Ask Brown researchers what they’re doing about global warming, and you get a surprising variety of answers. From designing a better car to studying the spread of malaria in a warmer world...

Are you doing everything you can to help your toddler thrive? According to Pamela Paul ’93, savvy marketers may be exploiting your anxiety—and it could be dangerous.

Lars Tiffany ’90 became head coach determined to revive the team. Two years later the Bears are Ivy League champions.

After two quick, record-setting years, head basketball coach Craig Robinson leaves Brown for Oregon State.

Meg Wolitzer ’81 pulls back the curtain on Upper West Side mothers.

Jonathan Mooney ’00 drives a bus cross-country to observe the difference between “freaks” and “normal” people.

Playwright Peter Sinn Nachtrieb ’97 explores the thin line between humans and their basest instincts.

Deb Talan ’90  and her husband, Steve Tannen, break out of the coffeehouse circuit and go primetime.

After nearly fifty years, character actor Raymond J. Barry ’61 might just become a household name.

Bolivia’s president describes his brand of socialism: equality among human beings.

A farewell to Roko (Richard) Kwasi Frimpong '77.

Police investigate an off-campus firebombing of a Hillel graduate fellow.

The legend behind the mast.

A group of writers asks: what does African literature mean?

A mother wants her teenage son back. Will he ever return?

Thanks to players like Blaine Martin '11 and Whitney Brown '09 the women's rugby team, which won the Ivy Championships.

Critics Corner

Fresh Ink

"Night Bodies" by photographer Willa Mamet '05.

For a "Fast Food" competion, Brown engineering students designed and raced edible cars.

Filmmaker Martin Scorsese headlined the student-run Ivy Film Festival and kept the capacity crowd rapt.

Elizabeth Hoover, of Mohawk/Mi'kmaq descent, teaches a workshop on how to sew pow-wow dance outfits.

The May Day celebration was an annual Women’s College event until the 1950s.

Charles A. Robinson III ’51. Officiating in basketball is risky business, says this longtime ref.

Sarah Mazick Saklad ’28. Stubbornness, she says, is key to success and long life.

Michelle Marsidi ’99. For her, tango is a conversation without words.

The Loss of a Heart and a Mind

The Fearless One

A farewell to David Groh '61.

Obituaries from the May/June 2008 issue.