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Acting

“This is where I learned to think,” actor Laura Linney ’86 told students.

Mutual Admiration Society

Gloria Steinem and Ruth Simmons talk about friendship, clothes, and their incredibly successful lives as women pioneers.

Growing Farmers

The son of a sharecropper, Will Allen, who advised Brown students and Providence kids in April, now helps cities turn waste spaces into gardens.

120 Years and Counting

Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards ’80 addresses alumna gathered on campus to celebrate 120 years of women at Brown.

Fitness 2.0

With the opening of a new $46 million aquatics and fitness complex, students get a twenty-first-century place to swim, spin, and sweat.

Farm AIDS

Emma Clippinger ’09 helps HIV-infected Rwandans grow food.

Woman Warrior

As co-founder of the Rebecca Project for Human Rights, Malika Saada Saar ’92 has spent the past ten years protecting the rights of young girls. 

Renaissance Man

Astrophysicist and computer pioneer Bob Doyle ’58 is on to his next challenge: explaining some of the biggest mysteries of the universe. 

Lightin’ Up

Until the late 1960s, Ivy Day was one of Pembroke’s great annual traditions

Campus Thanks Simmons for Her Presidency

It was an afternoon for the record books. On April 25, thousands of students, faculty, and staff gathered on the College Green—not to protest, but to thank President Simmons for her eleven years at Brown. 

A Boy, a Bike, and Burma

For Patrick Cook-Deegan ’08, a summer abroad as a student sparked a lifelong passion for a 
country and its people.

Brew-nonian

Mariah Draper Calagione ’93 A lot of alums like to drink great beer. But how many know how to make it? 

The River Wild

Lisa Van Dusen ’76 Is it still even possible to get away from it all?

A Shipload of Work

Al Corney ’54 is a former marketing guy who retired to Florida to build wooden boats by hand.

Tuning In

Here's to the days when radio reigned supreme.

Carberry Update

The administration denies rumors that it is pressuring Professor of Psychoceramics Josiah Carberry to retire.

The Nineteenth President

As the BAM was going to press, the Corporation announced its choice for a new president. Hours later, Christina H. Paxson was introduced to the Brown community.

The Soul of the Coach

Remembering Joe Paterno '50, who brought an Ivy League respect for academics to Penn State before his legacy was undone by his role in protecting a pedophile coach.

Obituaries

Obituaries from the March/April 2012 issue.

Muse of Memory and Pain

A psychologist memorializes his patients' conflicts by turning their therapeutic ramblings into poems.

After Paterno

Penn State hires offensive coordinator Bill O’Brien ’92 to replace its late head coach, Joe Paterno ’50.