The gift from Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and his wife, Ann. S. Mencoff, will endow the vice president for athletics and recreation — becoming the largest known endowed athletics leadership position in the Ivy League.
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The generous gift from Netflix CEO Reed Hastings and producer Patty Quillin will provide much-needed financial support to students from Tougaloo College, an HBCU in Mississippi, including many who come to Brown.
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One of the single largest gifts in University history will drive research into brain and nerve disorders and establish one of the best-endowed brain institutes in the country.
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A generous gift from U.S. Army veteran and Brown parent Joseph P. Healey will provide crucial support for Brown’s plan to double the number of student veterans enrolled as undergraduates by 2024.
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With continued momentum in support of Brown’s diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives, new BrownTogether gifts and grants are catalyzing research on race and inequity, and supporting students from underrepresented groups.
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The Ronald O. Perelman Arts District will highlight the prominence of arts teaching, scholarship, and performance at Brown.
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The largest gift for international financial aid in University history, from alumni Aysha and Omar Shoman, will expand Brown’s ability to educate the most exceptional international students from all socioeconomic groups.
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Generous support from the Legorreta family will propel plans for a world-class, nationally designated cancer center at Brown that will turn basic science into treatments for patients in Rhode Island and beyond.
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A new gift from The Warren Alpert Foundation will allow the University to substantially expand and enhance its M.D./Ph.D. program and endow a professorship in the Brown Institute for Translational Science.
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Brown University, Williams College and the Mystic Seaport Museum scholars will use maritime history as a basis for studying the relationship between European colonization, dispossession of Native American land and racial slavery.
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$4B: BrownTogether campaign extended
With its new $4 billion goal, the campaign will continue through 2024—raising funds for research and teaching in medicine, public health, engineering and the arts, as well as student financial aid, career services and Brown Athletics.
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The gift from Class of 1976 Brown alumna Shauna Stark, the largest in the Pembroke Center’s history, will establish an endowed directorship and support bold feminist research by scholars from multiple fields of study.
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A new gift from Brown University Chancellor Samuel M. Mencoff and Ann S. Mencoff will establish medical research funds and support top medical scholars.
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10 Brunonians who embody BrownTogether
From researchers to recent grads, discover the people who illustrate the heart of Brown’s most ambitious campaign.
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124 and counting: Brown surpasses campaign faculty milestone
Through generous gifts to the BrownTogether campaign, donors have established 124 endowed faculty chairs to expand both inspired teaching and research in service to society.
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2024 Highlights
Need a dose of inspiration? Revisit some of the best stories from 2024 in this roundup.
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5 Questions for a Brunonian: Navy Veteran Richard Edgar ’47
From Vermont farm boy to retired naval officer and engineer, Richard Edgar reflects on the role Brown has played in his life — and how he pays it forward.
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5 ways you can be part of Brunonians Pay It Forward Day
From social posts to gifs to BearShare, explore how you can get involved and help spread the word about this year's giving day.
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5 ways you can pay it forward this giving day
Want to help make this Brunonians Pay It Forward Day our biggest yet? Here’s how you can get involved and spread the word about this giving day.
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5 ways you can show your love for Brown this giving day
Want to get involved and give back this I Heart Brown Day? Here’s how you can support and spread the word about our newest giving day.
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7 Brunonians who are paying it forward
From cooking meals for the homeless to advocating for Indigenous sovereignty to feeding the troops in Ukraine, Brown alumni share the ways they’re giving back to their communities.
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A gift of pride and potential
With their gift, Marco Martinez ’84 and his husband Tom Styer are paying it forward for the future of LGBTQ students at Brown.
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A golden anniversary becomes a golden opportunity
As Brown works to expand its research enterprise, the Division of Biology and Medicine will play a central role in discovering and disseminating solutions to the world’s most pressing medical problems.
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A look back: 2020 highlights
From providing emergency support to students during a global pandemic to game-changing research in malaria, we're looking back at some important accomplishments supported by Brown donors in a year that was anything but ordinary.
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A parent’s love, a lasting legacy
Through her daughter, Cristina García P’14 saw firsthand the power of a Brown education. Through her planned gift, she hopes to give other Latinx families the same experience.
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A promise that’s paid off
In its inaugural year, The Brown Promise has already made a lasting impact on admissions, socioeconomic diversity, and the future of financial aid.
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Through its diversity and inclusion action plan, Brown is bringing topics on race, gender, and inequality into classrooms across a variety of departments.
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Oncologist Wafik El-Deiry knows a lot about translating basic research into patient care. He just wants to do it faster.
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Advancing emergency medicine in Rhode Island and beyond
Patients can’t always prepare for a medical emergency. With donor support, Brown’s Department of Emergency Medicine can make sure the physicians who treat them are.
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Advocating for women’s reproductive health
Decades apart, two women of Brown support the quest for quality health care through activism, research, and giving.
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In late May 2020, Brown's Center for Middle East Studies announced the establishment of the inaugural endowed professorship in Palestinian Studies.
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With gifts from Orlando Bravo ’92 and James and Cathleen Stone P’17, Brown’s economics department is examining wealth, poverty, and inequality from multiple perspectives.
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Anticipation, joy, relief. Match Day is in the books!
Members of Brown’s MD Class of 2022 celebrated the start of the next phase of their medical careers as they discovered where they have been matched for residencies.
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Aspirational / Achievable: BrownTogether campaign makes history
The collective impact of more than 76,800 donors has propelled the University to new heights and will have a lasting effect on future generations of Brunonians and the difference they can make in their communities and the world.
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Authoring career journeys all their own
With the launch of the Center for Career Exploration, Brown is providing students with expanded advising, experiences, and alumni connections that will help them discover what’s next.
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Avery Willis Hoffman on finding creativity in ‘the space between’
With expanded Brown Arts Institute programming, the opening of the donor-funded Lindemann Performing Arts Center, and the multi-semester IGNITE series, Brown Arts is about to command the spotlight on campus.
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Because of Brown
For Scott Westerfield ’79 and Ed Miskevich ’79, Brown wasn't just where it all began: it’s where it was all made possible.
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Beyond the stacks: A distinctive collection
The John Carter Brown Library wants its extraordinary collections on the history of the colonial Americas to be accessible to the world—and more scholars at Brown.
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Big Problems, Big Solutions
The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship celebrates five years of supporting the development of innovative student ideas, teaching entrepreneurship as a set of skills, and helping the Brown community take advantage of a rich variety of entrepreneurial resources.
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Breaking new ground in the battle against Alzheimer's
Early detection. Personalized treatments. Collaborative care. The Center for Alzheimer’s Disease Research is positioning Brown to improve patient outcomes now and in the future.
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Bridging the STEM gender gap
With the BrownTogether campaign, the University is creating more opportunity and a stronger sense of community for women faculty in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics.
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Brown experts on public health in a changing climate
Brown University leaders Ashish K. Jha and Kim Cobb discuss the intersection of climate change and people’s health, the challenges of our information ecosystem, and how the University’s collaborative efforts are fostering innovative solutions and preparing future leaders.
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Brown medical students celebrate Match Day 2021
On March 19, The Warren Alpert Medical School's MD Class of 2021 joined medical students from around the country for Match Day.
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A planned state-of-the-art facility for integrated life sciences research, Danoff Laboratories in Providence’s Jewelry District will convene scientists to solve complex, interconnected health and medical challenges.
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Having reached its target more than a year ahead of schedule, the University will continue raising funds for student scholarships and faculty research, while establishing new goals in the months to come.
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Provost Richard M. Locke outlined Brown’s distribution model for $4.8 million in federal COVID-19 economic relief funding and an additional $550,000 in University funding to ensure students are treated equitably.
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Brown to go need-blind for international students
BrownTogether donors helped the University meet its $120 million fundraising goal to launch need-blind admission for international undergraduate students beginning with the Class of 2029.
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In celebration of 10 years of impact and the exceptional generosity of its donors, the center’s new name honors Brown’s president emerita, who sparked a landmark effort to uncover the University’s historical ties to slavery.
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Brown unveils name of new performing arts center
Named in recognition of a generous gift from Frayda Lindemann and to honor her late husband George Lindemann Sr., The Lindemann Performing Arts Center is set to open its doors in 2023
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Brown welcomes incoming medical students with White Coat Ceremony
The Warren Alpert Medical School celebrated the MD Class of 2024 with a virtual event as first-year medical students donned their white coats.
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