When a self-described “God-ambivalent” Brown student spends a semester at Liberty University—Jerry Falwell’s Bible boot camp—he discovers a new respect for young evangelicals. In fact, he says, the divide between Liberty and Brown students seems not so wide after all.

Sloan Lindemann Barnett '89 wants you to start by throwing out your bleach, your shampoo, and your baby lotion.

It's a truism that parents are meant to die before their children. But what happens when a child won't let go?

John Hamburg '92 wrote, directed, and produced the movie I Love You, Man which opens soon nationwide.

Three young musicians update a rich strain of Americana.

By helping us see the familiar in unfamiliar ways, Nina Katchadourian '89 keeps the world fresh.

An interview with psychiatry resident Josh Bazell '92, who penned the thriller Beat the Reaper during his medical internship.

For her newest play, Lynn Nottage '86 interviewed women brutalized in the Congolese civil war.

After narrowly missing a bid to the NCAA tournament last season, goalie Jordan Burke ’09 and his teammates are out for revenge.

Sean Morey '99, Brown's best wide receiver and now one of the best special-teams players in the NFL hit the Pro Bowl in Honolulu this year.

Having succeeded in international competition, softball pitcher Michelle Moses ’09 is hungry to win in the Ivy League.

Hundreds of students, faculty, and staff gathered to watch the inauguration of Barack Obama. The mood, to put it mildly, was jubilant.

Summing up the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter mission.

How facial-recognition training can make you less prejudiced.

Archaeology goes high tech.

Faced with a drop in fund-raising and endowment income, Brown tightens its belt while upping financial aid.

Seeing the U.S.A. from the seat of a Winnebago. Tony Booth '57

Dan Hill '84 knows what you're thinking. It's in your face.

A businessman and lawyer returns home. David LaSarte-Meeks '93

What if the government handed out money for socially productive behavior? Andrea Levere '77

After cancer, a woman finds hope in her long, straight tresses.

A frame of rough wood cut by Lincoln himself.

For decades Catherine Wolf ’72 AM, ’74 PhD worked as an IBM scientist getting computers to understand better how humans think. Now, battling Lou Gehrig's disease, she must rely on computers to convey her own thoughts.
 

Ellen Kuras ’81 has been one of the most sought-after cinematographers of the past decade. Yet for twenty-three years, she was obsessed with finishing her own film, which this year became an Academy Award nominee.

Obituaries from the March/April 2009 issue

A farewell to Lloyd E. Ohlin '40

A farewell to Willoughby Sharp '60

A farewell to Thomas Dietrich Reinhart '76 AM, '84 PhD