“The Guy Who Teaches City Politics”
Professor James Morone on 40 years of teaching a course that’s become a Brown classic.
Education
Unearthing Rhode Island History
A dig at a 19th-century College Hill home unveils stories about the textile industry, the European immigrant experience, and life in the Gilded Age.
A Class Trip Do-Over
COVID may have delayed them, but Germany was still calling.
Making Robots Dance
At the intersection of choreography and engineering, a course looks at how robots move—and whether we’re programming them toward good or evil.
Food for Thought
Palate meets pedagogy in courses like “Food, Religion, and Politics in South Asia”
It’s Never Too Late
Manfred Steiner ’22 PhD pursues a childhood passion.
Mobsters and Lobsters
Journalism professor on a career uncovering Rhode Island’s wrongs
Bon Voyage, Brown
These pandemic point-fivers are following a nontraditional study-abroad path for their final semesters.
A New Language, in a Hurry
Intensive, double-credit language courses mean fast learning and instant community
Meeting the Need
A nurse practitioner helps bring primary care to San Francisco’s mentally ill and homeless
Classics: Dead or Alive?
A new course examines ancient Greece and Rome with a 21st-century lens.
Raise or Raze
If storms and floods threaten your home, do you raise it or abandon the site?
Storytelling through Song
In music theory class, students learn classical rules—and how to break them.
An Academic Theory Goes Unexpectedly Viral
Brown scholars on Critical Race Theory, the most divisive topic in American education
Education and Service
Celebrating the Swearer Center for Public Service
Separating Fat from Fiction
A student-driven course on “fatphobia” examines both science and stigma.
Holding the Door Open
3 nontraditional students help others find their way to college
Bird by Bird
An environmental studies course on birding looks at what separates us from one another and from nature, and what might bring us together.
Archiving the African Diaspora
Anani Dzidzienyo’s presence was healing; his scholarship, groundbreaking. You could say the same about the class created in his memory.
A Sense of Community
How mentoring has cemented the TEAK program
Homeschooling 101
This mom’s done it—10 times.
The Power Within
TWTP’s annual welcome meets Afrofuturism, over Zoom
Remote Reimagined
Thrown onto Zoom last spring, professors prep for whatever “back to school” might mean.
Epidemics 101
Students taking BIOL 0940A could never have dreamed how personally relevant the course would soon become.