Brown University launches healing, recovery initiative after deadly campus shooting

Veer Mudambi

01/05/2026

FLOWERS AND CANDLES surround photos of Mukhammad Aziz Umurzokov, an 18-year-old freshman from Brandermill, Va., and Ella Cook, a 19-year-old sophomore from a suburb of Birmingham, Ala., in front of a Brown University gate in Providence on Dec. 17. Both were killed in the campus shooting on Dec. 13. / AP FILE PHOTO/LEAH WILLINGHAM

PROVIDENCE – As students, staff and faculty prepare to return to campus following the Dec. 13 shooting, Brown University has launched an initiative to better facilitate long-term recovery amongst the campus community. As described in a letter from Brown President Christina H. Paxson, Brown Ever True brings together the ideas and contributions of academic and

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