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There
are only two weeks left to double the impact of your gift to U.S.
Latino Studies through the Rodriguez ’83 U.S. Latino Studies Challenge,
which will match gifts dollar-for-dollar through 12/31/2009. Have your gift matched now by giving online at http://www.gifts.brown.edu or learn more
about The Alumni of Color Initi...ative and the Rodriguez ’83 Challenge by
visiting the website
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Goal: $100,000 U.S. Latino Studies focuses on the issues and subjects involving the U.S. Latino/a population. An endowed U.S. Latino Studies fund will support students and faculty as they conduct research, ...

Boldly Brown: The Alumni of Color Initiative We are delighted to announce that Carmen Rodriguez ’83 has issued the Rodriguez ’83 Challenge for US Latino Studies. She will match US Latino Studies endowment fund gifts, dollar-for-dollar, up to a total challenge contribution of $50,000. Double your gift and support Brown’s US Latino Studies students and faculty by v...isiting http://www.gifts.brown.edu. See our note for details.

Rodriguez ’83 US Latino Studies Challenge A $50,000 challenge to support faculty and students in their studies of Latino/a culture and experience in America. The Alumni of Color Initiative and Brown University announce the Rodriguez ’83 Challenge for US Latino Studies. Th...

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Travel around the world with MEZCLA at their first performance of the year tonight at 7 p.m. in Salomon 101. To see photos of MEZCLA in action, visit their website: http://www.brown.edu/Students/Mezcla/pho tos.php. Or join Brown Badmaash Saturday at 7 p.m. at Andrews Dining Hall for a night of garba, raas, bhangra, and ...bollywood dancing. For more info, visit: http://students.brown.edu/badmaash/#home .php

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Tonight President Simmons will discuss the significance of historically black colleges and universities, changes in women leadership, and her own education in an appearance on the “Tavis Smiley” show on PBS. Watch a special preview clip of her interview by clicking the attached link, or view the complete segment tonigh...t by checking your local listings: http://www.pbs.org/kcet/tavissmiley/arch ive/200910/20091029.html#
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Dr. Ruth Simmons, president of Brown University, shares her personal educational odyssey and discusses changing leadership for women and the relevance of HBCUs.

Boldly Brown: The Alumni of Color Initiative Come back to campus to celebrate Brown University’s Asian American History Month. Planned in collaboration with alumni, students, faculty and staff, Brown’s first Asian/Asian American alumni “homecoming” will contain a packed schedule full of exciting events you don’t want to miss. It’s also The Asian American Student ...Association’s (AASA) 40th Anniversary. To learn more visit the BAA news& events calendar.
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News and events of interest to Brown University alumni.

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Scholars
working with the Latino National Survey data (LNS), and all six of the LNS
Principal Investigators, gathered at the Center for the Study of Race
& Ethnicity’s national conference on Latino politics, power, and policy this
past weekend. Learn more about the topics that were presented by visiting the
CSREA website.
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Our keynote panel includes all six of the LNS Principal Investigators who will join us to discuss the design of the Latino National Survey, and its contributions to their forthcoming book Latino Lives in America: Making It Home.

Boldly Brown: The Alumni of Color Initiative Join the Third World Center in celebrating Multiracial Identity Week through October21. Visit the TWC website for a list of events.

Boldly Brown: The Alumni of Color Initiative Congratulates Don King ’93, Founder and Artistic/Executive Director of the Providence Black Repertory Company, on being this year’s recipient of Brown’s John Hope Award for Alumni Public Service. Founded in 1996, the Company continues to bring people together, provoke thought, inspire hope, and create understanding through theater, education, and public programs.

Members of the alumni affinity groups and the Multicultural Alumni Committee will come together tomorrow in Smith-Buonanno to celebrate students of color at this informal reception...

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Dr. Jim Young Kim, a 1982 Brown graduate, has left behind his groundbreaking humanitarian work in public health to focus on “preparing students to make a difference in the world.”: http://www.boston.com/news/education/hig her/articles/2009/09/21/dartmouth_charge d_for_change_in_new_president_kim/?page= 1

March
calling the class of 2000! please join our group on FB and get the latest reunion updates http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=13 5461899790&ref=mf

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Famed
African writer Chinua Achebe joins the Brown faculty as the David and Marianna
Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana Studies. Hear from
professors in the Africana Studies department regarding Achebe’s appointment
and learn more about this internationally acclaimed Nigerian novelist: http://news.brown.edu/pressreleases/2009 /09/achebe
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Chinua Achebe, the most celebrated and widely read African writer, has joined the Brown University faculty as the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and professor of Africana studies.

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Jazmin Perez ’09, a human biology and education studies concentrator while at Brown, was singled out by President Barack Obama in his much-discussed address to school children earlier this week. To learn more visit http://today.brown.edu/articles/2009/09/ perez
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“She worked hard, earned good grades, got a scholarship to Brown University, and is now in graduate school, on her way to being Dr. Jazmin Perez,” said Obama.















