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Prayer...and Power

Paula Clark ’84, the first Black and first female Episcopal Bishop of Chicago, on building a truly inclusive ministry. 

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Religion & Spirituality
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Divine Providence

A new home for the Catholic community
The Arts
LCMTC sculpture Brown University

Blueno’s Successor

Students have mixed feelings about the new sculpture on campus
Education
Illustration by Pola Maneli

Bird by Bird

An environmental studies course on birding looks at what separates us from one another and from nature, and what might bring us together.
Politics & Law
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Aim High

Can a decentralized, encrypted national gun registry bridge the partisan divide?
Ever True

Hot Summer Studies

Most first-years had second semester over the summer—sans A/C
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The Classes

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August 30th, 2021

Donna Gordon writes: “My novel What Ben Franklin Would Have Told Me is due out from Regal House in June 2022. While at Brown, I received the Kim Ann Arstark Award in...
August 31st, 2021

In March, Derek Livingston was named the director of new play development/artistic associate at the Utah Shakespeare Festival. In this newly created position he will be responsible for reenvisioning and overseeing the...
August 31st, 2021

Michael J. Hsu ’97 has been appointed by U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen ’67 as the first deputy comptroller of the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) and will assume...
August 31st, 2021

Lillie Marshall writes: “For those who enjoyed my daily cartoon in the Brown Daily Herald from 1999 to 2003, you can now follow my artwork online at drawingsof.com, an educational cartoon site....

Sports

Sports & Recreation
portrait of Brynn Smith ’11

State of Play

This spring, Brown overhauled its athletics program. Varsity teams went club and vice versa, protests and lawsuits ensued, and some teams were reinstated.
Sports & Recreation
Heather Marini playing tackle football in Australia

Mind Game

Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
Ever True
Artemis A.W. Joukowsky and Ruth Simmons

Ever True

Artemis A.W. Joukowsky ’55 was one of Brown’s biggest cheerleaders and fundraisers.
Sports & Recreation
Ijeoma Uche Brown Track

Flying High

Record-breaking long jumps
Sports & Recreation

NBA Heights

Stephen Silas ’96 lands the top job at the Houston Rockets
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Sports & Recreation

Stroke of Luck

How a ragtag team of club rowers from Brown almost took the national varsity championship in 1960.
varsity rowing team 1960

What Do
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“The problem extends beyond those who have no way to pay fines or restitution. Spouses and other family members are first deprived of whatever support the defendant might otherwise provide and, second,...”
—Deborah Young Detering ’62
Vancouver, Wash.
In response to Failure to Pay (A–M’21):
“I write to urge BAM to continue its current policy on letters. It saddens me to learn that Brown graduates seek anything less. I also abhor the sentiments and beliefs expressed in...”
—Judith A. McGaw ’68
 Portland, Ore.
In response to Northern Aggression (J/A’19):
“All most of us know about nuclear power is based on 50-year-old technology. (What was your phone like 50 years ago?) ”
—Richard Pohle ’61
In response to Follow the Money (M/J’16):
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