Bravo network president Lauren Zalaznick ’84 has redefined reality programming with such shows as Project Runway and Top Chef. Can her instinct for the next big thing carry over to a YouTube world?

Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch ’82 is dying of pancreatic cancer. But his words are teaching millions how to live.

Whatever holiday you observe, this is the season for giving. For some of us, unfortunately, it’s also the season for panic.

Edwidge Danticat ’93 MFA tells the story of two deaths and a birth.

On campus this fall, Danticat says Creole taught her the value of metaphor.

Quiara Alegría Hudes ’04 MFA brings Washington Heights to Broadway.

Billie Tsien ’71 and her husband, Tod Williams, won the competition to design a new home for the renowned Barnes collection. Now if only the courts will let them build it.

When Hollywood rejected I’m Not There, his proposed film on Bob Dylan, director Todd Haynes ’85 turned to his longtime producer Christine Vachon ’83

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Guards Mark Mcandrew ’08 and Damon Huffman ’08 are one of the league’s top long-range shooting combinations. The trick now is to win games.

To study concussions, a study has the Bears wearing $1,000 helmets.

Who knew Howard Swearer was an Eagle Scout?

Ecotourism doesn’t have to be just about nature. 

It took the arrest of her husband to plunge Melissa Brown into Armenian politics. 

Making science color-blind one student at a time.

How to start a vineyard before you even know what you’re doing.

A daughter discovers that the FBI kept a dossier on her activist mother.

A high school ring serves as a reminder of one man’s conflicting impulses.

[Data Points] When do children develop an ethnic identity?

[Data Points] Artificial hips, knees, and shoulders don’t always take as they should.

Just over 10,000 years ago, some amazing beasts roamed the planet. Then suddenly they were gone.

The shootings at Virginia Tech have prompted universities to reexamine their emergency preparedness. How does Brown stack up?

When toxic chemicals made a neighborhood’s homes worthless, students volunteered to help.

We're becoming adept at manipulating genes. Is that a good thing?

Brown joins a groundbreaking nationwide research project on the dangers to children’s health.

Changing what you see when you listen to music.

Administators and students agree on one thing, at least.

An usually candid debate about the Iraq War.

Interpreting for the U.S. military set one Iraqi on an odyssey that he hopes will end in a graduate program at Brown.

Ironically, Brown has adopted an open curriculum so that students can explore various interests and find their passion (“Exam Time,” Under the Elms, May/June), yet recommends (if not requires) that applicants follow the most demanding college preparatory track possible to improve their chances of admission: four years of English, four math, four science (3 labs), four foreign language, two history, and one academic elective.

I was intrigued by the decision a young woman from the class of 2007 faced: to spend a year with AmeriCorps or be an assistant manager at a Providence bakery.

The Bible was not written just to lay down “rules” or “edicts” to follow, but to reveal to mankind an infinitely loving and compassionate God who desperately wants to help us.

The omission of a dehumidification system in an indoor swimming pool is something Brown should have picked up on when the Smith Swim Center was first being built. 

The article on the demise of the Smith Swim Center seemed strangely familiar.

Alex Frankel ’93 describes Starbucks as an intense, protocol-driven place, focused on quotidian customer experience, with impressive vestiges of coffee consciousness mixed with a dollop of corporate propaganda.

President Ruth Simmons has been doing a great deal to commemorate the history of slavery in Rhode Island (“Since Last Time,” Elms, July/August).

I read with interest the article about Christine Montross ’06 MD, ’07 MMS.