Nevertheless, They Persisted
Meet seven extraordinary students graduating into a new world.
June–August 2020
The 30-Year Warning
A med school professor has been talking pandemic preparedness for decades
Lessons from 1918
An expert on last century’s influenza pandemic shares what history could have told us about COVID-19… if we’d been willing to listen.
Crazy Times, Sane Decisions
Bina Venkataraman ’02 on why it’s more important than ever to plan ahead—and how to do it.
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“Yutong Liu’s ’20 homage to the GCB brought back a lot of memories of the relaxed evenings that I spent playing pinball and sharing pitchers of Miller beer with my engineering buddies…”
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“I was saddened to hear about the passing of a true advocate/pioneer, Arlene Gorton. As a 1992 field hockey alum, I was lucky enough to have her as a fan. Even though…”
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“I want first to say how proud I am of every person involved in the effort to make medicine stop misunderstanding and misusing the social construct of race. But I want to…”
In response to Race Rx (April-May 2020)
Under the Elms
COVID-19 Crash Course
How Brown and a leading global health organization teamed up to swiftly push a user-friendly coronavirus management training package out into the world.
Epidemics 101
Students taking BIOL 0940A could never have dreamed how personally relevant the course would soon become.
Eyewitness History
First-person accounts are often ignored in official histories of global crises. Holocaust scholar and history professor Omer Bartov explains why that’s a mistake.
Woman in Charge
Meet the ROTC Patriot Battalion’s female leader
First Responders
Many students rushed to help as COVID hit. A look at two group efforts.
Mid-March
BAM interns on the spring’s sudden shift
Beyond the Gates
Hometown Advocate
The new mayor of Cambridge, Mass., fights to keep the city affordable
Battling the Beast
Working the frontlines for the CDC
College Prep
A new school serves high-achieving juniors and seniors in Zimbabwe
Crossword Constructor
A puzzle obsession “snowballs”
Share the Wealth
A new business accelerator aims to help co-ops succeed
Climate Partners
A scientist and a lawyer make it easier to use lawsuits as a weapon against global warming.
Minecraft campus
A digital version of Brown’s College Hill brings the community together during COVID-19
Better than Nothing
Founder of Pussyhat turns to making homemade masks
Fresh Ink
Books by Sarah Ruhl ’97 ’01 MFA, David Jarmul ’75, and Andrew Altschul ’91
America’s Quarantine Dad
John Krasinski ’01 curates reasons to smile
The Classes
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Bruce Miller is the 2020 recipient of the Weaver-Tremblay Award for Applied Anthropology, given by the Canadian Anthropology Society/ La Société Canadienne d’Anthropologie (CASCA). The award is the highest honor for anthropology…
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John Shalvey writes: “After 22 years as an independent financial planner, I chose to pursue my passion of health and fitness by becoming a doctor of chiropractic. Inspired by Rodney Dangerfield’s classic …
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Fuller House Executive Producer/ Showrunners Bryan Behar and Steve Baldikoski ’90 welcomed their old schoolmate, legendary singer-songwriter Lisa Loeb ’90, to Fuller House, where she both played herself and performed her…
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Eli Batalion writes: “After collaborating with Jerome Sable ’01 on the Sundance and Toronto International Film Festival cult classic The Legend of Beaver Dam, and pivoting to the touring series YidLife…
Language and Plague
In locked-down NYC, with a feverish son, Marie Myung-Ok Lee ’86 considers COVID-19 and Camus Read More: Language and Plague
Obituaries
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Ruth Weed Szabo ’43, of Cranston, R.I.; Jan. 22. She worked for the U.S. Government with the OSS and the CIA from 1943 to 1953 in Sri Lanka, Rome, Cyprus, and Washington,…
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Daniel G. Siegel ’57, of Providence; Dec. 18. He was the proprietor of M&S Rare Books and M&S Press of Providence and an icon in the book collecting world for more than…
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William E. Cunningham ’81, of Santa Monica, Calif.; Jan. 3. He was a professor of medicine and public health at UCLA. He graduated from UCSF School of Medicine in 1987 and completed…
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Amy K. Morrissey-O’Rourke ’98 AM, ’99 MAT, of Jamaica Plain, Mass.; Dec. 12. She taught English at Brookline High School for more than 15 years. Previously she taught in both the Wellesley…
Upfront
Supporting One Another
The response of the Brown community to COVID-19
Changes
Persistence in the face of a pandemic.
Current Obession
Humanities & Culture
Video-game Music
Five minutes with Enongo Lumumba-Kasongo, Mellon Gateway postdoctoral fellow in music. Read More: Video-game Music