Ten Brown students traveled to Cuba earlier this year as the culmination of their senior seminar "International Journalism: Foreign Reporting in Practice." Each student investigated a different aspect of Cuban life with the guidance of Professor Stephen Kinzer, a former New York Times foreign correspondent. Read excerpts below from the student blogs.

The newly designed Master of Public Affairs is part of plan for growth at the Watson Institute.

Brown’s Master of Public Affairs program is neither for the slow nor the theoretically minded. In just one year, it equips students with the knowledge and skills they’ll need to analyze, improve and implement sound public policy – and fully three months of that year are spent in the field, working with real-world clients.

In diverse environments, MPA students sharpen their quantitative, communication, and policy leadership skills

Marcus Burke ’17 MPA discusses his experience in the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs MPA program and how it prepared him for his position as Inclusive Growth Project Specialist for World Economic Forum in Geneva, Switzerland.