Through relationships with local farms, businesses and institutions, Brown Dining supports a stronger, more equitable food system.

Congratulations to our graduating students and Swearer award winners!

The Swearer Center celebrated the induction of its 29th cohort of Royce Fellows, marking another chapter in the university’s commitment to student-driven community research.

In its 33rd consecutive cohort of undergraduate fellows, the recipients were selected from the largest applicant pool in the program’s history.

Through Swearer's Social Innovation Fellowship, Brown student Coco Huang '26 leads the Humanitarian Reporting Lab (HRL), a nonprofit examining journalism's impact on global humanitarian crises.

In Providence, disparities in tree cover across neighborhoods have serious implications for health and environmental equity, with some areas left more vulnerable to extreme heat and its effects.

Across Rhode Island, local organizations are working to build stronger, more equitable communities.

Love Data Week featured insightful discussions on the labor behind data and the power of maps in storytelling.

This month’s spotlight focuses on some of the ways faculty at Brown are contributing to enhancing STEM education with local K-12 students and teachers.

Julie Hajducky ‘26 is a Swearer Student Advisory Committee member and a Bonner Community Fellow.

This month’s spotlight focuses on the Summer 2024 Laidlaw Scholars and a sample project: developing a community-centered database for reproductive justice resources.

Congratulations to our graduating students and Swearer award winners!

This month, we spotlight Mya Roberson, a Brown alumna (2016), a trustee (2016-2019, 2022-2028) of the Brown Corporation and an engaged faculty member at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Batool Behnam, Graduate Assistant with Swearer Center’s community partnership team and current master's student at Brown’s School of Public Health, is concentrating on Global Health and graduating this Spring 2024. Through research, teaching and community services, Behnam’s dream is to reduce inequalities among communities.

Paris Dior ‘25, a Social Innovation Fellow at the Swearer Center, is also pursuing the Nelson Center’s Entrepreneurship Certificate while concentrating in International and Public Affairs.