Research By the Dozens
Professor of Political Science Ross Cheit recruited dozens of undergrads to help research his book on child sexual abuse.
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Wrong Assumptions
A former dean of medicine argues that it's time to end the forty-year-old ban on gay men giving blood.
Why I Am a Jew
Visiting America's oldest active synagogue in August, President Paxson described her conversion to Judaism.
Last Class
In April, Nobel Laureate Leon Cooper, the Thomas J. Watson Sr. Professor of Science, said good-bye to teaching.
The Exchange
How Brown faculty and students joined the civil rights movement in Tougaloo, Mississippi, fifty years ago.
What if Mr. Hyde Could Talk?
Novelist Daniel Levine ’01 imagines Robert Louis Stevenson’s classic tale from the monster’s perspective.
On Stage
Ayad Akhtar's play Disgraced opens on Broadway.
The iPad Bard
With their ability to combine video and text, can tablets make Shakespeare more accessible to kids?
Family Songs
Two CDs by Nick Bayard ’04, one for children and one for adults, were inspired by falling in love.
Television
David Walton's Peter Pan.
S’mores Instead of Malaria
David Munro ’85 thinks that film and media approaches to encouraging social change have been missing one thing: laughs.
What Education Crisis?
Consider this: What if our fear that U.S. schools are falling behind is exaggerated? Just how bad are they?
Memory Loss
A prominent neurologist and Alzheimer's expert says we may have an exaggerated fear of the disease.
Media Powerhouse
Unhappy as a lawyer, Debra Lee ’76 took a chance with Black Entertainment Television and helped turn it into a $3 billion company.
The Perfect Professor
Over more that 60 years at Brown, economics professor George Borts mentored generations of students.
Mentor, Teacher & Physicist
A farewell to Professor of Physics Gerald Stanford Guralnik, who died suddenly April 26 at the age of 77.
Well Timed
What are the odds of this three generation meeting?
Everything Changed My Senior Year
There is something about the number 50 that triggers an emotional response in most people. Is it the onset of “middle age?”
Old Hat
Gerrit Sanford ’49 figures he’s worn his top hat in the Commencement procession 65 times—every year since his graduation.
Senior Selfies
When the clock strikes midnight at Campus Dance, it's time for...