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Sports Briefs
Rowing news from Bulgaria and the lastest on all the Brown athletes on All-Academic Team lists.
Best Ever
After a record-breaking first year at Brown, Josie Natrasevschi ’18 has become the best women's discus thrower in Ivy history.
How Long Can You Run?
Probably not as long—or as far—as ultramarathoner Karl Hoagland ’87, publisher of UltraRunning magazine.
Too Little Attention
From 2006 until 2014 I was a psychotherapist working in the psychiatry department of the largest HMO...
Fresh Ink
New books include a short-story collection by Marian Thurm ’75 AM and a daughter's memoir of a civil rights leader.
Taking a Stand
Jonathan “Chaka Mpeanaji” Mahone ’99, ’04 MAT and his wife make up the innovative hip-hop duo Riders Against the Storm.
The Dating Game
John Berger ’90 examines why college graduates who are women have a hard time finding men with a similar background.
Book Tour
A journalist gets to know writer David Foster Wallace, 12 years before his suicide.
Future Perfect
The utopian world of artist Saya Woolfalk ‘01.
A Complicated Man
A new documentary by his son explores the personal and professional lives of ambassador Richard Holbrooke ’62.
Something Great
In the much-lauded Broadway show Hamilton, rapper and actor Daveed Diggs ‘04 plays two roles.
Joking for Acceptance
After years of hustling, comic Jordan Carlos ’01 makes it big in movies and on The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore.
A Dazzling Voice
For many years, Ayad Akhtar ‘93 sidestepped his Muslim American past in his bid to become an American writer. After 9/11, in such works as the Pulitzer Prize-winning play Disgraced, he used that same past to engage with Islam and explore the prejudices buried in all of us, Muslims and non-Muslims alike.
From the President
Brown's commitment to teaching continues among the new generation of academics like Africana studies prof Tricia Rose.
The Student-Teacher
The last fifty years of arts education at Brown are inseparable from the teaching and creations of Richard Fishman.
Belonging
Manuel Contreras ’16 is helping lead a national effort to help first-generation students get through college.
Getting a Grip
The neuroscience of picking up your pen.
Drug Fight
Soumitri Barua ’17 is taking on Medicaid for withholding life-saving drugs from people who are who have been substance abusers.
Lights Out
A new study says no more Candy Crush at bedtime.
Robotic Reasoning
How a video game is being used to create artificial intelligence.
Dog Days
Even Spot will be affected by global warming.
On the Road
Anthropologist Catherine Lutz and high school teacher Anne Lutz Fernandez asked teachers what they think of school reform.
Ready for Change
Responding to unsettling sexual assault cases, the University hires Amanda Walsh as its first full-time Title IX officer.