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The Human Angle

CNN Mumbai reporter Malika Kapur ’97 says to tell a political story, you need a personal one.

Doug McGray ’97 and Chas Edwards ’92 hope to revitalize long-form print storytelling for the digital age.

Michael Balaban ’74 chairs the board of a nonprofit that aims to rid sports culture of homophobia.

In 1956, Brown got its first computer, an IBM 650, the world's first mass-produced.

Christina Paxson on why the media's coverage of diversity and inclusion is almost always wrong.

After teaching entrepreneurship“sort of under the radar,” Barrett Hazeltine is in the academic mainstream.

Brown's Academic All-Ivy athletes, and things heat up for the Summer Olympics.

Cedric Kuakumensah ’16 becomes the greatest shot blocker in Ivy League men’s basketball history.

After Marco Santini ’07 added plywood to a ping pong table and wound up with a whole new game.

Ty Walker ’19, one of the world's best snowboarders is preparing for the 2018 Winter Olympics.

For New Yorker writer Rachel Aviv ’04 the most important stories come from surprising places.

A religious scholar asks: Is the Internet helping or hurting movements for social justice?

Dead Animals, an exhibition this winter at the Bell Gallery, shows taxidermy in contemporary art.

Despite protesters, Genesis Prize winner Michael Douglas speaks about his Jewish journey.

How a computer science professor wound up as a genius on a TV commercial for tax software.

The official portrait of Brown's 18th president, Ruth Simmons, joins the ones hanging in Sayles Hall.

Actress and Central Falls, R.I., native Viola Davis brings a Salomon Center audience to tears.

A dystopian first novel, a look at the global politics of climate change, and essays by Marilynne Robinson ’66

In How to Pass as Human, Nic Kelman ’00 MFA creates androids trying to pass as people.

David Shields ’78 looks at how New York Times wartime photojournalism lies about the true nature of war.

Journalist Charles Bethea ’05 co-produced the documentary Fair Chase, about the origins of running.

True Blood actor Sam Trammell ’91 turns crack addict in the indie thriller All Mistakes Buried.

George Musser ’88 explores nonlocality, a physics mystery that's undercutting our beliefs about the physical world.

There would have been no Academy Award–movie The Danish Girl without the first novel by David Ebershoff ’91.