Brown University
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For a project to strengthen biological threat reduction capabilities across Africa
Date
Dec. 11, 2025
Duration
36 months
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This initiative will establish a structured pipeline for African biosecurity leadership through annual policy courses for up to 30 African leaders per cohort, training and placing post-graduate fellows in operational roles with key international health security, biosecurity, and biological threat reduction organizations. Fellows will convene annually alongside global biosecurity events and produce policy briefs to strengthen biological threat reduction practices. By equipping a new generation of African experts with the skills and networks needed to govern biosafety and biosecurity, the program aims to strengthen continental preparedness and reduce biological threats to peace and stability, leveraging Brown University’s Pandemic Center expertise and partnerships to create lasting capacity beyond the grant period.
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For the Costs of War project
Date
Sep. 14, 2023
Duration
0 months
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Through its authoritative data collection and analysis since 2011, the Costs of War project has been educating the public, media, and policymakers about three categories of costs of recent U.S. armed conflicts:human, economic, and political. The project has been successful thus far in increasing the public’s and lawmakers’ awareness of budgetary costs, but the consequences of war include human casualties – both direct and indirect – as well as environmental damage. With continuedCorporation support, this network of scholars centered at Brown Universitywill produce data and analyses with a growing focus on: environmental impacts of war; the potential for conversion of military industries; effects of militarization on democracy; and morbidity and mortality from destroyed infrastructure that endures post-conflict. Corporation support will go toward research, working meetings, reports, web design, interactive mapping, and media dissemination.
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For the Annenberg Institute for School Reform to support a six-organization Research Partnership for Professional Learning in developing a shared learning agenda focused on teacher professional learning
Date
Jun. 03, 2021
Duration
10 months
Description
The newly organized Research Partnership for Professional Learning (RPPL) is a collaboration of six professional learning organizations (Teaching Lab, Instruction Partners, Leading Educators, TNTP, Achievement Network and UnboundEd) and researchers to advance field-wide learnings by generating a stronger knowledge base around best practices in teacher professional learning and putting this knowledge into practice across the nation. Researchers at the Annenberg Institute for School Reform at Brown University will play a critical role in leading and managing the majority of RPPL’s foundational work and enabling the group to establish cross-organizational relationships and practices. Through this grant, RPPL will develop and advance a common research agenda through: a) finalizing common measures to use across organizations; b) conducting pilot A/B testing; andc)identifying ways to build strong district-researcher-non-profit partnerships to advance long-term research and development work in teacher professional learning.
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For The Costs of War Project
Date
Sep. 02, 2021
Duration
24 months
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The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have had detrimental consequences for the broader Middle East.Through its authoritative data collection and analysis since 2011, the Costs of War project has been educating the public, media, and policymakers about three categories of costs of armed conflicts in the broader Middle East: human; economic; social; and political. With continuedCorporation support, this network of scholars centered at Brown and Boston universities will produce data and analyses on the costs of the post-9/11 wars with a growing focus on: environmental impacts of war; the potential for conversion of military industries; the impact of militarization on democracy; and morbidity and mortality from destroyed infrastructure that endures post-conflict. Corporation support will go toward research, working meetings, reports, web design, interactive mapping, and media dissemination.
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As a one-time only grant for support of a digital project resulting from the film "In My Mother's House"
Date
Jun. 04, 2020
Duration
12 months
Description
In 2017, Lina Fruzzetti, Professor of Anthropology at Brown University and her collaborator, Ákos Östör, produced the film, In My Mother’s House about the turbulent life and heritage of Lucia Tesba, Professor Fruzzetti’s Eritrean mother. The film follows Professor Fruzzetti’s decade-long quest to understand a family divided against the backdrop of colonial rule, war, and emigration. With corporation support, the project will continue with an interactive multimedia study of a biracial family in Eritrea and Italy in the wider context of political and social transformation. Archival materials collected while making the film will be melded into digitized educational pieces that will serve as a compendium to research scholars and university academics.
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For the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs' Military Fellows Program
Date
Mar. 07, 2019
Duration
68 months
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The Watson Institute of Brown University is a well-established policy-oriented academic center engaged in research, training, and dissemination on international relations. With support from the Corporation and other funders, the Watson Institute will embark on an ambitious effort to build up its Security Studies Center. The Corporation grant will specifically contribute to the establishment of a new Military Fellows Program, which will offer opportunities to mid-career members of the U.S. military to spend a year in residence at the Institute, so as to expand their knowledge of international issues while also contributing to the Institute’s mission. The fellowship program is designed to create linkages between active military officers and the Institute through a series of studies, events, and outputs. The competitively chosen fellows will represent all branches of the U.S. military and will have an active participation in the life of the Institute, Brown University, and the broader community.
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For programs on the Arab Region, humanitarian interventions, and curricular development on international issues
Date
Mar. 08, 2018
Duration
123 months
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The global refugee crisis has grown dramatically, affecting how institutions, practitioners, and educators engage with existing humanitarian, peace and security questions. The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs estimates that in 2016 more than 125 million people worldwide were in need of humanitarian assistance, with costs over $28 billion. With Corporation support, Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Affairs will team up with the U.S. Naval War College’s Humanitarian Response Program to expand the evidence base for effective civilian-military coordination, while developing new approaches to information sharing among humanitarian, military, and academic communities. The Corporation will also enable the Watson Institute’s Choices Program to develop and disseminate a curriculum unit exploring a series of issues raised by the Syrian Civil War, and will support two new book series in Middle East and Islamic Studies.
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For the Adrienne Minassian Professorship in Islamic Art and Architecture in Honor of Marilyn Jenkins-Madina '62
Date
Jun. 14, 2018
Duration
86 months
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In 2005, the Adrienne Minassian Visiting Professorship was established at Brown with a bequest from Mrs. Adrienne Minassian in honor of Dr. Marilyn Jenkins-Madina ’62, former Curator of Islamic Art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. With Corporation support, the University will secure a professor of Islamic Art and Architecture to help strengthen the History of Art and Architecture Department’s programming and scholarship.
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For international students in need of financial aid in honor of Vartan Gregorian's 20th year serving as president of Carnegie Corporation of New York
Date
Sep. 07, 2017
Duration
12 months
Description
On behalf of the Carnegie Corporation board of trustees, Chairman Thomas Kean and Vice Chair Janet Robinson considered several options on how best to honor Vartan Gregorian for his twenty years of service as president of the Corporation. They decided that since Dr. Gregorian’s leadership reached back decades across a number of institutions of higher education, and since his education was made possible through the generosity of international student fellowships, a Corporation grant to Brown University in support of international students would serve as an appropriate way to honor Dr. Gregorian and would will also tie into the core mission of Carnegie Corporation, to advance knowledge. With Corporation support, the University will continue to move forward on the initiative, The Brown Promise, which will allow students in need of financial aid access to funds that need not be repaid. In addition, the University will provide in international student aid packages a component that will include necessary health coverage and travel, thus eliminating the need for students to take on loan debt.
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For a project to catalogue the Igbo language and make it publicly available through an online dictionary
Date
Dec. 04, 2014
Duration
12 months
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For a project to leverage the philanthropic sector to engage new voices in the national discourse on school reform
Date
Mar. 06, 2014
Duration
9 months
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As a final grant to catalogue the Igbo language and make it publicly available through an online dictionary
Date
Jun. 06, 2013
Duration
10 months
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A one-time only grant to support a conference on the Arab Spring and its implications for scholarly study of the Middle East
Date
Jun. 14, 2012
Duration
2 months
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For a project to catalogue the Igbo language and make it publicly available through an online dictionary
Date
Sep. 22, 2011
Duration
12 months
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For a project to promote global engagement through new media
Date
Sep. 16, 2010
Duration
28 months
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Toward a publication and tools to guide communities to organize and develop good schools within urban districts
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
18 months
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As a final grant toward development and dissemination of a high school curriculum to encourage classroom discussion about international peace and security issues
Date
Jun. 11, 2009
Duration
36 months
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For a project on the cultural impact of migration
Date
Sep. 11, 2008
Duration
12 months
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Toward a project to promote a new global security agenda
Date
Jun. 12, 2008
Duration
27 months
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Toward development and dissemination of a high school curriculum to encourage classroom discussion about Iran
Date
Mar. 01, 2007
Duration
27 months
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For an ethnographic case study on the transnational experience
Date
Jun. 08, 2006
Duration
9 months
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Toward the evaluation of a professional learning program that helps teachers improve student learning through literacy development
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
24 months
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Toward Campus Contact's project to mobilize leaders at doctoral/research extensive universities in promoting civic engagement of higher education
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
15 months
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Toward a project to promote a new global security agenda
Date
Mar. 02, 2006
Duration
26 months
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Toward support to document and disseminate the results of the national forum, "Understanding Educational Equity and Excellence at Scale"
Date
Sep. 28, 2006
Duration
18 months
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Toward a workshop on creating a new global security agenda
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
5 months
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Toward support to develop and convene a forum on Understanding Educational Equity and Excellence at Scale
Date
Jun. 09, 2005
Duration
16 months
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For meetings, research and analysis on information technology and security
Date
Jun. 09, 2004
Duration
12 months
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For efforts to use two model programs to promote a comprehensive approach to civic education in Maine and Indiana
Date
Oct. 09, 2003
Duration
44 months
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As a final grant toward promoting discussions between Americans, Russians and Europeans on security issues
Date
Oct. 09, 2003
Duration
68 months