Cover Story

She Speaks for the Trees

Forest canopy pioneer Nalini Nadkarni ’76

Alumni Stories

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Business & Entrepreneurship
Image of Teri Williams standing in front of an open bank safe.

Empowerment Banking

Teri Williams ’79 heads OneUnited, a bank founded to help Black families get a leg up on wealth
Science & Tech
An image of a wearable computer designed by Lisa Krohn displayed on a mannequin

Foresight

Lisa Krohn ’85 designed the Cyberdesk wearable computer.
Science & Tech
B+W image of Ben Shields smiling with a painting behind him.

The Talking Dead

AI brings historical icons back to life.
Politics & Law
Image of Timothy Snyder standing with an old defunct factory wheel behind him.

Can We Rescue “Freedom”?

A popular historian on our elusive national value
Business & Entrepreneurship

“The Best Burrito, Evah!”

From Mom’s home cooking to James Beard and beyond
Three women standing in front of a botanical wall smiling.
The Arts

Music Tech Wonk

JJ Wiesler ’96 uses cutting-edge digital tools to make sounds that come at you from all angles.
JJ Wiesler sitting back-to the camera at a soundboard.

On Campus

The Arts
Image of a student using a pottery wheel in a studio

Throw Down

Brown Pottery Club wins its long-fought battle for a studio
University News
illustration of divestment deliberations

An End to the Divestment Question?

The Brown Corporation voted not to divest from companies doing business with Israel.
Science & Tech
A student with glasses behind scientific equipment

Pieces of Sky

Fragments from the asteroid Bennu arrive on College Hill
Science & Tech
Student on cardio equipment in a gym.

Power Workout

Campus cardio machines are generating electricity, not using it
Business & Entrepreneurship

Picking Stocks

An alumni-run investment competition gives students a taste of high finance
Illustration by James Heimer of two arms arm-wrestling
The Arts

Seeing a Different Way

An art installation sheds light on what it’s like to be visually impaired
Image of Daniel Solomon ’26 working on The Blind Urban Subject installation on a Providence street.

The Classes

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January 19th, 2025

Class co–vice president for communications Scott Harris reports: “24 percent of our class attended our 50th Reunion, which is well above the percent turnout of 50th Reunions in recent years (specifically 242...
January 19th, 2025

Sean McDevitt, a partner at Arthur D. Little and member of the TIME (Telecommunications, Internet, Media, and Electronics) and Private Equity branch, was appointed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Gina Raimondo in...
January 19th, 2025

Sara Schaff ’00 was recognized with a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Fiction. She is the author of the story collections The Invention of Love and Say Something Nice About Me, a...
January 19th, 2025

Matthew Kapstein ’87 PhD is now professor emeritus at theÉcole Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris, France. He is also an associate of the Divinity School of the University of Chicago, where he...

Sports

Business & Entrepreneurship
Image of Earl Hunt II dribbling the ball in a Brown basketball game

Return on Investment

From ENGN 9 to managing $11 billion
Sports & Recreation
Image of Tristan Crozier on the ice playing hockey.

What’s French for Hockey?

It’s “hockey.” And in Paris, it needs explaining.
Sports & Recreation
Black and white image of Christa Champion shooting the basketball in a Brown game in 1984.

Invisible Champions

Women’s basketball won Brown’s first Ivy title. But the accolades did a disappearing act.
Sports & Recreation
Fahringer ready to race

True Grit

Ten years ago, Rebecca Fahringer ’13 ScM went pro in the mud-and-rocks world of cyclocross. Several head injuries later, the fierce competitor has learned to play the long game.
The Arts

Art + Athletics

A video series explores the shared language
Image of two women standing on a stage with spotlights behind them, one holding a soccer ball.
Sports & Recreation

Sport Swap

From pro football to NASCAR Pit Crew
Image of Jakob Prall wearing sunglasses in a racing suit

What Do
You Think?

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“So impressed with your article on the new Lindemann Performing Arts Center, I flew up to Providence to see it for myself. Imagine my surprise, when I was told by the security...”
—Edward Abrahams ’75 AM, ’81 PhD
Washington, D.C.
In response to Tuning Up (S–O’24):
“I will no longer be contributing to Brown due to the Corporation’s failure to divest from corporations enabling Israel’s military occupation and human rights abuses. This is the moral litmus test of...”
—David Atwood ’72
Arlington, Va.
In response to Divestment: Students for & Against (S–O’24):
“I am surprised by the criticism. In my interactions with various alumni over the years it struck me that Brown had an anti-legacy orientation. ”
—David Parent ’57
In response to Affirmative Action for Rich Kids (J–A’24):
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