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How We Move

Scientists peering deeply into how people and animals move are creating groundbreaking animations.

Sports Roundup

How did the football team do? Which teams stood out during the fall sports season? Hint: one competes in a swimming pool.

Medical Highlights

Which is better: opioids or ibuprofen? This is only one of the questions Brown health researchers are tryng to answer.

Lessons from Slavery

Ten years after the slavery and justice committee, Ruth Simmons returns to assess the movement she helped launch.

From the Outside

Photographs of black people in a small Alabama town taken by an African American raised in a mostly white community.

Border Lands

Photos and videos from an artist born on the border between Syria and Turkey are on display at the Bell Gallery through Feb. 5.

Getting Results

The Warren Alpert Foundation just gave the medical school $27 million. Here's what the school plans to do with it.

Teaching Toughness

Twelve-year-old recruit Nicholas Cioe has signed a letter of intent to play men's lacrosse at Brown.

After the Voting

Students reacted strongly on campus to the November election, protesting and posting demands. A few even voted for Trump.

Holiday Gold

Prospecting for presents? How about dresses for girls, tweed-and-leather shoulder bags, retro pocket watches, or soapstone pendants? Discover these and other creative gift ideas from alumni entrepreneurs in our 10th annual holiday gift guide. Enjoy some discounts offered only to BAM readers.

Obituaries

Obituaries from the November/December 2016 issue.

Rio Diary

Louisa Chafee ’14 competed in sailing at the Rio Summer Olympics, and dad Lincoln Chafee ’75 blogged a play-by-play.

Prick Up Your Ears

Former movie producer Noah Kraft ’09 gave up Hollywood for the audio industry and now  makes an earbud with superpowers.

Scrambling at Crosswalks

In car-mad Los Angeles, Seleta Reynolds ’98 is trying to get people off the freeways and into other forms of public transportation.

Perennial Activist

As an agitator at Brown, John Bonifaz ’87 was put on probation. Now he’s trying to rid elections of big money.

Mind Reader

Albany Medical College neurologist Anthony Ritaccio ’79 has developed software that knows what you’re thinking.

Recognition Awards

At September's alumni fall weekend, the Brown Alumni Association saluted outstanding graduates.

Bruno Likes Ike

Back in 1956, it seemed that even the Brown Bear mascot was excited about re-electing Dwight D. Eisenhower.

Guile, Bluff, and Brains

David Margolis '61, who died in June, was a legend at the State Department, where he worked for a half-century.

What You Thought

Readers weigh in on changes to the SciLi, football scholarships, the death of America's oldest person, and other BAM articles.

Gravitational Pull

When Jessica Meir ’99 was 5, she dreamed of becoming an astronaut. Now that’s come true and she's dreaming of getting to Mars.

Dispatches

As a journalist in Iraq and Afghanistan, Pulitzer winner Alissa Rubin ’80 went places "where nobody else had the guts to go.”

Safe Passage

A look at the World War II heroism of Martha Dickie Sharp ’26 and her husband, the guardian angels of European children.