At a conversation held at Brown University’s Pizzitola Sports Center on Tuesday, April 26, Clinton spoke about global politics, climate change, writing and music.
Earlier this week Bill Clinton came to campus as this year’s Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture speaker. My colleague Jill Kimball wrote an excellent story on his talk. Clinton’s talk ranged in topic from Boris Yeltsin, Vladimir Putin, China, AIDS, a life in politics and playing the saxophone.
On our quest to find all the RI Walks creates, we checked out the Haile Farm Preserve trails. Oh boy, they didn’t disappoint. Campbell found a spotted a bunch of cool things along the hike including some animals.
We saw a spotted turtle along one of the trails. These little buddies are a threatened population due to habitat loss. It was super cool to see one out and about
We mainly stayed to the Dick Hallberg Trail (Green Trail), but the little branches that lead to the cove seemed really interesting as well.
Coolest boogers I know and the Red Cedar Cone plaque
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tracy Breton (standing), and Brown students Li Goldstein, Olivia George and Gaya Gupta (left to right) review files at the Rhode Island Judiciary Records Center.
My colleague Kevin Stacey wrote an excellent article on the work of professor Tracey Bretton and a class of journalism and computer science students who produced a series of stories exploring the opioid epidemic across Rhode Island.
Kevin writes: “Over the course of nearly two years, the team of 17 students dug deep into datasets acquired from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency, Providence Police Department, Rhode Island Judiciary and more than a dozen other sources. The work uncovered patterns of overdose deaths across Rhode Island, documented the flow of opioid medications into the state and revealed new details about how the criminal justice system deals with opioid use disorder. The data-driven pieces were combined with personal stories of real people impacted by the epidemic firsthand — a woman who made the journey from addiction to advocacy, or people who found themselves raising their grandchildren after losing their own children to addiction.”
I recently got my Part107 license so I could fly the drone for Brown. Starting to experiment with these things (sure a little late to the game) and excited for the new opportunities this will allow.
Campbell and I spent Saturday and Sunday bopping around town. We checked out the Space Transformation Station Library Situation, drew a ton, played some basketball, ate egg burritos, a whole bunch of fun stuff.
I’ve worked at Brown for over six years now, but making images during match day has always eluded me. Not this year. I had the opportunity to make some images at the first in person match day since the pandemic began. It’s an interesting marker, because it was the first big event that the medical school canceled back in 2020, as the pandemic took hold.
The family of Sachit Singal was ecstatic over his match with Brigham and Women’s Hospital’s internal medicine residency program. His goal is to specialize in cardiology, like his sister (far right), Dr. Sanchita Singal Parulkar, who graduated from Brown in 2013 and received her M.D. from the Warren Alpert Medical School in 2017.
My colleague Corrie Pikul, Senior Writer for the Life Sciences here at Brown, wrote a lovely piece about the experience.
So many smiling faces, so much cheering, crying, hugging and overall emotional being shown. What an experience for these future medical professionals.
The bug and I took a quick walk down to the pond to see what we could see. The evening light was to good to pass up. We found some mallards, nice light pockets and a couple flowers.
We saw some flowers finally after the Spring Equinox happened Sunday.
Daffodils!
Members of the Brown Aerial Acrobatics group performing on the Main Green. The warm temperatures and beautiful weather packed the common space as students took in the fresh air.
Fun evening watching different student ventures competing for a share of $50,000 by giving pitches to a panel of judges
I had the privilege to make a few portraits of Zahra Fayeq and Maryam Khademi, two of the 15 Afghan students who found their way to Brown University after leaving Afghanistan abruptly in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power.
Zahra Fayeq (left), Maryam Khademi (right) and 13 other young refugees from Afghanistan are gearing up to study politics, economics and public health during the spring semester
The two women also shared their story with my colleague Jill Kimball and she wrote an article at News From Brown outlining their experience leaving Afghanistan and time at Brown.
Forced to flee Kabul last August, 15 young Afghan women find an academic home at Brown
Brown is hosting a cohort of students from the Asian University for Women and Ghalib University, all of whom left Afghanistan abruptly in the wake of the Taliban’s return to power less than six months ago.
We started checking out the creatures hidden on trails around Rhode Island. I made a map to help find the trails and created a page to document our adventures on the trail!
Some images from the WaterFire co-sponsored by Brown University
Earlier this summer, I started thinking about the amazing amount of nature that exists on our lot. I wanted to start documenting it in a somewhat systematic way, creating a sort of inventory of the biodiversity around our house. I thought this could be a fun project for Campbell to help out with.
Georgia works with an entomologist at the nature lab who came over to do some bug collecting in our yard with a mercury vapor bulb and a pop-up white screen. I thought it would be a great time to drag out some strobes and the macro lens to add to our biodiversity inventory.
A good time was had by all.
While we found a number of bugs, I only made some nice images of a few that Ben pointed out as particularly cool, or I just through looked interesting.
We all learned a lot and had a great time. Thanks, Ben!
Some nature enjoyment around the neighborhood,
As a photographer, these last few months have been very interesting. I’ve spent a lot of time coming up with ways to be productive and useful with my team. Part of that is looking for stories. Another part is going back to some video editing.
It’s interesting trying to produce video content without being able to gather anything other than screen capture. It’s been fun and trying at times, but I’m grateful to be able to hear and share stories of this community, like the one above.
Read more about the group here.
Last weekend, @brown_steam partnered with @production.workshop, Brown’s only completely student-run theatre, to create an immersive art show featuring video works submitted by a diverse group of Brown and @risd1877 students. ⠀
Zev Izenberg ’20 and Mariel Rosic ’20.5, members of the production team, described the space as an art nightclub that at its core is an “exploration of the mutability, distribution and disembodiment of identity and art in the digital age.”
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While inside the Downspace at the Production Workshop, students had the ability to interact with multiple immersive digital projections and interactive sensors giving each person a unique experience.
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“With #STEAMRave, the STEAM team attempts to rewire digital identity and model a new kind of technological society through experience,” Izenberg and Rosic said.
Photos from the Boatbuilding: Design, Making and Culture course I shot last semester. Read more on the course and the student experience here
Epic walk with the little one during COVID-19 self isolation.
Working at SSL. Can’t beat the view.
