President Donald Trump’s promise to build a border wall along the U.S.-Mexico border is the subject of intense discussion. The immigration debate has raised the question about the current state of the U.S. border protections and what would be needed to build such a wall. Former Magic Grantee and current Brown staff member Allison McCartney
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Stanford Daily’s take on the Media Innovation Showcase
Stanford’s campus newspaper, The Stanford Daily, gave a run down of the projects recently presented at the the Brown Media Innovation Showcase in their article, “Brown Institute showcase features tour guide drones, defense contract database.” Read their report here, or if you’d like to see the flash presenations from the night, the video is now posted (or watch
Cannabis Wire in Nieman Reports
Magic Grantees Alyson Martin and Nushin Rashidian are featured on the NiemanReports website with a piece entitled “Why Cannabis Coverage Needs to be a Serious Beat.” During their time with Brown, Martin and Rashidian created Cannabis Wire, a single-subject news site that “provides smart coverage of the global cannabis industry through original, in-depth nonpartisan reporting and analysis.” Their article
Photoville opening – “Women on the Outside”
Lisa Riordan Seville and Zara Katz, fellows of our Photography Expanded program, and photographer Zora J. Murff are exhibiting an installation of photography, video and, yes, data visualization, at the Photoville festival in Brooklyn Bridge Park. “Women on the Outside” accompanies Kristal Bush as she drives from Philadelphia to the state prisons in Smithfield and Huntingdon. Kristal
Art++ wows Cantor, Stanford Daily
Brown’s magic grant team, Art++ is wrapping up their two-year project with a bang. On September 16, an exclusive VIP Reception was held as a preamble to the Cantor Art Center and Anderson Collection’s Annual Members Reception. A packed room of art patrons, as well as a few supporters from the engineering program including Dean
Maneesh Agrawala featured at the Commonwealth Club
As a MacArthur Foundation Genius Grantee, Stanford Brown Director Maneesh Agrawala, together with digital artist Camille Utterback, were welcomed by the Commonwealth Club of California as guest speakers this past week in an event entitled “Meet the Geniuses: Inside the MacArthur Foundation’s Creative Thinking Awards.”
Brown Grantee reports on Expanded Panama Canal
Brown Grantee Ana Graciela Mendez, along with Walt Bogdanich and Jacqueline Williams, have written a story on some complications arising following the openeing of Panama’s newest canals, in “Fender Benders on Water? (See: Expanded Panama Canal)” in the July 30, 2016 edition of the New York Times.
Brown Institute Makes Magic at Stanford’s Cantor Arts Center
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University and the Brown Institute for Media Innovation are pleased to announce the launch of Art++, an augmented reality (AR) mobile app created for art museum visitors. Heralded as the cutting edge of media, augmented reality refers to any technology that superimposes graphics onto a user’s normal field of vision,
Magic Grantees Awarded IWMF Scholarships!
The International Women’s Media Foundation (IWMF) offers women journalists a wide range of opportunities to grow as media professionals, gain reporting experience, and be recognized for remarkable work. Each year, IWMF sponsors initatives in specific regions of the world. This year, two of these efforts were the African Great Lakes Reporting and Adelante intiatives. Of the