How Things Work
Once they could hole up in cubicles attacking technical problems. Now engineers must also raise money and market products. So what’s an engineering department supposed to teach?
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Some Assembly Required
President Simmons is out to turn a 239-year-old university into a nimble model of twenty-first-century excellence.
The Healer
Professor of Surgery William G. Cioffi
The Advocate
Attorney General Patrick C. Lynch ’87
The Big Stretch
Can a lousy economy cause students to choose courses based on cost?
Searching for Truth
How students, faculty, and staff reacted to the invasion of Iraq
A Season of Intensity, Firepower, and Pride
Men’s hockey plays its way to the ECAC Final Four.
Cinderella Story
After a dismal start, men’s basketball goes all the way to the NIT.
Used and Abused
The difficulties of saving wildlife.
Simple Pleasures
A pair of children’s CDs even the childless will like.
Revere, Once More
Roland Merullo’s latest novel moves with the hopscotch grace of a fine memoir.
Are You Listening?
Artist Damali Ayo ’94 is awakening polite Portland, Oregon, to the uncomfortable realities of race.
Critic’s Corner
The Pulitzer Prizes
All Fired Up
The roots of America’s moral fervor.
The Real Global Threat
Forty million people are infected with HIV worldwide. Here are some of their stories
Fitting In
To a former ballerina, Brown can be an awkward stage.
The Waking Breath
Musings on the rhythm of constancy and change.
Big Brother Is Born
A mind hard at work until the very end.
Out of the Attic
Brown dusts off some of its Rhode Island treasures
The Soul of the Storyteller
N. Scott Momaday expands the definition of American literature
Clean Sweeper
A student finds business potential in his dormmates’ sloth
Jibes and Parries
The bedheaded editor of the Onion lets loose at the Ivy League
Free(dom) Speech
Safeguard liberty in times of terror, warns a former attorney general