When Brown announced plans last year for a new mind, brain, and behavior building, a group of faculty, students, and alumni objected that the Urban Environmental Lab would have to be torn down. What followed was a debate about how to capture the future without forgetting the past.

Cell phones and automobiles bounce signals off satellites in orbit. Brown scientists download data from space probes cruising the surface of Mars. Yet in one building near campus, you can still experience science and astronomy much the way Galileo did.

The rationales may have shifted, but as New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic ’96 argues in his new book, the reasons go back at least fifty years to a view of foreign policy as an epic struggle between good and evil.

A farewell to Randy Pausch '82.

Ben Finkel and Andrew McClain dreamed up Fluther.com in the Sun Lab at Brown—inspired by their fellow students’ advice.

Novelist Amity Gaige ’95 unravels the risks and rewards of love.

At the music website Amie Street, downloads start off free; their cost increases with their popularity.

Peter DuBois ’97 AM takes over Boston’s Huntington Theater.

Sacramone brings home a silver in gymnastics, and track and crew alumni finish strong.

The new dean of medicine hopes to succeed where others have not.

To unseat Harvard and Yale in football this season, the Bears need to keep playing offense—and block, too.

Brown’s first vice president for international affairs David Kennedy ’76 envisions “a Davos for young intellectuals.”

Brown takes a long hard look at the curriculum and offers reforms.

Brown hopes to move the anthropology museum nearer to campus but doesn’t yet know where.

Summer school brings tweens to campus to solve fictional crimes and learn from real pros.

CFLs may reduce our energy consumption, but they also contain mercury.

A writer explains what’s been keeping her at it for half a century.

Classmates share lots of things: secrets, clothes—in this case, even their kidneys.

Robin Graves '82 & Martha Hansen '82

When doing time just doesn’t work. Angela Tolosa '97

The September day that changed a man for good. Edward Krug '39

Remembering the early days of the Brown Journal of World Affairs.

All politics is local in Afghanistan, too. Paul Ware '98 MD

At the garden on Hope Street, students harvest and teach.

Critics Corner: The 19th Wife

Critics Corner: Only A Theory

Just after Commencement, the Van Wickle Gates vanished...

As 400 freshmen settled into their new digs 70 years ago, one of the most violent storms ever to hit New England surged in.

Obituaries from the September/October 2008 issue.