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The Haffenreffer Closes
Brown hopes to move the anthropology museum nearer to campus but doesn’t yet know where.
Open Door Man
Brown’s first vice president for international affairs David Kennedy ’76 envisions “a Davos for young intellectuals.”
CSI: College Hill
Summer school brings tweens to campus to solve fictional crimes and learn from real pros.
How Much Danger in a Light Bulb?
CFLs may reduce our energy consumption, but they also contain mercury.
The Player
The new dean of medicine hopes to succeed where others have not.
Gatekeeping
Just after Commencement, the Van Wickle Gates vanished...
Staying the Course
Brown takes a long hard look at the curriculum and offers reforms.
Free Market Music
At the music website Amie Street, downloads start off free; their cost increases with their popularity.
Critics Corner
Critics Corner: The 19th Wife
Critics Corner
Critics Corner: Only A Theory
Question & Answer Men
Ben Finkel and Andrew McClain dreamed up Fluther.com in the Sun Lab at Brown—inspired by their fellow students’ advice.
Trust Account
Novelist Amity Gaige ’95 unravels the risks and rewards of love.
A Wig and a Cane
Peter DuBois ’97 AM takes over Boston’s Huntington Theater.
Look Upward, Angel
Cell phones and automobiles bounce signals off satellites in orbit. Brown scientists download data from space probes cruising the surface of Mars. Yet in one building near campus, you can still experience science and astronomy much the way Galileo did.
Why Are We in Iraq?
The rationales may have shifted, but as New Republic executive editor Peter Scoblic ’96 argues in his new book, the reasons go back at least fifty years to a view of foreign policy as an epic struggle between good and evil.
What’s in a Building?
When Brown announced plans last year for a new mind, brain, and behavior building, a group of faculty, students, and alumni objected that the Urban Environmental Lab would have to be torn down. What followed was a debate about how to capture the future without forgetting the past.
Brown In Beijing
Sacramone brings home a silver in gymnastics, and track and crew alumni finish strong.
The Contenders
To unseat Harvard and Yale in football this season, the Bears need to keep playing offense—and block, too.
Produce Center
At the garden on Hope Street, students harvest and teach.
The Narrator Within
A writer explains what’s been keeping her at it for half a century.
Full Circle
On one of the most perfect Commencement and Reunion weekends in recent memory, College Hill teemed with some 2,200 graduates, 5,000 alumni, and untold family members and friends.