Skip to main content
Brown Alumni Magazine

Browse
Articles

The Generalist

Anne Brewer '71: She's a doctor, a priest, and a hockey player. Her personality, she says, needs them all.

Autism, From A to Z

When their sons were diagnosed with developmental disorders, two alumnae responded by writing guidebooks for other parents.

Peanut Butter Blues

This sixties-style folkie is out to change the world - one song at a time.

Reviving Icarus

After his brother, David, died in the Lockerbie bombing, Ken Dornstein set out to write his biography.

Swing Shift

Bipolar teens experience more and different mood swings than adults do, according to a new study. [Elms]

One Great Piano

A new Steinway arrives in Sayles Hall, and President Simmons plays the first chord.

Clues from a Comet

Okay, all life requires water, but how do you get the water in space? [Elms]

Anticlimax

Brown police are finally armed, but no one's up in arms. [Elms]

Getting Oriented

Latin Dancing, a student toes the line between East and West. [Student POV]

The End of Innocence

When classes began in the fall of 1963, the civil rights movement was in full swing. Two months later, President Kennedy was dead. It was enough to make a young freshman from Louisiana doubt everything he'd been raised to believe. [Feature]

The Player

He championed indie films during the 1980s. Later, as a Fox studio executive, Tom Rothman '76 supervised the making of Titanic, which has grossed $1.9 billion. Now, as cochairman of Fox Filmed Entertainment, he's found a way to make good stories pay. [Feature]

Saving the Children

Two of them are from warring ethnic groups, but these three South Asians have been united by friendship for fourteen years. Now they are putting their bond to a higher purpose: building a model of pediatric health care for the entire developing world. [Cover Story]

Intrusions

Kirstin Allio’s unforgettable first novel begins with a corpse and continues through the unraveling of a town. [Arts]

Double Vision

Insights into mental illness from a poet with schizophrenia and her psychiatrist twin sister. [Arts]