Guardian
Erroll Southers ’78 is a leading expert in law enforcement, campus safety, and homeland security.
Features
Man + Machine
Brown's new AI czar Michael Littman ’96 PhD
Influence.
Current students and Gen-Z alums who document their work, expertise, and day-to-day lives for a global audience.
The Gender Q
Gen Z is forcing a reckoning over traditional ideas of male and female.
Is Careerism Ruining College?
How much should Gen Z students be emphasizing career prep? And what might be lost?
Think Again
The "genius" art of professor Tony Cokes
Treetop Trailblazer
Pioneering ecologist Nalini Nadkarni ’76, aka “Queen of the Forest Canopy”
An End to the Divestment Question?
The Brown Corporation voted not to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
Power Napping
Carskadon protegée Allison Brager ’07 on sleep as a performance enhancer
Sleep Secrets
Why do teens sleep so late? Is there a scientific way to measure how sleepy you are? Pioneering sleep scientist Mary Carskadon has answers—and is still discovering new frontiers.
Extreme Medicine
ER doctor and self-described “adrenaline junkie” Gregory Stiller ’90 provides care under some of the most difficult conditions in the world.
Flights of Fancy
The best holiday giving ideas made by Brown alums for you and yours.
Eye to Eye
Since 2014’s Gaza War, these two professors—one Palestinian, one Israeli—have been working together. They sat down with us to talk about history, censorship, antisemitism, diasporas, and, most of all, peace.
True Grit
Ten years ago, Rebecca Fahringer ’13 ScM went pro in the mud-and-rocks world of cyclocross. Several head injuries later, the fierce competitor has learned to play the long game.
Tuning Up
As the new, high-tech Lindemann Performing Arts Center turns one, artists are just starting to take advantage of all it can do.
Fault Tolerance
After decades of research, a reliable earthquake prediction system remains elusive as ever. Michael Blanpied isn’t worried.
Ovation
Miriam Silverman took her first Broadway bow the day after her mother died. A couple of months later, she took home a Tony.
Unrelenting
What a championship-winning team knows about love, loss, and rugby
Living Large While Something’s Trying to Kill You
Writer and performer Annie Lanzillotto ’86 has spent a lifetime dodging cancer—while making work that elevates her vibrant, violent working-class upbringing to the realm of poetry, ritual, and myth.
Talking Back
After the medical and racial nightmare that was 2020, John Johnson ’23 MD set out on a healing path that includes talking openly about mental health, racism, and medical disparities.
Are the Kids Alright?
The pandemic hit teens hard, causing a measurable decline in mental health. Enter Molly Josephs ’09, whose podcast, This Teenage Life, became a lifeline for tweens and teens from California to Kabul, helping them to vent—and heal—one episode at a time.
Rights + Wrong
No one’s pro-domestic-violence. Until you start looking at state laws, where protecting victims often loses out to protecting gun rights.
Cover of the Rolling Stone
Gus Wenner ’12 has a fresh take on his dad’s 1967 hit. Will it play for Gen Z and beyond?
The Art of Spectacle
Luis Campos ’14 gets real with his research into combat sports as a pro wrestler in Shanghai.