As a Brown Bear, Bill O’Brien ’92 says he was an “average player on some below-average teams.” As the New England Patriots’ new quarterbacks coach, he’s now Tom Brady’s teacher.

Jana Benitez '08 studied martial arts in China, then was invited to show her paintings "In Search of Parameters."

The plays of Ugandan graduate student Charles Mulekwa focus on the violence and humanity of his war-ravaged homeland.

A slice of history, graphically told.

You heard them here first. Last semester the twenty-five students in the songwriting course Music 450 produced a two-cd collection of original music.

Ryan Shiraki ’92 directs comedies by women, for women. If he could just get his movies into theaters, women could actually see them.

Trojan Barbie, by playwright Christine Evans '02 MFA, '08 PhD, premiered this spring at American Repertory Theatre, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Barbie turned fifty this year, and who better to perk up her midlife than designer Jonathan Adler '88.

Ramen rescued Becca Topol ’90 when she was young and lonely in Japan. Now she’s turned that remembered angst into a movie.

Poet and writing professor Forrest Gander writes a haunting first novel about friendship.

A panel traces the conflict between science and religion.

Benjamin Jealous, spoke about the new challenges that lie ahead for his organization, the NAACP.

Natan Last ’12 designs crossword puzzles for the New York Times.

Former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards is now stumping for the poor.

A proposal to choose younger trustees gains crucial support.

Getting into Brown has never been tougher.

Floorgasm, billed as a night of "orgasmic hip-hop indulgence and floor domination" celebrates breakdancing.

Famed American poet John Ashbery read from his work.

Snowflake the polar bear. publicized a meeting of the Backbone Campaign.

The Brown faculty renames Columbus Day.

The Brown Bookstore joins the twenty-first century.

The transformation of Rhode Island Hall.

The late 1800s are considered the golden age of the bicycle and Brunonians took part in the craze.

Sidelined by injuries, a former Bear spreads Patriots fever in China. Nicholas Krippendorf ’00

Edith Wharton was as accomplished a landscaper and decorator as she was a writer. Susan Wissler '83 has helped restore her estate to its former glory.

Sam Genensky ’49, ’58 PhD has spent his life advocating for those with partial sight. 

Nalini Nadkarni ’76 teaches inmates about the natural world.

Donning Kevlar, a doctor discovers a new relationship between life and death.

Jim Yong Kim ’82, the Ivy League’s first Asian American president, talks about race, sports, citizenship, and training students to change the world.

Three grad students help a local neighborhood rediscover its past, while teaching a new generation of schoolchildren that history lives on in the memories of their own families and neighbors.

Joel L. Naroff  ’72 AM, ’75 PhD got it right.

When Meredith Whitney ’92 started predicting economic doom four years ago, her Wall Street colleagues thought she was crazy. She even got a death threat. Now when she speaks, the markets listen. Closely. Very, very closely.

Obituaries from the May/June 2009 issue.