July / August 2007

Critic’s Corner

Since 1990, Andrea Stern ’88 has been taking family photos—of a hybrid sort.

Correction

An Honor

Nelson Center Rundown

Mourning Walter Davis

Pixel Permanence

Santorum Forum

Chafing at Chafee

Uneasy Fit

One More Blog

Older Than You Think

Heat and Light

Paper Mate

The View from Ringside

Karyn Bryant ’90 didn’t plan on becoming one of boxing’s most visible announcers. Now she’s one of the sport’s biggest fans.

Fresh Ink

Men’s Baseball

Winning Habit

A long spring season on the Seekonk yields Brown rowers another NCAA championship and a trip to Henley-on-Thames.

Rock ‘n’ Rule

The man the British called King Philip sat here.

Obituaries

Obituaries from the July / August 2007 issue.

Honorary Degree Recipients

Coming Back

Getting reunion classes back to campus.

The Brown Way

A survey of this year’s Commencement forums.

Start Worrying

Aronson tells graduating MDs that the hard part begins now.

Someone Really Loves You

At commencement number 239, graduates received advice from a nobel prize winner and a surprise from an irrepressible honorary-degree recipient.   The class of 2007 strolled through the Van Wickle Gates one last time on Sunday, May 27, and just kept on walking.

Telling Secrets

Does the First Amendment trump the right of judges to use secrecy for tracking down potential terrorists? A flurry of recent court cases has put alumni journalists on notice that relying on leaked secrets could send them to jail.

Data Points

How to Lose Weight

Helping low-income African American women overcome obesity.

Lesson Learned

Ruth Simmons on public schools and the importance of teachers in her life. (From the Radcliffe Ivy presidents’ roundtable.)

Swimming Upstream

Rotting roof beams and the early demise of the Smith Swim Center.

Cracking the Glass Ceiling

Half the Ivy presidents are now women. In May they gathered at Harvard to compare notes.

A Course Change

Administrators act. Students protest. You won’t believe what it’s about this time.

La Vie en Lavender

Thomas Mallon ’73 envisions the double lives of gay bureaucrats during the McCarthy purges.

Don’t Follow Your Heart

A new play by Paul Grellong ’01 takes a critical look at America’s celebration of self-interest.

What a Good School Looks Like

Reporter Alec Klein ’90 revisits his alma mater, New York City’s Stuyvesant High, to discover why it works.

Concentration Crisis

What happens when you love everything—except your major?

Dark Matters

Associate Professor of Physics Richard Gaitskell has devoted his research career to proving the reality of particles no one has ever seen and no instrument has ever detected. What if they don’t exist?