Lift Up Their Voices
Former journalist Elizabeth Rush traded news writing for testimony—allowing people in coastal communities to tell their climate change stories their way.
Features
Stepping Into Liquid
Photographer Sachi Cunningham ’94.5 grabs a 25-pound camera and hangs out in the water beneath cresting 60-foot waves, getting pounded, churned—and getting the shot.
Songs of Survival
Arn Chorn-Pond’s flute-playing literally saved his life in a child labor camp in his native Cambodia. Now he helps other children of war and brings once-banned music back to rural villages.
The Malaria Hunter
A Brown pathology professor may have developed a revolutionary new approach to battling one of the world’s deadliest diseases
The Reformers
Four young Brown alums are working to make the Ocean State a better place for working-class people.
Comfort & Joy
Brown alums offer bright ideas for your holiday gifts & year-end giving.
Brave Enough to Be It
Bishop Paula Clark ’84 has pushed her way past many closed doors—and aims to open them even further.
Dashed
Tokyo, 2020: Olympics canceled due to COVID. Tokyo, 1940: Olympics canceled due to WWII. Star sprinter Ken Clapp ’40 had hoped to be there.
No-Touch Football
The Bears are heading into the fall season quite unbruised, after their year of social distancing, virtual practices, and zero play. A look at the game plan.
Beloved
Former President Vartan Gregorian, who transformed the N.Y. Public Library, then Brown, is perhaps most remembered for his generous spirit—and bear hugs.
Stick It.
How do you get the world to work together, and fast, to get all of humanity vaccinated against COVID?
Emerging Victorious
Meet seven of the many exemplary students who thrived—and graduated—despite the pandemic.
“Old Brick” at 250
From housing Revolutionary War soldiers to being occupied by student protestors: A brief history of University Hall.
The View From Tripoli
I went to Lebanon not just to learn Arabic but to take a break from America—and came back with a new perspective.
Black Girl Magic
In the wake of the 1968 Black Student Walkout, a chapter of the politically engaged, storied Black sorority Delta Sigma Theta was born at Brown.
Lit.
How nicotine, alcohol, amphetamines, opium, cocaine, and even caffeine have fueled the world’s wars
Ghost Dose
The true story of the CIA’s secret experiment with LSD in the search to create a Manchurian Candidate
State of Play
This spring, Brown overhauled its athletics program. Varsity teams went club and vice versa, protests and lawsuits ensued, and some teams were reinstated.
Under the Hood
A Klansman's descendent probes his background to expose larger truths about white America history.
Going Up Against Goliath
He took on Providence Mayor Buddy Cianci and R.I. political corruption. Now he’s coming for Zuckerberg. The unlikely moral crusade of David Cicilline ’83.
Safe Space
Astronaut Jessica Meir ’99 on being at zero gravity and zero risk of COVID-19
NOW!
Brown alums on this year’s nationwide demands for racial justice & the urgent need for lasting change
Walking the Labyrinth
For Heidi Kim ’87, combating racism is a lifelong practice deeply rooted in her Christian faith
A Language, Liberated
Nitana Hicks Greendeer ’03 is a leader in the effort to bring the Wôpanâak language back.