Summer 2026

In 2023, Brown Dining Services added kosher and halal stations in the Ratty. We checked in with Hallel Abrams Gerber ’28 and Layla Ahmed ’27—two current diners—to get the specifics.

Alums, we asked for your Ratty memories, however dim. Here’s a sampling.

Curt Harris ’92 remembers a Ratty enclave for Black students that has since faded away.

Chatting with dining services VP George Barboza, who has been with the Sharpe Refectory for 36 years.

The lines! The trays! The alcoves! The Turkey Tet’... (RIP)! Let’s celebrate the diamond anniversary of the dining hall so many once called home.

Xochitl Gonzalez ’99 has found literary success with three novels about Latina strivers in the New York City borough where she grew up.

The Trump administration has demanded more conservative voices within academia, but scholars across the spectrum insist the true spirit of viewpoint diversity is alive and well at Brown.

A course looks at Ralph Waldo Emerson and Bob Dylan in conversation across centuries.

Petition for a new language program

Alex Semenenko ’26 rises up the judo ranks

Students start a club for competitive climbers

Brown preserves a collection of the Dec. 13 memorial flowers

Musicians thank Providence

Five minutes with Rahel Selemon ’26

A letter from the President

UCLA’s Dr. Linda Liau ’87 has extended survival rates in some patients with glioblastoma.

Architects and childhood friends have been building since Brown.

Producer Ana González ’15 traveled nationwide with cellist Yo-Yo Ma to explore how music and place intertwine.

Marc Etkind ’87 isn’t just documenting history, he’s making it, at Silicon Valley’s Computer History Museum.

Best-selling author Wendy Walker ’89 drew from her experience as a competitive figure skater for Blade, her latest page-turner.

Reviewed by Edward Hardy

Why many Americans can’t find a doctor and what to do about it.

Peter Howitt, Brown professor emeritus of economics, awarded the 2025 Nobel Prize.