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Maverick.

Professor Glenn Loury is a leading conservative voice in America, from his home base at Brown. In this wide-ranging conversation, Pushcart Prize-winning poet and ardent progressive Ravi Shankar discovers nuanced differences and unexpected alignments.

Humanities & Culture

Divided Lives

At the dawn of Mao’s China, Professor Zhuqing Li’s aunts were separated by opposing ideologies.

Medicine & Health

Build Your Own MD

At 50, the Warren Alpert Medical School has become a national leader. We talk to founding alums who took a leap of faith.

Humanities & Culture

Illustration by Tim Cook of two Native American's looking at one another.

No More Excuses

U.S. histories often neglect to mention the millions of enslaved Native Americans. A Brown database aims to help change that.

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On Campus

First Person

Image of Garfinkle with a photo projected behind him on a wall of his great-great-grandparents and their children, including his namesake, Jack.

Tracing Family Trees

Five minutes with Jake Garfinkle ’23

Science & Tech

Illustration by Andy Martin of a green robot on a white background.

Making Robots Dance

At the intersection of choreography and engineering, a course looks at how robots move—and whether we’re programming them toward good or evil.

The Arts

Image of a Brown student wearing a repurposed Brown sweatshirt by Glore Lee ’24

Mod Merch

A dual-degree student turns bookstore leftovers into fashion must-haves

Medicine & Health

Illustration by Raymond Biesinger of a news "plant" with bubbles of disinformation coming out of the smokestack.

Rx for “Information Disorder”

Disinformation is making us sick, literally. Asking the right questions and training the right people may be the cure.

Student Life

Inside the Beltway

Would-be policy wonks score a semester at the source

Image of Isabelle Sharon ’23.5, Alice Im ’24, Ruhma Khawaja ’24, and author Peder Schaefer ’22.5 at the base of the Washington Monument.

Student Life

The Party Is On

Funk Night returns to Brown

Image of dancers at Funk Night at Brown University

The Classes

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January 18th, 2023

Robert Liotta writes: “A recent heavily nostalgic visit on campus nudged me to provide BAM with an update. My son Ben Liotta ’07 and his spouse Yeye Zhang ’08 had their first...

January 18th, 2023

Antonia Angress writes: “Random House published my debut novel Sirens & Muses on July 12. The novel follows four artists drawn into a web of rivalry and desire at an elite art...

January 18th, 2023

Amanda Mei Kim received the prestigious Steinbeck Fellowship to complete a significant work-in-progress. Amanda is writing about the ways that climate, culture, resistance, and capitalism weave through the lives of rural Asian...

January 18th, 2023

Dr. Kang Sun ’88 PhD has launched an IPO on NYSE of his third renewable company, Amprius Technologies Inc. Contact Dr. Sun at kangsun@alumni.brown.edu.