It’s opening day at Wal-Mart’s new Providence store, and Steven P. Hamburg, Brown’s Ittleson Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, has his head inside a frozen-food case. He’s examining the strips of LED lights that illuminate the chicken tenders. When his head emerges he is grinning. “These aren’t mine, but that’s a cutting-edge technology,” he raves...

Twenty-five years ago the basketball team had one of the worst seasons in Brown history. And one of the most hopeful.

Sarah Ruhl ’97, ’01 MFA has achieved meteoric success by combining an avant-garde aesthetic with characters who feel grief and joy in a way we can all understand.

Lili Haydn ’92 has played violin with Herbie Hancock, Jimmy Page, George Clinton, and the L.A. Philharmonic. Her instrument, she says, is like a stem cell: it can grow into anything.

Tender, graceful songs and lots of Reuben sandwiches.

Jonathan Groff ’83 produces his first sitcom for NBC, with Clea Lewis ’87 and Andy Richter.

Martin Luther King Jr. brought together “the best of Jerusalem and Athens” says Cornel West.

Architectural historian Dietrich Neumann takes students for a ride.

Professor, novelist, AIDS researcher, and physician Michael Stein’s first work of nonfiction, The Lonely Patient, tries to understand illness from the patient’s point of view.

Bats reveal the secrets of their agility.

After an invitation, a retraction, and much ado, Nonie Darwish speaks at Brown.

The Medical School is renamed following a $100 million gift from the Warren Alpert Foundation.

If you want to know what the next big thing will be, ask Marian Salzman.

The wrestling team had what was probably the most exciting win of the winter season.

The ski team entered this season with high hopes after a very strong 2006 campaign.

How the British learned to decorate.

Universities like Brown are admitting more low-income students. But what happens once they get there?

This year the men’s swimming team looked to improve on last year’s seventh-place finish at the EISL championships.

The men’s and women’s track teams have used this indoor winter season as preparation for the competitive outdoor meets coming in the spring.

The winter season’s only league championship came from the women’s fencing team.

After an up and down 2006 season, the gymnastics team looked to regroup this year.

At times this season the men’s hockey team has demonstrated strong potential.

After finishing its nonconference season 5–10, the Bears, as of late February, had gone 5–7 in the Ivy League, including a 4–3 record at the Pizzitola Center.

A traveling exhibition brings home the crisis in Darfur.

Daniel Barenboim tells students, “Play with everything that is in you.”

For my first meal at Brown, during the fall of 1964, I asked at the Ratfactory for a corned beef sandwich, and the meat came on buttered white bread. What a long, handsome way the dining rooms have come. . . .

I get a copy of your magazine because my daughter is a second-year student at the Brown medical school. I read it from cover to cover, except, obviously, the class notes. I have been enlightened, entertained, and educated. . .

In “Choose your Words Carefully” (Elms, January/February), Lawrence Goodman could have used the correct words to describe the “early twentieth-century mass murder of Armenians” by the Ottoman Empire. . . .

I enjoyed your short article on the Thoreau papers in the January/February issue (“Thoreau’s Math,” Finally). . .

Need further evidence of Brown’s non-interest in the military? Look at the photo in the January/February issue depicting last fall’s Veteran’s Day ceremony. . . .

I believe it was around ten or eleven years ago that Beth Simchat Torah made news by hosting the first same-sex marriage ceremony of two Jewish men. . . .

The piece of wooden goalpost depicted in your November/December issue is not the only one that’s been preserved from Brown’s 38–14 victory over the Harvard Crimson at Cambridge in 1949. . . .

I am writing as a staunch conservative Republican. Lincoln Chafee was a Republican in Name Only (RINO), and I actually welcomed his defeat as a way of “cleaning house” of abortion-loving liberals. . . .

Making food that’s both fast and delicious, Kenny Lao has found a tasty way to success.

Ever have a carry-on item confiscated at the airport gate? Blame Kip Hawley.

Imagine a world where pets would never be banned. Maider Genser calls it heaven.

The crude, miraculous world of early computing.

A listing of the obituaries for March / April 2007.

E. Howard Hunt Jr. ’40

Charles H. Nichols ’48 PhD