Features/Campus Humanities & Culture Rotten Culture Why removing “bad apples” won’t fix the police Read More History NOW! Brown alums on this year’s nationwide demands for racial justice & the urgent need for lasting change Science & Tech Buried Knowledge “Undone science” refers to data that have been ignored while other research gets done. Partly in the name of racial justice, some Brown folks are working to bring that information to light. Humanities & Culture Walking the Labyrinth For Heidi Kim ’87, combating racism is a lifelong practice deeply rooted in her Christian faith Humanities & Culture A Language, Liberated Nitana Hicks Greendeer ’03 is a leader in the effort to bring the Wôpanâak language back. AFTER 1965'S VOTING RIGHTS ACT, ARREST RATES FOR BLACKS DROPPED, A BROWN ECONOMIST FOUND. ACCOUNTABILITY TO BLACK VOTERS MAY BE WHY. CLIMATE CHANGE HAS ALLOWED SESARMA CRABS TO TAKE OVER IN THE SOUTH, THREATENING SALT MARSHES, A STUDY BY A BROWN PROF AND ALUM FOUND. 30% OF BROWN'S PRE-COVID CAMPUS ELECTRICITY IS NOW OFFSET BY A WIND FARM IN TX; THE REST WIL BE OFFSET BY ONE IN RI LATER THIS DECADE. RACIAL GAPS IN COLLEGE GRADUATION RATES HAVE WIDENED EVEN AS ENROLLMENT BECOMES MORE DIVERSE, A BROWN-LED STUDY FOUND. STRESSFUL EVENTS DON'T MAKE YOU RESILIENT—THEY INCREASE VULNERABILITY TO MENTAL ILLNESS, A STUDY LED BY BROWN RESEARCHERS FOUND. The Arts Old-School Photography Five minutes with Hasiba Zandi ’21 Sports & Recreation Flying High Record-breaking long jumps Education Remote Reimagined Thrown onto Zoom last spring, professors prep for whatever “back to school” might mean. Student Life Fixed It. A better deal for Brown vets Service & Advocacy Justice, in Community A non-punitive approach “Long a reader of BAM, I write to support your first steps toward digital publication. Makes sense to me, as does a wholly digital presence ultimately. Not that I won’t miss paper,...” —Bobby Wayne Clark ‘69 Brown News Bureau 1975-79 Durham, N.C. bobbywayneclark@gmail.com “As a graduate student, I never imagined my work in the history of industrial toxicology would result in a 30-year career helping to design, implement, and provide science advice on national environmental...” —Angela Nugent ’76 AM, ’82 PhD Silver Spring, Md. acsnugent@gmail.com “John Barresi ’63 (What Do You Think?, April/May) surely is right that students after him have been luckier in pursuing interdisciplinary interests. I entered Brown in 1970, the first year of the...” —David A. Ernst ’74 Lexington, Mass. dwrernst@juno.com In response to Father of the Open Curriculum (J/F’20):
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