The 30-Year Warning
A med school professor has been talking pandemic preparedness for decades
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Lessons from 1918
An expert on last century’s influenza pandemic shares what history could have told us about COVID-19... if we’d been willing to listen.
Crazy Times, Sane Decisions
Bina Venkataraman ’02 on why it’s more important than ever to plan ahead—and how to do it.
Mid-March
BAM interns on the spring’s sudden shift
Woman in Charge
Meet the ROTC Patriot Battalion’s female leader
Nevertheless, They Persisted
Meet seven extraordinary students graduating into a new world.
Opening Career Doors
Celebrating five years of outstanding career development and research.
Leggings 24/7
Five minutes with Cat Buthod ’20, on her current obsession
Floating Ideas
A new course combines the history of boat building with hands-on construction.
Parenting Rules You Can Break
A sip of wine when pregnant? TV for toddlers? Professor Emily Oster crunches the data and encourages parents to relax.
Stroke of Luck
How a ragtag team of club rowers from Brown almost took the national varsity championship in 1960.
Race Rx
Race-based assumptions are baked into medical training. Brown med students are working to change that.
Fighting the Good Fight
Arlene Gorton ’52: a warrior for female athletes through turbulent times, including the Brown-Pembroke merger and the passage of Title IX.
Fresh Ink
Books by Ann Harleman ’88 AM, Sarah McFarland Taylor ’90, and Richard Lee Turits ’83
Charismatic Crawlers
Sam Jaffe ’07 and his Caterpillar Lab
Health Warrior
As Deputy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz ’94, ’98 MD is on the front lines
Mentoring Matters
A little personal attention got Carlos Lejnieks ’00 to Brown, then Goldman Sachs. He’s paying it forward.
Family Secrets
In a new book, Jessica Pearce Rotondi ’07 pieces together the decades-long search for her uncle gone missing in Vietnam.
Shenandoah’s Sound
Chad Fischer ’90 writes musical scores for national parks
Miracle Drug?
Help may be on the way for Alzheimer’s and ALS
Explorer Barbie
Boots made for walking and other amazing accessories
Debt Deterrent
A finance expert teaches kids about money before the banks can find them
Watch As tickets disappear
Magic, mind reading and gravity-defying stage illusions
Language’s Limits
The third novel by Ben Lerner ’01, ’03 MFA, grapples with excess, masculinity, and the limits—and possibilities—of verbal communication.