Brown: Graduate School Speakers to Emphasize Community, Connection at Commencement
April 16, 2021
April 16, 2021
PROVIDENCE, Rhode Island, April 16 (TNSEve) -- Brown University issued the following news:
Bardiya Akhbari and Sonya Brooks, both soon-to-be-graduating Brown University students, live 3,000 miles away from one another and may never meet. But they have something profound in common: Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation it has mandated at points, they rediscovered the power of human connection.
Akhbari, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, and Brooks, . . .
Bardiya Akhbari and Sonya Brooks, both soon-to-be-graduating Brown University students, live 3,000 miles away from one another and may never meet. But they have something profound in common: Amid the global COVID-19 pandemic and the isolation it has mandated at points, they rediscovered the power of human connection.
Akhbari, a Ph.D. student in biomedical engineering, and Brooks, . . .