Teach Our Children Well
A reporter explains why blaming teachers for the failures of our public schools is dead wrong.
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Keeping Secrets
A Pulitzer winner on trail for protecting sources, James Risen ’77 takes on the national security state.
Labor of Love
Patricia Lansing ’96 curates The Power of Style: Verdura at 75 on the work of master jeweler Duke Fulco di Verdura.
Comedy Star
Tracee Ellis Ross’94 lights up black-ish, a new ABC sitcom about a black family's adjustments to race.
The Art of Dissent
The murders at Charlie Hebdo in France are a reminder that many governments also fear and try to silence political cartoonists.
Making a Splash
The men's water polo team made to the NCAA Championship tourney for the first time since 1990.
Records Fall
During the field hockey team's 9–8 year, Meghan O'Donnell ’15 was one athlete who helped lead the way.
At Sea
Charlie Enright ’08 and Mark Towill ’11 anchor the youngest team competing in a sailing race across the world’s five oceans.
Art From Lobster Ropes
Artist Orly Genger ’01 constucts a meandering woven sculpture on the Front Green.
Confronting Historic Wrongs
After more than a decade of study and planning, Brown unveils the Center for the Study of Slavery and Justice.
Veteran’s Day
In November, President Paxson honored military veterans with a wreath and watched a student join ROTC.
Artists and Teachers
Four working alumni artists returned to List Art Center in the fall to teach aspiring artists how to succeed.
Real-World Change
For only the second time ever, Brown has three Rhodes Scholars this year. Who are they?
Deserving To Be Here
Renata Martin ’14 grew up without a green card and any hope of college. Now she's a Brown alumna.
Mail Room
Readers praise the role of athletics and discuss the actions of CIA man John Rizzo ’69.
From the President
President Paxson outlines Brown's plans for giving students real-world experience solving problems.
Worn Stories
You know that shirt, dress, or pair of shoes you can't throw out? Take a look: it may be a memoir in disguise.
A Way of Teaching
A Central Falls charter school staffed by more than 20 alums is drawing national recognition.
Saving Central Falls
After a long slide into poverty, once-prosperous Central Falls, Rhode Island, is looking for a comeback.
The Judge
U.S. District Court Chief Judge Joseph Tauro ’53 was the first federal jurist to legalize same-sex marriage. He forced Massachusetts to end its barbaric treatment of developmentally disabled children in state schools. For 40 years he's been making sure government lives up to its responsibilities to treat all people as equals under the law.
Obituaries
Obituaries from the January/February 2015 issue.
The Provost Talks About Brown’s Future
The Provost Talks About Brown's Future
Strange Brew
Will Bunch ’81 talks beer with the author of The Brewer's Tale: A History of the World According to Beer.
Beer Through the Ages
William Bostwich ’07 looks at what our history of making and selling beer tells us about ourselves.