September/October 2017

Content

Obituaries

Obituaries from the September/October 2017 issue.

What You Thought

This issue, readers comment on cancer survival, dancing in Brooklyn, and "p.c. drivel."

Leadership and Humility

Professor of Engineering and Physics Maurice Glicksman, who died in May, knew how to dominate a room.

He Gave His Students the Best

Professor of Visual Art Walter Feldman, who died in May, presented art as a profoundly human struggle.

Out of the Cellar

Former BDH baseball reporter Lewis Pollis ’14 wants to bring the Philadelphia Phillies into the sabermetrics era.

Second Chances

Rev. Wendy Calderon-Payne ’89 directs a New York City nonprofit that aims to stop the revolving doors of the city's prisons.

A Witness to Suffering

As a leukemia survivor, Suzanne Nolan ’73 brings unusual empathy to her job as hospital chaplain.

An F in Retirement

At 76 years old, Minnesota's Ernest Lampe ’62 is just too young to hang up his stethoscope for good.

It’s Good!

In November 1915 a gifted kicker accomplished an athletic feat that changed Brown football for good.

Are the Hackers Winning?

Data thieves have your identity—and our political process—in their sights. Three Brown professors, including mathematics professor Jill Pipher, think they have a way to foil them, but law enforcement and intelligence agencies are saying, “Wait a minute! What if locking up your data also shields criminals and spies?” Is absolute privacy bad for the country?

The End

When Rick Moody was eight years old, Abbey Road became the consoling backdrop to his parents’ divorce.

Moving Us To Care

After studying exiled Syrians, political scientist Wendy Pearlman ’96 took a novel approach: "humanistic documentation."

Writing in Tongues

If you were born in another country and work in more than one language, where’s your real cultural home?

Call the Mopeds!

As Brown’s EMTs celebrate their 40th anniversary, one of the original volunteers recalls how it all began.

The Welfare of Others

Computer science professor John Savage begins his fifty-first year of research and teaching.

Looking Up

The August 21 eclipse may not have been total at Brown, but the community's enthusiasm was.

Communion

Father Albert Duggan ’03, Brown's Catholic chaplain, says Brown taught him about the diversity of paths to truth.

Immersive Education

Can virtual reality revive high school students' interest in history by giving them the illusion of being there?

Fresh Ink

A Unique Spiritual Journey

The latest novel by Roland Merullo ’75, ’76 AM is about a road trip by the Pope and the Dalai Lama.

Melancholy Lives

A mood of pervasive melancholy dominates this first short-story collection by Jeffrey Eugenides ’82.

Super Conductor

This fall, Vinay Parameswaran ’09 becomes assistant conductor of the Cleveland Orchestra.

Playing the Game

Will Lockhart ‘13 founded Brown's Go Club. Now he's codirected a documentary about the game.

Revisiting Hemingway

Mary V. Dearborn ’77, the first woman biographer of Hemingway, brings a new perspective to Papa.

Once Upon a Time

Valerie Tutson ’87, ’90 AM has been telling stories since she designed her own undergrad concentration about it.

Dead Head

Amir Bar-Lev ’94 directs Long Strange Trip, a new four-hour documentary about the Grateful Dead.

From the President

University News

Beyond Data Alone

Brown's Data Science Initiative is expanding how we educate students across disciplines.