April-May 2020

Cover Story

Stroke of Luck

How a ragtag team of club rowers from Brown almost took the national varsity championship in 1960.

What Do
You Think?

“In the article by Jack Brook, and in the Green New Deal literature it seems that the possibility of increasing the use of nuclear energy, which generates no green house gases, is...”
—Stephen Schmitt ’70
Boxborough, Mass.
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):
“With respect to your correspondent’s advocacy of an industry destroying “carbon tax”, the major determinants of Earth climate are the planet’s ecliptic around the sun, the absence or presence of “sunspots” and...”
—Roger G. Smith ’53
Cornelius, Ore.
[email protected]
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):
“I was pleased to read BAM’s coverage of the Sunrise Movement and the excellent work that Lauren Maunus ’19, Emma Bouton ’20, and their collaborators at Brown and beyond have been doing...”
—Joshua Stern ’08.5
Silver Spring, Md.
[email protected]
 
In response to Fighting for Their Future (N/D’19):

Under the Elms

the Brown endowment’s Percentage of investments in
Fossil Fuels.Two years ago, that percentage was 6.5,
similar to other ivies. Brown vows to Divest from REmaining
fossil fuel holdings aSAP. 


Sports & Recreation
Heather Marini playing tackle football in Australia

Mind Game

Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
The Arts
Sindura Sriram ’21, Suzanne Antoniou ’20, Allie Arnold ’20, Zara Norman ’22, Elisheva Goldberg ’22.

Funny Girls

The Rib launches women into comedy careers
Science & Tech

Code Red

Is that tech job worth taking?
Illustration by Brian Stauffer
The Arts

Dirty Filthy Basement

A faculty band rocks out
Kerry Smith, Joe Meisel, Janet Blume and Baylor Fox-Kemper of Dirty Filthy Basement

Beyond the Gates

The Arts

Language’s Limits

The third novel by Ben Lerner ’01, ’03 MFA, grapples with excess, masculinity, and the limits—and possibilities—of verbal communication. Read More

Science & Tech
Image of caterpillars at the Caterpillar Lab by Sam Jaffe

Charismatic Crawlers

Sam Jaffe ’07 and his Caterpillar Lab
The Arts
Andrew Evans and the Magic Patio

Watch As tickets disappear

Magic, mind reading and gravity-defying stage illusions
Medicine & Health
Joshua Cohen, Justin Klee and Kent Leslie

Miracle Drug?

Help may be on the way for Alzheimer’s and ALS
Military
Image of Deputy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz

Health Warrior

As Deputy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz ’94, ’98 MD is on the front lines
History

Family Secrets

In a new book, Jessica Pearce Rotondi ’07 pieces together the decades-long search for her uncle gone missing in Vietnam.
Jessica Pearce Rotondi
The Arts

Shenandoah’s Sound

Chad Fischer ’90 writes musical scores for national parks
Chad Fischer

The Classes

April 8th, 2020

Pat Fogarty-Cavagnaro writes: “I have been in Italy for 45 years, married here, and have a son who’s been sent as a parish priest to just south of Amsterdam, Holland. My first...
April 8th, 2020

Steven Maricic writes: “In my novel Defense Mechanism, Colonel Sam Sawyer, the chief of security at a crucial Air Force base in the Arizona desert, learns of a plot to destroy the...
April 8th, 2020

Sheryl Renee Dobson’s work has been selected by the Staten Island Arts Council to appear in its upcoming “Dawn of a New Decade” group art exhibit. The opening reception for the exhibit...
April 8th, 2020

 Marcia Chatelain ’03 AM, ’08 PhD, published Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America with Liveright Publishing. Franchise examines the hidden history of the relationship between the civil rights movement and the...

Obituaries

April 10th, 2020

Janice Swanson Post ’53, of Saunderstown, R.I.; Dec. 17, of complications following hip replacement surgery. She worked in Brown’s biology department for four years before moving to Massachusetts and becoming a stay-at-home...
April 11th, 2020

Theodore E. Tuck Jr. ’61, of Bowie, Md.; Nov. 6. He spent most of his career in the military, and later as a civilian in the U.S. Air Force as an agent...
April 11th, 2020

Sallie McLean Ramsden ’80, of Lyme, N.H.; Oct. 28. A homemaker and community volunteer, she restored old homes, researched the genealogy of her family, and was instrumental in restoring the Lyme Congregational...
April 11th, 2020

Albert R. Frackelton ’79 PhD, of Rumford, R.I.; Oct. 14. He was an associate professor of research at Brown for 30 years, as well as a staff member in the department of...

Current Obsession

Sports & Recreation

Leggings 24/7

Five minutes with Cat Buthod ’20, on her current obsession Read More