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Nevertheless, They Persisted

Meet seven extraordinary students graduating into a new world.

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The Arts
Sindura Sriram ’21, Suzanne Antoniou ’20, Allie Arnold ’20, Zara Norman ’22, Elisheva Goldberg ’22.

Funny Girls

The Rib launches women into comedy careers
Science & Tech
Illustration by Brian Stauffer

Code Red

Is that tech job worth taking?
Sports & Recreation
Heather Marini playing tackle football in Australia

Mind Game

Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
Sports & Recreation
Cat Buthod ’20 Brown University

Leggings 24/7

Five minutes with Cat Buthod ’20, on her current obsession
The Arts

1,000 Rejections

How to get a cartoon in the New Yorker
Self-portrait by Pia Mileaf-Patel
The Arts

Dirty Filthy Basement

A faculty band rocks out
Kerry Smith, Joe Meisel, Janet Blume and Baylor Fox-Kemper of Dirty Filthy Basement

The Classes

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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...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
Photo of Lindsay Gottlieb ’99, Assistant Coach of Cleveland Caveliers

Going Pro

A women’s college basketball coach jumps into the NBA
Sports & Recreation
Photograph of Sadie Kurzban ’12 making a silly face

Cardio Blast

What started as campus fun is now a thriving business
Medicine & Health
Image of Dr. Christopher Dodson ’99, MD ’03, with the Philadelphia 76ers

Locker-Room Doc

Philadelphia’s top orthopedic surgeon for star athletes
In Memoriam
Photo of Arlene Gorton ’52

Women’s Warrior

Arlene Gorton ’52, who fought for female athletes
Sports & Recreation

Mind Game

Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
Heather Marini playing tackle football in Australia
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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“Thank you for highlighting the new hair club on campus (“Whichever Way You Wear it,” Under the Elms, January/February 2020).. What an incredible idea Kimberly and the two Laurens had. As a...”
—Safiya Walker ’17
San Francisco
In response to Whichever Way You Wear It (J/F’20):
“I read with gratitude BAM’s January/February 2020 issue celebrating the 50th anniversary of the University’s Open Curriculum and interdisciplinary approach to education. Professor Emeritus George Morgan’s pioneering pedagogy has certainly improved students’...”
—Gina Pellegrini Chaney ’99
Barrington, R.I.
ginapchaney@gmail.com
 
In response to Father of the Open Curriculum (J/F’20):
“Nice article on Michael Muir ’20. I am sure you will hear about this from many people, there is no such thing as a “former” Marine.  (“Fixed It,” Under the Elms, January/February...”
—Albert Alexander ’79
Springfield, Mass.
In response to Fixed It. (J/F’20):
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