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The House That Research Built

The year’s shifts in federal
funding upended an 80-year
history of support for research.
How did we get here?

Alumni Stories

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History
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The Declaration’s 250th

A lifetime American history buff curates an exhibit on our founding document
The Arts
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What We Inherit

An unflinching memoir explores mental illness and family ties
Politics & Law
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Later-In-Life Lawyer

Steve Cohen ’75 bypassed the LSAT, passing the bar in his 60s
The Arts
An illustrated page out of the book "Cat Nap" by Brian Lies.

Cat Masterpieces

A new children’s book fills a famous museum with felines
Business & Entrepreneurship

Warm Welcome

Helping immigrants integrate into a small Finnish town
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The Arts

Wings of Hope

How people and migrating butterflies connect across continents
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On Campus

Student Life
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Ice Cream Wars

At campus eateries this spring, everything was coming up dairy
University News
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A New Look for the Lower Green

An amphitheater arrives!
Student Life
Photo/painting: Hadley McCormack ’27

Hidden in Plain View

Move over, birbs. There’s a new treasure in town.
University News
Illustration by Tim Cook of hands drawing a map

What Brown Stands For

A new Statement of Values and Voice provides a roadmap for the future
Science & Tech

Software to the Stars

Can AI solve the universe’s greatest mysteries? These professors are trying to find out.
A celestial illustration with an eyeball shape by Josh Cochran.
Science & Tech

Gossip Science

A study looks at how we stay clean while dishing dirt
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The Classes

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September 18th, 2025

Silvia Giorguli Saucedo ’04 PhD is president of El Colegio de Mexico (Mexico’s most prestigious university) and a recipient of the Horace Mann Award. Silvia was inducted into El Colegio Nacional en...
September 18th, 2025

Michael Rothman writes “I’d just like to give a shout out to fellow alum Dr. Robert “Bobby” Parisien, who just performed a seamless shoulder arthroscopy on my dominant shoulder. Consider this a...
September 18th, 2025

Patricia McCartney O’Connor writes: “Having moved around a bit in the course of a successful legal then consulting career, and raising three kids, my husband and I are now happily retired. We...
September 18th, 2025

Mark Halliday ’76 AM published Living Name with Louisiana State University Press. He writes: “It is a collection of my essays on recent American poets. I have also written seven collections of...

Sports

Sports & Recreation
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Playoffs, at Last!

Ivy League football teams will finally have a shot at post-season competition.
The Arts
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Art + Athletics

A video series explores the shared language
Student Life
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Saddle Up

For $250 a semester, students can spend every Saturday on horseback
Business & Entrepreneurship
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Return on Investment

From ENGN 9 to managing $11 billion
Sports & Recreation

Fan Nonfiction

A blog charts the future of the Red Sox
IMage of Chris Hatfield in the stands at the Worcester Red Sox stadium
Sports & Recreation

Game Changer

“Coach Ballgame” is putting the fun back in youth sports
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What Do
You Think?

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“As a Brown alumnus and former donor, I feel compelled to respond to Guterl. I was accepted to Brown in 1989 not because I was an immigrant, or because I was a...”
—Alex Vilner ’93
Lincoln, R.I.
In response to Diversity of Perspectives (J–A’25):
“Kudos to President Paxson and the Brown leadership for its forward approach to the assault on higher education, science, discovery, free thought, and free speech. And for asking the Brown community to...”
—Robert Samors ’81
Silver Spring, Md.
In response to Higher Ed Under Fire (J–A’25):
“Had I been sued earlier in my career, I would not have had the strength or resilience to carry on in medicine. ”
—Gerard Coste ’78
Lexington, Mass.
In response to When Doctors Make Mistakes (J–A’25):
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