Fast Food Capitalism
The Pulitzer-winning Franchise by Marcia Chatelain ’03 AM, ’08 PhD, narrates the complicated history between McDonald’s and its Black outlet owners
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Careers of Usefulness
Bringing a holistic approach to career services
Living Well
Brown’s newest dorm focuses on wellness
“That Changed Everything”
Professor Jim Barnhill founded the Theatre Arts department and helped launch Trinity Rep, Rites and Reason, and several acting careers
Healthcare Hero
Leon L. Haley Jr. ’86, a doctor and CEO who inspired a COVID vaccination rally
Unseating Freud
Aaron Beck ’42 created cognitive behavioral therapy and transformed the field of mental health
Academic Safe Space
Afghan scholars fleeing the Taliban’s oppression of women find welcome at Brown
Storytelling through Song
In music theory class, students learn classical rules—and how to break them.
Lift Up Their Voices
Former journalist Elizabeth Rush traded news writing for testimony—allowing people in coastal communities to tell their climate change stories their way.
New Directions
The pandemic shifted these three seniors off careerist paths and into doing what they love.
The Latest on Distraction
The rise in ADHD diagnoses has researchers asking what’s behind it—and whether it's really such a bad thing
One Day, Two Ivy Titles
Victory was decisive and extra sweet for women’s volleyball and soccer after returning to play this season.
Stepping Into Liquid
Photographer Sachi Cunningham ’94.5 grabs a 25-pound camera and hangs out in the water beneath cresting 60-foot waves, getting pounded, churned—and getting the shot.
Sporting Good
Celebrating a athletic pioneer
Songs of Survival
Arn Chorn-Pond’s flute-playing literally saved his life in a child labor camp in his native Cambodia. Now he helps other children of war and brings once-banned music back to rural villages.
Seeking Global Stories
Keeping pace with 10,000 alums outside the U.S.
Expanding College Access
Ensuring Brown continues to cultivate the next generation of leaders
Taking the Bus
Five minutes with John Lin ’23
One Day, Two Ivy Titles
Victory was decisive and extra sweet for women’s soccer and volleyball after returning to play this season.
From Isolation to Instagram
How COVID helped spawn a social media phenomenon
Stepping Up
A Narragansett dancer on life as a dual degree student, documentary star, and tribal activist
Frontal Lobes and Fun
Neuroscience 10 continues to tickle the grey matter of future scientists—and everyone else.
Flying Clear
Aerospace engineer George Braly ’70 has finally succeeded in getting the lead out of airplane fuel.