Deborah Scranton explains how she persuaded National Guardsmen to film their experiences in Iraq.

Deborah Scranton gave video cameras to ten National Guardsmen in Iraq and edited the resulting footage into a groundbreaking documentary.

Three literary-arts grad students took a playful approach to writing an encyclopedia of fiction.

From investment banking to organic farming, our annual report on students’ summer jobs.

Biologists explain why, in a cheater’s paradise, cooperation ever evolved.

Tired of the same old posters? Two economics concentrators and a computer whiz have created a Web site where students can buy real art.

Two alumni take a circuitous route to dancing for one of the world’s great modern dance companies.

Although movies made from his screenplays have grossed hundreds of millions of dollars, Josh Friedman ’89 had more to say. So he started a blog.

BAM asked students to describe their experiences over the summer. Here are the responses we received:

Summer theater gives fledgling writers a chance to hone their words on stage.

Now that he’s reported for duty, what’s the new provost going to do?

We are delighted that Brown has made the right decision and divested from companies profiting from the crisis in Darfur. . .

As described in the March/April BAM, we have coordinated Project Muso Ladamunen in Yirimadjo, Mali, for the past year. . .

As Brown alumni and three-time Brown parents, we were especially pleased to read the review by Tim Tibbitts ’90 of the new book on global warming written by our son. . .

What an outstanding commencement issue (July/August). We were saying “Wow!” as we turned each page. . .

I was so excited when you began publishing an acrostic in the BAM. It brought me back to leisurely Sunday brunches spent doing the New York Times puzzles in the Ratty. . .

I read “The Bookstore Business”with great interest (Elms, May/June). I write from the perspective of a twenty-five-year career in higher education. . .

Your article on ultimate Frisbee (May/June 2006) was an extraordinary and welcome update on the progress of this magnificent team sport. . .

If you’ve long been hankering to gather around the piano with your family and sing classic songs of the American Yiddish theater, here’s your chance.

Remember comic books?

In recent years, illustrators and writers have used the form to create serious literature. Mark Siegel ’89 and his wife, author Siena Cherson Siegel ’90, are among the passionate few leading the charge.

Nanomaterials may prevent your chinos from getting stained, but more and more researchers are asking: are they safe?

To win the best students, universities now compete for their stomachs as well as their minds.

Giving up alcohol was not a sacrifice; it was an act of imagination.

A listing of the obituaries for September / October 2006.

Thomas J. Anton