FAMILY WEEKEND 2024 RECORDED HIGHLIGHTS
Educating Your Student at Brown: Life and Learning Inside and Outside the Classroom
Friday, October 25, 4:30 p.m. | Salomon Center for Teaching
Senior administrators from the College and Campus Life will talk about the undergraduate experience at Brown: navigating the Open Curriculum, exploring academic and career pathways and engaging with a wide range of intellectual, personal and community-building opportunities and resources inside and outside the classroom. This event will highlight a number of ongoing and new initiatives as well as provide space to ask questions. The event will also be available via livestream.
Watch “Educating Your Student”
Family Weekend Keynote: “Our Climate Future: Students as Changemakers”
Friday, October 25, 6:30 p.m. | Salomon Center for Teaching
Join President Christina H. Paxson as she welcomes Professor Kim Cobb, director of the Institute at Brown for Environment and Society (IBES), for this year’s Family Weekend keynote. The event will be livestreamed and recorded for future viewing.
Featured Speaker: Kim Cobb, Lawrence and Barbara Margolis Director of IBES, Professor of Environment and Society and Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Faculty Research Forum: “Navigating the Undergraduate Research Ecosystem at Brown”
Saturday, October 26, 11:30 a.m. | Salomon Center for Teaching
There are many different ways by which students can engage in undergraduate research at Brown. In this moderated session, faculty panelists Kate O’Connor-Giles, provost's professor of brain science (neuroscience), Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, associate professor of sociology, and Jim Russell, professor of Earth, environmental, and planetary sciences will have a conversation about the undergraduate research experience at Brown. The panel will be moderated by Oludurotimi Adetunji, associate dean for undergraduate research and inclusive science, after a brief introductory remark.