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Finding My Place

When Texan Christina Mata '16 spent a year studying in Italy, she learned how to confront her fears.

A brain injury forced Joe Sharkey '16 to give up basketball. It also helped him discover what his real dream might be.

Comp lit concentrator Jacqueline Rice '16 is as comfortable with Virgil as with contemporary Caribbean poetry.

Physics concentrator Jamelle Watson-Daniels '16 wanted to know why so few women of color study the hard sciences.

A post-season basketball tournament and tackle-free football practices could change Ivy League sports.

Troubled by the Syrian crisis, Brown professors and students head to region to try and help refugees.

Kicking off the Ivy Film Festival, Jodie Foster tells students there's no reason for an aspiring film actor to be a film major.

In a campus talk, the English writer Zadie Smith uses Martin Buber to make sense of Justin Bieber.

Robert De Niro and director Perri Peltz ’82 tells students why they made a documentary about De Niro's artist father.

For one night in downtown Providence, Brown voice students were backup singers for actress Kristin Chenoweth.

Dance Director Juli Stranderg takes Rhode Island dancers to work at Paul Taylor's American Modern Dance studio.

A novel about a psychopathic bookseller, a memoir about overcoming paralyzing pain, and a history of American lighthouses.

Marc Wortman ’78 writes a faced-paced narrative about the twisted path toward U.S. involvement in World War II.

Longtime Providence Journal columnist Bill Reynolds ’68 chronicles a season with a Providence inner-city high-school team.

When he agreed to star in a Danish TV reality show, Rufus Gifford ’96 took the role of emissary to a new level.

Pamela Tom ’83 wrote, directed, and produced a new documentary about the lead artist on the Disney classic Bambi.

A new novel by Rachel M. Harper ’94 describes a Providence that few Brunonians get to see.

Emy Tseng ‘87, whose 2013 debut album, Sonho (“dream” in Portuguese), earned widespread praise, is preparing to release her second.

After writing 40 jokes a day for The Tnight Show, Luke Cunningham ’01 quit to write a sitcom.

Pathways to Diversity and Inclusion: An Action Plan for Brown University.

With a gift from Jonathan M. Nelson ’77, Brown launched a multidisciplinary center for entrepreneurship.

Reader letters and onlline comments from the last two months.

For Josie Hubschman ’11, at right, a roommate-finding “nightmare” became a high-tech start-up.