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Fresh Ink
Books by Anna Solomon ’98, Amity Gaige ’95, and Kelly McWilliams ’11
Disparate Data
The COVID-19 Compiler predicts trouble spots and trends
Leading Amid Unrest
A Twin Cities college president’s Day One was the week of the riots
Breaking Free
Alum directs Pixar short film
Ready to Pivot
Leading R.I.’s fight against COVID-19
Language and Plague
In locked-down NYC, with a feverish son, Marie Myung-Ok Lee ’86 considers COVID-19 and Camus
Video-game Music
Five minutes with Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Mellon Gateway postdoctoral fellow in music.
COVID-19 Crash Course
How Brown and a leading global health organization teamed up to swiftly push a user-friendly coronavirus management training package out into the world.
Epidemics 101
Students taking BIOL 0940A could never have dreamed how personally relevant the course would soon become.
Eyewitness History
First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.
Supporting One Another
The response of the Brown community to COVID-19
Masks, Meals, Viral Medium
The campus pitches in
First Responders
Many students rushed to help as COVID hit. A look at two group efforts.
Fresh Ink
Books by Sarah Ruhl ’97 ’01 MFA, David Jarmul ’75, and Andrew Altschul ’91
Better than Nothing
Founder of Pussyhat turns to making homemade masks
Share the Wealth
A new business accelerator aims to help co-ops succeed
Crossword Constructor
A puzzle obsession “snowballs”
Battling the Beast
Working the frontlines for the CDC
Minecraft campus
A digital version of Brown’s College Hill brings the community together during COVID-19
Climate Partners
A scientist and a lawyer make it easier to use lawsuits as a weapon against global warming.
College Prep
A new school serves high-achieving juniors and seniors in Zimbabwe
America’s Quarantine Dad
John Krasinski ’01 curates reasons to smile
Hometown Advocate
The new mayor of Cambridge, Mass., fights to keep the city affordable