Profile: The Mechanics of Biofuel Bacteria

Jennifer R. Davis:

Jennifer R. Davis’ Joukowsky Award-winning dissertation explaining how certain bacteria can turn plant matter into the precursors of biofuels was a novel project in Jason Sello’s chemistry lab. It is also a tour (de force) of genomics, bioinformatics, biochemistry, and structural biology that has made a promising scientist even more broadly skilled.

Student Speaker Talks of Pride

Benjamin J. Raymond, who will receive the Master of Arts in Teaching, will give the student address at the Graduate School Commencement Convocation on May 26. Benjamin’s training in Secondary Education English included student teaching at East Greenwich High School in Rhode Island. The speaker, who was selected by the full Graduate Student Council, tells us about himself and his talk, Pride, Considered.

Graduate School to Confer 705 degrees

A joyous culmination of research and training :

The Brown Graduate School will confer 705 advanced degrees at its Commencement Convocation Sunday, May 26, 2013, and will present a variety of awards for excellent dissertations, graduate alumni achievement, and academic services. The ceremony will be held at 10:15 a.m. Sunday, May 26, 2013, on the Ruth J. Simmons Quadrangle.

“The day is a joyous culmination of research and training,” said Peter M. Weber, dean of the Graduate School. “Graduate students are integral to the intellectual life of the University, and Brown celebrates their accomplishments and their promise.”

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