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Feature Story

Nevertheless, They Persisted

Meet seven extraordinary students graduating into a new world.

Education

Epidemics 101

Students taking BIOL 0940A could never have dreamed how personally relevant the course would soon become.

Science & Tech

COVID-19 Crash Course

How Brown and a leading global health organization teamed up to swiftly push a user-friendly coronavirus management training package out into the world.

Medicine & Health

Crazy Times, Sane Decisions

Bina Venkataraman ’02 on why it’s more important than ever to plan ahead—and how to do it.

History

Lessons from 1918

An expert on last century’s influenza pandemic shares what history could have told us about COVID-19... if we’d been willing to listen.

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On Campus

Service & Advocacy

First Responders

Many students rushed to help as COVID hit. A look at two group efforts.

First Person

Mid-March

BAM interns on the spring’s sudden shift

Military

Woman in Charge

Meet the ROTC Patriot Battalion’s female leader

Service & Advocacy

Masks, Meals, Viral Medium

The campus pitches in

Education

Eyewitness History

First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.

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April 8th, 2020

Spencer and Bethany Blanchard Haller dated all four years at Brown and tied the knot in Manning Chapel the August after graduation. They celebrated with family, friends, and classmates at the Faculty...

April 8th, 2020

Ellen LaPointe ’89 is the new CEO of Fenway Health, an LGBT health care, research, and advocacy organization headquartered in Boston. She previously served as president and CEO of Northern California Grantmakers...

April 8th, 2020

Joan Reede ’75, dean for diversity and community partnership at Harvard Medical School and professor of medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital, has been elected as a 2019 Fellow of the American Association...

April 8th, 2020

Doug Gortner writes: “In my eleven years living in wonderful Nashville, I have met but one Brown alumna, no alumnus. I retired from development work to devote my full time to my...