Student Experience
Students at the Watson School engage in interdisciplinary, policy-focused study that prepares them to tackle complex global challenges. Our programs develop informed, creative thinkers equipped to lead in international and public affairs.
Student Experience
Students at the Watson School engage in interdisciplinary, policy-focused study that prepares them to tackle complex global challenges. Our programs develop informed, creative thinkers equipped to lead in international and public affairs.
This year’s 36 Fulbright awardees will begin teaching and research assignments in 23 countries across four continents in Fall 2025.
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Student Spotlight: Charlie Adams ’25
Senior International and Public Affairs and environmental science concentrator Charlie Adams, who graduates this month, grew up around policy and politics. Naturally, he found himself at home in the Watson Institute's International and Public Affairs (IAPA) concentration.
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Alumni Spotlight: Amienne Spencer-Blume ’23
Driven by a curiosity to push our collective spatial imaginaries, Amienne Spencer-Blume, a 2023 graduate of Watson's International and Public Affairs (IAPA) concentration and current sociology Ph.D. student at Johns Hopkins University, is researching how the configuration of space, at the micro- and macro-scales, impacts social structures and politics.
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On Thursday, February 27, seven Master of Public Affairs (MPA) Director's Fellows presented the results of a semester of research working with Watson faculty and other international and public affairs professionals.
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Alumni Spotlight: Jillian Harvey ’19 MPA
After witnessing systematic inequalities first-hand while working two jobs supporting at-risk communities, Jillian Harvey decided she needed to further her education in public policy to make a real impact in her community. After graduating from the Watson Institute's Master of Public Affairs Program in 2019, Harvey became a leader in the field of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in the state of Massachusetts.
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Alumni Spotlight: Graham Sheridan ’14 MPA
Graham Sheridan's success demonstrates that while the shortest distance between two points may be a straight line, it's not always the best career path. After earning his Master of Public Affairs degree from Brown in 2014, Sheridan took a winding route to his current position as a clean communities and economic development director at Virginia Clean Cities.
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Alumni Spotlight: Kelly Rogers ’12 MPP
Kelly Rogers earned her master's degree in public policy from Brown in 2012. Since then, she has leveraged the knowledge she acquired and the connections she made at the Watson Institute into a career that has seen her make a significant impact on the state of Rhode Island.
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Through the Marshall Scholarship, Schwarzman Scholarship and Pickering Fellowship, three members of the Class of 2025 will depart Rhode Island for the global stage to pursue international graduate studies and careers.
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Student Spotlight: Charles Alaimo ’25
Charles Alaimo, a junior concentrating in International and Public Affairs (IAPA), credits Watson's multidisciplinary approach to learning and its extraordinary professors for fully preparing him for a career in emerging technical policy and foreign policy research.
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Wendy Schiller told the Brown Daily Herald that the new school will unify programs, expand research opportunities, and better integrate undergraduate and master’s programs for greater interdisciplinary collaboration.
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Alumni Spotlight: Hamidou "Hammi" Sylla ’23 MPA
Hamidou "Hammi" Sylla, who earned his MPA from the Watson Institute at Brown University in 2023, found Watson faculty and staff enormously supportive of his YouTube talk show, "Let's Just Talk with Hammi." Many of Sylla's interviewees became valuable professional and personal mentors.
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