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Open Minds
For 50 years, Brown’s Open Curriculum has produced innovative leaders. What’s the next Big Idea?
January–February 2020
Features
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Brown has spent 50 years ahead of the curve in higher education. What innovations will mark the next 50?
Father of the Open Curriculum
Meet the emeritus professor who paved the way for the University’s signature approach to education.
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““Losers for the Win” (November/December, 2019) reprints a version of a 2004 essay from Ira Glass ’81. As a “sulky little kid,” he wrote, “I thought of myself as a loser and…”
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“Hooray for Lauren Maunus ’19 and Emma Bouton ’20 for speaking out on climate change with the urgency it deserves (“Fighting for Their Future,” November/December 2019). My generation made the mistake of…”
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“Offer us actionable solutions rather than attacking folks who disagree. If we have an honest road map, people are more likely to get behind it.”
In response to Fighting for Their Future (November/December 2019)
Upfront
Brown’s Endowment
The president on how the endowment is doing and what it has made possible.
Joy of Learning
Celebrating 50 years of the Open Curriculum
Ender the Elms
Politics & Law
From Scholarship to Shelter
Student research bolstered legislation to stop housing discrimination in R.I. Read More: From Scholarship to Shelter
Whichever Way You Wear It
Brown Black Hairitage likes your style
A Major of One’s Own
Independent concentrations are a flagship of the Open Curriculum. Here are 5 being pursued today.
Fixed It.
A better deal for Brown vets
How Open is “Open”?
First-gen college students still encounter socioeconomic walls.
Beyond the Gates
Word of Mouth
There are no recipes at King, in Manhattan’s SoHo. “Everything is verbal in the kitchen,” says Clare de Boer ’12.
DIY Influencer
A craft blogger takes off
Portrait of Conflict
Filmed in the jungles of Colombia, Monos is being compared to Apocalypse Now.
Locker-Room Doc
Philadelphia’s top orthopedic surgeon for star athletes
Speaking for Trees
As head of American Forests, Jad Daley ’90 looks to the woods to help solve climate change.
“You’re Not a Monster”
New bite-size series starring Kelsey Grammer and Eric Stonestreet
Born Too Soon
A new book examines the rise in premature births
Alien Worlds
A new book of short stories from award-winning author Ted Chiang ’89
Fresh Ink
Books by Karen Dukess ’84, Akemi Johnson ’04, and Susan Rebecca White ’99
Changemakers
The Brotherhood/Sister Sol hits 25
The Classes
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On October 26, the Brown University Corporation dedicated a memorial to Trustee Ken McDaniel. The memorial is an engraved concrete block lining a brick walkway in the Maddock Alumni Center gardens.…
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“I hope that somewhere in an English department in the sky, my creative writing teacher, author Jack Hawkes, and my beloved classmate, author, attorney, and thoroughbred racehorse trainer Cary Robertson ’70, are…
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David Shields’s film Lynch: A History, a documentary about retired NFL star Marshawn Lynch’s use of silence as a form of protest, appeared in the International Documentary Film Festival of Amsterdam,…
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Lily Cohen writes: “After spending four years living in a cabin without running water, I mastered the art of the one pot meal and the one baby wipe shower. I have since…
Obituaries
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Jean Tanner Edwards ’45, of Providence; Sept. 13. She served in the U.S. Navy Women’s Reserve, married, and obtained a graduate degree at Harvard prior to settling in Rhode Island. In 1970…
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Carol-Ann Lantz ’49, of Warwick and Wakefield, R.I.; Oct. 1. She served in the U.S. Marine Corps for five years and rose to the rank of captain. After returning to civilian life,…
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Peter H. Laurie ’75 PhD (see ’65).
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Laura Cutler Aoki ’81, of Fukuoka, Japan; Sept. 29, of ovarian cancer. She moved to Japan in 1983 and taught English at the university level. She was involved with Buddhism and engrossed…
Current Obsession
First Person
Not Even Looking at My Grades
Oren Karp ’20 “went crazy” with the New Curriculum. Read More: Not Even Looking at My Grades