Class of 2024

Staring at Papers, Not Phones.

Playoffs, at Last!

Ivy League football teams will finally have a shot at post-season competition.

Reforming Probation

A young alum takes aim at Rhode Island’s prison pipeline

Bite-Sizing Climate Action

A Brown-based podcast fights climate-change overwhelm, one “let’s break this down” episode at a time.

In Our Own Words

Letter from the four student guest editors of the Gen Z special issue.

Capitalism to the Rescue?

A popular class looks at how to leverage economics to save the environment.

Hollywood 101

A newsletter shines light behind the scenes

Brewing Kombucha

Five minutes with Marin Warshay ’23.5

Affirmative Action for Rich Kids

An economist’s research shows how Ivy-plus schools favor wealthy applicants.

“Built to Hold Disagreement”

Balancing student safety and freedom of speech

The Zen of Woodworking

Five minutes with Wyatt Woodbery ’24.5

“Coping with Covid” 101

A new course on the psychology of pandemics offers a scientific take on Covid-related mental health issues and a place for students to process.

Hot Play

Women’s soccer is dominating the Ivy League. It all started at a bonfire.

Vintage Style

Five minutes with Sean Toomey ’24

Serious Swifties

Taylor’s College Hill fan club

International Interns

A Brown program matches students to positions in Tel Aviv, Berlin, and Stockholm

Ice-Breaker

As glaciers collapse, a community comes together.

British Politics

Five minutes with Gabrielle Shammash ’24

How to Read a Picture

A course applies seminal texts to classic LGBTQ images and films to show how imagery has been used to fight oppression.

Crowning Venture

Miss Rhode Island 2023 on what it means to be a woman in finance

Flocking Together

A crochet scavenger hunt takes wing

Strait Talk Across Rough Waters

A student-run program gets young people from China and Taiwan talking.

Chance Emerson & the Series of Improbable Events

A band cobbled together before classes started freshman year has performed onstage in front of 3,000 people, opening for Blues Traveler. What’s next for Chance Emerson ’24 and his bandmates? First, homework.

Love Has Made a Difference

At 100 years old, “going on 75,” Lillian Affleck ’44 has put in at least six decades of service to others.

Good Vibes

Gendo Taiko’s beat goes on

Are You a Flaneur?

The high art of meandering aimlessly

History Maker

The first woman to play Division I baseball

Suds Success

Students secure free laundry on campus

PhD Level Punches

Neuroscience meets boxing

Star Students

Inside the Beltway

Would-be policy wonks score a semester at the source

Mod Merch

A dual-degree student turns bookstore leftovers into fashion must-haves

The Hummus Wars

Five minutes with Marielle Buxbaum ’24

Delicious!

A student pop-up restaurant lives up to its name

Rise and Grind

The Underground wakes up and smells the coffee

Food for Thought

Palate meets pedagogy in courses like “Food, Religion, and Politics in South Asia”

List: Love It or Hate It?

50 years of Brown brutalism

Interrogating Home

A student play explores sexual awakening at sleepaway camp

A New Language, in a Hurry

Intensive, double-credit language courses mean fast learning and instant community

Rhode Island’s Opioid Crisis, Exposed

A data-driven dive into how, even in the smallest state, billions of addictive pills were manufactured, prescribed, and abused.

Prints for a Purpose

Raising funds for Ukraine

A Star Is Born

Brown’s newest newspaper focuses on Black joy and accomplishments

Beyond the Average White Guy

Experts are moving past biological sex to “precision medicine” that takes each individual patient—whatever their gender—into account.

Stalking Mies van der Rohe

Five minutes with Professor Dietrich Neumann

Taking the Bus

Five minutes with John Lin ’23

One Day, Two Ivy Titles

Victory was decisive and extra sweet for women’s soccer and volleyball after returning to play this season.

From Isolation to Instagram

How COVID helped spawn a social media phenomenon

Stepping Up

A Narragansett dancer on life as a dual degree student, documentary star, and tribal activist

Dinosaurs!

Five minutes with Mark Agostini ’18 AM

Holding the Door Open

3 nontraditional students help others find their way to college

Second Chance

A student startup reclaims unused cancer meds

Hot Summer Studies

Most first-years had second semester over the summer—sans A/C

Blueno’s Successor

Students have mixed feelings about the new sculpture on campus

COVID Convocation

First-year students arrived in bleak midwinter, trading family overload for solo quarantine.

The Power Within

TWTP’s annual welcome meets Afrofuturism, over Zoom

Coming to COVID Country

Brown’s international students face red tape and health hazards.