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Matchmaking Unlikely Bedfellows

Jeremy Symons '92 The campaign to stop global warming brings together tree-huggers, hunters, and evangelists.

Brain Power

Mona Lisa Schulz '82 She has an MD and a PhD, but the skill she relies on most is intuition.

Peaceable Giant

China’s ambassador rattles a saber and preaches harmony.

Data Points

Today, South Africa has one of the world’s highest rates of HIV infection, with an estimated 5.5 million people living with the disease.

Forget the War on Terror

Rick Santorum calls it like he sees it: a war on “Islamic fascists.”

Test Positive for Breast Cancer?

A new study finds that an MRI should be your next step.

Moderator of the Trustees

Tom Tisch ’76 describes his goals as the University’s new chancellor.

How to Live

President Simmons argues for more support for the humanities.

Exam Time

Pushing forty, the New Curriculum gets a checkup.

By March 9 of the 2007 spring season, the men’s tennis team was 11–2 and appeared primed to capture its third straight Ivy title. But the Bears hit stiff league competition and dropped its first four conference matches to fall out of the running for the title.

Equestrian

After starting its regular season on September 30, the equestrian team competed all year with the goal of reaching nationals for the first time since 2004.

Lacrosse

Men’s lacrosse had a bounce-back season in its first year under head coach Lars Tiffany ’90. After going 2–11 last season, the Bears started the season on a roll. After losing in overtime to the always tough University of Maryland Baltimore County the men reeled off four straight wins.

Track and Field

The men’s track team has had many great individual performances all season long. Paul Rosiak ’07 ranks first in the Ivy League in the javelin with a top throw of 222 feet, eight inches, an astounding twenty-two inches more that his nearest competitor.

Softball, Rowing, and Crew

While the baseball team thrived, the softball team struggled. Under the tutelage of first-year head coach DeeDee Enabenter-Omidiji, Brown lost eighteen heartbreaking games by three runs or fewer.

Women’s Tennis

After losing its first three Ivy matches, the women’s tennis team won the next four.

Women’s Water Polo

Women’s water polo labors in the shadows of the season’s more popular sports, which is too bad.

Baseball

The baseball team won its first-ever Ivy championship in early May after it beat Lou Gehrig Division winner Penn.

Trashy Reads

Pulp comics were puerile, debauched—and addictive.

The Giveaway Pile

You live, you die, your stuff goes out to the curb.

Just Smart Enough

Research by 2006 Nobel Laureate Craig Mello ’82 has given scientists a way to turn genes easily on and off. As one of last fall’s Nobel Prize winners, Craig Mello has received a level of wealth, publicity, and acclaim seldom granted to a scientist who spends his days observing a microscopic worm.