Running Through Woods
For some the path to success is carefully planned, supported, and managed. For one alumna, the journey began twenty years ago when her parents disowned her.
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Historian of Memory
Our collective memory of the American West features brave outlaws and settlers moving into a vast, empty landscape, and, later, visionary conservationists trying to preserve it. That popular history is wrong, says Professor of History Karl Jacoby ’87.
Wine, Women, & Guns
It's all wine, women, and guns for Charlie Valentine, the title character of a new action movie starring Raymond J. Barry '61.
Uptown, Downtown
Gabriel Kahane ’03 writes hip chamber music that defies categorization.
Boarding School
As Brown students, Tatiana von Furstenberg '91 and Francesca Gregorini '90, below, found that they had something in common– they revisited that shared experience in their film Tanner Hall.
Fashion
Los Angeles designer Kimberly Ovitz '05 struck a pose at the recent New York Fashion Week.
Shaking Hands with God
The 12-year-old narrator of the The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet discovers his world by mapping it.
New Wave Artist
Alex Weinstein ’92 surfs with paints as well as with boards.
The Nation’s Ringer
Larry Tye ’76 takes a good look at the life of Satchel Paige.
Transition Man
A conversation with Michael D. Kennedy, the new director of Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies.
Yes, She Can (And She Did)
Obama holds up Jazmin Perez ’09 as a role model in his address to America’s schoolchildren.
Building a Better Bulb
Rashid Zia wins a Presidential Early Career Award to study alternative light sources.
A Better Place
Create your niche and evolve, biologist Johanna Schmitt advises the class of 2013 at Opening Convocation.
Renovations
The Goddard Gates get a new coat.
Preventive Medicine
The University tries to prevent and contain the H1N1 virus on campus.
Commencement & Reunions
Check out our coverage of the grand weekend's events.
50th Reunion Reflections
The class of 1959 reflects on the varied lives its members have lived over the past five decades.
History’s Hinge
Baccalaureate speaker Fareed Zakaria offers a global vision of hope.
The Magnificent Seven
A look at who received honorary degrees at Commencement.
Success Stories
Profiles of seven members of the class of 2009 who ran into potentially overwhelming obstacles during their years on campus—and beat the odds.