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Brown ranks No. 2 nationally for 2025–26 Fulbright recipients
By Ivy Huang | February 4The Herald spoke with five of the scholars about their experiences abroad.
Ivy Huang
University News & Science & Research Editor Ivy Huang is a university news and science & research editor from New York City Concentrating in English, she has a passion for literature and American history. Outside of writing, she enjoys playing basketball, watching documentaries, and beating her high score on Subway Surfers.
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Classicist Harry Tanner links homophobia in ancient texts to moments of socioeconomic upheaval
By Ivy Huang | February 2Classicist Harry Tanner linked homophobia in the ancient world to moments of upheaval.
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Three Brown seniors named 2026 Schwarzman Scholars
By Ivy Huang | January 15Three Brown seniors will be a part of Schwarzman Scholars eleventh cohort.
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How the Providence community came together in the wake of the mass shooting at Brown
By Maya Nelson, Ivy Huang and Manav Musunuru | December 18Both on and beyond campus, the community showed up for one another by providing shelter, food and support.
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‘We don’t all need to be integers’: Brown celebrates ’25.5ers at Midyear Completion Ceremony
By Ivy Huang | December 10Graduating speakers discussed the pathways that brought them to being a 0.5er.
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For professors, course evaluations help improve teaching, inform future courses
By Ivy Huang | December 4While evaluations are particularly important for junior faculty, more seasoned professors also use feedback to refine course curriculum.
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Brown professor’s book awarded 2025 Miriam Usher Chrisman Prize for History
By Ivy Huang | November 18Andrew Laird’s 2024 book explores how Renaissance humanism became the bedrock for the education of Indigenous elites in colonial Mexico.
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History professor’s new book explores how genealogy shaped power, politics in 18th-century America
By Ivy Huang | November 12John Carter Brown Library Director Karin Wulf reflected on her work at a Tuesday book launch event hosted by the Department of History.
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Howard professor Dana Williams spotlights Toni Morrison’s editorship in talk
By Ivy Huang | October 30Williams urged closely examining “traces of beauty and sensibility” in Morrison’s work as an editor, not just as an author.
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Political scientist Niraja Gopal Jayal raises concerns about Indian academic freedom in Watson lecture
By Ivy Huang | October 27The Indian crisis in academic freedom, Jayal said, are similar to the threats facing American universities.
