Rosenny Taveras and Dioscaris Garcia, Ph.D. ’12 are devoted to one another, and to the programs they oversee supporting underrepresented students at Brown. This DEI power couple is enriching the Brown campus community and diversifying our health care workforce, one student at a time.
Maribel Veiga’s passion for medicine is a deeply personal one: her late father’s battle with cancer motivated her to become a physician, she says. That loss strengthened her resolve to pursue a career in medicine, and that dream has been bolstered with help from the Rhode to Medicine pathway program at Brown.
For students who want to study the brain and nervous system, researchers like Christian Godinez know that real-world experience is crucial to success. It’s why his participation in the Research and Clinical Exposure to Neurology and Neurosurgery summer pathway program last year continues to pay dividends beyond his classroom experiences.
At the Carney Institute for Brain Science, researchers are working to identify biomarkers of Alzheimer’s disease that could open a new frontier of understanding and testing.
In a letter to the Brown Community, Dean Mukesh Jain announced that The Warren Alpert Medical School will no longer submit data to U.S. News & World Report for its Best Medical Schools rankings.
The assistant professor of medicine will use the award to broaden the scope of the social medicine elective taught at The Warren Alpert Medical School.
A civil rights-era partnership forged between Brown University and Tougaloo College has built upon the schools' shared tradition of academic excellence.