September/October 2009

Obituaries

The Buzz Online

Corrections

Open-Minded

Yiddish Revival

Faculty Then and Now

Homer, Alaska

Bad Gamble

Broadcast News

A farewell to network news journalist Rebecca Lipkin '81.

The Flying Nun

Who says the religious life is no fun?

Girl Interrupted

     A dolce vita childhood inspires the plays and cartoons of Cusi Cram ’90

Learning Anew

A social worker caught up in a tsunami of change.

True Grit

Many retirees do sudoku or maybe play golf. Bill Polleys’53 skis. Nonstop.

Art Therapy?

A pumpkin-carving party, Pembroke-style.

Home Again

Brendan Whittet ’94 named men’s hockey head coach.

Game Day

Hungry Bears

Head football coach Phil Estes introduces this year’s team.

Library Love

In an era of online research, libraries still matter.

The Name Game

Nicholas Brown Jr. paid $5,000 for immortality.

Building the Future

Haven’t been to campus in a while? Here’s a sneak peek at the first pieces of the new Brown.

Running Through Woods

For some the path to success is carefully planned, supported, and managed. For one alumna, the journey began twenty years ago when her parents disowned her.

Historian of Memory

Our collective memory of the American West features brave outlaws and settlers moving into a vast, empty landscape, and, later, visionary conservationists trying to preserve it. That popular history is wrong, says Professor of History Karl Jacoby ’87.

Fresh Ink

Wine, Women, & Guns

It's all wine, women, and guns for Charlie Valentine, the title character of a new action movie starring Raymond J. Barry '61.

Uptown, Downtown

Gabriel Kahane ’03 writes hip chamber music that defies categorization.

Boarding School

As Brown students, Tatiana von Furstenberg '91 and Francesca Gregorini '90, below, found that they had something in common– they revisited that shared experience in their film Tanner Hall.

Fashion

Los Angeles designer Kimberly Ovitz '05 struck a pose at the recent New York Fashion Week.

Shaking Hands with God

The 12-year-old narrator of the The Selected Works of T.S. Spivet discovers his world by mapping it.

New Wave Artist

Alex Weinstein ’92 surfs with paints as well as with boards.

The Nation’s Ringer

Larry Tye ’76 takes a good look at the life of Satchel Paige.

Transition Man

A conversation with Michael D. Kennedy, the new director of Brown’s Watson Institute for International Studies.

Yes, She Can (And She Did)

Obama holds up Jazmin Perez ’09 as a role model in his address to America’s schoolchildren.

Building a Better Bulb

Rashid Zia wins a Presidential Early Career Award to study alternative light sources.

The Class of 2013 by the Numbers

A Better Place

Create your niche and evolve, biologist Johanna Schmitt advises the class of 2013 at Opening Convocation.

Renovations

The Goddard Gates get a new coat.

Since Last Time

Preventive Medicine

The University tries to prevent and contain the H1N1 virus on campus.