Education

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Winning Formula

A group of alums is trying to inspire uncommon success in public education.
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Applied Academics

Engaged scholars put what they’re learning into immediate action
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Safe School

Endangered scholars find a haven at Brown
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Tom Eastler ’66

He showed anyone, anywhere, how to racewalk
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Perspectives on 1968

Nineteen professors and experts co-taught a class on the seminal year.
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Wilderness Therapy

Transformative learning in the backwoods of Maine
History
Matthew Carrano ’91 grins alongside some dinosaur teeth

Mr. Dinosaur

Paleontologist Matthew Carrano ’91 and the Smithsonian’s “Deep Time” exhibit. 
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Radical Vision

Life, death, love, and humanity through the eyes of Toni Morrison.
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Teacher of the Year

Making AP English exciting
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Illustration by Karol Banach

A Major of One’s Own

Independent concentrations are a flagship of the Open Curriculum. Here are 5 being pursued today.
Student Life
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How Open is “Open”?

First-gen college students still encounter socioeconomic walls.
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Father of the Open Curriculum

Meet the emeritus professor who paved the way for the University’s signature approach to education.
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Floating Ideas

A new course combines the history of boat building with hands-on construction.
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College Prep

A new school serves high-achieving juniors and seniors in Zimbabwe
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Eyewitness History

First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.
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Epidemics 101

Students taking BIOL 0940A could never have dreamed how personally relevant the course would soon become.
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Marie-Anne Barron ’22

Remote Reimagined

Thrown onto Zoom last spring, professors prep for whatever “back to school” might mean.
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The Power Within

TWTP’s annual welcome meets Afrofuturism, over Zoom
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Donna Baer ’82 jokes with grandson Truman

Homeschooling 101

This mom’s done it—10 times.
Service & Advocacy
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A Sense of Community

How mentoring has cemented the TEAK program
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Archiving the African Diaspora

Anani Dzidzienyo’s presence was healing; his scholarship, groundbreaking. You could say the same about the class created in his memory.
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Illustration by Pola Maneli

Bird by Bird

An environmental studies course on birding looks at what separates us from one another and from nature, and what might bring us together.
Student Life
Photo of Nikhel Sylvain, Amaan Kulatunga, and Bright Tsagli.

Holding the Door Open

3 nontraditional students help others find their way to college
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Separating Fat from Fiction

A student-driven course on “fatphobia” examines both science and stigma.
Service & Advocacy
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Education and Service

Celebrating the Swearer Center for Public Service
Humanities & Culture
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An Academic Theory Goes Unexpectedly Viral

Brown scholars on Critical Race Theory, the most divisive topic in American education
The Arts
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Storytelling through Song

In music theory class, students learn classical rules—and how to break them.
Medicine & Health
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Raise or Raze

If storms and floods threaten your home, do you raise it or abandon the site?
History
Illustration by James Heimer of broken Roman and Grecian statues and columns

Classics: Dead or Alive?

A new course examines ancient Greece and Rome with a 21st-century lens.
Medicine & Health
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Meeting the Need

A nurse practitioner helps bring primary care to San Francisco’s mentally ill and homeless
The Arts
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A New Language, in a Hurry

Intensive, double-credit language courses mean fast learning and instant community
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Bon Voyage, Brown

These pandemic point-fivers are following a nontraditional study-abroad path for their final semesters.
The Arts
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Mobsters and Lobsters

Journalism professor on a career uncovering Rhode Island’s wrongs
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Manfred Steiner ’22 PhD works at the board

It’s Never Too Late

Manfred Steiner ’22 PhD pursues a childhood passion.
Humanities & Culture
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Food for Thought

Palate meets pedagogy in courses like “Food, Religion, and Politics in South Asia”
Science & Tech
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Making Robots Dance

At the intersection of choreography and engineering, a course looks at how robots move—and whether we’re programming them toward good or evil.
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A Class Trip Do-Over

COVID may have delayed them, but Germany was still calling.
History
Illustration by Tatyana Alanis of a home from the early 1900s and artifacts buried under the house.

Unearthing Rhode Island History

A dig at a 19th-century College Hill home unveils stories about the textile industry, the European immigrant experience, and life in the Gilded Age.
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“The Guy Who Teaches City Politics”

Professor James Morone on 40 years of teaching a course that’s become a Brown classic.
Service & Advocacy
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Complex Truth Telling

A letter from the President
University News
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Affirmative Reaction

A letter from the Editor
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The College Problem

Will Bunch ’81 examines the dismal state of higher education
Service & Advocacy
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College Bound
First Person
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Human Studies

Professor emeritus Arnold Weinstein reflects on the “vicarious, experiential, and enlarging” field of comparative literature.
Student Life
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International Interns

A Brown program matches students to positions in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Stockholm
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From Ballet to Brown

A former Swan Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy hit the books
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The Art of Spectacle

Luis Campos ’14 gets real with his research into combat sports as a pro wrestler in Shanghai.
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Illustration by Tim Cook of a person with flowers in her hair and a butterfly flying around her head.

The Good Life

A course on happiness gets mobbed
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Tim Cook of a person with their eyes closed with clouds in the background

Mainstreaming Mindfulness

Professor Eric Loucks is on a mission
University News
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Affirmative Action for Rich Kids

An economist’s research shows how Ivy-plus schools favor wealthy applicants.
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Image of Irene Glasser standing outside the Mathewson Street United Methodist Church in Providence.

The Anthropology of Homelessness

In ANTH 1301, future doctors and policymakers get immersed in research and realities.
Science & Tech
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Digital Dig

Archaeology’s free field recording program—alum-created and Brown-subsidized
The Arts
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High and Lonesome

Old-Time String Band students learn Appalachian music the traditional way—by ear.
Business & Entrepreneurship
Prof. Hazeltine, Joe Martino ’74, Jamie Kiernan ’74

Barrett Hazeltine and ENGN 9

The little-known story of how two seniors facing a scary job market came up with the class destined to become a Brown classic
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Is Careerism Ruining College?

How much should Gen Z students be emphasizing career prep? And what might be lost?
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Guardian

Erroll Southers ’78, who was racially profiled as a kid in New Jersey, is now one of California’s leading experts in law enforcement, campus safety, and homeland security.
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Future Vision

Helping low-income kids see themselves as college material
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