Cover Story
Stroke of Luck
How a ragtag team of club rowers from Brown almost took the national varsity championship in 1960.
April-May 2020
Features
Parenting Rules You Can Break
A sip of wine when pregnant? TV for toddlers? Professor Emily Oster crunches the data and encourages parents to relax.
Stroke of Luck
How a ragtag team of club rowers from Brown almost took the national varsity championship in 1960.
Race Rx
Race-based assumptions are baked into medical training. Brown med students are working to change that.
What Do You Think?
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“In the article by Jack Brook, and in the Green New Deal literature it seems that the possibility of increasing the use of nuclear energy, which generates no green house gases, is…”
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“With respect to your correspondent’s advocacy of an industry destroying “carbon tax”, the major determinants of Earth climate are the planet’s ecliptic around the sun, the absence or presence of “sunspots” and…”
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“I was pleased to read BAM’s coverage of the Sunrise Movement and the excellent work that Lauren Maunus ’19, Emma Bouton ’20, and their collaborators at Brown and beyond have been doing…”
In response to Fighting for Their Future (November/December 2019)
Under the Elms
Code Red
Is that tech job worth taking?
Mind Game
Brown hires Division 1 football’s first female position coach
Funny Girls
The Rib launches women into comedy careers
Dirty Filthy Basement
A faculty band rocks out
1,000 Rejections
How to get a cartoon in the New Yorker
Floating Ideas
A new course combines the history of boat building with hands-on construction.
Speak, Memory
Why do we remember, why do we forget, and why can’t we forget when we want to?
Beyond the Gates
The Arts
Language’s Limits
The third novel by Ben Lerner ’01, ’03 MFA, grapples with excess, masculinity, and the limits—and possibilities—of verbal communication. Read More: Language’s Limits
Debt Deterrent
A finance expert teaches kids about money before the banks can find them
Explorer Barbie
Boots made for walking and other amazing accessories
Mentoring Matters
A little personal attention got Carlos Lejnieks ’00 to Brown, then Goldman Sachs. He’s paying it forward.
Fresh Ink
Books by Ann Harleman ’88 AM, Sarah McFarland Taylor ’90, and Richard Lee Turits ’83
Family Secrets
In a new book, Jessica Pearce Rotondi ’07 pieces together the decades-long search for her uncle gone missing in Vietnam.
Charismatic Crawlers
Sam Jaffe ’07 and his Caterpillar Lab
Watch As tickets disappear
Magic, mind reading and gravity-defying stage illusions
Miracle Drug?
Help may be on the way for Alzheimer’s and ALS
Health Warrior
As Deputy Surgeon General, Rear Admiral Erica G. Schwartz ’94, ’98 MD is on the front lines
Shenandoah’s Sound
Chad Fischer ’90 writes musical scores for national parks
The Classes
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Pat Fogarty-Cavagnaro writes: “I have been in Italy for 45 years, married here, and have a son who’s been sent as a parish priest to just south of Amsterdam, Holland. My first…
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Steven Maricic writes: “In my novel Defense Mechanism, Colonel Sam Sawyer, the chief of security at a crucial Air Force base in the Arizona desert, learns of a plot to destroy…
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Sheryl Renee Dobson’s work has been selected by the Staten Island Arts Council to appear in its upcoming “Dawn of a New Decade” group art exhibit. The opening reception for the…
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Marcia Chatelain ’03 AM, ’08 PhD, published Franchise: The Golden Arches in Black America with Liveright Publishing. Franchise examines the hidden history of the relationship between the civil rights movement and…
Obituaries
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Janice Swanson Post ’53, of Saunderstown, R.I.; Dec. 17, of complications following hip replacement surgery. She worked in Brown’s biology department for four years before moving to Massachusetts and becoming a stay-at-home…
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Theodore E. Tuck Jr. ’61, of Bowie, Md.; Nov. 6. He spent most of his career in the military, and later as a civilian in the U.S. Air Force as an agent…
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Sallie McLean Ramsden ’80, of Lyme, N.H.; Oct. 28. A homemaker and community volunteer, she restored old homes, researched the genealogy of her family, and was instrumental in restoring the Lyme Congregational…
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Albert R. Frackelton ’79 PhD, of Rumford, R.I.; Oct. 14. He was an associate professor of research at Brown for 30 years, as well as a staff member in the department of…
Current Obsession
Sports & Recreation
Leggings 24/7
Five minutes with Cat Buthod ’20, on her current obsession Read More: Leggings 24/7