Student Experience

The Watson Institute houses several undergraduate and graduate programs that take an interdisciplinary, comparative approach to policy-relevant learning in the social sciences. Our programs are designed to inspire today’s engaged scholars and creative thinkers to become tomorrow’s leaders in international and public affairs.

  

In an episode of the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs' Trending Globally podcast series, Anna Lenaker who graduated from Brown in 2019 and earned her Master's of Public Affairs at Watson in 2020, speaks with podcast host Sarah Baldwin about her emotional and academic journeys from childhood to the Watson Institute.
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Students enrolled in Professor Jeff Colgan’s course “Geopolitics of Oil and Energy” debated and wrestled with ideas to tackle climate change’s myriad challenges. Richard Holbrooke Associate Professor of Political Science and International and Public Affairs Jeff Colgan, who is director of the Climate Solutions Lab and director of Security Studies, introduced the seminar during the 2019-2020 academic year.
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Liz Garbus, a 1992 graduate of Brown University, initially saw herself pursuing a career in law. But as a semiotics and history student at Brown, she had long studied the ability of images to impart social, political, and emotional messages. So, inspired by the scenes she encountered working on a voter registration drive soon after graduation, she began pursuing filmmaking.
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Toran Labhaya Seth is a Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) Scholar. The EDB Scholarship program sponsors undergraduate and graduate education to prepare Scholars to be leading thinkers to advance Singapore’s economy.
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