“In response to a previous reader who wrote in about the decision to capitalize Black but not white, I searched “capitalizing black” on the internet and immediately found articles from multiple prominent…”
“Jack Brook’s wide-ranging article “Lit.” in the January-March ’21 issue interested me very much, partly for a personal reason. My brother served in the Korean War as a Marine artillery officer. Upon…”
“I hope those who evidently felt very uncomfortable with discussions of policing in earlier editions read the conversation with Deborah Witzberg (“Use of Force,” Beyond the Gates, January-March ’21). Paradoxically, a defensive…”
Rising to the challenge of a pandemic
Hungering for contact, celebration, and a feeling of lightness.
TWTP’s annual welcome meets Afrofuturism, over Zoom Read More: The Power Within
Student journalists expose the ongoing, illegal practice of insisting court defendants pay fines they’ll never be able to afford.
First-year students arrived in bleak midwinter, trading family overload for solo quarantine.
A digital project brings a book on alchemy to life
Students make national news by exposing who’s been funding the movement to deny climate change.
I went to Lebanon not just to learn Arabic but to take a break from America—and came back with a new perspective. Read More: The View From Tripoli
Alison Stewart ’88 has infused New York public radio with afternoons full of wide-ranging talk
The challenges of hotel ownership during a pandemic
Purell’s CEO on the crazy demand for hand sanitizer
10 Podcasts by Brown alums
This mom’s done it—10 times.
In Make Your Move, Jon Birger ’90 encourages straight women to go for what they want
How do some people thrive despite adversity?
Books by Kermit Pattison ’90, Brian Christian ’06, and Rob Feinstein ’81
Netflix celebrates the Tejano star.
Trust-fund youth unite to combat inequality
Nonprofit reaches milestone in HIV/AIDS awareness
Teresa Gagnon Mellone ’39, ’62 AM, of Barrington, R.I.; Sept. 21, three weeks shy of her 101st birthday. She graduated with a degree in French and Italian, having entered as a freshman…
James A. McIntyre ’60, of San Diego; Aug. 16. He earned his JD from Stanford University Law School and spent his career at the San Diego law firm of McInnis, Fitzgerald, Rees,…
Margaret O’Brien Donohoe ’62 MAT, of Narragansett, R.I., formerly of Forest Hills, N.Y.; Nov. 7. She was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia from 1962 to 1964. She came back to the…
Dan W. Brock, of Newton, Mass.; Sept. 26. Charles C. Tillinghast, Jr. University Professor and professor emeritus in philosophy. Professor Brock joined the philosophy department at Brown in 1969, where he became…
Gustav Getter ’47, of New Rochelle, N.Y.; Oct. 18. He enlisted in the U.S. Navy and attended Brown for officer training. He also earned a master’s degree in civil engineering from Polytechnic…
David C. Lewis ’57, of Providence; Dec. 2. He was the professor emeritus of Community Health and Medicine and the Donald G. Millar Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Alcohol and Addiction Studies at…
Jack H. Ruddell ’17, ’22 MD, of Rancho Mirage, Calif.; Nov. 1. He achieved academic success while quietly managing the learning challenges associated with Tourette’s Syndrome. Before attending Brown he sang with…
L. Perry Curtis, of North Pomfret, Vt.; Apr. 9, 2019. Emeritus professor of history at Brown. During the course of his 40-year teaching career, he held appointments at Princeton and at…
Five minutes with Beth Pollard ’21 Read More: Textiles, Textiles, Textiles
