November–December 2023

Ocean’s 11

Charlie Enright ’08 and Mark Towill ’11 of the 11th Hour Racing Team on winning the Ocean Race while trying to save the seas.

A Few of Our Favorite Things

The best holiday giving ideas from Brown alums

Percival Everett Thinks You’re Smart.

Prolific, multi-talented writer and artist Percival Everett ’82 AM is one of the most celebrated American writers of our era. But when it comes to figuring out what his books actually mean, he prefers to leave that up to you.

From Ballet to Brown

A former Swan Queen and Sugar Plum Fairy hit the books

Truth & Power

Ruth Simmons on leaving poverty and letting go of fear

Serious Swifties

Taylor’s College Hill fan club

International Interns

A Brown program matches students to positions in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Stockholm

Black Hawk Down

A pioneer in military aviation

The Shooter

Remembering a gifted basketball player and master storyteller

28 Years, 2 PhDs, 1 Embrace

Through the generations, a father and daughter share a passion for science

Inside the Gift Guide

Learning from Our Differences

A letter from the President

Vintage Style

Five minutes with Sean Toomey ’24

Spinal Success

A new implant system helps monitor and heal fused vertebrae

Cycling’s Toughest Race

Change Agent

Janet Yang ’78 ushers in a new atmosphere of inclusion at the Oscars

Fresh Ink for November–December 2023

Books by Caitlin Shetterly ’97, Rebekah Bergman ’11, and Kelly McWilliams ’10.

A Fiddler’s Life

Klezmer virtuosa Alicia Svigals ’85

Curatorial Instincts

The rapid museum-world rise of Shanay Jhaveri ’07

Solving Things

“Human guinea pig”

Finding the Thrill

Bestselling novels and a popular podcast plumb the criminal and comical

Doc Politics

Healing more patients by changing health policy

Ice-Breaker

As glaciers collapse, a community comes together.