U.S. District Court Chief Judge Joseph Tauro ’53 was the first federal jurist to legalize same-sex marriage. He forced Massachusetts to end its barbaric treatment of developmentally disabled children in state schools. For 40 years he's been making sure government lives up to its responsibilities to treat all people as equals under the law.
Obituaries from the January/February 2015 issue.
The Provost Talks About Brown's Future
Will Bunch ’81 talks beer with the author of The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer.
William Bostwich ’07 looks at what our history of making and selling beer tells us about ourselves.
Obituaries from the November/December 2014 issue.
A farewell to beloved dean and adviser Marjorie Thompson '74, '79 PhD who died of cancer in September.
Hill Harper ’88 headlined this year's Brown Alumni Association salute to outstanding graduates.
Mollie West ’09 and Andy Posner ’09 AM are combating poverty a few hundred dollars at a time.
Computer scientist David Blei ’97 thinks the algorithms for those annoying ads following you around online may also do some good.
Armand Sprecher ’89, of Doctors Without Borders, has been fighting Ebola in Africa for more than ten years.
Forrest Broman ’61 went to Haiti after the 2010 Haitian earthquake to rebuild schools. He had no idea what he was getting into.
More than 10,000 alumni and students watched the Bears take on Harvard on the night of September 27.
Did Alexander Graham Bell steal some of these two Brown professors' ideas when he invented the telephone?
Tired of the holiday retail madness? Sick of jumping from website to website in search of the out-of-the-ordinary perfect gift? Look no further. Our annual gift guide comes to the rescue with a tempting assortment of products from the creative hands and minds of Brown alumni.
Betsy Boyd ’95 tends to be a master procrastinator. Did she put off having kids too long?
President Paxson reviews improvements to Brown's sports programs and promises even more.
Olympic gold medalist Helen Johns Carroll ’36 was one of the best swimmers Brown has ever seen.
