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Stick It.

How do you get the world to work together, and fast, to get all of humanity vaccinated against COVID? Call on the charismatic “Indiana Jones of Public Health,” Seth Berkley ’78, ’81 MD

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On Campus

Service & Advocacy
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Fire-truck Zoom

An unusual COVID classroom
History
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Working Class Hero

A senior thesis on a legendary Panamanian boxer
The Arts
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Unfathomable

A submarine cruising Hillel House
Medicine & Health
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Pandemic Problem Solving

A senior specializes in equity-based solutions
Education

Archiving the African Diaspora

Anani Dzidzienyo’s presence was healing; his scholarship, groundbreaking. You could say the same about the class created in his memory.
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The Classes

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June 22nd, 2021

Lawrence Moss is representing Amnesty International at the United Nations, returning to active advocacy there after previous roles representing Human Rights Watch, Physicians for Human Rights, and the NYC Bar Association at...
June 23rd, 2021

Kaileigh Callender, an associate in the Litigation Group at Goulston & Storrs in Boston, has been named to the National Black Lawyers Top 40 Under 40. The list recognizes Black attorneys from...
June 22nd, 2021

Robin Lenhardt ’89 has joined Georgetown Law to colead its new interdisciplinary Racial Justice Institute. Robin recently served as faculty director of Fordham Law’s Center on Race, Law, and Justice. The Racial...
June 22nd, 2021

Sangeeta Bhatia ’90, professor of health sciences and technology and electrical engineering and computer science at MIT, and Susan Hockfield, MIT president emerita, along with members of the MIT faculty, launched the...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
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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.
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What Do
You Think?

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“Cole Triedman ’21 and Cartie Werthman ’21 are to be commended for their fine investigation into those who fund the movement to deny climate change.  It comes as no surprise that those...”
—Richard Haskell ’59, New Port Richey, Fla.
In response to Follow the Money (A–M’21):
“I read with interest “Follow the Money.” In my day we had Rachel Carson’s “Silent Spring,” and the discussions revolved around the expected new ice age. We have come a long way...”
—Paul L. Tariot ’72, Haverhill, Mass.
In response to Follow the Money (A–M’21):
“In light of his deep shame for America and his joy in discovering roots in Lebanon, why did author Murphy come back? ”
—Rauer L. Meyer ’69
Tiburon, Calif.
rauerm111@gmail.com
In response to The View From Tripoli (A–M’21):
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