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Students reflect on Mid-Autumn Festival celebration

By Victoria Yin and Canqi Li | September 22

As the sun descended on College Hill Tuesday, Sep. 21, students of Asian heritage celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, or Moon Festival, by gathering on the Main Green for mooncakes and community.

Gwyneth Paltrow talks wellness company Goop in final installment of Fashion Week speaker series

By Rebecca Carcieri | March 23

Actress, model, entrepreneur and businesswoman Gwyneth Paltrow joined Fashion@Brown’s Fashion Week as the fifteenth and final speaker of its series Monday evening. She was introduced and interviewed by Fashion@Brown President Sasha Pinto ’21 who began the conversation by asking Paltrow’s ...

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Mohamed Malim discusses nonprofit work in fashion industry

By Samantha Molina | March 3

Social entrepreneur Mohamed Malim spoke at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Monday afternoon at the behest of the Center for Latin America and Caribbean Studies about how he strives to reframe the refugee narrative in the United States by spreading social awareness through fashion ...

Fashion@Brown hosts annual runway show

By Chanikarn Kovavisarach | February 28

A bright array of bold, vibrant looks designed and modeled by Brown and Rhode Island School of Design students captivated audience members in the Granoff Center for the Creative Arts Thursday at Fashion@Brown’s 10th annual runway show. “It’s a terrific landmark,” wrote Sasha Pinto ’21, president ...

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World-famous street artist Shepard Fairey joins RISD board, paints 100th mural

By Emily Teng | October 28

“Brilliant, original, thorough, quirky and funny.” Rhode Island School of Design Senior Lecturer Tom Roberts read to audience members his evaluation of then-college sophomore Shepard Fairey, who took his “Social Commentary and Propaganda” course in 1991. Three decades since graduating from RISD ...

Recent alums make waves in New York comedy circles

By Annabelle Woodward | September 10

It’s mid September, the time of year that heralds fall-flavored lattes for most and, for a brave, funny few, the start of comedy club auditions. Long-established University institutions like IMPROVidence, Out of Bounds, Starla and Brown-Rhode Island School of Design Stand Up Comics will hold auditions, ...

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Visiting professor presents philosophical argument for universal love

By Grayson Lee | March 5

Although the command to “love your neighbor as yourself” is often considered impractical, Meghan Sullivan, a professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, sought to defend universal love, or the “love imperative,” at a forum last Friday evening. At the event, titled “Why you should ...

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Allums '21: Who is the 'we' in WE@Brown?

By Jordan Allums | February 22

From Feb. 7 until the Feb. 9, I had the pleasure of representing Brown at the 24th Annual Black Solidarity Conference sponsored by Yale. Hundreds of black undergraduate students gathered to attend workshops, network and foster connections with one another. During a moment of free time, I was scrolling ...

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Panelists discuss importance of social activism

By Li Goldstein | February 22

“I think we need to hate injustice and love people,” said activist Heather Booth in an intergenerational conversation about the past, present and future of community-level social activism Thursday night. The event was part of a national series of conversations hosted by Booth and Tufts University ...

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Scholars discuss slavery, capitalism in Watson panel

By Henry Dawson | December 4

Academic scholars and experts who study slavery and justice convened at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs Monday night to discuss the relationship between slavery and capitalism. The conversation addressed the impact of race and racism on historical thought and the complexity ...

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Former diplomat talks U.S.-China relations

By Li Goldstein | November 13

“It used to be a lot of fun to talk about U.S.-China relations, … but now here we are,” joked Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs Chas Freeman during his talk at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs last night. During his lecture, Freeman highlighted the complexity ...

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Undocumented artists display resistance

By Corrine Bai | November 7

On Tuesday night, three artists took the stage at the First-Generation College and Low-Income Student Center for a frank and informal discussion about the joys and challenges of being undocumented. “Undocu-Friendship: Artistas Triunfando A Través De La Comunidad” featured visual artist Julio Salgado, ...

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Paxson P’19 discusses diversity in economics

By Melanie Pincus | October 30

President Christina Paxson P’19 spoke about her experience as an economist and discussed diversity in the field at a lecture held in the University’s Science Center yesterday afternoon. Representatives from student groups including Women in Science and Engineering, the Science Cartoons Program and ...

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Students, professors create anti-Bolsonaro petition

By Katherine Bennett | October 23

A group of Brown students and faculty, along with academics and activists across the United States, have created a petition campaign opposing Brazilian presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro. The petition criticizes Bolsonaro for “aggressive and vile hostility toward women, people of African descent, ...

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Saudi Arabia grows ‘soft power’ through art

By Priyanka Podugu | October 23

“‘I’m an independent journalist using his pen for the good of his country,’” said Visiting Scholar in Middle East Studies Alia Al-Senussi ’03 MA’04, quoting the murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi as an opening to her lecture yesterday, “The New Saudi Arabia: A Kingdom ...

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Teju Cole’s photos cross disciplinary lines

By Sabrina Chen | October 15

Teju Cole, New York Times Magazine photography columnist and professor of the practice of creative writing at Harvard, spoke to an almost fully packed Salomon 101 Monday night. In the one-hour lecture, titled “Breaking Form,” Cole read excerpts and showed photographs from his book, “Blind Spot.” ...

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Diane Guerrero talks immigration, identity

By Liyaan Maskati | April 25

Salomon Center erupted into overwhelming applause as Diane Guerrero stepped on stage. The acclaimed actress and activist addressed the audience in a talk sponsored by the Brown Lecture Board Tuesday evening, delivering a speech that elicited a palpable sense of excited emotion from the crowd. “It ...

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Conservative economist talks polarization

By Jack Ross | April 10

President of prominent right-wing thinktank the American Enterprise Institute and New York Times columnist Arthur Brooks spoke about uniting Americans in polarized times before a group of students, faculty and members of the Providence community Tuesday evening in Pembroke Hall. His talk, entitled “Bringing ...

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Workshop explores connections between artificial, human intelligence

By Eugene I. Hrabarchuk | April 9

With the buzzword “data-driven” gaining traction as a hot topic within many disciplines today, researchers and students flocked to the Serre Lab’s workshop on deep learning and the field’s myriad applications last Saturday. Deep learning is a set of algorithms that analyzes a large amount of ...

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Jeb Bush to speak as Ogden lecturer April 25

By Allie Reed | April 5

Jeb Bush, former governor of Florida, will speak at the University April 25 as the Ogden Memorial lecturer. After Bush delivers a speech entitled “Leadership in a Changing World,” President Christina Paxson P’19 will moderate an audience question-and-answer session, according to a University press ...