PROVIDENCE – Brown University was awarded a $2 million grant to fund a pilot program allowing doctoral students to pursue a master’s degree in a secondary field.
The six-year Open Graduate Programs will give 24 doctoral students from any humanities or humanistic social science department the opportunity to pursue a master’s degree in a different discipline at Brown, including physical and life sciences and engineering.
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The $2 million grant, provided through the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, gives the students an additional year of support. Brown graduate students have full financial support and health insurance for the first five years.
Through other funding sources, another 24 students from any discipline can pursue a master’s degree in a humanities or humanistic social science field, Brown said.
Students will have to apply to participate; the first class will begin in the 2012 academic year.
“We envision an institutional transformation where a large number of students engage in multidisciplinary intellectual discourse, imparting Brown’s uniquely open education onto our graduate students,” said Peter Weber, chemistry professor and dean of the graduate school.
“We hope this new approach will establish a distinctive identity for Brown at the graduate level and attract exceptionally able and innovative students who seek an alternative to the more bounded forms of doctoral training.”
