For 13 years, Brown University has partnered with William D’Abate Elementary School in Providence’s Olneyville neighborhood to bring after-school programming, in-class tutoring, and summer camps to students there. While the programs are a learning experience for everyone involved, the hope is that some lessons will have effects that last long after graduation. Read more here.

Interested in pursuing an internship focused on issues in public education?  Apply for the the Messing Family Public Service Fellowship.  Applications for fall 2012 internships are due Tuesday, July 31, 2012.  For more information visit here.

Congratulations to Brown Refugee Youth Tutoring and Enrichment (BRYTE), which has received a MacJannet Prize honorable mention -- a global competition recognizing outstanding student led community engagement! They were one of only 3 honorable mentions (and the only U.S. honoree) from applications that were submitted from 21 countries around the world.

Middle and high school students recently got the opportunity to present ideas for improving Providence to officials at the State House. The presentations were a result of a partnership between city schools and the Generation Citizen program founded in 2008 by Scott Warren, then a senior at Brown University. The middle and high school students worked with Brown students to them to analyze a problem in their community and figure out what they wanted to do about it. Read more.

Alan Flam, Director of Advising and Community Collaborations, received the Outstanding Advisor Award from the Undergraduate Council of Students at Brown University.  Flam received more than thirty nominations from students representing a wide array of Brown experiences: first-year advisees, UCAAP participants, community program fellows, international fellowship recipients, and social justice activists. Huge congratulations to Alan on a very well deserved award!!!

The Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Royce Fellowship. The Society of Royce Fellows was founded with the mission of recognizing and supporting scholarship, leadership, creativity and public work. The Society supports reflection, inquiry and articulation by inspiring fellows to connect their scholarly work with that of their peers and esteemed faculty. Each year a group of faculty from a wide range of disciplines serve as mentors to the fellows and help to craft a challenging, intellectual community.

Click through for a full list of the 2012-2013 Fellows and brief descriptions of their projects. Download Royce Fellow Sarah Rutherford's induction remarks.

The Swearer Center for Public Service at Brown University is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2012 Howard R. Swearer International Service Fellowship. The Fellowship is a full-time, summer fellowship for sophomore, junior and senior students in the College to pursue international service work. The Fellowship reflects President Swearer's dual commitment to public service and international issues and it provides $3,500 to cover student's costs.

Sixteen undergraduates, selected through a competitive process to become Brown International Scholars Program Fellows, will receive $5,000 to conduct independent research projects with an international focus this coming summer. The fellowship program, housed in the Swearer Center for Public Service, is intended for “students thinking about the connection between their academic interest and its value to a public audience,” said Kerrissa Heffernan, director of the Brown International Scholars Program. Read more here.

Nikilesh Eswarapu ’12 arrived at Brown with big ambitions. Inspired by a community service trip to Mexico during winter break, Eswarapu spent the summer of 2009 in India, laying the groundwork for his own nonprofit organization, the Milana Foundation. Today, a handful of Brown students work for the organization, spending the academic year discussing plans to improve health care in India and using their summers to implement their projects. Read more here.

For the past six years, the old Temple Beth-El Synagogue has stood empty, with its windows boarded up and grass uncut. But today, new flowers are blooming in its backyard and its windows now sport murals featuring rainbows, outstretched hands and the sun. Students from Brown, the Rhode Island School of Design and Providence College joined forces to restore the 101-year-old synagogue on Broad Street as part of RISD’s annual Alternative Spring Break project. Read the full article here.