November 12, 2024 News from SPH
This fall there was a deadly disease outbreak in the east African country of Rwanda. But you may not have heard about it, and according to Professor Craig Spencer, that’s a good thing.
October 25, 2024 Just Security
Suresh Venkatasubramanian discusses the implications of AI and national security policy, including the White House Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights, which he co-authored.
October 11, 2024 Think Global Health
Physician and Ebola survivor Craig Spencer on Rwanda's response and how the international community can help
October 8, 2024 Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Out of 35 applicants, the Watson Institute has selected nine students for the 2024-2025 Director’s Fellowship cohort, offering them the chance to collaborate on research with faculty across the Institute's centers and initiatives.
October 8, 2024 Nature
Comments from Dr. Adam Levine.
October 7, 2024 The Wire
In the time since Tapati Guha-Thakurta and Vazira Zamindar's edited volume was published, this question has transformed into 'how secular is India and what's the role of its art in it?'
September 30, 2024 News from Brown
September 24, 2024 The Power of Faces, Daniel Farber Huang and Theresa Menders
A husband-and-wife duo share their powerful photos of refugees at a new Brown University exhibit.
September 9, 2024 The New York Times
A sheriff fought to give prisoners addicted to opioids a shot that suppresses cravings for a month. Upon release, they were more likely to continue treatment.
September 5, 2024 Watson Institute
The 2024 APSA annual meeting and exhibition was hosted in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, this September. This year's theme is "Democracy: Retrenchment, Renovation, and Reimagination," and eight faculty members from Watson participated in panel discussions
August 22, 2024 The Japan Times
Systemic misogyny persists in the country — exacerbated by a slow judicial process
August 5, 2024 Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists
June 20, 2024 Watson Institute
This year, five Watson research proposals were awarded a total of $100,000 in Birkelund Funds. The funds support faculty research, especially in the early stages, and encourage student engagement in research.
April 8, 2024 Doing Sociology
In the edited volume Sociology of South Asia Postcolonial Legacies, Global Imaginaries (published by Springer in 2022), Gowri Vijayakumar and Smitha Radhakrishnan introduce classical Sociology’s approach in South Asia as a contrast case to Western modernity, and colonial and postcolonial sociological scholarship within the subcontinent.
April 2, 2024 Peoples Dispatch
Features Professor James Green
March 29, 2024 The Street
Features Suresh Venkatasubramanian
February 23, 2024 UF Health
Features CHRHS Director Dr. Adam Levine
January 29, 2024 Brown Alumni Magazine
A new course asks how we can harness AI without teaching it all of our biases and automating oppression.