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The Cost of Skepticism

Scientists advance climate prediction models as the U.S. lags behind.
Science & Tech
Illustration of Charles Darwin, test tubes, and a Catholic rosary.

Alone Among Animals

Can evolution really account for human consciousness?
Service & Advocacy
Makini Chisolm-Straker ’05 MD ’09

The Human Trafficking Crisis

Students, faculty, and alums are finding innovative ways to combat it.
Politics & Law
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Crossing the Political Divide

Americans are more divided than ever. Can we reclaim middle ground?
Politics & Law
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Our Incarceration Addiction

Why are so many Americans in jail? Liberals and conservatives may disagree on the reasons, but there’s some consensus on solutions.
History
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Northern Aggression

A Brown symposium looks at the key role Rhode Island—and all of New England—played in the slave trade.
Student Life
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How Open is “Open”?

First-gen college students still encounter socioeconomic walls.
Science & Tech
West Africa's 2014 Ebola crisis

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.
Politics & Law
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Coming to COVID Country

Brown’s international students face red tape and health hazards.
Politics & Law
Image of Nick Roblee-Strauss ’22, Alina Kulman ’21, and Matt Ishimaru ’20

Failure to Pay

Student journalists expose the ongoing, illegal practice of insisting court defendants pay fines they’ll never be able to afford.
Politics & Law
Illustration by Joanne Joo

Lessons from the Arab Spring

The uprisings that overtook the Arab world 10 years ago sparked a wealth of new scholarship.
Politics & Law
Divestment illustration by Fernando Cobelo

Monetary Morality

Students often push the University to ditch “immoral” investments. Results have varied.
Humanities & Culture
Image of Professors Jonathan Collins, Mahasan Offutt-Chaney, and Lynne Joyrich

An Academic Theory Goes Unexpectedly Viral

Brown scholars on Critical Race Theory, the most divisive topic in American education
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Mar Hernandez of a person holding a flashlight to pills

Rhode Island’s Opioid Crisis, Exposed

A data-driven dive into how, even in the smallest state, billions of addictive pills were manufactured, prescribed, and abused.
Politics & Law
Illustration of pig with forks aiming toward it.

All the Pigs in China

To make good food choices these days, you have to sort out global trade, politics, and environmental issues. Even experts can’t do it.
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Raymond Biesinger of a news "plant" with bubbles of disinformation coming out of the smokestack.

Rx for “Information Disorder”

Disinformation is making us sick, literally. Asking the right questions and training the right people may be the cure.
The Arts
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Preserving Poetry, Byte by Byte

At the Brown Library, archivists seek to protect innovative digital art.
Student Life
Illustration by Anthony Russo of two people surrounded by empty bottles and glasses.

Twenty More for the Road

College is the place many people learn their limits with alcohol—and, sometimes, push way beyond them.
Politics & Law
Illustration by Adam McCauley of a silhouette of a person on the left with their mouth open and hand moving as if speaking and rough ocean waves in the background.

Strait Talk Across Rough Waters

A student-run program gets young people from China and Taiwan talking.
Science & Tech
Image of an ice glacier in the Antarctica.

Ice-Breaker

As glaciers collapse, a community comes together.
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Holly Stapleton of people lining up to walk out an open door.

A Judgment Free Zone for Drug Use

Does providing safer spaces to use drugs help or hurt?
Medicine & Health
Illustration by Alex Eben Meyer of a food stepping on electronics.

Who’s at Risk?

Researchers address high suicide rates with app-based tools and culturally aware interventions.
University News
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Affirmative Action for Rich Kids

An economist’s research shows how Ivy-plus schools favor wealthy applicants.
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