Our collective memory of the American West features brave outlaws and settlers moving into a vast, empty landscape, and, later, visionary conservationists trying to preserve it. That popular history is wrong, says Professor of History Karl Jacoby ’87.

For some the path to success is carefully planned, supported, and managed. For one alumna, the journey began twenty years ago when her parents disowned her.

Haven’t been to campus in a while? Here’s a sneak peek at the first pieces of the new Brown.

Nicholas Brown Jr. paid $5,000 for immortality.

A pumpkin-carving party, Pembroke-style.

A wife contemplates giving in to temptation when her marriage flounders.

In an era of online research, libraries still matter.

Many retirees do sudoku or maybe play golf. Bill Polleys’53 skis. Nonstop.

A social worker caught up in a tsunami of change.

A farewell to network news journalist Rebecca Lipkin '81.

     A dolce vita childhood inspires the plays and cartoons of Cusi Cram ’90

Who says the religious life is no fun?

The University tries to prevent and contain the H1N1 virus on campus.

The Goddard Gates get a new coat.

Create your niche and evolve, biologist Johanna Schmitt advises the class of 2013 at Opening Convocation.

Rashid Zia wins a Presidential Early Career Award to study alternative light sources.

Obama holds up Jazmin Perez ’09 as a role model in his address to America’s schoolchildren.

A conversation with Michael D. Kennedy, the new director of Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies.

Head football coach Phil Estes introduces this year’s team.

Brendan Whittet ’94 named men’s hockey head coach.

Larry Tye ’76 takes a good look at the life of Satchel Paige.

Alex Weinstein ’92 surfs with paints as well as with boards.

Los Angeles designer Kimberly Ovitz '05 struck a pose at the recent New York Fashion Week.

The 12-year-old narrator of the The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet discovers his world by mapping it.

As Brown students, Tatiana von Furstenberg '91 and Francesca Gregorini '90, below, found that they had something in common– they revisited that shared experience in their film Tanner Hall.

Gabriel Kahane ’03 writes hip chamber music that defies categorization.

It's all wine, women, and guns for Charlie Valentine, the title character of a new action movie starring Raymond J. Barry '61.