Undergraduate Admission

Departmental and Center Open Houses

April 19 | 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

A Day On College Hill

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Applied Mathematics
182 George Street, Division of Applied Mathematics, Foyer & Room 110
Visit our open house to meet students and faculty and to learn more about Applied Mathematics, our courses, and our concentrations, including our joint concentrations with Biology, Computer Science, and Economics.

Biology, Biochemistry, and Molecular Biology
91 Waterman Street, Arnold Laboratory, Suite 124
The Biology Undergraduate Education Open House will allow admitted students to meet with advisors and professors in Biology.

Brown Center for Students of Color
68 Brown Street, Partridge Hall, (corner of Brown and Waterman Street)
The Brown Center for Students of Color (BCSC) hosts events and programs that build and affirm community by centering our ways of knowing and being. We situate our lived experiences in a socio-historical context through self-reflection and critical dialogue. With an understanding of the structural causes of individual and communal experiences, we are then able to explore tangible ways to create change.

Brown RISD Hillel
80 Brown Street, Hillel Building
Brown RISD Hillel, the center for Jewish life on campus, is one of the largest, most exciting, and versatile organizations at Brown and RISD. Brown RISD Hillel encourages and supports a diversity of students as they explore, develop and deepen their Jewish identities. We are committed to having Judaism serve as a source of meaning and growth during your time on College Hill and beyond.

Cognitive, Linguistic & Psychological Sciences
190 Thayer St, Metcalf Research Building, Room 133
The CLPS Department is dedicated to the integrative study of the Mind, Brain and Behavior. We host concentrations in Psychology, Cognitive Science, Cognitive Neuroscience and Behavioral Decision Sciences.

Computer Science
115 Waterman Street, Thomas J. Watson Sr. Center for Information Technology, 3rd Floor
Computer Science at Brown has the largest number of concentrators of any department at Brown. We will have faculty and students on hand to discuss courses and undergraduate research.

Curricular Resource Center
Main Green
Visit us if you want to learn more about independent concentrations and studies and peer advising at Brown! The CRC full-time and student staff and student volunteer mentors/leaders facilitate information sessions, community-building events, and individual meetings to advise students about navigating and accessing the Open Curriculum, finding and fostering academic communities, and seeing pathways for deep engagement with the learning process and high-impact learning opportunities.

Earth, Environmental and Planetary Sciences
Ruth Simmons Quad, Lincoln Field Building (Ruth Simmons Quad), Lobby
Our department offers opportunities for undergrads to get involved in research on climate science, oceanography, other planetary bodies, and more. Several faculty and current students will be available to describe courses, research and other opportunities, possible jobs and careers,  and to answer questions.

Economics
64 Waterman Street, Robinson Hall, Rotunda
The Economic Department offers the standard economic, business economics, and public policy economics concentrations, and joint concentrations with Applied Math, Math, and Computer Science. Come to Robinson Hall to meet with various economics professors.

Engineering
345 Brook Street, School of Engineering, Enter at the Engineering Research Center (ERC) Lobby, Attendees will be guided to our sessions happening in Barus & Holley Room 168
Brown School of Engineering is an inclusive and community focused program organized around students and learning, we do not have traditional departments or boundaries, and we emphasize interdisciplinary connections and hands-on learning. Students may join any time between 2 - 3:30 pm as the programs will be repeated during these hours.

2:00 - 2:05  Welcome from Dean Tejal Desai/Associate Dean Megan Dansby Russell, Barus & Holley Room 168
2:05 - 2:30  Student Panel
2:30 - 3:00  School of Engineering Tour
3:00 - 3:30  Student Panel
3:30 - 4:00  School of Engineering Tour

International and Public Affairs
111 Thayer St., Watson Institute, Lobby
Join faculty and staff at the Watson Institute to learn about International and Public Affairs (IAPA), the Watson Institute’s multidisciplinary and globally-comparative undergraduate concentration. IAPA equips students with the knowledge and skills necessary for engaged global citizenship at a time of rapid transformation and mounting societal challenges.

Italian Studies
190 Hope Street, Department of Italian Studies
Italian Studies at Brown explores the culture, history and society of Italy and educates the next generation of scholars to focus on Italy in a global context. Faculty members work with students to identify emergent problems leading to interdisciplinary research in content and method, through literary, historical and art historical studies, critical and sociopolitical theory, with an emphasis on the digital humanities and the latest methodologies in language pedagogy. The open house will consist of conversations with undergrad students, graduate students, and faculty. Some informal Italian speaking as well as Italian food will be present.

LGBTQ Center
22 Benevolent Street, Stonewall House
The LGBTQ Center welcomes you to Brown! Please join us for the opportunity to meet current students and staff, ask them about their experiences, and visit our new home, Stonewall House, at 22 Benevolent St.

Maddock Alumni Center
38 Brown St, 1st Floor
Connect with local Alumni Affinity Group volunteers and leaders to learn more about how diverse communities are celebrated at Brown and beyond.

Music
1 Young Orchard Avenue, Department of Music, Outside (Rain Location: Orwig 112)
The Department of Music offers a wide range of ensembles and lessons for academic credit, as well as courses in composition, technology, history, theory, and ethnomusicology. Learn more from staff and current students. *Please note, the Music department open house will be available from 3-4pm only.

Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship
1 Euclid Ave, 2nd Floor Lobby Area
The Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship is the campus hub for all things entrepreneurship at Brown University. We teach entrepreneurship as a structured process for problem-solving and offer programs in curricular (courses, an undergraduate Entrepreneurship Certificate), co-curricular (student clubs and programs, and venture support (summer incubator and pitch competitions). Students will be on hand to give guided tours and answer questions about how entrepreneurship can be woven into your academic journey at Brown.

Neuroscience
185 Meeting Street, Sidney Frank Hall, 3rd Floor Lobby (outside of room 318)
Neuroscience concentrators will explore fundamental cell properties and how these come together into circuits that lead to mental processes and behaviors. Department representatives will be available to answer questions about the concentration.

Office of Military-Affiliated Students
101 Thayer Street, Building A, Room 106
The Office of Military-Affiliated Students (OMAS) assists student veterans, ROTC cadets, and other military-affiliated students in making successful transitions into and out of the Brown community.

Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life
69 Brown Street, Page-Robinson Hall, 4th Floor, Room 411
The Office of the Chaplains and Religious Life is home to the University Chaplains - Catholic, Jewish, Muslim and Protestant - and 40 affiliated colleagues that support over 20 religious and spiritual student-run groups on campus. Our Chaplains extend a warm welcome to students from all religious traditions, as well as those who identify as secular or spiritual. We pray, teach, share coffee and tea, hold confidential counsel, offer programs for the religious and the non-religious -- and more! We hope you'll stop by and say hello!

Residential Life
42 Charlesfield Street, Graduate Center, Tower E
The Office of Residential Life creates a meaningful, holistic residential experience where students can share a sense of belonging to the Brown community, practice and expand what they are learning in their course of study, be supported in the development of healthy practices, and cultivate connections with their fellow students.

Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender
26 Benevolent Street
The Sarah Doyle Center for Women and Gender strives to cultivate community across difference and inspire critical dialogue and collective movement-making. Our vision is to create a world without sexism and misogyny, as well as other oppressions.

U-FLi Center
201 Thayer Street, Sciences Library, 5th Floor
The Undocumented, First-Generation College and Low-Income Student (U-FLi) Center is a community building, learning, and advocacy support space for Brown students who identify with any or all of the following experiences: undocumented, first-generation college, and low-income. New students are encouraged to connect with the center’s team of U-FLi peer counselors who provide holistic mentorship throughout the year and coordinate events to help students navigate campus resources.