After teaching at Brown for forty years, Professor Emeritus of History Abbott Gleason was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. With his energy failing and his muscles shrinking, he finds himself re-examining some cherished beliefs and discovering joy in what he’d once dismissed.

How faculty, students, and alumni are responding to the earthquake in Haiti.

Online there's always someone out there ready to teach you humility.

Clark Sammartino '59  is an investment advisor by day and a boxing judge by night.

Maria Lauenstein '77 and Sonam Denjongpa '76: A couple finally realizes a twenty-five-year-old dream of starting a school in India.

Geneticist Marlena Schoenberg '89 Fejzo miscarried after suffering from a rare form of morning sickness. Then she decided to use her expertise to find out why.

 

After the men's hockey game against Harvard, the band, which claims to be the world's first ice-skating band, laced up and put on a show of its own.

Five questions with Bob MacDonald ScB '89, PhD '93.

Fitzgerald's gift to Eliot and other treasures.

A philanthropy class that hands out real money to real people.

President Simmons visits the Rhode Island state house and says our national history today is richer, more fully diverse, and more truthful.

Salman Rushdie on the real meaning of free speech.

Tavis Smiley knocks President Obama for misunderstanding how Martin Luther King Jr. would respond to terror threats.

Rajiv Kumar '05, '11 MD is out to save us all, one pound at a time.

A new website takes the guesswork out of student flirting.

Undergraduate applications are up 20 percent. Why do so many kids want to go to Brown?

Was Willie Mays just lucky, or did he have exceptional optical acceleration cancellation?

This year's Rose Bowl Parade included an image on a float of the historic game in 1916 in which Brown faced Washington State.

Rebecca Maxfield ’13 rides high in the Jeopardy! College Championship

In a rare public appearance, Stephen Sondheim looks back.

You'll never guess who designed those Norwegian curling team pants at the Olympics.

Men's soccer coach Mike Noonan leaves for Clemson.

Jeff Shesol '91 describes FDR's failed attempt to pack the Supreme Court.

Glenn Berger '91 writes for some of Hollywood's most popular animated characters.

Saints, sex, and snow are the subjects of a first novel by Christine Lehner ’77 AM.

Sandra Allen ’09 and three of her classmates are challenging the notion that people don't read anymore.

André Leon Talley '73 AM will soon join Tyra Banks on the judging panel of America's Top Model.

Dawn Raffel's compressed stories conjure up a wry, tender world.

Art historians often sniff at wildlife art, dismissing it as mereillustration or, worse still, kitsch, says Adam Duncan Harris '92.

What readers are saying at brownalumnimagazine.com

Win Wilson '51 has been a serious swimmer for more than half a century. Here's what he's learned.

Tuition and financial aid rise amid University-wide cuts and layoffs.